The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-10-05 00:00:00

BLANDFORD.

lie for the Mild,. poor provide..
0 I.: his hove hpoiti !
our feet in paths of pr..e he guides,
II wild him Lonl thine alit.
We can safely affirm that these words. which emanated
Iron. the pen of but one of his humble parishioners
expressed the sentiments felt by all. Flags and banners
waived in every direction, were festoons of evergreen
looped gracefully above ne, where the loggend " Welcome
Harvest House. also hung. The windows were I
all bordered with ivy, and • sickle entwinii
ing the date leo.l, designed in corn, and circled
with • wreathing of corn, fruit, Rowers and berries,
filled • spew of well on one side of the room, whilst
appoints istretebed • harvest text, and the loyal. legend
"God save the Queen." The exhibition having been
duly inspected and admired, the Rev. E. P. Cambridge
proceed to deliver an address. a copy of which with
the sermon before alluded to we should like to see on
every bookshelf iv, the parish. The prises to the cottaeers
were next distributed, aud then followed the annual
rewards to the school children. Another abort address
was readied then the table. ware cleared for the rector's
tea to the school children, numbering upwards of
Is whose opinion this was of course a prooeeding of the
gravest importance. The demand for cake, buns, and
Mend and butter was very pest, but greater still was
the supply. Parallel with this cuttrtsionaect was a
women's tea, given by Miss Foster, who prom:ails
superintended its arrangements and exerted herself most
scalotely to promote the comfutt and enjoyment of her
guests. teith the best results. Mrs. Cambridge ned
Miss Foot (a lady whose beneficence haa long been filt
and appreciated in Warinwell) presided at a table.
at which visitors were made weleotne. Tito day's
festivities closed with the National Anthem, and
denleoinc cheers for Mr. and Mrs. CambrirEe and
family, Captain and Miss Foster, Miss Church. llf.se
Nitwits's, the visitors, donors of prizes, kw

WAREHAM.
New Tr- wm Hsu. AND CORN EXCHANGE— k meeting
of the building committee was belt at the Town Hall
Yriday evening, to consider rind 43-ciile on the accept-
:ooe of • tinder LT the above works. Six tenders
were submitted,when that of Messrs. John Beer, lii nry
Best. and GOorite Ifebtr wag accepted, and the budding
Is to be toitly enanentwal.
Revision OF rile VoTZRS' LPITE—Tho Revising
Barrister, E. Platt, EDI., ecinonerned his glades at the
Town-hall. Wareham, with the lista for the county, at
9 a.m. As at other places the cavemen of a few parishes
hail neglected to make • seminars list of occupiers at £l2
yearly rental, and such voters werecrused off the oldlista.
The Borough Lists were taken at quarts r•past 12, but
as there was no opposition there wore but few persoas
present. The agents of the Liberal party did not put
11 an appearance, and made neither claims or objections.
For tlt! prrish of Arno there was one new claim made
nit behalf of the Conservatives. It woo supported by
Mr. Lacey, who stet, 3 that the rates bad been p rid, but
th overseer had omitted to place the name on the
rate book. The rates had formerly been Icil by tha
principal tenant, the farmer. on whose farm tin cottage
was built. There being no objection the els ini was allowed
For the parish of bete Regis there were ;19 new claims
in the Conservstive interest. supported on the same
I grounds as the previous one, by Mr. Atkinson, oil of
' which were pused. For the parish of Corfe Castle there
were two new claims, neither of which were on the
rats booi:, but the rates being paid they were allowed.
Norden : Frye nose claims; no objections. In one
ease Mr. Lacey stated that thongli there Woo • dispute
as to who was the rightful owner of the pr.perty, the
occupier had always paid the rstes, and hod actually
voted at the last election for that particular property.
Be was also in another parish, but tin y claimed for
Morden. Wareham: Holy Trinity (In-parish).—
Two claims as ledgers.—Allowed. (Out-pariah).—
nee DOW Maim for houses in suecession.—Allowed.
Lady Sc Mary (In-parish). Seven new claims for
; home in =occasion, and five objections. The claims
; were same no last, and were all allowed. The ground
of objection in three cases was that the parties bad
changed their residence during the electoral year, and
bail not given notice of any fresh Maim. One party had
received medical relief during the year, and the fifth,
though occupier of the premises, did so as a part
of his salary.—All these objections were unlearned.
St. Martin (In-parish). Five new claims in succes-
sion. and three objections.—New claims allowed. The
objections were to the first, that the party had removed
during the electoral year. and given no notice of
doles; to the second, that the party was in receipt of
aStiltsomnsMwbaayrstri"anineu(SAM'Ytit-Ossnraill.be).. pl—mnritEhCholent. woclThaitmeansttatrneelotoolb?j"ee-..c.
tions.—The Conaervati. es have gained this year nearly

