The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-10 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

Tag Ifintria.—There ir said te be • r mark tble
difficulty in obtaini,,g recruit' for the milt's. It is
expected the milder will b. a vary small one.
Musts. F. .1. 11.1usd mu it. Hayman wars
on Turreday elected auditors of the borough aocowits
for the ensuing hilt.
Mn. Biruin, M.P.. has pi...meted • petition from
Lb. Dorchester Coliwatlin aAairnit the Railway
Rates and Charges Dill.
AT • L 0.4/ held by the Prince of Wales on Blonday,
Lieut.-Colonel Foster, of the I).ratt YO3lllllory, WAS
pressuredei iir.itniitien by Lieut•Ciloriel Hambro.
DURBET COUNTT HOST/ILL.—The c,mtnittee beg to
acknowledge the receipt of the following additional
sums ;—Collection at St. Jame.% Poole, £2 Ga. ; ditt.)
St Paul'. £3 3.. 41.,. • donation an ,nymous (stamps),
Bisadt.rd, 44. ; on IJpway parishioner per HAT. W.
F. R. 13uckie,2a.;oolicction Puwentock. ES 5.. 11d. ;
_ West Milton, El ; N rib Poorton,
THI VOLOSTLIAS.—It IS nutted from the War-
office that the IllsUs ,f the Martini.lienry rifle to the
volunteer corps will not this year necereitaW soy
alteration in the regulations for clasa-firing.
Foareau..—A match was play...el on the Cattily
School Ground on Wednesday Leiween the School 11114
the Dorchester F.... Abe I Club. The game was wall
contestrad, and resulted in • draw, two goals each.
The following was the Durcheeter team :—ldedwi
(goal keeper), Olding (captain) and It. Sdicer (back. ,
Keats and H. Monte (tialf-backa), T. Mowlem and I .
Robinson (right wings), B.scourbe and Evans (left
wings), Groves and Lsgg (centres).
&rata BOWICITT APPKOPILIATION.—The 11th appro
petition of the First Dorchester Starr It iwkett
Building Society was held at the Allugtoi Hell on
Wednesday evening. There WY a large attendance.
Lb. Mayor (Alderman Gr. gory) presiding. No 74
was drown entitling the bolder tr 2.:200 free of
interest for 121 years.
COORS " Peones's," A.O.F.—From the financial
statement of thi. Court for the year endiag Daceinbe,. ,r
we observe the total worth of the funds to be
£1 ,927 19.. as against £1,714 11,. 911. In the previous
year, showing a net gain on tire 12 months of
£213 15r. 211.; and this after meeting sick claim' to
the Naomi of 4.117 4a. 101. Tee Lumber of court
benefit members is now 302, and the number in the
district 1702. whilst the district funeral baud
amounts to £20,37.0 2.. 32. The funds of the court
as. invested principally with the Southampton Cr.
aeration, in Southampton Harbour Smile, it. South
Weettrn District United Courts loreetment Fund,
and the ()erne Abbas Burial Board.

