The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

Somtrottshire.

YEOVIL—On Tuesday, 24th inst., an accident
happened to amen named Ji.hn Churchill, belonging
to -East Chinnock, by which the poor fellow had
the small bone of his mole broken. -It was occasioned
by the falling of a ladder which was raised in front
of Mr. Ryall's, linen•draper, and which was
thrown down with great force upon the unfortunate
man by the wind. Drs. Sharlon and Coles wore
quickly in attendance, and rendered every assistance
in their power. Churchill was, however, able to be
removedlome.

TRITOTAL LEMUR!. --A lecture was delivered On
Tuesday, the 241 h ult., at the Institution, by •
gentleman styling himself Edward Mudge, Esq.,
M.R.C.S., and L. A.C., of &Amin, and it was con-
sidered that a gentleman possessing such qualifies.
Clone would have been able to handle the subject
tettwell, but more palpable failure could not
gined. It was, of course, a dry subject
inside the building, so that we really were not worry
to find keary wet outside (as it reined all the even-
ing) which doubtless prevented many persons from
attending, but which, as it turned out, they had no
reason to regret.
nOVIL AGRICULTURAL SOCIZTY. —A ploughing
match is to take place near this town next mouth,
when several premiums will be offered for competi-
tion, to be divided into two cleaved. The prizes to
be presented at the annual dinner by Sir Peregrine
P. F. P. Aokland, Bart.
TRENT.—The quiet and pretty village of Trent
presented on Wednesday a seen* of great joy,
occasioned by the opening of the new school-room,
which has cast the worthy rector £5OO. It is built
in the Elizabethian style, on the plan of Messrs.
Haggett and Pocklington, of Sherburne, and is alto-
gether a model of beauty. An excellent timepiece
has been presented by the Stacey family for the use
of the schooL Several texts of scripture adorn the
walls, amongst which, the beautiful passage, "Glory
to God in the highest, on earth pesos, good will to
men ;" is a pretty specimen of crnamental
printing. At 11 o'clock, the Litany was performed
in the church, after which the venerable rector and
his wife, accompanied by the Rev. Prebendary
Lance, the Rev. J. G. Hawtrity, Rural Dean; the
Rev. W. Goadden, John Goodden, Esq. and Mrs.
Gladden, C. Lance, J. Lance, Mies 141000, and •
number of ladies and gentlemen proceeded to the
school, where appropriate prayers were read. At
the rectory, a splendid repast was prepared, of
a bleb a large party partook. The amnion/tate
were of • very entertaining character, and the in.
habitants are happy in having each • benevolent
rector, one who takes such a lively interest in
everything that conoerns tho welfare of his parish.
inners. A bent WM erected in a field belonging to
Mr. Stacey, Mr. Turner providing the necessaries
for the tea party. After the social repast had been
partake° of, dancing was commenced, accompanied
by a good band. In the evening a concert took
place in the school-room. It was ably conducted
by Mr. Cole, whose class most creditably west
through some exoellent glees; but Mr. Gunge, who
is an excellent vocalist, threw them rather in the
shade by singing some splendid songs—his manner
of doing so quite fascinating his bearers, who fully
appreciated his talent. We cannot speak too highly
of the admirable arrangements of Mr. Collins, and
think that much of the day's enjoyment may be
attributed to his indefatigable exertions. The
weather was truly lovely, and we have no doubt
the ocemion will be long remembered with grati-
tude by all who know the value of education. The
school will be • great boort to ibti fitture, as well as
the mime gesetataae.

