The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

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DORCHESTER. —COUZITY- CO-irla, November 4.
—The monthly sitting was held before E. Everett,
Esq.—Only 36 plainta had been entered, and one
adjourned cause, of which number 30 were pre-
viously arranged between the parties, or struck out
for non-appearance. The following is a short sum-
'nary of the cases heard.—Loveless v. Smith.—
Debt 3s. 9d., for shop goods. Adjourned from
last court to enable the defendant to produce a
'witness to prove the goods were not taken op for
her, but she did not appear to-day, and the Judge
ordered payment forthwith.—Bowering v. Rests.
—This was a claim for 7a. 61. for apples. The de-
fendant asserted that they were net the mart he had
ordered, and that they were rotten; but it appeared
he had not returned them to the plaintiff, nor given
plaintiff notice of his refusing to accept them in a
reasonable time, and his Honor decided that the
defendant must pay 38. 6d. for the apples and the
fees of the court, but no witness's expenses to be
allowed.--Ges v. Brown.—Debt il 13s. Ild, for
shop goods. The defendant not appearing, an
order was made for payment of se. a month.--
8 Y. Dent. —This was an action of skims.
The were laid at 17a., to which the de-
fendant fendant pleaded a lien and set-off to the amount of
28. 9d. It appeared the plaintiff went to the Sun
Inn at Burton, and lodged, and thus became in-
debted, and when he left the home he gave a bag
containing a pair of old Wellington boots into the
custody of the ostler, which he never sent for for 10
months, and the ostler having left the articles could
not then be found. They were subsequently dis-
covered in the cellar, and some little amusement was
created in court by the produation of the old boots,
which somewhat appeared to astonish the plaintiff,
end he declared he did not know if the boots pro-
duced were his or not. —His Honor thereupon gave
judgment for the defendant.—Bascombe a
Flooper,—Debt 160. 11d. hi this oasis the defen-
sdalit's mother appeared; and consented to an order
for 4s. a month. --Guy v. Parchme. —Claim
£5l 10a, for rent. It appeared the cottage at Pid-
dletown was untenantable, as it was not watertight,
and the shop defendant had never bad possession of
Judgment by consent for £L There were also a
few judgment summonses, in which orders were
made, and the Court rare soon after 1 o'clock.
„.., . WEYMOUTH. —Tows Corrio nt.LTiserse. was no
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• o' teeinhers had evidently about the nit e opinion of
—themselves se the burgesses generallrbirre of them.
- 'They seem to have suppoeed that others looked upon
their merits as being of so little vales ae not to take
'Me trouble to go to the Town Clerk to place them in
nomination, and they were correct. No one did
nominate them, and cossequently ever: man nomi-
sealed himself. Being thus self-nominated and self-
elected, omit be said that they are the'representa-
tires of the ratepayers?
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Qld Either Booshua has been phybig it rather
scurvy trick with some of his disciples, by getting
them into trouble. Sometime aims the company
tithe 53rd Regiment, which for the last eix months
' have been stationed at Weymouth and Portland,
received orders to exchange quarters with Mother
company of the aame regiment stationed at South-
ampton. On Friday night a portion of the men
were shifted from Weymouth to Southampton, leav- •
ing the remainder to follow this next morning. On
Friday night some twenty-five or thirty of those
who had been left behind, took a fancy to some beer
that was loaded in Mr. Groves's dray, to be taken
into the country on the following morning, and oon-
myed a four and alialf gallon, a nine gallon, and an
18-galleei ceak, to the barracks. During the whole
of the eight the men paid their deveire to the jolly
god till they emptied the three casks of their eon
t, and when called oat on Saturday morning to
proceed, to Southampton, they were found Mims so
tho;oughly drunk that they were marched to the
. lailiany station, handcuffed, exceedingly noisy, and
. aramely able to place one foot before the other. Of
mime they will be tried by a court-martial, but
will Mr. Groves get paid for his beer?
