The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-07-21 00:00:00

Samersetsb frt.

TRI Taunton oa. .Company are about to declare a
dividend of 6 per cent.

IT is calculated that the tatal increase to the county
electors in Rommel, under the new Reform Act, will
be about 12,000.

SALDION, in large numbers, have been seen in She
Hirer Parrett, sod a fair quantity bas been caught,
especially in the vicinity of the bridge.

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Tea John Bali understand' that the commission to
inquire into pertain dostrinea beld by Mr. Bennett will
be shortly Issued; but the !MUM published some time
ego were inmenrata

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Ir is proposed to divide the borough of Taunton into
seven districts, for oonvenienos of polling. The
number of *lectors on the new register is estimated et
2,200.

SUDDIEN DEATH AT ODOOMBL-00 Monday morning
a mum named Thomal Foci, f Chilthornv, was 'tan&
in at the door of a stable occupied by Kr. R. Maker,
when he dropped down dead, altar uttering a groan.
Mu. SPUD, the wife of a labourer al West Yankton,
who recently presented her husband with three healthy
boys at a birth, has received the Queen's gratuity of
£3, through the instrumentality of the Bee. F. C. King.
lake.

Buscrtotz.—Ons day daring the part meek, a plate-
layer, employed at the Taunton elation of the Bristol
and Beeter Railway Company, was skunk down by a
gumtree& At Iret it warn thought he Irma Wan% but
on being carried home he recovered.

THUNDISITOILAI AT TAIIIITON.-00 Wednesday, at
mid-day, • severe stones of thunder, lightning, sad ra,
over this town. At CAlake, on Mr. Perrin's
rinin,a s horse was killed by the electric timid, sad at
Wiveliscombe • nook of twelve sheen were haled.

An:merits SOICIDL —A labourer named Jaeob Rue,
living at Pitney, near Languor", was taken before V.
Stuckey, Esq , on Monday, cinema with attempting to
commit suicide on 9th and 10th inet. It appeared
that defeodent had quarreled with his wife, to con-
sequence of which he hung bimetal( to • beaus in bra
pigsty. on Thursday. His wife cut him down, how-
ever, before he was mush hurt. On Friday he again
made so attempt to commit enieide, but was again
prevented. The matter was then brought under the
notice of P.C. Redwood, who apprehended him.
Defendant appeared to be thoroughly penitent and
pleaded guilty. As be promised not to be so rash twin
he was discharged.

CHILD DROTTINO AT DDIALIT.—A case of a descrip-
tion unhappily of too frequent oocurresoe in this country
wee heard at the Petty Sm.lomat Coast on Werinose.y.
before W. J. Phelps, Req. The young lady (Merged
with the offence wee !vf good
.appeamines, and dreamed
d/a present fashion, yin. a annoiine, bag, bat siege.
and " foolish" skirt, no bonnet, but • modern some-
thing on the top of her bead, and her book hair, or
somebody else's beak hair, In • net. Her vernacular
could not be accurately ascertained, as ill she said was
"No, sir." She gave her name al Mary Ann Keene,
cad the chcrgo was that on the 11th instant, at the
pariah of Slymbridge, she did unlawfully abandon her
child, then under the age of two years, whereby the if.
of each child ens endasigered. The following was the
evidence :—Mary Ann Underwood: I live with my
parents at Wislos Gate. About eight o'clock last Sue-
d.l morning, while opening the shutters. I beard s child
'trying in the privy in the garden. I told my mother of
It, and she and I went round together. We found a
bat; on the stone door. We took it into the house and
sent for a policeman directly. The baby was dirty end
seemed ill. It had on e napkin, AMMO], and • belly
band. The privy adjoins the house.—Ann Underwood
(mother of the former witness) corroborated her endorsee
with the following addition: On Monday morning I
took the baby to the police dation at Denier, end was
present when the doctor examined it. The prisoner
was also there. I heard Sent. Brown ea if the child
wag her's, and she said "Yes." The child had not
sufficient clothing on. It was very sold and seemed ill,
and I had grant trouble to got it warn; boil nursed it
and clothed It with some of my own baby's clothes.—
Samuel Hyde Ill'Phervon mid that he had examined
the child, but found no bruises whatever. It seemed ill,
Led es if it would not live loos. IS wax not properly
nourished, and was in rush &delicate stabs that if left to
Itself it, life would be endangered. He maw it again on
Tuesday, and Bummed to be dylag, bet be gave it 'stimu-
lant and it revived. The child appeared to be about two
months old. P.C. Brookes: On Sunday morning I went
to Wialoe Gate, end was pointed out the pleas where
the child wax Wt. I went in search of the mother.
During my search I heard theta woman with • child had
called about one o'clock on Sunday morning at the Bell
inn,Cambridge, which is about half-e-mile from Wialoe.
I also heard that she had passed the Post-office at
Omnbridge, about four o'clock on Banda, morning, with
• baby, and wax see 34 Lower (lam aboat balf•paat dye,
but without the baby. I took her in custody at Cam
quarry on Sunday evening about live p.m. I saw her
ooming from Stinchoombe-bill with a man. I asked
her where she came from. Sbe said from Glouometer.
I asked her if she had • child. Bile mia as bad not,
I charged her with leaving a child on the road, and than
she admitted she had done no saying her husband had
run away from her, that she had no nourishment for it,
and did not know what to do with it. I heard her admit
to Soot. Brown that the child brought to the station by
Mr' Underwood we. her child, Yr. Phelps addressed
the prisoner telling her she had narrowly escaped
severe ptaishoteat, and warned her Is dm, bonus as