The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-11-08 00:00:00

Dorittobirt.

WS Y 110 UT H. ROYAL Imitates'
AXD thersemae. The 48th annual meeting
of this valuable institution was held at the
Board Room of the Inannary on Thur.-
day. 'The chair was occupied by the Rev. J.
Stepheasoo. The general liminess was purely of •
formal nature, but in committee it was decid.d that
in future the druggists of the town should he invited
toi.emly the institution ia rotation, with drags,
of being oonfioeci to one person a. at pre
issot—Prom the financial steliscuent reed by Um boo.
trimmer, W. Eliot, Seq., it appeared that the
receipts during the past year had been ,Eng Os. Bd.,
and the expenditure £2Ol 10a. 1 Id. Dr. Moorhead
reedtheuslil report, which was se follows :
on hooks, Ist November. 1b63,
• adults duringpr.i year, 475 k lota, 5116.
Of ;his number 45 1 he.. di.b.ra cured. as
relieved; 3 made in-patients ; 3 dead; leaving 62
remaining on books. la-patients: Reaminine on
books, 3. admitted &arise the present year, 28 ;
total 31. Of this somber 25 had been discharged
mired • 1 relieved; 2 made out-patients; 1 dead ;
leaving 2 remaining in the house. Total number of
persons admitted to she benefits of the Dimpeneary
from its foundation in 1816, 12,022. Total number
of pinions received as inpatients since the opening
of the Infirmary, in 1836, 702; greed total, 12.724.
Votes of thanks were assorded to the medical gentle.
men connected with the institution, and 'leo to
the clergy who had preached sermons on its behalf.
RoY•L Zi6OIMILULL —Tin following changes of
stations have taken place in the oorps of Royal
Engineers, via. :—Sesemil Captain Arthur R.
IdacDcainall, from the Curragh amp, has
to W mooth,and &Good Captain Edward ry".sgartill
Sim, from Weymouth to the Cermet, to take com-
mand of the 20th company, and Captain Mac Donnell
take oommand of the 17th company st Weymouth •
Lieutenant Ferdinand B. Maieguy,troen the Curtail;
amp to Portland; lieutenant Archib, Henry
Kild.h 1, from the Curragh camp to Portland;
Lieutenants Edward James Comte and Henry Georg
Paean, from Weymouth to the Curragli camp.
Diem raoll DaoWNISO. —An omelet wen held
at the Queen's Hotel on Thursday, before H. Look,
req., deputy-coroner, on the body of Ann Carter.
aged 62, who met with her death by drowning ia
the Backwater. After tbe jury had viewed the
body, the &Dewing evidence wasecidased :—Hear
Carter. deceased's litiebend, a mariner, mid he lived
in Si. Edmond-etrest. On Wade/day morning, at
o'clock, when be came home to breakfast, he found
his wife in bed, and be had n. 4 seen her alive tram
When biome home is the eveang. as she we. aot
there, he inquired where she woe, but was told she
was out. He went in search of her, but mould not
find her. She timidly was an early riser, end be
had never known her in bed so late in the morning.
She was rather unwe/I the night previous, and that
no doubt was the reason why she was not up so
early MI usual on Wedneelay. She attended to the
bathing machines. She was not generally intem-
perate laer habit& On Wednesday she went to
Dominator with • shies rolling pin which wee •
present brought from the north by her sou to Mrs.
Keats of that pima—Mary Ann Lsogloed said as
Wednesday night, about half-past tea, as she wee
standing at the door of her home she sew deceased
some oil the arrival platform of the railway Aetna.
Witness went into the road, when deceased turned
round, and mid, " My deer child, what are you
looking at tne for." Witme., did not make any
reply, and dammed then west in the direction of
the Backwater. She appeared as if she had had "a
little drop," but nothing to speak of. She was
laughing and joking with two men on coming from
the railway swim, but loft them at the Queen's
Hotel. She went in the direction of the Back-
water &Min.—Richard 011. said he resided in
Quebec-phi... This morning at seven o'clock,
he was at work on the Backwater, opposite King-
street opening, when he saw something in the water,
He Bret saw • basket, and then some clothes. He
called his fellow workmen to see what it wee,
when they discovered it to be the body of deceased.
She was about 20 feet from the Quay wail, on the
book of the pond. —John Crocker said he took
deceased out of the water. Sive was dead. —The
tory returned a verdict of "Found Drowned ."—A
Juryman said he had known deceased for 20 years,
during which time he had never seen her the worse
for liquor. Another juror culled the attention of
the Coroner to the need of a lamp at King-street
ooruer, and also to the unprotected state of the Quay
wall, and the coroner said he would mike known
the suggestions of the jury to the proper authorities.
Towx MissioN.—On Monday evening the simnel
metier in connection with this object took place at
the Guildhall, but the attendance anis small. The char
was takes by T. Anderson, Esq., who, in opening the
business of the meeting. osmoses' his regret at the un-
sivoidable absence of Mr. Comte, and said that the work
which was carried out in the town by the agency of the
mission me very uuiet, but it was not a whit lees
portent because of its quietness. There we. • peculiar
line chalked out, so that they did not interfere with the
work of anyone, but wished all to labour in the good
work. During the past year be °nominee had been
encouraspd by the tokens of God's blessing upon the
effort• of their missionary, and their hearts bad been
gladdened and delighted, and they could not fad to go
on in the good work whirl was so manllestly selling
d.iwn Ood's ble.•ing. The cases which had tome be-
fore the coinmittee were of the most varied character,
and he bad ktioen iostanoes in which individual. late
In life had twits, brought to the knowledge of the truth,
and who in • short time after had hecn called away,
but olio in their last moments had showed that they
had indeed cast their all upon the Lord. Their mission
•ft-cted that claw of t e comniunity who were not
willing to 6 seen either at church or chapel, but went
their own way on Sunday, and were very careless of
ettrnal thinp—never thinking about their spiritual
interest at all. To such the missionary obtained access
In an easy way, taking advantage of opportunities and
issasions to spread the importance of redemption
in each Individual case ; and it was very encouraging
to him in the course of his visits to find that
the Lord had been opening the way for him to do good
to the bewnet of the careless, tbe drunkard, and the un-
godly. Right and left, creatures were perishing from
lack of knowledge, and thi•re were many hundrels in
this town who knew not the way of salvation.
Thneugh, however, the liberality of the tnansp.olle,
the committee were enabled to omport one miealonary.
After otter renstrks, he mind on the treasurer,
Mr. D mon, to read the financial report, which showed
that the receipts amounted to aIS Ilia, an the die.
bursesnasta to 174 4s. 44. S tweed Ix L..e,
seereury of the country town missions,
then gave a nvist interesting statement of the
work whisk town nuessawaries aeoenplished in verimml
places, sad earnestly appealed for the support and
prayers of all Christians.
Pi ATIoNAL SCHuoLs.--Sormoos were preached 011
Sunday at St. Mary's Church on behalf of the above,
when about £4O were collected.