COUNTRY TOWNS MISSION. —The anneal meeting
. of the Country Towns Mission for the Weymouth
branch, was held at the Guildhall on Monday
evening. Mr. Thomas Andre ars presided. After
opening the 'meeting with singing and prayer, the
chairman expressed his regret, that John Goode,
Esq., whotu they had expected to preside that
evening, had been unexpectedly called away on
hardness in the North of England. Having read a
letter which he had received from that gentleman,
Mr. Anderson referred to the nature and objects; of
the society, whose claims they were that evening
tad to advocate. The Country Towns Mission was
'specially intended to benefit those who would not
go to the Rouse of God. If therefore, they would
not go and hear for themselves, it was necessary for
chriatians, if they would benefit them, to establish
an agency that would find them out—go to them
sind deal with them under the oircumstomes, in
'which they found there. No doubt there was • ram
sament of vice, immorality, and unisidlintdi Arced,
of which many in that assembly had no conoeption,
and it was important that they, as professing chria-
' skis:mild me their efforts to resets them from
the danger in which they were living. The vice of
Sabbath-breaking was a whirlpool which threatened
to engulph their sone and their daughters. It was a
subject which came home to them all. If they
would only on a Sunday look about them they would
me a number or lads, growing up to manhood,
lounging about in the streets, and hear them using
filthy and unbecoming language in respect to the
passers by. If they would then calmly look at these
things, they would see the great work that wee
before them—the great necessity that existed to use
all their exertions and influence to bring souls to
Christ. They never found one, who feared God, ,
disregard the Sabbath. One of the marks of vice and 1
immorality was the disregarding of God's day, and!
there was an alarming amount of disregard of the
Sabbath in this town. Seeing then that such
was the case, it seemed to him most important that
christians of all demoninations should unit
together, and go to this clam of our fellow-towns-,
people. And he was proud to tell them, that
hitherto the efforts of their town missions had been
crowned with great success. He did not think that
he should be wrong, if he said that greater success
had, during the time it had been employed, atten-
ded their efforts in connection with that
society than by any other means. The work'
was one that must commend itself to the
hearts and sympathies of Christians of every,
denomination. The work was not new even in'
Weymouth. Some years ago a great deal of good
had been done by the missionary than employed.
Before the present society was started he had heard
from one and another that they had been brought to
God through the instrumentality of the town mis-
sionary employed 14 or 15 years ago. But he would
not detain them longer, as, being the honorary secre-
tary of the Weymouth branch, it devolved upon
him to read the report. The document, which was
somewhat lengthy, was of a pleasing character. It
alluded to the exertions that had been put forth
during the past year, the kind reception which the
missionaries in their visits had everywhere met, and
the evidence that existed of much good having been
done. This being ,so, the committee felt reasons for
thankfulness to God, and were strengthened to take
courage as to the future.—Mr. Damen then read an
abstract of the treasurer's account, from which it
appeared that the past year oommenced with a debt
of £l6 18s. 6d. Since then the expenditure for the
two misiMaries had been £77, and printing' and
other small items had brought up the total expendi-
ture to £96 73. 6d. The receipts from the collec-
tion 'after the public meeting last year, and from
annual sutiscriptiocus, bad been £63 17s. 7d., thus
leaving a balance due to the treasurer of £1619a, 10d.
This, however, had been reduced by a gentleman
calling on the treasurer as he was making up his
books, and giving • donation of .£4 10s., thus
reducing the balance to £l2 91. 10d.—Mr. Sherren
then proposed, and Mr. Thomas smonded, that the
report now read be received and adopted, which was
unanimously agreed to.—The Rev. Henry Madgin,
one of the hon. secretaries of the Country Towns
missions, of London, moved the second resolution,
to the effect that "This meeting offers its thanks-
giving to the Giver of All Good for the measure of
success that has attended the efforts of this society
in general, and of the Weymouth Town Mission in
particular, and resolves to assist to the utmost
of its ability a work so eminently calculated to.pro.
mote the Redeemer's kingdom, and the happmess
of a large portion of the population." He said that
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