The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-30 00:00:00

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EIAVID TROY Dariseetsci.—A boy, six years old, fell
Into the water at Square Hole, West Flarnbara, recent/y,
and had, sank, appareatly for the last time, when Mr.
Dixon, of Salisbury, who was near the spot, threw off
his coat, plunged into the water, caught bold of the
child, and brought him to the bank. This lithe !earth
person Mr. Dixon has saved from drowning.
azaleas ACCIDEST.—On Wednesday a man named
William Chambers bad been engaged to clean some
ws windo in the High-street, ury, and in conse-
quence of 'the steps on which he was standing not being
properly placed, they gave way, and he fell to the
ground, fracturing his ribs and causing concussion of
the brain. He was taken to the Infirmary in an
insensible condition, but is somewhat better now.

Unmans Corraos. —We learn that cottages for
agricultural labourers are about to be erected on the
estates of R. P. Long, Esq., K.P., in Wiltshire, from
Mr. Birch's plans, each containing a living room, three
bedrooms, a scullery, and offices, with hard and soft
water supply, fixtures and fittings complete, ready for
occupation, fie. The result of the tenders for their
erection is as follows —Downing & Son, £287 per pair ;
Smith &Son, £2BO do.; Harris, 8 do.; Cosner, £271
do.; Beirant, £1139 18s. do.

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Tea Fans CHURCH AT CLLIII.—Th. tart
aand sum-
mod
ious building, which for lame time past been in
mune of erection as • place of worship for those who
Needed from the parish chnrch, and who have religious
services at the Townhall. ia feat 'ng towards
eompletion. The committee hope by the end of next
month that the building will be so far finished as to
allow of it. being opened for public worship, and that
they may be able to obtain for the mime= the Pervious
of the Rev. Newman Hall, of Surrey Chapel, London.
CHILD FOUPD.—O,I sivenieg last • men named
Hinxman, in the ern of Hr. Gregory, at the Mill,
found the dead body of a newly-born female child in the
mill stream, at Salisbury. Mr. Williams, the surgeon
who examined the body, mid, owing to its state of de-
composition he was usable to say whether or not it had
been bum alive. It was wrapped in • piece of whit*
caller), evidently part of an old garment. An inquest
was held on Saturday morning, on view of the body,
before Mr. R. H. Wilson, coroner, when the jury re-
turned • sordid of "Found dead."

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SINGULAR ACCIDINT AHD DIATIL—Tbe death of
if,. Jacob B. Ferris, a farmer, residing at Deriads, near
Chippenbam, took place on Sunday morning under the
following singular circumstances. Mr. Ferris was in
his garden on the previous Thursday, and when in the
act of setting a cabbage, the knife be was using slipped
and Indicted a wound in his leg. The wound bled
profusely, and continued to do so until medical aid was
called in, when it was found that the peincinal artery of
the leg had been severed. On the Saturday following
bad symptoms set in, accompanied by an attar* of
erysipeles, 'high terminated fatally on Sunday morning.
mush to the regret and surprise of his family and •
large circle of friends.
THE LATR AITIRTTRD' Wrpi 11.01DRIL polloe•
court was crowded on Friday, to hear the re-examination
of Alfred Cox, seal merchant, on the charge of shooting
his wife, with intent te kill bar. Mrs. Cox appeared, and
ridged that on the morning in question she wr nt to caliber
husband to dinner, and found him in the orchard of an
adjoining publ le-bongs, drinking with two men. & replied
to her by throwing the haymakers' beer bottle at her,
and afterwards got his gun and shot her, as already
described. The surgeon, Mr. G. C. Tayler, said the
proseentrit had lost the use of her right eye, bat no
forth., danger warn to
wthabeuttanliPitamsPr.bw.ifkame'say.d.oooonindunaisdP7ll:idto hafiersoiled witnesses to prove:
trial, but sdmitted to baiL