The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-23 00:00:00

Somerortsbirc.

George Robert filling. of Fitarioad, °lark, now
takes the additional surname of "Lis."
BAD Corn.—A quantity of bed coin is in simulation
In the neighbourhood of Yeovil, principally florins and

Till -will of the lane .7. 73 Marshall, Seq., bee been
proved it the Taunton registry under 2180,000 per.
eonalty.

Taa Bridgwater Guardians bare just accepted bread
touters for tb• several districts, mrying from 61d. to
714. per Blb lost.

Mr. Thomas Hgrman. of Swells Howe. Fluntepill,
has gathered • strawberry 6i inches in circumference,
sad also several berries that weighed lj oz. sash.
TERRE in to be • contest for the representation ol
From., Mr. It. Walmeley, of Standerwich-oourt (Con.
warvative), being announced to contest the b,.rotigh with
the ',Wag member.

THE Bishop of hoodoo Ina conwnted to the appoint-
ment of a oomminion to inquire into the doctrinal
statements published within the diocese of Loudon by
the Hey. W. J. B. Bennett, vicar of From.
Deowirrn is • wn.L.--/t little girl, earned Jane
Neal, warn playing nem a well with other (Milder n, on
Monday, at East Coker, when she fall In and was
drowned before aseistance could be radon&
• MARRIAGE IS on the lapis between the grandiose
of a distinguished law lord, and heir to vast eatesss, and
the young and aceompliAed daugbter of a dignitary
bolding important church ollaes In sz sod Whim
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abbe town mßeneseselabice„

Sir Alfred Slade, Bart, ii spoken of as the of the
forthcoming Conservative modulates at T• 11111011.
Tee Teenton bricklayers continue no strike. They
ileioend 81. per day more wages. One of the masters,
Mr. Davis. has had • pony maliciously stabbed, end a
resell of 25 bag than °trued for the dissever, of the
WITH is now represented by owe Liberal (Mr. Tile),
sal one Conservative (Col. J. M. Hogs), but the
Liberels have determined to try for the second mat, and
they have chosen Mr. D. Dalrymple, of Ntr•ish,to
fight their cense with Mr. Tits.
Warr Songinore—Mr. Gore Langton and Ciaptals
Ho 4, son of Lord Brigport, will offer themselves to
repreet.at the western division of the county at the neat
election, Sir Alessnder Mod retiring. Mr. R. A.
San Hord is atok-n of as the Liberal candidate, bet it is
doubtful whether, at his time of life, be sill allow him-
self to be nominated.
ACCIDOnTO AT OLASTOSOUBT.—On 'Teseday, • yoang
men mimed Vile fell from the causeway in Magdates.
street, and broke his leg.-0o Friday, a servant girl in
the employ of Mr. Taylor, of the C,ollegiat•
whilst cleaning a bedroom winiow, ororbalanced
herself and fell a diathesis of thirty feet. She was
luckily but slightly injured—Mr. George Madan,
Griner, unfortunately bbd his eye knocked out with
a rake his son was using on Wednesday, whilst hay-
making,- —George Fisher, jun.. carpenter, whilst at
work et Captain Hinkleys, at Ashcott, fell from the
...gating, upwards of 25 feet high, and was seriously
bruised and injured.
&RAUSE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—no Tuaiday evening,
• platelayer, newel William Stickland, was left near
Yeovil, on the Bristol and Ratter railway. apart from
the gang in which he was working, to signal the train
leaning Tiovil at 5.25 p.m. Just as the train was
the carve nese blitOCl chexth, tbe anzine-driver
saw the man lying down between the rails, and
at owes put on the broth whistle. All the breeks rn
applied, but tb• train could not be stoxped until it had
corriT
,It:
timed over him. It appears that he sat down to rest
whilst waiting for the train, and wont to sleep. His
heal was cut open, his right arm and one. fbi,lega cut
eyy, and Ms right side WY cut open 111 though it had been
done by • hatchet. •
A Yong° Roarao.—Go the Somersetah'rx side of the
atm. at • little dietaries from the Clifton Suspegehei
Bridge, are the remain*, no. almost obliterated, a en
old Roman (some say British) encampment, eorreipool-
bag with the *es on the oppi see hank, wilts 'lii
erm of which the Observatory claim ii. In forming tome
now roads through Leigh-wooda estate, excavations
have beim made on the site of the tamp, whec, et the,
depth of some tenor twelve feet, was found the ekektou
el a child, shoat tas elan Si see. r, the
the depth, and the 'banister of the growled, itis
conjectured that the skeleton is of great aatigoity, and
Ma open to the imaginative to conclude that Ilene
may be the remains of the child of i.ne ,t it.. Ro
patricians who occupied this camp before Britoil' was
abandoned by the ancient masters of the word.
A SOISKRISZTOHIII DIVORCZ CASH—The case of
Grin. v. Gardner was heard in the Diroree Curt on
Thuraday.—ln this case the wife sued for • divorce on
the ground of her husband's adultery, cruelty, and de..
Portion. The beeband answered, denying the charges,
and alleging condonation and cruelty on the part of the
wife,—Dr. Spinks, Q.C., and Mr. !Searle were counsel
for the petitioner ; the respondent appearel iii perms.
—lt appeared that the parties were married at Bruton,
hi Sonterastahrie, in September, 1811. The petiterieg
at the time of marriage bad the prospect f a madder.
able fortune from her father and uncle, and the
respoodent who had no occupation. had • fortune of
&OUP, £17,000. There are five chil,iren, the issue of ate
marriage, the eldest aiemteen and the youngest fear
years of age. After the merriage they resided for rime
time at Burton Beedstock, and they afterwards TeIDOVA
to Gorfe House, Taunton. It was while there that the
ill-treatment of the respondent was ellege4 to have
occurred. In sonseguener of it, and in December, 1818,
the petitioner left her husband and went to her mother's,
he at the same time sending off all the children. While
she was away the respondent was stated to Imes con-
nected himself with some Poaching &Heirs at Weymosth.
After a few weeks' separation they attain cohabited.
They resided at various plea ; sometime. they I.viest
sepsrate and sometimes together, and in 1863 they found
themselves living at a place called Horton. While
there they finally separated, and bad never sine. 6..4
together. The petitioner was called, and detailed the
conduct of her husband towards her, and the ill-treat-
ment she re:cited from him. His ill.treetment e in-
sisted in striking her, calling her horrible names, and on
several occasions selling off all the furniture, leaving
hi rend the children without. bed to lie epee, and than
deserting them. Several witnesses were called, who
oorroborated the petitioner's statement as to elversl of
the acts of cruelty, and in regard to the adultery a
woman named Wen,ley and two Kirk of the name of
Orndding wi re eslied, who stated that the measliest
had onnmitted aluit.ry with them. After hearing the
evidence the court prinonnoed &deers. 'rah witn costa,