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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

WHITEOIII7IIOH.

N. A. L. U.—The village of Whitechtirt h who the
7oen• of unumal excitement on I', ,y, tho 17.6 init..
when Mr. G. M. 8011, who his been wol kn.; lime
ahort time in the I) ireet district as delegate. Coln. to
hold a meeting It appears that •Al bib obitont hal
dared Mr. 801 l t • visit %Vbitechurch, saying if he did
he would give him a warm reception. s tho 11)(0.i• g
wu Mr. Ball's &coalition of the challostge No chairman
could be got, so after singing a meltolv 801 l
proceeded to address the meeting. S meone it likiag
his remarks, began to call Mr. B 0 1 n liar. end
endeavoured to uteet the mee Mg, but as Whin chuck
people wanted to hear what Mr. Boil had to my, Ve
littoral) did not succeed. Mr. 8.11 went on t. ,tote
bow it was the Union was not in such • ppaprrons
state as it ebould be, being continuolly cheerel by all
present, after which be maid if any person liked to
woke any remarks he was at liberty to do so. Mr.
timid), amid interruption, rose I...address the meeting,
lout it was after much pleading on the part of the
previous •peaker that be was allowed to speak. He
went on to say what be did 40 years spn. kc. ; hut
be did not like the present working f the UM
of the audionoe called out "Get d we. you wait to
have your own way." oke., he concluded, and Mr.
Ball rue to reply, when he was greeted eith cheers
and ehoute of •' Ball for ever " At the ol.oe of the
meeting Mr. 801 l was invited to Whitechnrch again
In order that the branch may b. re-ostab.hhed, winch
hio promised to do.—Costa..icated.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN.

me Standards Correspondent writes from Berlin,
Monday night :
intollionos from a sure source reaches me that a
Russian force of nearly twenty thousand men is being
conveyed acme the Caspian from Baku and Petropavioak,
and it is believed that it is intended to operate against
Mere.

7/fie4.d and semi-official contradictions of the usual
sort will no doubt be was public, but I am certain that •
force le being concentrated at Baku ; that it to too lairs
to Justify the suppmition that it can be Intended W
operate against the Western Turcomans ; and that it is
believed is the best circles at St Petersburg to be tem
off for an imminent campsign against Merv.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLIL

At the Dorchester p•tty tiossinon on Tunaday
Henry Agary, a marine, of ILW.B Warrio,. who hail
born in service batsmen ere nod sq yens. a.
up for assaulting the police at Portlead.—P.O.
Attie.
had received a warrant to apprehend two marines absent
from the Warrior, and on Monday went into Chesil with
P.C. Simms, and met the prisoner and four other marines.
meg took two. nansrd Jeffsrlee and lay lor, when KUM.,
sald—" Lei's pitch into them, and oe,,ck whim= several
times: but ths constable bent his orimeer tM &reward
Yelthant nun., sit heuab struck in the ere and about the
fecia.—The marina dank.' striking the policemag, he only
shoved him.--Eiergeant F.ltham saw Me marine strike the
last witness three or four tansy, raa towards them, sad
saw the two marines plunging to get sway, but be sononnt
the prhboserowho wee very violist, ma dioy had tun
Ass wets off. The eergesat had provionsly received a
warrant from SKY Warrior to apprehend Jeferlse and
Taylor, and had mat the osostaMe to execute it —Yr.
Pear.. ge.sowerl: How mese toe to attack the con-
stable ilk. that I—Pruomer bad nothing to say.—Two
months' hard labour.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

THE DROWNING OF THE TOWN.

The state of again at lisegedie hos not altered
nuterially since llorlay. Uuiti the waters retire it will
be imposailile to calculate the loss of life. It has been
sauna su, for many of the poorer clown stuck to their
homes until it was too late. The hawse fell mostly lo
such a M111110•T as to hold the balm down completely.
The Emperor. on returning yesterday, said tint the sta.
of affairs was really far groove than reported by lb.
papers. The latest news from Saagedin reports that the
Waters is visibly receding, and that the lose of lite has
been lees than we. previously anticipated.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

1111.30111/11 IT. AWDZIW.

RAVI YOU SW VS Etcriudir 7—At Darohester
they are wondering at ths strength of our bk okiphant.
About 759 thousand bricks are to be mot to gaol by
Ladyday, and all the bones Moms. Croaker could
hire were not enough. So our Mr. Bowler lent than
his big elephant, and be polls along seven taus at a
time. and turns as many round their Townhall corner
as Mr. fiturmsy on Ms bicycle goes round outh
Stems. He's not costly, like the white ele ant of
Siam, for he eats plain food, and drinks nothing but
water. He has two conmersims of his own race, and
the horses did stare and fidget when two of th-in cline
down Dorchester High-street on Moeda •, with their
trunks in air, and giving an snort. But
our elephants are very quiet, and they stopped in an
Instant, and waited while their guides led ono or two
of the restive steeds to where their harm wouldn't be
shocked.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

A PROISPEIROUS COMPANY.

