The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-09-08 00:00:00

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AN INDI'MTHIAL EXPIOIIIOII is to be held in connee•
tion with the Taunton We king Mor's Amociati,
WriT 144,MKIISITRFS TTTTT 1021.—1 t was currently
rumourod in the Taunts!' Corn Exchange on Sabinlay
that • relative of Lord l'orthan and Mr. Walt. r
Bagebot, of the Nconem,si, aro wiling to roar) forward
to cont-st the seats with the (kmaervat
Mr. Core Langton and Captain Hood, if invited by any
eoneith rsble number of the electors to do so.
A &KM EXAMPLS.—in consequarce of the abundant
harvest, lir. Trenchard, of Here Farm, Winship', has
bad noun of his fields raked afts r the carting. thereby
affording • good gleaning to the families of the men in
hie employ. ranch an example. we think, is worthy of
Imitation, and ought to bring the blush to the cheek of
those farmers who have eauc d old women and children
to be driven away, or fined for gleaning.
TAUNTON TOLLS.—The agriculturists attending the
Taunton markets having stood out against the charge
made for admissioa to the now Corn Exchange. the
trustees last Friday reduced in. charge Ito Id. per time,
or 55. per annum. The corn derriere subscribe about 1:50
per annum, but the farmers object to pay, and do meet
of their business in the streets. At their next meeting
the trustees will re-open the question of gnurtiog licensee
to butchers' shops. Under the Act there is now no such
thing as a sale of meat out of the market, bet the public
find no difficulty in obtaining what they require. Fur
Instances of infraction of the law are about to be brought
before the magistrates.
SALMON 1311E11)1BM IN THE TONG—The river Tone,
which flows through Taunton and Wellington, has he its
declared by Mr. Frank Buckland, Her Majesty's
Inspector of Salmon Fisheries, to be • magnificent breed-
ing ground for the lordly fish—the bed of the river for
16 miles above Trenton bring admirably suited for that
purpose. The weirs may easily be made passable, and
Mr. Sanford has rromi.erl to do all that is necessary to
his weirs. ilk. Eiworthy is about to follow the example
of Mr. Fox, and expend some 1606 in preventing the
acid horn his mills flowing into the stream. The
inspector inveighed strongly against the pollution of the
waters, by the sewage of Taunton • but he was ed
that the Board of Health were :shout to remedy this
evil. Mr. Buckhod has promised to send them downs
good stock if Ova.
FEARFUL GUISPOWDZII ACCIDENT.—A sad accident
occurred at Nether Stowey on WedneadaLa A lad
named Medley was sent by his master, a b smith.
for some guepowder for blasting, which the lad ob-
tained and carried in his trousers' pocket. The paper,
however, in veld& the powder was wrapped, burst on
the way back, and good deal of the powder was left in
his pocket. A spark from the forge, of which be took
no notice, alighted on hie trousers. bona its way
through, and exploded the powder. The whole of the
right leg of the trousers was blown to shreds, and one
side of the poor fellow's leg terribly 'combed and burnt.
The boy was conveyed on a tem* to Nether Savoy, •
distance of more than • mile from the scene of the
accident, in the most torturing agonies of pain. Die.
Silks and Evans were speedily in attendance, and every-
thing that kindness could suggest or skill effect was
executed, but they pronounced the sufferer's state to la,
very critical. as, besides the injury done to his leg, tho
abdominal parts were seriously hurt. Blight hopes are
entertained of his recovery. _

CONCIALIIRDT OT BIRTH AND BURNING THIL BODY
AT WILST PIIINARD.-05 Tuesday, E.brabeth Griffin,
single woman, • servant in the employ of Mr. Wm.
Bethel, yeoman, of West Pennard, was brouslit up
before C. C. Tudway, Esq., at Wells, in the cu.tady of
P.C. Davies, on a charge of concealing the birth of tot
illegitimate child. Dr. James Albert Bright deposed
that he was the surgeon to the Somerset county
constabulary, and from instructions he received he went
to the house of the prisoner, whom he found in bed,
and inquired if he had not recently given to a child.
She at first denied that she had so. Slit subsequently
admitted that it was the ease, but added that the child
not being fully developed she bad put it in • pond.
P.C. Davies deposed to smiting the prisoner on Um
22nd August, and that from what the prisoner lied
stated as to placing the child in the pond he went to
the place indicated sii.l dragged it for fwo days, but
without being able to find the child or any traces of it.
Whilst he was dragging the pond the prisoner snot a
nohim, end on
tesee
be n to
him
"r
yaing tgbiastgc she
eh7r the usual toux,
stated that her statement as to the rood was not
correct, as she had burnt the body of the child behind
the tire at her master's house. The prisoner vu com-
mitted fur trial at the next anise.