The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN PRIZE SCHEME.

THE sixth annual report of the Committee op.
pointed to carry out the above scheme hao, just been
issued. From it we learn that 924 candidates seat
in certificates according to the prescribed regulations,
and that, 814 of these presented themselves for
examination at their respective centres on the ap•
pointed day. The results of the examination are
shown in the class-lists accompanying the report,
from which it appears that 33 boys gained a first
class, 33 a second, and 22 a third: 28 girls were
ranked in the first class, 35 in the seeond, and 23 in
the tbi-d. The examiners state that in Holy Scrip-
ture fully one-eighth of the papers were done
creditably, and eighteen of them very creditably.
In the Prayer Book and Catechism, the average
result is pronounced decidedly creditable. In
Geography and English History, many of the
papers in the first division were written with great
care. In Grammar, the first division contained a
much larger proportion of successful candidates than
either of the others. In dictation, the spelling fell
very far short of what it should have been; some of
the examiners in the preceding subjects make a
similar
.complaint. Arithmetic appears to have
been on the whole very satisfactorily worked. The
lady who undertook, to examine the needlework
remarks—" The average quality is very good, but I
regret to see that very little darning is attempted in
the larger proportion of the schools."
Sixty-six schools appear to have sent in candidates
—39 from Wiltshire aid 27 from Dorset. The
special prizes, amounting to £5, given by the Dean
of Salisbury to the most successful master and mis-
tress, who have not gained these prizes during the
three preceding years, were awarded to William
Carter, of Melksham, and Rhoda Hawkins, of
Chute; the former having presented 38 candidates,
who carried off eleven prizes, and the latter six can-
didates, each of whom gained a prize. The towns
do not appear to have been so auccessful as the
villages. Thus, Shaftesbury, with 64 candidates,
gained only eleven prizes; Sherborne, with 50 can-
didates, eight prizes; and Trowbridge, 54 candi-
dates, bore off only six prizes, whereas Chute, as we
have seen, gained the 'Dean's prize, and the little
village of Stickland, with five candidates, carried
off four prizes. Susan& Bird, however, brought up
the credit of Shoehorn° by carrying off the silver
medal, awarded to the girl who pusses the best
examination—for which only those are eligible to
compete who have previously obtained a first class.
George Squire, of Wootton Bassett, gained the silver
medal awarded on the same conditions to the boys.
Longbridge Deverill occupies the singular position of
being both at top and bottom of the list—Charles
Perrilf being first boy in the first class, and Kate
Carpenter last girl in the third class.
We are happy to see that the fiII&HOES of the society
I appear to be in a flourishing condition, and trust it
will long continue to receive that support it appears
so richly to merit.

MIL MOINE). the English artist, is still a prisoner in
the bands of the Italian brigands, and it seems likely
that he will die there.

MR. CHARLZR GORDON Smtsornt, the Ashburton
atupeou, was committed for trial by the Lord Mayor
on Tuesday morning on the charge of rape. He pro-
tested his innocence.

TUB MURDER OF MAJOR Die VZRF..—An aggrava-
tion of Major De Vere's dangerous symptoms cams
on Tuesday evening. Every effort was made to relieve
him, but without avail, and he expired at Brompton
barrack 3 at 10 o'clock.

IT is currently reported 1:10W in the Northern States
that Mr. Jefferson Davis will not be tried at sit—that
the President has positively decided not to try hint by
military court—and that Mr. Davis will probably be
allowed to leave the country.

A CommAmmon! telegram, of Monday, says the
cholera was decreasing. The deaths on that day numbered
141. The disease had nearly disappeared at Smyrna.

Tnz British Arohieological Society commenced its
annual meeting at Durham, on Monday ls.A. It was
well attended.

Acoommea to the Cork Constitution, Fenianisin is on
the increase in Ireland, and is growing much bolder in
its movemen,s

THE refusal of the Government to prohibit the impor-
tattoo of cattle into Ireland from England has crested
quite &furore of excitement among the Irish.
THE Grocer omsoles us under the prospect of dear
butchers' meat by the announcement that a regular
supply of jerked beef is expected from the River Plate
during the coming winter.

AFTER such an amount of public discussion as probably
was never before bestowed upon a similar topic, it has
been definitively settled that the Great Western Rail.
way works shall go to Oxford after all.

No steps have yet been taken for transferring Ernest
Southey from Rainsgste to London. It is understood
that the Lord Chief Justice, who is the Supreme
Coroner of England, will be consulted on the subject.
It is at ,resent ttnoertain whether the prisoner will be
tried in London or at Maidstone.