The old and welticnoern assurance oonspany, the
Prudential. has Wooed its baboon Meet, which shows
the success that has attended it during
I 87& The premium income has increate4fi2lB,lB7,
raising the total premiums to £1,837,1142 per arnum,
while the sieuranos funds have been eugmented
£250,616, mad eommeny with efficiency smuts to be
thoroughly well studied, for the expenditure on the
premium Moose has been reduced 21 per cent. The
total sum ttipred oleime amounts to the enormous gam
of two mil seven hundred and sixty-three thou-
sand, five hun and eighty-nine pounds. In the
ordinary branch the expenses have been reduced 3 per
coot, while in the Industrial breach the expense, are
8 per osnt, below the provision made for this purpose
et the Last valuation. The details of the bahince
sheet show the descriptions of property In which the
vast funds of the Prudential are invested, and the
official the ' statemeat is to prove that
mines increase of minim has been accompanied by '
watchful oar* and skill in reducing the on4oes, and
thus the company is one of the most healthy, sad
justifies the approvsl of Its customers, who are so
rapidly on the —Mr. J. Anderson is agent for
the Dorchester branch.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

DORCHESTER SATURDAY'S CORN
MARKET.
. .

A capital market to-day , titi;e being • vary good
stseemmeoe. Wheat made about the sante plow as
lees week, from Ple to the per quartsr. Good barley
for malting purposee was rather scarce and dear,
while sthouclaty qualities would not sell at all, but
seenained as hand. Oats fetched about Ono ammo as
last week, and other things were es nroal.—Tbe seed
trade was rather brisk, and trefoils °banged hands at
Id., red OklYff at fid. to lii, and white at 7d. to bd.
per lb.

DORCHESTSR OATTLS MARKETS.
At Mr. Symoads's Repository Sale on Saturday,
probably owing to the odd weather, buyere were not
quit* so numerous, and trade hardly so brisk. About
MO bead of oow stook. Bost hell en and calves fetched
from £l6 to £23; second clam from £l2 to EIS ;
barmen from £ll to El& Store hog bulls ranged
from £8 to £l3, the prior of all classes varying from
£3O downwards. Fat beef 12i. to 13e. per soon.
About 350 sheep, and mutton fetched 91. to 91c1. par
lb. ; lambs. Ild, to ls.
On Wednesday Mr. O. Elinor soil about 170 salves,
and the largest lot of lambs we have seen at Market
this season. FM calves made from 1:3 to £7 Si. each,
wmallag calvm from Me. to 45a ; fat horn lambs from
33a to Ms. ; and cross-bred lambs from 40a to 471.
Fat withers 9id., ewes 34d. per lb. Short supply of
beef; but prime were better. The pig trade showed •
slight improvement.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

FREE LI BRA RIES ACT.
To Ills Editor.

• late resident tu:y I Internet the adoption of
the " Pahlie Free Libraries' Art in P. 01. At prreent,
°sing to the cl song of the Ilech mice' Institute there is
no lib.ary within the nub of the working men. Al
numerous other towns, both larger and smeller than Poole,
it bat not only been worked sr isfactorily, but bee I mn
thoroughly appreciated by all dames. I sincerely hop., at
no &stint period, to see • public miring hrlel on its
behslf, also in favour of establishing Pobile 1141.0 and
Wmh Houses. These necessary improvetnonta would not
only be • boon to the working cisme. but to the town at
large. Apologising for intruding on your velualtle smote,
I am, yours truly,
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY. MARCH 25, 1879.

I. antielpeAten am &seek ilk* to bo foli fra"
ithakernoothier, buttons ere being 'made more seam ea
U. clothing of several lentos ignitors.
• vend tastiroonial Is Jonas tA b. Prommlld " 6" 01
forlosdj •loristiimiatt. tritons words somotions ago oot
morsiesioned with the salt of Inrim•kindome or lobo
-
"'la.resrJ. Th., lostioloolsl Is to 000titt of &II
elaborately got-op podia* awl key.

It ii not always safe for virtuous sad lovvly women to
walk along the foot-parenovnts on the Emilia-We on
So'WM' otehinitr. Toe hinging, of some young ruen (0
•ho frequent lb+ paha is v•ry oft.,n 010 r•
111•1% pate, unkint mut blush for our duo old motber

A buttin loose IS bid enota—h; but a button awl is
won,etL and if the picky fellow who dole the fowls
In the ne!slibarboad ot R dwell Station recently will
but come beck and deliver the pviltrY, be will no, be •
lotauu et the eons off, but will certainly she. that be does
Dot represent the white featherissa of the dashing
With the button be bee lett behind hirn, as well as the
footprint it is not at all linger-4*We that the eon of the
"Gress Ida" will so .n be brourat to book, and instead of
having his dear fowl, will be taught a lesson—not lkely
to be introduced into oar I:seeded school coact'', viz :
how to cook his goose

litseeral "blue gandm are on the look oat for this
=and it Is thought be will soon be withdrawn to
r, where he will speedily be drafted off to the Dot.
triterffer reserve&

--
There went to the hoir alt tr of Hymen, within the
mawl and secret sanctum of the Itml.trar's °Mos. lo
Weymouth. on Wednesday. very bo.m7 COUP'. ludi'd•
The bride eras sot lot, fah.. or forty, she eras lad is her
3193% year, while her liege lord eras, *morellos to his looks
about 70. May their days be ban*, sod mall 7 and
may-haws maoy happy seam without any Job
Caudle's ketones so the result of his Lomat tuiL

The galling rhain—th• straw th•t break' the cuners
hear —the writhing agony of the mth who suddenly Ands
hithwaf in the bed OF"R-al Natives," Is making Ds If
apparent, and without waiting for "soOlope or frills" ho
legiviog way to the inner bitternms of his soul. "Is that
a dagger that I ass before .no r
Dam' LIJITZILX.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

Alas I poor Bournemouth ! Hare you found you
met lire feat and burn the candle at bath end.?

