The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

she was found at the house of her brother, at Broad-
way. She acknowledged that the child wite
hem The child was 'producied in court.
It was suffering from very bad eyes,
and appeared to be very delicate. The Pri.
sonar wanted to take charge of it, but this was not
permitted; and she was committed for trial.—
Samuel Cobb, Samuel Charles Cobb, Eli Cobb, and
John House were charged with stealing three sacks
of horse.feed, consisting chiefly of barley and oats,
the 'property of Mr. John Scutt. Mr. Scutt is a
farmer residing at Bees Regis. The prisoner Samuel
Cobb, is a small farmer residing at Woodbury Hill,
Samuel Charles Cobb, and Eli Cobb are his son and
nephew, and John House was Mr. Scutt's barter. It
appeared that on Sunday House gem information that
3 sacks of horsefeed had been stolen from the barn.
There had been a hoare frost on the previous
evening, and on Mr. Scutt being informed of the
circumstances he tracked the marks of a horse and
wagon to Cobb's house. A search warrant
was procured, and three sacks of horse feed, pre-
cisely similar to what had • been- stolen, were
I found up stairs, but not in Mr. Scott's sacks.
Philips, a carter in Jamuel Cobb's employ, said on
Saturday evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock, his
master told him he was to go to Mr. Scott's for three
sacks of corn. Immediately afterwards the son and
nephew drove up to the door with a horse and wagon,
and they all went to Mr. Scutt's barn. Be, according to
directions, carried three sacks of oorn from the barn
to the wagon. House was there and assisted. He
took the corn to his master's and carried it in-
doors.—The prisoners were committed for trial, but
were subsequently admitted to bail.
MARICHT. —The first monthly market was held on
Tuesday. There was not so large a quantity of stock
and high prices were asked. The greater portion
of the best animals exchanged hands.
W HITCHURC —TIMPIR ANCE SOCIETY.— On
Thursday evening, Mr. John Black, from Scotland,
a celebrated temperance advocate, delivered one of ,
the ablest lectures on the total abstinence question
which has ever been listened to in this village.
The infant schoolroom, kindly lent by Mrs. M.
Michel, was crowded by a highly respectable
audience. Mr. B. Meaden, of Blaudford, plaided,
and in introducing the lecturer, offered a few sato-
priate remarks on the subject Which the lediffret
was about to discuss. Mr. Black then carried with
him the sympathy and close attention of his
audience for an hour and an half, whilst he in a
masterly and christian like address, urged upon all
the adoption of total abstinence as safe and good on
physical, moral, social, and religious grounds. He
pointed to the many homes rendered desolate and
afflicted, to the many once noble beings ruined for
time and eternity by intemperance, to which the
"respectable" one glass is too often the seductive
stepping atone. He made some earnest appeals to
those who as mothers—and a mother's influence he
pourtt eyed as the most beautiful and effective means
under God which can be brought to bear on man—
es wives, as sister", and daughters, as those who had
the first Interest of promoting the cause of total
abstinence, which, knowing no sectariandifferences,
had for its object the reformation of man and the
glory of that God whose image had been stamped on
the soul of the drunkard, before it had been effaced
by intemperance, and without the restoration of
whose image no one who has been steeped in that
vice. the Scriptures of truth tell us, can enter into
the kingdom of Heaven. He dwelt upon alcoholic
liquors as a poisoner of the health of the soul as well
as the body, and a destroyer of mental and
moral power; as a producer of much ignorance, and
the creator of idleness and folly. He pointed out its
cruelty, and showed how the innocent suffer with
the guilty. Sympathy with, rather than condemna-
tion of, the wretched victims of drunkenness was the
true spirit in which to deal with the evil; and
sobriety, it was evident, was a necessity in the
development of true Christian character. Drinking,
in all its phases, whether temperate or excessive,
he held to be, if not destructive, at least dangerous;
and it war in the strongest sense the duty of every
one, &anions for the improvement of society, as well
as the salvation of individuals, to promote the cause of
temperance. The principles of the Permissive Bill
were also explained and iecommended to all- persons,
whether total abstainers or not, and a variety of
topics were treated with deep feeling. Mr. Black has
acquired considerable renown as a public exponent
and defender of total abstainence, and those
who heard him on Thursday, at Whit.
church, will agree with us, that, when the teMper-
ance platform is occupied with such men (who,
content to leave all flippancy and bad jokes to
those who have a worse muse to advocate and
look at the question from its higher grounds,
appeal reasonably to reasonable men, in thinking
that he is worthy of his reputation. The Temper-
ance brass band marched through the village pre-
vious to the meeting, and concluded the same by
playing the National Anthem.