The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-08-05 00:00:00

BIZAKIRSTIS.

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FOR&ITERF GRAND FETK
Thursday last was • mamorable (quite • red•letter) day
for the quitst sad sociable little town of Beaminetter. In
spite of tog and &lade with which morn woe neared In,
busy hands were early at work to make the town praient
• gala appearance. The tradesmen caused shrubs sad
evergreen to be plaited at their doors and flags to be
unfurled from their window., and in many places
spanning the road, from window to window. String.
of bannerettas and bunting were also displayed.
capital band of the 3rd Dorset Kills Volunteers,
under the leadership of Bandnuater Wellspring, paraded
the town thug ere the promotion wee ready to start.
Beaminater came out in its holiday attireonly to be driven
again by rain, rain. incessant rain. It was just such a
rain tries its utmost to pen•trate the most Impervious
ulster or "gingham." Lnigfellow was certainly in an
eccentric mood, unless it wite daring • drought, when ha
wrote— .

" Row beautiful is the rain."
Such an exquisite sentins•nt could never have struck him
during November or February, • black spring, • cold
autumn. or • wet July. Bat this state of things did not
gradually
last all day. About an hour before noon the rain
abated. and although there was an ocasaional
sprinkkng at intervals during the day, it caused but little
inconvenience. The fete was altogether successful.
being
under the able management of • select conualtras, and
under the diatirtguisl,kedlipaßtrpnge of 4.liiiii:JoL Oox,
MVP. iiessrs7 li.Kzieoarlit, J. Web& R. Litig°lll,