Mr. Beldwyn MemMg. on Tuesday next, will
perhaps be interrogated about traction waglaes, ea well
as about the H.lnlng of roads. But bon% let any
oar expect an answer from the Local Government
Board. They 'll keep Local Boards well stirred with
orders ; but as for any practical direction, they remind
me of some of old: " they lade heavy burdens and
grievous to be born.; but they themselves touch not
the burden with one of their fingers.'

What! don't the Board pay half the salmiu of soma
°Boers 1 Yea. oh supporter of the Governmeat ; the,
pay it out of Imperial taxation, —that Is. out et your
pocket and mine, and of °mum a Little sticks an the
way; you must allow for Morton, you know.

Urban, Rural, Part, and other Sanitary authorities I
Don% be hasty in dealing with the Government
Board. Manage them like the ladies, and you'll have
your own way. Remember young Barnacle, and
turn the trick back on the Department—" Form,!
give 'em plenty of forms."

Corporations whose officers can show their pre-
decessors in the palmy days of Ephesus, are not
servants of a new Department, which, judging from
the flood' of queer letters sent to them, must hare an
Immure piers labelled " Rubbish may he shot here."
Mrs. Girlies. from the New Forest, bee told at Wey-
mouth the story of her revelries. Lad ha nianware. The
message to the world was "The old, old, story ;" but the
" revelations' were—not proven.
A tell. thin-faced woman, dreamed in black—not too
"cliaglag"--garmenta, with • sharp straight. Orecisa
nose,' and grey worn eyes, wee Hrs. flirting but with a
ladys hastier, her Leir of medium brown was brushed
smoothly and tightly on each side from the parting in
the middle, and • darn full curls ornameated
her occirlt, thrifts her Anew* was nigher thin
at the crown. Her accent armed slightly twanged
Is the Yankee err, reminding an of the lest temperance
lecturer. More noticeable was the pronunciation of "a"
se L. thus " piper," " Saviour," " mom' she would
masa " =arc" " Brviour," " me," and this seemed
rangy. SIN rideetly knew the differences
between body, soul, and spirit, and out them correctly:
hot when she awoke of the "Saviour's incarnation, her
utterances were hardly received with reverence by the
audience, and this was worse when she passed on to the
revelations to herself. fireldng of when she saw "My
Lord." she said He had all the members from bead to foot
all the same as in us. but in an ethereal body. A voice
Fled—. • Howl Clothed or not r And she sorrowed
' Clothed in ethereal Is from head to foot" Her
own body wear Into something different, down to
her Angers she MI case leaven of love, and even her very
here. In rite of Mn. Otrling's self-poressics. and
patience as to details, we felt that some of her ststemente
were at least awkward, and hardly reverent enough
towards the Divine Being to be introduced into Print.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

WTIOL

Dins or Ma,. Fgarontrer.—flts death of this
estimable lady has oast • deep gloom over the whole
village of Wyk@ esp3.*lly among the poor, to
whom she has ever bees • kind benefactions. Lan.
Yam:milts* was also widely knows as • lady
rare busters qualities, blended with much ditssiiloa.
Von an:lurseverence,emascially ia ocenectioe with a
. 'The mambo of deceased were
consigned to their last earthly resting place in the
family vault in the barbel ground of Wyk. Church on
Bawd., mummy, last. The !moral prommion
started from Wyk* Castle shortly before four o'clock,
and consisted of • hearse with plumes drawn by four
horses, and three mourning coaches containing the
sons sad daughters of the deamed, and relatives and
friends of the family. There were also present Dr.
Lusk Dr. Homing, Mr. Polly Hooper, of MINIM
litemall and Hooper, solicitors, and the chief captain
at the cc.stguard and his wife, and two old faithful
servant of ths family. Arrlying at the church the
n was met at the gates by the Rev. H. C.
Rrugs.i.),who very Impressively conducted the burial
service. There was • large crowd of the parishioner,
present. 'lb. outer o ,ffin Ins highly polished, with
meedve brass furniture. 'The breast-plate was of
thick braes, and bore upon it the simple record--
" Sophia F. Fenoulhe, died March 13th, 1879, aged
59 years." An itumortelle of pure white Bowers IVY
placed on the coffin, as were also tro S wal crosses.
At the close of the solemn service the daughters of
the demand strewed timers upon the coffin as the
meg memento of affection to the memory of a devoted
mother. litard. Hawks@ and Freeman wean the
undertaken.

