The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-07-08 00:00:00

DOILOILZSTI7/.

Tax STASI 13011KIRT SOCIITT.—The whole of the
SOO shares have now been taltan up. It is expected
the next appropriation will take place in Augu-t.
Tiin Town Bend. under Mr. J. Lucas, played •
ealection of music near the South Walks ou %Vedanta-
day evening, to the enjoyment of a large number of
persons•
THE Mayor of Ddrchseter (H. Dories, E.q ), Mr.
H. Sym inds ( tieletant Town (lerk), with Superin-
tendent Caward and Sergeant Carta, (tnace-baarevid
attendiel the civil) celebrations at Wincheater.
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Tue maniure of Mr. Pearce-E Eruumbe, the only
eon of Mr. E Iwo. I Pearce, Sornerleigh, D ircbaster,
with Mies C .nstance C hese«, the youogsr
daughter of the late %fr. John Coarl.ts C mybear,, St.
Leonard'. Orange. Ingoteetone, E...ex, ill arranged to
take place on th• 12th of August.
St. PETIVS CHINWS.—A groat improvement has
hem effected In St. Peter's chimes. lostesi of the
halting, jerking performance which formerly took
place every hour, the welt-known tattle an now
smoothly awl tunefully played
TIN Right Rev. the 1. ,rd itielsop of Salisbury on
the 30th ult. Haines] the Rev. Vernon R ibea
M.A., to the money of Abner, Dorset; the Rev.
Henry Edward T•ylor, to tie tureen of Sialbridge,
Dorset ; the Rev. Coulee Stewart Shepherd, to the
cureoy of Holy Trinity cum s'. Pater Shaftesbury,
Da•set ; and the Rev. Quartos Baron, 8.A., to the
curacy of Wyk. Regis, Dorset.
—On Monday evening the run of
the Dorobester Rover. we. to Lipsey for • strawberry
ton. The club assembled In strong number., 31 being
present. A special feature of the evening was the
club band, Messrs. Hill and B. and G. Legg aiding
very much to the enjoyment of the party by their
enlivening strains. At Dime, the club wee met by
about 20 who hal journeyed by train, when all pro-
ceeded to lit. Chrietopber'e, who catered for them in
his well-known style. After a capitol tea the Rovers
°imam/noel their homeward journey. Dorchester being
reached about ten. rho evening's run waii thoroughly
enjoyed by all, and another run is planned to the same
place next Monday should the weather prove fine,
Arru.unon Ouse.—At the B 'rough Police-court
on Monday. before the Mayor (H. Darden, Req.), and
Alderman Gregory, a young man named Oxford, •
poetboy at Woodford, wag summoned by Martha
Legg, • servant, now residing at Dorchester, but
formerly of Blaniford, to sh cease why he should
not contribute to the support of an Illegitimate chill,
whom she allege' he was the father.-11r. Welton
appeared fir the plaintiff, sod Mr. Atkinson for the
deleadont.—An order Wall male for 2e. • week, with
litroarater SALE Or I.IOIIN SIIZIP.-00 ffriday an
important sale of born sheep, cattle, and bones. the
property of Mr. .1. Batten, of the Manor Farm,
I.Tpoente, wee bell by Mears. Doke and Sin, of Dir.
cheater, and attracted nconeron. burin front rill parts
of ths district. The stock made good price, yearling
heifers selling at from £9 to Ell 10.. ; ',sinner+. £l7
to £l9 ; and heifers WI Wylie, £l7 6a. to £2l 10..
The cheep, alth nigh smell, sold well, the six-teethe
reall.ing 50e. to 5.1.. ; f inr-teaths, 50.. to 55a 61.;
52.. to 581. ; h orn wothen, Ma to 46'.;
°Wirer lambs, 36.. ; watt er lomb,, 29a Al.