.misnied

FROME.—Tiis WOODLANDS MURDER.—On l'uesday
the prisoner was brought from Shepton Mallet Gaol,
and crowds of persons assembled in frint of the pollee.
station to see him. He appeared perfectly calm aud
indifferent as he walked from the railway to the police-
station. The only magistrates were Dr. Harrison and
Mr. Sinkins. Superintendent Deggin, on being sworn,
said : Since Tuesday last I hare been making arm
inquiry in the neighbourhood and elsewhere, to see if
the*.prisoner had been seen at the time of the u.urdur,
but I have failed in doing an. I have rlso been to
London and made inquiry at Green's Shipping-offices,
the Sailors' Home, Well-street, London Docks, and
Poplar, and at the Registrar-Generats office, London-
bridge; at each place every ambiance was rendered me.
Oh marching the books at the heat named place. I traced
back front 1844 to 1861. and found the name Joseph
Seers, who had joiaed a ship named the Rosebud, of
Newcastle, on the Bth Ontieber, 1855, at Elsinore, in the
Baltic, and cause borne in that ship, and was discharged
in September, IBM% being the only trace I could find of
the prisoner. The prisoner having stated he had been
in the Malabar, under Captain Pare, and sailed to
Bombay when he was sir*en years of age, and remained
out seven years, I used, inquiry, and *wad no such
name on Mr. Green's Register, althosgh I footed the
name of the captain to be Pare. The primmer refused
to ask the superintendent any questices. The superin-
tendent applied for a further remand kw a wee* which
was granted. The prisoner was_then conveyed to
:trn Mallet. The pridoner's. uncle and brother.
.; applied to tba magistrates to have an intevview
with bins, they were permitted to do no, but nothing of
importance transpired. • A artifice* was received by
the :magistrates from the surgeon of the Sieepton Mallet
Gaol, in which he stated that he had examines' Joseph
Sept', en his arrival at Menton Gaol, and he did not on
that occasion, seer has he sines, awned any act of his
*at would lead him to believe that the prisoner is
Means. Al present there is no proof of tier prisoner's
whemboute from 1844, when he was about 15 years old,
antS he joined die Rosebud. in 1866.
vimioNzurra-hoALL—A TRADIUINANenaIIORD
WITH FiIIJUST.—At the Town-hall, on Wisineselay
afternooe Thanes Lewis, of the Claremont Hotel Tap,
was brought up under a warrant, and charged, before
Mr. R. A. Ringlake and Mr. Ricketts, with wilful and
corrupt perjury under the circumstances stated below.
The warrant was issued in the fore part of the clay, on
the application ofplr.Clifton, solicitor, and the accused
seemed to have been apprehended when attending an
inspection of the Weston Artillery Company, of which
be Is a member, for when plead at the bar he was
habited in his regimentals.—The inerrant having been
read, lir. Clifton stated the charge spinet the priooner,
which was tell* following effect :—fn August last there
existed an iseeetret between the prisoner and Mr. John
Hawkins, • wine metchant, of the town. 'Last year the
prisoner occupied the geuaul- for • booth at • fair held
at the Gientworth Garda*, and woo indebted to the
lainnittee, of which Mr. ffserisism was a member, in
this vim of £5 for the rent; having applied for grayed
for a Meth at the forthcoming fair,te was informed
that, iii .14neerititmed of' leaving held the ground heroic,
lee would Oily be charged Di—making £9 due to the
conainittee.—Ob the Thud of August the prisoner went
to Hawkins's slrep, de. rare, rint,e, being also pre-
sent, and the fernier "Bratftd their attention to we how
the account stood betweem then ~e • on its being found
that Lewis owed • balance of EM 13". 3d., Hawkins
offered to pay the £9 due to the hi:- committee, on
Lewis giving lien a promissory note for /29 13s. 3d.
To this Lewis consented, and by Ilawhiev's di:sena:a,
Kr. Dare took a stamp and inert it up in dos 6irm for
the payment "on demand at the prisoner's ow* boas"