Tin " DIM= Voinsuan" L01)011, 701, 1.0.0. T.,
celebrated their 7th anniversary on Wednisly:
March 12th, by &public tea in the Temperance
at 6.30 pm., whis between 30 and 40 sat down.
After the Ma was over, • Rabin oiertim Inn held,
presided over by Brother J. B. neadAeld. W.0.T., vino
after • fey remarks on the lodge and its work, intro.
doped Mr. M. Woken from Lytobeit Manama, and
slio=nanikoterve • short address on " T.upliug
T. W. Glover from Ma II /EA.
and D.O.T. for south If ends, thin addressed the
Eila 84 Wilfred Lamm, • re•olutino and the
in nada, , urging his Inarers to be true
sad ( hristiam by adhering ta the Tem
mos mum Vona at Martin to the speakers ought s
ma 4 lateraliiag wirentiog to • ekes at 9.40.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

" Loves the breath a the morning air,
As booknaisn ever might"

Inhaling the oxygen-and-am•ntbio-mther-laden
brew, I was conscious of something dillerent ap-
proaching, end along cams some of those vessels of
dishonour, unromantic but useful dung-puts, scatter-
ing • peilume in which ammonia, phosphuretted
hydrogen, hydro-sulphuric acid, and olefiant pa
strove for the mastery Ugh I When will mean,.-
purchasers kern that "dirt is matter out of place?'
The thinnest arming of earth would have kept in the
valuable anunassia, sad prevested my agreeing with •
EVlrloaamidghwht,o, willing to speed large
Irsf on
tig
being WINO to " Work in the sunny far from
tempted to say—

The man who's ea 'gracious's foot of stirring
Most bee moon
Local Boards are said to forbid unwholesome thine
being taken through our streets in the daytime,
t • gallant oomiumndiag raker told me •
ftu eye back of a detestable nairweeleedar el South-
street ; but at DO hour would I aDem the esbig of
liquid or gamour refuse where It might set be be, when
by common seam the public can swap • nuisance, and
the owners avoid i lea

At Weymouth all their Eco not swans. No I
I don't refer to public but to the very
curious and various wild consort with the
swum around the Hemlock eye'. but don't cow down
like the swans to be fed. By the way, where do all
Lb. swans' eggs go ? Water-rata and land-ram. I fear,
are helped by brag shon-rsts, with only half W rat's
usual number of legs.
Bent:wens ase the aooounts I hew from Loudon
about the Ektettio Light, and by 0011/14,63. with It
our gas looked dull the other night. When we looked
out of the window, found it wm shining through a
thick fog. I should like to know the behaviour of
the Electric in foogy time, when %would least of all
sufßoe to have a fllckthg saa
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

SEVILI

OitANGI

ilb. & Ms. POTS OF

MARMALADE in

FULL Wino:MT, is sold by

GROONRB throughout the Hhigdom.

TWELVE PRIZE MEDALS.

SOHO SQUA.P.E LONDON.

A DERTAIN CURE FOR NERVOUS
DEBILITY.

fiRATIK s MEDICAL WORK showing
sufferer' how they nay be cured end recover
Hwth sad vitality without th• aid of Quacks,
with Bodge for eying Lb. Blood sad removlng
Skin Itioatkaa on receipt dijiteralf ProPsl
=zit ddraes, Becaierosv Lass.og Amway.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

AN ENGLISH ADVENTURER.

The elopement of a Co' irnish lady with • Man of re•
'portable appearance, who gave the name of the Hon-
Arthur Arbo thnott, and who, with the lady, law last week
arresied by Captain Bent, the chief constable of Exeter,
on alighting at the Groat Western Railway Station in that
city, has leen followed by • somewhat important discovery.
The man's real name turns out to be Armstrong, and
Captooin Bent has now sacertained that the defendant is
Montague IlOyley Fullerton Armstrong, for whose
apprehension the Scotland-yard authorities have held •
warrant ever since Februory of last year. The prisoner,
who to thirty years of age, was mentioned in the Nam and
Cry as well known io West-end hotels, and a minute
search of his luggage has led to papers of. very interesting
nature being found concealed. It seer's that in 13 the
Queen, 00th. recommendation of Earl Granville, approved
of the defendant as an attaa-li in the diplomatic sera es,
provided he passed the necesaai7 examination. Other
letters show the defendant to be on very intitnate terms
with parties at the Foreign °Mos In 1873 he MU married
at St. George's. Hanover-square, but has since then been
teperated trout his wife, and admitting th.i, fact, but
without giving his real name,
_the defendant maid he
allowed her MOO a year. In 10,7 the defendant was at '
Vienna and St. Peteryborg, and represented himself as •
member of the diplomatic 11111•1016 allIOU4h it now appears
thot he ne er pulped the necessary examination. On the
isole of the warrant for his arrest he tied to America,
where, as Montague F. Anderson, he was admitted to the
privileges of the Buena., Club at Pittekurg. Jo October
last he left America, and on arrival in England came to
Exeter, where he assumed the name of Montague
Arbuthnot'. On leaving Exeter he visited Cornwall,
where be assumed the title of "honourable' and pas ed
an the lion. Mr. Arbuthnott up to the time of his arrest
He was expensively dressed, had some valuable jewellery.
but pawned his gold chronometer watch in Plymouth.
Three cheque-books wen found among his effect., two on
Marra Marian'. Bank, Lombard-street. and one on the
bank of Maitland, Phelps, and Co, New York,. The
metropolitan police have been comiuumicated with by
Captain Bent, and the defendant is atilt in custody on
charge of uttering fictitious cheques.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

Ptar 11.

