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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

PITDDLETOWN.

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ENTERTAINMILIit.—A large audience aaaembled
the schoolroom, on Friday evening. .e the 0w...i0n al
the seuond of the winter entertainment, which wa,4
a very gratifying and succeaaful character. The
vocalists who Wok part comprised M. William..
Freeman, Miss S. Tom, Mr. !lowland, Mr. W. Tow,
and Mr. (lover. The Mime,. Shirley play.sl a melee
of pianoforte .lueta most effectively, whilst the read.
ings and recitations by Mr. 4 :enge, Mr. whlfielit Me.
W. Tom, Mr. Lakin, and Mr. Nichol,, wervhstmedto
with much pleasure.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

Cotan Calk anD Start edicts.

Our new Mayor has begun with a dinner to the
police and a public breakfast. "Go it while you're
young "—in office.
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I was very glad to find yesterday that the old
custom of • Corporation breakfast was revived. Dimy
In his speech tells na " sugar is riii;" and this makes our
breakfast-table a more expensive luxury. This is how
the Conservative Government benefit the working
man—they raise Use price of sugar awl cocoa, and even
Cockle's antibilions pills are said to be about to become
dearer than they were, so I advise all who use them to
buy in a good stock.
I hear that the lord of the manor was invited to the
Corporation breakfast as so cx offirio guardian, and
didn't come. The borough magistrates might have
been thug invited; but ha,l they been it would have
been for the last time, as the legal proceedings against
them are still going ow

Having a spare hour the other day, I wandered as far
as the Kinson gate. I admired the trees on the king-
s/m.14,A1, all newly planted, reminding me of the
"Champs Elysees "at Paris. I ale, saw with satis-
faction that a new cottage is begun near the toll-gate—
another chance for anew resident in that respectable
and aristocratic locslity.

I did not prolong m 7 walk, fearing I might get
shot, as I Lewd that desperate character. a little
further on were shooting dogs, and I feared that I
might be taken for one.
Hands wanted !! to trench on the Can— What am
I talking about! I was quoting from a wrong placard.
I meant to have alluded ti one which begun, orrmt
to have began thus—" In view of the approaching
General Election I am anxious to employ sixty
married (single won't do) voter. (imperative) to," ,te..
I am getting confused; perhaps Mr. Baker—not
Samael—will set me right.

I have seen a bill about "Hand. wanted" in the
windows of many of the Conservative electors of this
borough. I have not. seen 000 in the window of any
Liberal elector, although at Farketoste I saw a bW
about "Hand. wanted " pasted over one with "Poole
Conservati iation " on the top of it, and I at
once gusred the analogy.
Feet wanted !! to ran and take their owners to
where they ran tell the electors that Mr. Waring will
address them early in December, and that he will be
returned by a large majority, notwithstanding that the
Cantord Mate still exists.
The development of that great and glorious estate
progresses rapidly, whether it be a nett little cottage
at a shilling a week, or a snug little villa with a
cosch•honee and "table shutting out the only bit of
view it ever had perched in* In fraud of it.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

OAPTAIN IBRD BURNABY.

Boni Hone Guard&

Page 13 says :—" Two pairs of boots lined with fat were
also taken ; and for phrsic—with which it is well to be
"applied when travelling in out-of-the-war placee—eunie
quinine, and Cockle's pills, the latter a must invaluable
mechcink and one which I have uned en the natives of
Central Africa with the greatest possible success. In foot.
the marvellous effects produced upon the mind sod body
of ea Arab Sheik, who wee impervious to ell mud,*
rnedieinee, when I administered to his. dim
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

TEMENTS Of TEE QUEEN'S SHIPS.
(By or Perllllloll4ll Cornespotuksi).

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Partamouth-.—At :Two Rut= corvettes. the
R wborprik and Napier:wilt.
Ifspectad Arms's : ILX. Shire Tyne, Malabar. and
Hems.