DOLCRWITie-Snlii FAIB.—AI ha fair on dollar lay
there was rather above tha average supply of she•o.
but the attrodan.as was mares', se large a. canal.
Tr. ..n the whale sem fairly brisk. though prices
were c ,neidersbly under those reelised at the same
fair last year, ewe., as a rule, selling better th in
lambs. A good clearance was, however, effected,
Down *wee making u 53.., and raaging down to
42'.; withers, tea to 54. ; lambs, 27.. to 404. Horn
ewes realised 141. to 58., ; wither and chilver lambs,
36.. to 36.. Horn lambs were a heavy drag on the
market, and were oaly with difficulty diepmed of.
Ott., desoriptlons sold atg iod Imre", and altogether
the fair was very satisfactory.
&wool. TalAT.—The annual toed of the teachers
and scholars of St. Peters Sunday School to ar place
la the grounds adjoining CIO. ti 'um, the residence
of E. L. Kindersley, Esq., os TnslCy. The happy
party left D trchept ,r shortly after eleven o'clock.
being it ',leered in breaks and waggon. loot by
Marrs. Crocker, Ho J ,moo and Young. Ito.
After a shortened aervfoe In Tun:derma Church, radon,
games were indulged in, snob sa cricket, swhigke.
'riming In the ring, bathing, mad racing. S I of the
arty visited the solen,ll I g rdsna and hothouses of
Ulf'. Hong% About four ,'cl ok the children had
tea, the oatmleg of Mr. Danielle being exoellent,
an after wards masa and jumping were Indulged in,the
various prism b dog given by the R••• O. F. Powys.
1E0414 in the ring WM the next item, and was
greatly eajoyed by b ,th boys and girl. Shortly
afterwards • start was, ma I. for ham.. and, sitrr
• very pleasant ride by way of Woadsford and
Stafford, the party reecho' D rcbrster, havior passed
• very agreeable mid enjoyabl , day. The weather
was epimmild. and all that could be dallied.
8413 FATLLITT. —A very lamentable al Jr happened
in Jersey last week, • yonag tam named Frederlak
Rea I, for some years an ami.tant at the establishment
of Mr. Hazel, ironmoortr. High West-street, having
bees aocidentally run over in the streets of Jersey,
and Injured so seriously that death ensue I a
•very few hours aft .rwards. It teemed that deceased,
who was acoompsalod by two companions, was cross-
ing one of the chief thor mghtaree in Jersey. it bring
entry foggy at the time, to get t a tram proceeding
La • bemuse I direction when he woe knocked down
by another vehicle, of whom approach he relined un-
aware, and, falling on the curb, ,u,toloel such
essious injary to his hoed that hie death resulted on
the following moralug, to the great grief of hi.
relative), with whom he went front her. I. reside
about • twelvemonth dam. Decease I was well-
karma in Dorchester, and his many Meads and
ecanaintanoas hare will real of hls nary melaacholy
de•th with feelings of Om deepest eogrow mid regret.
Lbb wee may about 26 year., of age

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Tma Asamea.—Tbe following is the calendar of
prisoners committed to H. 51. Prison, Dornlseder, for
trial at th. Ariz 5-, which will be held on 12th July :
With,,., Jame: Hawkins (17), inrer, charged with
setting fins to certain tea it or furl-, then growing,
prop-rty of William If iviry Andlo, at Kiuson, on
the 10th of April, 1884 ;Edwin C arre./- (15).1.6 .u..rr,
charged with committing an abiorlo .6 e otitis la
at Leigh, 3,0 the 6th of \lay, 1584 ; Arthur
Honey, bailed on committal, char./el with sattlsg fire
to a rick of hay, value £lO, property of Wil"ui
Brook.. Norton, at if dton, on th 3 19:h of NI IT. 1884 ;
nod George Trim (474, lalx,tner, charger with c in-
muting an abominable off-Doe, at Compton
on the 24th of Slav, 1884.
R6-AIKANOKNIXT OF Tot ASOZI CI,C3: To—Toe
revolution, of the Judger serest to .it. to., 19 It :nat,
for a re-arra/mew:at I the Circiits or • mut, idled io
rn °pier in Council puhliabe I in Fri lay night's
ora:glic. The Avrizes are to be AO sr...vs-el at meet-
rage of the Ju that no more thin ten J.l Iges shall
Ire absent from L ,don at the same tune. A.eizes are
not In futnre t , be held at Kia.coa- .1.-Thames, for
the county of Surrey. In order to eatable the Jidirve.
as far as may be possible, to leave no ca., untried at
say place on soy Circuit, one of the Jr* igen in
London (in accordance with a rotation to be settled
by the Judge.) shall, with the sanction of the Lord
llbancellor, sad an request of the Judge on any
Circuit, pr:roeed to all euch Jacire for each time as
may be Deceentry. Henceforth It will nit br necessary
t read or proclaim In C,urt at any An-iiii the R .yal
Proclamation sgalnat vice and immorality. SelistnuT
and Devizes, Wells and Tauaton, Buy aod Ipswich,
Newtown and Welshpool, Swansea ea I Car tiff, and
Guildforf and Ceoydon are to be alternative place.,
an I Anise are to be held there scc.,rdi .g as the
Judges ta.y, on each occasion when fixing the dates
thereof, determine. _ .