100 vote..
CouNTV rwrlT Srettese. Tneyday.—Before 0. W.
Farrer,A 16+1,:et4. and W. C. ealerett.
. .

SabY, a carkrin he employ of Mr. Reader, of Winhith,
%vac ciamtnotucl hy the police for 'being drunk and riotAittc, at
Wareham. on the 17th Incl. Fndn the evidence it appeared
Ord WAS “Cllt 1., the t,naw with a waggon and three
horae, trd very drunk. and tuft lie• team in the road twar the
turnpike gate for a I.btlit time. On 111. retarn the (.41-I,MMT
1,•1111,1 he waa incapable of driving home; ho aboard her 'try
'topic The policeman was nbligen it drive the team to Win-
frith, the carter living to drunk. Defendant did not maw.
Ser, lee 414 the sumnanns was proved by fiervant norm.., and
lie tea. lined 44. and 11w coda, or 14 day.

TllAiliturVlAG.--Bervioss in thanksgiving
to Almighty God for the late bountiful harreet were
held in our parish church on Sunday week. The sermon
in the morning was preached by the rector, the Rev. J.
It. Quirk, and in the evening by the Rev. J. H. Card, of
Gravesend. The offertory amounted to 1,22 3s. 51.. a
moiety of which will be devoted to the funds of the
Dorset County Hospital and the remainder to the
expenses incurred by the evening services held in the
pariah (burgh.
CitaLtesnr CM. Courrrrinvie.--'elio mordhlv com-
petition of the Stb Dorset Ride Voluntsera for the
Captain's challenge cup, came off at the butte, on
Wednereley afternoon last. Daring the early part of
the contest the weather was fine, but as the last squad
were finishing their 400 yards' range a very heavy hall
and thunder atottn passed over the downs, and drove a
large proportion of the competitors home. Several of
there who had made the highest mores sought shelter
In the marking butts, and were enabled after the
weather improved to bring the competition to a close.
The cup was won after a close contest by Armourer
King, with 45 mark.; the other highest scores w. re
Corporal Gulliver 45, and Sergeant Grovei -13 (Its,
handicap 2) the tie between King and ituiliver teas
decided by the highest MOT^ at the longest range. lie
minima were 200, 400, and WO yagda, five shots at each.
Tug TnusDnerroix.—On Wednesday morning the
town of Itlandford was visited with a vi Ty revere
storm of lightning, thunder and rain. It commenoed
/sheet four o'clock, though even before that several
Sashes of sheet lightning were seen. From half-past
four to about five the storm was at hi, height. After a
very loud peal of thunder, three flashes of lightnh.g
immediate succession were followisl by is craidi elicit
ermined very many of the inhabitants, and the fesra
entertained that the electric flnid had fell in twnte oart
of the town were verified. On making enquiries we
found that a high chimney oonneoted with Mr. Wtting's
house, the Portman'. Arms, had been struck. A large ,
hole wee made completely through the top part of the
chimney, and the lightning then &mended in • slant-
ing direction down to the shoots at the bask of the
bottle, and from thence by a pipe leading to an under-
ground tank. Too men in Mr. Itotting's
named Bellows and Pitman, who hail been enittgiod In
brovring, were at the time washing themalves near the
pump. clom by the yard, and partially rendered insen-
sible by the shock. They describe the effect as though
a ball of fire hail fallen into the tub in whieh they were
re:idling. aria Of entuutt they were much alarinei by the
ooeui nine, The bricka out of the chimney were struck
through to the hack yard, and the escape of the men
was a very narrow one. During Ike day • good many
people visited th., not. The nro earn,. on
daring thi. ovenint„ anti thon.M there was net so much
, lightuing and thunder, bail came down in torrent.. Tbe
flso;t of 'Lie', rd l of the houses were soon covered with
water, which rushed down the street, like a will stream,
and for a short time covered the road at the bottom of
Kattemeid.

