The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-27 00:00:00

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FATAL AOCIDKNT TO A CHILI!. --On Monday morn- I
ing. John, aged seventeen months, son of James rKay,
• coachman, residing in Anderston, near Glasgow, met
hie death in the following manner. About 12 o'clock
the previous night., his mother had been called to attend
spoil a neighbour who was about to be confined and
accordingly left the child in charge of his father.
Shortly alter that time the fat:,er gave the child •
drink, and then laid it on his arin in bed, the child
being between him and the wall. Both fell asleep, and
on MMay awaking, about four o'clock, to his great
consternation, he could not And his son. After giving
• hasty look round the room, he ran and alarmed hi,
' neighbours, who came to assist him in searching for the
child. To their horror, they found him quite dead,
'impended between the wall and the foot of the bed and
one of the wooden bars of the bed, Ids chin resting on
the bedstead ! Ile bad apparently slipped down
between the bed and time wall, and was caught as above
described.

DEATH UNDER PICT/LIAR CIRCUMSTANCE*.
Monday. about midday, Duncan M'Laren, a man 91
years of age, who resided at 69,84. Janies'a-road.Gliucrow,
was found by Samuel M'llwraith, Hope-dark, Spring-
born-road, lying dead in dighthill Cemetery, with a
hiluistone partly resting upon him. As no one saw him
fall, it is only conjectured how he came by his death.
There was,. headstone lying tat on the ground, and thia
stone he seems to hove been raising, when it fell upon
him and broke the cartilsu of his nose ; and it is slao
supposed, from the position in which he was found, that
the stone most have suffocated him. _ .

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IMFANT liouetumagetut.—Two little girls of the
names of Jane Elder cud Margaret Dugan, aged twelve
and nine years respectively, recently broke into White-
leye-beuse, Nethergate, near Edingburgh. Whitelep.
house is at present uninhabited, the family having
removed to bathing-quarters for Ilie season, and the
girls obtained entrance to it by raising the sash of one
of the back windows. Having thus gained admission,
it would seem that their young heads lad been actually
turned by the grandeur before them, and the novelty of
their position. They ran to and fro about the house.
entered every room, and everything that attracted
them as valuable was heaped together for future
disposal. When darkness met in tie gas lustre@ were
lighted up, and a supper of salt beacon, which they
secured on their visit to the kitchen, partaken of, and
washed down with the not very weak beverage."( brawl,.
From the appearance of the bedrooms, it was evident
that the two miasma, for one night in their lives, had
reposed on beds of down. Fairly in the morning, and
after de,troying much valuable property, they left the
house, carrying with them all they con'.d conveniently
lii.lo about their persona Several of these valuables
the girls distributed among friends, SOHN of whom
wisely gave information to the •utliorities, awl had the
girls aPprobrnOod• They were both brought before
the police-court, and immediately reunited to the
Procurator•Fiecal, - .

Durraucrays FLOOD ill CRICTF.—Owing to rain '
continuing to pour down in torrents from late on
Saturday night up to Sunday evening, the Earn and
its tributaries °yellowed their banks, the damage done
along the whole warm of the Earn being very Imo,
Between Coterie and Crielf, the enibankinents of the
river were broken in several places, and the water
rushed in at the breech.* and covered numerous fields 1;
of grain, potatoes, and turnips with sand and other :
debris to the depth of several feet. Ti. damage does
' to the enthankments and fields of oats and barley ,
Inearly rips is still greater. Beirtral fanners have lost
their whole bay crops by Use flood. On the Um DI
Tindal cloak tomaiod by Zr.Yr Jobs limp. Use loss .
Is bay sad pis lo .—s4 4 MID. Mt imams,

quantity of snil, hay, wool. turnips, hcidcs Act', starl
cattle, were carried down hy the burred. The 11114014
below the town pre,. etch. 4UI for as the eye could
reach, the appearance of • magnificent lake. The
cultivated fielffs aro still submerged. Lu the upland
disfriets, especially in the Sale Olen, the extraordinary
rainfall caused the Almond to rise for several hours, at
the rate of eight inches lon hour. The small hares on
the bill swelled into roaring rivers, which made tho
turnpike real iin..assalilo for several miles, and the
grom i lig crops look as if they had been run over with
a roller.