We molt not 1•11 to mention that the worthy Colossi,
is he ever does on such occsoions threw open Mg
picturesque and beautiful park to the public. Although
to. grass was not particularly tempting to the feet as
Monday, yet the treat was too rich • one to be mimed.
The number visiting the park during the day mart
have been quite 2,000. The beautiful lake with its mani-
fold attractions, flower beds. Mb, rinthine walks, fountains
grottos, and last, not loot, the magnificent treat. am all
objects which tempted the many to accept the kind oder.
The procession was formed at 19 noon at the reeidenoe
Of Bro. Hine, in Emt-streek and paraded the principal
Weide in the following order. Including the beads, about
nd formed the prousision
Mounted Foresters—Robin Hood (H. Wilmo(t), Fria
Tuck (Eon Corti.), Merry Men (Bros Elwards.
Brooks, Rouartson. and Bullock).
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Flag of -the Stal&-idge Ancient FriendlySociaty.
Band of 3rd Dorset Rifle Volunteem
Benner of Odd&Bows Society.
Dia=tioa of Loyal Friendship
of Oddleßowe
Oddity Sows two and two.
Shepherd and Shepherdess in Decorated Waggon,
Bro. Lske and Kim Legg.
Flag.
Be•minster Town Band.
New Benner of Court "Pride of Beaminater,' No. 5,118.
Dispensation of Court dis guarded by Court
Secretary, Bro. CdSPl.with drawn sword
Juvenile Foresters, two aad two, with beatterettes.
Visiting brethren of A.O.F. two and two.
Carriage with emblematic representations of
Faith. Hope, and Charity. Beadlm
Janice Brethren of Court 5,114:, two and two.
Wincanton Balmer of Lox.
Woodwarda of Court 5,248
Senior Brethren two and two.
Waggon ccataining arm Hine, & Con (tr_tuiter) Mr.
Andrew', and Kr. J. T. Cog, Becretar7 Oddlellow•
Slaving paraded the strum the promotion made for the
park, IC4 epee reaching the colonel's met hearty clears
ware given and • selection of music played. The perk
was at length reached and an excellent and substantial
dinner partaken of under • spacious tent, provided by
Mrs. D. Newman. The tables were profusely decorated
with flowers.
The Colonel presided, supported by his Dog J. R. Cox,
Eat., EiettAlitii:l..dle, Captain Whethamki.. P. Daniel,
Erg., Ree.. W. H. W. Toby, ~ J. Andrews
gm., J. It Req.,_Supt. 'teazle, Z. that'. Req.:
T. Greening, gsq- . a Rmdeil. Red. Wo NAM, Req.. Ac.,
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—Alter the removal of the cloth the loyal toasts wen as
usual given by the Chairman, and were loyally moved
with musical honours
Mr. Lyon, in appropriate terms. gave " The Army.
Navy. and Borrve Forces,- and coupled with it the 1:1OZOO1
of the Chairman, Captain Kiddie, and Captain Whatheon.
The Quorum in reepondng for the sew_ adverted to
thu changes that bad taken decorum he WWI a captaincy.
In spits of the unfortunate Zulu war all Ifinglielunen must
rejoice at the glorious victory at Ulundi. Lord tAtelmsford,
he oouebthred. bad been deewifully maligned by the British
public. (Rear. bear.) No one without experience knew
anything of the diflicaltre of leading a campaign in such
a country and among such a people.
Captain KIDDLZ briefly responded tor the navy, when
Captain WMIIIIIIII spoke for the volunteers and
expnreed the utmost satisfaction that the Berninater
sub-division had been or well up to the mark in tamp.
The exertions of friirtal:.rmaster Hine on that occasion
were deserving ties commendation.
o h.d.h of the • p and 71•11fy and Mushier of
all Denominations- was followed by the "Court Pride of
ltesminster." dic., dr., both being entheudeetically drunk.
After the " P r am" " Viaitore- and the '' Horses" were
given and duly acknowledged.
The company adjourned to the open air where a variety
of sports took place within an encicood area. Bicycle
fiat rams, walking mow as. win all gone through
and esaccesdul competitor. received respective
pdeee at the ewes from the kande of Mo.l Cox.
The prises were of no Man order. consistlaz for the most
put Of silver and electro,plate, nearly £lO being ex-
pended in their purchase. Tete devotees of Tetchore, In
arta of the damp, had a merry time of it, and the blithe
lads and merry damsels tripped It out merrily. The
juveniles enjoyed themselves in varier ways shooting
garb* penny exhibitions. It-, being on the ground in
.bwiduiou But perhaps the richest treat of all was
when the magnificent old tries in the park were hominid
by coloured fires. The edect was truly gland and called
forte many an exclamation of real delight froth, the
beholders lire balloons asoended at intervals and the
majority of these taking the form of some well known
quadruped raised many • hearty latish from the crowd.
Excitement was at its height when the committee com-
menced to inflate a master balloon. The Po/Portions sit
first were just a "little dropsical in appearance, but soon
a shout was raised from the small fry of " richboras for
ever." sad a few minutes after a capital repreeentatios of
the claimant commenced its aerial roost. It was rather
a COI6OIIIMIOO that the Baronet was no sooner out of reach
of " tem firma; than he made the best of his way la
the awake of Dartmoor. There was to have been
eptdld Deseepellenic display, but by some means the fire!
wati min &awed in manufacture. Ate the web,
advassei sod a hem fog threatened nnothet soaking the
"gs having comple etted day of real enjoy.
Imerailla Pfierier MPle Were barmy seouring the
....elege se dr !gad of fird aR. V., who node, th.
S"*Prel4. . lra:isliss w•
me
Cannel seleMials Pis dila, sod other
subs lie vitas al the da.7.

