The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-03-11 00:00:00

Sanutictsbirt.

II beg been decided to establish • School Of Art el
Wine.
The sum of f:67 Ins been eolleiled in Bath, daring
the put year, for the Walden-ten Iglesias..
Wester -taper-Mere Assembly Rooms C trepan) has
dee'ared a dividend of six per out. for tbe past year.
1 £lO hes been mutest by. the lir.idgwater Infirmary
frnitfeoanw =igTrinentaoftrhaell2mNi.:7 bn..Nevilk, of Bulkier,
b.. prudused 169 pigs in 12 litters.
The western wine of the Tsunton and Somerset Hos.
pits' is ta be estended. ot • out of ti,087.
The Bath Baud of Guard' ins ban diseided, by a
majority of 7 0 4, to petition spinet the Prison
Ministers Bill.
The members of the Bilstel pollee foie* are %bent
he apply for an Jewessl of pay, on the ground of the
rise in the priest of the necesgssits of life.
Axbridge Board of Gusrdiens ties passed • "strong
protest" sgsinet the proposed expanditui a of k 20,030
In enlarging tba Somerset County Lunette Asylum.
The application of the Beth operative oosehbuilders,
for the adopniet of the nine boors' eystem hu been
• Waged by one or two of the largest employers.
Mr. Ntville-Grenvill.., 11.1'., for Mid-Somereet,
his been added io the Sal. ot ik m nines on the Mode vied
: Bob. oh AN In the plus of Sir John Keoneway.
Glastonbury Local Board hue erected several Neer
1 ventilators, and they ore reported In ausocs,ful open-
don. They are considering the question of towage
, inigslin.
I Bath Tows C,oneell be. unanimously elected Mr.
Blaine as Alderman •In the room ~f Mr. Arehart'.
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&ceased ; and itis noted that he—ta the first CAaserva-
tire ao elected for very in
The Bridgwater Rural Amatory Ate hority has decided
to .pply to the Piddle Walt. Lira C.missimioners tn.
• loan of 12,800, to pay for the emettnatica and main-
tenance of main aeartrase work 1 in that pariah.
Mr. W. H. Roberts, such budder, of Bridrwatrir,
has been for the 13th time somormed for the not-
vacciwition of his chl.dreo, not fined el and sieta. He
Is still uncoarinoed, mad le to be again saramoo•d I
Dr. Robert Smart, of Lest jbtoo, having sent •
poem to the itopreaa lingenie.sl referees, to her late
reavement, her Raj .sty hes directed an answer to be
snot, asevering her grateful thanks to the doctor for the
WM sympathy sspressed.
The Government have sent into Somerset
Grantham, C.E. to inquire respecting the insodstioss
of the valleys of the Parrett, Brae arid Axe with •
view to Its prevention and with it the ague 'ld other
sickness said to miss therefrom.

The trainees of Orewkerne Grammer fiebool bevel
Protested sonnet tb. cew wham' propounded by Ile
Endowed Schools Cumntiesioners for the future govern-
ment of the school, the wia 04 of the parieh in the
matter baring "been my • ten attend' diarrg irded."
lir W. H. P. Gore Ltn.:too, has gives 00
towards a fund 1)41,4 r‘le d by thf 8 interest Ambse '-
logical Society for th, purehase of Tonneau Ceille.
With • View of restoring i-. and employing the chief
hull for their museum.
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The oollirr. of Bray*,lows pit, Radstook, to the
number a 200, h.ve bet • dinner in rielebratio• al
the euseeisful termination of two tinFortent undevia-
ting.' in rionosathh with the works—the first was tee
stoking of • second shaft 570 yards deep, and the mooted
a search for the" great en"v of coal

