The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-01-23 00:00:00

' This was generally bald to he • more exorbitant price
than the £154 before asked for over donble the quantity,
and a proposition WKS made by Mr. C. Poen, !seconded by
Mr. WARMAI that the further consideration of the
question he adjourned for the present.
The members seemed generally arreed on this point. It
wa: not however not, llnt after e.veral motions hat been
made (some of which were not seconded and consequently
fell tl;rongh), was lon,pnap.l'.r Mr. 11. W. Almon% and
wconded by Mr. J. LINDSAT, that an offer of FlOu he
made for the quantity marked in No. I plan, viz., 6ft.
oppo.ite Bat's home to a point at the Old Howse itself
without conditions al to c•llar.Lee.
Mr. PARK ntriingly oloriolivii the adjournment, and in
of the motion •orivNi ;hat the condition, /Ai te
cellara..., beneath the pathway w. add be no detriment to

of deficient mermen in his poesession.—The Superieden- THE ALLEGED CRIMLNAL AREAIIIX BY I
dent said be visited defendant's house at Yetminster on A LEEDS MERCHANT.
the 4th of January, and found the cups produced in ass At the Leeds Pollee Court, on WwineeAsy, John
on the premises—one quart cup being 21 drachms short. Loren. the principal export rnatio-lery merchant in
de the
another one le drachms short.iand various other. of leaner
t. —Defendant pleaded guilty, hot denied knowledgecommitted for trial on cOltrf.(ll of rape.
of the tieficien,y .4 th, measure. --The Chairman told He ;Wale- e,ee
a—girl aged 17, nt Bradford,
him he hasi incurred a penalty 4 CZ, hut no he expressed oil •••a.4,1 her as tie housrks,epvr. Ti first night
his ignorance of the titea-otr, heinz on hi; premise., they oh., in Ids iloti.e he entered hor bedroom, and, it
would fine him a, and RA, 41.1. roet.. is :tile committed the offence 112 M
Wil2inno Pollard and TltooPu Pofford, two youths, of
Yettuinster, were charged with trent...Mg in pursuit .4
game on lands in the occupation id Mr. John BraltP. ,of
Yetminster, on the Pith f January.— Mr. \Vette,
defendants had engaged to defend, ,elegranhed to ear he
could not attend, and the Bench adjourned the case for a
month.
Mary Ann Mint, a woman of loose character, and a
rem .test offender, was charged with being drunk on the
gth .4 January, in Sherhorne.—Defendant p1ea.1.4
and was fined 174. and costs, or one week.—ltemoved
below.
Mr. Hill. of the Plume of Feathers, applied for an
extension of time on the occasion of the Tradesmen's
Supper on Tuesday.—An extension of two hours was
granted.
A summons against Riehnrd Ann% for allowing his
chimney to catch fire in Westbury, taken out by the Board
of Hoalth, was withdrawn.
Mr. Binnie Clarke applied for and obtained a lic,guie to
keep open the Diglw Hotel all night on the occasion of the
Annual County Ball, on Thursday next.
-- wh
friend,

NICE
_RECT( )Ft.

The Her. S. s'inith, who in consequence of continled
disputes with his parishioners at Laudulph, whom he
designated in iloggrel verse as " Hemling hogs," was
advised by the Idaho', to go away for three years, has
this week been suing several of his parishioners in the
str,neb,sine count court. lie sued a widow for two
guineas as his fee for the ereeti.m of a monument.
Incidentally it was Liven in evidence that the rector
bad told the churchwarden that he should get all that
be could out of the parbh while he could, because he
believed there would be another "leap in the dark,"
and the Church ilisestablished ere long. Hereupon the
judge (Mr. Fortescue) remarked, that if rectors
generally behaved as Mr. Smith did, the Church would
be disestablished speedily.

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the purchase.
Mr. Sarni urn,l the arljournment of the unestion,
although the motion bad been withdrawn. The price
asked was exorbitant, the condition. unreasonable. and
tho Board c ill :Ilionl to wait as the pirrh althon.th
advantarcoos, tic. not urgent, ife thooglit also it was
useless to oder Elm) with restriction, for what they bad
demanded £l5O for. without restriction,.
Mr. ETIIRS -.aid the proper way was for the ni to
make the otter, and it mob! then be accepted .e not, as
the owners thought proper.
' On the motion being put only sir members Toted for it,
sev:ral members not voting. Mr. W. AREHAIII alone voting
against it. as he thought it was a good deal too much
money to give.
Several rheqiwe were ordered to he paid—including
£ll5 to the Gas Company, £2O to the Surveyor, rtc.
It was stated by the Surveyor that the boy Coward.
who had been ordered by the Board to be summoned for
selling putrid fish, hail been lined 10a.. Lord Portman
having cautioned him that he was liable to n penalty of
.t. 20 for each flab; which, in his case. would amount to
Emet

NATURAL HISTORY DT TIER PULPIT.
A good story is told concerning a town-bred curate,
who had consented to do duty on Sunday for his
friend, the rector of a country parish in the Midlands.
The subject of the morning sermon was the parable of
the prodigal son, and in the hope of impressing upon
his hearers the joy which the patriarch felt on the
return of his son, Sc instanced by his ordering the
fatted calf to be killed, the young curate felt a pardon-
able pride in dwelling upon a subject which could not
fail to be comprehensible to the dullest ploughboy in
the congregation. "Remember," he sahl, this was no
ordinary calf which was to be killed; it was no
common calf or beast suffering from murrain; no half-
starved calf slowly awaiting death. No, it was not
even merely a fatted calf; but," becoming more
impressive, "It was the fatted calf, which had been
prized and loved by the family for many years!" A
sea of wide ayes and gaping mouths arrested for a
moment the eloquence of the fledgling parson, and in
the next there was such a chuckling and grins and
fluttering of old heads below, as had not been witnessed
even in the memory of the quaint-legged sexton for
more than "many years."

THE Rcv. W. Roccr, souse year. ago mate bete
during the rectorship of the late Rev. Mr. Dien'. he.
been appointed to the vacancy. It. value is £2OO, and
the population ix 414.

RE WINO RO.MA. —The report of tins mmtitutton for
the past year is more favourable than it has been for
the past few years. the treasurer this year having a
balance in hand of 17s. ,9‘l. The members of this
institution have no rent to pay, only to find papers,
light, /cc., Colonel J. '. Niansel-Pfeydell adding an
annual subscriptim of £2. The parishioners find the
rooms very useful, the Timperance Society, Co.
operative Society, and Benefit Society have held their
meeting there for the past mix months. United
prayer meetings have been held every Saturday
evening, which have been well attended and no doubt
have been the means f doing much glmml. It would
be a good thing if every village had such an institution.
The following is a balance sheet of the Wldtechnrch
Reading-rooms for 1876
famine Members payment, .£4 : papers sold.
£1 lls. 94.; rent of wieties. Ll 12c. ; book, lent out,
7a. ; visitor,., : Colonel J. C Mansel.l'leydeirs
annual subscription ; total ,C 1 Ci. 40.—Eapeielitore :
Cleaning moms, ; oil, wood, &e., Li 34. : P,Per's
and periodicals, £4 7s. Id.; insurance, 3s. 94. : lamp
glasses, la.; balance in hand, 17. ; total, £9 174 41.

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULVIRAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, IST?,

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