The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-07-11 00:00:00

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THZ TOWN BAND will play on Wednesday evening
in the South Walks at half-past seven.
The collections in All Saints' church last Sunday,
in aid of the Restoration Fund of Salisbury Cathedral,
amounted to £4 lOs.

Tit-it";;;;Ii-p—risOiler to be tried at the Assizes, before
the Hon. Sir Colin Blackburn. knight, one of the
justices of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice ; and
the Hon. Sir Richard Paul Amphlett, knight, ope of
the Barons of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice, is
Martha Warr, 23, servant, who is charged with
endeavouring to conceal the birth of her female child,
by secretly burying the dead body of the same, at
Sturminster Marshall, on the let of May, 1876. The
Commission was opened yesterday by Mr. Baron
Amphlett.
Cummins:li TO TUN DORSET COUNTT PRISON.—
ninny Bennett, stealing a gold brooch and other
articles at Wimborne, 3 calendar months' imprison-
ment and 3 Tears in a reformatory schooL —Hard
Labour Sophie Daoombe, vagrancy at Wimborne, 1
calendar month; James Dillon, idle and disorderly
at Bridport, 14 days; Mary Ann Hunt and Ann
Pain, drunkenness at Sherborne. 7 &ye. —lmprison•
'semi : John Frampton, non-compliance with bastardy
order at Melbury Osmond, 6 weeks.
Ti WILATHIN.—The fotlowing is our rueteorolopcal
report:—

I Lowest I
Dal& Noon. Point MI Wind. State of Weather.
Night.
July •
3 70 63 N 8 & W Cloudy, fine
4 87 14 ,NW& 8W aoudy, misty
5 60 63 SW I Rain, misty
6 121 53 ' sg as I misty, rain
7 OS 54 WSW Cloudy, rain
8 62 50 W Pine, stormy
9 II 48 1 W Fine, mist

EX C 011810 N . —The emyloyfs of Mr. James F.
Hannah, upholsterer and cabinet maker, Comhill,
had their annual excursion on Friday lasi. Fortun-
ately, the weather was all that could be desired.
The party, consisting of representatives from all
departments of the establishment, left Dorchester by
the 6.40 train for Southampton, and proceeded thence
by steam packet to Hyde, which they reached about
11 o'clock. After a pleasant ramble at Hyde they
took train for Shanklin, where an excellent dinner
had been provided by Mr. Tizard, proprietor of
babes HoteL Mr. Holland was in the chair. On
the removal of the cloth the health of Mr. Hannah
was proposed as the toast of the day, and the compli-
ment was well received. The visitere then wended
their way to the Chine, and otherwise amused them-
selves by boating and bathing, returning again to
their hotel for tea, after which they took train for
Hyde, reaching Southampton about nine o'clock.
Alter two boon' amusement at the Music-hall they
returned by the midnight train. The day proved one
long to be remembered, on account of the thorough
enjoyment afforded.
COLPORTA GS A2SOC I ATMS. In connection with
this association (whose head quarters are Pastor's
College, Temple-street, St. George's
-road, London),
an agent has been recently appointed to this town and
neighbourhood. From their annual report for 1875,
we learn that the association was established in 1866,
and its object is the increased circulation of religious
literature by means of Colporteurs, whose whole time
is devoted to the work, and who are paid by fixed
salaries, and by book agents who canvass for orders
for periodicals and supply them month by month.
The committee report that "Since the last annual
meeting 18 new districts have been opened, which
would make a total of 53 had not 6 been discontinued
during the same time owing to failure of the local
subscriptions from various causes. The nett increase,
however, is 12, making a present total of 47 districts
occupied. Progress has also been made in the value
of sales effected-, which during 1875 has been £4415
Ba. 7d, being £1,281 7s. 9d. in excess of the previous
year. This amount includes £215 7s. worth of books
sold at the depository, and by book agents, of which
the association has 12 in addition to its Colporteurs. The
subscriptions for the year amounted to £1,866
the nett cost of the work has been £1,912 7s. 3d.'
During the year 1875 nearly 50,000 books, and 67,662
periodicals have been sold. In addition to this the 36
colporteurs employed by the association, distributed
gratuitously upwards of 100,000 tracts, and visited
11110,000 (unifies. These figures show the magnitude
of the work carried on by this means, and the good that
is being done will be more fully ascertained by con-
sulting the annual report, which can be obtained of
Mr. Richards, the agent in Dorchester, who will also
be glad to supply. all other information. Any friends
desirous of helping the association by their subscrip-
tions, (and its stands much in need of help), can send
to the secretary Mr. W. Corden Jones,
BOSOIJOH POLlCNVestardig (111011dAY). —Before Mr. J.
F. Hodges and Mr. .J. G. regory.
Mary Foots, an old fihirburntuk was charged with being
drunk in the pariah of All Saint's, on the Ist of July.
From the constable's statement, it appeared the lady
had managed to ship her cargo by about four in
the afternoon, being so heavily laden that when she
wanted a gossip she had to prop herself
against a friendly wall. She, it would seem, had gone
quietly home, and there was nothing in the affair except
that she had had • little too much. This she admitted,
and expressed her regret for. Fined th., to include costa,
and allowed a fortnight to pay
Levi Harieck, • lad, was charged with torturing a cow
by stoning it A man named Mantell saw the defendant
take up • stone and " dro" at the cow. He hit it in tha
eye. The "eye was now dou'ted from the light"—The
cow was blind, and had lost the sight of its eye entirely. The
Bench told the boy it was a very mischievous act, and 000
which they could not overlook. He would be fined 10s.,
including costs, and If not paid in • fortnight he would go
to prison for seven days. Other boys had better take
warning.
Jaws Hoare was charged with assaulting Mary Norris.
It was • For.dington row. On the last day of June, the
" preachers came down on the bridge—the woman said
—and she went to hear them. This was about nine, and
when she got home, edified by the discourses, she and the
man had a squabble about the rail she had put up, and in
the course of it he put his fist three times in her face.
She told him to keep off, and he then said he could give
her semething.—(Defendant : Speak the troth, Mary.—
Complainant So I be, Jim; if I b'aint I hope
shan't go out alive.)—He then hit her in
the cheek and she struck at him and hit him,
she hardly knew whether on the head or the shoulder,.
The end of it was, to quote Mrs. Norris's descriptive
language, "When he used his fists about my heed, just
as be chooeed, and down I were obliged to goo, and my
head ever since • be'n like a addled finger." The defen-
dant called his little girl to prove the complainant smacked
him In the face to begin with, and the Bench holding It
had not been made out, dismissed the case.
The Bench gave judgment in the case of Hann v. Narda.
It will he remembered that this was a very disgraceful
squabble, and the sun, and substance of it was that the
defendant told the complainant she was the averse of an
honest woman. The woman swore that having heard the
man had told her husband she WAS a whore, 'lie went to
him and asked him if he had said so. This was in the
street. His reply was "Yes, I said so, and I can prove
you are a whore." Defendant denied that he repeated
the offensive expression, and declared that what he had
said was "and I can prove ii. The Bench ruled in favour
of the complainant and her witnesses, and u the Town
Clerk pointed out that, probably, if the terni had been
addressed to a man instead of a woman, defendant would
have been knocked down and the language might, there-
fore, be considered calculated to excite a breach of the
puce, they inflicted • tine of 10s.—Mr. Weston was for
the complainant, and Mr. Howard for the defendant.