The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-12-19 00:00:00

DOACEPTIII3.
Ws are glad to leans that the bazaar at South Grove
cottage, in aid of Bishop Monla's Fund and the
Juvenile Church Idlest miry Society, will be con-
tinued on Monday and Tuesday next.
Mr. Wews, dairyman, of Fordington, has been pro-
moted with a handsome marble timepiece by the
Dorchester Agricultural Society in recognition of his
kindness in permitting the use of his field for the our.
poses of the exhibition a'few months since. The clock
wee stondied by Mr. Jamb, of High Eutatreet.
THZ —Sherborne will. it Is said, be called
upon next year to entertain the Dorset Militia during
their ennui training. Poyntington Downs, the site
occupied by the Military some few years ago, were
at first molested as the plan for encampment, but it
was discovered that they were just outside the county
of Dorset, so the '• plain of canvas" will be located at
Lenthay.
Dosser RIFLE VOLITSTIZa Coaes.—Lientenant-
Colonel Steward, the commandant of the let Dorset
Rifle Volunteer Corps, and the Adjutant (Captain A.
T. Le Merchant) have famed the &Reuel statement of
the battalion for the year en led 31st of Oct .ber, from
which we find the total strength t be 911 of all ranks,
made up as follow :—Lieutenant-Colonel, 2; majors,
2; adjutant, 1; captains, 10 ;lieutenants, 15; surgeons,
1 ; acting-surgeons, 4 ; hon. swietant-surgeons, 3; ant-
hag-chaplains, 4 ; bon. chaplains, 1; qua tormenter, 1;
hon. staff, 1; sergeants, 67; bugler; 16; rank and file,
773; sergeant-instructors, 10. Captains Stone and
Budge have passed the examination in tactics.
Ttht Pos.—We understand that the
Treasury, the General Post-Office, and the railway
companies have all come to an agreemest as to the
dorms on which the proposed parcels post is to be
worked. In order to ensure the successful working of
• reform of such magnitude, details have had to be
very carefully considered, and some delay must yet
ensue before the Poa-Office authorities will be able to
eve the public the benefit of the scheme. It is, how.
ever, confidently expected that within the next two
months the parcels poet will be in effective operation.
Daus Ntlol.
DZATH OF A WILL.KSOWN Jousnattsr.—lt is with
sincere regret we record the death of Mr. Henry
Copper, for nearly :21 years the Editor of the Wins
Meaty Mirror. Mr. Copper was one of the best
Moms reporters in this part of the country, was
possessed of undoubted ability in his profession, and
the writer of these lines can bear testimony to his
geniality and kindness of heart. Of late years,
through force of circumstances, he has taken • Isom
active part in journalism, but we are sure we Sr. only
62Prossing the sontioneta of the members of the
Prow In Pao and the adjoining counties in these few
words of regret at the death of one of their number.
Cowen COURT Tuesday. Before Mr. &dead
Tindal Atkisson. Judge.—The undefended oases were
heard by the Registrar, G. Symonds, Req.—There
were only two judgment summonses for bearing by
Ills Honottr.—Thomas Shock, v. John Rogers. —ln
this case an order had been mead for 49. a month in
July, '79, which defendant had failed to pay, but had
writteo to piebald, saying be would send him El.—
His Honour made an order foe 14 days' imprisonment,
walnut not to brae if defendant paid El by end of
west —Lam Parsons, baker, of Dorchester, v. George
Drake, • journeyman cabinet-maker.—An order had
been made for 12s. • month, defendant being in receipt
of Zs. a week, out of which he allowed his wife is. per
weelt.—Jodgmest for 30 days' imprisonment, warrant
not to issue If U. • month he paid.
Bitaaino Worpown.—At the County HaU, Dor-
chester, on Tueeday. before Cam Sykes, Esq., and J.