Name of Turnpike
Description of Road.
Trust.
Weymouth. Mel-
caul. Regis, sod
Dorchester— ... From the Turnpike Road at
the bottom of a hill called
Revers Hill, oommenciog at
a cottage called Bpitar's in the
Parish of Rockland Boston,
through the several Parishes
of Beckland Newton, Mm-
terns, Cern' Abbao, Nether
Ceres, Charminstar, part of
the Parish of Fordington the
High-street in the Parah of
the Holy Trinity, in Nei
Borough of Dortheiter, Our
South -street in the Parish of
Paint Peter, in the Borough
of Dorchester, other part of
the sei,i Parisi of Fordingtos,
Winterbormr, Monkton, Bin-
combe, tiny-ay, Broadway,
Bodine's, and Holcombe
Regis, in the Borough and
Town of Weymouth and Hol-
combe R.gis through the
ormeral streets cal led St.
Thomas, -slot Mary. and
Maiden Streets to the Wharfs
In tbe said Porhh of !Lacombe
R-tis.

As Witness my hand this Eighth day of Mac*
1879, at the Mao of the Local Government Bust*
Whitehall, Latadas.
JOHN laklißEß ,T
thaniagT.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

Duet Conntti Expreso.

TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1879.

Sato anb Itints.

Another floating battery has gone down, with 47
lives. This time it vase French one, and she foundered
while at gun-practice in • storm, off the Hyeres.
Mr. Croas takes the responsibility of not preventing
the freedman Habron suffering the indignity of being
handcuffed. Generous chief! Police and prison officiah
are too apt to save themselves trouble at their masters'
expense.

Protestants have very little to hope for from the
"Lord" Bishop of the Diocese, if we may judge from
the failure of Mrs. Gundry's appeal to the Bishop
against the Bothenhampton-circulated confessional
book. The correspondence is this week republished
by us from the Rork.
On a fair morning when the bridal Earth in emerald
grilse was just Wang her veil of clouds, finer than
Moulton point, at th• warm gas• of her bridegroom
Sun, my conetitutional was taken to the top of th•
town of Dorchester, whence • wide horizon lasses
away to the Greet Western Station and Pordington
crith the Bridporteroad trees promising more
beauty still; • comfortable house in pretty grounds
made the foreground, whence you look down suburban
Grove-building' and towards tic. Charminater-road,
or through the vista of the Chalk Walk, till distance
again hWs• itself suggestively in th• fisecy.kam. And
put for • minute or two I thought what joys he has
who---
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

w•assalL

00ont PuTT Ilaniook Tooo4ay.-13oforo Oop
Figratinackseis Hs. kosoror
tits_liotorAT oonouff.-111isobott, wife of
13.0rA of Torti_ood..one seatimoood by ate Loudon
!kWOWS flown, Doispoo• far rtalog frogs
at\ to Oa lie lit el l'obroory_
her 6.4.—mwesier Nam. ot

appeared fer tbs Oesapanv, driesdant did siat
James Road, earner at Wareham Station. collected the
tickets from 148 treat ow the 1. iIL Defeedant gave
him the defaced ticket produced, and be asked her what
sloe had done with it. She told him she let it drop in the
train, and bee child broke It He took her to the ition•
meter-11r. Thomas Hunter. This gentleman asked her
where she aot bbs ticket and rho sed she took it at Wey-
mouth. Her brother, who bad apae to the elation to meet
her, offered to pay the fee (ls. 10 I.), bet ha refused to
take it..-1(r. Joaeph Pete., hooking clerk at Weymouth
ale ion, proved by his book that the defaced ticket pro-
duced eat butted on the !Ist of Jean ory to Dorchester,
and was aocounted for them—lt WO stated that defen-
d tnes husband had lately been Imprisoned for debt, and
the magistrates inflicted the lenient penalty of Al, (noted-
Ina coot,
j Marks Cam. of Wool. wee gum:woad for non-payment
of poor-rates amonating to 131. 91—It war proved that
defendant did not own or occupy the land In questaon,
and that the rate-book had been altered sloop it was
signed by the magletratea—Dionnisped.
Idols 4 Wit , • farmer, of Code Oaatio was summoned
by the police for keeping two dogs without licenses on
the 6th instant. —Defiandeat pleaded guilty, and now
produoed • license and an ex-mptiora —The Bench im-
posed a fine of 10/. and lii tees.
ffoorts leaden, of Kat:mood, East Stoke, was sum-
moned for not sending hie children to school regularly.—
An attendant* order was made.
COWLIDLT AMOLT. G•orpo Stineou, • labourer, of
Wool, wiu gummoned for assaulting Mary Stiukland, of
Winfrith Newburgh, at that parish, on the 9th of March.
—Defendant pied guilty.—Conplainant said she was
retuning from church, and defendant overtook har and
caught hold af hair arm. She told him to dipole., and he
than astanlted her iodscently. She kicked him, and be
struck her on the forehead and made her Insensible--
Toe magiotrates considered the assent • most cowardly
one. and fined defendant Ll and costs (70.)
Tel Fox LND Lou.— Kr. Travers applied to the
Bench tt temporarily thane. the Hansa of the Tmc and
Lomb Inn, Wareham, to Kr. Sydney Short. He stated
that some time since • temporary transfer lima granted
to anothar person, who had to leave the hens through
Marta. Hr. Short had good tratlraoolea—file Weston
°paused th• .ppliestion for Supt. Lavender. Ha said the
former temporart wooer expired at the neat oteclal
se•COLIP. oaths 18th of February, and los it was not con-
firmed the Bench had no power to grant • second tem-
porary transfer of the same kind.—Kr. Traversoantended
that there was nothing to show that the Power of the
niaestrates had been taken •way, but the Bench refused
to grant the application.— Kr. Travers said he should
apply again.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25