Hwivzirt
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huTed 1 Awyuy GALAMITY AT BAYSWATER.
WAREGiiir ly EL...
Oar
ass= Masons BOAST TO WRATH.
festival was celebrated ei Thursday last, with even
' I k one of the most fearful fire. which ims occurred
at Ave minutes before three
greater heartless than astsL The weather wan us. rs past hapcned in t,...
' .
cOocn F.
,ri,day morning.
favourable, indrodi salt torrent:tee ,Livel as at intone. tls in the metromolie for tents Yee _ .
Bsyswater. Mrs. Jack and
rnemory of the oldies' tuntrolla—• fa t which, however. bedridden, by abeam* to gout, 6 7'
reworks, and genera
during the day have poll". never fall' n within the pt. mi.. a of Mr. E.
t.Tetherlge,gianweah ii.
livelihood
ghoodnearbly
, proved of elight important's, and was soon forgotten in selling newspapers, sweets, toys. _ _
' wheat ears, was spread witi a t f moss,
l' lb.
inrgaight 50u"r‘hliinr;e°(e.h4erth wwahritchsuicabrowlyncadectkhede pro;
the ocesien, and a most (sive aspect it assented. The had his attention directed to a sin quantity of smoke
I sill of the east window, chase roma a tail Grose of pouring through the windows of esh the op. Before he
' satnadtihounsettary;:ngtrin twh7asiund'e borreil . A pollee *mutable
po.dasit
the text "Evermore give ue this peco ea,. eequisitely explodes was heard, and avail room in the hose
wheat-sheaf and a bouquet of flowers. Tho prasuyePr
designed in corn; here alio trade of tire ernMematic became on Are, and the roof fell in. The Are-escape
pasion flower reclined. on the alter was placed • arrived in the suns of • few minutes, but the
The main body of
' with the addition of a hanisome floral ors, adorned some distance erre." the road. Several engines baying
was wreathed with corn endherries : • similar decoration the flame., which kept rushing through every window
the pulpit. A iscoaihings corn outlined the chancel arrived, the firem. n went to work, and were successful
ir. beimitndutici:oertowitespurinnegb bleistoraelele; "theitbbuyildnil'irr:owainlgo:
larch from the
' bearing in He centre, on a tiansparent ground, the word the fire in the premises of Mr. Totberidge could not be
I " Alleluia." Sae of whiel depended • double triangle la saving the atijoinieg premises.
&menial Gan had evidently been taken estingnished until the building was nearly destroyed.
to render the font as festive as flowers, awn. and On searching the ruinc for the missing pistil., the only
greenery could make it. Tic ..t wall was tenured persons found alive were Mr. and Mn. Tethesidge, a
by double triangles, and the words "God in love." The etidd, and the servant.
south by a harvest text. which, as well as "Come, ye The following were found beret to death :
thankful people come." over the entrance, was executed E. Tetheridge, aged 9 years, llenryiTetheridge, aged 5
In eon,. All the window-sills were filled with mom years. Edward Tetheirlge, aged 3 years. llr.. Jack,
and floral designs. By twoo'elock (the hour of eerviee) aged 22 years. Steward Jack, sued 28 years. Ages
the church was crowded to inane. and many persona Jack, Wel 17 Yee"- Henry Jack, 41c'd 14 769'n't
el-riving later were glad to Ilia a seat in the poteb. We 'lto ',mites were carefully collected together, Pad
commeneed ht sinning the Old litindresith Partite, the removed to the Paddington dead-house.
byenes " Pries, to (tml imnoital, praiee" I,Soniety for Sir. Vtheridge, owing to his invalided condition,
Promoting :Chrintiin Kneeriedge oellectiee) and "We slept in the back parlour, neat the shop. This is the
plough the fields" (No. 314 in Appendix to Hymns poor fellow's own version of the sad affair :—" I Gannet
Ancient and Meters), wilt sung during tie setae, in any way account for the Are. Owing to the greet
and after the sermon " Prase the Lord. etc." (No. 149, pale I suffer (rout rheumatism I am scarcely able to
Salisbury Ilyttin Book). These, as well as other musical move, end never by any chance slept daring the night.
portion of the service, were well rendered by the choir. I usually fall int, • sleep hem exhaustion about eight
under the able guidanne of hiss Church, who presided o'cl.ak in the morning, and up to half.past two this
at the harmonium. Evening prayer, with the addition morning I had not shut my epic All was then safe
lof special h . t eelleets, wee said by the Rector (the and is usual. I think I then fell into • dee.' fr,,,.
thee.. E. I'. Cambridge) who also preached, selecting fas or which I w aros an
ed by a hissing noise, d some
ibis tent the words " Rejoice in the Loft! Sway, and smoke melting through a broken window in the parlour
I again I say rejoice." It was a arm-mon thoroughly d.mr. tat °non eslled to my wife, who WU sleeping in
I suited to the ocomion, and one which would ba soul. the back room upstairs, with my three dear children.
stirring at any time. At its conclusion • collection was My little girl too, who was sleeping with me, screamed
made for tLe Propagation of the Chisel in Foreign to he mother, but before els Game down the situp was
, Part.. From the church we proceeded to the school- lighted up by the red and green Are I had on • Self
room, where the Cettagent' Horticultural Show next there. I eucceeded in getting up, bet I deal know
absorbed our attention. Concerning this the sea of howl did it, and then may wife came is and dragged