il;cted Departures MX Ships Discovery and
Tyne, Ont.rio (traruipora
North American nod West Indian Sistim.—Vit !-
A hydra' Sir E. A. losiefl-11, Yoffie.. C.a. 7.11 8., is
H. 14.8. Bellerophon, at lialifsx. on the Ilst lest, Pro-
Pond to leave for Btrrooda on toe 13111 ins. in Billem
Phoo with Tourmaline, Druid. Plover, ami Z 'parr in
company, Boxer remaining at &Ili".
Troop Servica—H.E.S. Eiradaya arrived at 314. m
on the 114 init., and would lesve ifornellately.
Orontes arrived at Esdrse on Ma 21st inst., and Ids the
same day.
Indian Troop Eforvica—H.M.S. gaphrates left Port
Said on the 21. t lost for Malts and Portsmouth.
I Blesentem.--Comus was imputed by the emsmander-
-In-chief on the flit lost, and irft on the 22nd inst. for •
week's cruise, and then start.; for I'ortlan.L-11.M.5.
Carysfort went out for trial on the 21st inst.
Plymouth.—H. M.S. Northumberland made • esti/fac-
tory trial on the 214 Mat
Noval Reservea—Rear.Admiral 11.1.11. the Duke of
Edinburgh relieved Vice-Almital Phillim•.re as Admiral
Superintendent of Naval Reserves on the 21st inst.
Illad•lrs.—H.K.S. Bacchante arrived on the 214, and
will sail on the 59th last

MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS BETWEEN ENG-
LAND AND INDIA.-SEASON 187040.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

BIDEFORD.

ALLEGED l'Acarmn.—Nfueh excitement exists at
Bideford owin ' • to the death from poison of Elizabeth
Porry, a :el 21. a olortnecie servant. Soma bread awl
but'er she had eaten was sprinkled with arsenic. It
is alleged by another eorvant that the deceased took
arsenic to remove op to from her (ace. Th. jury were
locked up the whole of noonday night in consequence
of not being able to agree to a verdict in the case of
Poisoning loy arsenic of a servant girl named Mary
EUx .beth Perry. The jury eat from seven in the
evening until five n'elock,Friday morning, and did not
agree, but adjourned until ten o'clock for additional
evidence, and then brought in an open verdict. The
jury were confined iu a small room without fire or food
of any kind, but managed to pass the time in smoking
their pipes.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

FACTS AND FANC=

BETTER TRANS-LATE THAN NEVER. —"leiperißli AT
Zolertse."—Taking liberties with the Emeire.
Tee REVIVAL OP Testi& —Chorus— 'She's getting
better i—No, she isn't !—Yes, the le" Lord ft—" She
is • and will observe that it is entirely due to
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-41111PLIC Brews BOOKKEEPING.—Bortow books from
your friends and Dever return them.
Or Comma. —lt is said that the members of the Senior
United Service flub have at last made up their minds
not to give Lord Chelmsford a dinner. We suppose they
were undecided about his desert

WHAT ?rid WORLD SAYS.
It is now two months alto duels at • little dinner-PartY
I where politics were being talked. I heard a sagacious old
hhmrver of the signs of the times quietly outline one phase
of the Government policy. " Mark my worsts,- mhi he
" I won't go so far as to aver that they are fomenting a
rebellion in Ireland but by their elaborate refraining from
warning SY to the con...silences of inflammatory language.
they are virtually acessworim Wfore the fact. The trump-
card in their bad hand is a riw in Ireland. If it compa
naturally as the outcome of Parnell's agitatioo. so much
the gamier and better last if the tire and fury threaten to
die out without wigs on the green, they will deliberately
insure the shindy they want In the device of limiting some
arrest& Such a provocation will bring about • • cabbage
garden' here and there. The llinistry will raise the cry
of ' Rebellion !' strike hard and heavy with the military.
whom they are already quietly disposing about the country :
enlist behind them all the anti Irish Jingo feeling which
obstruction has so stimulated and, In the midst of the
martial-law epoch—my, about February—go to lb. con-
stituencies with the cry of ' the country in dupe and
urge that it would he unpatriotic to withhold ampsmit Lem
her Majesty's Ministers in such a aisle
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

FRAMPTON.

