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

At a recent village sensation we may ventnrs to say
ths school bell was not rang.

Superstition is not confined to Knighton ; at. smart
go-sheed town I was told of a servant girl who was
afraid to take the clothes of her deammed young
midges*, though the fair tenement of clay had yet the
death-bloom on it. But why needs it that a corpse
should be undressed heft, being enwrapped in the
carementa of the tomb? One would thiak that where
no inquest is needed. tbe clothes worn during the last
sickness might well be covered by the whits shroud,
and the whole committed to the Mat resting-place.
Grave subjects emit" one instantly with almost self-
amuses( sorrow. How can ono get about work in the
old ilgtd spirit that the reading public demand, when
tb. genial eillliial lass of him, who commented to be the
good friend .4 so many, will never be men again here I
Qsnetoua public, expect not so much gaiety this week
from our Notee, for there steams wound on our harts
that 'twill take long to close, and the scar of which
will remain marked "T. Newman," for • long sad
time.

,
The distant church at Portlead that listens to the
sad sea warm has been adorned with a fine coloured
window, subject—The Crticifixioa ; bat somehow a
medallion of the patron saint has been magnified by
some friend of ours into the main subject. The youth,
manly Rector writes us anent the distorted descrip•
tioa ; but Mi. Bats o must forgive our informant this
time. "SL George and ths Dragon," we take it. is
only another form of what 'tie feahionabla to call •
folk-lore myth (see Gestlemait's ; but which
Is really • record of the great delight and hope of
mankind—that the Incarnation of the Good destroys
the spirit of Rvil. Krishna and St. George, we take
it are each foreshadowing. or types of the Lord of
Citiiminas Time.
The most happy events have been the Old People's
Feasts, - the capital on* given by Mr. A. Pope, the
kindly Mayor of the roue, y town, was perhaps unique
in its way. But the oil established instituti
Henry &lwarde's treat at Weymouth—was, as usual,
an iturnenee affair. The old folks as well as other.,
will us interested to know that Mr. Rdwaris proposed
returning New Year'. week, having been in ...outland
the 6410 days, where he has seen a genuine Christmas,
if front and snow with good Christmas fare can make
• genuine Christmas. Tbe thaw only set in le.t Satur-
day. but it was very rapid, and torrents of water
came down the falls of the Clyde. If thei• is any one
more Sum another It is Mr. Henry Edwards. to whom
all Weymouth wishes the Happirst of New Years.

Thom who would defend Dorchester, Weymouth,
and Portland, from an abominable tyranny and die-
grans had bettor be 011 the look out against another
attempt to subject them to the operation of vile Acts
of Parliament invented for the favour of diity men.
The attempt is indicated Ins p•ragraph under our
Portland news, headed '' The Health of the Nnvy."
such • .übject, would be too disgusting to mention,
but for the fact that equeamishnees be. allowed th-
burden sod insult to be placed on other towns, and the
same may be the case here.

DtAcras.