The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-20 00:00:00

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FLOODS MID LOSS OF LIFE ON THE CLTDS.-
very unseasonsble weather of late seemed to have
reached a climax on Saturday and Sunday evenings
when the rain, which has seldom missed a day for week;
back without marking it more or lees wet, Mien poured
incessantly for hours together till past midnight. The
early part of Sunday waa dry, but the presence of
portentous masses of heavy clouds overhead indicated
that the ill weather had not passed away, which was
verified before evening, when it became soft again ; but
from midnight till seven o'clock on Monday morning—
except with a few slight intermissions—the rain
decended in torrents. The streets, especially in the
lower part of the town, were flooded ; and in souse
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the water found its way into the houses, nut only
by the doors, but, being choked by the overcharge in
the Mall, forced its way up by the small connecting
dodos to the floors. From our toga o'clock the deluge
WM at its worst. and chiefly on the line of acqueiluct
known as tile "West Burn." Except where neassity
or convenience has impelled the work of arching it over,
the counie of the burn is open all the way. At one
place, where a number of streets meet after a fall of 1
• few foot, it takes • quick turn, and passes through an I
, archway forming the foot of Kilblain-street. At this
spot two suiall holism overlook the stream, which are
approached by a few steps and narrow footpath
dividing the doorway front the edge of the water; above
this it never reached on ordinary occasions. As the
cataract in i
creased these dwellings were soon nverted,
for they were rigid oppreith, so that the inmates had
to take refuge iu flight, and shortly afterwards the
action of the tearing current scooped out the larger
portion of the narrow roadway to a level with the bed
of the 'dream Ow of the oimotpeole, sassed Wright

Frame, having returned for the purpose el rescuing
wine articles she had left behind, persisted, :mitt GI: the
oaruings of the pohee, to cross to her dwelling. In
vuntut ng to do so, however, she slipped, awl vras
rapidly cal tied down by the hurrying stream through
One long etch aed then panther, wit, re the water would
be from six to ight, lett deep, so fast t:mt those who
followed on the streets only caught a glimpse if I.er as
she
.r 11,111,11 bet we, 1 the several reralles, anal then 1111111
earned f..r out into the river, her clothe, keeping her
&duet. It it reolarkable that, alter passing threuale so
marl. urgii.„,•• front aide to 6:.1e in a t orient nearly flush
with tint archway, agaiast all of which she mult hero
emt .ined 110111.• ii“ra khockA. bud let ii drifted a diftance
of, at Last, half a nide, it was 111,t till a fe w minutes
after she we picked up that life bacanse extinct. The
dee, as.11•1111g 1.61111 40 year.. of a :e, cal :wrier!, but
Its It ft tuo laug,t!em, awl was again about Om 'cried
of confinement. The rain having masa 1,11013 access
n'elrelt in an hour aft...ward, the rush uf•water began
to subside. Thu weather thrungiteut the day wl,l
pleasant, with sunshine, and wore a noire settled aspect
than of Ist 0. At llnurbsrton, after a very heavy
rain, the burns came down in floods, and damaged the
green utopia in 61,1110 111,1C1I Very C,11141111,11/Iy. The
water rose teen higher than it did in the floods about
• week ago, and if there is less to record as to the
dastroct!on of roads andbridgea, it is b ounce those most
exposed were all demolished on the occasien referred to,
and bad Got been reppined. The injury to the crops,
boweser, is more estrus :re, and the lin.. of rail,' ay has
lieu antlered more, having been at cuvetal 1,1,1111111100a,e11
to a depth of several feet, 01:C111,11111ii,g considerable delay
of !levered of the (mina. Near IlMenshurgh it millolatte
bur:t or overflowed, said throded th: greunds below it
tool the line of railway in • aoinewhat alarming manner.
At the people in fitirti-atre't were forced to
leave their I s +rain, and up to last night rams of
the homes in tit a neiehbourbood went unapproachablo
by the tsaual amino of ingress. The common 11111,14
of the burgh were greatly Hooded, 111111 the public
park warn almost entirely under water for the greeter
part of the day.
EXTH tokiDINURT I.oin•sl.ir AT SLAIIANNAN, FAL.
KIRK.— This district is in great co.umotion owing teen
extraordinary result of the lotto heavy raiim —namely,
Um displacement of a grist stretch of mo. Adam', celled
Auchingray Moss, between Slantsneven, and Airdrie. A
person named JUL:mei:lin, residing in biatmu3nrn,
while looking out from • farm house near the Ikea on
Monday morning, obaerved about twenty &OW of the
1.,..,! prt from Ilk clay bottom, and float a distance of
at least three fourths of a 1141 C. Thu eight he dewribea
as wendetful, re,ernhling a mountain in motion. (treat
ilAnar,l Itors pot•toe fiad loe•ing beetu
covered, a quantity .4 arable land alm taken in, and •
portion or the Ajoirie road rendered quite impassable.
On Tuesday night the mass was visibly 140 Mg.—Scots-
men.
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Tug . ZARB. Tuead.i.y was a field-day on the N arious
shooting quartsra in the district of (Jails. Sportsmen
were out in great force on all the moors, end the
number of game bagged has been large. On the estate
of Duchally, James Milne, Esq., and party, in the
course of a few hours, snocceded in killing IN brace
of grouse, besides hares and other game ; and in the
course of two hours, 10 brace of grouse, exclusive of
bares, &c., fell to one gun on tho estate of Coul, the
property of T. It. Snicatou, Es The shooting grounds
of the Earl of Canwerdow is on the Gleneagles have
been found ter be well *rocked, and great slaughter has
been committed among the gains. The Css lu moor.,
which are among the best in the district, have been
largely allot ever. and with great success, the birds
being almost unmolested last season, so that the game
are uuw very numerous.
DI..N BA It II LH!: iNG FISHING, AUGUKT 14.—This
morning** fishing is perhaps the largest that has ever
taken place at Dunbar at this early part of the Ceason.
The quays of the new harbour are fully occupied. while
in the basin are boats discharging their heavy cargoes
juts sloops, where curing is as brisk as oti the land.
—The old harbour is equally busy. The number of
boats is much grsater than before, and all are heavily
tisded. One Penzance ',oat is said to hat • 100 crafts;
hut the great hulk base from twenty to forty cross.
English buyers, curers, carters, cool era. packers, and
the railway officials here have their hands fall to-day.
Prices have ranged from 14s. to Ms. per craii.—A fez
boats sold as low as his. ; that price is exceptional. The
fish arc of tho best imslity.—Seufautan.