The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-12 00:00:00

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Pinirrrtz METHODIST. —Two sermons were preached in
the Primitive liathodivt chapel on Sunday last by the
1t... .1. amen. and at the close collections were made in
aid of the Horne and Foreign lliseions.

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OF STEALING • SOrillZiON anD lOU CIGAR&
A boy named Alfred Bugg was charged on remand at the
police court on Monday with stealing &sovereign, 13 cigars.
and several boxes of lights, the property of Mr. John
Himbury, of the Woo'initiation HoteL The boy elnuscred
to have gone to the house with wine articles of owing
&opera! in • wrapper from hi. master, • tailor. and while
waiting for the clothes he appropriated the cigars from •
side-shelf and the money from the till The risers were
not missed, but the money was, and before he had got far
thwards home, be was interrogated. first by a boy, and
subsequently by • polies-constable. He denied that be
had • sovereign,or had ever touched mos : but on being
token to the -up and searched, the money and the
cigars were found secreted between the lining of the
cost.—Hr. Himbury was now too In to attend‘and the boy
was remanded.
lisuatiarioN or Ti! CosananerionaL Mrstsvca.—At
the close of the evening maths in the C..ogregathroal
church on Sunday, Dr. Williams, one of the deacons, read
• letter from the putor, the Rev. Frederick Beckley, of
which the following Is. portion :—January 19th UHS. To
the church and Congregation that assemble for worship
in the Union Chapel, Long-street, Stimborne, Dorset,
Hy Deer Friends,— I feel very deeply, more so than I can
make known to you, the solemn importance of my present
communication. To enter upon • new sphere of labourer.
or to break • connection with • church, must be fraught
with consequences of the greatest moment ; and, therefore,
without prayerful and thoughtful consideration should
not he undertaken. I have spent with you nearly fain of the beet period of my life. Like ail others, they have
been marked by vicissitude.: but to me they have been
very happy years nod though not so productive of
spiritual good as we might ham anticipated, yet. I "I led
to heal,. that my labours have not bees so vain in the
Lord. Porn tionaderable time paw I have had • growing
impression that a change would be desirable, arA would
among you
ofb•l'thalLinlwapsaittiol4gbor.ihas'Pt4thePmtu"urneSuundaiti;yesforaallethccUr:ostalis better
than
I haws ever before known it, and • spirit of unity prersOs
among the members. With them impressions I have
thought it my duty to apt the cordial and unanimous
oaer of She congregation M St. Vineyard's. Both, to come
and minister unto them. I have not arrived at this
decision without many anxious days and sleepless nights,
much prayer, and many fear,; but I believe it is the
Masters cal and in going I obey. The rev. 11•911•19Ani
after thanking the congregation for many acts of parsecs'
and relative lianas* towards himself and his family.
goes OP to give them some good counsel, and in conclusion
urged there to unite In supporUng and strengthening the
church. During the rev. gentlemen's long stay in the
lowa he has won the respect and esteem of the inhabitants
ganeraljv. and by other than the congmgation worshiping
In the tfnion Chapel will his loss be regretted gurgle%

NTRANOIL DISPUTZ IN • mum.
&me strange proceedings took place on Sunday night at
Salem Obgpm, gmmiehmenha, near Seth, in connection
with the disputed right to the_possession of the cha 1.
Kr. N. J. Brown, • solicitor, a/ Bristol. waa in on,
acting as meter, and when about to give out a hymn at
the emametteement of the service, the trustees entered
the chapel with the avowed intention of turning him out.
Mr. Brown maintaiited his pmition in the pulpit during a
loos altercation, during which he expelled the trustees by
freely brandishing his umbrella in their fame. After an
hour s interruption, during which abusive leagued* was
ooeiousiV poured forth as either side, the trustees quitted
the chapel dtscomilted. Mr. Brows this The
dispute will prow* to 'saw la tinpresciiaj
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PROCZILDINOS AGAINST • MASTER OF P.R.
A case of ormaiderable interest to knitting men was
I beard oft Saturday at the West Riding Polio, Court,
Pontefract. The court was crowded with members of the
Badgworth Hunt, fanners, and otherp, and the magis-
trates on the Bench were Dr. Jerre, Meier& W. Peel and
L Jsques. Summonses bad been taken out by Mr.
Tothergill, farmer. of Ilonkroyd, near Pontefract, spinet
lir. C. L Wright (the master of the Badawortht Mr.
Z. A. Lastbarn, J.P. ~ Capt. J. B. Bottouiley, and Mr.
Henry Steel, inemben of the hunt, for having done
damage to the amount of Lb to crops of wheat clover,
and gram, and also to fences, on his (Hr. Pathergil7s)
farm.
Complainant stated that on the 7th of January last the
meat of the Badaworth hounds was at Puritan. ile sew
Mr. Wright enter hia ferns from Penton Luta The
Pt part of those present anteseventy bargemen,
followed Mr. Wrmbt The bounds were walla/in front
In a white clover Said. Observing the routew y were
taking, be beckoned to Mr. Wright and the other gentle-
men not to proceed in that direction they were going.
He believed that Mr. Wright beard what he said, betftum
goon after the hounds were pulled up, Main a minute or
two they proceeded by the willow path. Thereabouts the
hounds cause upon. fox, and the whole, wttb the horse-
men, went across his two wheat Salds—of five and ten
Steuai acne each. Great datums we. thus done, It being very
dlrecon land. He wished the Said to take a different
and thee they would have toransitted very little
Wawa. Later an in the..ee dee Ilt. Wright and the
Said lOW WOO was his Said in full cry. in wow
azamlnatlan oomplelnent sea thet he had no rtadietly•
native la summoning lief
.libut he bad yet to learn
gbat his crops were to be with isapontw ln the
/maw thay had bra to say tibia ay of
the irentiman ha had had Woe written to his
landlord to Injure hint in that war. Kr. Williams. for the defence. showed that as the
alleged damage was sot wilfully and stellakerly dans
there was no ollance.
The mialstawat. la Cala, judgment es We wit, mid
that fotituntftig wee • wort by the esemee lee of
the Mad, aad Wry wen there/aro Demi to elhottet the
charge, tbeir Juriedictioia bel=atin• Complantant maid that he not proosad with the
other stunameami MOW be had team wok hat Weald
sink redraw ni a higher now,

floarrrevr• roe lin.a.--The Mew at the Medical
Minor has called the Ratko of the otedkol waterloo
to c.dbeeye COCOS &swab b. c.l. Oadtm's
Concentrated Vegetable ead remarks : ' The
none of fatty =stew has beset eanially eliadamed
sad Um • compound ratailee whit* seams be •
Waimea% bat • metadataat aloauat 4 aatralteal.
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