ezcitement had for some days swelled very high in our mots, the top of the stairs, and I rolled down into the
parochisl tea-cup, and the result of the exhibition was back yard, and there I could hear my poor children
°stately most satisfactory. Beery qualtfied cottager in calling for help. My wife then left me to rescue bee
Warmwell, as well as in several neighbouring pushes, children, but the smoke and nature prevented her from
was represented in vegetables, flowers, or bread, the reaching the room, and she cams back in • frantic
competition in the letter else being very spirited. Site to We and toy dear child, who reembled by my
Young Wane:well well smutatned Ito fame f,r wreaths. aide. There wee no ladder or anything to put up to
The decorations of the room, which last year fir a sail the window, or toy darling children might have been
reason were " compicuoes by their abseuce." on this saved. I heard the esploition when las in the yard."
occasion were proportionate to the joy supplird by The poor man hero barat into tears, and lifter • time
revereed eirourostanes. Voting us as we entered hung continued : "Thank God, my eldest girl had gone to
• banner displaying the words "Peace and Prosperity sleep at a friend's, or she too would have been burnt.'
to Warmwell," and at the opposite end of the room Again he wept, and I. j.sal-ted at intervals, "Oh, they
"God bless our Rector," designed in berries by the were clueing Witten, eir. To think that I could not
Wermwell school obildren. Beneath this hung • board render them ssietance, and save their lives. It is a
of hug. ditnensions meericied in flowers and berries, sad effair, !if. lam left penniless, and an, now with.
with the following tribute of love and respect to the out the means or power of earning a farthing. I don't.
founded ei the festivities : know what I shall do." In answer to questions, IA
teided ;-- " I had no-- serder In my house. I boutid
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lied fire and 21b. of green Ire about • fortni'alit
ago, end I kept it iu • brown parser bag on a shelf in
the shop. There were some squibs and crackers in the
shop, and lots of newspepera and songs, and toy., and
thesecnchl iokpe thoiunlged
bt that I. sob
isis in .gi about,
c.so 7;
account for the fire by imagining that the red fire
ignited of itself. I am told it will do so if it e not.
properly made." The unhappy man here again buret
into tear; and exclaiming "My poor deer children,"
buried hi. bead in the 'pillow.
The pi either' in which the belies were found furnish
proof peitive that every member of the Jack family
were awakened by the cries of Tetheridge or the +edu-
cating fumes of the red and green fire. beneath. They
had all sprung out of their bed.. and Mrs. Jack was seen
by an opposite neighbour. one William Able, at the
window weer the shop. She threw it up, bat finding
the flames beneath her shut it down Leen and ran back
into the room. and fell from suffocation, it is supnesed,
on her face, close via elude( drawers that stood against
the wall opposim the window. There she lay until the
I flooring gave way, when her legs fell through and were
partially destroyed, her bred and shoulders being preeel
against one of the beams by • part of the roof that fell
In. The upper pert of the body was thus preserved from
the fire, but the bone. of the feet and up to the lune
ow. re entirely coLsoneel. Ague. :lack. the d•ughts r.
had, it would appesr, rushed first from the front room
in which she was sleeping to the back room, where the
children of Tetheridge were shrieking for help; but
finding no escape there she returned, with the tiles, it
is supposed, of going to the front window; but whether
she fell from suffocation. OT whether she ran against the
bedstead, on which she bail been • few minutes before
calmly reposing, it is impossible to soy. The latter, how-
ever, is thought to be the case by firemen and others, by
her body, being toned in • half standing position—the
chest pressing, so it were, against the bedstead. send the
head thrown back. The lower extremities. like those
of her mother's, were very much burned. The body of
bee brother, Stewart Jack, who bad that very evening
returned to his widowed mother after a long &been°. in
Australis, and who is described as being a bis;bly
irrielligent, powerful man, of 211 years of age, was found
on the error, by the aide of lashed with his fuse dawn.
words and Ilia legs drewn up and so strongly contrasted
th.t it was impoeible ho bevel them in ilairieg the body
in the ohelL The other son of Mrs. Jack, aged 14. •
strong lad, was also found very much °barred, but with
hie face downwards, so that the byputheeis regarding the
mother am] her two annn is that finding all possibility
of escape cut off they threw theanelves on the round,
with their facies downward.. to avoid the •efrueeting
Mtluenees of the smile, and thus encountered &horrible
death. In the case of the poor little ohildree, they
seemed in their flight to have clung together in their
bed, where they were discovered in an awfully charred
erudition by one of the firemen. After the fire bad
beim lawitered, and while playing eosin the !Till
smouldering ruin+, the attention of the fir. man holding
the hoe, W 3.4 at t I act ed to a blackened tease by an unusual
biasing :wine and in removing what be suppo.od to be
the severing of a bed he discovered the remains of the
nide' tunas+ child:en.

