The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-11-16 00:00:00

SWANAOIL
Tile FIERY VAOCINATOIL—IteoentIy, in company with
mon friends., I drove from Semmes to the village at
Worth (Dorm%hire), to look at the old quaint church
aybiob bee lately been restored ; rind, in walking
through the ohurolligard. read the following. whittle, at
ti,b. tmail, whoa varmination is $o much talked
of. I thought weadd not be amiss in your columns :
tt bteojamin Jeaty. o Downebay, died April 16ih, 1816.
ere; Til. He was 'born at Fetmindor, in this snooty,
and , was en upright.. honest man, particularly noted for
berm. g been the fin t person knower that introduced the
cow-n. ta by inoculation, and who for his great strength
of mlO made the etrperiment from Om sow on the wife
and two. 101111 in the ear I A. B. is The Bankkr.
gorrusponatnec.
THE "CL, 'ClitIC A L SCANDAL" AT DORCHISTEkt.
To tAe Editor.
oh served with pain to your last impression a
letter which was beaded "A Clerical Scandal." and
signed "ay, .shionor.” I may mention that it referred
to two recent maw A lateattendanoe or nonuttendrotee
of an officiatio g Ilinistar at the Wednesday morning
•ervice at All t 'clut• church, Dorchester.
a with it as a whole; I take up ODO
May I a.k
v D lutesrt'
n'e relwiereconeet alto ithauditceletter"
cool ndulayrtenotsaya'iltsahwetold.pieie —the apprehension, namely, which
memo to oat to be implied in it, that thew two ardor.
tonate Gases of ir regularity (which have been, I now
find, the subject of moth severe comment), were charge.
abt. in ....ow., yr other on the Rector of the parish.
I beg to state, oc t the best grounds, that they were
not so chargeable ;L ot in any degree, even the lean.
The Rector had maid S. to the hest of his knowledge, •
clear arrangement with my father and myself; the
' whole blame therefor • rests on the mistake, the triad-
'enema, or the car delleuele, of the elerd7 of East
Fordington.
As for my tether's oh ere of that blame, I cannot but
think that his forty yei in of labour hens may protect
him from at last the charge of caralessnew In the
matter, and may even it miderata in general the tons of
comment and rework. I mast he allowed, in abort, to
take the whole blame to myself. Ido so very sincerely.
In the midst of many nu tattrinents I did what I should
not have done. I failed tie understand the arrangement
distinctly, and therefore flailed to fulfil it. My failure
was certainly due neitln ir to disregard of the public
worship of God, nor to ti tenumbers of • ceingroution_
A congregation of two. ut mkt certain simple conditions,
are sore of the immediate preminee of the Redeemer.
I now beg to offer (what I keenly feel that I owe) a ,
threefold publio apologY through your *alumni to rhose
ooncerind whom it may net yet have reached; an
apology to the con,irogation of Wednesday morning at
All Raines Church. to the perishingen generally, and,
not least, to the Rest Or.
The length of this hatter will, I am sure, be excused
by the urgent call on me ;terminally in Din matter to
clear the good report a an honoured and valued fraud.
—1 am, sir, your obedient servant,
HANDLEY C. C.
Assistant Curate of Fordington.
Fordington Visesage, Doneboster, Nov. 13, 18811.