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Itzoiszfrr.—The reinforcements
selected from the let battalion of the Dorostaiiire
Regiment for the and battalion of the regiment 11././
at Peshawar, in the Bengal Presidency, quitted
Chstimm garrison on Monday morning, and pro.
oseded to Portsmouth, there to embark in the Indian
troopship Croc..dde for Bombay. The troop. under-
went their final official inspection by Major-General
the Hon. It. Monet, commanding the Chatham
division, on the general parade groond on Saturday
The draft numbered 164 non-c inunisaiouted officers 1
and men, with Captain A. W. Drury and Lientseant
J. H. Caowner, 2nd Battaliou of the Royal Irish
Regiment.
A GOOD Cliaaacreit—The "Agricultural Gazette"
has the following :—Toe following is reported (room
Dorchester :—A carter applied fora sitttatitn at Lady
Day, and, rehired to present employer for his
"character," of which this I. • portion:—" You can
judge for yourself what the man is. My bailiff desired
blm to haul out • load of turnips for the sheep, when
there was • little rain falling. The man replied 'I
shan't take out my horses to haul turnips to-day." So,
es it was very necessary that the turnip. should be
carted by some one, the bailiff did the work himself;
and when be had tali, n the horses back to the sta'ile
sad the ca-ter, the latter looked at him, and •
"W.li, you've takau out my horsetails the dirt, n 'sr
jut clean 'ern for I shan't."—Mr. Arch lectured that
day, but he did not menthe this little matter.
Tile CON3UWATIVILII of D,rcheet-r m interest in
strung force on Monday evening at the Aiingt ,n 11 ,11.
Admission was, as wind, by t Nlaj ie Ids
presided, and the proceediore ii/I1 sal 1 to have been
obaracterieed by great unanimity. 1: cc. at aniinously
decided to form an sasodation for I/ ',cheater and
Fordingtoe, M.jor Vciilain. being elects I as its first
president. Au Inflointial list of cite-peril lents was
also appoint:4l, and various pi itta discussed, one
being the desirability of haring suitable rooms, pro-
Tido,* with paper. , whore the membsre, if whom
• goodly number ;noel, can m,at for interchange of
opinions io the evening,. Wu would advise o'er
Liberal Wands to real, mark, learn, atd inwardly
diced.
" LOT•L "
The balance sh-et of this well.condu lied I oleo
(secretary, Mr. C. T. OA his just been lowed, and
shows very satisfactory result,. Or the Sick and
Funeral Fond account we notice £l4l 14. 8!, has "wan
paid to sick members of the lodge, •n I the funds in
hand are £2,282 3s. 10d. Tho Mince 'moot Fun I
shows • balance ii. I )ecintlier of £l3 7... 11 Land the
Benevolent Fund 1:2 0,, 101. Tips Att.-mem of the
fends, &e., of the lids° isa, follows :—To amount of
funds in Dorchester Town Council, £00; to sceouut
of two freehold c itta:o4 Ivad gardens, inn; to arc ant
on mistime at 5 per c it intere.t, cm; to account
of limeys Eliot, Pe ace. Elit. uni C0..01 ink—Sick
Fund, £lO7 4-, VI 1. ; Ninsiszemont Fund, 1:13 51. 5i I. ,•
lisuovolent Fond, 1:2 10 I. ; to arm met of fun iral
donation due from &strict, £1; to account of lire
property, ; worth of lalg.,Dfc-cther 314, 1884,
A:2,W 17s. Id.; of lo Ige, Jar u re Ise, last
812,103 7s. 101,—Gain on the y• £221 04. 31.
Number of subscribing member,, Jinn ry 18111,
223; ditto admitted during the 'rite, 17-210: ditto
died 2; ditto left by n in-payment, 10-12; no the
book., January Isl, 1863, 228.
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DIOLDDL—WeIDuch not Gaon-is('
that the country is quite free yet. Any &ultral
susceptible of this dimme, which goo. zlg-zBecii g
along half -a-doom lines of railway, in ate many diff
est carriage., may ev.n yet, we fear, pisk up the
inlection. A fortnight rig •, or more, aBo kshire pig
was sent from Doreetshire from a herd which hes at
a trace of the dismiss', In a crate, which was therefore
shifted from truck to truck ; eel it must lace
travelled on at least three hues before it retched its
Norfolk destination. In about • fortnight after It,
arrival other pigs among i t whida it ia I been placed
began to fall lame, and this was put down to the hut
dung in which they had been lying. When, however,
the cows gradually WO me lame, the nature of the
attack was unmistakeable, and it lacuna mite wary to
report if. The valuable II ird of Sulf dk cattle at
Neotoo, sear Swaffham, the property of Mr. Harvey:
Itit•00, has thus been plac4d last tinek in • at eta id
siege. The sttecdauts are enrrounded ; all roads' lead-
ing tour from it are guarded by rilice, awl every effort
I. being made to gash' e the animals and the bit irks
So valuable • herd-80 cattle of pnre blood, the
outcome of • whole Iffotline of careful b.eatior-s.
cannot be destroyed, an I the pol'ey of slaughter i,,
in this case, thus imposeible. It must hi peon mimed
a great disaster both for the owner and piailibly for
his neighbours also. Twenty-seven of the eigh'y
aalmals were affected chin we last bearil.—Agri.
calinsei
AN UNORATI7OL Scene—At the Shirehall on Wed
before Colonel Biughain, Jam's Aluriby,
la▪
tely &sailor, belonging to the New Athena, schooner.
was charged with stealing half a sov,reign from Mrs.
ilobna, of Portland, and Ll 24. 11 I. from a youtig man
named Christensen.—lt appeared the prisoner left the
enhooner last Friday, and went to the house of Mrs.
Johns, mad, having pitched her • pitiful tale, she
kindly took him In. He repaid her kindness by walk.
leg off with half • sovereign, which he took out of
One Of her dresses. Information was given to the
police, and it was afterwards found he had gone to
the Jolly iallor, at Castletown, stolen a parse belong.
lag to Christensen, and started in the direction of
Weymouth. ffergeaut Devenieh immediately took
steps for his capture, and after • smart chase
primmer was found at Wylie. The purse was found
In a garden, with only 1.. 61. short, but he had spent
the half sovereign.—Remanded till Saturday.

DOAllir COUNTY mussuit AND LIBRARY.

We beg to call our resders' attention to &munificent
gift lost offered by Mr. T. D. Halpin to the library of
this institution. It is known t most of us that he is
• leading member of the great publishing firm of
Mesere. Cassell and Co. He has sent to the curator a
copy of what Is really a beautiful sa volume, the
Illustrated catalogue of the bloke published by his
firm, and he asks the Museum authorities to choose
from it books to the value of ESO, which he will
wipeout to the library. Considering that the gift will
include such magnificent book' a, Elm's' Egypt,"
and Picturesque Europe," and such solidly rueful
relovenoe books as the " Encyclopaedia English
Dictionary," and a 4-volume "Universal History,'
it la certain that this acquisition will be in Blatt
valuable. But, besides this, we hope that Mr.
Golpin's 80 beautiful volumes will prove t , be •
nucleus round which a really c ociprehensive motern
reference library will grow up. It is a great
desideratum, and we ttust thst it moy hr attshoot
through the munificence of other gentlemen, stimulated
V Mr. Galphee example.