The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-17 00:00:00

DOROII3IITIZ.

TICS FIMITITI BRASOV is musically prophesied of by
our excellent town band, who ere mover the
Christmas Welts. Need we say the treasurer waits
for subecriptiovist.oar2mt it more emeonatgy, • Quiet.
mu box for the
Donations Guinea Scaoot--We are glad to
learn the Charity Commiedonere have given • favour-
able reply to the memorialists. who In October last
requested that the Dorchester Grammar School on Its
re-establishment should be carried on within the
boundaries of the borough.
The Aart.Ern.—The Rev. William Johnston, vicar
of Portadewn, Ireland, ham been elected chaplain to
the Dorset County keylam in the place of the Rev.
William Evans, resigned. Mr. Evans, we hear, is
r.turning to help hie father, who is the rector of
Marshfield, user Graff.

SKATING. —Monektent Pond and that at Denier's
Bern were frozen over hard last week, and nears
resorted thither in considerable numbers. the fair sex
bravely facing the cold, and gracing the scone. Of
course • fall or two were indispeussble. and some
gentians carried about whet 'twee rude in their
case to call a black eye, rather let us say—skating
sochymosis. Another gentleman broke an arm.
Nix! Grusnrs are not enough to keep up • club,
so the Gymnasium membere have resolved for the
present to cite* the room They are happy, however,
to have a seet-em of £4 for lively times, when they'll
go on with full swing. Wise in time as they were to
doe: while a balance still remained In hand, they have
escaped being charged with—" vaulting ambition,
which o'erleapt itself."
P,osoirtso. —Had bricklayer George Gale died at
the New Barracks. on Thureky, from lead poisoning,
his fellow workmen would have been awkwardly
placed, at all events those who put him off with a lamp
of red lead under pr-tonos of givisar him sweets. The
man who doesn't want to ingi t the tortures of colic
on his comrade shouldn't get him to swallow re i
lead.
Tag Ssornain last Friday and Saturday were
not quite so heavy as those in Weymouth. But then.
in our fashionable watering plan the snow quickly
Is reduced to • man of pulp, and soon disappears,
while in Dorchester the partial thaw was followed by
re-freezing, making it exceedingly slippery, and
csusiag occesi 'nal f.lls. One gentleman cutting from
the Great Western Railway Steam fell very heavily,
and lay a long time before be could be recovered.
MAGIC LANTERN ESTINTaIIYI37.—Mr. Wright, of
South-street, ve y kindly gave • magic lantern enter.
tainment on Thursday evening, to the children,
teachers, and friend*, at the Congregational
school, tbe subject being from " Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
yrincipally embracing scenes In the lives of Eva and
htpry, with a few buntoretta subjects afterwards.
r. Wright also explained the pictures to the children.
and Mr. Vincent kindly assisted. The entertainmeat
was very pleasing, and the children behaved so well
that Mr. Wright promised to rive them soothes before
the winter is peat.
Mn. G. 13nrogoe's CRaireaa SAL! was held on
Saturday last, at the Fair Field, when upwards of
120 fat and store beasts had been sent ; but the supply
of sheep was rather shott, about 100 being pens&
Good heifers and calve. made from Cl 4 10a to £24,
barmen from £2l to 237 10a, per pair, finer beef
from 13.1. t 15e. per score, middling heifers from
11a. 6d. to 135., beet prime heifers from 13e. to 15s. &L
Some very excellent heifers were exhibited by Memo
Foot (Backhand Newton), Mr. Williams, Mews.
Bennett, Mr. Spam (Portesham). Mr. Rowe, Mr.
Hunt (Flaaelbury Bryan), &c. Mutton fetched from
&I to 91d. per lb., and the few fat lambs on offer
made about Is. per lb. Although the weather was :co
unfavourable, a good buena@ was done, needy every
lot finding purchasers.
Sng OF STOCK AND Ixonotairs AT OSIIINGTON.—
Mr. G. Ensor sold the live and dead farming stock of
Mr. B. Vine, who was quitting the farm. The sale
was • very good one for the outgoing tenant, for
although we did not boar of any mmerve, very good
prices were obtained, there being a large attendance
and • brisk competition. Implements sold well, to
Mr. Martin, of Btarminster Marshall, and other
buyers from • distance. Ten horses and a colt were
offered, and Mr. Jolliffe. of Weymouth, purchased two
at 40 guineas and 56 (Maw respectively; Mr. Stand.
field mowed one at 17
_guineas and anothea at 10
gu11....; Kasen Brown, Bros., builders. of Weymouth,
were fortunate enough to get a very capital hone for 63
gUiDebly while Mr: James, dealer, secured one at 30
guineas. The sheep sale waa equally satiefacton
ewee fetched from 44e. t UMSi; welters, Ma ed. •
curer limbo 325. 61. to 35,.; wither lambs, 35a 6d:
Everything wee cleared.
Fommtm Da:vlso.—On Monday last, before Mr.
A. Pope (Mayor). Mr. R. Davis, and Mr. G. J. G.
Gregory, diatom Engine was summoned for furious
driving but did not appear.—Sergeant Mitchell on
Wedneeday, lltk last , at a quarter to four in the
