The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-03 00:00:00

Somersttsbire.

csEWKERNIL —A meeting of the inhabitants Ina
held it the Towshall, on lioaday evening. The tn.
.J. 8. Stubbs in the chair. The Committee appointed
at the bast public meeting stated that they had mods •
boast to lioem collection, and altogether about £B5 had
been collected. After some discussion, it wet decided
to give a dieser to shout NO of the aged poor of the
parSh, each man to be supplied with a quart. sod •••it
woman with a pint of beer with their dinner. A toe
will also be provided for the &today -school children of
all denominations in the town and their teachers, and
It wee estimated these will mama% to about 800 in
number. It was also prone's,' to di" • b"lah•sd of
beer to each of the friendly Nocieties in the town, and
invite the members to join ill the promise with their
beams, and that the streets should be decorated with
trompsens, banners, arches, ke. ; and it was left to the
ensantines to carry out them ctoeals as they might
consider best nesording to the at their disposaL
Mr. Heidi, of the Red Lion lan, asscsiumed that there
would be a publie dinner at his besterly at six o'clock
in theorists& Them is also to be a ball at the Gawp
Hotel, and a brim party is expelled.
CHARD.—T.I Pluscs or V/Lixo.—On Saturday
public meeting was held at the Townhall, to consider
the best means for celebrating the :earflap Of the
Prism of Wales, T. FL Hugh., Iraq, mayor is the
ask. It was resolved that a subscription be raised for
the pupate of reggdgeAti poor, and that the
meets should be according to the aineest
tollesied. P. ems gas was formed to carry out the
object of the meseng, and 0. Canning and W. Tooker.
&qrs., requested to esteems the town for sithecriptions.
whnh ogles these ematimais kindly undertook, and we
are plow& to hens the sum of £l4O has altsedT been
collected. The ptearom.s, we are given to under.
Mend, will be m I4low. —A grand
_procession in I
the 'forenoon, a public dinner end tria, ifillatiood•••• •
r and display o fireworks, mad a public bell at the
ticorge Hotel is the everting. The town generally will
be hanilesoaly decorated.
TAUNTON —A 'Pima, Mum= II rsz Rim,
—Ol llol•MIT gorilla*. • woman, named Elisabeth
Adorns, wife of a labourer, residing at P'bor, near
71tuntos, waa found drowsed in the river, whisk rens
close to Iter hones. It I. and that, in conmsneses of
same disegremsest with her leanly, she drowned hew-
self; that in fact, she walked &Demi* tato the
water.

