The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-10-20 00:00:00

SALWAY ASH.

TILIFLI Burre.—The wife of Mr. Hankey has just
presented her busbaed with three fine daughters, wh
are all doing well. Mel/hare been named filth. Hope
and Charity.

BRI D PORT.

IT Is stated that m—er-e—tia—n —236 'a pplications have been
made for Bingham's farm, Ilelplaiab, long occupied by
the late Mr. C,oniray..

Batumi'? FAIR took place on Monday. There was a
small show of stock in the fair, with a quiet trade,
good barreners fetching from £lO to £l5 each; inferior
lots unsaleable, on account of the failure in the root
crop& Pigs sold readily at good prices. Messrs. Dauncey
and Son had a very large number of sheep and beasts
at their repository in the field near the West Bridge,
of which the greater part were sold at good prices.
Amongst them woe a splendid lot of fat beasts from the
herd of J. Pitfield, Faq , of Symondsbury, which sold
readily at from 12s to 13s per more Mutton—wethers,
7d. per lb.; ewes, 13d. to 6id ; lambs, 200 to 30s. and
ewes in lamb 23a. to 395. each. Fat calves, 7d. per lb.
There was a fair supply of cheese, which realised the
following prices: Dorset, 2sa. to 34..; Somerset. 60.
706 per cwt. There was a small show of horses, and
the ples•ure fair was one of the smallest we ever saw,
probably in consequent), of Sherborne fair happening on
the same day. There were a great many people
present.

SOPPOSID EaIITAQUAiI AT Thunroity.---ahortly
after midnigist, on fiunday, five or six loud reports
reeembling thunder were beard all over the town,
accompanied by apt at shaking of windows and crockery.
Many were disturbed from their slumbers and not a
few were even induced to "turn out" to ascertain, if
they might, the cause of tbe unwonted phenomenon.
Ordinary mortals. who are a thought credulous, conolude
that it was • shock of earthquake; but titers are some
matter-of-fact people prattle enough to explain the
poise se the explosion of fog signals fired by the Channel
Fleet when going along the channel, and the shaking to
the mad pranks of our townsfolk's imaginations, when
rudely aroused from the benicnaut influences of sleep.
The noise is reported to have been beard at Abbotaltury
and all along the coast; at Symondsbury, where the
rector's house was much shaken ; and as far inland as
fitokefi bbott.

COUNTY POLUX, Tuesday.—Before B. P. Gundry.
Esq.—klary Udall, • girl of fifteen, was brought up
charged with breaking into Gun alenl's house, at
Bouninster, with intent to commit a felony. Proems-
tor is • Inneburner, and lives in • house alone. In
oonseqsenee of mining goods from his boom, on Sunday
evening, when he went to chapel, he got William
Holloway, • beerhouse-keeper, to watch. Holloway
mocealed himself in • small room. About seven
o'clock a person came end opened • window
which he had previously seen fastened, and got in.
Then went upstain, and remained. He followed in
the dark, and asked who was there, but got no answer.
He began to feel about, when prisoner said from under
the bed "I am here." He asked who it was, and she
said "Udall's maid." He told her to come out, and
she did so. He asked her why she was there, as she
must have known that Cleat was at chapeL fibs mid
"Ye., she had been to chapel end seen that he was
there all right."—Prisoner, wh a mid she only broke in
that ones, wig committed for trial at the quarter
sessions.