The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

Someratobtre.

FIRST SOMERSET MILITIA.—This regiment will
assemble for twenty-one days' training and ex-
ercise (pursuant to notice from the commanding offi-
cer, Lieutenant-Colonel Phipps) on Tuesday the sth
of October next, at the Taunton barracks, where '
every man belonging to the oorps failing to appear
will be deemed a deserter and incur the penalties of
the law in respect of such default.
CURRY Etym.—Restoration of the Parish Church.
—The complete reateration of this fine old edifice
has at last been definitely agreed upon. At the
vestry meeting last week it was unanimously decided
that efforts should be made to raise a subscription to
defray the necessary expenses. The principal inha-
bitants came forward most liberally, and we under-
stand that the landowners, resident and non-resident,
have signified their intention to help on the work.
Among the donors is the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
The vestry have determined to pull down the pre-
sent delapidated tower, and erect a fac-simile with
the most durable stone. After that the church will
be entirely re-pewed, the pulpit removed from the
..centre to one side, and a reading desk erected on the
other. The church stands upon an elevated piece of
ground near the village and in front of it is the large
village green, ruuniniCalongside the edifice, and a
delightfully shady road, which separates it from the
vicarage—a building that must have been erected
about the same time as the tower. The tower is
about 100 feet in height, embattled, said contains a
peal of bells. The church consists of a nave, a
chancel, two chapels, and a side aisle, and is of the
perpendicular style so much adopted about the mid-
dle of the 15th century. The stone used in the erec-
tion is the blue lies of the neighbourhood and
REPAIRING THE CHATHAM MONITMENT.—A short
time since we announced that the monument to the
celebrated English statesmen, William Pitt, after-
wards Earl Chatham, had been seriously damaged
by lightning. Colonel Pinney, M.P., has given
orders for it to be completely repaired, and Mr.
Morris Davis, builder, of Langport, last week com-
menced the work.

TEEN BLS/LIMEY'S i.e SPOE'LSMYS.--IS is said that
even so far back as the time of William the Con-
queror the Berkeley family hunted with as much
ardour as they do now. Smith, in his MSS., refers to
the period "When Lord Berkeley kept 30 huntsmen
in tawny coats, and his hounds at the village of
Charing (now Charing-crow), in the middle of ion-
don, and hunted in that vicinity." What they
hunted, however, does not clearly appear; we should
suppose other than foxes.
CHARD.—Aceidese.--On Saturday week, about
12 o'clock, an accident occurred at the buildings now
in the course of erection at Perry-street, contiguous
to Mr. J. B. Payne's lace factory, by the breaking
*maunder of one of the cross pieces which supports
the foot-boarda of the scaffold. That part of it con-
sequently fell, Mr. Payne and several others being on
It at the time, and one man' who with others, fell
down, was much injured by boards, &c., falling on
him, and another slightly. Mr. Payne himself
narrowly escaped injury by being partially held up
by two men, and by clinging to a polo. We have
since hoard that the injuries are not so severe as was
at first feared.

WATIR SUPPIX.—A requisition has been pre-
sented to the Mayor and Corporation of Chard, rt.
quieting a meeting to be convened for the purpose
of ascertaining the ruaaun why the apply of water
from the town spring is so deficient, and to request
that it be not allowed to be used except fur house.
hold pumatie until the springs afford a better sup.
ply. We understand a meeting was fixed fur
Monday.
LMIOPORT, —On Tuesday • large number of se.
cultural labourers and servants appeared before the
langport Arms Hotel, and were passed as free erni.
grants to Australia. Them draughts of some of our
best agricultural hands are much felt by the yeomen
of the neighbourhood.
STOKI•itrIPHAKDOC—Mr. H. W. Hebditch, of
this plea, has lately had two valuable wither sheep
worried and killed by dogs. It appears that the
dogs must have got into the field where the sheep
were feeding )not in a fold) and hunted them till
they were quite exhausted, and thus became an easy
prey. It is hoped that all owners of dogs in the
neighbourhood will see that they are properly con•
fined by night.
Wsirroo.fiurn-brass. CbIOS Court Thuraday,
B•pt. %Hailers Ohms. Bounders, Eau., Jed/el—Parrett
e. Bristol and Exeter Railway Company—The plaintiff
In this action, who is • tradesman and lodging-house
keeper, of Weston.super-Hare, sought to :worse the
sum of Ms., the value of certain wrappers which had
been forwarded from Weston to Both by railway. The
plaintiff stated that about the Oh of June led he lint
to Bath, and purchased some furniture, whloh he had
packed op and sent by rail to Weston•super.tdare. On
Ott. fed of July hi packed up anneekht or nine wrappers
In a ease end sent them by Me eon to the Weston rail-
way statics, ditestel "Hr. Charles ihinimek, Bonn*
Walls, 3ate,4aad marked "eny 0111 s with w:lises."
Be had rolled up the wrappers in old bed Put
them in the ease, and fastened them down earef 7, by
nailing Wins of wood atroei the sass, rendering the
wrappm visiblei the sum be olaltned was duly the
eharg• of four wrappers, which Ipteroaiostiff ater Hr.
Hancock, auctioneer, of Bath, at lb, and