of the said sum. Having bad the bill read over he Mtn
the prisocer signed his name to it. The bill was Mae
payable as stated in consequence of a former bill which
had been paid into the Lank being dishonoured. From
circa:velem:es 'which came to his knowledge, early In
September, Mr. Hawkins instructed his solicitor, Mr.
Clifton, to one on the bill, and the defendant wee served
with • wilt from the Court of Common Pleas. In reply
there* the privet:et consulted leis solicitor, Mr. If. It.
Price, and on sofen before Mr. A 11 Palmer, a com-
missioner of the superior went, he awere an affidavit,
In which he declared be was not indebted to the plain-
fie (Hawkins) in the ma mentioned; the said note was
not given by him ; that the name eppemlcil thereto was
not in his handwriting ; that the *ate purporting to be
given by' him was not so given ; that Inc had no know-
ledge of such note; and that it was alga-hard Med come
Into the possession ef the plaintiff Without bier (pri-
soner's) knowledge, privity, or authority. 'thin affidavit
was sent in in sheleee to the writ from the Court of
Common Pleas, and an office copy vi, now ploduced.
Thee allegations contained in it constituted the offense
charged; if those allegations were trete, Messrs. Hawkins.
mid Dare had been guilty of conspiracy, fraud, and
forgery ; but in addition to the testimony of those
rntlemen to the authenticity of the prisoner's signature
*tine note in question, his solicitor, Mr. Reed, was
present to Say that in his belief the signature was the
prisoner's. At the elm of his statement Mr. Clifton
applied fur a week's re
of nd, as it was necessary to
ina
in the production the original affidavit filed by
. prisoner, in order to complete the caw against him.
du conseemence of the serious manner in which the
diameter of Messrs. Hawkins •1111 Mlle was prejudiced
by the affidavit, Mr. Clifton unre, sl on the Bench that
they should not whole the prisoner to bail. The single.
teaks. however.decided (ado so, fixing the recognisance,
Is £lOO for the prisoner, and two sureties in £lOO each.
THE PROTOSND PIZR.—A deputation of the Pro-
visional Committee waited upon Nr. Wyndham,
time owner of the island of Breen Down, in the 26th
nft. and were most courteously received, mid oh-
tamed his promise of support in this undertaking,
BRISTOL.—RAILWAT ACCIDENT.—On Monday
afternoon a collision occurred at the Mangotafield station
el the Midland Railway, by which a dozen persons
were injured—one of them, a gentleman named
Williams, residingat Bath, sustaining serious concus-
sion of the twain and of the spinal cord. At about five
o'clock a goods train from Bristol vs. being shunted
frau the up line, at the Iffnegotsfield station, to
• siding at the other side of the down
line, to enable a third-class train from Bristol
to pass, when an 'Reunion train from Liverpool,
consisting of about fourteen carriages, are-best, mid
ran into the goods train as it wall creasing the down
line. Surgical assistance was immediately sent for, and
Set, sufferers, with the exce?tion of Mr. Williams, were
enabled to proceed on their journey a few hours after-
wards.
An important demonstnetiou sgainst the removal of
the episcopal residence from Bristol MIA mane at •
meeting in the Guildhall on Thursday. The unjustifi-
able conduct of the Ecclesiastical Commissioner! was
reviewed at great length, and resolutions were passed
condemning the total removal of the residence to
Gloucester as opposed to the arrangement under width
the union of Bristol and Gloucester was effected, and
calling upon the COMMiSPiOrlera to tale the needful
steps for the restoration of the Bristol Palace Fund, in
order that it may be applied to the obtect for which it
was originally intended, vie, the providing of a Bristol
episcopal residence. A committee, secretaries, end other
officers were appointed, and a disposition was generally
evinced to carry out energetically the views of the

