The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-22 00:00:00

BRIDPORT.—An accident which unhappily was
attended with fatal conaequences, occurred at the
harbour, on Tuesday, through the falling of a staging
toed in the erection of a vessel in Mr. Cox Is yard.—
A little girl, named Catherine Thompson, as ja
the act of picking up chips, when the staging fell,
and a heavy piece 01 timber struck her across the
neck, and inflicted such injuries as resulted in her
death. An inquest was held the folloniiig day,
when a verdict of •' Accidental Death" wasreturned.
, Two of the men employed by Mr. Cox wcre slightly
injured.
RETURN OF J. OUNDRY, ESQ., AND FAMILY 1180 M
AMNIIICA.-011 Thursday evening the town was in
a state of joyful excitement by the expected arrival
of the captain and lieutenant of the Artillery Corps.
Some four or five hundred persons were waiting the
arrival of the train, and the road leading to the
station was lined with eager friends, determined to
give a hearty welcome to the travellers. They
arrived by the 7 p.m. train, and proceeded to
Hyde in two carriages, escorted by the Artillery
Corps, as a guard of honour, the bend playing
"Auld Lang Sync." On their way they were
heartily cheered, the bells from the old church tower
;an A merry peal, and their arrival home was made
known by the tiring of cannon. Mr. Gundry, in a
suitable manner, thanked them for the hearty wel-
-1 Done they had given him and his family, and after
! several hearty cheers the party returned to the town,
wherr, by the kindnen of Mr. Gundry, the corps
I uvre liberally regaled at the Bull Hotel, Lieutenant
I Swain piesiding, and a very plealiaut evening was
spent.
' YEOVIL. —Co-orsnarivx Socirrr.—A meeting
was held on Friday evening at the house of Mr.
Chant, Vicarage-street, for the purpose of consider-
ing the desirability of forming a society on the prin-
ciple of co-operation. There was a good attendance,
I and the chairman read the London and Rochdale
Societiee' Rules. These were highly approved, and
all present enrolled their names as members of a
society to be established in Yeovil. The next meet-
ing will take place on Thursday, the 24th instant,
at half-past Bolen o'clock, when all who feel an is-
terest in the masa are invited to attend.
I HA;HESTER.— NEw CHAPEL—There has been
I erected in this pretty town a small but compact
I little chapel, which greatly adds to the appearance
I of the place, and which, we have no doubt, will be
I well attended. There is sufficient room to among-
modate from 200 to 300 persons. Every care ha*
been taken to study the comfort of the congrega-
tion, both as regards ventilation and warmth, con-
veniences not to be forgotten either in summer or in
winter.
}TOME.— Tux WOODLANDS MORDIR. Drs.
CHARON 01 THE PRISONSIC—At the Ftol2lo police.
court, on Saturday last, the self-accused murderer,
/avid' Seers, was brought up for final examination.
The superintendent produced documents which
I proved that in 1647 the prisoner was apprenticed to
serve for seven years in the Indian army, that he
arrived at Bombay in the same year, and that be
I was discharged at that place in the year 1854
nearly three years after the murder was committed.
The Bench, after severely admonishing the prisoner,
discharged him, cautioning him against a repetition
of such foolish and wicked conduct. Mr. Bartruss,
the solicitor for the defence, applied to the Beach to
take proceedings against the witness Payne for per.
; but the magistrates thinking the evidence at
present before them was not legally sufScient to
justify such a proceeding, declined to accede to the
.1 application, but intimated their readiness to go into
the charge at a future time, and the proceedinp
I terminated.