The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-05-19 00:00:00

POOLIL.

Tan Bev. William A eVocth, clerk. M.A., has recently
been licensed to the curacy of St. Paul's, in this town.
DIATHL OF • TOWN 000ISOILLOIL —WO regret to
have to announce the decease of Mr. Richard Coll
Hopkins, of High-street, an old and highly respected
Inhabitant of the town, and a member of the Town
Council, which occurred on the night of Wednesday,
the 13th instant.
BOY Deovrimn.—On Wednesday afternoon the body
of a little boy, named Allen, was discovered in the
water near the Lytchett Pottery, on the Bast Quay.
The child matt have fallen in unobserved, and, having
been some time In the enter, was drowned long ere the
discovery took place.
WAGGON ACCEDMIT.— On Tuesday. afteroooe, 111 the

„waggoner of Mr. Jeinin Penton, Of Wrinslisin, Wes
driving ribber fast down H•mworthrhill, near Poole
Junction Station, • man named Burden, of Lytehett,
requested to ride. Without stopping the speed of his
horses the waiggoner told him to jump up. Barden
nterapted to do so, bat as he weir getting on the shafts
he fell underneath the wheels, which passed over his
lees, crushing them rather badly. Fortunately, how.
ever, no bones were broken, and the man is now in •
fair way of reooviry.
CORR FOR • SCOLDING WI7N.—A gentleman of this
town having ormasion, a few mornings sines, to visit
his farm, found is impossible to enter the bailiffs
house, owing to the larse pools of water with which it
wee inundated. On inquiry into the eau* he found
that the man and wife bed had • violent quarrel, during
which the women's tongue, at no time one of the
smoothest, rsn on at inch a rate that the man, oon-
eiving • biasing temper might be sztinguished by the
same means as • burning house, threw bucket rifler
bucket of water over his wife. After receiving about
thirty applications of the hydropathic the woe=
"raved au.”

—At about three O.OIOOIC on
Tu... e. morrond, no assistant of Mr. draper,
Loeslleet, was disturbed in her slumbetleYra: noise in
her bedroom. The mem proved vaterwards to be
burglars, who most have been sone thee on ths
premises, for they ransacked the entire place, without

taking away anything trots the stock of Their
object probibly was to discover the cur box, which
they fade l to do ere the assistant awoke, when, be
coining alarmed, they decamped the same
way they
entered,viz- the beeb-dner. The garden of the hoses
adjoins the iodise' Walking Field. The thieves, on
entering, first sealed the wall, after which one of them
climbed to the top of an outhoue, and without much
difficulty opened • window, which gave him access to
the house, when he no doubt opened the door below and
admitted his companion*. The tramp of • policeman in
the street was distinctly heard by the assistant at the
time the awoke. The thieves no doubt heard it too, and
this probably hastened their retreat. Humerous doors
and drawers had been opened by means of skeleton keys.
Comm COUBS.—At the County Court, bold on
Friday, the only case that excited interest van that of
"King v. flelfe," for the recovery of certain reds,
honsehold linen, and wearing apparel, of the value of
£4B, ailed to have been deposited with the defendant
by the plaintiff to he taken care of, and for no pecuniary
return. Defendant's plea wan that the articles were
deposited as security for • debt.— Mr. Johns. of Ring*
wood, conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. Smith.
barrister, the def end ant's. Yrs King. wife of the
plaintiff, gave evidence that in Much last defendant, as
a neighbour and friend, offered to take charge of what.
ever domestic articles she wished to put by, there being
reasons why they should not be left on plaintiff's
premises, and owing to his kind overtures she was
induced to peek up nearly all her clothing and bed
linen, in addition to varioui other articles of furniture.
After having them in possession, defendant refused to
give them up spin when requested to do so, exception
the condition that immediate possession should be given
defendant of the house and shop plaintiff would
In the natant' wan* of things yield up to him
at a future Smith, in his defeare,
entered into various pecuniary transactions that
had taken place between Self and King, with
the view of showing that the goods were deposited in
security, and put Mr. Self in the witnus box to deny
Hrs. King'. statementa—His Honour, however,stopped
the cue before it wee concluded, and said the articled
must be restored or plaintiff be paid their lull value, •
decision which elicited applause from the spestatora
In Re Edwin Lana—This bankrupt mime up for his
last examination and order of discharge, lapped by Kr.
Viant of Poole.—There being no opposing creditor, the
order of discharge was granted.