The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-11-02 00:00:00

Thad Canutti eXiirtss.

TUESDAY, NOVIMBIDI 2, 1869.

DORCHESTER.
Rinwir.—lanot•o4, T. TM% C. 8., 103rd fOOO. has
bean mamba Ilajor-Gemeral.
pogray—The boa for lottars for Bristol and the
'senora mon Dow idiom st 5.5 pan.. instead of 6.50.
Wain COMM HOOPtrir..—Sermons were preowned
.6 at Peter's Aaron on Sunday last on behalf of the
Doriot County hospital, when the °enaction/ amounted
10 gll 3. Id.

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Rai oWAY 1018 TABLlB.—lleveral important altars.
tlons are made in the train service on the Great
Weston Hallway thin month, and all oonoered will do
well to consult the tibiae given in another oolumn. I
Tosurics Tows—The tolls arising at the Fording-
ton Moor sad Loogbredy gates, for one year, f corn the
Ist day of January 1870, were let by &notion for £6BB,
being an advance ES on the current year.
Ils.Wsurza Loot, BA., eon of Mr. Look, solicitor
04 tbls taws, has been elected to a fellowship at
usedalen. He was ednotted at the Dorchester Grammar
School, and took first elan in °lassies

MUM'. —The &aromas prise Nor English sacred
c poetry) in the University of Cambrid has been
adjudged this year to the Hew. H C. G. mile, X A.,
Fellow of Trinity Oollege, and curate of Fordington.
The subject proposed was " Christian Self -denial/ The
competition is open to all members of the university of
the degree of Master of Arta. The successful candidate.
in sceordanoe with the founder's will, In required to
publish his Poem.
ACCIDINT.-011 Talllday 1111 • =lt named Charge
Stone, of Fordingtoo, in the employ of Mr. Joseph Look
butetier, of Dorchester, wee driving a cart through the
tatting on the Weymouth road near Monkton, the
horse soddenly leaped on one vide and Stone's foot eseght
in a part of the hotness, throwing hies under the wheel,
whish passed over Lim causing several severe bruises, bat
fortunately no bones were broken. He was taken to
the'Dorset County Hospital.
BISHOP HAMILTON IMMORTAL FlMD.—This fand.has

now reached nearly 0,000 Recent contributions
Include, Rev. W. J. Green, Winterborne Abbae, El,
Rev. E. C Collard, Alton Panora', £2 25.; Colonel
Con, BOAMiagter. ; Ray. W. Trtieli, Steeple, El la •
Rev. F. Newington, Wool. £2 2a.; Raw. R. Lowndes,
Sturminster Newton, £5; Rev. IL Haakey, Malden
Newton, £10; Rev. F. Dantean. West Cbelborough,
El is.; the Bail of Pembroke, £lOO.
MUNICIPAL. -The only interest taken in the election
was a feeling of curiosity to know who would be
nominated, especially as there was a rumour that the
Scat election after the extension of the municipal
franc:hiee to ladies was to be signalised by the proposal
of • candidate of the fair sex. But that come to nought,
end the only persons Dominated were the four retiring
oonnoillore—Mesers. J. F. Hodges, J. Bishop, T.
Bennett, and R. Dames. Mr. G. S. Greening named
all four, and they were re•eleeted without opposition.
Commirrrn To Tax Dolan COUNTY GAOL —Hard
, labour. Anthony Smith, assault at liarshwood. 20
I days; John Mitchel, and Christopher Hundry, mis-
behaviour at Bridport Union, 21 days; John Robson,
vngrancy at Hiunpreston, 1 month; Joseph Taylor,
misbehaviour at Sturminster union, 14 days • John
I Roes, vageancy at Wareham 7 days ; John Armstrong,
George Adams, Richard Bre:sru, Thomas Edwards, min.
rater union, 7 days; George Bank
Albert Gray, John Loaders, assault at Thornford, 6
months; Emily Brown, stealing • child's robe at Dor-
chester, 1 month.
, Four Lou. -In this month's Hardirickes Mena
Gossip a correspondent (states that in some parte of
I Dorset, infants and youeg children are placed on the
cross of a donkey's back to have their first ride. This
is considered to be a preventive to their ever getting the
whooping-cough. In the same locality a very aingulsr
care for toothache was once, to my own knowledge,
practised. It apostate.' •,f wearing round the neck, in a
linen bag, one fore and one hinder slaw of the Mole
(Ti/pa Earopmes). The superstition wog futther
heightened by the mastery of the claws of the female
moles being used for males, and the reverse for females.
New Inconettin Is me Dtoctsc—On the 2ted
1 ult., the Rev. Precentor Lear, as Guardian of the
Spiritualities of the See of Sarum then vacant., instituted
the Rev, Edward Fienees Trotrcan, clerk, M.A., to the
Rectory qf Langton Matravers, void by the cession ef
the itwe G. V. Garland, clerk, the last incumbent
there, on the presentation of Ur. .1. B. Garland. of
Stone Cottage, Wimborne ; •Iso the Rev. Joseph Heald
Ward, clerk, M.A., to the Rectory of Gussage Saint
Michael, void by the desth of the Rev. G. Dewdney,
clerk, the last incumbent thereof, on the presentation
of the Right Hon. Lord Portman • and the Be,.
Williani Loeock, clerk, 8.A., to the itectory of Coro
combo, void by the resignation of the Rev. E. Armitage,
elerk, the last incumbent there, on the presentation of
Mr. C. J. T. Burt, of Road Side, Wandsworth.
Tat WIATNILIL—Tbe following is our meteorological
report for the week ending Sunday last