The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1859-02-15 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

HKALTII—TIII VACANT SCRVEYORSHIP.—AbOIIt 40 =R11111.04 offered themselves for the vacant appointment of surveyor to our Board of Health. Seven of the candidates were selected on Thursday week to attend a meeting of the Board, to be held on Thursday, when the election took place. (holy two persons in Taunton applied for the situation, both of whom were connected with the work of the new Shirehall, and prior to the commencement of those works, were strangers to the town—the persona referred to are, Mr. Jewell, late clerk of the works, and Mr. Gill, late foreman of the works, the former only was amongst the 7 selected candidates. The Wary of the surveyor at the commencement of the Board was £l2O a year, and the surveyor then had the duties of inspector of nuiaances to perform. The latter office was subsequently transferred to Mr. Stuckey, the collector of rates, and a 4 the duties of the surveyor had somewhat diminished, when the late surveyor, Mr. Corfield, was elected, the salary was £6O a year. Now the salary has been raised to £l2O. and the new surveyor will be required to devote his whole time to the hoard, but he will only be required to act as surveyor. The following are the 7 candidates and the number of votes they received (—Armstrong, 16 ; Forma, 14 ; Jewell, 13; Roper, 12; Hargrave, 12; Pugh, 9; and Lang, S.  WeLim—Society for the Protection of Property and the Prosecution of Fe/one—The report of this society for the year 1858 has just been issued, from which it appears that the sum of £76 15e. 3d. stands invested to their credit, and that 31 members have renewed their subscriptions for the year 1856. It also embodies the following resolutions of a meeting held at the Townhall, on January 19th, 1859; the Hon. and Rev. Canon Brodrick in the chair. That a subscription of 3e. be called for from each member for the ensuing year to keep up the funds of the society. That the Treasurer's Account as hereunder stated be allowed, printed, and published as usual, and that the officers of the pest year be reelected for the ensuing year. Mr. Hobbs', the Treasurer's Account. —Received :—Belance in band at the last Audit, .C 5 9s. Id. ; I:ash received of 31 members and one arrear, 154. lki. ; total, £lO se. Id. Paid :—Secretary's messengers for the year IKSS, £2 is. Oil. ; printer's bill, I Is. 6d. ; hall-keeper, 31. lid. ; postages, stationary, &c., for the year, b. ; balance in hands of the Secretary, £lll6l. 7d.; total, .£lO 54. Id.  Witumouit.—Alelunelody Suicide. - An inquest was held on Wednesday week, before B. Fry, Eau, coroner, at Panborough Inn, in the parish of Wed more, on the body of T. Ward, aged 71, a pensioner in the receipt of lad. per day, living at Bagley, who faimmitted suicide by cutting his throat, and stabbing himself in the abdomen with a razor, , causing his bowels to protrude. According to the evidence of his wife, it appears that on Friday night week, her husband, whu was much her senior, retired to rest at S o'clock, and both went to sleep, , and at 9 o'clock she was awoke by hearing her hus- • band cough ; she got out of bed, and her daughter, a girl of Ili (who slept in the same rooni,) struck a light, and they found deceased sitting on the side of the boil, the fluor covered with blood, and a razor lying on the floor. Deceased could not speak ; the neighbours carne in, and Mr. Ford, a surgeon, was sent for, and was promptly in attendance; he found that deceased's throat was cut in so frightful a man• ner as to leave no hopes of his recovery, and if lie had attempted to sow up the wound suffocation would immediately have been the result. On the following morning that gentleman discovered a wound in the abdomen, from which the bowels of the deceased protruded. This evidence was confirmed, tic & certain extent, by the Rev. %V. Williamson, of Thiele, and the jury returned the following verdict:—" That deceased died from injuries received from his own hands being, at the time such injuries were inflicted, of unsinuid mind." The most remarkable circumstance attending the mum is that the injuries were inflicted on the 28th January, and he lingered until the Ist of February. Cogan Sy.