The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-10-20 00:00:00

Somersetst ire.

PARS FISH.— An eel wu caught by • fisherman of
Oldhorosigh.on.fievern village, • few days ago, weigh.
big over 80Ibe.
The WILLS MOILDER.—DT. limps* whose death
we announce, was bound over u • witness in this 0111111
having examined and analysed the atone with whieh the
murder is eupposed to have been oommitted.
C• 1113111 OF • SRA= •T
On Thursday Thursday morning two gentlemen, Mr. Bolton and
Mr. Harley, whilst fishing for and with • line and book
baited with whiling, felt what eertahaly seemed
"powerful bite," A/W upon hauling up found they ha
caught • fio• young shark. It turned out to be • tole
young =stonier of the tiger rum handsome!, seas k
end measuring about foss se

FATAL FIGHT •ffTWICII • DOG AHD • FOL —A few
days ago &gentleman, unompanied by his dog, wee f
neying from Duraley to Berkeley, when, about half.:risy,
be wee startled by hearing a noise similar to what won Id
hare been bad his dog been in oombit with another, and
on proceeding in the direction whence the noise pro.
seeded he found lying dead by the aide of bin dog (GI l-
grown fox, whose mangled eorpee clearly showed that a
6e00• light had taken plate.

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1101(10IPAL ELogonwoc—On Wednesday, at the
Weston-super-IWe Commissioner/ meeting. there we
a debate on the subj.* of repairing the lire engine.
Ur. Wansbrough said he bud spoken on the subject to •
gentleman, who had replied—

The prevent wens, (I kept Os mini...
Will actually throw wager tWIIIIII (satin the vvir.
Should your houve be on &sang time in the night,
nip thing, Wiwi it urine, cannot leaven the light.

(laughter). Mr. Harrison proposed and Mr. Wansbrough
seconded, " ThaMthe sum of £3 be expended on the
repair of the fire engine." Carried.
A Geary UTTTIRT SOLVE). —A. ghost mystery haa
been solved at Weston4uper•Mare. In a house In
Alfred-street in that town strange noises had been heard,
furniture displaced, and others of the vagaries practised
in which disembodied bodies are supposed to delight.
A gentleman who had • desire to ascertain for himself
what shone were really like asked and obtained per-
mission touter and remain in the haunted chamber.
As he wee seconding the stairs • lane tin pot was hurled
at him by some invisible hand, and afterwards, on his
entering the room be was assailed by hideous noises,
followed by the falling through the skylight of • stone of
isonsiderable size. Starting from the room the would-
be gboet-layer Win upon and seised • youth, who, alter
some hesitation, 'drained that he had been employed to
throw the missiles, and that the other spiritual
" phenometia" were produced by beating an old mopstisk
against the under part of the staircase.
TES DOCILI CAMS OP CHILD MITEDTI AT WICLUL
—The adjourned Inquest on the bodies of the two
children found near the Asylum. Wells, was held by
the eoroner oft North Somerset,at Beck's Railway ho
on Wednesday when R. Parnell, Req., M.D., depoeed
to having made on examination of tho two bodies, and
be considered that they bad been dead from nine to
twelve months, and were no doubt born alive, the cords
tied round their necks causing death. He Gould not
speak sato thous of either of them. William Hawkins,
carpenter, of Wed Horrington, near Wells, deposed
that he was rowing from Wells on Monday fortnight,
about half-past eight in the morning. He saw the name
of "B. Duke Claude, County Asylum, Wells," upon
It. Be touched it with his foot and thought the pod-
man bad left it there. Sergeant Edward Tucker, of the
Wells polio), in addition to the evidence already given
at the previous inquest, deposed to examining the
outwits of the box, and 'lndia( • pillow case on one
child which was sound, and bore the initiate "8. C. A."
The remained was tore up and wrapped round the
bodies. It was new cord round the neck, and tied three
times round. The nue was spin adjourned.

