The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

Tim Britons% LISTS for the newel parishes in the
borough Cr. published. Retards) nest. the lhth
is the last dty for the delivery of claims, or notices of
objections.
Tun Local Board of health have at last decided to
place some protection along the mill bank, Fordiegton,
from hloshrooni-bridge to the houses in Ilill-street,
where • child was drowned recently, and many have
been in 'imminent danger of cowing to an untimely end
by felling In the river, but hsve been rescued. A 9.inch
brick well, four feet high, is to be built immediately.

ACCIDINT.—A gardener of Loden, neer Bridpert,
named Lazarus Mush, WU taking 111 bag containing
vegetables from his waggon standing at Clyde-path.
hill last Friday, when he over balanced himself, fell
upon the stones, and sustained a severe cut on the
bead. He was removed to the Dorset County
Hospital.
Coetc MARXIST, Saturday.—Wheat in moderate
supply. Dry samples fetched readily an advance of
la to 2s. per qr. Barley, though not freely offered,
was in good demand, at about la. per qr. above late
rates for both grinding and malting qu4ities. Good
013 oats were in request at 61 per qr. beyond the
previous week's quotations.

CONAIDIR•Bill DILLY took place in the arrival of
the first Great Western wronger train from Bristol
on Friday morning. We understand it was occa-
sioned by • portion of • Roods train having run off
the line at Marston during the morning, which
blocked up the traffic. Owing to the obstruction
the train due at Dorchester at 10.40 a.m., did not
arrive until nearly three p.m.

Comerrrso TO rats Dosser COUNTY GAOL—
Sessions: William King, stealing child's frocks at
Symonclabury. Hard Labour: Edward Gaines, as-
sault at Hilton, 1 month; (looms Brown, stealing a
cheese at Stabridge, 6 months ; James Dowdell,
stealing beer at Maiden Newton, 1 month. Inepri•
cosine lit Edward !Boughton, Edward Proctor, and
William Trott, drunk at Weymouth, 7 dalrs ; John
Martin, leaving wife chargeable at Bridpoet. 14
days; Owen Gollop, drunk, to., at Blandford, 7 days.
Ix compliance with the application made to him,
the Secretary of State gave notion in Friday's London
Gazette that the 35th section of the Sanitary Act,
1866, is in force in this borough. The •e°4l°°
empowers the Town Coattail to regulate the number
of persons who may occupy bowies or rooms let
in lodgings, to inspect and enforce the cleansing
of each houses, and provide the necessary appliances
for keeping them in a satisfactory sanitary condition.
A meeting of the Town Council is to be called shortly
to make the necessary arrangements.

Ws hear that several dairy cows in Fordington
are ill, that presented febrile symptoms analogous to
oath's plague in its earliest stage, which led toe
rumour that the rinderpeet had again appeared there.
But we sre glad to learn from Mr. Norris, veterinary
surgeon, that the disease which attacked them is not
cattle plague, butpneumonia, ocolunoned probably by
their feed ing oft "quick" grass in a water-meadow. Oise
cow belonging to Mr. Honeybon, dairyman, died on
Saturday night from this disease, but it is not by
any means oontagioua
OUR WATT& 80PP LY. —At the meeting of the
Corporation yesterday, the Town Clerk intimated that
he ad obtained counsel's opinion an to whether using
the water supplied by the Corporation for watering
was a domeetu use within the meaning of the
re In Parlianientand it was in the negative. Bet surely
the Council do not moan to aurorae the set strictly. it
would be too grim • joke, after abolishing our
pampa, making as pay as much for the'fwalar as private