Tilt Great Western Railway Company have made
arraugemeets with to. owner of Duleottehill, Wells, foe
purchase of the atm* of which the kill is composed,
for the purpose cf making it into bailee, to be used on
their own and other tad rays. )1),r4tIOCII bare al ready
oommeneed, and it ls stated that soap! mment will be
found tor at least 300 men daring the next 12 "seethe.
A wiser of 8105 e Trister died on Friday, weed 824
Though possemed of conelierable property, he lived la
a eery penurious manner, and during the late oold and
!snowy weather wool i not afford hisomil a ilre in his
house, but visited his neighbturs to warm himself or
soot his small toenail of food. Ile wee married,
bet there are several relatives who will, no doubt,
willingly receive the money he so carefully saved.
At Yeovil the following are its rate. oberge I fat
water taken by meter :—Gonsurners of upwards al
10.000 gallons per quarter, is. per thousand gallons;
from 10 003 to 20.000, 111. Per thoumni ; from 20.000
to 40,000, 101.; from 40,000 to 80,003. 91.; 80,030
gallons and upwards, 81. per thousand galloon ; sod
petsons contracting for • million milieus • year £BB..
per quarter, and atm excess above a million gallons,
61. per thousand.
At From. pelice-tourt, tete your; men, name!
Freeman and Need, relatives of tradesmen of Rood,
were charge,' widi endeavouring to extort money from
Kr. Charles flapperBel4, the poetroaster and • reaped-
able farmer, at Road. It appeared that the defendants,
having awn V.• complainant and Mrs. Prosser (a
respectable lady) standing under • tree out of the rain,
one Sun lay eight, had ever sines annoyed the two.
plaloaut with • view to extort morp7, end on on,
ocoasieo be rave them • sovereign esob to avoid the
oiroq:atioa of • naiads,. On the 6th of February the
proroutor received the folrwing letter
Lab. sth, 1973.
Kr. Ilapperleld,—lir,—We don't think it right that we
should keep In that ne
we zirsed
trfne the 27
less y:: April,t„l.B7l,
for it. Iri2lng ccc
term, before two days, we shall expose you. A man that
protest. religion, we don't think it right Our term. are Ai.
(Signed) JAIISII 11. Pasmag,
Tlloll4s 8. NO•D
gentleman that has Drone smpicion offered ass
limey anco than that, so you ants' think it over by to-night,
and tbeu we will meet you at Ifertop-gate at ten o'clock.
Be punctual, or we may not be there, am we are Independent
about the matter._

ITo Mr. Dapperbetd.
The oomplitinent having denied that any impropriety
hid occurred, ar.d evidesee having been gives that the
prisoners mot the letters, they were committed for trial
et the ensuing Wells Snit A.
Bravaar-Gateltax —A servant girl, named ilarittes
ve Sten., 19 years of are, left her situation i
does Bristol, 00 Tuesday mornlog, and subsequently
• titter was found in her bedroom. It wee writtea
upon a hilt-sheet of note piper. ormesed on both sides.
The ',titbit was blurred, aid some of it wag almost
illegible, and from the appearance if the letter it was
written oy • Nino:A under extritanteut. Thia letter
wee ad Ireseed Dear mother and gesture," and it com-
menced by statics that the writer we. lie bad state
of mind, and the (*mollified that she we. not
comfortable to bier Oise, and gave • number of parti-
culars (width rose or may not ha true). The girl maks
bet mother to "call at bor p' too and get Itar Moth's,
end part theta between the obildren," and the letter
proceeds thus:—" Giro them my kind lova tall all=
shall see dear little Nike it ell to will is beams
beta* you get this do you know i am demeid by
and am nearly mad so I will tell you all • bout it and
hope you will forgive him and me for boin so weary
faithless to me so if you wish to ham my body you
meet have in. eirobei for In the doting harbor or by
the Lee wood brieh for it to done i mast* my this IA
of God be done I hive tried for ten days sad night.*
sobailt to it hut the div lie mister frame your .-
loving and aferthanate daughter when hat we parbei
late' did we think it wee the last time in this* world
and parapse in the next it,e my love to all tell *sea
never to belive en • men and be &reeved like me do sat
trouble for cne when I am gone for i ma not worthy •
thought from son or my slaters and all of you try be
lead • better if. sod then you wig be happy in the
world that is to come pray (or we but morne not try to
imprient all them on the children, mind tail the.
above all to love one another and forgot me bat in
than prayer; thought I should be able to forgive
him* but it put Dear mother and with a broken bead
for every bard word is • two eged 82rd and i have essay
but God will give them there reward sooner or latter."
TOO MID mentioned In the letter as having damned
IL. girl 11111 loterviewed by the polo*, but he dialed
having promised her mintage, and intimated that his
acquaintance with her was of a moat oast& destriptisa.
The girl bad not bun very long to her Atuatioc, and It
is mid that she rot it by meths of a false character,
which was written by a fellow-servalt. The girl has
been found in • eithatioa at Portakewett