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

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ATTELPTY.D MURDER Or A WoRIAN IT HER Hoer
RAND.— On Friday o man named Daniel Somerville was
brought to the Poliee.office Belfast, charged with
having attempted to vaunter hie wife, Jane Somerville.
Ever sin vo their marriage this unfortnuate
_Lair have
been engaged in almost continual quarrel". They have
five or six ellitlr:n. S.veral times the husband
has been brought before the magistrates and pubished
for essaulting and beating his wife. For some time
latterly they have beets living aquaria., the husband
allowing his wife 43. per week for her support. On
Friday morning he sent for her to come to hie house in
Church lane, where be keeps • shoe shop. After she
came he abut the door, and deliberately began to stab
her with a chisel. The neighbours soon came to know
of the occurrence. and • constable was informed of it,
and when he went to the house the man voluntarily
gave himself up, -nd said lie did the deed with the
chisel he had. At the Police-office, after being cau-
tioned, lie inude the same confession. The woman was
conveyed to the hospital, . here it was found that there
was a severe wound in the back, and one in front of
the abdomen, besides five or six other stabs. She is
lying in a very dangerous conditicn.
ANOTHER ATTIRPTID MURDYR AT BILLFART.—Two
beiliffa, named Wetherhed and Nolan, recently went tai
Ballyinscarrett, to the house of • luau named Thomas
Brown, to execute a civil bill decree for a small amount
obtained against Brown at the Quarter Sessions.
Brown, who is • /lard, ner. at Ballyhackamore, was not
at boom, and the bailiffs proceeded to where he was at
work, and arrested him. He had no sooner been
arrested, than he lifted • large gsrlener's knife he had
been n‘ing and plunged it into Wetherlied's side. So
suddenly was the ilced perpetrated that ecery person
present stood appalled at the scene. The would-be
murderer did sot attempt to cacape, soil ho was shortly
afterwards taken into custody. The injured man was
taken to the hospital, where the wound was found to
be very severe, the knife having been lunged in to the
hilt, and evidently "screwed round." Wetherhisl
Still lives. and it is possible that the wound may not '
prove fatal.
Boris° Boos.—A bog at Ballagh, two miles south
of Dunmore, on the road to Twain, has moved • distance
of about fifty yards, and hind not • rising ground pre-
vented it, would have crossed the road. So loud was
the rumbling that it was heard • mile off. Mrs. Mae
Hugh by time sad accident had lost several acres of her
land, and the turf, which was nearly eased, is all lost.
Another bog below Dunmore also changed its position.
About forty years ago • bog to the east of that town
moved some distance.
Sir Hobert Peel, accompanied by the Duke of
Wellington, arrived in Dublin from London on
Thursday at half-past 12 o'clock . He at once proceeded
to the Chief Secretary's office, Dublin Castle, where lie
remained during the day, transacting business of
ivportance. By special order from the Castle the joy.
bells were rung at Christ's Church to announce his
arrival _ .

Matthew Phibbs, the man convicted at the last
assizes for the double murder in the county Monaghann,
was executed at Sligo on Monday. He died repentant.
DEATH IX A WORXHINIXII BOILER. —Oll Thursday
last (says the Kilkenny Moderator) an inqui"d, was held
at Thomeatovrn Union Workhouse, by Thomas 'sod,
Eel., county coioner, on the hotly of a man, named
Michael bonolioe, who had been a pauper inmate of
the institution—a person of advanced age and eccentric
habits—generally known by the sobriquet of "Ile
Kerry Man"—whoee death, it appe.red, had been
c .used by his having accidentally fallen into the toiler
of the laundry, on the 13th inst. It was elicited in the
evidence that the unfortunate old man had got up on
the rim of the boder, after having lilted off the lid,
with the object of raising some hot water out of it to
wash his daw.el vest, but he slipped while in the act
of stooping over it, sinl fell in. One of the women
present assisted to get him out, which was effected in
about three niinntes from the ocean ence of the accident,
but not bef-ire he had received such injury as resulted
iu his decease.