Dorottsbirt.

Ton Voxtrwrgua AND TEI AMR Damian Btu.
—So far as we can see, everything defeating the
yeomanry and volunteers is to be either "matter of
regulation" or is "omitted as tinnecemary." This ,
means, we must suppose, that as Use yeomanry and I
rob:integre are, under sedan circumstances, broti
under the kuUny Ad, already, the way in which
are to be bound by It is to be regulated by order, an
Is not to owns under the cogoisands of Parliament at
all. For Instance, we have been authoritatively told
that the volunteers are to loss their ancient privilege
of being tried only by their own Atoms, and es 111•11016/
that their Akers may be summoned to sit OP trials of
regulars. All we And about this is an "observation"
In the table of articles to the sekt that "'subject to
perdition' any rakers subject to military law may
sit on courts-martial." Now we believe that while the
honour of sitting in judgment on Use regular troops is
not thaked by the yeomanry or volunteer allows, that
Lb. privilege of trying their own men Is of the pentad
Importance. On active serrke it would not,
be of so muds account, but it mast be remit=
that now • volunteer may be brought at Aldershot or
elsewhere before a court composed perhaps exclusively
of 'nobar odium, who may be, and not improbably
will be, quite ignorant of the peculiar conditions of
service of our force. The radical change Involved to
the abrogation of the 23rd Section of the Volunteer
Act of 1363, and of analogous clauses in Ads long
antecedent,ought not to be allowed to pass without
the fulled discelcn in Parliament.— Voluideer Soria
Goarat.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-01-28

il 0t t s ant Vints.

Is it true that the Co-"per.tive Society between
13..rchnter and Puddletown le about to be dis-
solved!

Oa Friday morning bow vocal were the railway
stations with the tej.dtings of a thousand poultry at
their triumphant gathering in the Oo Exchange
Ail the priza sent home, too! Mr. Parsons and
the committee had as much right to crow as the
fowls.

If Weymouth wants to have a rosily good Poultry
Show, she cannot do better than look into the
management of the Dorchester the. Bat Weymouth
institutions seem to d.Vi0,161 In the winter, and though
Canon Bingham will plisse not be so bard on our
watering place at to say it has behaved "infamously,"
there is no doubt that if Weymouth people want to
set up on their own account in rivalry of the county
town, they must have a good deal more self-devotion
than has been displayed in connection with the
Hospital and the School of Art.
That well-balanced body, the Weymouth Port
Sanitary Authority, is about to try and borrow
01,000 for providing a Hospital. After delaying the
lavish expenditure as long as they could, they are
obliged to hare a place with two wings, twelve beds
in each, for two climes in disown, and of course each
wing must have a ward for males and another for
females. There is one oomfort g the Port Sanitary
Hospital will be available for other Authorities, such
aa the Rural Sanitary, the Urban Sanitary (Way.
mouth), and the Urban Sanitary (Portland), for by
a sots these authorities can make with the
P= Chary Authority, they may avoid building
hospitals of their own, so the money may be
economised after all, unless some fresh fit of wasteful-
nets should incite the Central Authority to order each
anthosity to build its own. With all the amistanos
aGsppoesd to be given to local taxpayers by the Home
Moe, there could not be • fairer chance of doing an
acceptable and at the WM time a font thing than by
the Imperial Government undertaking the cost of
these Port Hospitals. What frangible connection can
there be between Radipole and Wyk, taxation and
the illnemes of sailors from abroad To 004 • pat
phrase of the Government authorities, the sickly
ships running up or down Channel are entirely
" unsuitable" to levy burdens on the ratepayers of
Wyk.,
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-01-28

POST-OFFICE FESTIVITY.

