The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02 00:00:00

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A FORGETFUL Binuenaoom. —An instance of an
absenting bridegroom is reported. It appe.rs that one
day last week a blooming bride was all in readiness for
the arrival of her lover to accompany her to the
hymeneal altar, but he came not, and the despatch
of tortmengers to seek the errant was fruitless. The
dimamxtintment waa of course severe, but the following
day be re-appeared in the town, when it transpired
that, during a drinking bout, be had gone to Ports.
mouth, having entirely forgotten he had engaged to be
married to his fair one.

LOWE TO THIS STWIIR COS:II/IONS !- Mr. W. Iliffe,
medical officer of beoltb f u. Derby, is his last quarterly
report, lately issued, says The rate of mortality
for the district of Normanton showed • most decided
Improvement upon previous quarters, only one death
having occurred that was of a xymetic origin, viz,
diarrhcra, while not one was recorded as due to scarlet
fever. It was observed during the reconstruction of
the drainage of the district, that only six home-drains
.were effectively connected with the sewers, the
remainder, viz., 132. being found either broken or
Imperfectly united, which is safficient evidence to show
what negi4ence often pre. ails in the carrying out of
inch work, and how important it is for the preserva-
tion of the health of any neighbourhood that active
supervision should be everywhere exercised over this
most important pact of house-constructsin.—Bmilder.
;Ste R. T. Ktrtnenst.se's WILL.—The will (dated
Anigist 7. 1879),with two codicils (dated August 8 and
11 following) of the Right Hon. sir Richard Torrin
Kindessistfi P.C. formerly one of the Vice-Chancellors
of the H h Court of Chancery, who did his
residence, lyffe, near Dorchester, on the Itud nit,
was proved on the 15th inst. by Mdward Leigh
ICindereley, the son, and William Park Dinkins, the
executors, the personal estate being sworn under
igo,ooo. The testator leeves £30,000 in the Govern-
ment funds upon trust for the widow and children of
his deceased south. Rev. Richard Cockburn Kinder.
Leg; £9,000 to his daughter, Mrs. Wilson; £l,OOO to
son-in-law, the Hon. William Bryon, the two latter
In addition to the sums settled on their respective
marriages; an annuity of £lOO for life to his aster,
Miss Caroline Kindersley, and other legacies The
residue of his property he gives to hissaid son, Rdward
Leigh Kinderelsy,

Eirrgurantuerr.—On Thursday evening there was
an entartainroent at the Holy Trinity Infant School-
marms in aid of the church Leading debt. Among those
present were—Mr. and Mrs. A. Spicer, Mr. R. Davis,
Mir Mantel. C bond Oldfield, Mit Penton, H.
Lock. Esq., Dr. Illingworth, R.H. A., Misses Taylor
and party, the Rev. W. r. Osborne. Mr. Pope, kr.,
Lc. 'rho chair was taken by the Rev. H. Everett,
The first on the programme was • trio, "A Little
Farm," by Memos. Escott, Morgan, awl Ling. Miss
Newman accompanied .ot the pianoforte, and it wee
well rendered, and following that was a reading by the
Ben. Everat. which c msed much merriment. A
.song, "To Author," by Morgan, was very well I
sung. After that • duet, "What are the Witt Waves
Saving r by 14 r.. Everett and Mr. Morgan, was finely
rendered and much applauded. A humorous reading
by Mr. Jameson, who was encored, followed, awl then
• song by Mrs. Everett," Serenade "(Bemuse), Miss
Newman accompanying on the pianoforte and Mr.
Morgan on the harmonium, with an exceedingly
pretty effect. A duet, "Th. Retort." by Messrs.
Esioott and Moron, was greatly appradaujeno
and given Wein- Aso g, *ninth,'" Little b 7
Miss Hillier, brought the fleet part of the
to • close. Mr. T. M. Morgan, aa Mr. (Rival=
gave a mimetic speciality, imitating in his clever and
aitag way a penny reading as lit might have been
• a country village some years ago, first " taking off "
LW village parson, then the gentleman who was eager-
hootriobors Influenza and • very bad mid; the 41.0
mew next, who recited a 01108 very quickly ;
thee the
middle-aced gentleman, who had au impedi•
sae t in his • ; and last a charming young lady
seta • beautiful voice, especially for high notes, all of
vehkh evoked much laughter, and was greatly
IPded and encored. The next was • song, "As I
1172theee Scenes" by Mr. &cog, Mr. A. Spiro
MerriOng on the pita°. A duet, "Come o'er the
er: by Mir' Hillier and Mr. Morgan, we.
