The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

19 orsetobire.

Na. Jcanci Brum has appointed Mr. C. B.
Rumen (called Euter Term, 1851) to the vacant
reviaorahip on the Western Circuit.

COUNTY COURT CIRCUIT FOR OCTOBER. —Dor.
chaster, Tuesday, 9; Bridport, Wednesday, 10;
Weymouth, Thursday. II; Wareham, Friday, 12;
BLuidford, Monday, 15; Poole, Tuesday, 16; Who.
borne, Wednesday, 17; Shaftesbury, Monday, 22;
Wincenton, Tuesday, 23; Salisbury, Wednesday,
; Andover, Thursday, 25.
Tug VoLcirreen Raviaw.—A committee has been
formed at Sherborne for making arrangements to
give fetal to the aseembling of the battalion in that
town on the 26th inst., and it is contemplated to
provide some refreshment for the men immediately
on their arrival. We understand that G. D. W.
Digby, Esq., beads the subscription list with ft%
As at present arranged, the men will muster on the
Parade, and march through Long-street to the Park.
It is probable that the review will take place at one
o'clock.

POOR BINIFICI FUND IN nil Dtociago SALIR.
niatr.—Tbe annual meeting of the subscribers and
donors to the Poor Benefice Fund, was held on
Wednesday last at the Board Room, Salisbury, and
was attended by the Lord Bishop of the diocese, the
Yen. Archdeacons !Tony, Sanctuary, and Haxtable ;
Prebendaries Stanton, Payne, and Morrie., Mr. C.
Rashes, Reeds. Mr. Harrison, T. Carey, F. Bennett,
J. Danbeny, itc. The meeting was opened with
prayer, and then the minutes of the previous
meeting were read and confirmed. It having seemed
to some of the Inhecribem that it was rather hard
that a grant from this fund should be forfeited,
because the Ecclesiastical Commissioners refused to
entertain the application, it was agreed, after some
discussion to add the following to the by-laws :
" That the condition of grants being paid from this
fund should be, that a donation shall have been
promised or obtained from the Eccleastical Com.
mimioners, or from Queen Anne's bounty." After
this the following grants were made I—To Charlton
£25; to East Orchard, £3OO, to meet a most liberal
benefaction of £lOOO from the Rey. H. Swisher, who,
we may also add, kindly gave £104) to the fund
Itself upon its first formation iu 1664; to West
Lulwortb, £25, in consequence of the Rev. W. Gildea
having obtained additional benefactions since his
last application; and to St. Peter's and Holy Trinity,
Shaftesbury, two grants of £5O and £2O, to meet
benefactions paid or to be paid to the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners or Queen Anne's bounty. After
this a vote of thanks was to the treasurers,
secretaries, and auditors of the fund, and they were
requested to continue to act in the same capacities. It
seems seemly necessary to add anything to this stat.•
ment to show on what good grounds this fund may
claim the support of all who wish to see the lawmen
of the poorer clergy in some degree improved, and
also that additional subscriptions to it will be
required, if the grants frrm it continue to be made
on the same liberal scale as has now been acted
upon, and yet they do not seem to be more
then sufficient to call forth corresponding local
benefactions.

EC-•PPIARANCE OF THE CATTLE PLADUL—For
the fifth time the rindcrpeat has commenced its
ravages in this county, and onoe again in the district
through which cattle are driven for supplying
the Goverament establishments at Weymouth and
Portland. Last Wednesday Mr. Henry !larking,
farmer, of the parish of Winterborne St. Martin,
observed that one of his calves, which was grazing in
a field with five others, appeared to be unwell, and
he sent for Mr. Norris, veterinary surgeon, who
examined the animal, and found it exhibited indica-
tions of cattle plague. It wag slaughtered, and Mr.
Norris made • pag.morlem examination, which con.
/flied that it had been attacked by rinderpest.
The mouth was greatly ulcerated, and the fourth
stomach waa intensely congeeted, while the lining
membrance of it was studdei with ulcers. The
facts were communicated to the district cattle in-
spectors—Superintendente Plummer and Underwood
—and the farm was placed under police surveillance.
The cattle plague committee met at the Dorchester
police station on Thursday at mid-day, and declared
the parish "an infected place." The rune morning
two more of the CANOE ROM ill. They presented
that watery appearance of the eyes which is
frequently an early symptom of cattle plague, but
this Mr. Norris says may be caused and especially at
this season by a cold on the action of flies, and up
to the present time the rinderpest has not developed
itself, and the hope is that the slaughtered
calf was the one containing the germs of
the plague and that by ita early destruc-
tion the remainder may escape the dire disease.
Mr. Hawkins has 11 cows, one bull, and one ox on
the farm, and they, with cattle of the adjoining farm,
have all drunk at the same stream as the calves, the
herds being eeparated from each other only by • rail
fence. in consequence of the parish of Winterboine
Herringstone, in the neighbourhood, being not yet
declared free from rioderpsat, the unrestricted
usage
of the Monckton road has been stopped, oonsequerit
large numbers of cattle destined for Weymouth and
Portland have been driven along the Martinstown
road and others passing through various farms, and
danger of infection has always been apprehended
from this source. It is hoped, however, that the
prompt action of the local authority will now, as in
the previous instances, prevent the spreading of the
disease.