The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-16 00:00:00

COUNTY PETTY ELISIONS.

GUILDHALL, WaridontH, Tuesday, October 9.—Be-
fore It. H. SwafficlJ and IL F. Eliot, &qrs.
W,',l) Iran clltiged with felony, at Port-
land.—Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett, wife of Mr. John
Bennett, Portland, said that the prisoner \XXX X
domestic servaut in her employ for shout weets, smut
left on the Ist omit. Wit:00:1i. notice. Whilst prisouer
was thole, witness placed 4 sovereigns iu a small Lir:,
and placed lime licot in a diawer which was not locked.
Shoo tic Lifore the prisoner went away witness no:ived
that the money had been distui bed, and mum F•Ailay lust,
the next time she went to the box, bile found that a
sioverei.n was g, • me. S•ie did nut see prisoner again
till Satunlay iml t, when she aas hi ought to lier house
by the sergenut of !adieu. She accused her id ti.e rib.
be y, admitted it, aril offered to pay her
Lack ml she would forgive her. She refused, however,
to secile die affsir in this way Prisonir wished to
plead guilty, without being sent to trial, but as this
was not an apistioieil petty sessional day, she was re-
manded to Doichester, to IA brought Up on Saturday to
enable her to do 80.

POIITLA o.—Chanxel Flee I.—lt is now slated that
the Channel Fleet will not revisit Portland for some
time to come. On Tuesday week the Diadem, Capt.
J. H. Cockburn, came into the harbour for the
letters which had been sent here in anticipation that
the ileet were about to be stationed at Portland ;
but it did not cast anchor, and remained but for a
very short period.
FATAL ACC.DVIT.—On Monday week an inquest
was held at the New Hotel before F. C. Steicgall,
Esq., coroner for Portland. on the body of
Charles Palmer. It appeared that on Friday last
the deceased and three others, in Cis employ of
Messrs. Steward, were at wink sinking a trial shaft
for stone. Two of the men were in the shaft and
two at the top. Planks was laid acmes the mouth
of the shaft to receive the harrow tilled with earth
at the bottom of the shaft and raised by a crane.
The deceased, who filled the barrow, placed the
small rubble at the bottom and large stones at the
top, the consequence of which was, that as one of
the men at the top lifted the handles of the barrow
to wheel it of the plank after it was landed, one of
the large stones fell off into the pit and struck the
deceased on the hip joint, breaking sonic of the
. bones and injuring the bladder. lie was immediately
conveyed to the hospital, and every attention was
paid to him. but he died on Sunday night.
Verdict "Accidental Death."
Tzarist° vra r.. —Last week the te.achers of the Sun-
day school in connexion with St. John's Church,
presented a handsome copy of one of Bagster a edi•
tions of the Bible, with the church prayer; attached,
to Mr. Albert dewier, eon of the Rev. H. Jenour,
incumbent of St. John's, as a mark of esteem, he
being about to leave England for the Cape of Good
Hope, as civil engineer of the breakwater works, the
foundation stone of which was recently laid by H . R. H.
Prince Alfred. The party took tea together in the
school-room, and the proceedings of the evening were
such as not to be easily forgotten by all who were
present.
Time llrit RECIMENT.—Snroo of the men belong-
ing to the 11th Regiment of Foot stem to be follow-
ing in the wake cd their predecessors. On Sunday
night week four of them endeavoured to effect an
entrance into the houses of Mr. White and of Mrs.
Grace White, but were unsuccessful, on account of
the inmates being disturbed and giving an alarm.
BLS etiVOR Rifle C'orp.v.-.Sor•gt. Abbott has been
deservedly honnuied by being made sergeantmiajor
of the battalion, the Blandforti corps being not a
little indebted to him for anyefficiency in drill which
they may have attained.

BOAIID or GUARDIANS.- -The Union accounts
were audited by Mr. Vining on Monday last.
The average number of inmates is about fifty,
but owing to a greater amount of sickness the
expenses of the quarter, now ended, are slightly in
excess of that of the previous quarter. £2,22 were
expended in outdoor relief, and .£225 on paupers
in the house. We had the delay in appropriaiin
the £1,200 realized by the sale of the old ,work-
house, arises from the Poor Law Commissioners not
havint, as yet given their formal consent to the bum
being applied to lessening the expenses of the parish.
F. Johns, Erg., Mayor, Mr. H. Durden. and Mr. S.
Groves, were appointed by the Burial Board to wait
on the Guardians for the town, and to call a vestry
meeting should the result of their interview suggest
the desirability of such a step being taken.

SUERDORNi7Literary hist- n.—Ths first
.of

• well-arranged programme of lectures awl concerts,
to take place in connection with this institution,
was delivered at the lecture room on Monday even-
ing, by the Rev. M. Terry, M.A., 011 'Physiog-
nomy," J. G. Avery, Esq., occupying the chair.
The room IVY filled by a very respectable audience,
and the lecture humorous and interesting. At the
close of the lecture, the chairman, in a few but very
appropriate words, proposed a vote of thanks to the
rev. lecturer, which was unanimously carried and
presented, and the meeting separated.
LOIIbON CITY NIMMONS. —A meeting which had
been announced for the Townhall, in connection
with this society, took place on Friday in rather an
unusual apartment for such gatherings, the h.ng
room of the King's Arms Hotel. Bills announcing
the meeting for the Torrnhall had been a week in
circulation, the promoters of the meeting having
first ascertained from the woman in charge of the
hall that it could be used on Friday night. At a
very advanced period, however, the ball was claimed
by the ride corps enders general permission to meet
at it on Fridays for drill, and a resolute refusal to
give it up was the reply to an application to waive
the claim on this occasion. The promoters of the
meeting met and determined to abandon it alto.
getber, but at the last iuouiient they adopted a sug-
gestion to hold it at the King's Arms, and they had
&capital meeting. The room was filled, and there
were many of the leading inhabitants present. K
Beuthall, Esq was chairman, supported by the
Rev. K N. Henning, Rev. F. Beckley, Dr. Wil.
hams, R. Worsley, East., W. Thorne, Esq.' R.
Longman, Esq., &c. The meeting having been
opened with prayer by Mr. Beckley, the chairman
briefly congratulated the meeting on the state of the
society. Fourteen missionaries had been added in
the year, and their salaries had been advanced. Dr.
Williams read the report, which stated that the
collections bad amounted in the year to £2l Ils. 4d.
The deputation (the Rev. Francis Tyrrell) then gave
a long and interesting account of the work of the
mission. At each of the four large docks of London
it had a missionary who boarded foreign ships,
talked with the sailors in their own languages, and
distributed among them the Holy Scriptures. As a
proof of the eztent of this work, and the large
amount of good that might be expected, he stated
that in the last year there had entered the port of
London 200,000 seamen of different nations. A fter
a long detail of the operations of the missionaries
had been given, the Rev. E. N. Henning proposed •
vote of thanks to the deputation, and the meeting
closed with the Doxology.
TItE,IT AO NH: LTU L SOCIZTY.—The second
annual ploughing match, under the management of
the committee of this Society, came off on Tuesday,
in a field in the occupation of Mr. J. K Stacey,
called High Hills, about two-and-whalf miles from
Sherborne. The ground chosen for the contest was
• piece of barley stubble, about twenty-one acres in
extent. Each competitor was allotted a half-acre
of land, in which twelve furrows were cut. The
teams were started shortly after ten o'clock, and the
work was brought to a close soon after one. There
was a numerous company 'on the field, and the
ploughing was pronounced to be satisfactory on the
whole, and in some instances really excellent.