Fethentonhattsq., John Hill, a private in the
=West Regiment, at Portland, was
la up In custody charged with maliciously break.
lag • window and assaulting the police on the previous
evening.—P.O. Ricketts, stationed at Portland stated
he was on duty the previous evening at FoAune's-
Well, and saw prisoner passlngj,y with another
soldier. As prisoner p.ed Mr. W. Lowmaa's shop
he smashed the window with his arm. He went and
asked prisoner whet he had done, and prisoner struck
him with his flet, thaeled with him, and threatened to
stab him, and be then took him into custody.—Mr.
Lowman said the damage done was 12s. 63.—A sergeant
said the prisoner bad been in the regiment two years,
and bore • bed character. He was drafted for foreli
seniors on Saturday next. He believed the prisoner's
object was to avoid being sent to India. He believed
the officers of the regiment would pay the damage if
prisoner were imprisoned till then.—Prisoner was
ordered to be imprisoned until Friday evening with
hard labour, and to pay the damage, 12e. 6d.—
Prisoner: I refuse to pay the 12.. 61.
FACILITIZB FOR RAILWAY TILAVILLCIS AT CHRIST.
HA/A—Arrangements have been made by the Great
Western Railway Company, by means of which
Intending travellers during the Christmas holiday
may obtain tickets at their leisure, and so avoid the
difficulty frequently experienced in obtaining tickets
at • crowded railwey station at • time like Christmas
Eve. Cheap tickets, at reduced fares and available
for several days, will be issued from L ,ndon to the
Yeovil and Weymouth districts, and ti stations in the
West of England; similar tickets will also be issuedto
London. By permi-sion of tbe Postmaster-General,
the limited mad train from Paddington to the Wait of
England and South Wales on December 23rd will
leave at 9.45 p.m. instead of 9 o'clock, and be corres-
pondingly later at all places ii which it carries the
mails. Also on December 23rd the 5-0 p.m. fest train
from Paddington to Plymouth will run on to Penzance,
and a special fast train to the West of England (with
• special in connection from Liverpool, Manchester,
Shrewsbury, Birmingham, AO, going through to
Penzance, will leave Pa idinaton at 12 o'clock mid-
night and carrying third-class passeneers at reduced
fares, while on the same day • special train for the
Berke and Hants, Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
District, and Salisbury will leave Paddington at 8.10
p.m. The train leaving Ped,fington at 5.30 a.m, will
be run on Sunday, December 21th, and on Christmas
Day the same as on week days as far as '
Oxford,
Bristol, Exet:r, Plymouth, Penzance Gloucester, and
Swansea, and the usual intermediate stations, so that
newspapers published on Christmas Day will teeth
their destinations at the usual time,
Eigazoto.—The thaw which set in on Tuesday 111 e•
source of intense disappointment to the skaters of the
town (although we hope this feeling was tempered by a
sympathetic thought for the working classes to whom
a hard frost is • cause of much distress.) After •
couple of night/Mari freezing the eager skaters had
furbished up their long-neglected steels, and every
patch of ice was hunted up. Dorchester is not so
fortunate as most towns in this reenact, unlike Wey-
mouth with Its Lodmoor, and Sherborne with its fine
sheet of water; and skaters have to be contented with
the few square yards available at Herringstone, Came,
and Bhompeton. On Monday there was considerable
skating at the former place on some overflow water,
and in the evening Young Dorchester' armed with
lamps and lantern; had several hours of capital fun on
the v space. Fervent hops; however, were
entertalned that the frost would hold out so as to
render the Tarim, ponds beatable, but in the night the
temperature roes several degrees, and in the morning
a thaw set in. Several of the most
enthusiastic of the skaters, however, were not to be
outdone, and they hied to Herringstons, and disported
themselves as gracefully as possible on rotten ice of an
Inch sod a quarter in thicknesa, and sorry " figures "
they cut, we feet. In the evening rain set in, and the
hopes of lovers of the genuine English sport once more
fell below zero as to any skating this side of Christmas.