The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-23 00:00:00

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BLANDFORD.

Mew Trea's Ltomnime.—The Bac B. Gray, adulator
of the lodependicat Chapel, emmensed en Sunday gym
Ing hie maul mum of tires mom specially Ishmael
let thine who do net abate* Wend isy plass of
wordiip. Our Lord'. address to the dying thief lensed
the topie of disc:nine, lath* whisk was earnest sad
affeetionate, and maculated to awaken interert la the
great Inaba of our holy religtoe.
Pa.vev Saunas' BLPIL—Tbie instal institution
we are remitted to learn continues in a prosperous
state. Prom the annual augment for the pail year
we hare been favoured with the foil .wing pa/d-
-ealers :—Number of deposits, 3,185; amount de-
posited, £lOB 4s. 41.; withdrawn, £123 2.. 444.
balsam to the credit of depositors, £134 Si. aid.
New accounts open. 123. Number of depositors
end of the year, 273.
Brii Dosser flirts Cour& —The annual meeting
I of ibis company took place in the Town Hall on
Friday evening. Oilonr•Sergeont Meade* occupied
the chair. The main object of the meeting was to
hear the report of the secretary, Mr. Pitmen'., who
resigns his office compliment, "II hie leaving Bland.
ford. From the stateinent read it appears that the
past year has been a very suceueful no. as regards
the financial position of the coils, the bolanos la
hood being upwards of £ll4 The tom of officio of
the oommittes having expired, a new one was
chosen consisting of the following members
Sergeant War.ham, Corporal Cream, Ineme-Comoral
Ilorlock, Bandmaster Ey ere, &remora. Biage
Pleat.. Munch ton, lloaday, Bartlett, and Rather.
ley. It was then proposed by Sergeant Wareham,
and unanimously agreed to, that • seheoriptioe be
raised for the purpose of preeesting • tertimosiiii to
Corporal Furmay,e, as a mark of their appreciation
of his valuable services as secretary of the mope.
Bandmaster Byers kindly consented to act ea
Plummer, end nearly £2 was immediately sub-
scribed. The oco-comnsiemioned officer, were ap-
pointed to collect anbecriptioss.

of
PRIBINTATION. —A meet catifythg recognition
pervious rendered was on bureday pre-mated to
Corporal Furmage, late secretary to the Bth Dorset
Rifle Corps, on his leaving Blandford, in the thap•
of an elegant eight-day skeleton tiros-piece, the
manufacture of Mr. Hood, of Ibis town, and which
attracted considersble notice and oommendation ab
Lb. Industrial Ethibitios held in Blandford led
summer. The presentation took place at the Crown
Hotel, in the of several of the Naha:ethos.
In the unavoi ble absence of Lieut. Johns, the axis
was taken by Serpent Wareham, who in the name
of the seheoribers bandied the time-piece to Kr.
Farmer, at the seine time referring to his courtesy
and aseideons atheetion to the deities of his Wee es
escreterf, and the interest he had &own in all that
related to the welfare of the oorpu —Mr. Furlongs
expressed his grateful acknowledgnents to his late
eumundet for their kind present Whomever, Ise
after his, he looked arm the handsome present
.they bad beam pleased to woke him, the many
days be had spent with the members of the's=
Dorset would be foreibly brought to his mind. He
thoepted it as a gratifying proof of their hi/edema,
sad good-will, and oft- rued them hie bout Oasis
The tins•-pieee, which is weaned with a gams globe
and mounted on crimese velvet, beam the following
insoription--•• Presented to Corporal F. D. Former
by the Bth Dorset Rifle Volwiteere as an acknow-
ledgment for his honorary servioes as moretery—
Janeary 18, 1888."
Tan heavy fall of saw on Thursday morning
f
followed by • rapid thaw, aoosapanied with rain, has WI
the elle* of so swelling the river Steer and its tribe.
tarito that on Sunday morning the whole of the field.
oontiinons to the river were flooded. The water bean
rapidly to rise on Saturday evening, and early oa flea.
day morning the pound Boor of the Crown Hotel, the
Crown Tap, end the premiere coonpied by Yrs. Week
as also the sdleoent houses, were flooded. Tim
water swept like a torrent mina LIN high road on Se
Blitedford side of the bridge, sod the whole of the pre.
glees at the hack of the bores in Eastareell were
need with water. Some pigs belonging restively
to Mr. Argyle, of the Red Lion Inn, and lir. alas, of
the Star Inn, bide marrow swaps from drowning, and
some rows, belonging to the Rev. J. Penny were
with difficulty rescued. So serious • flood has not be..
known for narsizen, and mesiderable lees boa been
sustained by through injury to bonuses, ho. The
scene from bridge on Sunday had a tray dismal'
espect, and, notwithetanding tbe sishivenrable state of
the weather, attracted a large number of people. A
large portion of the wall surrounding the garden be-
longing to Major Farquhamon was beak down by tbo
form of the waters, which st this point were so deep
that the driver of the mail-cart from Wimhoree to
Radford had to tern back and go round by the fields
and Lb. Langton-road to the town. 'ft. residences of
Mrs. Bairn and Yr. Bellyse were very much flooded,
and ooesrable injury done to the paperhanging', he.
Some of the inhabitants were not able to leave their
bedeoonss all Sunday and Monday. Chairs, tables, and
ether articles of domestic use floated about in all direr
tion• Whilst engaged in restang Iran dostruction
the animals exposed to the fury of the waters a lire
broke out on the premises of Mr. Watts, reihnonger.
Seal-street, sad this eonsiderably added to the tonfissien
of the mann It arose from • quantity of lila used in
the banner becoming ignited by °octant with the
..4.i. The an ow sows esasounleated to some
boards, sad had it not been for timely help, the build-
ings and • quantity of wool stored above must have
beemse • prey to the devouring element. Lade* It a
bard to say where the fire might have ended,. the
wind was blowing strongly towards the carpenter's shop
belonging to Mr. Ridoet. So high a flood has not bona
known woes 1809. Nearly the whole of the tellers is
East-street were Ailed with water.