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Tenn lIT • Soungs.—Williaut Pigeon, private
of the it .yal Artillery, etstione I at Porilimil, w.B
chargail on Saturday at the Shirehal , biter* E.
E q. (in the chili), awl R. D. Thornton,
req., with stealing a puree and 411.3 i-from the pms
of CeciliaD.!-y, • married woman at Portland, on
July Duff y cold be wee the wife of
Nlichael Daffay, and raid led at Portland. On let
July she was in the Swan Inn at Portland, and lift
there • little after nine. She had a purse containing
El 15r. in money,. pawn ticket, • dog license. and a
riiceipt for soot. money in the breast part of her dens.
Wb.n sha reachel borne shoot a quarter-peel nine
she mimed the pers.. While .he was to the Elwin
Inn the prisoner was there, aid they were drinking
. 31.• s.ve iire priao:ker •
shilling at the Simian, and another onset the ILyel.
She wag sure she did not give him • sivereign by
mistake. The puree pro Word by Sergeant Devenleh
wee the one she Det.--Idsria Smith, • dressmaker,
who resided with Mrs. Duffey, proved seeing the
prisoner take the pain olt of the breast part of the
dries of Mrs. Duffey, whi was Wimp at the So.°.
Sim did wit %Ask to hint, and did wit toll Mrs.
Duffey until about half-past alas. The prisoner Wee
sitting near the prosaowtrig. N one it.. was in the
room but Ars. Duff ay, the pri•ober, and herself.—
Sergeant Devenieh said on the 2.id Mrs. Duffey come
to the poliowstatiou, awl said an artilleryman had
stolen her pore*. About half-past seven his went to
Malden well with Itro. Duffey, and met the
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PfiaWnet , and said he priooner. fibs pointed to this was
the man that stole her purse. He said " 1 know
nothing about your money." Ho took out fit. and
some coppers from hi. picket, and .aid, "Thee.'. my
money." Witnees found in his picket 10s. and a
half-penny. He refaced to let him search his Lupin
Oa th• Ivey t tine station he woe handcuffed, and la
hi, tunic pocket he f nand • soversizu. At the MOM
Lime he Bald Its should find a s.ivierei,rn there. At the
etetion he soli a WoM.UI bad given him, as be supposed.
• .hilling, and in tbie morning be found it was •
eri,ereign, an! meant to return it. He produced the
purse, which was brought to the police-station. It
contained • rareipt, a dig license, sad tho two billy.—
John Parrott, bombardier in the Royal Artillery. said
at ten minutia to tau on the Ist he Wal io tho
detac.bm nt-room at Portland, and It, prie .ner
showed him • red handketcbief. He untied th• c irtter
of it, acid in it be saw • lovere.gn and some silver.
He did not say how he had obtained it.—Prieoner
made a 10114 statement in defames, the effect of which
was the ooseroi‘ts warn giro.) him by the prossoutrix
in inietake for • ebillirsg. —An offieer of the battery
stated the prisoner ha &errs i 14 years an I nine
mouth.. He bud been guilty of several :Mor military
offences, but nothing it thi. deecription h. fore. rhe
prisoner was remanded for • week for further evi-
dence.
WYNT STATIJILI) T AAAAAA nit SOCIITT.—A fir'e in

connehti 43 with this e,c.iety wit hW.EI In iwantifal

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weather on Thursday last. The Bud of 11•.pe
children met at the itect,ry, and • pr..c -salon was
formed. headed by the Pbbiletrenthble Brans Band.
With banners and fl igs the children paraded be
village, and made • very pretty display. Toe oceans
~f the Ins warn • field kindly lent by Mr. Flowers.
and lure • b mntifull tea wee provided in • !smuts-0
supplied by Megan. Foot an
fl sears adorned the tables, whioh presented a very
charming eppssrance. iferealarg uumberof thetsmper•
soca friends of Staff.sr.l sat dowo. The Bind f Hp.
children were not forgottm, hsring been previously
supplied with cake, bread sod batter, After tea
the Boni of 11,w children were i.nt through anornber
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of •volutiona in militazy faabion under the direction
of Mr. Clarke. of D Jrcheeter, which oonalade I with
trooping the c dome 'eel hearty cheers. Laos on
a short meeting was held in the marqmse, when the
Sly. Canon Smith pre.ided, supported by the Rev.
Conon Stepll6oll,o, 601 other weikknown him n I• of