very pretty. Mr. Jameson again gave • reading In the
Dorset dlaleu, and was snowed. A eon and chorus
by Mr. Morgan and the choir was very good, it vu
entitled "I am tin linter of the Queen's Navee." A
MitatiOG by Mrs. Everett, "Th. Battle of KRUG-
mankie," wee ,v9' feelingly rendered. A song by
Mrs. Everett, " Juanita" (with chorus), and a part
wog. "Call John." by • ahem piety, brought a
moat ...terabis evening to • close. This entertain-
▪ we. oaf of • miss to be gives through this
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Foneerrrea Hu Ows Nana—Jena Bias. slim
JAR Ipg, was brought up on Monday morning Wore
Captain Mengel, for givintbafalse name, and was
sentenced ta 14 days' bard labour.
SLIM or Hors Turt.—On Thursday evening the
children ef the Band of Hope, numbering 60 or 70,
were entertained at the Primitive Methodist Chapel
with a social tea, which the youngetere of course much
enjoyed. Alter tea, Mr. More, of Charminster, and
others, addressed them in • kindly war.
Ma. Depots° m Arruso.—A meeting of creditors 1
wa held at the King's Arms on Thursday, pursuant
to notice. The debts ware shown to be between £9,000
and £lO,OOO • none of these were secured, but £l,lOO
must be thi in full; the weft being estimated at
about £3, . Mende. Andrews and Pops were solici-
tors for the debtor. Mr. Crocker, jun., was appointed
trustee, with a committee of Inspection, consisting of
Mr. Canning, Manor House, Piddletrenthide, Meson.
Stiby (Alton), J. Lovelace (Piddlehinton), and Robert
pudding (Barton-on-Humber). 'IN insolvency is
attributed to want of capital.
LEAZT. —This word or OM 01 its variations, fare,
Lear, levy, and ferry, is used in the °poetise of Corn-
wall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, and is defined by
local writers as "empty," "empty in the stomach,"
"hungry," "thin," "wanting food." PUIMAD,
writing near the junction of the last three of the
counties, says :
. "Sinking In the stomach; almost faint from hunger.
This is a TM expressive word, meaning Domed's:is
more than hunger, nod what the word hunger does not
roarer."
See also Halliwell. Name, and Parish (Sussex). —Wit.
Pesorate in Notes sad gurus. [Common enough
here.—En. Express.]
131ZALISG INTO ex Cence.—On Friday morning,
when the men went to work at the Great Yea ern
Railway station, one of the porters found the goods
office door open, and discovered that some one had
entered the office during the night. A plate of iron,
It seems, had been put over ths catch of the lock to
make it additionally secure; but the window was left
unfastened, the f atoning being out of repair. Through
this some one had entered, and forced two desks aud •
drawer open with • piece of iron used in the office ae •
poker. The demi(' end drawers were ransacked, but 55
there was no money. nod tho stamps and poet-cards
were marked " G.W.K.," the fellow teems to have
been afraid to take anything. The office is situated
very near to the boundary of the borough.
Toe EPOLISH Hosed of theellth Lancers and the
K D.G.'s have sold wood: rfully well in Nato!. There
have been two large sales, under the superintendence
of Captain Netball, of the latter regiment—one at
Dundee, the other at Ladysmith. At the Ladysmith
sale • hundred troopers sold gave an average of about
£47 a heed, and one mare fetched £96. At the Dundee
sale over 600 people were present, and 10 troopers
fetched £491; several made ran to £BO and to £9O
apiece. The colonists competed keenly for the big
Irish mares, with a view to increasing the size and
quality of the colonial horse, which, although a good
animal for his inches, is not up to weight if ridden at
any speed, and makes but a poor draught beast for I
either light or heavy work.—Woeld.
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BOLOCOH POLICE COUIT.—On Monday, before ar. r.r.
Cnrme, and G. J. Gregory* Esq. William. Burt, of
Burton Farm, was charged with being drunk whilst
In charge of two hones and • cart, on NOV. 21st.
CorpL Grant, 11,11.4,, proved having seen prisoner
whip his horses, which ran off all down Grove Build-
inga. the prisoner, who was drunk, walking behind.
The homes were ;topped by some waggons.—Defend-
"is who troodod rate, was fined 25a—The fine was
pea— alma Pope was summoned for committing
a nuisance on the public highway at Fordington, on
the 25th November.—P.S. Mitchell proved the ,case
and prisoner was lined 9a—Oceye limp weeds:god
with committing • nuisance in Durngate street —The
prisoner was fined 1341. and allowed • week to pay.
