The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-10-16 00:00:00

PARIESTONE.

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Ig celebration of the ingathering of the harvest a
thanksgiving service was held in St. Peter'. Church. eon.-
'nearing at eight o'clock, •i as to enable the "AM. of
toil "to be present. The service commenced by a pro-
e.asion of choristers. heade.l liy a ermis bearer. wending
iv way dowly up the aisle towards the altar, singing •
proce.sional by awl followed by the vicar, Rev. E. E
I iugmore, Rev. K M. C We. J. Williams, Rev. C.
Brown, of St. Peter's, Bournemmith, and assistant clergy
.d the church. The altar was beautifully and artistically
dismrateil with flowers of various hues, and evergreens,
which, with :10 candles lighted produced a most brilliant
and pleasing effect. Other portions of the sacred talwic
were alike attractive. The service was a choral one, and
the ....mum was preached by the Rev. C. Brown, of St.
Peter's, Bournemonth, who revitted the attention of
his hearers by his eloquence. Ile took for his teat" And
thou shalt rejoice at the feast," enlarging with telling
effect on the three feasts of the Israslities, the feast of i
the Passover, the feast of weeks, and the feast of
tabernacles, which was to be observed after the gathering
of corn and wine, which answers to our harvest festival.
The Passover, the consecration .4 the harvest about to he
gathered in, acknowledging that the fruits of the earth
belong to God. and other religious observations applicable
to the occasion, which were listened to with rnfound
of by &numerous congregation. It may nit be out of
Place to <dome that the new church is fast verging
towarit eomplsdion, and when finished it will I.e a most
magnitieent structure, nnequalled by similar fabrics, both
av ngarils height and architectural beauty, within embus
of many miles.

FATAL ACCIDENT. —A man named Henry Stride, in the
otunloy of Measrs. Ball and Son, of Southaniptom who
um lodging at the House of George Hall. of llampreeton,
was acridentally killed by falling do." 11 stairs Monday
night last the Ist of October.
Akers:en DRAMATIC SOCIITT.—The first Entertainment
id the season, under tie ruished patronage is announeed
I.' take place at Ow Corn Etcharige on the 16th and 17th
inst , when Miss E Grantham (of the principal London
Theatres) and Mint K Wilier from the Straw' Theatre fie.
will appear, in "Jorrisse the Juggler." The " Sough
T)iisinotid" J •hri Wpm,- assoted by members of
the Society. The proceeds are to be devoted to the Indian
Famine Fund.
Vesmir MEErtsia. —At a vestry meeting held on Friday I
Last, to receive the report of the Chi Inspector., Genera
Maelean was voted to the chair, Messra Wareham and
Purkie were re-elecrol inspschars for the town district,
and Meows. A. J. Sadden, Symonds, and Bartlett were
appointed Mr the Leigh district The new borough is to
have gas forthwith.
Quern Eatzserrifs Fang (AMMAR Selmoi.. —The
following nominations on the school body have Fern
made —By the church governors, Messrs. William D,nitt
a. ft Rove. Charles Boor, John Hatcher& R. I'. Hopkins,
and T. W. Shettle. By the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rev.
Rev. E. 7'. Trottnan. On the nomination of the magistrates
of the division, Rey. Carr J. Glyn, of the Rectory,
witchampton, and Lieut.-General Sir. E. 11. Greathed,
ILC a. of 'Widens House. On the nomination of the
Guariliana of the Union, Mr. Hector Monro, of Edmond-
sham, and the Rey. T. Patey, MA, of Hampreston On
the nomination of the county members, Mr. \V. Ralph
Hankie% of Kingston Lacey. This leaves only one more to
be nominated by the county members.
Nitre Cotner, Tuesday.—Before Rev. (I V. Garland
and Mr. W. R Walken
Georyt Rickards, of Kinson, carpenter, was charged
with steeling It carpenters planes, mi or abut the :110th
Roo, hint, the property of John Klward 1.4,1r1A his
employer. It appears that aboot the 30th of June last,
they were building houses at Kinsom and during erection
these amongst other tools were lost. On Saturday last
the prosecutor west to Leech's paawn they at Bourne-
mouth, and there diseovered eight planes with his name
on them. On Monday morning he went again and then
disovered six more all of which were marked with his
name. -ottenry jsines Bridges a pasinhrokses assistant of
Pournenaouth, abated that on the 12th Julr and 17th
SLiwsintier last, the prisoner pawned some Planes, which
he this morning Cave ti P.C. Bennett and now produced
by Ids. The prisoner pleaded guilty to taking part of
the pitmen, hut said it was not with the intention of steal-
ing these. The prisoner was committed to Dorchester
gaol for six weeks with hard labour.
LABOURERS' UNIONS AND THE CLERGY.
At the Church Congress, opened at Croydon, on
Tuesday, the clergy present haring nothing better to
do, had a talk about Labourers' Unions.—The subject
wwlinfrodnood by the Rey. J. OMELET, who in the
course of hie address said
With regard to the Agricultural Labourers' Union, he
bad found great difficulty in obtaining reliable information.
The fact that a certain number of men, with Mr. Arch at
their head, had been wrongheaded and had spoken ill-
advisedly was OAT , temptation to clergymen to bold
aloof from such • body of men bet was not sufficient
raaeou to justify them in adoptine that course. It could
not he denied that the Church had been looked upon an
the Church which had been administered by the rich for
the Peer, be the teeThe,l for the ignorant ; and what was
asked for at the present day was that, in a lamer messore„
it Amid be the Church id the people, composed of them.
=cato them, and managed by them, not to th.
of other damn. bat in full proportion to their
ausaideal issiority. In spits el local mad penceal wow