The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-07-31 00:00:00

SHERBORNE.

OCITIIIM•11 or CHOLIZA•—W• deeply regret to
announce the outbreak of cholera in this town. On
Friday, • boy, aged about five years, the ion of a
slaughterer, named Curtiss. living in Cold Harbour,
was taken ill and died on Monday morning. On
the same peening, s younger child also died. At
seven oizTiiosday night a boy of ten or eleven, who
had been out ia the garden in the looming, died
also, and be was followed about ten, by his elder
sister, • girl of fifteen, who like him was out and
about in the morning. Dr. Hawkins and Or. High•
more both agreed that the cameo( death was Asiatic
cholera In ft* worst form and tbia ins locality which
is supposed to be the healthiest. being nearly the
highest point in the town. There is bat a single
row of houses in C.. 14 Harbour, but there lain im•
perfect, if any, system of drainage, and the supply
of water is mainly drawn from wells, and have been
noticed to be lately very foal. It was believed that
the disease was Intrudyeed from Southampton, on
the *omit of the school children to that piece, in
whioh the Cortisses joined, but it is more probable
, that dirt, had Mater, erowding, and imperfect
drainage were the cause. —At the Board of Health
meeting on Tuesday, the surveyor reported that
cholera had appeared in the town, as stated above,
and laid that complaints had been made by the poor
people in Cold Harbour, of the insufficiency of
water. The surveyor bad ocaexmently, without
bringing the matter before the Bowl, ordered the
ase of a standpipe, by which every poor family who
had none, oonld tare three or four buckets a day.
The engine at the waterworks had been working
live days in the previous week. After some discua.
aims, it was ordered that the engine should be
worked from sit at morning to nine at night, with
power to the surveyor to use it as required. He
was also directed to use quick lime wb
mammary without stint.

Lain aub grim.
Ti. Pigeon HOwssin Phe was guillotined on
Tuesday morning. When rousW from r.loep be ea
mediately trot up, and declared himself ready to die. He
defiled having committed other &Aimee than those lor
which he was 000d..maed, bat it is believed that his
vietima encoded twenty.

PUItIBUMIJIT po S DaMmitertoil.—Seven
sandy lads, who had hem la She habit al &wording
the &Math were recently summoeed before the meyor
of Denbigh. end Dr. Plena toe *Ting at dealt-and -
tom on the Lord's Day. It was shown by the elerk of
the eourt that they bad he. rendered themselves liable
to three mouth( imprisouumet; hat, in order to avoid
prison life cad diagram, Dr. Piero. suggested that they
should be betted to Wend Solite, *shoal every Sunday
for thews mouths, sod at the end of that term to pro-
duce beim the mart a return of their *deaden**,
emend by the superintendent of Me Keiel. la the
*meet et amplutilment of them waddles., ext from
Illness, the siuderies of the law to he *aroma The
Doctor added that the devil bad got the juveniles on a
very dangerous path, sad unless 10d18 moral MOMS
were mlopted to cheek Owls wished proeemities he
ereald goeJly "pdalimeddoes" diem late very miemahle
quarters. The worthy Dominos
approved of by the Xer ; and 1.1:%"E
I f
• V wrapli thswAves tis observe it, Um VIP 0111
abuged.—Deellig&