The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-25 00:00:00

Vampohire.

Tug Melia Telegraph says thst there i. nglv living
in the neihhurhrol a po,t4mouth a soldier 85 years
fought at Waterloo, and hes no (fusion.

V..LUNTREN ENCAMP/AM.—The Haste rifle volunteers
went into cern', at Ilayling Island on Saturday. They
are to remain under mimeses • week.
BATH AND WEST Or ENGLAND AND SOUTHEIN
CoGN TIES ASSOCIATION. —The London and South.
Western Railway Company, hearing that the funds
raked by the 8 inthampton ocommittee were Insufficient,
bare generously increased their subscription from £lOO
to X:150.
CHRISTCHURCH AND BOURNSTIOUTH HORTICULTURAL
%octal' r. —The fourth annual exhibition if Bowe: I, tint.
end yew tables in connection with this sockty well held,
by permission of Mr. N. S. Newlyn, at the Gaol°
Grounda, Christchurch, on Thursday last. when up-
wards of 250 prises were competed for by cottageni,
ametecris, gentlemen's gardeners, and others. The band
of the let Hants Engineers was in attendance, and per-
formed • choice *election of music. The exhibitien was
hardly so good as in former years, bat the show of
potatoes was above the average quality. The attendance
was not so large as we base before seen, hut, as mual,
most of the gentry of the neighbourhood were present.

?MIAMI 0? MILITARY OrF'CILIOI.—On Thursday, at
Portsmouth police-court, Captain Ledlie, Liout.
Tolson, Lieut. Brereton and Ensign Cooper (all of the
35th reeitment), and issistont•Paymthter Salmon, of
the Royal Navy, were charged with disorderly conduct
and withulting the police. There were rrose.informs.
, tines •;siost P.S. Busey rand P.C. Hall, for an assault
, on come of the officer.. On behalf of the police it was
I urged that on Thursday, the 30th July, thereat's' a di.-
1 turbanee in High-street between several officers,
amongst whom were the defendants, and some Falai-
totes, and that when they were remonstrated with, and
desired to retire to their homes peaceably, they became
very violent, jumped on the backs of the constables,
and otherwise arimulted them. The witnesses for the
defense swore that the polio* in • rude manner told the
officers to "move on," and that upon the remark being
made, that they (the officers) bad as much right to
remain on the pavement as the poiice, the constables
1 pounced upon them and beat them unmercifully over
their head with staves. The magistrates fined Lien&
' Tolson I:5 including costs, and the other officers 50s.
each including costs. The informations against the 1
1 police were dismissed.
AGZICOLTORAL &MORT TOR lIAMPSBIRS, August 21
—Since our last report moat of the grain crops have
been harvested in excellent condition, although in
1 some backward soils, in different parts of the country, a
,be damaged to roma extent by the lath rains. Oat last
. saturants of the crops has been confirmed as to bulk, and
, also quality, wheat especially, having been tested by the
quantity
yg
usatanees
than nth expected, but the quality will inmost
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be steely and more like that of foreign growth. W
amndachqiunaelitwyillevperrovperodhencegrirt"in greatest crop
county.
regard to prices, good malting barley will no doubtcomi
1 Barley may be reported a little nearer an averabgoetchroßpn
com-
mand a good price all through the erasion. The pram o
wheat also will no doubt prove satisfactory to the
ll
grower in consequence of the abundant crop, and prices
1 thewillsm
duringal
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outb 1 rhe tl probably
ensuingh°.°of
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peculiarity
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subject of much comment lately, end the writer believes
that to find the nearest parallel we must go back to 1826,
• " Rural Record" of which *mown we find in the
writings of • clever and observant man upon all agricul-
turalib that
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b, but
than half • crop. The mussel wurtsel and cabbages
were •thirerop,biat Swedish turnips scarcely half a crop,
with an entire failure of early seriatim ; It a loathea
stated that the pastures were burnt op during this
summer, and cattle were with great difficulty main-
tained; the fine rains which, however, set in at the be-
pinning of September altered the face of the country iss
if by magic, and the growth of grass and the Into sown
turnips became so abendant that sheep arid cattle of
every kind fattened is a most extrsordinory manner.
With regard to the prices of stook it is further stated
that the price of sheep at Weyhill fair in that )ear was
very much depressed, and only made about half the
price of the year previous, good Down ewes selling at
from 17s. to 20t. each, with lambs and wether sheep in
proportion. The writer can confirm the foregoing
statement particularly as to prices for sheep, it having
been the first year of his attending Weyhill fair, when
with his friend he purchased a lot of first rate Dorset
Down ewes of Mr. Bort, at 18s, each, and horned Dorset
teweshei
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season,asthetrheeogrrirthted.rotauseht.olu.theih.
time, hut not to the same extent : we may, therefore,
that
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the coming winter are certainly not encouraging, for
although the fine thins fallen oluring the past week have
altered the appearance of the Natures and given another
opportunity to try for a late turnip crop, and will be
productive of abundance of grass and a fair produce of
common turnips, yet in the event of an early or severe
winter the partial loss on the mammal swop, end the ex.
Unarm" failure of the Swedish and early turnip,together
with the abort hay crop, may prove • serious ineonveni-
ence and render it very diffleolt for the hill farmers to
maintain the condition of their large flocks of sheep, and
will tax their ingenuity to the utmost. In the next
report it is intended to allude to the best known means
of eking out • short winter provision. In many in-
stances the clover and gnu a reeds have foiled and died out
in the drought ; this deficiency must be made up in ,
various ways by rye, vetches, Asc., but best of all by
trifolitim, which offers a supply of the most valuable
food for • long period during the summer, if all three
perfect the
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turnips or corn crop afterwards. In concluding,sonpritthhni:
tively dear owing to the late drought having forced
upon the market so many thousand/ ot halt fat oattls.—
Jour* BLOMDffLti, flontbaMPtons

DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDRNT.
An extrsordinery and fatal aectilent roeurred on
Thuroley on the Chester and Holyhead lino (which
ii
worked by the bondon and Norih-Western fl.llwsy
Compar,y). near I.l.nilduloa, about • mile and a half
from Ate rgele. The Irish limited mail, leaving London
at 7.13, pealed Abergele station at twenty imputes to
one o'clock. A goods train had passed half an hour
before, and shunted into a siding near Llanddulas
station, to allow the mail t Here, in sa°l°ll to
the good's train, a portion of at, consisting of the Lreak
van and several waggon% two d which were laden with
laurels of petroleum, was detache 1. In shunting, the
tr.io bumped up against them, and the last half of the
tra.n was s,•t in motion. It ron from the siding on to
the main Is on line' lel ih cat this point has a gradient
of aornething like 1 in 100. The .1. seendiog waggons
ga,hered velocity as they proceeded, aud ran about •
mile, when they met the wail train cooling at • speed of
40 miles an hour. At the point of collision there is a
curve of nearly half a mile radius, so that the driver of
the mail train Gould not see the approaching weggoos
till they were *lose upon him. On psroeiving them he
immediately shut off the steam, put on the brake', and
told the etoker(flolm-a) that they must jump for their
lives ; the latter would not or could not, and remaining
et his post was killed, while Thompson, leaping off the
engine, escaped with some bre'see and • severe shaking.
When the crash occurred, the moil engine leaprd on
to the goods waggon', and the tender, guard's van, two
fir-t-class, one composite, and • coverel carriage, me-
diating of ee.ond-elass oomi artments and a luggage
van followed in a heap. The petroleum casks were
broken by the oolliston, and the fire of the furnace
coming in contaret with the oil, in a moment the whole
mass became covered in flumes The petroleum and the
woodwork of the broken carriage. 'burnt tersely for
upwards of an hour. Thousands of spectators were
attracted to the spot, but none could approach near the
flames. A line of men was formed to • neighbourieg
pool on the seashore, and buckets of water were thus
passed along, but this apparently had no effect upon the
fiamee. Everything, and everybody within the doomed
c x.riages was consumed in the fire, and the whole was
speedily reduced to a heap of black char. The Barnsn
literally swept the carriages, driving in at one window
and out at the other. Beyond the hissing of the flumes
and the ejaculations of horror among the surviving pea-
senger,, not a sound could be heard. Indeud, it is
stated by Hinton, the rear guard, that be did not hear
a scream or • cry after the collision among those on the
fore part of the train ; and it is conjestured that the
effect of the shock In the first instance rendered the
passengers theirs insensible, so that their unhappy de.th
was probably not accompanied by much germinal suffer-
ing. The rear guard (Hinton) and the engine driver
(Thompson) uncoupled the fourth carriage from the
engine, and the latter portion of the train was removed
out of dang,r. The up•mail was stopped by signals.
It was • considenible time before the burnt cariiages
could be approached owing to the intense heat thrown
out by the rased mass of iron and burping embers, and
when search was commenced for the sufferens, little
more than charred remains of human bodies mold be
discovered. In most of the cases the bodies were head-
less. and in many it was impossible to daeover whether