A GOOD DLL of fun was ;based at Yeovil en Friday,
last by the hearing of • charge made by Mr. Jo*. Woods
one of the chairmen of Quarter Suidoss against •
Mattock man for using insulting geneses and behavioer
to him. Ths defendant has been abroad, and has
picked up • little of the off-baud and careless manner
which distinguishes calculate. The examination of the
oomplainast was very rich and evoked bents of
laughter. Instead of addreming him se •J. P.. he con-
tinually interluded his queries with "Well John,"
"Now John," 'Come John, speak out." It seems that
he had entertained" • spleen" against the oomplainant,
and we believe the reason was that he did not get •
resommendation of a term from him. He has indulged
his feeling in ell manner of ways. He would go into
church and sit in Hr. Wood's seat. Meet hint and
address him with" Well John," " Good morning John,"
aad proceeded to other provocative seta. The magis-
trates celled upon him to find sureties to keep the
dilawhich he refused to do, and was looked up in
f:ueit. The mend feeling in the market was that
sanoying as his ooniuot undoubtelly wss, Kr. Wood
would ban preserved his dinged better If he had taken
no notice of it.

IsPongawr To Fewis. At A:bridge county
/mart on Wednesday an action was tried before C.
Saunders, Bel, judge, and a jury, which exciAsd consi-
derable Interest. The aetion was brought by Mr.
Seaman, yeoman, of Lorton, against Mr. Reed, another
yeoman living in the same Oaos, to mover ESO : 'For
that the defendant mused or permitted to Sow into the
waters of the plaintiff utilise of a noxious and offensive
nature, whereby the waters of the plaintiff biome and
were poisoned, and some of the cattle of the plaintiff,
baring drunk thereof, were lulled and destroyed, and
°Snare have deteriorated in eolidition and reins, to the
damage of the plaintiff." Mr. J. H. Clifton, of Bristol,
appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. T. W. denuders, of the
Western Circuit, instructed by Mr. Millard, of A.:bridge,
appeared for ettra occupies :di—.
the north, east, and wen by a ditch, and on the mom
by the river. The cattle feeding in the field had
usually been able to obtain water from the river or
ditch as they chose, but daring the past summer the
river had been bayed beck, and they had been dependent
on the ditch. Defendant, who occupies Premise' abut-
ting on the ditch on the north aide of the Said, had been
In the habit of allowing his refuse matter to run into
the ditch, which had become so foul in consequence
that he bad base summoned for westing a puhlie
nuisance about two years ego; but plaintiff had not
complained naddl this summer, as his cattle were not
dependent on the stream for water until the riser was
lbw& This,, however, he pve defendant notice to
abate the anima, or he irosU Lid his. nsPosible.

The notice was neglected, and a large number of sheep
that were toned into the field were taken ill miter
dunking the water. Nine died, end shoot fifty more
were treated by a veterinary surgeon for a oonsiderable
time. The action WOW to recover tbe amount of damage
plaintiff had sustained In itoneequenee. The following
witneasea were called by plaintiff :—Mrs. Seeman, Miss
Elisabeth Brockman. William levier, James °sole, and
dbadraak Gillard, to prove that the water was rendered
impure by the matter running from defendant's pry-
mien.; Mr. C. IL Rawlins, Sahridp ; and Mr. G. J.
Boosts, of Bridgwater, veterinary surgeons, Instate that
the sheep had been poisoned; Mr. Charles Griffiths,
chemist, Weelon-super.More, to prove that the water.
in the diten was poisonous; Mr. Supt. Gilbanke, to,
speak as to tbe existenes °nos nitiesnoe ; Mr. Abraham
Smith, of Bt. George's, Gloucestershire, who bought
pert of the plaintiff's lock before the remainder were
turned into WeirAleld, and found them sound; and
John 'French, who stated that defendant's were the
only Premises from which offensive matter was poured
Into the ditch. The care for the dole:toe is to be gone
into at the next court.