The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-25 00:00:00

DO Reif EST BR.

ACCIDIST.—Ou Tuesday evening between irk and
ranee o'clock, an accident cadurmd in High &mi-
streat, proving the dangerous metier of children
playing in the streets. At the time in question •
boy about Devon >ram of sue named Clerk, whose
perenteireside at the top of huh West.street,waa at
play vr it h others opposite kr. litiek land'. shot, atmo
in attempting to cross the road, he was knocked
down by a horse tieing driven in • cart belonging, to
the county constaltulary. Fortunately the driver
oliw icing the occurrence pulled tip before die wheels
passed over the child Mr. Stickland, being in bis
slnp, rushed out and abstracted the sufforer from
between the borers lega, but not berme nue of it.
hoof, tool troden noon the child's leg, anal indicted a
severe fle..h wound. Ile wee immediately put into
the cart and talon home, when the nature of the
iojOrwo reeritra were such as to render it necemary
to take him to the hospital, where his wounds were
dressed and attended to.

FATALITT.—On TuesdeT, et the
Town•hall, an inquest wan held before Henry Lock,
deputy coroner, touching the death of
Emote Stisan, the infiint daughter of Hr. J. T.
Ensw • Emma Newlyn, who entered Mr. Ensor's
serwee on the previous Wednesday, said it wait part of
!K. duty to take care of rbe deceased, and she tient
with at. About six es Tuesday morning the child
awoke. ai it she gee* it ennui milk in a bottle,
when it appeared quite well. The gill is not certain
whether she herself went to sleep again, but pr,,16..b1y
she did. Abe got up about half.past 'even, when her
come to gall he.. Her sister polled back the
bed clothes nod 'timed the child, and asked witness if it
watt &sleep, and she replied. "Yes." A little before
ten it'cbult she went into the room. She fancried the
child looked differently, and it had a purple mark
on 4. face. She toothed it, and found it cold and dead.
Encor spoke of the servant informing him that
the child Or 1.% itewl, and of hie going opowid immediately
for Hr. Curiae. surgeon. He said it had always
• fne ninon, child. —Mr COMP/ depoeed to el.
mining the chill, and gore it as his opinion gh.,t it hod
bren overl.id.—A verdict in accordance with this
opinion was returned.

"A SDI fief TOOLS AWD HOW TO VSZ TIMI" WSS
• lb• subject sofa I•etere delivered in connection with the
Working Men's. jratnte, at the Town It'll, on Tuesday
evening. by the 'Ser. R. W. Peen. There was a good
&adieus,' precast, aod G. J. Andrews, Req., presided.
The lectiter is eloquent language and in a highly
philasaphic train of thought bronght under ooneiders-
tiou the mind of man and the faculties with which it
is endovird as a "boo of tools." Under this head he
noticed the (multi*, of mind no excelling those of
instinct, and the power which man has through obser-
vation, momory, awl imitation. The ',flyer of reason•
inn. no., to arrive et and form • correct inrinrnens.
was ailvertea to at length, as leading to th• form..
Con of decision and Answer of character. Familiar
clout& s "I the leeteteee hypotheses were given in
illootriaion of his subj. Irons the writings of the
onai•st Creak& as well as those of modern times, In.
eluding the writinp of Cowper. Spencer, Charles Lamh. ,
Milton an I 'ahem, an from thelivee of Martin
tulle r. Hower& ana Wellington. The power of im-
as nation, as connected wi.tt that of invention and wit,
au, spoken of at length, and the importanee of
education in early life. eoforosd by the
pow of food example was ersaihinally pnurtrayea.
In cnnonsn the lecturer, with anteing satire, alluded
to the folly of allowing imatinatinn to poster* more
nentim.ntslirm, as was the ease in too many instances,
sea that of imitation going no further in the developing
of she mental powers of the mind than of making a man
the mere imitator of others. Cordial vote. of thanks to
the lecturer and Chairman. wet* pealed by acclamation
at the close of the meeting.