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OursWl Or Poor AND MOLT/1 1-410NA4IC. —On
Saturday last, Col. Bingham, F. Pearce, Esq., and
A. Manse', Esq., met at the Shim:hall to conskler the
of fiwikasid-mouth disease among WNW
Xteie belonging to Mr. John Mayo, of Upwey, at
Goo Bottom, Lynes, and Westbrook.-114.
44ipliciesube, veterinary surgeon, stated that Mr Map,
had 707 sheep on the (menus., of which (r.s. Coites
said) 80 have been attacked by 4;t: ilia:are, minim in
each of the three or four field!, He saw 30 or 40 in a
lien, of whom the Tval..rity were affected, these being
all in a lot.— Mi. Mayo had 110 doubt that 80 were
satackrel, —Mr. Lipsomilie said the feet were princip-
Ay affected in this case, not much the mouths.—
Mr. Mayo said the sheep were his own flock ; hc, Med
them himself. It was a dry piece of ground at Could's
bottom.—Mr. Pearce remarked that, (sonld's bottom
seemed to be a meat dangerem; Wane for spreading the
disease, as there we. • ?Oat:trued through it, but Mr.
May.. answered ‘he road was very seldom used..- -
The Maiintritree decided to declare the whit* of
ear, Mayn's (Upwey) farm Ls an infected, wee., and
lei give notice to Mr. Symonds, of A•hpp. whom land
adjoituk—A• to the fatality .4 the &ease, Suit,
Batty remarked that only atiOnt one per cent, of the
sheep were likely to (*.from foo.and.mqnth distase.

Mr. C. J. Parks, Chairman of the Wimborn• Bench of
)(mistrals,, called attention at the Pitt, Sessions on
hi.diiiivto an Act of Parliament which game into force
that to regulate the use of thrashing machines It is
that the dram and feeding mouth of every
threshing machine, worked by steam or any motive power
other than manual labour, shall stall times dining the
working thereof be kept stafilciently and securely fenced
so fay es is reasonably practicable and consistent with the
doe and efficient working thereof. and any person per-
mitting any threshing machine belonging to him,., and
jfor Us serene warms*, to be worked not solenoid, or any
foremen, engineer, or other person, who during the
workin& removes the guard or fence, is liable to • penalty
of .e 5.

