The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-09-22 00:00:00

WAREHA.II„

Tin Benign/mos.—The barrister, Mr. Saunders,
appointed to. revise the electoral li.ta for the borough
of Wircham concluded a hard three days' work on
Saturday last. This will be found beyond all comparison
to be one of the most important revisions which has
ever taken plan in any borough in this county. In
Wareham nothing like it bee ever been known to have
taken plaoe either before or since the passing of the
Reform Act of 1832. The Liberal. were represented by
Mr. It. C. Weston, of Dorchester, and Mr. H. Moore,
of Wimboom, and the conservatives by Mr. Brown, of
London, Mr. W. H. Atkinson, of B/andford, Mr. Tanner,
of Wimborne, and Mr. Lacey, of Wareham.
FATAL AOCIDINT.—An accident, which has oboe
' terminated fatally, occurred on Monday. at the May
works of Mows. W. and J. Pike, to one of the work.
men, unused John Unschnite. He was engaged with
an overlooksr named Whi'e in making some alterations
to the signal wires which load from the shaft of the
mine to the engine.houss. Al this time the "cage"
was suspended five or six feet above the top of the shaft.
A men named Stick/and, who was on the platform
above, unaware that anyone was below, signalled for
the osge to be lowered. The engine-driver comp/ied,
sad, in descending, it caught Mumelwhite's head and
fixed it, as in • yen, between the cage and the frame-
work of the shMt. The cage was mend as quicirly as
possible, when Mussilwhite was in a dreadful condition,
blood rushing in a atream from his ears and mouth.
He was conveyed home, and Mr. Daniel, Burgeon, did
all he could to relieve him, but he died on Wednesday.
He was sensible till a short time before his death, and
admitted that the accident happened through his own
fauit. He was a steady hardworking man, and has left
• widow and ten children.

147 r; Swioge, Tuesday—Before Lord Eldon, M.
Roden, N. Bond, and C. Digby, &qrs., Rev. G. V.
Ga land, and J. T. Fyler, Esq.—John Bonfield, of
Swamis, en o'd offender, for being drunk and riotous at
Swanage, was dned Ife. or 14 days' imprisonment.—
Thomas Gale, grocer, he, of ffein Lalworth. was
charged with selling • 41b. loaf to P.C. Gill, otherwise
than by weight. It was found to be 4os. and Miran.
short —Fined 10s.—Henry Lane, of Bare Regis, for •
like offenoe, 10os. and 6drms. short. —Fined 10a—
Samuel Barnes, for • like offence at West Lulworth,
3os. short.—Fined 10s.—Jobn White, grocer, of
Sandford, for a similar offence, 21b. loaf, lldrma. short
ids.—Alice Harvey, • baker, of Swann.) for
• like offence, 21b. loaf, sdrms. short.— Fined 15a.—
Phinese Melmoth, of Simone, for • like offence, 21b.
lost, 14drem. Post—Fined 10e—Beejunin Bower,
Stiokland, for a similar offence, 21h. let, lo• short.—
Fined 104.—Kark Grant, of Swamp, • 21b. loaf,
&Irma. short.—Fined 15a —John Stevens, of Swims's,
21b. lost los. Thrins. short.—Fined Ms.—Arabella
lliffey, of Bea Regis. a 41b, loaf, fog. and lldrms.
short.—Fined Barnes, of Bus Regis,
▪ 41b. loaf, 3os. and Idrm.shorh—Fined
Tomes, of Bets, for trespassing in search of game on
lands belonging to Ur. Mitchell, at Bern —lrina 1110.
—William Thompson, charged with steeling • silver
watch, at Kneweswell farm, from William Ramsey,
vu sentenced to 14 days imprisonment sod five leers
in • reformatory:

A Maw KILL= BY A 1101153 AND WA043011. —On
%minder fair night. the 19th inst., about half•past
nine o'clock, a Iferriott man named Isaiah Trask was
driving home through the fair, rather fast, when a young
man named John Haynes, of Broadwinaor, we. thrown
down, and both wheels pissed over his body. He was
carried into the White Hart Hotel. Dr. Webb was
soon in attendance, ea well as Dr. Denial, but their
efforts were of no avail, and the poor fellow died in
half An-hour.