The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-30 00:00:00

Somtratsbire.

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LONGIVITT AT 1:111LITT. —The last four pare:me who
LUTA died at Üblay were aged respectively 72,88 88,
sad 88.

Focal) DZOWNID. —A child four pan of see, ranted
Jepthe Bun,wee drowned in • pond at But3eigh,
reeently. The lifeleei body wee dragged out by the
:Dottier. Tbe jury returned • verdiet of found
drowned.

871111310 1711111.-11 r. Me Donald, sanitary inspector,
mimed a large numbor of mackerel which • man was
offering for male at Bridgwater last week, in maw-
guano. of their bad condition.

SUDO= DRAT& —John Milken, a labourer, of
Cheddon Fitipaino, got out of bed early on Sunday
morning, and shortly afterwards as
expired. He w
en hay-making the previous day, and was in good
health.
RIPSZAINTATION Or BRISTOL—Mt, Samuel Morley,
acting upon the decision arrived at by the Bristol
Election Committee, has lensed an address to the
electors, again offering himself as a candidate for the
representetion of the city.
Fru AT BATH.--On Friday morning a Sr. broke out
on tne premises of Mr. Mswehant, carrier, Bathatroog.
Bath and the shop was gutted/ and Ule contents coup
plataly destroyed The muse of the ocesurenes was, it
supposed, the boiling over of me pitch.

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Hats OLD Ass. —An old man named 80111100
(now in his 76th year), who has been in the entyloy of
/Ir. J. a Corry, of Queen Camel, forty years, has
am'sted in making several ticks of hay this lemon,
and bonite Ulm be is still able to walk twenty miles
• day.
A L• 10111 SNAILS WU killed at Witham Friary on
Monday. It measured upwards of • yard In length,
and, on being cot open, was found to have mellowed
thirty-eight ego. The reptile won disoovered on • dung
heap near some cow-Mods, and was killed with • stick
by Mr. Chmles Btiekland.
Ham:oleo's Bealaurrec.—Jodge Lacey liee decided
that • deed of assignment executed by James Harding,
jun., of Winemiton. cattle food mannfmanrer, now •
bankrupt, Is invalid. The debt. amount to about £4,000,
alth,ugh Mr. Harding has only been in business three

years.
WORRIED BY • Doo.—A greyhound sprang at • little
boy, eon of Mr. Gooding, of the Grown len, Bishop's
Hull, • day or two sines. Tbe child was just recovering
from fever, end the animal fastened its fines in the
child's fitoe, inflicting a severe wound, and, having got
the boy on the ground, worried him frightfully. The
dog belmeed to Mr. Curry.
A DISTILLS/111m AOCIDENT occurred at Middle
Chlnnock • few days ago. A child between four and
Aire years of age, son of Mr. G. Buckerell, while at play.
ran Into the "table to hide himself, and was struck
several tinsel on the bead by a horse that commenced
kicking. Kr. G. Joiliffe, of Crewkerne, who was
promptly in attendant*, found that the child's skull had
been fractured in several plume. He now lies in
jasmines' danger.
AOCIDIJIT THROUGH CARRLIESINSIL —At Yeovil 00
Works, on Thursday, Joseph Parsons, • stoker, had been
cleaning the engine, when be discovered • piece of waste
entangled in some part of the mashinery, and in trying
to extricate it his hand was caught in the crank of the
engine and three of his Angers were broken. Had due
precaution been taken and the engine stopped—whir& it
could have been almost instantaneously—no accident
woeld have happened.

BILIDGWATILI bfIDSOMIIR Fill 11114 had OD Wed-
nesday. The supply of horses was somewhat mane,
but the bast animals °hanged hands freely, and good
prime were obtained. Some ospilil two-ymr-old oolts
were exhibited. The supply of was pretty good;
fat stock realised from /L. to ma, per somm Cows and
Wyse fetched between £l2 end L`lB. The sheep were
not very numerous, and the sale we. not very brisk.
'rho beet quality animals were sold for between 40x. sad
50s. The pig market was well supplied; the ovumr
prim being from 10.. 6d. to lin. pot soon.

