The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-01-07 00:00:00

DOROHISTLZ.

TIM La TB Ms. NIWKAIL—Mr. Joseph Robinson,
jun., the new organist of 3t Peter's, played the Dead
Starch in Maul on Sunday morn ng.
Commission ..t THE Puos YOR DORlZT.—Captais
Pretor, Wyk@ Regis ; Mr. A. B. Sheridan, Kingston
Kluged ; and Mr. Ulan* Burt, of Pu.bt-ck House,
liwnuage (Shrr.ll of London). queliiiwi at the Shire-
hall on Tuesday ss magistrates for the smutty of

Ma. Kssoa's RIPOSITOIT Maul—On Saturday last
there wa• a good supply l sheep. Ewes fetched horn
81. to 9d. a pound, wh. there $4 to 991 Ilere +ere
100 beasts on offer; hatters ant calve. sold at £l5 to
rzet each. and fat heat 13g. 6.1 to 14a. par Wore. There
ante • capital sale, aad a geoeral clearance wee
effected.

HMG LISS BALLA OIL —OW o thi most plemant
tertainmebte of the Dorchester Lecture Society was
given at our pretty and cosy Town Deli, on Jlooday
.ragieg Isst, when Mr. Montero Smith lecture' on
" English Ballads." A nbmparatively short number
gathered at the Hall, which would have held pretty
nearly as many again. Major lidadersley occupied
the disk, and was much applauded es seceoding the
p atform. Alter an inatzuctive I attire. Mr. Smith
very tastefully sang a large number of baler's, each •
gem of its class, and we felt that t the Dorcheater
Lecture Society, per Mr. Moslem Smith, we had been
indebted for a usoet delightful evening. Balladeing-
tug, with such taste as Mr. Smith displayed, Is cer-
tainly one of the most pleasure-giving form. of music,
and if we might hair such a." Molly Bawn," and a
host of others named by Mr. Smith, we should be
content to listen ball the night.

_
Ti. DLFTH OF sax that fell at Dorchester daring
the years 1677 and 1878 Was as fellows :

January ...
Fe I wuary
Marcia
July
Anaust
8.-v4ausber
N.,nernber
Daoruabar

1227. 1278
7.87 175 ioches.
... 170 200 ..
240 218 „
... /00
... 220 4.70 „
... 207 105 „
400 1.85 ~
350 4.67 „
... 145 LW „
... 38 415 „
850 31.5 „
... 115 30 „

ROUGH Lanouaria—At the County Petty filaseloca,
on haturdey, beim* Mr. R. Poem, ?limas Hardy,
of Owermoigne, was summoned for using language
calculated to Mate a breach of the poime.—John
Pocket., dairy's as, on Christmas morning, at a quarter
past 11, met Thomas Hardy on Lilo rued at t/wer-
m *no, and defendant called hint an old —.
P 1 '
°.ltiff stopped and asked what he meant by i
(plaintiff was in a cart at the time), when defendant
replied—" Mind your owa business, you eta :id
(imputing t 'insult a canine maternal parentage);
he oleo desired him to go to a place where they do not
complain of wet. Next day plaintiff met Hardy, and
salted him what be meant by using such language on
the previous day, when defendant 'fouled having said
it; but plaintiff replied he should go and me his
master and mien.... Their house was mar at hand.
and he told dim defendant had abused him the day
befora, when the master said it was no business of his,
but he ought not t have used insulting language. On
this plabit,ff mid he @humid pull him to Dorchester;
but as he (plaintiff) was ooiniog out of the gate, d. fon-
dant told him to kw —.--Croseexamined by Mr.
Howard: This was on Christmas morning, and plain-
tiff was driving in a cart with Charles
jogging aloog,he couldn't tell at what rate. Two young
men were 'dill defendant, and all went on the off.aido
of the cart; plaintiff went on about a dozen yards
before he stopped. He did not come back to the cart.
—Mr. Howard: Of course, he ought to bare come
back, taken off his hat, and bowed down in the dirty
mod. (lmagliter.)—Cliarim Pitcher ourrolx.rated Mr.
Pucket.--Crol-examined: Defendant had worked_for

ca:i.:7l; 1:11 ;LTC;
went 10th. station for; but they had sothing to drink
together.—kfr. Howard : There is so wood for teach-
ing manners at Owersi dune' is there T—Witoses :
There ha sohooL—Mr. Howard: Do you go to M
Th. Magistrate discoursed the ogee, of!..tt.lte
did DOS exculpate defeocisot for usiog tie bad
II was my wroog of him to use suck langua7rol-M.
Howard stated the defendant did oot use the words
towards ciefondua, but to another war; but Pocket
was one of those thin-skinned individual, who ought
Sob. put in • glair came.

Diumgoingim—At the County Petty ilessloos,
turas Mr. K. PINICCIP and gr. B. Williams, jun.,
&givers! Neale pleaded guilty to being drunk when in
:taTof. womon and four horses ou the highway,
aid.n hi...toe, going to Compton Valanoe. He
had t, stop iUi hk h MVPS, had • 11,1 s drop to drink,
and it OVIIMMINII Mtn. —P.C. Wallis ACCOmpsaied him
.11th, way to see him sale to Compton. —Fined St
and costa, total 13e.
P.ACIIIIO.—At the same esseions Mottles. Viatear
was charged wriab tree_peasiog on lsad Abbot...llmM
la march of gams. He pleaded gutty.—The keeper
se the 2155 found four wires, wat.Aed them, and
defendant came to take than up.—Plasd 1, and
meta.

MASSIF= OF LOnzeoh —The liaises of the Bride
lan woo transferred to Sylvester Bustard, from JUNI
Harvey Brown Spencer. —Mr. To,. Oooper proved
the notice, and Bey. A. Hill gays him • good character
during the time Kr. Hill had been in the --
Henry Wlllahlre, license of the
Charminster, applied for treader of the Bases to
Edward Brine,of Wareham nei.hbotwhood.—Graated.
—Mr. J. P. Reynolds, Weymouth, applied far
transfer of the Beilor's return hoarse from Beery
Maher to Robert l'earc•—" Of Camletown" was the
mid Mr. z•ymotula ; but he jocularly
enquired had applicant any nickname? Th. man's good
character was shown by the fact he had been Blears
in Um prison I—a• wardw, be it nuted.—Graated-----
Prince of Wales, Fortune's Weil —Traus'errsd from
Walter ktrowusey to litchard °anthem.— - spring
Btu,,. lua, Stabs', how George Hedge to James
Pocket —Mr. Ch.ries lii.h p, ter /4r. Groves, Wey-
mouth, proved the bottom, and the sake wis,sranted.
K,Dg'S Aral% Puntoll4ll. he. Charles Bilhat to
Thomas Ashford. —A reverend mammas, of Mel-
wn4e hien a good charaoar aad wished
MpOoest all secome in the beware he eadertook.—
utt meld the Beach do bst pint hit hones ?
They dld.