The Est. G. T. rowing, the new curate of St.
Peter's, made the usual declarations at morning service
last Sunday.
Flu IT TEN ROADEIDL—At the County Hall,
before N. Pearce, EN, Georpe Martin and George
Olson were charged with lighting • fire by • rowlaide.
—P.O. Taylor stated that he was stationed at Winter-
borne Abbe. About half-past twelve Wednesday, he
was on duty in Marthidown, going in the direction of
Simpleton ; aa he was going along he saw the prisoner
Mar the hedge and take several sticks across the road.
He waited • few minutes and saw smoke inning at a
spot bed& the road, went to where the fire was and
saw the two prisoners in the act of feeding the fire i
they had • kettle over the fire, he asked them what
they were doing and they said only heating a little
water. He took them to the owner of the wood, Mr. J.
Homer, who would not prosecute. He searched the
prisoner Gibson mad found 15 cigars on him.—As Mr.
Homer had forgives, them for taking the wood the
prisoners were discharged with a caution.
Ds. Latmatrrose's Teavels.—A magic lantern
entertainment, illustrative of the travels of Living-
stone in South Africa, was given at South-street
Congregational Schoolroom, on Thursday evening last,
by Mr. Wright, assisted by Mr. Vincent, and the
superintendent of the Sunday School, Mr.W. Lockett,
the pastor, Rev. T. Nears, explaining the subjects of
the slides by an account of the famous travels, Mr.
Neese recommending all who had not already done so,
to read the ho .k. A goodly number of the Sunday
School children were present, and there was a for
proportion of adults, and among the pictures were
those of lions, buffaloes, hippip,temi, antelopes, and
siodlar animals, the strange plants of that South
African district, sad the people., &Leong whom were
1.41,11 C ZniUS, who were notch admired by Livingstone.
, The ,'octor reeding in Ida hut, the meeting betwe,n
1 Stanley and Livingstone, and Stanley's suedeo on the
, rwiaat,ivalis;rewede:ilmaongenter.imattet
orletadiwnedeittroonin, etbn de
ethnt,erre
taiumeut, which was received with frequent applause.
Mr. Nesse° repeated his lecture on the following even'
log in the echoolroom, at Paddletown. A little delay
was occasioned in preparing the exhibition, but the
entertainment weal equally successful, indeed, the
pictures seemed to have down better. There was
a good audience who respc,nded enthuduiticslly,
to a cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Neave and Mr.
Wright, by Mr. Kyd, at the close of the lecture. The
pr oceeds of the lecture were handed over for the pro-
jived new schoolroom at Paddletown.
WATER Fon Nortitxo.—Thom who have lived great
part of their line in the country, with wells and
pumps at comm end, often experience • passing feeling
of surprise that townfolk should have to pay for water
—it is like paying for air and light. These things
seem to be God's free gift to man, and so they are; it
is man who levies the taxes, and it is the recklees
waste sod want of foresight of other men which
render each taxation unavoidable. Here we have
been all through the year of grace, 1879. grumbling
and complaining of surplus water and other climatal
es ils, but have we, as • people, taken one single eel)
to avoid such ea/amities in the future, or to protect
ourselves when it is not possible to avoid them?
llave we profited in any way by the lesson set before
Its' Have we made any provision for the day of
drought? No—the blessed rain from Heaven has
he -n allowed to run into our drains and sewer., thus
not only running to waste, but in the case of towns
' dieting and rendering valueless that which should be
of the greeted value to our land, necemitating ewe-
, mous expenditure to rid us of • nuisance which should
be no nuisance huts boon. And we pride ourselves
' on being a practical people! We are not of those who
me in the whirlwind or the thunderstorm a direct
punishment for individual misdeeds' but when we
in isnje Of ignore the good gifts of a bountiful Providence
instead of turning them to the best advantage arc 'rd.
Inc to our limited capabilities, we are veritably
unprofitable servants, and deserve all the 11l conae
gnomes of our stupidity and apathy.--Gardeaers'
Chrooscle.

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CHAII4I OF STZ•LISO • PUESIL-00 Saturday, at
the County Hall, before It. Williams, Eq., jun.,
Baker Crosby was charged with stealing a purse at
ILartinstown fair —Humphrey Moores stated that be
was in the public-house at Martinstown on Monday
night, and the prisoner was there also. He left about
seven o'clock with the prisoner, returned in about a
quarter-of-an-hour alone, put his hand in Ms pocket
and found his purse WO" gone. It had contained £l2
and several shillings. He had his purse when be went
oat, and did not speak to anybody else while he was
out, Did not see the prisoner after be missed his
purse until after she was in custady. Up in the lane
prisoner had asked lgim for come money, but he told
her he had no cbanse.—Aibert Lodge on Tuesday
night saw the prisoner at the Junction Hot 4, where
be worked, in company with twa soldiers. They were
having something to drink, drank up what they bad,
and one of them talked about going to lindrort.