Moe Junta AT Famo.—The feast of R. John the
Baptist has been celebrated with great doings at the
parish church of Frome. The edifice was decorated
with flowery, and the opening ceremony was imposing.
Li the hour of nine struck on Tuesday evening, a pro.
ercion, led by the eacristan, followed by the cros.
bearer, the choir, 1100211 of whose members bore banner.
and the clergy, numbering 26, passed down the north
aisle, through the nave to the ehaneel. The proemaion
was closed by the vicar' who was sled in a magnifioent
oope, and at whose side walked two little boys in gar.
phone. The genies was "beautifully rendered." The
sermon was entrsordiamily eommonpLece, and was based
on Luke vii. 33, 34. On Bt. John's day there was a
celebration of the Holy Communion, at 6.30 a.m.,
"high" celebration (it might as well be "high mar")
at nine; =Wm at eleven, and evensong at eight p.m.

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ACCILIZIT ON THZ GIELT WZITI42I KaHMAT.—.II
somewhat serious accident orroorred on Friday morning
on this line of railway near Yeovil junction. Ae the
up-express train which left Weymouth about six o'clock
was going round the curve near the junction between
Yetminster and Yeovil, the oscillation produoed by the
rapid travelliog threw the engine off the metals on to
the aide bank, dragging two of the carriages after it.
The engine was embedded in the loamy sand of which
the bank le composed, and the d lid fireman were
both thrown out, and the former was most severely
Injured by the boxes and coal on the tender falling upon
him. One of the sergeant+ in the A battery C brigade
Royal Horse Artillery at Dorchester, • bo was proceed-
ing to Ireland for a change of health, was in one at the
carriages which was mush shattered; but fortunately
be escaped with a slight bruise. There were very few
passengers in the train, and no other injuries are re.
ported.

IIBLANCIIOLT CAIII Or DIOAXIIIIO 'MLR TAINITON.—
A very sad we of drowning has occurred at Sunshill,
Curry Rival!, near Taunton. On Sanday afternoon
Miss Combe, daughter of H. T. Combs, Seq., lisle high
sheriff for Somerset, accompanied by Kiss Hare, her
coumin, and Mdlle. Schnell, Use governess, went to bathe
at a place in the river Ile, where, it seems, there wee •
bole of great depth. flies Coombe pointed out the
dentitions spot to her companions, and they then
descended into the water. They had not been there
long before Mollie. Schnell got into deep water, and
immediately &cached Mies Comb'. Seeing the danger
of her position, the latter lady shrieked for assistanee.
Miss Hare, with great psalmse of mind, pushed • log of
wood towards the drowning pair, and also swam towards
them, and in a few moments all three were struggling
for life. At last Mies Hare freed Miss Combs from the
grasp of Mlle. fishnet', and pushed her into shallow
water, but before assistance could be obtained the
governess had sink, and she was taken out of the water
dead.

BATS Q Smisinan. —The quarter sessions for
the city and borough or Bath took plate on Friday
before the Recorder (I'. W. Saunders, Frq). In his
charge to the grand jury, the learned gentleman
oongratalated them on the fact that the calendar
I enntained the names of only seven prisoner's
who were all old offenders, sad that the number
of summary convictions during the quarter had
been IL es compared with 24 the corresponding
period of last year. ecording to the report of the
Visiting Junkers, the prisonen at present In ttel.Z
for all causes were 43, while last year they r
68. The number coovieted for all causes during the
quarter was 92, whereas last year it was 123. He
attributed this satisfactory state of thinp to the
vigilance of the pollee, and the introduction of the
treadmill to the gaol, which had proved • great terror
to evildoers. The following were the sentences of the
prisoners :—Nine montha—G. Nutt, stealing a pair of
boots and other &Aides, the property of James Gale, of
lieth the i workhouse. Six month—Geo. Lencaahire,
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embezzling li. ea., the moneys of his master, Osoegs
84ockden, coal merchant, of Widcombe ; Sarah Pries,
stealing an umbrella, the property of Eliza Huntley. of
Lempard's-buildings ; Thomas Johnson, attempting
to obtain 25., from Grace Wills, of Stell-etreet,
under false pretenoes, also us., the money of
Richard West, of the Lipper Borough Walls, and 25.,
the money of R. Fisher, of Nortbgate-strset. Four
months—Sarah Bryant, stealing various articles of
nearing apparel, the property of Alexander Salmon, of
the Lamb and Lion inn publio•botise. Three months
—George Foster, steeling a °oat, belonging to George
Edwards, of Clsremonzlnildinp. Not gushy— Henry
Fitzjamee, indicted for stealing • loin and a neck of
mutton, the property of ThoomaWarry, botcher, of the
Bath Market.