THZ ReATOIATIOXII AT Sr. SKPUI.CdaiII CHCacH.
ter um lergoing an entire reconstruction internal y,
the windows externally having had new Gothic
trac-ry and inullions introduced, the historic church
if sit. Sepulchre, Snowbill, Is intended to be re-
opened at Christmas. One of the chief features in
the alterations is the entire removal id the gallerie%
west gallery and the organ formerly hid (non
view • lofty pointed central arch, manifestly erected
when the tower was built. By the removal of the
gallery and the organ, this arch is now fully opened
out. In addition, two other deeply-recessiel Gothic
arches on the north and south sides of the west
entrance have likewise been discovered and restored.
A prominent feature in the structural alterations of
the inter or consists of the new organ-chamber which
is now being made ready in the recessed space on the
north side of the church. called St. Stephen's Chapel.
In front of the chap-I or recess a very elaborate
screen haw been ere:ted, in Caen done, with shafts
and capitals in Irish green and Devonshire marble.
be organ itself is being very considerably enlarge!,
It.. ca-is being likewise extended, the front of which,
when t-ompletwl, will be 37f1. in width. The windows
of the church are filled in with cathedral glans in pale
green and blue, which hae a disagreeable effect. All
the old oak pews have been removed, and open
benches substituted constructed of the material
funning the pews. re. original contract 1•1111 £1,275,
but subsequently • second contract was materiel into,
In cordquence of it being determined to introduce
stone mutinous into the windows, together with other
devia-ions, and the estimated cost of the restoration%
Including the enlargement of the organ' is, we are
tol I, between 114,000 and £15,000. 'lhe main arcade
and ceiling agree but ill with tgorPledkidar
windows pat in, and the general el ,
we cannot
avoid oaylig, is woods( la issagratt7.—Bldider•

CIELID.

Sopustrttor —Since the horrible murder near this
pleas in March last, the cottage in which the murdered
man Churchill lived has attracted considerable
attention. For some time after the execution it
remained uninhabitod. It woe then let to a labourer
and his family, but the in-comers soon found they
could obtain no rest. They irate that the murderer,
"Kit: y," has been frequently seen to glide about the
premisess in ghostly attire, and that old Churchill ham
been distin tly observe.l to look in at the window, with
hideous countenance. This, added to the appearance
of blood on the fl or of the room in which the tragedy
was eaa.ted, superna:ural movements amongst the
furniture and other articles, and unearthly noises in
the immediate vicinity of the halloo, so unsettled the
occupan s that they at last abandoned the dwelling,
which is now regarded as " haunted"
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

BRISTOL.

THE TEN PEW:CH lre.,nore underwent a diacuasion
at the meeting .1 the hoard of Guardians on Friday.
A motion was made to co-operate with other Unions
in memorialising the 1....n1 Government Board to
promote a change in the licensing laws, in order to
check the pauperism canned by intemperance. This
was supported by the chairman and vice-chairman, and
also by a brewer, the latter declaring that drunkenness
injured his trade more than it did any clam of society.
Several gitanlians testified to the effect od drunkenness
in recruiting for the Workhouse ; but the advocates of
the motion were out-voted, and the petition was
ordered to lie on the table.

OXISHORD PITZPAINIS.
GALvANIsin, Writz ntILLI6IIB.—If any one will tie
the shoots with bast matting, twisted in the form of a
figure 8, so as to let the shoot rest on the matting, be
need not fear gum or canker unless the bast is tied
tight enough to obstruct the circulation of the sap. I
use cast-iron nails and but, which are superior to
shreds and wrought-iron nails. The nails need not he
drawn, as they are easily broken off and the bast
removed without leaving insect holes in the wall.
Shreds and wn,ught-iron nails must be drawn, and
holes in the wall are left. Moreover the bast in always
neater than shreds of all colours, which also harbour
insects. The nails may be left in the wall, and
not look unsightly after the bast is removed. I do
not remove lily nails unless they arc in the way, as
they may be useful at pruning time. I regret to Kay
that the wood of peaches and nectarines is not well
ripentKl, and the fruit-buds are few and unripe.— W.
F. tiaddpffe, Nov. 24.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

SX ETSR.

SIR MAASIT Lures teems to hairs • ilea vein ofru
•
ditletre, and appeote reputes. At • market-duountelinfr n
Devonshire the other day he brillbuitly annihilated •
person who preauin,d to erase .words with him. The
parvon had blandly sureeetc I that tithes should he paid
by the landlord. invtoed of the tenants. Sir Raney did
not q Ate approve of thie enritestian. ae it would any. the
person the trouble of rolb•etion and of giving the tithe-
dinner. The parson did not think the clergy were
deficient In hospitallty. Sir Massey "Certainly not nor
In gettii.g long fautilits."— World.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

BEEN RIGIII.

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Rerntcrinu OF Rut. Mr. 11. B. Jews, 0
Hot'. Yarns, writes as ("Bowe
has done Mr. Drax, Ml'., the boaour of lettipit the
public know he made a deduction of ten per mt. ..a
the half•ye .r's rent paid at Bore Ite;:is lag month, I.
ma one of his largest tenants in Bore, oh oldie clad if
you woold insert the same in your next hone ; alsothe
Rev. J. F. Lang( ViCW of litre 100 ha,
instructed his agent, Mr. Bodwell, to make a Iteat
ton ..f ten per cent, of the li.aeLd tithe, the un
(Je ober Ist,
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

1p:p1)1.:It IN. IRELAND.