Prisoner asked him not to go till the morning and abe
would give him • sovereign, which she showed, and
they went out towards the Great Western station.—
Bombardier Henry Moore, kILA. E. Battery, on
Tuesday wonting was in the town looking for •
prisoner of theht and met Lilo prisoner at the King's
Head Inn, Eordington, where they had something to
drink, and he asked ter if she had seen the an he
was in search of. She was not drunk, nor
either, and she never made any mention of money,—
She was then remanded till next Saturday.

LECTURE ON GEORGE WHITFIELD.
A capital lecture was delivered by the Rey. Mr. Hoek.
of Sherbornx at the Wcal,:yan schoolroom, on Thursday
evening, on the remarkable preatLer and revivalist, George
Whitfield.
Mr. 0. Crocker ably presided.
The Lerma= depicted the milieu of if ingurtooe,
standing rapt before the young preacher Whitfield, who
appeared be possess a remarkable power to . w hi th other
ministers were streamers At that time relim on woo at on
extraordinarily low ebb, everything.—scianoe, the theatres
the army, ereeted to flourish except Christiontty.
Religion, as Dr. Watts said, seemed to be dying out,
None tnioescity was mostly of the stern Poltan type, or
tot the cold flocinisu character, and the Church of rut
mil, though not cursed with the mod millinery of the
&au:dare of the present day, eras bithnut power, for the
mtniatters knew well how to hunt and Glob, awl teat%
church and State, but of saving souls, to quota • writer,
" they knew peseloue little." Like poison, like people;
crimes were frequent, so woo punishment by death, sod
the Church of England was described as • fair carcase
I without • 'Pint: peolligary and infidelity ruled in the
hizher circle., and recklemnees in the lower. Bit " the
hour had come, end the eau for whenever God wants •
man, He grill had him. When Christianity seemed
t uttering not. Army and the Church of Rome was seal-
ing up the Bible, God wanted meta, and sent such as
Luther, Zebu's. and John Knox. And so, when Bishop
Butler wrote that it had come to pass that religion seemed
to have lost power over the people, when it was itaid that
Nonconformity was found nowhere but In booke, then
arose Wesley and Whitfield. The lecturer 'tektite admira-
tion well deserved. of Weeley—a man who, in days before
Um wide extension of railways, travelled 5,000 mu. p
year; and died No poor that he left nothing beta
minister's gown. • well-slandered reputation, and the
mastanout Connexion, which hes grown into the Linen
Protestant denomination, with twenty millions following
jun Wesley whom exposition of bible truths they take
as their standard. Of Wesley the opinion of Whitfield
was that he would he so near the throne in Heaven that
then would be no catching • glimpse of him. (Applause
Whitfield was born on December 14, 1714, in Gloucester,
shire. hie Pouts keeping the Bull lan. Tracing Pilo
through hia early days. the lecturer spoke of hit preaching
his first sermon from "Two are better thaa one," and so
edited's was at that it was reported that Whitfield had
driven fifteen people mad—a madness which, the speaker
'abated, [mike follow all their erudite; of these days.
1./simian.") The Messrs. Wesley urged him to r, u an
Eamngeliatic memesiger to Guards, prouds attended
preaching at Gloucester. Bath. and Bristol, and at flu
clops of the year h. araa prepared to V. to Georgie: hut
he sus found preaching to yea crowds in
people gathered to him ham ascii ham ta the
Having meat four menthe in Georgia old& be
6 fah" be Mooed to London; bet the (=Pal

England ministers forbad him their rellPits.—heih • I
political and ecclesiastical blonder. In diocesan con. .
faunae they are now asking foe the return of the I
Methodist& Return I at what expos., To bave the
ministers kneeling at the fist of the Bishop, and thereby
denying the validity of their own ordinadon. To what
branch of the Church of Eogland she' they return I Nit
Seth* Ritualistic or High Church party, for they would
not take Protestant pay while doing the work of Rome.
Nor to the Woad Church, for they would not agree with
the S winlanisin that denies the Divinity of the Soo of God.
