The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1866-10-09 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

WILL—On Tuesday morning John Turnbull, engineman at the Falwell Works of the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company. fell down the shaft, which ia about 200 feet deep. It appears that some repairs were doing in the shaft, and 'heathen was on a plank across the mouth, when be fell to the bottom, a depth of 150 feet. He was brought up alive, but died in the course of the day. A etacturdta suicide has been committed in the Minories by the wife of the captain of a Chinese trader. Her husband has been absent for eighteen months, and on his return he upbraided her for her estraysgance. She took refuge under a falsehood, pretending that she had deposited some of the money in • Scotch bank. The fear of detection preyed on her mind, and she poisoned herself. The jury found that she destroyed herself while temporarily insane.  A II Floxirrcomi.— As Master Noche, son of Mr. James Roche, of this town, was engaged in a room of Norwood House, on 'Tuesday evening, his attention was directed to the floor by a swarm of bees, and on closer examination he discovered under the timber flooring • mass of hooey, weighing over one hundred and twenty pounds, the fruits of many years' industry of the busy insects. The proper precautions having been taken, the monster honeycomb was made secure by the fortunate ander.—Nosagh Guardiqs. Miss Mamie states that among the labours of love undertaken where cholera has been meet severe, perhaps not the least in point of self-sacrifice have been Chow of • band of 213 poor women, under the guidanee of the benevolent author of The Missing Link. Mothers of families, as many of them are, not ono has shrunk from nursing, gratuitously, the sufferers by day and by night, and when two of those "bible-women" were themselves seized with cholera, the mothers around vied with each other in returning their fearless kindness. TRI Tines urges that as the prohibition against smoking in railway carriages is universally disregarded, the oompsnies should at once caned their obsolete regulation, recognise what they cannot present, and , control what they cannot abolish. In other words, they ' should provide separate carriages for smokers and nonsmokers. The new arrangement might cost the companies a little trouble, but as it is established in Germany, where there is more smoking than in England, lemma involve any insurmountable ddliculty.  Paormana Fawntrr, one of the member. for Brighton, is in favour of compulsory education. In a speech delivered by him the other day, at the distribution of prises given by the Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Icatituter, in the Fria Trade Mall, chester, he advocated the extension of the educational clauses of the Factory Act to every branch of industry. In speaking of the infiitenee of Mechanics' Instituted, he expreosed an opinion that too much in the way of edit. eating the people bad been expected from them. lie did not think they bad been a failure, as seemed to be the common opinion ; but their fell benefit would not bo reaped until a national system of education was establiahed.  A RtILIVAT TIME Ov FIRL —Great alarm was felt on Wednesday night in Carlisle in consequence of a fire which was observable in tl.o Aation 11 the Si!loth line. It appears that • goods train from Silloth was composed principally of five trucks laden with straw, which had been brought from the neighbourhood of Birkbride. A spark from the engine had ignited the 'trim, and on the arrival of the train at Carlisle it was discovered that the whole five trucks were on fire. They were conveyed under a hydrant, and water played open them, but the are could not be aubdued. The straw was entirely consumed, and the woodwork of the carriage was totally destroyed, little more than the wheels and axles being left standing. THE Gloegusurr have shown most commendable promptitude in dealing with the French extradition case, in which irregular means are alleged to have been employed to secures prisoner. The Daily News says It Is understood that the Foreign. Alice have received the petition presented by M. Lunirande to our Ambassador at Paris, and Lord Stanley bu promised that the case shall have big immediate and hut attention. Lord Carnarvon has also declared himself folly alive to the importance of the case, and is taking the necessary measures for instituting • strict inquiry into the conduct of those who have so grossly outraged British law.  WOADMOL EaCAPL—A little girl shout six years of age narrowly escaped • frightful death on the Great Western Railway • few days ago. Elbe wan in the dam of her parents, who were passengers by an excursion train from London i and while the train was proceeding at fall speed the door, against which the child had been leaning, Sew open, ancl ahe fell upon the line. The Pengbourne station was about two miles distant, and on the train reaching that plate the railway authorities were mule &ovulated with what bed occurred. Men were dispatched in search of the girl, who was sone met, and, strange to say, she bad escaped without injury beyond • scratch or so resulting from her falling upon the hard ground, and shortly afterwards she resumed her journey with her friends.  Ti