the sufferers were males or females. Every particle of
clothing was destroyed on all the sufferers, and for •
long time only one body was recognised, that of the
venerable Lord Farnham, whose identity was established
through an inscription inside a gold watch recovered
from his lemons It has since been ascertained that
Lord Farnham was travelling wish hie wife, Lady Farn-
ham, and a valued old retainer of the family, nem.'
St.fford, who was in the same firat.olass carnage with
them. In the suite of the noble lord and her ladyship
were also teavelling, Miss Kellett, lay's maid ; Mr.
Oaten, his lordship's valet; and Charles Buckingham,
f,,,aagg in the sate. service • all of whom are lost. Lady
Farnham, before going to lttxton last month, called at
Hunt and !teaksl hi and took from their care in • small
bag more than 1:6,000 worth of her own jewellery. with
which she is supposed to have been travelhog on
Thursday. The enable aud tender of the meal expend
had fallen over on the down side of the railway. The
skeleton of the stoker was discovered under the engine,
his flesh having been completely burnt off bin bones.
William Smith, the fore.guard. was literally burnt to a
cinder, only • few inches of his remain, being found ;
and it was only by the discovery of his timep'ece anions
the burnt fragments of his body that he was recognised.
The removal of the charred remains of the dead was
the most painful sight that eon possibly be conceived.
One shapeless trunk after another was taken up, re-
moved to the embankment, and covered with a pieee of
imams, instil fragments believed tr represent twenty-
three human beings (although for a long time the
number was m seeediegly doubtful) were c Maned
together ant finally removed by trim n to Abergele.
Coos had been received from Chester, which sufficed
for the reception of eleven bodies (those believed to be
Lord and Lady Farnham being enclosed in metallic
ones); six other bodies were placed in wooden boxes,
such an were readily obtainable, and the remainder, sic
in number, were covered with the whole being
deposited, pending the inquest, in • room beneath the
tower of St. Miehael's Church, Abergele. The specters's
of so many human bodies —many of them utterly
beyond recognition—was sickening- Not on* of the
bodies retained the shglitest trace of fosterer.
The Secretary of the Company, describing the
catastrophe, says, "Death, it is believed, w.• in.
although ut.'he..carrinoaglietto.m,Prs's wtorrees°, a. usual, n
unlockedd
011 01.6 aide." It is raid, however, by persons who
eacoped through rho windows of the burning ca,riages,
that the doors on both riles w, re locket Some of the
mail bags were destroied. Those who escaped death
did not appear to have met with serious accidents, one
gentleman alone being unsble to walk from the
carriages, but many bore mars• of violent blows. One
elderly gentleman was severely cut on the forehead,
having been thrown against the opposite passeiger,
whore teeth were knock, lost by the riolliaion.
The North Western Railway claims t be an exceed-
ingly well-managed line wh,.re Law fleas of
economy interefere with line,
safety of the public. "It
is &winl to think," ,ail the chairman at the share.
hollers' meeting on Friday, "that after, &sere tiought,
ry possible precaution had been taken on our line
against the occurrence of such a calamity, we should
be suddenly overtaken by one of the most deesdful
socidents that could have happened. Thin particular
train was the prole of the pirties managing the lone;
yet the evil came where it was lout impeded.