The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-09-12 00:00:00

SIIERBORNE.

Tns 7th Darsot mastered for their week's encamp-
ment at Woonner in fine forces on Saturday, being with
ollicers, band, and rank and file 70 strong. The men
wen all in their now uniforms and accoutrements and
looked exceedingly well. Captain Falwasser and Ensign
Calder were present, but the health of Lieut. Turner
wean not permit of his accompanying the oorps on an
expedition which involve' sleeping on damp ground.
Crowds of the inhabitant' mustered at the railway
station to the them off and gave them a hearty
I greeting.
Farm, ACCIDIXT.—A sad accident happened on
Thurs,ity to • young man of this town, named Charles
Abbott, %rod about Z 7 years. He had been thrashing
btrley at Datk.hole, and was in the sot of feeding the
machine, when his foot slipped, and ho fell into the
drum. The leg was stripped to the bone, and so
j untitel in the mwhine that it had to be partly taken
to h:cet Mere the unfortunate man could be esti-
cited. lie was taken at once to the Yeatman Hospital,
where till leg wits amputated, and ho died directly
after the operation.
ROBBILItIIIB AT THI Fr.owgit Snow—The flAtrlporne
Journal says a wholesale system of plunder was carried
on at the flower show. Racept in the oasis of exhhibi,.
tors who had only a dish or two, or who got Into the
clearing early and kept a jealous watch over their pro-
perty, it may be fairly questioned whether one person
sow again the whole of the articles he sent for exhibi
bition. From one case our readers may judge the rest.
The following fruits were sent by one exhibitor :—Two
diatom of nectarines, one of poaches; one of green-
gages. and one of pears; one dosen of kitchen sonies
one plate of Ribston pippins. and one ditto of Kerry
pippins. Tko iokole of that were stolen 1 From the
finer collections some of the gardeners' fruit was also
taken, and, daring the show, Yrs. Loveless, who had
incautiously a,nied into the tent a PIM of money to
pay bills with, had her pocket cut open and was robbed
of over £5.

DORSET COUNTY TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION.
The annual meeting was held at Sherborne on Mon. I
day. The members and delegates assembled in the ,
Wesleyan school-room. The Rev. 0. K. Paul, vicar of
&armluster Marshal. the President, was absent, baring
been seised with smsll-pox while preaoking on Sunday!
Mr. G. Cartis, of Poole. vice-president. oeoupied the
chair. After conslderrble discussion it was decided to
restrict the operations of the association to the oounty
of Dorset, and to the towns and villages hitherto
I work,Jel in that part of Wilts within the Salisbury and
Dorset and Salishury and Yeovil railways, and that
part of Hampshire within and on the river Avon. Too
report stated that during the year Mr. Vaughan had
taken 269 pledges and Mr. Hanooek 348. The Rev.
C. K. Paul was re-elected President. At the luncheon
Captain Phipps of tilts. Warspite said that the
Rsyal Navy Temperance dociiety, established in Ports-
meeth only in March last, now numbered 1,200 mem-
bers. The chaplains of the Aginoourt and Minotaur
took great interest in it. On board the former Lieuti
Wilmot, an earnest teetotaller (a nephew of General
Wilmot, also an old and firm teetotaller), had • Bible
class of upwards of 100 men, and he (Captain Phipps)
hal in his own pledge book more than 1,000 names.
Sergeant Rae mentioned that a schoolmaster connected
\with the military depill at Woolwich, had induced
5,000 young men who had gone out to India ',soldiers
to ii.ln the plcdgo. In the afternoon there was a tea,
an] in the evening a public meeting, which was well
iattended. Captain Phipps, who att-nded as the repre-
sentative of the. National Temperance Downs, pre.
sided. The meeting was addressed by the Chairman,
. Mr. Steak governor of the Milbnme Reformatory, by
Mr. D. Hallam Mr. J. Hilton, agent of the United
Kingdom Alliance. the Rev. 0. Hinds, and Mr. J.
, Rae.