The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-14 00:00:00

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A hex PantOn & Fitter& of Midair-,Meet,
Yeovil, has reesetly dun • potato, weighing lib. 10
The New Visor of Yeevil, the Sec I. Wyrosh.ca,
VIII tab Part in the services at St, John's C!..urch on
Son lay, 19th Inst.
A Cum sirri.—Mr. Scott, of the Seed Storm, Yeovil,
I. erldblidun in hls wiodow two raspberry Ganes of this
year's growth, laden with clusters of fine fruit of an
exes Sent Baron,. In the ordinary muse, these eines
should not have borne fruit until nett year.
Euaracrin 11011011 a.—At Both, • bay and °ern.
dealer, of Wileambu, petard J +equal, is In enetoiy on
mapielou of canting the death of hb paramour, Matibl•
Lucas. Baltnr late one day with his dinner, he la Iced
her on (me of her knees, which had been bad, and blood
towel afresh from the wound. She died in • week,
and the medical sous attributed her death partly to her
broken-down tionstitution, and partly to the Nuke
lallieted.
CLK la FIFO RP73116 —At a Enacting at Glattcnhery of
the River Brue Cumml.tioncra, held on Tuesday,
several farmers, A 3,, who had neglected to perform thdr
shares to the cleansing of (be river, wore sitounnund and
Geed.
NUT Pararmr•Tloll.—Tha rectory of Sheldon
Mallet, of the gram annual value of £863, with the
reetoes right of .1 ornate presentation, end an accom-
panylog right of py..eDtaUofl to • district church, of
the annual %mho" of 1:150, has been put up to auction,
and bought in at £3,000, the reserve prim being £4,13.10.
The peasant reotoes ago is 59.
MORTALVIT OF WIFTOII. —Ai the meeting of the
Weston-super-Mare Town Commisalooers, this week,
the returns of the registrar, for the quarter marlin
Sept. 29th, showed the rate of mortality for the put
throe months to be Hi per 1 000 per annum, or,
esolturive of visitors, 12i t•,.r 1,000 per annum.
A Usitoitaolle FLAGS. —Oa Friday there was • report
that Lord Macro father of Lord Groy de Wilton,
senior member for Bath, had died of gout; stud as the
Lruir r is about 74 years of age, and ha, bean in dallatta
health for SOWN time, the report for • while seemed not
improbable. Had it turned out true, thu history of
Bath elrotions would be a very strange one, because to
the event of Lis father's death Lord Grey de Wilton
would go to the Uppar Rouse, mad another vacancy
would thus be caused la the reprmentation. It is farther
stated that Sir William Hayter will be made almost
Immediately a Peer. Sir William laB3 years of ago, and
Captain ii•yter, its oldest son, would auomed him in
ease he went litre; so here would be another vrtr.noy
for Bath. We need not pursue the norkarant con.
lectures further, but we thick that if acy more
IMOICOIOIII through death 000ur to Ilia ;Ate), insura,ce
Olive will require a double premium upon rueroh.rs In
Bath and their fathers. Certainly, Bath waters to:4
to lay the dust.
ISITILLONDIII&ST POTIT3II —Mr. Robert Humphrey,
pensioner, of Wander, las dug up Iron his slat. re
garden • tremendous potatoe, weighing Mom upon 3 be.
The seed sown was white rock.
ArrOUgriselaw LISOWIST.—Ao ancient pig of lead
was last week disuortred in • load mine belonging to
the liandtp Minion ()emptily. It was embedded in the
soil about two feet Nemeth the surface, weighs about
awl., and is in excellent proservatton. It bears the
following inoaription in robed letters :—.11f1.. Csist
MITOMISI. AVMS. IL It is now in the possession of
Mr. W. Rodger, Blandon.
FatiL RAILWAY AoolDiorr.—On Wednesday after-
coon, • fatal acioidest °courted on the Somerset and
Dorset Railway, between West Pennard and °lastest-
bury. George Hill, a man in the mole, of Mr. John
Corp, of West Parinerd, we. erossiag the line to get to
eine of his master's fields for the purpose of milking the
sows. The supposition is that he did not me or hear
Moe approaching train; at say rate, the poor fellow
was knosiked down and killed, the body being fearfully
sentileted.

Dacron AT LAS? —A rasa named Samuel Elliott,
formerly of liminster, a beaket-maker, about 15 peers
ego left hie wife and three ohildren chargeolle to the
Unto& On a rammane being issued. be settled for the
int year or so, but in November, 1861, when another
warrant wee isimad, he weld not be found, and this
soolookoo he atainteined over duos, until last Saturday,
when, (rook oome iliormollos neared, Supt. Everitt
apprehended Ida at Deptford. lie bad made good use
of his time than, got east her wife," brought up Ave
ehildres by her, and established • business. Mean-
while. • heavy bill against him has been running up at
the Unice, for the oisintenanee of the deserted ones.
Scwatrua Doers or • Sousa —A cart-mare belong-
ing to Mr. Ding, of Milborne Port, was booed dead on
Eaturdsy morning, under singular eircumstanom.
Upon internal examination, • alike, at least • foot and
a-lisif in length, wee loud in the gullet, at its
entresemi into the thorax, with the head pointed
towards Use stomach. It had evidently lain there dead
for some time, the perietaltio eatiou alibi oesophagus
haring been apparently inadequate to force the foreign
eubstesers through the arch which that tube makes
before It enters the stomach. Although the mare had
Irmo ailing for • week or two, yet starvation does not
seem to ham been the cause of death. How the
reptile got into sash a situation, and whether local
irritation, or blood poisoning, or aught elm was the
wan of death, are problems not yet solved.