The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-05-05 00:00:00

BOROUGH PETTY BEBBIOB.

TV•mo•v.—Befoon. the Mayor (Mr. W. Knight), Dr.
Hay, and Mr. Cornick.
The license of the Greyhound Hotel was trans.
(erred from James lihackel to Florence Mummy, al the
application of Mr. R. Tucker.
John Walker, a hawker, was charged in custody
with being drunk at Syniondsbury oNI the previous
night. —P.C. Freak ~aid he found Walker drunk and
unable to stand.—Fined 5., which Wll4 paid.
Ann Trenchant, • married woman, of St. Michael's-
bow, who has been previoously before the Bench, was
charged with being drunk gin the 6th oof
Defendant denied the charge—P.C. Gill stated that
on the atiove date, about seven p.m., he saw defendant
near the Town Hell, with a crowd of about 30 persons
round her. When told to g.i home, she was abusive,
and several persons complemed of her conduct. When
witness toed( hold of her to take her to the station she
danced and sang.—hergeent Mike said defendant was
brought to the station drunk. He detained her there
until 10.30 p.m., when her father came for her and
took her lieu,. —The' Bench, in fining her 71.1, fist. anol
10s. fid, outs, cautioniel her that if brought up agMn
she would be imprisoned witl t the option of a fine.
Mr. Thomas Thorne, agent for Mr. John H. Bridg-
man, applied for an ejectment order to be made oon
John Spiller,_Berrack-street, who had refused to leave
his hotue. The agent said that Stiller had several
times promised to quit, lint had not done so, —The
Bench granted a warrant of ejectment at the expira-
tion of 2,3 days from this date.

A 1.1.1101C1, " FAITH ira.ajca."l-4atue extraordinary
caws of alleged faith-healing are reported from
Yeovil. I ninng the week • Mrs. Alexander,
described ai "1 worker in connection with Hethshaw,
or Faith-Healing H s," has " propounded faith.
healing principle.' at the chapel .4 which the Rev.
%V. Clark is pastor. The meetings have been
elowdeel, and many penmans have come forward to be
healed. Mrs. Alexander has also visited many
patients in different purts of the town, and she
reports some extraordinary cures !vaulting from her
y jAbi. la one ow, a young girl who had been
seriously ill in bed for Ovalle weeks was visited by
Mrs. Alexander and " anointed " and prayed over.
and was soon afterwards, it is alleged, dele to get up
and walk. In another case, it is said, a young
woman had been ill in bed suffering from liver corn.
Plaint, but was able, after a visit from Mrs.
Alexander, to dress herself and take solid food, which
she had been unable to do before; whilst a third
instance is recorded .4 a man with a stiff knee joint
being able, after he had been "anointed," to throw
aside his stick and walk with greater freedom than
ever before. Mrs. Alexander stated that on•
who was given mii by the doctor has been cured
"through faith" during her visit. Altogether about
60 persons have been "anointed,- and only faith in
the Lord is wanted, s'rs. Alexander assures them,_ to
bring about • complete recovery in each case. The
meetings, ax alive mated, are crew-deed, and Mrs.
.tlexander has many follower... When it has been
mentioned to Mr... Alexander that the opinion of the
doctor who had attended the patients should be
obtained aa to the genuineness of the cures, Um.
Alexander ha.. replied, "Oh of course the doctors
won't believe it, but the Lod has cured the people.'

BLArdiroaD.
BLAND/01W CHORAL AND OSCHKSTILAL Usto's.-The
The Lou,. of this important musical society gave a
morning and evening performance of Mendelesohn's
" Elijah," to large and fashionable audieuces, iq tle
itisndford Corni6sclunige on Wednesday last, being
roeisted by Mire Tabrain (e.peun), 1 the Bristol and
Cheltenham concerts : Miss Sparkman (,:ontralto), of
ths Cheltenham and Dublin concerts ; Mr. ?red
Evans (tenor), Gloucester Cathedral; Mr. Abram
Thomas (hee), Gloucester Cathedral. In addition to
these various members of the society, including Miss
M. Harts, Miss G. ?Awards, Mr. J. .1. Barnes, Mr.
C. Hunt, and Mr. Searle rendered valuable he in
assisting the professionals in the execution of rarioaa
lane of tbe grand oratorio. These p nt, as wefl
the chOrUSIIII, were remarkably well rendered, and in
fact the whole oratorio was an urskualified musical
stmee. If we may meatioa one poreux) in preference