THE FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASP.
The following list of infected counties will serve to
convey an idea of the extent of outline over which the
foot-aodsmouth disease has spread :
ErOilattiD.—Metropolis, Berks. Backs, Cambrklo,
Cheshire. Cumberland, Derby, Durham Fenix, Hants,
Ilern, Kent, Lancashire, Lined's (Linds4), Middlesex,
Norfolk, Northampton, Northumb.:Hand, Nottingham,
Oxford, Salop, Stafford, Suffolk, Surrey, SWllle/,
Warwick, Woroester, awl the Last, West, sod North.
Bilious of Yorkshire,
SCOTLAND.—AncyII. Berwick, asdkwonflow. PAD—
burgh.lingtoo. Lanark.
On the Continent the state of affairs is not more
aatisfactery frotu the Black Sea to the Atlantic foot.
arelmouth disease prevails among cattle, sheep, and
pigs, and eargues of infected animals are day by day
landed in this oountry.
In the neighbourhood of Wincanton Revers' animals
have been seized with the disease, and in one or two
eases death rapidly followed. Upon the farm uf Mr.
Salisbury, of Ninth Charlton, the epidemic has ex-
tensively manifested tssU, twenty-two cows beloadiog
ti that gentleman having beeo seriously affected. In
tilencestershire the dimmer has also made its appearanee,
and stringent measures have been adopted to prevent
its extension. The whole of the sheep which arrived
in London on Monday for the Smithfield and other
markets were wired on account of the disease.