WOODBURY.— Ax Roci.XIX AroIICAL DOGIIILIST.
*On Basday, during the afternoon amuse, at the parish
church, three little boys of the Sunday-whoa were
smiling and making signs one to the other, the sexton
pounced upon one of them, • little boy shout 'rues
years of age, and led him triumphantly out of the
church and placed him in the stocks at the sketch door,
irhere he kept him during the rest of the esreisaThe
day was bitterly cold, and the poor little fellow when
released, was quite benumbed. The parochial dignitary
who has such • respect for the stocks, timbres in Ogee
about two months, during which time he bee served
two ,k three boys in • like Minna .
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WEISTON43UPER•MARE Monne Cams
liaxer.—Our market en Murky was bet mentily
eupplied with beet led modem. There were sommeroas
buyers in attendance, sad anything in crudities we.
sold. Good beef fetched from MX to 68e. per eat;
mutton realised 9.1. per lb. Onmint!rheaste sold well ;
curs sod calm. were • drag. Store were net mush
is demand, and mad 'be quoted a fie lower than on
last market. Pat pip from 9s. he Int per more.
STESPLi CELARI AT SIIIROW.—On Monday • match
between Mr Bleary Spring's mare, " Dolby," and Mr.
Hooper's black filly' 'Yields we Gently," came off.
The sloe mulled eonsiderable exeitemeat in the neigh-
towhead, Lod it least 1,601 spetstoes seen present
at the hour fixed for the start—two o'clock. The old
mad, "Dolby," from baying defeated the filly at the
late Western-super-Mare depots chases, was the
favourite, nod, although, the filly had many Admirers.
dm had bet few backers. The diatoms was shout three
miles, and there were 37 leaps to be taken, including
revered awkward "rhino.." After a mut exciting rase,
der* which the horses changed places several tinkle,
and, after many "hair-breadth escapee," the old mare
added to her laurels, and was declared the winner by
about six lengths.
BRISTOL. ---ALLICILD STARVATION OE •
WON•II.—The neighbourhood of Culver greet WM
on Saturday thrown into a state of greet excitement
in coosequenee of a report that a woman named
Bowden, the wife of a beiketonaker reeding there,
had died frum actual starvation. It appeared that
the poor woman and her husband occupied apart-
ments. For some time pad • female living in the
num home had observed the door of the room oon-
staidly locked up, and on Saturday, finding it open,
and her curiosity being excited, she entered it, end
found Mrs. Bowden in a shockingly monoiallisd state,
and on the verge of death. A medical man was in•
dully sent for, but before him arrival she expired, it
is mil from want of food. TOW hots were omit-
muncated to the Clifton polies, and the husbaa.d was
soon afterwards apprehended by Sergeant PepperelL
An inquest will be ensued on the body.
cum or CHILD Draxsvios. —On Monday night
a Inc male child, apparently about 18 months old, was
found by Mrs. Urch in the Bear Inn Yard, Hotwelle
The child was heard summing by the side of the foot-
path leading through the yard to Woburn Plus, and
Mrs Crab, who live. close by, having bees attracted by
the child's cries, went to the spot, and took it home.
The child was very resoectably dressed; had on 'Tuscan
het trimmed with yeleet, sied red wirings, half mourn'
ing plaid frock, • red OASIIOI jacket, with whim socks
nod new boots. No clue whatever has been found to
the perents, and no doubt is entertained but that the
els Oil was placed there and designedly deserted.
BATH.—SEDUCTION Or • SULTAN? GIRL.—
Mr. haw Gay, of the Coopers' Anna Inn, Win.
combe, Bath, was summoned before the Proms
magistrates, on Thursday, to *bow cause why he
should not contribute to the support of the illegiti-
mate child of • young woe= named Sarah Vickery.
The case, as stated by the complainant, was one of a
very disgraceful nature. It appears that the com•
phinant lived at Nunney, and that the defendant
was her own uncle. Some time ago the defendant's
rirst wife was taken ill, and the complainant was
engaged to attend her, performing her dates to the
time of Mrs. Gay's death. The defendant was aho
taken ill, and complainant attended to him. During
the time of the young woman's stay in the house the
defendant seduced her, and the result of their
improper connection was the birth of a male child.
'The compleinant swore most positively to the fact
of her wide being the father of the child, and she
stated that the defendant had recently married
again. Corroborative evidence having been given
the Bench maid they should intlict the heaviest
penalty the law would permit, which WM the pay-
ment of 2a fol. a week, and all the costs, together
with the attorney's fees. Mr. Mosher, of From.,
appeared or the complainant and some time after
the case had been decided Mr. Bertram, of Bath,
arrived, and he stated that be appoired for Mr.
Gay. He wu informed that the case hail been
called on and heard ; wherepon Mr. Bertram at once
gave notice of hie intention to appeal against the
decision to the Court of quarter Sessions. The
teamed gentlemen was accompanied by Mrs. Gay,
the defendant's recently married wife. The neer
nisances have wince been entered into for the prose-
cation of the appeal.
It is currently rumoured that the lord of the
inanor, Colonel Blathwayt, of Dytham Park, Bath,
in about to erect a manor house on his property at
Porlock. The sits to be chosen is near For.
lock Weir, and commands an extensive and
magnificent view of the Channel. Excavations of
stone for the building are being made.
EAST BRENT.—The Middle School at East
Brent, established through the exertions of the Yen.
Aechdeacon Denison, will shortly be opened.
FROllE.—Tax VOLUNTZER FIRS SKIU•DL
At a recent vestry a grant was made lay the
parishioners towards providing • new fire-engine for
the town. It arrived a few days ago, and was tested
on Monday afternoon, the result being most antis.
factory. The builders were Messrs. Shaw and
Mason, London, and the principle is that on which
the Metropolitan Brigades engines are constructed,
Captain Shaw, the chief of the Loudon force, has in-
spected this engine, and tested it. capacity, and be
spoke in favourable terms of it. power. We bare
now two lirst-rate engines, and are, in the respect
of precaution against tire, as well prepared as must
towns is the kingdom.
Sao COMMINCIIIINT TO • MARRIED 1.471.—kt
the police court, on Tuesday. a respectable-looking
yews( women, named Ann Tanner, and wise had
heen married only a week, was charged with steal.
mg a yard of alpacca, and a towed, of the value of
Is. 6i the property of her former muter, Mr.
Richard White. farmer, Witham Friary. The poor
girl pleaded guilty, and the evidence disclosed • large
amount of petty thieving on the part of the prisoner,
who had been in the habit of giving away bread,
cheese, cider, and even brandy, to • woman named
Jefferies, who lived in the neighbourhood. This
woman was strongly censured by the bench. The
prisoner was sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment.
ILSIINSTER.—On Monday evening a public
meeting was held in the National School-room, to
smolder the best means of celebrating the wedding-
day of the Prince of Waleo The Rev. A. H. P.
l'rewman, vicar of Bolinder, was voted to the chair.
A committee was formed consiaiiag of the following
gentlemen (with power to said to their number) :
The Rev. A. H. P. Trewman (ex. cab J. W.
Sheppard, Esq., M. Baker EN. and Mean.
Bragg°, Cooper, Lang, Sta;iderwiOk, Wills, sod
Baker (Horton). It was determined to give all the
Sundeyechool children in the pariah, amounting to
600, • tea; and, should the fond, allow, to give all
the seed poor a dinner. Twenty pines' were
sobscribed laths roan.
CHIDDAR.—A oellagica has bees sets. foot by
sone of the priotipal inhabitsigeof this phew for the
glyrpirissei entertadfing the peer co ties 10th ing.
selgegiese hove bees seede se to the bag
method of strryieg out the ebesel in view, but the
phe whisk Is at mead eget broorahly readved
• sad withal:, if aditient funds aro raised, will are
dealer be serried out, that two OMR gall be
aesiboara. sod the joists forwarded to the poor,
than isablies the whole family to enjoy the heel by
their own ilreade. We saiderstand tbst five ra.
dame have each eabscribed £6 towards aanying
int amok ffr,. good sad charitable mega* ef oda
froiing the wedding-day of our PAWS.