Os Wednesday evening, the clerks and &militants
eu.ployed at the Dorchester Post-odiee partook of their
annual supper, which, through the kindness ef Hamm
D ,ke, auctioneers, via served to their commodious peas
in South-street. Out of doors the weather was bitingly
co:d, and in marked contrast to the warm and brilliantly
lighted apartment containing well-ladsm tables, on which
we dithlayed in tempting profusion. substantial joints,
twoltry, pantry, &c, the contributors including Mr. W. Z.
B ymer, 11 P.. Cocain 8.13 ka, Mr H. Middleton. Colonel
H not.g, CB, Hawn. H. Ling, Saunders. T. & Blue
Jacob, &c. Supper was nerved shortly after to., this
being the only boar at which tie whole of the stall could
conveniently meet. The chair was occupied by ON
respected postmaster, Kr. C. Persona, faced in the vice-
chair by Kr. John Dyson. head clerk
The preliminary toasts were quickly disposed of. sad
they were followed by others of • more complimentary
nature, the principal. of course. being. "The health of
Chairman," which was given in very cordial terms by
the Vics-Cnatasten. who referred to the kindness invert.
able shown by Mr. Parsons to those in his employ, and his
satiety stall times to thuds and promote the Interests of
the ollathis greerany.
The Cumulate suitably railroaded, dwelling upon the
gold feeling which existed betwma himself and the
officials, and expensing the hops that this would alwithli
continue Mr. Pampas referred to the valueble amid-
um be had always derived from Mr. Dyson, of whom ko spoke in very complimentary terms, and ht con-
clude's submitted him health, which was very heartily
received.

Tba compliment wee einanirtetar wileirsirledged.
" The health of Kra Persons" wee eiterwerds even la
kindly tenni by the Virs-Cwormisuu. who on behalf of
the company. expressed their bean, thanks to KA lady
for the trouble else had taken in getting up the mapper,
which was adrobsbly served. The steam. at ale seine
time, merited to Mr. Persons... behalf of the employas,
I handsome silver pescil-rasie (suPellet by Kau&
Oleanders and Jacobi, to mark their approsistioa of the
kindness shows by Iln. Parsons in prresdng the onsiall
meal

Yr. PaMOM suitably replied
Other toasts then followed. including "Th. health al
wig ffdtployeit," which was acknowledged by the roseabara
of the different doPertesents In the dam
I A few houramere thus very agreeably willed awn/,
mid at Jittery& by ant-rate sous by Yawn Parma.
(lollop, Carter. and others, the teethe proreadinge Wog
brought to s claw a little helm Wen at which hear the
awe et dot, required thill ilatemisie Wed el the eta
to mil to tie airelisli et OW es* amadag
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-01-28

011AREINIITIZ.

Woaaraa Mar's Iserrrcris —We are glad to hear
that the Working Men'. Institute has worked well
during the flret year of its ex'stence, beginning the
sec led year with • reserve fund of something like RS
Cs•arrr TO THE Poo..—lt is eery pleasing to find
that the needs of the pow during the late frosty
weather have ban remembered, they having been well
.upplied with cool through the charity of Mr. and
Mrs. H. Donnish, Mr. A. Backe., Her. W. L Barna%
,he Miens Soinkt. ko Little but agmaiptabla gf ta of
a shilling or two, where mart needed, har• also been
distributed on the principle—' 1.1 not thy right band
know whits thy left hand doeth."

XLIFT ILAN S.
ppiT, swoop% Wedemdat.—Before Lard Dishy.
Cksesseses.of Carrie, was charged with stealing
• dusk. the lowans of Aaron Gdf sal, farmer, of Sydlins,
on the 16th loot—Tit. evidence of Supt. Freeman was
,aken, sod the prisoner was remanded till Wadi:parlay. the
IS It not.

FILIDAT. —Wore Lord Digby.
AAA Williams. • tramp, was charred with &sr/vying his
lotase whilst a casual poop, la ths Corns Union Work-
house. on th• 13-d iast.—Prisouer pleaded guilty, sad was
swat to Her est .41 Prison at Durchestor with hard
labour for one osfondar month.

OMB ABBAS.
kw ured inhabituat of Ceres, Denied Junes Beer, died
suddenly on Thursday night la. . Tin deceased had beets
under medical treatment far uses days, and it nu deemed
anaecessary to bold an Inquet.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-01-28

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Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-01-28

•
THZ ILIZLTIIIINT OF jAGRICULTURAL
LABoUitZIIB IN ZtST KENT.

