The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-03 00:00:00

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Flue AT MAINS OF Leetthu, SILAS AISSOATIL —A
V•iitiar intern to Derrn. ara, not attended
with Isiah dam. to properly, bet followed with fatal
eamegyenisse to the etipposed originator, look plaos on
&May oftereocto at the feraphottes of Mains of Lethant,
some two and a half-mitre distant from Arbroath. It
I:77that. cheatthree &stook in the afternoon,
I"sats Watt, the SOMA of that farm, bed mot his
bossekistper on souse pretest to Arbroath, and bad then
got his two children (Watt being a widower) persuadisi
to go to their grandfather's, at tin HOMO Fano of
Wham Grange, some two miles distant. Ills
that the unfortunate man had then bolted all tit=
and fsearned the windows, and by earns noses esi ilre
to the kitolien, which ia • sort of fall-to erection at the
haat of the main Wilding. Shortly before four o'aiock
smoke ithe mesa to issue from the bitehen,thri the dames
soon near began Se make their appear. Attention
two Wkag Wiwi to the home, the asigliimowee at new
sought to subdue the Are, and some ef them broke kilo
91.4.1,2 m.
_building for tho purpose of doing NAM
;1
, whim they were horrified to &mover that
i 7V= was in the kitchen,
.apperth makingily
no
effort for his safety, bat allowing the fire to take It. I
Gonne. Every effort was noes to we. tin poor man,
but as it turned out, too late to preserve his life. Hie 4
rates aroused those seeking to amid to farther endow
eau% and not above throe miaties Jter Mr. Watt's
14.4 cry kepi boart hood, his
brelLwas knoll new the
amass Isedim hva• iitares;:tat
siolAsterVialliesl
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only could be removed hurriedly on amount of the
heat and the amoks. By this tiwe the Bre had destroyed
all the kitchen. Watt's body was placed in • sheet,
and carried to an outhouse at the deeding. The gee
spread through tint Newts connecting the kitchen with
the WWI building, and done some damage to the house.
The stack* in the yard had been covered with blankets.
and everything done that could be done to prevent the
flre front spreading. What renders the matter more
distressing in connection with the death of the farmer
Is, that his father, who haw the Home Farm of Latham
Grange. and his sister, who was that day viaiting her
father, were soon on the spot, but unable to render any
usistanoe—indeed, were theinselve• in such a diatracted
state as to require clom attendance.
"BuouLD AULD ADquaixrance."—ln the village of
, Carr-Bridge there reside. • genuine old Highlander,
whoa, name we (BanfsAire Journal) need not men-
tion, but who, we may take the liberty of hinting, ia
rather noted in his way for certain quaint 'oyiets
which occasionally escape him. General Sir Patrick
Grant having left the C...eitinent and come to spend •
few days in his native 'troth, called at the home of his
old acquaintance, who liaa fortunately in. "Row d'ye
do, Patrick?" exelaimed the patriarchal Gael, with un-
affected earnestness, as his respected friend of mild lath:
sync entered. "Quite well, James, I thank you; how
&ye do?" was the good-natured and equally genuine
reply. A neighbouring gentleman, who happened to be
within hearing, and who felt moinewhat nonpleimed at
James's freedom of addrese, went up to him after the
detinguidied visitor hail roue, and exprestod his &atm*
iabment at what he had heard. "Row d'ye do, Pat- I
rick ? Flow could you premium,' to address a penal of
his 'Sanding in such unceremonious terms?" " Al,
sir," said JlllllOll. wit's his usual self-possession and
significant brevity, "I wouldn't advise you to do it
though f"