Should they return to the Evangelical putt!! He was
thankful for the existence of such • party, but believed
that God intended Methodists bra separate denomination,
and that they would do more good separately than when
united to any pert of the Church of England, and the
etreth of their own church was shown by the growth of
the Thanksgiving Fund, which is augmented continually
in spite of the povertyd the times. (Applause.) Wkitneld
commenced preaching in the open air, and all were
impressed and moved, and in Bartholomew fair the
Pugilist forgot to fight, the merry-andrew found his
audience melting away, while thousands listened to
Whitfield's preaching, were moved thereby, and very many
' were converted. VAltdeld wee on one occasion nut by •
gentleman who said—" lam very sorry to see you hare,
Mr. Whitaeld r "Aye.' said Mr. Whitfield, "and so is
the devil." (Laughter and applause) Whitaeld visited
the Bermudas, and Inboard for the conversion of the
pimple while he was seeking for health. Returning to
Britain, he had • triumphal Program through Wales, and
in Scotland., though the people are not emotional, he was
more blessed than seer. On his return to England. among
other large audiences, he preached to 30,000 people, who
were deeply swayed by the story of Divine love. The
Countess of Huntingdon procured him an opportunity of
preaching before the aristocracy in her drawing room,
where sat many of the most brilliant sc.-ptics
of the day, Lord Chesterfield, Home, Lord Bolingbroke,
Horace Walpole, and others, and the lords and ladles were
affected mochas the colliers of Kingswood, begged to hear
him again, and many of them were converted to God.
After being denied by one young lady, and being offered
by another whom he did not accept, he married a widow
i Abergarenny, Monmouthshire. Both Wesley and Whit.
field managed to marry widows; they wanted both of
m the women of soured piety and of considerable learning
ant, xpericnoe, and who would help them in their groat
work. The lecturer went on to the last sermon of Whit-
field, which laced two hours, and left him exhapsted and
worn out. A crowd had gathered to hear him, but he
felt unable to speak to them, yet still he was impressed
with the feeling that he ought to speak to them again,
and his trugnifimnt voice wee hesrd until the candle he
had in hi, band flickered mid went out in it. socket, •
type o: his own life. N.Att therhillit there burst WM4
his astooddied ease the k! iri,s of immortality. Oh Ito
11., like Whitfield! What w 4 the secret Of his some. I
Ho was succeul ul every wiure, loft. Bartholomew's Fair,
in the aristocratic driwing-rooto, to the prismer in gaol,
to the children. be was alike effective and succeuful.
(Mores Whitli,id was an orator born, and is said to have
assiduously studied the art of elocution; but he was,
above all. earnest. Men saw what be saw and spoke to
them of. they beard the ripple of the Galilean sea, they
eew the dying Saviour, and realised the resurrection from .
the tomb. His powers of description were remarkable,
sometimes he would personate the Judge in the perform-
ance of his !sit set, and after • pulse would exclaim
"dinner ! I must put on my block cap and pronounce
sentence," and as be pasted from one splendid assault of
thought to soother the audience would be thrilled to
their hearts as he pronounced the awful sentence—
Depart ! ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the
devil and his lingo's.' Eloquence is a greet power, but it
cannot save souls. But Whitfield was in earnest, he was
deeply Impressed with the deep damnation of being lost;
his preaching was not a means of getting a living, but a
method to sire soul.. He fathomed to some extant that
question which our Lord has sent thrilling through the
ages—" What shall it profit • man if he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul r lithe Bible true in its
descriptions of a heaven, in its awful delineations of a
hell I Surely we should be earnest it it is true ; a tragedian
has said—" You ministers present truth as LI it were
fiction ;we tragedians present fiction as if it were truth.'
No sacrifices can be too great, no labours too exhausting.
If thereby we may be made the means of saving some.
Whitfield warn Ulu weier lasi, • man of one book; like
Paul, he "Forgot thus things which are behind, and
reached forward to those things which are before." He
was • man of faithful prayer, and the lecturer spoke of
grand examples of conquering prayer, as Jacob gaining
the name of Israel, Mows wrestling for the condemned
people and prevailing, Elijah bringing down the fire to
consume the sacrifice on Mount Camel, Solomon praying
till the glory of the Lord filled the house. In conclusion
the rev, lecturer delivered • spirited exhortation to
earnest work, like that of Whitfield's, for the Lord's sake.
(Applause)
A vote of thanks was heartily accorded, and the Rev. G.
H. Chambers concluded the proceedings with prayer.
The lecture was delivered on bobtail( of the organ fund,
for which about £7O has been raised—about .C.3G at the
first meeting, and about £3O by collecting books.