The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-11 00:00:00

DOZONBSTZR.

Elersirwrscs Superego in connection with the 3rd
).R.V. bar commenced at Maiden Castle.
8117111• L members of the Working Mies Institute gave
readings there on Tuesday evening.
AT • meeting of the Hunt Ball Conunittse on Tuesday
it was decided that the annual ban should not take plane.
THI football match arranged for Thursday_ last could
not take place as several members of the Yeovil team
were Ul.
A FAISWM.L DAMS Was given tante non-commissiened
officers of the R. H. Artillery at barracks on Friday
evening.
Oua num—There are as alterations in the train
service of the ilouth•Weetern or Great Western lines in
this district for the month of April.
Tux Lan Kiscrios. —This contort cod the successful
caadidate £1.417 l& lid.; whilst Mr. Fowler had to Pay
£75
Tka Cowin Maoisriam—The following gentlemen
uriLed at the Shirehall on Turd* ea inliStle.f..ar
000•71/ D••••• :--John
• ne,d Captain Tatchel BuUa. Maroll
ph.9.17:108114- —The Sock
sand implements of the late
F. ~..ea-441 onFrity broulanht
Mr.
linker- The eai wee on th e whole sada-
ectorri.C=of the pricer obtained beint eollikkend
" high.
C•trl7ol, 70 DOT& —OO Wednesday • lad of about
pwas *siring with • chef-cutter exhibited in the
Icw "Lk- when he
ung. kene4sto pit his thumb into
About an inch wee risen off vs
rtrip of akin by which it b proot liüde fellow6 616611
screaming home and wee rinke, takaa tha
3:p=rti;Lare b. received tide vaiaiii asidatiact which
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Tits members of the Dorchester Farmers' Club dine at
the Antelope Hotel on Wednesday, the 19th inst. The
county members are expected to attend.
Puitsinststiost.—lliss E. Barter, who for six ream hse
been the organist at St. Peter's Church, has on her retire-
ments been presented with a china tea service, with terra
ectta teapot, the whole having been furnidied by Mr.
Godwin, and subscribed for by members of the congre-
gation, the collection for the amount having been made
by the boys of the choir.
Wg are pleased to hear that a local firm of coach-
builders, Mews. Stroud and Co., have obtained the com-
mission to make nine dog-carte fur the use of the Dorset
(testy Police. The contract was signed at the Quarter
seesions on Tuesday, and speaks well for the firm, they
having built • cart last year, and it baring been
approved of by the Chief Constable after six months'

weir.
Tete Quarm's New Tirt.r..—ln the division of the
Meuse of Lords on Monday upon the question whether
Queen Victoria was to have the opportunity of indulging
in the additional glory m of the title of Empress, there
voted with the Ayes (1r) Viscount Bridport, Lord
Alington, Lord Rivers, and Karl Nelson. Among the
Lords (91), who considered that Englishmen are getting
sufficiently alive to their inten-sta to object to even a
savour of despotism and voted against ft, were Karl Shot tea-
bury, Earl Ilchester, Lonl Cork, and Lord Wolverton.
MENDICANCY IN DORART.—The half yearly meeting of
the Committee of this Society was held on Tuesday, under
the presidency of the Hon. W. B. Portman. The
report which Captain Amyatt Brown, presented stated
the great decrease in vagrancy, which has been noted in
former reports, has aot only been maintained during
1975, but the returns from the different unions show a
further reduction of 12 per cent, on those of Pat. The
number of vagrants relieved in the casual wards of this
county during the peat twelve months amounted t 02,490,
being a reduction of 78 per cent, as compared with the
year previous to the adoption of this system whilst the
committals under the Vagrant Act have decreased in the
same period by SO percent. As a further proof of the ez•
tent to which vagrancy has been reduced, it was found on
taking the annual census of tramps and vagrants on the
9th of March that there were only eight such persons la
Dorset on that night. During the past year 1,91151 b. of
bread have been supplied to wayfarers at the relief
stations, and the total cost of the society for 1875 has been
• little under tin. Since the establishment of this society
II appears by the criminal returns that crime has decreased
In Dorset by inure than one half, and, although there have
been doubtless many other causes at work to bring about
such a result, it inay he safely said that some portion of
this reduction is due to the county having been freed from
the inroads of the vagrant class, who are ever ready to
commit petty thefts and depredations if not more serious
off e nce•

COLLSCrOIO RATIA—It ens resolved unanimeuely
that Yr. T. A. Pearce. eldest sca of the late Mr. T.
Pearce. be PerlutuvatlY appointed collector of rates.
The Council shortly after roes, having sat for Over four
hours.

DEATH OF A LOCAL CENTENARIAN.
This week, at Wsdeford. died Mr. George Grigg,
father of Mr. Grigg late of the Great Western
Hotel, who had reached the great age of PM
years, and retained his mental faculties till • few dars
before his death—nor had Ise lost his " natural strength,"
for last summer he was ale to reap • sheaf of wheat in
his son's field. We know not what interest Mr. George
Grigg took in the political events of the century ot his
life, they were ouch am thrill the heart to remenil air—born
In in& the year when American Independents. was
declared, he was as old as the nationality of the United
States ; he must have remembered the outbreak of the
Frew& Revolution, and doubtless had taken interest in
all our battle, both by sea and land, which followed the
establishment of the French Empire, with the great
Napoleon for ruler: Tralalgar, i'oruntia, and Waterloo,
were household words in his young manhood, and heroes
of them often talked of and discussed. At his birth
George the 111, had only been sixteen years on the throne
and ha live-I through the remainder of the long reign,
through that of George IV., William 111., and thirty-nine
of the present reign. This century-old inhabitant or
Warieford might have Peen the first locomotive steam-
engine, for he was five years' old when George Stephenson
was born; the steady advance in the modes of travelling,
both by sea and land, must have appeared to him as Feat
• revolution as any of those which have changed the
dynasties of rulers and the destinies of nations. Many
famous men who were considered old when they died
years since, were horn when George Grigg was • child or
youth—Lord Brougham, Lord Palmerston, and others who
might he mentioned. Three-score years or even four-score
do not form the limit o! our days necessarily, though they
do most frequently, because of the constant infringement
of those laws of our being which we are bound to observe.
Only this week the Emperor of Germany has celebrated
his seventy-ninth birthday, and though years have whiten-
ed, they have not bent his head, another intances of
rigorous intellect and determined will which age does not
touch—an Emperor of whom Germany is proud: his
predecessor, Frederic the Great, died when our Wadeford
friend was two years old. One hundred years old !as we
turn our thoughts back for that period of time, the
crowding of event, on the scene seems so great as almost
to hinder a clear vision of each; to him whose death we
announce the time must have appeared both long and
short—long to count by years and occurrences, short when
simply looked back upon as the passing years of life—life
which must find its higner consummation in that world
into which he entered on March MIL —Ckardaadl Imainasr
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