The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-10-03 00:00:00

BECEBBORNS.

SATURDAY lut being the a—nniversary— of the death of
the Karl of Bristol, in accordance with a clause of that
nobleman's will, which provides annually the sum of .C.lO
for the the Vicar, as usual. preached • elemon,
and the be to led for an hour in the morning from six
o'clock. and another hour commencing at noon.
A Goon OPPILR.—On di) that the Masters of the
Sherhorne Almshouses have been offered £6,000 by J. S.
W. S. E Druz, Esq.. M.P., for their Hermitage estate,
comprising a farm of 60 or 70 acres, the yearly receipts
from which are but little over £lOO. Probably the
present owners might do worse, and can scarcely be
considered likely to do better than to close with the
offer. . . . . . .

THE vacancy in the chaplaincy of the Union canoed by
the resignation of the Rev. C. M. Rogers, will be tilled on
Thursday at the usual guardians' meeting. It is under-
stood that the only candidate is the new incumbent of
Poyntington, Rev. Mr. Rowe.
BM E. A. Urcort, of Sherborne School, has been elected
by the examiners as the Huish exhibitioner for 1476, the 1
competing schools being those of Sherborne, Exeter,
Taunton and Tiverton. The present scheme has been in
operation two years. and • Sherburne scholar has on each
oemaion won the palm.
CASUALTIVE—Last Saturday a child, the daughter of
Mr. W. Polley, British schoolmaster, whilst crossing
Long-street was run down by • pair of trucks propelled
by a plasterer named Amami, and one of the wheels passed
over an ankle. On removing her to her home, a few
yards away, the injury was found to he nothing alarming,
and she Is recovering.—On Tuesday afternoon a little
fellow named James Edwards, apparently about seven or
eight years of age, on his way to school attempted to
mount a laden timber carriage belonging to Mr. Hull, of
Compton, which was going down Acreman-street ; but he
fell off and got amongst the wheels, one of which is mid
to have passed over him, lie lies at his home in Cornhill
with serious injuries in his loins.—Yet another mishap
occurred on Tuesday evening, which, though last in order
is not considered least, and that in more senses than one
—two of the victims being reckoned amongst the Sherborne
"heavy weights," A tweak and four from Mr. lifee's
stable., with two postilions and a party from Sherlierne,
was returning from the Mere Down coursing meeting,
when in trying to pass another vehicle the break was
driven up • steep bank by the roadside and upset, the
whole of the occupants being deposited in the road. Mr.
Dawson, confectioner, and Mr. T. Watts, butcher, being
roughly shaken, and Mr. Hendry of Loweston, sustaining
a fracture of the collar-bone, besides a wound in the head,
which bled profusely. The break was but slightly
damaged.

HOSPITAL •iyNDAy.

The annual harvest thanksgiving -services and congrega-
tional collections in the various places of worship in aid
of the Yeatman Hospital funds took place on Sunday
last.
The noble institution to whose assistance last Sunday's
offertory was devoted, has, since its foundation some ten
years ago, proved an inestimable boon to thousands of the
afflicted poor; but, liberal as has been the support
accorded it, the managing body not unfrequently find
themselves in straightened circumstances, and at their
wits' end to know bow to keep afloat
Providentially, however, notwithstanding that the
strain upon its resources has ever since it came into
existence been steadily increasing, when the outlook has
been darkest there has always been found some generous
sympathising friend to step forward with the needful;
and a gratifying instance of this occurred but a few
week's ago, when the hon. secretary, who had begun to
feel greatly concerned as to the question•of ways and
means, became the recipient of an anonymous cheque on
• local bark for the handsome sum of £lOO. The last
annual report shows that during the past year 115
in-patients, and 315 out-patients have been admitted
(total 450), from no less than 39 parishes, and the total
number of persons relieved is 3,31. The balance-sheet
unfortunately shows the sum of £47 us, 2.1. on the wrong
side, and this during the present year had been consider-
ably augmented ; but the munificent gift above mentioned
has placed it high and dry with a small balance to the
good. Still, as it could hardly be safe or wise to count
upon such • godsend at every emergency, it was clear
that this year still greater effort should be made to
brine up the congregational collections to a handsome
total.
In the Abbey on Sunday, the preacher in the morning
was the Rev. C. IL Rogers, of Oborne, whose text was
II Corinthians ix, 7. The Rev. Cavalier, curate,
proiched in the afternoon from Matthew vi, 11 ; and the
Vicar occupied the pulpit in the evening, and made a
forcible appeal to a large congregation, founding his
discourse upon Psalm lxv, it, the anthem for the
occasion being Green's "Thou visitest the earth and
blessed it." The collections at the three services amounted
to £1I& 4d., as against £23 9s, last year, a very
gratifying comparison.
At Castleton church the Vicar was the preacher in the
morning, and the senior curate (the Rev. Mr. Stone) in
the evening. —.O 3s. 6.1,
At the Congregational church the pastor (the Rev. F.
Beckley), preached in the morning before a small
congregation (doubtless owing to the unfavourable state
of the weather); and in the evening, the Rev. Mr.
Howard, the newly-appointed Wesleyan minister,occupied
the pulpit.
The Wesleyan chapel preachers were—in the morning,
Mr. Howard; in the evening, Mr. Beckley.—CB 24.

YBOVIL.
DINGRACZYUL SCENIC IN A CHURCH. -A sorrowful
scene has been enajLted at Preston, near Yeovil. The
sittings in Preston-Church are not free an they are in
many churches. A portion of them are appropriated
to the parishioners, and one of them, gave permission
I to a man to Kit in his pew who was, it is said, only
objected to because he earned his livelihood by "the
sweat of his brow." Ms sitting in the pew gave
offence to the vicar's churchwarden who occupied a
seat immediately behind where the person sat, and he
was told to sit elsewhere. This he refused to do. On
Sunday last the vicar's warden called to his aid the
pariah constable, who appeared in full uniform, and
together they prevented the man going to his seat.
The man left the church as did also others of the
congregation who had witnessed the proceedings. At
the evening service even a noire scandalous scene was
enacted. Dire-tly the door was open the man went to
his seat. A few minutes had but elapsed before the
vicar's warden arrived at the church to enter into his
devotions. Espying his victim, he walked straight to
him and ordered him out of the 1.5 w; but he would
not stir. The man in blue again put in an appearance,
lin full dress, and was ordered by the vicar's warden to
take the man out of the pew by force, but he only
succeeded in tearing his coat. Finally the man was
got out upon the floor. By this time the church was
pretty well filled, and the courregation seeing the
disgraceful occurrence ga...e veneto their feelings in
hisses and yells, and a number of them left. Fhe two
i• assailants, probably ashamed of their own behaviour,
then gm e up the attempt to eject the man, and he
I remained through the service. That such proceedings
; viewed in whatever light they may be, can reflect no
credit upon the churchwarden-is palpable, but at the
Isame time we cannot help fancying that there is
, something behind the scenes, and that the regular
lattendance of the man in fustian, is not solely due to
, a love of devotion any more than that the motives of
I those who persistently put him in the disputed seat,
arise from Christian charity.

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