The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1860-08-28 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

PROTOSID BROAD GUAGIL HAM TO SIIERDORNR. —immediately after the Board of Health meeting on Teeedsy, about twenty of the leading tradesmen, arteenthists, and others, who had been invited to sttend a preliminsry meeting, assembled to consider the propriety of taking steps to bring up a broad page rail from Yeovil. Mr. W. Hoot s explained the devrabty of getting Sherborne in direct coru• munication with the broad gunge system, which he thought the only means of reviving the market. At prompt, owing to the delays, break of gongs, and ;Dm of transit, it was found cheaper by the Gas cempany to have their coals by road than by rail. He bail had communications with Mr. Ward, the ewgineer of the Wilts and Somerset, who estimated the cost of the line at £lO,OOO, of which 1:10,000 might be left for debentures, leaving a sum of ou,ooo to be raised. He suggested that the Great weeceth would work the line at a fair per centage, bat Mr. Saunders seemed to think it useless to ask the company to construct it. Mr. Ffooks, however, ebeereed that they could find .620,000 readily for the little loop from Yeovil to Stoford, and if they weidd only turn it the other way and exchange tralfic with the South•Weetern at Sherborne instead of Yeovil, he thought they would effect all they &hired, And that they might subscribe part of the capital. Mr. Ifighy was most favourable to the eme,aed would do all he could for it. After „me general conversation, in which the prevailing opinion loaned to be favourable to the proposal, it was determined to call a public meeting on the subject reerninsx.—Swieide.—On Tuesday last a labourer named Henry Samways, upwards of 70 years of age, committed suicide by hanging himself. He was employed at thatching a rick for Mr. Isaac Symes, hriner, and 'darted to his work on the morning in esetion caber than usual. His son, who by 'Ate piece about 6 u'elock, heard a noise, an going to the stark saw his father suspended from the ladder. He cat him down and sent for a surgeon, but he WWI then dead. he reason could be assigned why deceased committed the rash act, save that his =hter told him the night before that Mts. Stickmid he had scored up 10s. for drink; to which be replied that she should never score up any more fre bun. He was a man who could not bear contradiction. An inquest was held the same afternoon before Henry Lock, Esq., deputy-coroner, at the Fountain Inn, when the jury returned a verdict of felo Jr se.. The coroner consequently adjourned the Amid till Wednesday, that the verdict of the jury might be recorded on vellum. WrfROCTR.—We have on more than one occasion been requested to ask what has become of the flag belosiging to St. Mary's Church, as it is now never men ° waving in the breeze" from the top of the tower. Votesvue Itivum.—The Weymouth Volunteer kirks performed various skirmishing evolutions on Temday evening, in the presence of the Colonel Commandant of the Doreetahire battalion. They acquitted themselves in a highly creditable manner. SAINT Msey'sCircuili.-The committee appointed for raising subscriptions for the remainder of the amount required for enlarging St. Mary's Church, lave canvassed a portion of the town during the last isw days with very considerable success. We understand that if enough should be collected, it is bib:sided also to erect a peal of bells.