The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-17 00:00:00

ANOTHER STORM AND LOSS OF LIFE.

On Monday there was another terrible thunderstorm.
In North Wales, at Llanaelhaim a house was struck dr
lightning: the occupier and his wife were seated at Un.
fireplace; the woman was thrown the other side it the
room and killed instantaneously, :unl the kmoband hurled
some distance, but uot in:l6ol3ly injured. At Pwllheli a
man was carried away by flood, but saved himself by
clinging to a tree. Several home and cows were killed
by lightning.
In the Isle of Wight the storm raged for more than two
hours. It passed over all parts of the West of England on
Sunday night.
At Cardiff the church of St Michaels was struck by
lightning. A large cross was hurled from the summit,
and considerable damage wee done.
At Gloucester the fruit crops sutd.rood severely, and
some damage wwo I lone to prnperty. In Bradford total
darkness prevailed for nearly an hour, and rain fell in
torrents.

The rain heat down wheat crops where standing, until
the 'Whin look smite fiat.
Twenty-four sheep. the property nf Mr. Flower, of
Lonmtock, near Stockbridge, were killed by lightning
during the storm which prevailml in the neiFhbourhissl of
Salisbury. They bad evidently broken their fold in their
fright, and were found here and there in the cornfields.
Considerable damage was shale to the growing crops. A
horse driven in the 'Lytton mail-cart wan frightened by
lightning and ran into the ditch, breaking the shafts of
the cart, and considerably delaying the letters. The
driver obtained another conveysuwe to reach Salislinry.
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WESTERN Cl RC C IT. —llaisrub, ArGust 12.
(Before Mr. Justice quain).
ming NURPA:II_ A lIRISTIM.

Phigip Merrit,44, descrilest a. a .I;ito:ust7r, but who W 11,4
for 2.5 years a primly in the Royal Artalery and was
dist-barged with a pension of la, Inc week, was indicted
for the wilful saunter of his wife Catharine at IlristoL
The prisoner and the deceased lived ii, a single apartsuent
in a house on the Narrow quay. It. addition to MI
pension of las. a week, Morris earned about ins, a week as
an extra man at the Cintans House, and the deceased
earned money by tailor's. They both gave nay to
intemperate habits, soul on the morning of April :sth they
drank a pint awl a half of whisky between them before
nine ,:'clock, awl sent out for more. While Iving down in
boil sleeping off the effects of the drink, the lawn:ors
daughter cause for the rent, and )fns:. then discovered
there were four months due. This apse:area to have
exasperated hint, anti he and his wife were hoard
wrangling. Soon after he went out, and in the middle of
the day Mrs. Morris was fouod lying in bed bleeding from
four wounds on the head and the nons covernl with
lohnel. She wax taken to an infirmary but dhst in about
eight days, When a pe.t.onartem examination wins leaflet
it was found that her skull was fractured in five places,
and the medical men described it has lasing cracked like
an est,oshell. The prisoner, when taken into custody.
asked if his wife was dead, and when toll it,. was not. he
mid he would "lead her. Ile cainplainol bitterly other
drunkenness, and of her violent* towards him. The defence
set up was that the crime teat committed in a moteent ol
nxmieit and that the jury ought to tied I • guilty if
manslaughter only.
The jury found the prisoner Gully of wilful 'ler,
but recommended bins to mercy on account of previous
gtml character.
Sentence of death was passed in the 1141141 form.

In America and Indiathe fl,olc have ioil I.
The Globe stake that Colonel Baker baa Ifcen ,track off
the roll of the Army and Navy Club.
Threatened renewals of the Boats in France seem to le
averted by the subsidence of the lthone.
Captain Boyton is shortly to make his 4,60 t at Berlin in
his life-saving dress.
The first contingent of volunteers, nuttilfering nol me,,.
has gone to Aldershot for drill with the regular..
The Indian ship Cora is inhuhrc, with 10 hand., and a
car.zo valued at half a million.
Canon Litidon has left town to attend the Ohl Catholic
'onference at Bonn.. - . .

A smotter, named Wetherell. WILII flogged at York on
Monday. lie howled (rain the first lash to the last Good!
A girl to a factory at Dewsbury wan warming her can of
tea in a dye yat, when she fell in headfureinost, awl was
literally lioiled to death.
CIAO reward is offered for the apprehension of
Alexander Collie, charged with (rant on the London mid
Westminster bank. . .

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It hi stated that the Admiralty have ordered a hundred
Captain Boyton's water-dresses for coastguard survive.
They will cost .Cl 2 each.
The Morning Adorravr I: informed that several officers
under orders for India have received private imfermation
that their services may he required in Burnish.
Four cows have died at Conbeath. Scotland, from
eating bullets tired at the rifle range on the farm. Two
handfuls of lead were taken from One stomach.
It is believed that the oldest church bell in England
oat Claughton, near Lancaster. The inscription is dated
1296.