Tag Great Western Railway Company have homed a
circular to their servants, in which they say that, if any
cattle are tendered for conveyance, and therein reason
to suppose that any of them are infected with the cattle
plague, they must not be received or permitted to come
on the company's premises. Particular attention is also
ordered to be paid to the proper cleansing of trucks.
A SHOCKING CASK. A most frightful case of suspected
child murder came before the coroner for the °minty
of Tyrone, in the Dungannon Workhouse, on Monday.
The supposition on tbe first day of the inquest was
that the mother had been practising slow murder—that
she had been breaking the childs limbs one by one, and
she hoped to escape detection till it died, when, in •
country house, the cause of death would be taken to be
the swelling. Under that impression she was arrested,
and she remains at present in custody.

COOOOB, B AISEFI,BB, A EITLIMA, or any irritation of
the Throat or Bronchial Tubes, relisseed by allowing one
of "Brown's Brox& ial Tr che." to dissolve slowly in
the mouth. Price, Is. 10. per box. —See ArP.rtisement

IMPORTANT TO 2110THRR13.—Mn. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup for children teething, which ha been no long in
use in the United States, is now sold in this country, at
ls. lid. per bottle. —See Advertisement.
IMPORTANT TO MOTHERS. —“ &re you disturbed at
night and broken of your rest by • sick child suffering
and crying with the excruciating pain of cutting teeth
If so, go at once and get a bottle of Mrs. Window's
Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor little sufferer
immediately—depend upon it, there is no mistake about
it. There is not a mother on earth who has ever used
it who will not tell you at once that it will regulate the
bowels, and give rest to the mother, sod relief and
health to the child, operating like magic. It is perfectly
safe to use in all cases, and pleasant to the taste, and is
the prescription of one of the oldest and best female
physicians and nurses in the United States—New York
Sun. See advertisement in another column. Price,
Is. lid. per bottle.

IMPORTANT commodities for domestic consumption,
that command a large sale from their distinctive advan-
tages being valued by the public, frequently attract a
host of imitators. Some to pass off inferior articles,
closely copy tos trade-mark, basks, packets, kc. of
Meseta Horoiman, the vrell-known original importers
of the pure tea; then:fore purchasers should not fail
to notice that their signature iS se each packet.
Horniman and Co.'s tea, from its reliable good quality,
has for a quarter of a century been in great favour
throughout the kingdom, proving that all classes value
good tea possessing lasting strength, and prefer sterling
quality to mere sppearance ; it is now sold eight-pence
per pound cheaper, as the duty is reduced. Horniusan's
its number about two thousand; those in this
Ality are advertised in our columns.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. —Diarrheas. Dysentery.—The
medicines commonly used for the subjugation of these
di-eases no frequently fail of effectiog that object that
it should be known to all sufferers from the maladies
that Holloway', Ointment, well rubbed uncial the abdo-
men two or three times a day, with the application of
warm bran poultices in the intervals, gives immediate
relief, graduslly sootheajthe irritsble bowels, aodawanges
their rnost distressing pains. This treatment is appli-
cable to all forms of diarrhoea dysentery and cholera and
with attention, will always be succesafuL Farinaeons
diet, milk, and barley water abould give subsistence
during the continuance of the ohmage to the utter exeln.
sion of all solid food, which the deranged bowels are in-
competent to assimdate.

The following is an extract from the Second Edition
(page 188) of the Tramslotion of the Pharmsooporia of
the Boys! College of Physicians, of London, by Dr. G.
F. Collier, published by Longman and Co. :—" It is no
small defect in this compilation (speaking of the
Pharmacopoeia) that we have no purgative mass but
what contains aloes; yet we know that hcemorrholdal
persons cannot bear aloes, except it be in the form at
COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiefly consists of aloes,
staannony, and coincynth, which I think are forum
into a sort of compound extract, the acridity of which
is obviated, I suspect, by an alkaline process, and by a
fourth ingredient (unknown to me) of an aromatic tonic
nature. I think no better and no worse of it for its
being • patent medicine. I look at it as an article of
commerce and domestic convenience, and do not hesi-
tate to say it is the best made pill in the kingdom; a
muscular purge, a mucous purge, and a hydrogogue
purge combined, and their effects properly controlled by
dirigent and oorrigent. That it does DOS commonly
produce hcemorrhoids, like most aloetio pills, I attribute
to ite being thoroughly soluble, so that no tindimolved
articles adhere to the mations membrane,

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