The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-13 00:00:00

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ACCIDENT ON TM! SIMSBURY AND YBOVIL
RAILWAY.—On Battu ay tripling week a large
quantity, of earth fell on twasen named John Read
and John Jones, Who were salivating in a cutting ot
the Salisbury and Yeovil Rosy, at Tinkerpit Hill,
about two miles from &dishy. Jones was covered
to the extent of about ts feet, but being only
thrown on his knees, he speeded in making hi,
way out. His companion w law fortunate, for he
Was thrown on his face, an covered with large
quantity of earth. On beinpxtrioated it was found
that he had sustained such juries as to necessitate
his immediate removal to le Salisbury froirmary.
He died, however, soon aar reaching the ward.
An inquest warn held on the My the same evening
before R.M. Wilson .ffsq.,chen Mr. Drake, the
House Surgeon, stated atalfive of the deceased's
rite were fractured, and this he had also sustained
other injuries, tie had noimade a poet mortem
examination, but he had no loubt that some of the
broken ribs had punoturs4he lungs. —The jury
returned a verdict of" Aocictutal death."
ROYAL WILTIRIRI Maxi.. —Ensign John Du
Boulaye Illennerhaesett, to Lieut., vine Goble.
resigned Ensign Francis Csrteris Wemyss to be
Lieut., vice Anderson, rouged; Henry Edwards,
gent., to be Ensign, vice ClaMon, resigned.
Mr. Henry Penister has ben appointed County
Surveyor of Wiltshire, in the som of his late father.
The Rev. Edward Brioe, lafrourate of St. Peter's,
Bristol, and son of the respoted rector of that
parish, has been appointed to be annoy of Heytes-
bury, on the nomination of the incumbent, the Rev.
John Knight. On the Sre lest, the Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of Salisbury collated the Rev. Edward
Wyndham Totten, olerk, M.A., rector of &oohing-
stole, Wilts, to the e:spry of St. Peter, Mar-l•
borough, in the same musty, vacant by the cession
of the Bev. Sir Erasmus Leary Gram Williams,
Bart., and in his Urdshies donation or collation,
by virtue of his sea On de same day, his Lordship
oollated the same rev, gentleman to the prebend or
canonry of BedininsWr sod Radcliffe, anciently
founded in the Cathedral (lurch of Sarum, void by
the resignation of the Res. John Guthrie, and also
In his Lordshipe donation or collation, by virtue
hie see. The new Prebeadary read himself in on
Sunday week, having been duly installed on the pre.
vious day.
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801100 L TRIAT. —On the afternoon of Wednesday
week, the children of WM of the Nonoonformist
Sunday Schools assembled at the Milford.stritei
Ohappl, whir... odth..• yr. dolivond ath.m
the Her. C. H. Spurgeon. They were afterward.
regaled with oaks and Sea in a field at the upper end
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EXIIIITTIOX Of JUVII74II.IIIIIDVIITIT.—Thetnurth
Salisbury, Downton, 414erbury, Nunton,
and &mime exhibition of youthful industry and
wild flowers well hold at the Council Chamber, on
Wednesday week, and was visitod by. urge number
of persons on that and the following day. The
exhibitors numbered 910, and ennsiderable taste was
displayed in many of the productions. The prises
were awarded by Mr. Whitiook, the Honorstry
Sooretary, after which the WnrshipfUl the Mayor
and other pntlemen addremed the meeting,