W1X101133. lIETROPOLITA2
Eisoird.—The amateur bell ringers gave two I nil. Vito about
peals on the Minster bellson Thursday evening had. The Trade dell, at 44 to 54 10.1. About 10 con 16616111101.
find peal wee somewhat, rregular at times, but was fairly lamb.; trade quiet; sheep, sheep
rung considering how short a period the ringers have Is 61 ; salvos, fis to fie ; Dim 3. 3,1 •
..Thae 71 to
had for practice, but the second peal wad rung lbw At Deptford there wen 8000 "Id*
excellenly, and it wee quite evident that the bells had sheep and loathe, , aid kiss
changed hands, for there wee hardly a bell out of Piece.
The next practice nights will be on Tuesday and
Weeinerday next.
Blue Socurrv. A meeting of the Wimhome
Branch of the British and Foreign Bible
Society, was held at the St. John's School.
room on Monday evening last, when a great
many people MOTO present. The chair wee taken IT
Mr. R. if. Eliot of Weymouth. The Rev. W. M.
Paull, Association Secretary, attended as a deputation
and he made a very good address. The Rev'. Carrr
.1. Glyn, F. Pocock, and J. B. Watson i. 1,0 addrewed
the meeting. There war a poor attendance.
A &erre Carr= Richard Woolridcfri lad, of
Okeford Fitzpaine, was summoned for asleep
whilst in charge of • horse and waggon, at ytchett
Minster, on the 17th of July.—P.C. Greenstock said
he saw a horse and waggon laded with hay at Round•
hill, about six o'clock in the morning. The reins were
tied to one of the trusses, and defendant was on the
Iced asleep. He gave a false name.—Defendant said
he had been out all ni.rht, and the magistrate. inflicted
the lenient fine of 61-1 and costs
A LAME Diemen. —At Ihe Petty Seedons, on
Friday, before C. J. Park,. Req., the Rev. C. J. Glyn,
and the Rey. G. V. Garland, Edwin Edwards, of
Upton, was 14M1110004 by the Excise for carrying a
gun without haying a license, on the 19th of May, at
Upton.—Mr. Beach, supervisor, of Poole,
prosecuted.—P.C. Greenstock swore that he saw
defendant curring a gun through a wood, but defendant
wished the magistrates to believe that it was the
broken limb of a fir tree I—The Bench inpoeed the
lowest penalty, viz, £210..
ran 1). R.V. —The annual government ituepection
of this corker was made ein Monday afternoon last by
Col. Henning, CM., ..f 1 Mr-cheater, commandant of the
20th sub-diedrict. The corp. paraded at 5.15 p.m. at
the anarairy and marched to the Eastbrook Cricket
Field. There were ',cement Capt. Lloyd Jones, Lieut.
C. J. C. Rawlins, Armistead Surgeon Parkin-
wen, Quartermaster-Sergeant Hinkle!), Bugle-Major
Mackenzie, Sergeant. Garland, Ford, Waterfall,
Randall, Wallingfoed, Bryant, Hospital, and
Hayter, 1 bugler , and 51 rank and file. Total 64.
The Tweeting Officer WWI accompanied by Capt. and
Adjutant Harman. After he had inspected the men very
minutely the company was put through the manual and
firing exercise, and then performed the new formation of
attack, and after executing- varioux other movement.,
Col. Henning whirr...art the company, and said that
they had done great credit to themselves in turning
out smart and clean, and also in drilling 0 well, the
I movementa being done with xharpnew and precisenese,
and he should have much pleasure in sending in a good
report. The men were then marched back to the
armoury and dismissed.
ML Bncnir aim rpts KINISONITEL - Was. Bart.
WS, dos Bartlett, Robert WAsekr, Hamada Etizalsda
Risky, and Mary Oaktt, all of Kinson, were sum-
moned for unlawfully relining two lOW which had
been lawfully seized for the purpose of being
Impounded, in consequence of their having been found
wandering on certain enclosed land in the occupation
of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, without his consent,
on the 24th of July—Mr. H. T. Trevanion appeared
for the prosecution, and Mr. W. H. Atkinson for the
&fano& From the opening statement of Mr.
?manias it appeared that the tract of land in
question was owned by Sir Ivor Guest and occupied
by the Hon. Grande), Berkeley, forming part of
Alderney Manor. On the day in question a couple of
Mr. Berkeley's keepers found two awes tethered on
the land, and rized them with the intention of
impoundiag them. Some !XI paws came up, amongst
them being the defendants, and forcibly rescued
the animals, refusing to pay 2s. rd. demanded se
damages. The defendant Wheeler also threatened LO
bOIAL an iron peg about the head of one of the keepers.
—Mr. Atkinson raised the objection that the mega-
testes had no power to try the case, aa it was a
question of right, the land having been used from time
Immemorial as a common.—W. Trevanion denied
this, and the Bench decided to hear one of Mr.
Atidusoo's witnesses. —Charles Gillett, father of the
defendant of that name, said be had seen hones, cows,
and mem tethered and turned out on the land in
question for the last thirty years, and no objection
warn made until Mr. Berkeley came to Alderney
Manor, which he admitted wu snore than 15
ago. He also admitted that the land was encinsedwith
a bank, that Mr. Berkeley's keepers had impounded
donkeys, and that they had made the owners pay.
Mr. Trevanion submitted that this witness had proved
his case, but the Bench were of opinion that the
question ought to be referred to Mr. C. Paterson, Sir
Ivor's steward, and disznined the came.
THE REGULATION OF THRESHING
MACHINE&

DORCHESTER
SATURDAY'S CATTLR MARKET.
On aco3unt of the coming fair on Wedneeday, erne but a abort supply of everything, aud keeifts.
mull. Prices may be taken as about the 6a.we 6a 64
week's.

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DORCHESTER
SATURDAY'S CORN MARKET. The attendance was extremely thin,
little wheat myerinfr holden. aakecl 64 week'. pie,r; but buyer* returned in moat bounce.; rek, In,
sample. of s'e, fine quality, Um.* ratei were obi:med.
The trade in Barley wadi entirely confined which was about the same. otthere weee-7;
Engindi on offer, and Foreign fetched bag was
rates. Maize ia hardening in price.