the t mparikace Cattle. The proceeding. ccluollogw.l
w;tb • hymn, acd the Cbaircaso then deliverei •
eh .rt ad hew. There era& he said, hing to hiv
mini rather striking in the contrast between village
festivals a. they were held at the protect thee sad
thote which be retnembored when be first came to

Stafford, between 40 and 50 yews ago.. --The fee•iyities
In thom dare were rather • matter of terror to quiet
ml well. lisp wed people, who cared for the best
ioter-orts of their fellow creature'. He coorld
perfectly remember the footiyal of the Friendly
Society held at Fordlogthe at that distant
peried of time. It was a very di.tmesing scene
Indeed. On the Whit-Tueeday be bad to take in his
carriage • clergyman who came from Beth, and they
were going to Ceres to attend a meeting of the Ohuroh
Missionary Society. It wee the day of this festival,
an I on each ede of the road in the ditches were lying
considerable numbs' of drunken people. sot able to
walk home. It was • fed, as stated to him by good
Mr. Motile, that at that time there 4144 more mosey
sped t in (meting and ilrinkiug on the one day of the
festival than there was spent in mile•the the sick
minim.. doriog the whole year. It was very different
mow, be wee gild to say; ant why wee It? Very
mwei owing to the fact that they met under the
banner of temperanoe. Instead of having the cup
that intoxicates they had the cop that cheers but o 4
inebriate". They appears I to him to have been
Gni ging themselves very marls in various sports out
of doors, sod they ware very much indebted t th
who had conduoted the ad: and to those who bad
In so short a time drilled the young peep!' into some-
thing like discipline and order. They owed • debt of
gratitu le to all, and he partied erly mentioned the
name of one of his own parishioners. Mr. Pipe. (Ap-
plause.) He might almost nail it Mr. Pipe's festival,
for he was the originat or of it, and had taken all the
trouble In arranging it and bringing it to such • happy
Meth. (Applause.) He did not mean to say he had
stood alone, for be had heel most zealous cm-operators,
I el-. Bog several ladle*. He (the Omen) thought it
w is a matter for mutual congratulation and
thaelt.giving to Go I, who had lifted their
thought, higher, and who had to • very greet
extent changed pabilo opinion in England generally.
It was • ocost Important thing that public opinion
oh
mid be well directed, f e it wet • great m tive
p ower. It was very much like • locomotive when
started on the railway with no one to govern the
steam—it rushed on to havoc ant to ruin. Publio
opinion bad been immensely changed as rage...del the
drinking habit, of the people. For many • long year
English people seemed to have no .(her idea of enjoy-
most when they met t wither than that of drinking
to eace-e, but eh, formation of temperance societies
through int. the country h• I had • very great offec in
C ging to.' habits an I girths a better too to
pudic °pin. yol, • hall it m reed ageinst rather than
in favour of drinking to this acre-s. Instead of I e g
thought manly and a thing I be Admire I, as I emetly,
It was now looked up ya as a •11-wac•. Aft-or a few
yther remark., the rev. gen'lnllll C died on If.. Pipi, '
who said the thanks which hal been given him In
tii. matter ought to have being given to
the ladies, f or they bad come forward voluntarily ant ,
nob!y, and if there wee a [wiz to be given away f or '
the test worker..., he redly did not know who would I
get It. (Laughter.) 0-eat pr dee wore due to Miss
Blanche Smith for the beautifoi lather whioh she ha I '
made with her own hands ant preeente I them. (
Thd • waco small brooch, but they h• 1 ioa I
a v, re goo I ametbyg that ley. Perhaps they would
gay they c odd not help g ettiog on well in
Staff orl, with their kin I friend Mr. Smith
and the .4 the led cou.o. y members living amen.: t
them. As an ins!onee Of the g .1 feeling that *Riot d
lectoreen the p ebbe ens aol the noddy in Stator', lie
urentloned they • old am of the tickets for the flote to '
the len llor I of one of the pobloohouem there. ((leim,
heir.) The temperance w ork wee Oar on well, and !
,101114 a greet yield of good, but there was a gr,at •teal
yet t be done, end hi mention* I there were come
thine like GOO 000 habitual drunkards in Engle, I me
the present time. He whaled o ontiamed sum., t
the movement, and wishe I the Stafford b•anch was
larger. He hoped the temperance work word! con- !
tithe to epread, like • tree planted in the ml let of the
globe, with her branches reedlike from pole to po:e,
an•i time be the mosso" ••( saving awns of these iyoor '
people who were the victims •f the drink. Aloolinse.)
—Mr. Mortimer (Itroadne line) eel Mr. Foot (D •
chested heeler op •keo . few app-oeriat• word., the
Rec. Coe no Slophemoa delivered • stirring ad
He .lieclairried the tide of a munteereece iorut bit
eal I he we • t •thoersthe work.,. He was gled t
hear that the Mi. of Staff rd wero eeeletlng in the
work. f ir Coen the Vraul•:n Won a movement up, they
Might &pen I there wee jest hope I or Baser:thee H.
&Md. t the dreadful evil of drink among the
women, which, he W 44 sorry to say, was greatly
Im-riming. Some years ago, what he went to Wry.
month al a y ionz man. it w. • very tree itoonoh
thing t, ..se a women drunk, but now be Ito*, th ro
were many who were habitual drunkards. Toil
Wail one of the deorre AU Signs .of the UMW, for
If • drunken WWI was bat, a druoktm woman was far
worm. It. appealed to the young Women to ellerClee
the great influence they p orer the other Sec.
Let them eh° • their " frku I," plainly what they
thought shout the driok, ao I their going to public-
hone.. In conclusion, the rev. geutlenno said hy
bad gr., hope of this cu'., bee sum he knew they
ha 1 their Lord and Saviour with them. (Applause.)
—Mr. George Foyer, as am eier,te man, proewnwi
n,rsin.t the lensume which temperance • Irocatis
often used. It Was n 4 right for a man to get ug end
say the m iderate drinker was worm than the drunk -
ord. He h.epel this would roarer be said again—
at least I tit .ff ord. As eh., thin, rtneo me very
much, e.ntieu-d Mr. Flyer, whou pe note t rdt shot
spirit". rio, whielth, and brandy, as invacti one of the
devil. To .t is a me: fearful thing to ear. Th no ire
all gifts from our Heaveog Father iLlit me mach y the
good weather soil the 6th harvest. I think
It ie very wrong just hexanse we p or
wretched human beings cannot moderate oUrdelVee,
and cannot enjoy our blaming, in moderatioo, that
voe should go and libel the Giver of all good, and say