A munler took titles on Friday at barmen flanrig, near
Seem, county Kerry. Myles Brennan, bailiff, while
executinc a decree on a farmer named Dennis Shea, wits
a:Licked by the wife of the latter, who took up a stone
and Hung it at Brennan, striking him on the heel and
killing hint on the spot. The merman had pursued the
deceased a considerable distance with her infant child in
her arms. She was immediately arrested.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

YEOVIL.

A contest for a vacTs;t-
neat- --In the Council termi-
nsted on rlatiirday in the election of an old member
(Mr. Vincent, hrereel. The poll was as under—
Earle Vincent
John Hill . . . 17:3
T. Vinoeot 197
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

JO Broet Couutti friatos.

TUKIIDAY, DEOEMBIR 2. INg.

A Birthday Messonal to Mr. Gladstone on his
attaining his 70th year, is most fitting and appropriate,
and the plan bids fair to have a grand success. In the
face of such breaches of the ninth commandment as
those perpetrated at Conservative banquets, it is well
to remember that when Mr. Gladstone went out of
office, he left an immense surplus, sufficient for the
abolitim of the Income Tax.

Are the Romish Bishops in Belgium telling false.
hoods, or—herr-4de dial., is the Pope? The Bishops
declare they arc in possession of a secret brief front
the Pope approving their hostile attitude towards the
Belgian Government; the Pope professes to observe a
dignified neutrality in the conflict. and Cardinal Nina,
Papal Secretary of State, denies the existence of secret
instructions. It would appear that one or other of
these high church dignitaries has been acting on St.
Alphonse Liguori's advice, which permits mental re-
servation in Romanists to an extent that some Eng-
lishmen would call lying.

What was the use of Lord Balls wild statement at
the Poole Conservative banquet ? It is matter of
public notoriety that Mr. Gladstone was a most
economical statesman, and whatever else may have
been charged against him, no Tory that we know of.
before Lord Bury, has ever dared to advance the
Incorrect charge thathe left an almostempty exchequer.
Mr. Gladstone has been accused of tempting the
nation, as Jupiter did Danse, by a shower of gold
but Lord Bury, with daring that might imitate, and
seems to surpass Lord Salisbury, asserts that Earl
Beaconsfield on corning into office found an almost
empty exchequer. The audacity of the charge com-
pels one to repeat the words, in hope, if possible, to
understand them in some light not so unfavourable as
that to which we arc at first tempted.

Perhaps it would be as well to examine in how
many State-supported edifices of the Church of Eng-
land the exhibition of the Ten Commandments is
ensured. And if Tory lords are to go about the
country uttering a multitude of words, they might
lost be coached up in the most important parts ot the
Charr.h Catechism.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

ELECTION OF MR. PELLY HOOPER AS
TOWN CLERK.

A full meeting of the Town Council was held on
Thursday. under this presidency of the Worshipful the
Mayor (G. R. Eliot. ) There were also present : —Mr.
Alderman Millelge. Mr. Alderman Thomas, Mr. Alder-
man Robertson; Consocilloss ?boogie, &main, Wallis
Charles Groves Dunn. it obens Menne, Graham, Lowell,
Dennis, Walker, Ayles Cart* Landis Aylesbury, =A
Snook.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02

rig IlplirlCES LDgR Tng LIBERALS.

II iw did we leave to too Torres tin, Army of the
country I One of the farourito assertion, of their sso-ibes
is that we ruined the Army. Well, gentler:nes,
undoubtedly we put the country to very heavy expense
on account of the Army, but we put it to heavy expense
for objects that ere thought import our. Wo found that
the Army through sayitrui of perchers was ihr property
of the rich. (Hear, hear.) We abolished parcuaae—floud
chain); we abolish° I purchese, end we tried to make the
Army—and id *owe degree I hop, we here made it—the
property of the notion. (Cheers.) It is said that we
weakuirei and reduced the A-my. Why, we founded—
her the lint time—a real mid tttt reserve. (tidy during
the last year has hippene 1 an event previously quite
unknown to our history—narunly, that, upon Chu stroke of
• pen by • Minister, 35000 treined nava were aditri almost
in • day to the ranks of t, army.