The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-09-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY ACOIDINT ON TIM SOUTH
WILITKRN.

TIIIEII PABSINOSIS CLOD.
Three paseesgers were killed and many injured Is •
railway incident on the South Weatarn on Tneeday,
which happened, between (Sandford end 'acclaiming to
the 12.20 up-train from Portsmouth. Ten carriages
were thrown over an embankment, through the collision
with • bullock straying on the line One of Gm travellers
10711 —IO many of the cervisgse the inraat.• were
bleeding, but in only one were any dead. Thee. it wee
Impossible to get at, for the carries/011w embedded la
the mot Some men immediately endeavoured to
force the door open ; this we. accomplished with the
utmost difficulty. I then walked along the train ; the
ClarriSCOS exempt the sad ones were all overturned,
souse broken. The guard was on the top of the wreck
gain: from carriage to carriage tosses/thin the condition
of the inmates. A gentleman we. laying his sop, a led
about 14, who bad sustained some severs internal
lajuries, on the mad. He than proceeded to set (the
leg of his daughter, about 12, and made it secant with
80030 stripe of wood and handkerchiefs.. The poor
'Mild was mcet Gann end patient. Allowing the limb
to be steadied and bound without a murmur. I then
went to the overturned carriage where every effort
was being made to mash the sufferers. It was a
fearful aieht, lags sod arms and oars girl's face
appearingly nearly busied out of the sand. Down deep
under the sand an infant was sobbing, evidently
suffocating: The mother appeared to have been killed
Instantaneously, for her limbs, whleh appeared through
the lead, never moved. One girl on the top of these
kept lasplerios to be got out. Her leg was jammed
Into the side of the earriage. S ewe. extricated at hot,
and got not through the window, not much hurt.
Beneath this girl was • young lady quite deed. The
frame work of the carriage had to be, sawed through,
the tici• swathed with crow bars, and the body got out
through this opting. I saw at ones there was no way
of getting out the others---namely, the dead woman and
the child—but by digging sway the sand. The men
worked bard to reach the thild,but the sand was toe deers,
and its groans massed. Tame we. • constant fear that the
girl who we. lying at the bottom would be suffocated
with the sand coverts' her, and thin at one time appeared
very probable. The workmen cleared her fate from the
fel lug teed, gavo bar water at intervals, and at last she
was got oat, but her arm was fearfully freatand, it was
seen, and she was conveyed to Guildford ficepital. The
ehild was reached at lest, but it we. quite dead—• male
child, shoat six months old, suffoorded. The efforts
were redoubled to reach the body f the moth, r. The
roof of one carriage was prized off, the uprights cat,
sad, the ,and Seine got away, the lest body—that of •
female about 40. the mother of the child—was got out
end laid with the young lady and child on the gram.
The persons ki:led were Mrs. Bride, of Godalating and
her infant. ani blue Martin, daughter of the Milford
station-maater. Nine others were severely injured.

Al the Anneal !Goths' of the Stud Comptay,
Limiter!, to be held at the Farm at nobhun on the 20th
inst., the Directors oil' &elms a Divid. al of 10 per
cent.. carrying over £41,939 1.. 7.f. to. reser.. fend.
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The in loiry Into the Wigan accident closed with •
vefdiat of "Awddental death," and a recorumecdation
that de speed of the trains passing Wigan without
stopping ought to be materially aleekened.
The revenue Is sow £28,671 000, as compared with
£24,011,000 •1 the corresponding date hut year, or •
Increase of £600,000. although from the reduction of the
Ineomettan sad the Sugar Duty • haiku off of nearly •
mllton In the first ball of the financial year was matt-
etra,ed. The Government is ties about I imillion
richer than was anticipated in lb* Budget.
Con•uniers now avoid the ordinary coloured de, mt.
tlim of Tea, and purchase only the well known pure
sorbs that have no artificial facing nod therefore mot
Slots or ly of the oho'oe young lames, as without the old
of e I or ioterlor leaves cannot he passed off oo the beat.
Ilornii,,an hare now 3,250 agents •Pf.ints'i to
supply their pure too. For local agents, is. A ivertisc•
mem.