Mk gilts are li. gif m at tta evil. That le • thi"
I h .Pe wiser to hear agaM. Mr. Fleyer cs
Untied hi haaaaure 1 the total abstainer whoa Its
abitoioslfw hie own safety, .01 pieticularly dad he
hull the man in highest y,nar.ti oi when h. at...taints:l
from • 'plait of sel(•ascriate, on I 3• he ooetm,.i a., I
• help to those who ur. weekar tutu biassed. rhey
w.. 0 alwa-s kept in mind the two-fol I LAISI I • f the
Church :I Eng: mai Temp:4 mce Suckty eh d
remember that the ead ot all they alms I at we. • at
t el ahatlnseme ; it should n 4 out lb are. tau . task
end woe to mauls this laud tamperat .. au 1 cds L a enjoy
in moderation tos god gaits which God h I sho•s rad
down up.. teem. If troy j in. a nen ..-in-band in
this work, enrolling all they p eethly cii amo:a pat
them, thay w 0.11Z4l f arth t • vactagy, is. pe power
of the King of King.. ant vary would debt witit the
devil and Lis ina4hty captam latanaparsoca, a 4 over-
throw him in the strength of Ilse L.ri. (Apples's.)
' D4niells, as • taoraugh simian:a t, n tat
eddramod tha meeting, referalng particuLrly to the
imoortance of ths Bead of H aps I,vuuout. ale
I preyed G 43 t blame the work I. Staff ad. (Ap,ala use.)
I —This concluded the speeches, and ohs a; 411,a•ny
edj aurnad to the open air' whore dam; ng and other
aniummente woe Indulged in.