The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

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Dose COUNTY HOSPITAL.—For the week Ondittg
Septembtr 21.—in patiente, admitted, 3; ditto, dis-
charged, 3. Out patients admitted, 5; ditto discharged,
1. Remaining in hospital, 60; out patients remaining
on b,..oks, 134. Emergencies, 2.

PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday.—The supply of
both tild tyrd new wheat was moderate, and prices
rather in farOtif of Sellers; A few parcels of new
malting baley were oftered, for *Web Juniors asked
rather higher prices than were obtainable 4 the malting
season not having commenced. Oats in retail demand,
at late prices, old oats being scarce.

CONVITTED TO THE DORSET COUNTY GAOL.
St-mid= Peter Lynch, stealing money at Weymouth.
Bard Labotir, i Charles Lee, vagrancy at Syruondsbury,
14 days; Caroline 14utdett, stealing potatoes at Six-
penny Handley, 14 days; Mary lano Tucker, vagrancy
at Wyke Regis, 3 months; Rlitibeth Thorne, vagrancy
at Wyke Regis, 1 month : Tomnard Morris, steeling
waistcoat at Oerne Abbas, zi day-a; James Harvey
eleallog hay, dm, at Cranborne, 14 days. Imprison-
• John Ransom, having diseased pork in his pos.
passion, JAW:Wed for the food of man, at Fordingten, 1
month.

THZ HIGHWAY BOARD.—On Saturday teat the over-
eeers of no less than ten of the parishes compriaed in the
Dorchester Highway district, were summoned before
the county ungistrates for non-payment of the orders
made upon them for highway porpoise. In nine cases
• fief tleMent was made prior to the opening of the court.
The @sae preferred against the overseers of Langton
Herring was heard, The Sall wee for £l4, payable July
20. The -overs-ers said they had not paid the amonnt
because they had not received a specific order for the
sum in question. The practice of the Board appears to
be to issue preeept at the beginning of the year, stating
the amount to be paid during the year, in four instal-
ments, on days which are set forth. It was for the
second instalment the Langton overseers were sum-
moned. The matter being explained to them they paid
the £l4, with the costs of the action. This should
operate as a oention to overseers to notice end comply
with the precepts Issued by the Board.

HNTORY 07 AurvricK.—We last week referred to
Mr. Tate's monograph on the incised stones found
in Northumberland with a view of enlisting the
research of some of our Dorset antiquaries in bring-
ing to light more of these inscriptions. Aocompaby-
ing the volume of proceedings of the Berwickshire
Naturalists' Club, in which the above appears, VIM
the first part of a history of Alnwick, of which we
intended now to treat, as embodying the period to
which these memorial stones relate. We have not
been able to do this, but may quote what is said this
week in the .4 thenmum in reference to Mr. Tate's
most arduous undertaking :—" The first part of a
history of the borough, castle, and barony of
Alnwick, by Mr. Tate," says this critic, "has just
appeared in that interesting border town. Forty
years ago, the then Ducheesof Northumberland wrote
and ably illustrated a very clever history of the
Castle of Alnwick, gaining thereby an honourable
plane among noble authors. The theme is an ad-
mirable one in competent hands. The park adjoin-
ing the castle is remarks Is for possessing the
remains of two abbeys—Alowick Al,bey and that of
Dolma. The latter wits the first abbey of Carmelite
Friars in these kingdoms." Some of the engravings
representative of the incised stones we find repeated
in this first part of Mr, Tate's history.
BoTtouoa PsTrf Siamese, Monday. Before J.
Bishqp, Rom, chairman, J. F. Hodges, and X, I)evenish,
&qrs., Levi Riggs, labourer, of Bingham, Meloombe,
was brought up charged with stealing a piece of cheese,
belonging to Mrs. Elisabeth Groves, prevision dealer,
High 4,4-Street. Part of a cheese, value 10s., wee
placed an the board in front of Mrs. Groves' shop
wiedow, for sale, on Saturday. Shortly after six o'clock
in the evening Superintendent Pouney saw the prisoner
(0 07 to Mrs. Groves' shop and handle the cheese in
quesM=. when Mrs. Groves came out and spoke to him.
Is soon as she turned to re-enter the shop, prisoner
, took up the piece of obese. and walked off with it. H.