Mr. Shirlock. for thirty.three years proprietor awl
editor of the Liverpool Mail, was kiHe 1 by lightning on
Monday.
The fifteenth annual Church Congress bi to be held
at Stoke-upon-Trent, from the sth to the Sth of October
next. . . . . .

THE North Fast Somerset Farmers' lah has postponol
its annual show on account of the prevalence of foot and
Mouth dil4llllB,
The Spanish Government has resolved upon making a
fresh levy of 100.000 men, "in order to end the Varlist war
as soon as possible."
Mr. J. P. lame, the proprietor of extensive estates in
the district of Liskeard, has been thrown by a young horse
and
kehtd At ieovil petty sessions, on Wednessiay, John and
Herman Dyke, were fined fl and coats for removing
cattle affected with the foot-and-mouth disease.
The World says that one or two important changes in the
personnel of the Government may he looked for within the
next month.
A telegram from St Petersburg annourrn the outbreak
of a revolution in Kokhand, the insurgents having
expelled the Khan and his family.
The German Government ha. allowed two French
officers—a major of engineers and a captain of rtiller, --
to he present at the groat siege manrruvres 0 Colgunts.
Blue wall papers have recently been f owl to contain a
dangerous quantity of arsenic, I e'da.; ill this respect id
deleterious am green paper.
A Manchester poolterer ban how tined fie, and costs
for plucking chicken alive. One jumped out of the basket
alter it waa plucked.
Mr. Mooney, a gentleman highly respected in Dublin,
has been arrested on a charge of grossly assaulting a
married lady in a railway carriage between Dublin and
Drogheda . . . • • • ' -

Peaceful, very: an order is being executed at tintingham for 400.000.00 U Manger cartridges for the Prussian
Government, and one for the French Warsilfiri for
150.000.000 cartridges for the newly.adoptel " Lgas" rifle.
An analysis of upwards of eighty repe ts from the litet
fruit growers in various parte. 01 the United Kingdom,
clearly shows that this • emphatically a "fruit year."
all varieties Wing unusually abundant.
The Duke of Cambridge has gone to Germany, for a few
weeks relaxation from his official duties, lie will
probably witness the autumn manieuvres of German
tr"Yr• .

At Pompeii a small woollen factory has just been dis-
covered, near the house where the renowned ireaco of
Orpheus woo recently found. In this factory are still sewn
pieces of woollen cloth, quite carbonised, and many
instruments for cording and wsasingainsilssrto those used
in 50100 small factories of this kind at the premint day.
Colonel Baker has already received many vi*its from hi
military friends, and his life is that r.f a gentleman in a
private hotel, save that he cannot walk further than the
precincta of the building. 'Me War Secretary ha. de :idol
to permit him to retire from the army, hut not to niceive
the money value of his commission
HE ellpement bas taken place at Bath. A porter en.
pliiyed in a grocery establishment, a person of exceedingly
quiet demeanour.lodged at the house of a man Md ine
White, whose wife bad four or five children. Great
familiarity had been noticed to exist between Mr. White
and the porter, and a few slays since they ,imultancously
disappeared, having taken houichold gods, jewellwy. and
money to the amount of £7O.
THE ROYAL BERES SEW) IeITABLISUMLNE.—On
August 10th, a party about Wu in number. consisting of
the etatdoSos of the Hoyal Barbs seed Establishment,
with their wives, visited Hastings and St. Leonardo.
They were accompanied by Mr. M. H. Sutton, Mr. As
Sutton, Mr. H. .J. Sutton. and Mr. H. Sutton, all
members of the firm by who. a 'anal.. treat has. now
been annually provided for many years. The S. E. It. Coo
arrangements were most excellent—the special train of 13
carriages reaching Hastings, a distance of 001 mile* flora
Reading. in rather more than three hours—only isopping
for water at Guildford, Red Hill and Tunbridge. The
party was. too numerous for MI to dine triother, but there
were several dinners provided at the Clueen'A flotel and
to mar the
elsewhere, and ples.sure yacht, were chartered for the
occasion which. as the weather was flue, were freely
late btroniotd; wAitilhloriTt achaccedidenß'tlioirla anagain
aagt a somewhat
complete success, of the day.
HOLLOWAY'S Pic.La are securities of health to all Hetlolie,
in every dune, and have given hope. relief, and comfort
to millions. In irritation and debility, generated 1.7
Messes of any kind, or in general prostration of the
system, their effect is rapidly soothing, renovating and
permanently restorative. They rapidly drive from the
system the morbid raises of ailment., and renew the
Pristine animation, health, and rigour of the frame. They
great increase the appetite, give tone to the stomach,
assist the digestion, and impart elasticity to the spirits,.
their essence enters the circulation, and, carried through
It., course exerts its cleansing power over every organ. In
the lungs. they effect most striking chin. gen tensertinil the
Impure venous into pure arterial blood, which repairs and
recruits the whole frame.