The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-09 00:00:00

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YEOVIL. —Police, Friday.—(Before G. Harbin
and T. Messiter, Esqs.—John Batson was summoned
by his father, a labourer, of Trent, for assaulting
him on the 22nd ult. The quarrel, it seems, arose
about the defendant's mother, who was ill and con-
fined to her bed. Defendant asked his father
whether he had any money for her, and said that he
would never marry a wife to starve her. Complain-
ant replied that he had never done it, and, after
some more words had passed, his son struck him twice
with his fist. The defendant was bound over in
£lO to keep the peace for six months, his brother
also becoming surety for him in the same amount.
—Edward Linter was charged with stealing a gal-
lon of cider from his master, Mr. Charles Parsons,
of Marston Magna, on the 28th January. The pri-
soner was at work on that day with other men in
prosecutor's rick-yard, and in the evening was seen
by a servant girl, named Martha Ryall, trying to *et
over a hedge from the yard with a bucket, which
Mrs. Parsons had previously observed in the barn.
Sentenced to two months' hard labour.—Thomaa
Gillett was charged with stealing some brick and
lime, the property of Mr. Sibly, at Ilchester, on
Wednesday night. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and
was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.

STREET. —Literary institute.—This society, which
was founded about three months since, is progress-
ing in a most favourable manner. Several interest-
ing discussions have been held by its members, and
the library, steadily increasing, numbers nearly 50
volumes, which are sought after and read with great
avidity by the members, thus furnishing a striking
proof of a much greater taste for reading and intel-
lectual improvement amongst the working classes
than many persons have supposed, and that they
only need the opportunity for its gratification, to
avail themselves of its adyantages. The society,
being desirous of increasing the library, determined
to give a second concert, to raise something towards
the funds for that purpose, and on Tuesday evening,
the 26th ult., the concert came off. As a proof
of the interest excited, the audience was the most
crowded ever seen in Street on any occasion before,
more than 100 persons being unable to obtain even
standing room. After an address from the chair-
man, Mr. Garner delivered an admirable essay on
the all-absorbing subject, "Love, Courtship, and
Matrimony." At its conclusion the essayist was
loudly applauded. An original poetical address, by
Mr. T. Whitnell, a working shoemaker, giving a
humorous account of the origin and progress of the
institution, was warmly applauded. The recitations
of Messrs. Adams and Westlake were highly ap-
plauded ; and the songs, by Meseta. Boyce and
Westoby, were sung with good taste, the latter gen-
tleman's genuine humour eliciting a rapturous encore,
A number of glees, songs, and recitations, followed,
all very creditably performed by various members of
the society, who were ably assisted on the occasion
by two ladies, members of some of their families.
Altogether the concert was a most gratifying success.
TAUNTON. —At the meeting of the Bristol Cham-
ber of Commerce, on Wednesday week, T. P. Jose,
Esq., ex-Master of the Society of merchant venturers,
liberally offered .£lOO towards providing a landing.
slip at Kingroad, as, in answer to an application from
the chairman of the Chamber, the Directors of the
Leviathan gave some grounds to hope that (if there
were accommodation at the mouth of the Avon they
might be induced by the facilities forcoaling to make
Kingroad a point of departure for the vessel. It is
expected that the extreme draught of the Leviathan,
when fully coaled and laden, will be about 31 to 32
feet, and the directors hope to have her ready for sea,
in all, in the month of May.
IMPORTANT TO FARMRRS. Our agricultural
readers are too well acquainted with a imam, to
which cattle are liable, called " blain," which often
results in their death. A very simple but excellent
cure for this disease, we have been informed, has
recently been discovered, and which we are happy
in giving publicity to for the benefit of our readers.
it being of so much importance to the owners of
stock. When the animal is found to be suffering
from this disease, take a sack and draw it over its
head, and fasten it round its neck, the breath will
soon warm the little air that can penetrate the sack,
and which will again enter the lungs of the animal
quite warm: the remit will be that it will perspire
copiously, and very soon recover. This remedy has,
we are informed, been resorted to several times dur.
tag the past week by some most respectable farmers
in Gloucestershire, with complete success.
BRIDOWATER.—On Tuesday morning the Rev.
Mr. Thomas, of the Appemone, drew the sum of
£4O, in notes, from Masers. Stuckey's bank, and in
walking therefrom to the Clarence Hotel yard,
lose the money. The valuable roll was
ilieliCinkaJed to
up by • poor woman named Mary Come,
living in West-street, who returned it to the owner
upon ascertaining, through the medium of the town
crier, to whom it belonged. The rev. gentleman
made the honest woman • present of £5.

THE GLASTONBURY THORN. —At the bud meeting
of the British Archaeological Association, held in
London under the presidency of Mr. T. W. J. Pet-
tigrew, Mr. Payne, of Bridgwater, sent a portion of
a thorn, in blossom, from Glastonbury' taken on
Christmas-eve, in support of the legend referred to
in an able paper read at the Congress of the Aseoci-
etion at Bridgwater in 1t314, on Glastonbury 4bbey.

SOUTH BRENT. —A pit of excellent China clay has
recently been discovered at this place, which affords
employment for many persons.