The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-05-23 00:00:00

8 HERBOitti F.

A LAClOsiute Ai:clears °courted in Cheap-street
on Friday evening. A well-known performer on the
velocipede, was driving his machine down the middle
of the street, and • donkey cart, belonging to • highly
respectable vendor of vegetables', stood in the war.
Whether the rider of the byeicle thought he could
steer clear, or fanoled unit us ...id wisiscp• "go .4"
the obstacle and "clear it" we know not: at all events
there was • collision. This was the reattlt—rider of
bycide sitting in the mud and trying to mike out what
had happened—bicycle doubled up—donkey out still
in the same plus.
Laver. °autumns Amp Bantus Tailee.—Those
who were inclined to ridicule the claim made by the
town of Sherbome on the Directors of the South
Western Railway, in the matter of the level crossing
and the express, will be somewhat surprised to hear
that the Board of Trade attached such importance to
the representations made to them as to send down Col.
Hutchinson at mid-day on Wednesday, to examine
and report on the cue. Cot. Henderson, after inspect.
log the locals is viz expressed a decided opinion that
it came within the Ant, that the later Clauses at the
Consolidation Aot did not give the Beard of Trade power
to make regulations as to the speed in this instance, as
the road was inane in 1861, and that the Company
would continue to run of Omit peril /—Sse,l)orie
Journal.
licsotem or • Lrrrr.l Sot% —A little boy about 13
years of ego named Ito Yeekan, living in this town, sus.
tailed some very severe injuries while engaged in birds
-
nesting last week. On Thursday be WWI out with some
companions, and in the ootina of their wanderings they
came to the quarry at Osborne—a rough exitavation,
piesenting the weal characteristics of quarries, and
about 20 feet deep. Some distance down one of the
steep sides of the rook they discovered a nest which
lleMeekan eadcavoured to obtain. It was, however.
, situated Doter down as to be oat of Ills mob. To get
it the boys hit upon a novel, and as it proved, thus-
Serous expedient. One of them lying down upon his
back, hung his legs over the cliff. lEalleskan than
' crawled over his body, and letting himself down, swung
by the legs of the one &bore. Ile unfortunately how-
ever, was too heavy, and the boy above beau to lose
,hls hold and slide slowly down towards the edge. It
was plain that the two mast go, but with Coaching
heroism Malfeekan determined to save the other little
fellow, if he could not I/40W, and upon his playmate
telling him he was slipping, he sheeted "then ru drop"
—Mt go his hold and fell • braised and lauding mass
among the stones and rubbish at the bottom of the
quarry. The other lad was then enabled to draw lila-
.eep in safety. but 11.011sekan vu lying • mules'
heap epee the gnund. A unveysnee wee pranced
and he was brougni th kis residue, al kiherbornit. Ths
serrates of Dr. Williams wen called In, and it WY
found that he bad broken his thigh—hits hole Waugh
the first plate of the skull of the forehesi, and was
severely braised and shaken. These injuries were at
, brit thought likely to end fatally, but unremitting care
and attention it is believed will pull him through, and
he is now promoting favourably. He was &boarder at
the house of the Aliases ruddissombe, and his parent&
live at Plymouth: