The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-05-12 00:00:00

HIIRSToN.

HOITICULTIIELL—Mr. George Fooks recently took
up out of one rank grown consecutively in his garden,
three encrwrinv toreatli, weighing respectively 141b5.,
22Iba, and =be. each, total 61Ibe. the three broooli.
POOLS.

INSPECTION OP TUB HARBIIIR.—Four of the elder
brethren of the Trinity House recently arrived in a
ream yacht to inspect the harbour. We node' stand
they gave a general approval to the improvemente that
have been effected, but mo,e particularly to the cleating
of the Swatchway, which seems by far the most
natural entrance to the harbour.
DIE•DIOE DIATU or • WOllaN BT PHlL—About
noon on Thursday, as Mr. G. Charlton was pigging
Messrs. Lewin and Wilkinson's foundry, be saw smoke
leaning from the windows of • dwelling house oppotite.
Imagining the house to be on are, he strove to enter by
thr front doer, but finding it fastened, be went round
to the bask do ir and got me the kitchen, where a truly
awful scene presented itself. A woman was lying in
front of the are enveloped in names. She bad a frying-
pan in her band, with which she had been cooking fish,
and there were fish uncooked on the table close by. The
hearthrug on which she lay was partly consumed, and
the fird had just ignited the table-cloth. He did his
best to extinguish the flames, and ran ernes to the
foundry for assistance. On examination the poor woman
was found to be in &dreadful state, her left aide being
charred to a cinder, while the scale of her head wu
quite locate, and might have been pulled off totally. Elbe
was Wally inaeniible at ant, but afterwards revived so
as to know those ass. mbhd about her, and then her
sufferings became very acute. It is suppomel her clothes
caught fire while eooking, and that in her fright she
fell, and was stunned by • heavy b'ow on the back of
the Lead. She is the wife of Mr. Brown, foreman at
the ironworks of Mears. Ingram and Stone. Mn.
Brown lingered until between two and three o'clock the
following morning, and then expired. An inquest was
held on the remains on Friday, in the Town.holl,
before G. 8. Aldridge, EN., coroner, when Mr. O.
Charlton described the state in which be discovered the
unfortunate woman. Her bead rested on the fender.
The fire had well-nigh expended itself on her body,
which was in a stuouldering state. Be left her in charge
of two women and ran over to the foundry and saw
Mr. Wilkinson, and thin ran for the doctor. Mr. W.
Miller, surgeon, said he was called to the spot about
twelve o'clock, aid found deceased in a deplorable
condition. The right aide, with the breast and arm,
were fearfolly burnt, as likewiee we. the heed. With
difficulty the clothee on the left side that was unburnt
were cut away, and 'she was placed in bed. At eight
o'clock he saw her again, in conjunction with Mr. Ellis,
surgeon, when they connived her to be sinking fast.
Some of the jury suggested that deceased might have
fallen down in a fit, but Mr. Miller said there was
oohing to show that such had been the case. After
some other unimportant evidence, • verde,' of
"Accidental death from burning" was returned. Mrs.
Brown was 56 years of age, and leaves no family.