R N rt. tweui Eincnoi. —The election of • meinher
In the room f t • Is.. Homo Secretary, resulted in the
avows* of Col.,nrlC.olobel, the Conservative nominee,
who had 178 more than Colonel More, the
Mend. The Treats points out that on the °hied
poittnel goesttoce, both general and &sottish, than.
declarations Were a'most idsotiool. They are &martinet
as being practically of the same opinion on the assimila-
tioe of the county and burgh fronobiers• ; they were
aimed aa to the necessity of • modification of the Gusts
lows, and se to the shape which that modification
ought to take. In respect to Hypotbee, they were b3th
In favour of its abolition at Wand; ant the L,w of
Entail tboy both embed to me swept from the Statute
Book. They were both equally desirous that the
grime/or of land should be sicoulled ;and on tho
qoes-
lion of ghe Established Choral), they both eddied to
Intetitrite • vuluntai contribution f .r the ix-opulency
rate. o,lonel Campbell did, indeed, olieet tem.
pelt ciple of International Arbitration, wheih hit !He.'
favoured ; but this le not • question libel 7 to hays
moved the conaUtueney. We are told that Colonel
umplogi's attitude was perhaps • little more oordiel te
the Established Church of R•ollssid, of which hole not
• member, than Colonel Mare's, though the latter II an
Ele..r of her Communion. Both were for settling the
I.4toldien qmeation by giving the olestlott of the clergy.
Sol to the t00t.!.; and tlinegb Colonel Campbell hat
taken the view of the Censervathe party on the claim
toll the Imillatt Nonoonformists to hare tit* with church.
yards thrown open, yet, in defense°. to tho feelings of
%ha ,he readily shisagionied vie., and
simpopt-rid atizu Übseal opponent.

THS WIATHIft AND THE CROP&
On the llth alt. the.. wire new wheat in the market
weighing from 641 b. to 651 b. • bushel. and *hi" "id
for 68.. to 110 s. • quarter. Immediately alter thin the
weather broke, and ha• oentinued wet to the pr,assat
time, and we have now to deplore about one.third of
oar wheat mop end • great dsal of barley, osts, and
beans as still at the mercy of the elements. much of the
wheat sprouted, and moth of it. barley diaooloured
sod rendered unfit for malting.
The drying power of the atmosphere is Dow vii,
low—sown if the rain crossed, being 1 deg. lees than in
the preeeding month. The temperature la slim low sod
ch.lly. and as it decreaoe. at the rate of 1 deg. for
every 60 miles north, it la clear the northern farmers,
who have hardly well begun their harvest, will have •
trying time to secure their crops, and • depreciated
article, however scum they suay now seemed in
doing MX
In the whole of the worst of ngland much barley 144
BOWS wheat 'no still *Lout, many fields are studded
with Lerida, or •liat are locally esllnd "wood mows,"
and very little boa been got meagrely into the rick
yards; weeds prn..ominate everywhere, equivalent to
the coat of one >ear's rent to °leen the laud ; and ae
high farming and el-so stubble@ are incompatible with
good shooting, sporting landlords should rsjoce this
year, though Isomers are very much out of heart. The
advantage of early reaping la mode a:sal/set this mason
by many bovine secured their crop@ Us weeks ago,
while some of their noldthoors. wh", 0"" "1"
equal, 'rad), &lowed themsnlvss to be nought by the
rain, and have never shun bee. enabled to proceed
with thar work. There I. not mush excuse fog this,
seeing that • good reaper Gan out from 30 to 40 sores
per day.
I ans obliged to Glare to the oonclusion that our own
home prospects hay. materially sheered for the worse
11448 the weather broke, about the middle ef last
mouth, and that we 66.11 not uow have above an aver-
age wheat yield of 2.1 bushels per sore ; that is, 22
bushels of grain, with one bushel added for the rites
weight of, say, 3.b. over the standard of 60Iba,
which most of the new grain thrashed hee weighed this
year.
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Thla, on the Lammed area of 3,300.000 awe, being
1-7 M wader the area returned in 1872. gives 9.600.000
and, deducting 1,000,003 qrs., for weed, leaves
8,500,000 qua:, or l 3 50U.000 gra less tbari our annual
ouneutopuuch ann 80,577 gm more than our total
Imports of last gear. However alarming tbk atate of
tho is.. may be, It will bo better to remenreo It as
feet this to be overtaken with a groat dear:Coney whoa
our horns growth Is troosumod.
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Potatoes; en the whole remain intact, and, u they
are a great orop thy II help us to Ude over our Wbeat

At tit; eonameettement of harvest the crops looked
well, end few ixou'd have anticipated thet we should
have to record such a disastrous result; but, haste(
eines visited and lnepeeted the mope In 13 of the
eaatern, southein, aud western sountles, and obtained
returns from many tumors who have threshed out, I
cannot egoism, the conclusion thst where 40 bushel. were
expected 311 only have been obtained ; sod where $O
were expected 73 have been the yield. Many oases are
much below these, and disappointment la almoel
universal. As far as lem able to Joel's, the mules of
them, bad results are premature 'looming. yellow
(ensue, paresitea, and subsequent low temperature and
rein.

-Deep onitivatlon sal 4:oudition us the toy to the
only good crops we bays, and, as awe is undoubtoely
an almost isezbanstable supply of plant food In all
good wheat land subsoils, which has mover yet boss drawn
spon —ea shown by Ilessra Proses, lliddleditotes,
Prates and others' practise., interestuigly dssoribed in
your oolutune in November. 1871—it is to be hoped that
deeper cu•tavation will in future be the rule, and not
thv eioeption.
Steam plougblag ran be got dos* at 2a. an loch in
depth, so that it is easy to °oust the °oat and to judge
of the oapabtatios of the soil and eulhotla to be dealt
with.

Tama 4 C. klon, Lead Agit k.