The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-09 00:00:00

Somersetsbirt.

YEOVI L. —The up-train went off the line at the
turning-corner, near where the new station is being
erected, on Friday last. We are much pleased to
state that un life was lost, and the carriages sustained
but little injury. A new and handsome station is
being erected at Newton by the company ; building
is going on in right earnest, and in a short time there
will doubtless be a handiunne aed a commodious
station.

FaTal. A CI'IMMT. —On Saturday the 29th ult., a
fatal accident occurred on the South-Western Rail-
way to a man named Thomas l'heilley, a foreman of
the packers. It appears that he was in the act of
entering a carriage at the station of the Yeovil
junction whilst in motion, when his foot slipped,
and he fell between the platform and the carriage,
receiving such injuries as to cause instant death.
Mr. W. Wilmington, one of the oldest gentlemen
in this town and well-known as a glove manu•
facturer, and who has been an inhabitant during
the past 87 years, died on Tuesday last. He was
a regular attendant at St. John's church, and was
buried in its churchyard on Saturday, 29th. This
is the last individual to be interred in the church.
yard. A funeral sermon was preached by the Rev.
R. J. F. Thomas, on Sunday.
ExcuusioN.—An excursion train left Yeovil for
Portsmouth and Southampton on the South- Western
Railway on Monday week. The fares were very
moderate, and some 80 or 90 persons availed them.
selves of the opportunity. The excursionists, who
left at 7 o'clock a.m., arrived home between 11 and
12 o'clock.

111/1.6 'ORPS.—Tbe members of the Yeovil Rifle
Corps have mustered at the rate of four or tire tins('
a week during the past month; sometimes the rifle.
men MEet twice a day, early in the morning and
during the evening. The drills are well attended,
and the members of the corps look forward to the
time when ball practice will commence. The band
appears on evenings of general parade—Thursdays.
Ceurreev.—The cemetery, opened a short time
ago, received its first occupant on Tuesday last.
The burial appeared unusually solemn, this being the
first time death appeared within his boundaries.
THE FEES Or THE New CIEMILTERY.—A vestry
meeting was held on Thursday, Mr. Churchwarden
Vickery in the chair, when a resolution in the fol.
lowing form was made by Mr. Dampier, seconded
by Mr. J. Cox, and carried, with only one dia.
sentient :—" That the following fees are undoubtedly
payable to the churchwardens of the parish of
Yeovil. by custom, subject to the terms of the redo.
!talon Vestry, of the 14th May, 1857, viz. :• -On
tolling the great bell, is. 6d. ; second bell, As. ; fifth
bell, Is. ; for breaking ground on the purchase of a
family grave space, 6s. nd. That it appears by the
parish hooks, and by the statement of the sexton,
that the following fees have also, for at least thirty
years past, being received by the said churchwardens,
but whist the custom was prior to such period the
Vestry are unable to seeertate. viz.—For a large

vault, £1; second size, £3; small size, £2; bricked
grave, al • reopening mine, G. ha. That in order
to settle all questions relating to such fees, and the
claims, rights, and privileges of the Vicar of Yeovil,
and the limumbent of Heinlforil, in the new burial
ground, it is resolved that the foregoing fees be ee-
vised and varied as follows, viz, ;—counsion inter-
ment, 2s. 6d. ; child under 12 years of age, IS. ;
purchase of grave space, class A, 13a. 4,1 ; elan IS,
10s. ; class U, 65. nd. ; on rempenin,g vault, fia
bricked grave, 3s. 4d. ; headstone, with or without
footstone, 3.. ; fiat stone or tomb over grave, if not
exceeding two feet in height, 10s. ; if over vault, or
exceeding two feet in height, al ; hut inasmuch as
the receipts arising therefrom will in all probability
considerably exceed the average of past years, and
as the Incumbent ot Heiniforif will be charged with
the duty of officiating at funeials of all persons resi•
dent within this district, who may be buried in the
consecrated ground, it is resolved that for the
future and until the vestry shall otherwise deterinine,
one•third of all such fees when received be retained
by the churchwardens, one other third paid to the
Vicar of Yeovil, and the remaining one•thinl to the
Incumbent of Hendfonl. That all payments in
respect to tolling the bells be discharged by the
parties requiring the same. That the parish clerk
is entitled to a fee of Is. on every burial in the con-
secrated ground. That the foregoing resolutions
are passed on condition that they lw accepted by the
Vicar of Yeovil and Incumbent of Hendforil in fufi
satisfaction of all thin, respective elailllS siul demmuls
to any fees or payment whatsoever. for services per-
formed or rights granted in the burial ground of this
parish, but without prejudice to the rights of all ,
parties, if ever such resolutions shall be rescinded by
the vestry."

RAILWAY Aeco'IODATION.— The thanks of the
inhabitants of the district between Salisbury and
Yeovil will be spontaneously given to Mr. Scott, the
traffic manager of the South Western, for his in)•
proved time table for October. Anew train will
leave Salisbury at five minutes before six in the
morning, joining the 7.10 at Yeovil, and reaching
Exeter at 9.20. And the la,t up train, which Last
month only reached as far as Yeovil, will run on to
Salisbury and Southampton. reaching the first named
city about half-past 9. The coniumnication between
Salisbury and Exeter is therefore nearly complete.
11 AWKC II Chien.— Two Acc ide ult. —On Thursday
last, an accident happened to a boy named Sainsbury.
'lle boy's father is a gamekeeper to the Right Hon.
Lord Bridport. Sainsbury was waiting with Isis gun
to shoot a rat, ard when the rat ran out of the hole
the boy ran after it. Sainsbury did not see the boy,
and levelled the gun to shoot the rat, and part ;dale
charge entered the bey's legs. A surgeon Was soon
in attendance, and took a great many shots out.
We are glad to say he is doing well. —Another
accident happened tam Thomas Itockett on SAturday
;tight about eight o'clock. He was taking a barrel
of beer out of a cart wnen he slipped and felt down,
and the barrel falling on him broke his leg below
the knee, lie was at once taken to his bionic at
Castle, and Mr. Willa, surgeon, of Coaxdon Hall,
was soon in attendance and act the hone. 'Lockett
is doing well.