LOCAL BOAJLO.—Tbs monthly meeting Of *kr
Board was held at the Townhall on Wedoesday, the
17th inst. Mr. Darden preeided, and there wee*
also present Messrs. Fisher, Abbott, Davis,
Meader', Lindsay, Ryon, Smith, Groves, Johns,
Bell and Renville. The Clark reported that Means.
Wyatt, Chaftey and Robbins, bed repaid his the
104, paid by the Board to Mr. Batt, is the icci
time ordered at the last meeting. and that
paid each sum to the treasurer. —The Clerk Rio re-
portedthat the treasurer bad charged LIT le. foe
te Interest over-drafte.—Mr. Ridout produced plass
for an alteration in • shop-frost in Rest-ebeei, white
were examined and wenctiased by the Board.—Mr-
Lovell attended the Baird and oompleined thee the,
water in his well wee polluted, and be was of opinion.
that it arose from a soiree from Mr. King's privy,.
and Mr. Kent attended the Board on hob& of Mr.
King, and stated that there could not be a aukage
from the privy as the vault was perfectly
Mr. Lovell was informed that unless he could bring
primitive evidence that the snicaims arose hose Mo.
og's privy the Board could net interfere. —Then
following report was reed by the Surveyor :—" The.
Highways Committee having inspected Mr. Foot's,
cottages in Albest.steeet, and considered the natter
referred to them at the lag meeting of the Board, es-
to whether perinimine should be ,given to Mr. Foot
to pleas • step projecting on the footpath in front of
his cottages, and romminend that as additiSsel Mop
be pat to one of the colieget but suite pm** an
the footpath. The committee further reoommend
that notice be given to Mr. Foot, requiring him to
remove the present Saps to his ostler, and to provide
coverinEtiot projecting above the level of the path-
way. also retionmeend that Mr. Foot sedl
others d be required to provide proper masa a
drainage, and not allow the sewage to Sow on to Me-
streets." Ordered that the report be ocindraied.—
The Clerk read the following letter from the flectie,
tory of the Soncerset and Dorset Railway Company
—" Gleatonbary, 27th Damnable, 1865—My deer
Sir,-1 have to apologise for the delay in replying to
your letter of the 15th alt., on the subjecit of the
Iron Bridge at Wandford, in which you state that di
is alleged that this Midge is M an unsafe state as to
highway for carriages. In reply, I am directed *-
cell your attention to the order of the Court ci
Quarter Bonbons of the Bth of April, 1862, by which
that part of the Highway in question, which includes
the Don Bridge, was aimed except for the use of
foot pa.ssgers. I am, yozirs'bialy, Robt A. Read."
—Proposed by Mr. Beeville, seconded by Mr.
Meaden, "That a post be put op to prevent the Iron
Bridge in Alexandrambeet being used as • serving.
bridge."—Proposed by Mr. Smith, wooded by Mr.
Abbott, as an amendment, "That the Board do not
interfere with mob bridge, but leave it to the Hall-
way Company to do what they think proper lo the
matter, the bridge being their property." The
ameodmeat having been put, the following menthes
voted for it—lieers. Smith, Abbott, Fisher, Davit.
Eyen, Groves and Ball Mr. Renville and Mr.
Maiden voted for the original esOloo. —The amend-
ment won therefore carried. —Proposed by Mr.
Groves, wooded by Mr. Davis, "That • notice he
affixed at each end of the Iron Bridge to the follow-
ing effect, Caution. This Lrictim not being Weeded
for heavy carriage traffic, pawns so using 4 do wi
their own riek.'"—OarrieL —Fronk Nada& APPbsd
for a begone for • slaughter-boom in RaMetrest
Ordered that such application stood over until the
next meeting for the Inspector's report
Ordered that that the Clerk prepare and lay
Board at the next meeting 110 0111,0 the
Board under the several beide as eo m
ledger, that the mime may be Mauled 10 no Polar
amounts.

BINGHAM'S MSLOOMBE.
Ws are sorry to bear that Mr. Groves, adds Fara,
his
lost upwards of sheep ia the OIOW.
supposed that they ran
for shelter masa a hedße.
and so crowded ow upon aaother that all WWI
sailooated.

H LSTOCK.
WORD FRIGGING.— William Dinsat and Thew
Newham wars .barged Wove the aunty Benoit os
Monday, with stash* part al the trunk of an .14• Er
tree, vales Is. Id., in • plantiatiou, oa the January.
Ono of the aideedants said they saw the shoat
In tis• river sad took it oat, they both pleaded pay
to OW, boi th•Y thought it wee so bare to take
it as it wei is the rim, and had beau washed ...a
the flood. &mai lettess were prodused giving
characters the defendant& They went sash
le., and de. 9d. sods.
CaotiTT To • Hosss.—Welior Pool was eitarend toy
lisporialendent Medals, bane J. Gandry, sad W
Howes% liese• on Monday, with *salty to a been;
I Dec. fl—P.O. beaks freed &deeded ashes • licese
tbs• On. in a very had date, red heid two law mask
apes it, Is draw • load of ea* with two other bars,
Defendant did DOR appear, bet slat nulls, elm**
tem b. was 'silty of the eery, mad stades lasi he
dig sot know th• hens was so had at dee this, it bed
Pass bean killid. Fie was teed 5.. sod lea seats, os
is &bad, sevelt gspl isopritompod.