The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-05-26 00:00:00

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P OICIDL —An aged woman of Bishopstone, named
Elissbeth Lodge, who had been bedridden for •year, got
up the other morning, • threw herself down a well,
and ws.s drowned.
COAL CC/TYING BY )1 AOHINZIT. —Kr. J. Elliott. •
gentleman residing at Hewett, near Southampton, has
invented • machine for tunnelling and cutting coal in
mines.

Tex Pall Mall Gazette says that the Duke of Hocking.
ham has issued • dispatch to the Governor of Natal
giving instructions that any official taking part or aiding
in the consecration of • bishop in opposition to Dr.
Colones shall be immediately invented.
ABOLITION OF CHOICE RAT en AT /1•1130110V011.
The parishioners of St. Itary's Mariborongh, have
resolved that no church-rate be made to meet the
expenses of the current year, but an the necessary sum
be collected by voluntary subscriptions.
A CHILD A OCIDINTLT POISONID. —A few evenings
beck Mrs. Kerslake, of Chippeoham, gave her infant,
aged two months, • does of lendanum in misteke for
syrup of poppies 81i• almost immediately discovered
her mistake, and • doctor was fetched, but his efforts
were unavailing, and the child died.
Arrester= SOIOIDN.—Th• youngest daughter of Mr.
George Edmonds, a Chippenham tradesman, attempted
to commit suicide on Tuesday by taking oil of vitro!.
Her 'crones brought persons to ber assistance, and the
usual remedies were applied, hat great doubts are
entertained of her recovery.
Tee grtairo•Lurr C•az.—The derision in the one of
Lyon e. Home was given on Friday by Tice•Charteellor
Gifford, tad is adverse to the great " spiritualist," wbo
will therefore bees to retransfer to Mrs. Lyon the
whole of the £IO,OOO he obtained from her. The
plaintiff, however, was ordered to pay her own oats, as
well sa those of kr. Wilkinsoa, the attorney who pre-
pared the deeds of transfer.
DRAM 11/011 TRH BITII ON Al ADDIL—A few days
since, a man named Stephen Witt was bitten by an
adder while taking the bark off some felled trees. at
Ringwood. He was attended by Mr. Smith, who
removed the affected part, but, as the man was in •
weak state of health, the shock proved too much for the
'mean, and be expired on Thursday.
Dim% rams Bw•mosruto • Piw.—A little girl,
eleven years old, named Marie Sophie Jong. living ia
Fitzroy-square, loOtiON who was subiest to Its, fell
out of bed and died in one on Sunday. At the inquest,
the medical testimony vsa tbre the Ste had been
produced by a pin having been swallowed sad beaming
embedded in the liver. It had bees in the child's
@tonna two years.
A CHILD DLOWNBD IN • BOOKIE! Or WATIM—A
little girl named Alice Cress, two years of age, the
daughter of the landlord of the Upper Three Tune
poltichonse, Bristol, weskit alone for • short time on
Thersioy afternoon by her mother, and in playing
about the apartment she by some 101.011 fell into •
bucket of water whisk was standing on the leer of the
room. Else went In heed foremast, sad, not being
able to extrlaVe beraalf before her mother nearest, she
was dead.

A BALI() 011 MAGDAIA.-011$11111 C. F. JAWS when
about to start for Abyssinia, jocularly promised a
friend at Plymouth that he would bring back • lock of
Theodore's hair. On Tumidity the pledge wee redeemed,
note accompanying it, in which Captain Jams said:
—" I send you • real lock of King 'Theodore's hair. I
cut it off myself as soon as we found his body bib.
gateway. sad I assure you it is genuine. I little
thought when I promised this in fun that it would be
fulfilled in reality."
BUROLARIZA ix SsutmonY.—On Monday eight
several burglaries were effected nt Salisbury, in • Pr"
oiaely Limner manner to those at Dorchester on the
following Wednesday. The premises of Messrs. Tucker
and Son, suid Mr. John Waters, on the Canal, and Mr.
Painter, of Cetherine-street, went entered, end the
lower rooms ransacked. At Messrs. Tuckers' some
spoons were collected reedy Vat removal, but forgotten
at Mr. Painter's a work box was taken to the garden for
examinstion sad then rejected ; and it Mr. Wader,'. a
desk wee forced open, but nothing was stolen.
Siva' Bove Dtotnrin.—On Wedseeday afternoon
an accident took place which resulted in the loes of
life to seven boys, the pupils of the Rev. Joseph
Fletcher, of Christchurch. It appears that the boys—
whose names were Horace and Leonard Mom, eons of
F. Moser, Esq., of Carberry, Chrietchureh • Harry and
Howard Pewtreas, William Smith, of Seittlismoton
John Atty Hunt, of Southampton, and George Johnson
—were bathing, in company with Joseph Manes sod the
German tutor, it Medeford, near Christchursh, when
they were struck by • wave of immense strength, and
the first seven were drowned. Joseph Mil Dell IlAi saved
with difficulty by the tutor. Six of the bodies were
recovered the same day.
NATI7III AND Arr.—The Chinese are proverbial for
dexterity and cunning, consequently it is not ?trprisine
that most of the tea they send to England is lamp,'
or coloured, to make the withered leaves &timer to the
best, a custom affording extra profit to tits seller, but
misleading the consumer as to the value. Morniman
and Co., London, have for many years found it
advaithageous to secure listing preform's, by importing
tea without say powdered mbar on its earfaes, keeeiug
entirely to the choice spring iproarthe, that bees co
worthless brown leaves to be disguised with a coat of
powdered mineral colour. The lie tot Apple who led
Horniman's..delleiona sad stem ten le egeertfeel
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