LIGHTNING killed a Marmot near Salt Lake, sad threw
noon the market n fine assortment of widows, al all ages
cod conditions. _

Mies Ruth A. Damon, for the past two years pastor
of the linivers-dist Cnurch st Cavendish. Vermont. Les
resigned to uiariy a brother minister from Illinois.
PIES HYACINTHS AND THE PAPAL Sac —A remark-
able letter he. been addressed by the celebrated French
preacher, Pere Hyacinthe, to the general of his order
—that of the Barefooted Carmelites, in which, with
eloquence and deep feeling. Father Hyacinthe vindicates
the rights of conscience as superior to all Papal dicta,
and all monastic regulations.
We know the cook only by her dishes • how they
linger in the memory, everybody who haa been a xebool-
boy knows. And it is not very different with eld.rly
gentlemen either, if we may infer so much Been the
curious fact that *hen a man marries any denizen of his
kitshen, it is always his Wok. —Saturday Bence%

Tea SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS. —The aift.nrs of tho
Social Science Congress were begun at Bristol on Wed-
nesday. There was divine service in the cathedral, au&
the sermon, preached by the Bishop of the diocese,
dealt with the whole subject of that which is called
social science under religions aspects. The opening
, whin as was delivered in the evening by Sir St•fford
Nortboote, who, without attempting to travel over the
widefield of inquiry opened up by the disensinene of the
assoeiatien, offered a few observations upon some
portions of it. The relations between Greet Britian
and het colouies, the Rutile which the law should place
on crivitable endowments, the ploblians to be solved in
connectkin with the education question, the completion
of our systems of sanitary orgauisation, the importance
of improving the condition of the agricultural labourer,
and the results to be expected from the Conference of
Lathe., were ammigst the topic touched upon by the
right hoe. hareti,t.
TERRORIMA IN IHRLAND. —The Monate Citroen-it lays
that last week the hone. of Robert Hemphill, Esq., of
Spring-MU, county Tipperary, was attacked by four
armed men, under pretence of watching for firearms.
Mr. Hemphill succeeded by his resolute conduct itt
causing his assailants to beat a retreat. They eeverel
times called on Mr. Hemphill to hand out any guns and
pistols which he had in the house, and they endeavoured
to force the hall door open as if with an iron her.
While engaged in this work, which, owing to the
strength of the fastenings, they were unable to scaout-
With, Mr. Hemphill went close to the door, and, cocking
both his revolver and fowling-piece, called loudly on the
men to &dot, or lie would certainly shoot them. Thma
threat bed the desired effect. The polka have visited
the scene of the outrage and inotitubsd ineuiriee but I
sin compelled to add the stereotyped remark that "no
clue has ae yet been obtained likely to lead either to the
arrest or identification of the parties."—A brutal attack
was recently made on • labottrieg man named John
O'Hara and his wife, who reside at Glencarbery, county
TilVerorY. Two men with blackened faces entered
t) Ilore's cabin late in the fmning„ when the poor man
wait eating his supper, and, without any remark, ann.
teemed to beat him with stout cuilxels having heavy
iron ferules. They next attacked the wife, who wits
eitting at the fire when they tame in, with a young shad
in her arms. The man got fourteen dangerous outs on
the head, and his skull warn fractured in two places.
The woman got three cuts on the heed, and her right
hand, with 111111041 she endeavoured to word off the blows
from her child, is site dieabled. Both husband and
wife are in is most precarious condition. It is • general
opinion that O'Hara and his wife were beaten in mis-
take for others. Strangers, It is mitt were employed to
I beat • certain person, to prevent him attending court
to prosecute in a came that is pending, and the Marling@
' mistook the house of O'Hare for that of the real object
of the attack. 'lime people in the neighbourhood will
not give the Police any inforinotion on the subject,
They tear te be ealte3 "stag,'