meeting.
AN IMPORTANT MILITARY QuitirrioN.—A question of
some importance to Volunteers and tollkeepers was
brought before the Bristol Magistratem on Monday. The
collector of the tolls at the White turnpike was
summoned for having, aa it was alleged, illegally de-
manded and received toll for a carriage which was at the
time in use of Volunteers on duty. The reply to the
charge wan that there was a civilian in the carriage
—which Wall admitted by the plaintiff—and that conse-
quently the tollkeeper was entitled to charge. The
question tot-the magistrates wu, whether toll could be
charged on a carriage which, while in the service of
Volunteers on slaty, conveyed a civilian through the
gate. We believe this is the that time the point has
been raised. The Bench took time to consider their de-
cision.

Tema:DlA 'f' _ RAGED?' A? Sr. VINCENT'S ROCKS,
Beier Seer-men tti:ICI DX.— A painful sensation was
produced on Sunday throughout the city of Bristol, in
eonseqnence of its becoming known that a man
lied been found dead mul in a mutilated
state on the road which follows the river Avon,
underneath St. Vincent's Rock, ard that from the
circumstances connected with the death there was reason
to fear that the poor fellow bad committed suicide.
Persons who hare visited Clifton must he familiar with
the two lofty piers, %Well, rising on the sides of the
cliffs to a height of some 250 feet above the water level,
arc destined to form the support of the suspension
bridge by which it is intended to connect Clifton Downs
with the wo.all. of Leigh. It is upon a rope strained
between these that Blondin proposes to cross the Avon,
and it was from the parapet of mie of them—that on the
Cilonoester mido of the river—that the wretched man,
erbium death we are shout to describe, was precipitated
to the ground. The fatal occurrence was not witnessed
from the commencement by any one. A man who was
proceeding down the river in a tug boat saw a man in
the act of faUing, and gave information to a person who
was walking by the towing path on the river side. This
person communicated with the 'who., and poliee.con-
stable 261 of the Clifton division of police hastened to the
snot, and found the holy of the wretched man lying in
• pool of blood and presenting a shocking spectacle. The
skull was frightfully fractured, and the limbs torn and
broken, and life was, of course, wholly extinct. At •
abort distance from the body lay • brown bowler hat,
which upon its being taken imp and examined by the
constable gave a clue to the indentity of the deceased.
In it was a ticket inscribed "John Crocker, shoemaker,
ha., 34, Hill.street, St. Paul's, Bristol." The officer
having procured assistance removed the body
to the General Draper, an adjacent tavern,
after which he communicated with the family at the
addresa indicated, and ascertained that Mr. Crocker had
been mined from the morning. Some of his neighbours
proceeded to the Clifton Flotwells to indentify the
body, and the city coroner, J. B. Orindon, Esq., having
been communicated with, he issued his warrant for an
Inquest,, which was held on Monday in the club-room in
the tavern above named. It appeared from the
evidence that the deceased had been unwell for a long
time, and had been under several medical men, and that
amongst other ailments he had been subject to fits.
There was nothing surprising in his being at the place
from which he fell, as it was rather a favourite walk
with him. On the morning of Sunday be got out of
bed whilst his wife vas asleep, dressed himself, and
went out unobserved, and be was seen going in the
direction of Clifton. There was no evidence to
show with any certainty whether he had
jumped over, or whether while he was sitting
on the railing he was seised with one of his fits, and the
jnry accordingly returned an open verlict to the effect
that lie was killed through falling from thr cliff, with'
out in any way stocifying the mode in which the fall
was prodnoed. The deceased him left a widow and six
children, the youngest of them being • mere infant.

But few incidents have ever transpired that will tend
more to cheapen both Silk and Tea than the malting of
the new port of Ilankou in the heart of China, for it
affects, without any trans-shipment, a direct column-
nication from the best tea producing districts, to the
Docks in London, entirely obviating the old difficulty
and coat of long porterage', and separate transit over
500 miles inland to Shaman.. Horennan it Co. have
not been slow in taking advvintage of this privilege, as
their Tea Inspectors now not only select the parcels
which have undergone so sophistication, but also see
Lie tea on ship board clam to the plate of prodnetion.
llorniman's Pure Tees are of the choicest growths,
• and the same description as tba Bleak and Green sorts
usually sold, lint without the usual hluiali or intensely
black facing. Their Green is of a natural olive hue, not
qlnish. Sold in Packs* and by Antimind Agents
only, as adveribsd is Ibis paper.