that sum he (plaintiff) had sines repaid to Mr. Hancock,
as per bill and receipt now produced, in oonsequence of
the said wrappers failing to reach their destitution.
Evidence having been called in support of this statetnent,
Mr. Hannaford, who appeared for the oompany, sub-
mitted that the claim could not be supported, as the
rules of the company had laid down a different rate of
charges between wrappers and boxes, sod eaeli should
have been separately paid for; he referred his honour
to the printed rules at the back of the receiving note,
made out when the 61/110 was delivered.—His Honour
remarked that according to the evidence, tho cue was
marked "with wrappers" and the railway porter ad-
mitted seeing something like a bed tick in the case, but
not supposing it to have been of much value, had not
charged 'beyond the rate for the box; another important
fact was that the sender had not signed the receiving
note, and therefore had not entered into a contract sub-
ject to the oompany's bye laws, so that rule oould not be
enforced.—Mr. Hannaford then submitted that the
charge WM excessive, and that the wrappers were not
securely packed; also that the wrappers ought to have
been declared upon.—His Honour said that the cost of
the wrappers had been satisfactorily proved, and the
notice on their rules would not in this cue help them ;
the law was very stringent upon public carriers; his
judgment therefore must be for the plaintiff for the
amount claimed.

GLASTONBURY. A man named James Allen,
described as a horse dealer, whilst passing through
this town on Sunday week, on his way to Crewkerne
fair, stopped at the Red Lion Inn, and expressed a
wish to be accommodated with some brandy and
cider. After having drank his liquor, and being
about to resume his journey, the landlord kindly
hinted to him that he had not paid his reckoning,
when, instead of doing so like an honest man, he
struck the landlord over the head with his riding
whip, and then proceeded on his journey. The
landlord, evidently disliking this mode of doing
butanes', gave information to the police, and that
efficient officer, Sergeant Samuels, accompanied by a
well-known individual of this town named West,
was sent to Crewkerne in pursuit of the offender,
whom they succeeded in capturing, bringing hiss
back and safely lodging him in the lock-up on Mon-
day night. When brought before the magistrates on
Tuesday he urged the excuse that it was the drink
and not himself that committed the assault. So
weak an excuse was, of course without avail; he
was fined .e 5 for the small, and, in default of pay-
ment, sent for two months to Shepton Mallet gaol.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CSMILTERY AT IeATIL —OR
Thnrsday the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, the
Hon. W. Clifford, laid the foundation stone of the
mortuary chapel at the above cemetery. The Bishop
was attended by the Revs T. Shattock and R.
Ward, besides whom the prior of 3)4:Amide College,
the Provincial, and several ether eoclesiasties from
the College were also pressed. The stone was laid
with the customary formalities, after which the
Bishop delivered an impressive discourse, which
terminated the proceedings.

A Lrrrix MI3TAII6.—A few Week*lllloo an ad-
vertisement, of the " fall, lave, and particular" east,
appeared in a Bath paper. The advertiser was said
to have filled a respeueible situation at companion to
a lady for many years. Death had separated the
connexion, and she sought another companionship.
But as newspapers are sometimes read by the other
sex, one line morning a "gent," carcially "got up"
as regards exterior, presented himself at the door of
the house where the address was given. Be ex-
plained the nature of his visit, produced the ad-
vertisement, and an interview was granted. The
applicant represented himself as a gentleman en-
gaged in commercial pursuits, with good means, who
wanted a lady to take care of his -household. His
stay in Bath was short, he added, and he must leave
by "next train." Under these circumstances, he
thought he could more fully convey his proposals if
the lady would amompany him a short distanoe
towards the railway. After a little consideration
with a friend this delicate suggestion wee complied
with by the lady advertiser. Near the station our
commercial friend, exhausted with his long walk or
from other motives, suggested the proposal of cement-
ing over—not a toilet glass, but—a glass of wine at
a neighbouring hotel. This proposition was indig-
nantly masted, and as time was short and means
probably low, our blundering friend considered it
most expedient to make a clean breast of the pur-
pose of his visit by declaring that he sought a wife,
and judging from the nature of the advertisement
that the lady with whom he was conversing wanted
a " companion" also, and had acquired some property,
he begged to intimate that he had a little property
likewise, and perhaps it might be desirable to unite
the two—properties as well as owners, of course.
The lady was indignant at the presumption of her
blundering visitor. She left instantly; and it
, would be difficult to say on which aids was the
balance of chagrin.