The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-17 00:00:00

DOZONiaTER.

LOCAL DANKRUPTCY.—In the GAO of Richard
Tewkesbury Cimmen, of Charminster, yeoman and
miller, the creditor, are to meet at the office of Mr.
Andrews, on the 20th Inst., to consider a propoeition
to annul the bankruptcy on the payment of 15e. in
the ,C am a oom
RAN atune AND Lumen—Mr. Chapman Saunders
anneances his annual lettings and sale of Improved
Hare Down Rams for Wednesday, July 16th.
Mr. Hwy rookie' Southdown rams and ewes will be
brought to the hammer on Friday. July 25th. Mr.
T. Rearm Is to be the auctioneer on each occasion.
IPLILORI Or Ma. 8.. DAmicr. —The Bret meeting of
the creditors of Mr. IL. Damen, corn merchant,
Decameter, was held at the Canon-street Hotel,
London, on Wednesday last. We under,tand the
liabilities are 08,000, of which about £11,600 I.
unsecured ; and the meets are 1.3.000.
Roctmummcm... —The Blebop him Roamed the
following to °erodes :—The Rev. J. K B. Brine to
Whitchurch Camanioorum and Stanton St. Gabriel,
Dorset', the Rev. W. Higmoor to St Peter and St.
fi=soattireock. Dorset; the Rev. M. A. Knapp to
and Hinton Parra, Dorset; the Rev.
W. J. Law, to St. Mary, Longfieet, Dorset; the
Rev. C. R. Sherrsrd to Rampiaham, Dorset.

LatuAurr.—Mr. Sly, confectioner, of South-et:est,
and his daughter were on Thursday week the
miens of rendering a number of poor children of the
Sewn unusually happy. Miss Sly and the Mime
Croaker on the previous evening visited Fordingtoo,
and distributed about 160 tickets to children with whom
they came in contact, inviting them to • tea at the
Wesleyan School-room, which had been kindly lent
for the ocomeion. The majority, if not the whole of
the children, presented themselves at the hour sped-
fied—hall-past four o'clock. The Rev. J. Atkins, Rev.
B. P. Davey (district missionary), Misses Crocker,
Mies Sly, Mr. A. Wolf, and Mr. Geo. Crocker. jun.,
were si.n those whe awdsted at the tea. As soon
as the mealo which coedited of plum cake, buns, de.,
MO Wed Mr. George Croaker, jun., delivered a
brief address. The Rev. R. P. Davey followed with
prayer, sad then offered the children some good
advice. The Doxology was sung, and the children,
ripviresten hearty cheers foe the donor of the feast,
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Cornwall or GAJI Max Atria& The sixteenth
11111111111 conference of the British Association of Gee
wee commenced at Neweaatle-on•Tre on
TuesZhEyou:dert th the pr.eld.ncy of Mr. e
association.
J. Werner.
atter which the president delivered his inaugural
sehirms. He referred to the Gas Bill before Parlia-
ment, and the electric light, of which, he said, the
esoct simple lamp beside gm wee only a complex
philosophical toy. He advocated the lending on
hire by the gas mummies of apparatus for heating,
cocking, and produg motive power, and spoke of the
advantage that had been derived from exhibitions of
gas imparatne for domestic porposes in furthering the
censumption and practical utilleadon of gas. Papers
awn raid on the "Automatic Pressure Mangos,' by
Mr. W. Cowan, of Edinburgh, and on "The applies-
tonal Gas for lassaing Purposes,* by Mr. Travers, of
Cark.

A MOIIMILII TALE—On Thursday morning a re-
epeotable-looldag nikidhi-aged woman applied to the
magletrstes for protection. She declared the wee
being slowly poismsedl with arsenic, and in proof there-
of showed how loose her locket was, and, indeed, if
meesed there wae room for tudf -quartern loaf. On
Monday alight she declared she had • narrow maw of
kir we. She went to a neighbour's in Ceetle-4ne,
Southampton, end told her "they" were be=2
Into her bows because her sister had
her life for £33 (!) and wanted to get this
messy, fthe bad seen a hearse go by In the
street, the door flew open, and she maw • white deal
box bride, la which she believed was the body of her
husband cut up into small pieces and nailed down.
She declared she woe the sister of Mr.
Dorchester, and the magistrates despetched°=
Constable Coward to make enquiries. On this the
who had been very rough excited and
became dm.

1010411:07.—Dorchager "Braisior" v. A:Maya 0.0.
—The upealag watch dour local club wee platccusy
Oh. ground at Fromm (which ham wean been
placed at their disposal by Mr. H. Mayo), on Tuesday
aitarnoon, In fur' weather sad on a very wood wicket,
Oh. result being a daddy* vktory for the "-Excelalora"
Boxes
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THE annual competition of the Dorset Rifle Antonia-
Bon at the butts will take place on Tuesday and Wed.
nesday next. The Dorset Battalion at RiSe Volnn-
teen are to go to camp at Aldershot on Saturday,
July sth; the total nugiber 01 the regiment is not to
exceed 400.

FATAL Him —A young man of Winterborne Abbas
We. on Monday week attending to a horse, when the
animal kicked him in the stomach. He waa conveyed
to bis home, where he died from the injuries received.
The decerraed, about 23 years of age, leaves a widow
and small family.
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DIBTILUCTIOII Or A MIZIC•X MIAT.—M the meeting
at the Commissioners of Sowers on 'Tuesday, the
medical officer of health brought up a report which
stoked that in two days 51 tons of American meat had
bum seised at the meat market in Smithiold, and
destroyed as unlit for human food. The fact of haring
such • large quantity of meet unfit for human food, to
be disposed of within so short a period, had cast •
great strai o upon the arrangements of the commissioners
regarding the destruction of such food, but by the
eartions of the inspectors and of the contractors the
wholequantity of this putrid meat had been thoroughly
destroyed.