The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-01-20 00:00:00

THE CIUPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

ACCIDENT TO THE EARL Of ELLEgIiOROIrOII.—As
Lord FAlentiqrougb was leaving a chop in the Clarence-
parade, Cliehrtiliam, on Monday afternoon, and we!
about entering his mrrilme, hi. foot "lipped and he fell
heavily on the pavement, ho, head coining in contact
with the Bagditones. When ralond tip it was found
that a wound was inflicted on the temple, from which
the blond flowed freely. His lordship declining the
profferrni asoistance of mvend bystanders. simply called
or • cloth in stay the bleeding, and ordered his
coachman to drive home to lii, mansion at Southarn.
By the latest ner.onnts no serious results are appre-
hended from the accident

FATAL FEAT.—A sad catastrophe occurred recent'
Hmannali. at the Plaza Torres Hull Ring. Mr. Parini,
the celebrated tight rope walker, and rival of Moodie,
advertised that be would curry his wife across the rope
stretched from one side of the ring to the other, at a
height of about tiOft, upon his hack—a feat he had per- 1,
formed in other places. He started with the lady Upon
his back, and had nearly finished his journey amen, ,
within about four feet, when the audietice applauded I
the dating act, it seemingly being completed, and the I
lady, in the acknowledgment of the applause, loosened '
her hold upon her hesband's neck and waved her hands,
and, on the instant of doing no. lost her balance and
fell. Her husband caught her by the skirt of her dress
but it gave way, and she went down crashing upon the
seats that amend from the curve of the ring to the top
of the enclosure. She litigerol from Sunday up to
Thursday morning, when death put an end to her suffer.
ings. The wealthicet 15di0 of Havannah were at her
bedside and soothed her dying moments. She was em-
balintsl and placed in one of the niches of the honing.
ground. It is said that from 10,000 to 20,000 dollars
wiil he raised by subscription for her child.
DESTRUCTION OF II•ITON'S HoTZL AT BANDRIDGR.
—Be a private letter just received, Mr. Janie* Garter,
of Melbourne and tiandridge, informs Isis friends of the
total destructim by fire, of his newly furnished ard
decorated immense family hotel at Sandridge, well-
known by all colonials as Garton's Hotel, which com-
menced at the corner of Beach -street, anti bad a facade
of nearly one hurdred yards, and was then jotted by
the premises of Messrs. Stewart and Garrick, Whip
handlers. qp Tuesday, the 11th November last, a fire
broke out at some adjoining premise*, which the high
winds quickly spread to the hotel. which was full of
lodgers, who had but little time to escape before the
whole building was on fire, and in almost less time titan
it takes to write it nothing retuained but a charred and
.teaming mane of reins. A mob had from the first
broken in. and threw the furniture heedlessly oit of
elm wholow, of course all to atoms. His atilt:ming
large stoma, tilled to repletion with a choice assortment
of ales, wine, and spirit; were likewise wholly eon-
Fumed, nothing remaining but the hoops of the casks.
In this department alone he estimates his loss at over
four thoumnd pounds, while the :totel and fixings were
but partially insured. Euch • destructive fire has not
been known in the colony for years.
Tim 1 DFATH RT 'FROWNING !MAR ROCIIDALE.—An
inquest was held on Wednesday at the Hot-shoe Inn,
Rochdale, on the body of Sarah Anne Hoyle.• milliner.
Levi Crossley said : I am a clerk in a newspaper office.
1 am nineteen years of age ; I think the deceased was
twenty. I had been keeping company with her longer
than twelvemonths, and, for anything I know to the
contrary, with the approbation of her friends. We met
on Sunday evening at the bottom of lilackwater, at nix
o'clock, and went op Oldham-road till we got nearly to
!Amer-place. In returning we lost the path, and I
groped for it with my feet; we lost it again, and I was
endeavouring to find it when she screamed, and caught
hold of my area. Presently I found myself in the river.
She had fallen in and dragged site after her. After I
had got in I wonted • footing somewhere on the bank,
and caught hold of her to lift her head above water,
but in doing so the stone gate way. sad I wax plunged
in again over bead, and lost sight of her. The second
time I scrambled up the side, and I rambled about for
• hour and • half before I knew where I waa. It was
• very foggy night—we could not see the river from the
side. We had been arm-in-arm before we lout the path,
hot she bad left loose, and had not taken hold again,
but did so in slipping down. The jury reinniad • wes•
diet of " Accidental Drowning."