The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-24 00:00:00

Wiltshire.

SALISBURY. —Salitemry is again under military
Protection. the Enrolled Pensioners of the district,
.d)out fi9 in nnmher, haring been milled out fur six
dave drill no Monday week. They are under the
command of Captain C. E. Astell.
The Lord (Thief Justice of the Common Pleas has
appointed Mr. B. M. Wilson. of Salisbury. a Com-
missioner for taking the acknowledgments uf unit-
riot women to deeds, ler the provisions of the
Flues and Rismyeries Abolition Act.

NATIONAL PROVINCIAL B.K. —The proprietnra
will j pleased b. hear that their ,lirectows have
denlarel a dividend at the rate of 154 per cent.,
t 7.317 t. Id. being, at the saine time, added to the
reser%e feud.

OPENING or THE NP.W NIAREP.T HOVSE.—Tho
preparations for celebrating the opening of the New
Market House and Railway n Tueelay (this day)
appear to be complete. A public dinner (provided
by Mr. Fielder), at which .1. H. Jacob. Eig., will
preside, is to take place in the Market House at
four o'clock ; and in the evening a grand concert
will he held in the same place, the direction of which
has been placed in the bands of Mr. Aylward.

WOOD FO R Are ID rnford, Iroodford, and
Wilnford Friendly Benefit Society. —The annual
meeting of this society was held in this village on
Wednesday. The members attended Divine service
at the church, whore the Rev. R. M. Chatfield
preached a sermon from Matthew vi. 33. The
society afterwards dined at the village schoolroom,
and it appeared that after paying all the expenses
there is • balance of .£43 Il• The total stock
exceeds £764 I Is. ,td. The proceedings terminated
by singing "God save the Queen."

MARLSOBOUGH. —Death by Botraing.—On Thurs-
day week an inquest was held at Manton, before
Mr. Whitmarsh, coroner, on the body of a man
named Bement, aged b 3. It appeared from the evi-
dence that deceased was left sitting by the tire, bet °n
the return of his wife alas found him fearfully burnt
about the arms, neck, and head, be baling fell" into

the fire in her absence, from the effects of which he
died. Verdict accordingly.
Forma:se. Serious and Fatal Accidenl.—A
suissission of accidents, in one instance proving fatal,
took place during Monday night week. inconsequence .
of a horse runningaway. Between II and 12 o'clock
on Nlanilay night, as Mr. TI as Butcher, of Wood-
bridge Mill, and Mr. John Glass, of the Black Deg
Farm. Is.th in the parish of West Lavingtain, were
returning from Candown, where they had been raok •
shooting, when descending near the bill. Beckett's
hollow, Littleton, the horse took fright., started elf, •
and became umuasiagystble ; both gentlemen, in •
endeavouring to step from the gig, were thrown on ,
the road with very great violence, and very severely •
shaken and bruised. On arriving opposite Lars
borough Farm, Mr. Reuben Butcher heard a horse
ail gig coining at a tremendous pace from the direc-
t' of Potterne ; on its coming near he saw it was
his, and that the person driving was Hogging the
horse violently. He had some difficulty in getting
out of its way, and it passed him but a very short
distance when the wheel struck agaiust a stone by
the side of the road, the gig was overt•urned, and
both the men were pitched out. Mr. Butcher
turned back, and found the persons in the road to
he Benjamin Leonard. landlord of the Gassrge Inn,
Potterne. nnil John Glass, of Worton, the former
whom had his neck broken by the tall. It appears
that after the first accident the horse and gig kept
on to Potterne, where it was stopped, amid tAieu to
the Geor„.,e, the horse being put in the stable. A
little hifore one o'clock, however, Leonard and
Glass very imprudently put the already frightened
horse into the same gig again, and drove off for the
purpose of finding out what had happened, and to
whom thy horse and gig belonged. A shoemaker
named Bull, of Tytherton, who was going to
Lavington with a pair of boots for a customer, was
also induced to get up behind, but, before the catas- •
trophe, he was pitched into the road by the rapid
pace of the vehicle, and so cut and bruised that he
returned to Devizes covered with blood. The •
inquest on the body of Leonard was held on Wed-
',day, before %V. B. Whitmarsk Esq., coroner, •
and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidentally

RAMsBURY. Singular I nheritance. —A sin-
gular Mae of an English family, resident in England,
being about to succeed to a landed estate in Nor-
mandy. has recently occurred. By the French law
when a man dies intestate without children, or bro-
thers or sisters, his property is subject to his widow's
life interest, and divided equally between his paternal
and maternal relations in the ascending line. A M.
Nloissard died a short time ago in this condition. at
Orbes, in the department of Calvados. in Normandy,
leaving an estate of the value of some eight or ten
thousand pounds sterling. An English -lady. Mrs.
Lesage. and her son and (laughter, resident at Rams.
bury, Wilts, are, on inquiry, found to be M. Moil-
sard's nearest maternal relatives. This relationship
arises through Mrs. Lesage's late husband, a M.
Usage, who came a refugee to England during the
reign of terror, and settling down as an English sub-
ject, passed the remainder of his life at Rainshury, as
a schoolmaster, much respected, and died fifteen
years since. His widow, to her agreeable surprise,
lately received the news of this unexpected windfall.
Matters of this sort, however, are seldom permitted
to run smoothly, especially in litigious Normandy.
Some parties have made a legal opposition to Mrs.
hysage's claim, and her case was heard recently in
the Civil Tribunal at Lisieux, and the judgment will
no doubt, be shortly pronounced in her favour. Mr.
Peter Burke, of the English bar, instructed by Mrs.
Lesage's Landon solicitors, attended the Court at
Lisieux during the trial, to assist the French counsel
in any points of English law that might arise.
Three Norman advocates of distinction were engaged
in the case.