The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-07-13 00:00:00

MILTON ABBAS.

Fon sone. ye I. et A servi...• Ii;. Is.eti Itch! by Mr. .1.
Jaenl•iii th.• this en StiodaY
.Z. tPt bite the newt., is.reeei attending tin,'
services hip.... largely increased that the nano has ben
far Va. small t.. :we late these who desired to he
present. Act...Min.:lv applicati.o, was made to the
Baroness Ilambro fer tlw itse ..1 the village
room en Sunday evening., The renowit was al tal,o
kindly la suita.l and the reem tarnished for the wiriso:.

Mlltir KING OCCUItItEXCE AT VIIESILBORNE.
It fatal all.l very ...MU accident occurred at
Ilhesill.ortie, resulting in the .leith of Mr. John Tett, son
of a well k •11 ssss an, Mr. George Tett, that parish.
It appears Mr Tett was tint .01 M•OII.I,LV aftenimin shooting
rablid... In consequence of his not retorning home search
Wit 4 made for I • and kis c ems • wa. discovered lying in
a ditch, his head having la,n siva through and part of
the skull blow iway. It is .1 the accident
oceurrel by the deceawd getting through a bodge, drag-
ging the gun after I , and the trigger catching ii, a twig
it eXPI.I.I, with the fatal rous.ittetwei above mentioned.
Deceased wa: in hi: Zth year. An nique4 was held on
Wedne.day at the residence .4 the father of deceased,
before Mr. 11. Lock, deputy-coroner for the Medic:ter
district. Supt. Pittield, of the Cerite Abbas division, Wad
present. at the enquiry.

Thu jury were Mes Am. George I: ing.bury ((oreman)
Peter ShuJTh. Samuel Drake. John Itigge, rhorlei
Shepard, 3larrwms Upshall, John Jacob KingsborY,
John Keynes, George llaake, William Nlallett., John
Call). anmi JalF4.llliker..

The btuly, whieli had heen serewed down in a foifill.
presented a slvickin:: :,pectuele. the head being completely
shattered. After the jury had made their view the
following evidence was tatien
. . _

WI lam et : I sit, I,rotl,er of the defamed, whom I
last ii3W alive about half-past two ~'clock on Monday
afternoon, when the family were at dinner. I next —rx
him ahuut half-past six, when I found him lying deai.
I previously went into one of the rooms to look for the
gun, hut it had been taken away, and therefore I lire-
to see if I cull find my Mother John, who, L
concluded. had taken it. Ile had apparently jumped from
Meadow-hill .opse when I h I hint ; Inc head was
resting on the bank, and his holy we. in
bands and lingers were extendol. The gun was
lying by the side of the ditch, and wrest. his feet Ile had
• wound on the hack of the head, a piece of the skull
being blown away. Ile was dead, being quite stiff. There
was a gap in the hedge, hut it was partially stopptel by a
couple of faggots. It eppared as if he bad dragged the
gun after him, and on his jumping over the ilitch the gun
caught in a twig or branch, or else jarred against the
,tround. Ile was always very rarele,a in the use of a gun.
From the 'stallion the wound I 1.01111 not see it is proti-
ble it could have been inflicted by himself. When at

iii-nn.jr he wi.s—fiu.gliin.„ Tat tier.; 711.1rear--;a1 to lie no
difference from his usual demeanour ; he Was never very
cheerful. There was, however, as a rule, no unusual
depress' 111 l 4 spirits.
tieonte Payne: I son a lalsiurer in the employ of Mr.
Tett I Saw the do-ea-tat about ten minutes past f.tr
o'cloek on Monday afternoon, when he WaS sitting uniler
a bush on the green in front of the lents°. lie was look.
jug into the hayfield. I saw 110 gun No remark WAS
IIaSASI by either of us. In the looming of the same ilal
he hail been in the lawn unit sheared two sheep. Ile
appeased to Le in gw..l spirits ; apparently there au
nothing the matter with him. lie often..assisteil in the
farm work.
Th. Jury having decided that tluii evidence was Stah,hilt
Withilar the testaiwaly 4 the medical gentleman who hat
Lieu calbsi in, the puty-Coroner carefully summed el'.
and the venli..t 1 th.• fury was " Aceidetkial death.-
The gnti iii. .i a.,;,•barndled, one of the barrels legre
loaded nith ...c•.ra.lge and shot.

ALTON PANCRAS.
Arctnr.sr.- I I enry Ilartlett, in the employ of Mr. Stibr,
ww, on Saturday i•egaged sssssjh%%lie he accidentally
cut his ankle with the scythe he SV:I.I using. .1 radar
severe lacerated w.aiiel being caused he was minuet:4 ti
the Derset remit), Ilesnital, where he has since heel
under careful treatment.

• ItESIGNATION OF A MAGISTRATE.
Mr. .1. C.'S:, of Ile!per, has retignied his commission (.4
tip, Imam as a protest astaintd the system of nava
justices. Mr. Cox has held lii...titian...ion fur the equal
of Iterhy for seven years. It i, saol that certain recent
decisions in the West of Englan 1 with rtstsil
to agricultural tinioni,tt have mutual hint to take att
step; hut he lias lwen hunt known as an advocate f..r the
,enentl appointment of stipendiary magi:Anita& --foOtoi

A le IT111.1: F.XECUTItIN.
The "Pio?", Nationale publiehes a letter from Irene-
lona, containing a dramatic iu,utint of a double e"
non whet. Iwo juirt taken place in that town. A inasi
servant, trained Feonfria Foix, aided by her lover. Vic.
tifrianit VeleLs, lered her master, who hail made a
will in her favour. The judirial investigation and trial
124.4 A lie taco than three years, and resulted in the con-
demnati tttt of both the at-cuffed, who, according to th°
custom, were taken on the evening which
preceded the
execution to a chapel, to remain there until the nest worn'
trig. There the two ninvicter were only separated by a
u ertain, awl the utteredu selr I I "n"
the ni4ht that her aceourpliee hat i.veral tiro. to,
iturrne silence on her. The t ladies et
the locality attended the woman to offer their f•fineola-
tions. The WWI was surrounded hi week, leirteg
that tine, the Isiye of the choir, clad in red,
blue, from head to foot, went through the stmt.. A
salver in one hand ant the hell in the other, asking fa
Rhin to meet the vvante of the condemned prisoners. Oa
earth and in heaven—that is to say, for the wet of their
interment and the performance of inagree for their sou h•
The eleetuion by the garotte (strangling) took
outside one of the gates of the city, in a plain to Wllol°
the victims were conducted by a long precession of Pe.°l.
tents. The confers remained until Aix in the cyan's{
((or more than ten hours), expired to the gest 0.1 •
crowd which came to contemplate eagerly the horrible
contortions their faces had undergone.

Six publicans. of Wednesbum have been howl in stunt
from 4:10 downwanlo for adulterating beer with salt.
for
idiigie,Firtzathus.,Fii.,tressc.r.Tc—au.o
canoed b 7
t il;iht of
ey
recent
London
~tll,if:ind
i.
the south of France the (Veen has sent ask Prince
Leopold owl Lord Der ,y .ClO.l. on Thursday night
the fund amounted to J. 5,5411.
The annual report read at the Grand Lodge of the
English Order of Good Teuipl.s, states that there Fo
1tni,42.5 members of good standing. and 3,N0 workthS
lodges, but that there had been a falling in numb,
owing to the secession of many who had Saw°
the order merely from motives Oflty.