afternoon, saw the defendant come into High East.
street from High-street, FOrdiftgiOn, with a bona and
cart, which be drove at a gallop. The sergeant held
up his hood to get him to drive steadily. but he took
no notice, did not attempt to pull up the hone, and
galloped him over Fordington.bill al he was out of
eight. The horse was his own. There is a ahem
curve there, and anything coming along would hare
been run into, for defendant was going at • full gallop.
Had heard from enquiries he had made that the bone
was • bad one to start. Next day wanes Reeved him
with a summons personally. —The Mayor, seeing that
so many complaints had recently been made of furious
driving, inflicted a penalty of 10e. and costs; the
Bench also considered defendant bad shown a certain
amount of disrespect for the 11.nolt by not appearing.
—At this point Kingman appeared, and was cautioned
by the Mayor that these cases of furious driving
seriously ealangered life and
—Kingman had to pay £1 property in the street..
114. 6d.
Dungen:as' Panes Booz. —The Christie* World
says :—I was glad to receive, among several letters,
drawn forth by same remarks made in this column
"The Book of Common Prayer for the use of
the Comers/aeon! Church. Gressaltithe," which the
compiler--tbe Ray. W. W. Shorten, the minister of
that church—was obliging enoogb to sled. Its con-
tents are gathered chiefly from the Prlinc-bnok and
the language of Scriptun, and are arranged so as to
form five service,. There are Prayers for every
Sunday In the year," end a °ionisation of anthems.
TEL OEN CLIMAN AND THE POOR GIRL. 'The work of the compiler smears tome to have bees
Oa Thursday, at the Gni tral Crtounal Gaol, before the executed vitt, igkinent.a.t.stei .71featur
if the
Recorder. a man, named Freak It Athitut, who we awed ~,thisee end evening a-ride, most likely
to
to be possessed of consiewable Property. surrendered 16 raise bjection to the mit its of Non f mole bake his Wel upon • charge of aniultlag • girl earned __, • . . con te, whose
Sarah /Lane Winton.
ut.conanter-ch.vitarite. trd. bailiepretlnerredei.,
say liturgypim
wha‘mt.hvow,
.Mhlth.veettletnb....
reighoet!lvesito thilineeb ci
Wind ihmi_ Irmmeu it
oc dothiag the property of tie doloodant'r mother, is sold, I ander:amid. at flitereopenoe. Several attempts
bu▪ t
the Ormwl Jerf Ignored the toll—Kr. Straightawl of this kind hays been mad* lately by different mini.
Yr. Oran conducted the prosecution in the Treasury; sten They now "a =ream of tendency" not veep
mew Seymour, QC. wee specially maned, with wide yet, perhaps, but sufficisst to warrant the
Mr. Keith "'nth, for the defeaca —The dessdent lived wad, by soother correspondent, that some
with his mother at 13, [roll wte orth-toad. Hethaal• who have done so much for oar hymnology and the prossosx, • modest, goad-looking girl, tees of the Free Churches, of should,in the Interests of turn
age, was In their service. Accerdin to her
Imam as the 13th of October she and the miaow wsee their attentlon to "the palli"tad field of liturgical
sshe..tg the house, when he sent her on with • letter to o:olPosiclas.e
Post. and aa her l'eft" be 'a' Improper *v"tan•is &neat ilawlitanOtt.—The half-yearly morning
-
her, sad on her refusal be acted in • most indexed tin (conducted by means of written paper.) of the
meaner. She menninioned with her :mother inane-
Ands, and left the bones The drionaisat wee Bah... papas of Mr. Dem% school took place during the
ness—tly takes tato needy. examised at Worship-street =nil and* Decemberl4ll, • and at the annual die
liyhee-cotet, and reasein The proseelltrir Welt to the tributiort of prises on Saturday It appeared that the
desodsat's house with her mother to get her box The ' following were the successful competitors:—l. Close :
hog we. opened, and nom neckties and other telling Ugly& T. Foot ; wet* H. Wood; arithmetic, W.
aretalat ware forted is It. which the promentrix was weadere-; saiptare (Old Te.tetamentjhisto,ff, G. Ander-
wish .s.sk" she we. gives at* melody by a.. • anginal history (Tudor period), H. CUs
s; maker. The Oraad Jury.. however, tales from Shah hawed the bill against her and the allaratton as tb•
ssee of the .4 that the charge Ar Man, h.; ..sdritiest7drowiliterature 4, H. ?They ; moTS:t.. Anderson'
kis-,1- trumped up by the Meade of the d trodeat in order and H. 10•Srly NINal I ( Bello
5, prevent the prommotrix from Proreelinit with the Gallico, 1., and Virgil CeicU, Book I.), H. P.
sears, of Indecent asemilt —Mr. Chew Hiram+. in his Millar; Redid (Books L —V.), a Anderson; French,
speech to the jury forth. deleadeat, describe,' him al a F. Atkin. IL Clam : linen. H. Cross and E.
who from his preens laureates sad the repots: Desk. (equal);
writing,
W.
Tilley
arithmetic,
W.
tees w ut„,,, ....majz. a. Lockett; scripture history. IL
tide deteripline.--Tbe fecal • Walden; drawing, W. Oesa who had
aad_he was ireheeed toleac aot athaded the stoma for the whole year wen
herd labour.