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THE MILLER AND HIS MILL.
• DOUCHE:BTU iLLIGOILT.
Mere was a hubbub in the city, like unto the Dale
of wasps, and men went to and fio, and one who was of
the tribe of the Alfeedites, both lank and leas. who..
house lieth bard by the bill, srAke unto his fellow and.
said, " Know ye not that the Mill in Spireland is oars
and we be 'till and take it not out of the hands of our.
enemy. Ariee, and get thee down to thy armoury
house, and bid thy servants put them on theit armour,
for knowest thou not, that both we and all our high.
born family shall utterly seine to nought, if we purge
not out the rebel from our midst r (Now the armoury
wee nigh unto the house of antiquities and the ancient
sheep-market.) Aid the man who wee of the
tribe of the Harryitee, and of full flesh, answered
and said, " Alas! my brother, the battle (meth sore
against us, and all that appertaineth to the ancient
mill, oven all the tidensloor thereof, wherein our fathers
trusted, will surely be destroyed, it we dries not the
rebellious Miller from the walla. I will arise Lod coin.
mend the most mighty men in my army to fight neither
with small nor greet, save only with the Miller of
Spirelaud, if ps radventure we make the walla thereof
to tremble, so that the mill be deserted, and fall into
onr hand."
Now, the mill in Spireland was built to feed the
people withal in time of famine, and to gave the hungry
poor in the day of their distress. Never thelies, it came
to pear, that of long time the millers appr inted ovez
this business dealt very treacherously, and forget to
grind the good old corn of the hand to satisfy the poor
with breed; and, moreover, even as Egypt aforetinie
gave stubble instead of straw, so did these hirelings
provide chaff instead of grain.. And it mime to peas
that many of the people died Ly remelt of the famine,
sod the remnant that were left were few iu numbers,
aod of small power. Yea, end they loathed greatly
the first ripe corn in Spireland, through feeding many
yeam on the ehaff and sweepings of the mill, insomuch
that like silly and unwary mice beguiled by the purer
cats of the Richmond breed, they Dibbled the strings
of the miller's day-book, ate the camile-ende in the
mat window, ran up the crone-bars and red-brick t f the
milt. end (to the amusement of little Bobby, the
boy) stool blindfold in frantic admiration of the bunt log
cloths and flour knots ; albeit, the good corn of sus-
tenance lay utterly forsaken and despised.
Now the Miller in Spireland was of the tribe of
Simeon, arid a just man and good Der ground he any
hut the good corn of the land that he might feed the
hungry therewith. (Ne vert heless,t be mill was Dot Is holly
cleansed by remon of the sweepings that remained.)
Howbeit, many came to buy. And it came to peas after
this, that the men of the tribe of the Harryitea, accord.
ins to their lord's command, surrounded the miller,.
after their manner, to vex him, but he moved not nor
regarded ; and when he, who was of the tribe of the
Alfredites heard thereof, he was dismayed and greatly
I afraid, neither wist he what to do; nevertbelesa, he
took counsel, end encamped against him even unto
' Itiehmood, but when he saw he could not prevail, his
' spirit sank within him, and be sought him outs litttte
cask, and rat thereon, and wept.

FAIRS THIS WEEK.
Wednesday, Yeovil fair ; Thursday, Andover fair,.
and BiAiipstoke cheese fair.

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HUNTING --17FOINTMEKN.
The Pomba& !farrier. will meat cas Friday, at West

Holme—g 11.
Mr. Radelylle's Hounds will meet on Thursday at
Heleumbe Park—at 11.
The East East Dorset Hounds will meet on Wednesday
at Bottle Bush Down; Friday, Druweston Bridge
—at IL
Lord Poltimoro's Hounds will meet on Wednesday it
Portistiam ;. Friday, East Compton ; riaturday,
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Coker Woc;il—at 11. _ _
The Blaokmoor Vale Foxhounds will, meet ou Tuesday
(this day), at Caundle Marsh : Thursday, 18tb,
Clifton Wood; Frick, 19th, King's Mill Bridgis

The following changes in the huntsmen, whin., ha,
of the hunts in this din, riot ore noted by the Field
:
Dorset, East.—Henry King succeeds William Grant, as
second whip, the latter having gone to Mr. Tailby's.
Dorset Soash. —Tom Davis has been promoted to hunts-
man, ice Jame. Young, who has gone to the WOT.
eestershire ; James Flemingtoo, faein the Suffolk.
succeeds Davis as first whip; sod Levi Shepherd follows
Jack Shepherd as second. l'oltimGres Lord.—Thcsaa
Perry has been appointed second whip, rye Charles
' l'isviss, who has gone to the Worcestershire.