At the Conterburr C oat? C opt on 'loader, before Mr
George Rumen, Jed" the caw in which Illmere. Pet r.
Juba and Stephen Marten, (sena r., of Millman sad
Ob irthaqr. cl im i ejs-ttoont erders thorn.' t &teen of
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Mr. A. Fielding, for the p otatlt.. sista three miss were
adjourned from tbo loot court in the hope that sons
wren/m.oi might be row-. so. Ho wee stair, to say
nuthing of the k ad had occurne.i. sod the rues were still
in the ~..cqpti to of the cottage.. Mr. Klaiber, for the
defentlentn saki b.- .l rho the diffrrence hod net
he. n stothel. A. jur•ttic abet. however, so the part of
the d fendatitt be ref -rreJ ti the rules of the on On of
w t.ch 'n disnduntui ..111 mortilaors, and by
which they were hound—The Judge raid he could
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him as c oasis which notice to gait had been given. He
strained a point at the lost Court by adjourning the ca as
for a niontq with the view of an arrangement being owl
to.—Mr. Kimber appealed for a further tadjournment,
which was rseitted by Mr. !Nettling, who uked for an
order to get the defendants out of posseenion.—The Judge,
before giving judgmest, reviewed the strike difficulty
generally. He said he had come to the couclusio I that it
was • vary knotty queston to be esttcled by arbitration (as
he has suggested). bws.e the matters in dispute were
several in number, sad variable in substance. Thus
matters and men collectively had not one common cause
of quarrel, which could be settled alter the manner
&sputa between manuincturers and their enspleyi. were
disposed of. He noticed that emigration had been
e the tem of th edy is favour e labourers- He did
nttg:rishated to offer any definite opinion upon the matter,
but he would most earnestly exhort the men before they
emigrated to heaitate and °omen with those moot
capable of giving them the most pure and disinter. steal
adv ce—Mr. Kimber : I tank it right to say in justice to
my dients, that no fewer than eight thousand people
have emigrated under the cusp cos of this union, and are
now in • prosperous theta in New Zealand. (Laughter).—
The Judge said he would ?sprat his advice with all the
matrons bility attaching tohis words. He would sarneetly
exhort the men to make sue first what their position
would be in thoer distant binds. He then made the orders
asked, but suspended them for three weeks, that being
the longest period he could give.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-01-28

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THE FROST FUND.

filr,—With your permission it may not be out of place
for me, through the medium of your newspaper, which
so warmly appealed to the public on behalf of the fund
in 1875, for the rel;ef of the widow and children of
William Frost, who died at the Dorset County
Hospital on the 2nd of July in that year from injuries
received in an aocident which happened to him whilst
engaged in his ordinary work, to Inform the numerous
*attributors that the fund amounting to £72 I.Ba. Bd.
Is now exhausted.
- - -

Alter a considerable portion of it was applied to
defray immwliste calls and expenses, the Fund was
pi marred for the purpose of meeting the periodical
pnyments of rent due from the widow in respect of
the house oocupied by her, and by the letting of rooms
in which she obtained employment and means of
livelihood. This rent amounted to gll3 a year, end is
now discharged up to Cluistates last.
The assistance thus rendered to Mns. Feast during
the three years and a half which ham elapsed since the
date of her husband's death has been a great benefit
to her and has left her fez better able to cope with her
difficulties than it found her.

I am quite satisfied that else is deeply grateful to all
those who kindly contributed to the (nod aad would
wish me to oommunicate her acitnowledgessats to
them which I now beg to do.
H. Brewton ,
Hon. Treasurer of the Fund.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-01-28

DEATH OF CAPTAIN FOSTER.

Mr. Augustus Fo,ter, of Wartnwsll House, Dor-
chester, died on Saturday morning about eight o'clook.
lie was • deputy-lieutenant and justice of the pesos
forth, county. He was generally called "captain"
from • rank be formerly held in Her Majesty's service.
He sat as chairman of the visiting jusces, of the
county gaol for • number of years, and moved an
incresse in the late governor's salary, but which warn
negatived by the Court. As may be supposed from
his great age, he has for some time past been in most
feeble health. He was 92 piano( age.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-01-28

ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON.

Sir.—" Protestant rhurclunsa" could not have been
an attendant at St. Georgs'a, or he would have known
that Mr. Briggs some months since publicly denied
(from the pulpit of the above church) any connection
with the societies mentioned, a report having arieen
that be was a member of the same, and I think that
" Protestant Churchman" should have been quite sure
of his ground before writing as be did, as Mr. n
will doubtless have much difficulty in getting ano
curacy if such an impression gets abroad, as P.C.'s"
letter is sure to create But leaving the vindication
of Mr. Briggs' orthodoxy to himself. I goon to a point
In Mr. Beasor'm letter which I think calls for notice.
He states that which I believe cannot be borne out
, by fact or law, via, that the right of buying and
I selling certain pews and sitting@ in the church was
lost some year. since, when the building was re-pawed.
Such is not the case. The then pew owners paid a
certain sum each, according to the number of sittinp
owned. thus themselves paying the cost, or at least a
part of the wet of re-pewing • and up till and during
the present rector's time sittings have been sold by
public &action, and, I believe, some transferred by
church gift. Bo I an@ afraid if Mr. Beasor is going
to assert and stand by what he heti published through
your columns he will involve himself in endless litiga-
tion and expense. lam not by any means defending
the system, which the rector abominates no more than
myself, but rec ,mmend the rector and ohurchwardens
to get one and all to gar NM/ freely their rights, and
if this is not possible to bey wp all existing rights. I
would, therefore, warn Mr. Beasqr against acting in
any way that wonl.l tend to rouse the feeling of Port-
lenders against himself, who are such as have an
inherent sense of natio, and right,
•
Yours truly,
A Puorisrarr Noa-Con.
Portland, January 22nd, 1879.