The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-12 00:00:00

DOItCHESTER.

Donor Erna FAuxzes' ecru.—Professor Blick•
man, of Bradford Abbas, is announced to introduce
for discussion, at the meeting of this club, neat
Saturday, the following subject :—" The Growth of
Roots."
Doncancerna Conn Manner, March 9.—Th•
attendance at this day's market was larger than
usual. The supply of wheat was moderate, and beet
parcels wild at about last week's prices, bat damp
wheat sold at Is. per quarter reduction. The supply
of barley was again large, and much of it was °Bared
at a further reduction of 2e. to 31. per quarter, with-
out inducing purchasers to invest. Oata sold pretty
freely at late rates for seed. Inspector's Return:—
Wheat, 60a to 68s. per quarter; barley, 33.. to 455.;
oata, Z.. to 274. 61 Averages :—Wbeat, 61e. lid.;
bszley, 32.. oats, 26e. Bid.
MONCLTON Rotiaget.—We are informed
that mace the conviction of Samways for robbing his
lodger, Galpin, on the highway, he has cenfeesisd to
the Rev. W. M. Barnes, the rector of the parish,
who visited him in the prison, that he ROA guilty of
the crime, and stated that he hid the money
in s haystack on Mr. Phelps's land. A
search for the .C2O was made in the place
indicated, but fruitlessly, The greater part of
the bay had been removed, and the treasure also.
I Who had it remains as yet unknown. Mr. Justice.
Ryles shrewdly guessed that Sansways had secreted
the plunder and would confess it; for we understand
he directed that the £7 found in Samways's house
should be given up to the vrifs when he made known
where he bad put the stolen money.

Sr. GIORGI'S CHURCH, FORDINOTON. —Sermons
ware ',leashed at this church last Sunday on behalf of
the church choir. là the morning, the ViCar set forth
as the object of praise, the Lord ' • and in the evening de
pointed out the sithject of praise to be Christ's kingdom
In the earth, and he urged the duty enjoined by
the Psalmist that they should "sing predict with
understanding." He spoke of the proper mode of
conducting the praises of God in public worship,
condemning choral services as being tone musical
performanees, calculated perhaps to gratify the taste, but
acting as hindrances to spirituality of mind ; and he
said that the aim of himself, and those associated with
him in the conducting of thi choir of that church, had
always been that those tunes should be sung in which
the people could readily join, and that the choir should
not give • performenee alone, but should fulfil their
proper duty i e., last the singing of the con-
(notion. He expressed his gratification at the
hearty manner In ceilidh those who attended the
church joined ha the singing, and grave one hint as to
the manner in which individuals should do se that is so
excellent and so calculated to promote the comfort of
everybody attending a place of worship, that we re.
produce it: Let none sing too load, whether they had
what he delicately called a "trying voice" or a eery
good voice; and the proper force of their singing would
be attained if they always took care that they were
able to hear the voioes of those around them.

Boaonon Perry Smsoce, Monday. —Before the
Mayor (G. Curme, Seq.), J. F. Hodges, J. P.
A'dridge, M. Devireish, J. Easor, and J. Bishop,
Esqrs.—Tbe Coombe's family of Fordington, coesist-
ing of (ether and mother and three mos, were
summoned for making use of language calculated to
provoke • breach of the peaoe.-I°.C. Keats stated
that on Saturday night, March 2, about II o'clock
he was near the Guildhall, when he beard "murder"
cried at the bottom of the town. On going to the
Noah's Ark he found a large crowd collected outside,
amongst whom wse:lfrs. Coombe, cursing and shwa-
leg, 'murder," and "turn the rogue out."
(Mrs. Coombe, quite astonished! "Cursing I oh, oh;
how oan you tell snob • story n On seeing witness
she ran into the house —(kirs. Coombs "Oh dear,
dear, dear I") The landlord stood in the peerage
and told him that he had turned her out ono., and
said now he (+Aare') oould do it. In the home be
found Robert and Lott (the two elder eons) with
their hats off and their faces all over blood. The
father was standing—(John Coombe, ram., ironically !
"Why, I had the most blood on me, hadn't I?
You'll say that I should think"). He told the lead.
lord he must put them sot, and if he required any
and he (witness) would smist Coombe, gen.,
then abused him, using very vulgar language
(Coombe : "Oh! I had anything to say to
you in my life.") He persuaded Lot (the youngest
son) to go away, and he did so. The tether said he
woald not leave till he chose, and no one should make
him. They had all been drinking. After that they
were quiet —ln defence, the father said there was no
fighting at all. They always went to the public-
home where they could get cheap, to share their
money, and there was some wrangling about it
between the two elder sons. The women got
twiting" each other shout their husbands, *high
led to some scratching of faces, and his wife shouted
" murder," became, he supposed, WV, thought the
boys would hurt each other. In answer to • magis-
trate, William Blandaxner, the landlord, stood for-
ward as knowing something about the occurrence.
He, however, had been summoned for permitting
disorderly oindura in his house, and the Bench told
him he was in an awkward position, became he had
acted contrary to the terms of his license. gonad
that be did all in his power to maintain pesos, and
appealed to the defendants to confirm him, which
they did. Mr. Symonds remarked that was not
sufficient; he was not to allow it BLendamer said he
meld not deal with so many, and that it was like a
railway oollision—(laughter). The family had been
in the house about an hour before the row began.
The mooed son, John, explained the matter by say-
i‘g that his and his elder brother's wife " fell out,"
when, instead of letting them fight it oat them.
selves (!) his elder brother began with him, and so
his (Robert'N) wife scratched John's tam, and that
led to it all.—After consultation, the Bench fined
bin Coombs 10e. and costa, allowing her a week to
pay, and dismissed the others, ordering them to
keep away from public-houses in future, sod °maim-
ing the landlord as to the manner in which he eon.
ducted his house.

Corrarr Prrrr Sessiorre,Saturday.—Before Major
/Well arid Major Bindersloy.—John Pitman, who
has been convicted for poaching Dearly 40 times, was
again summoned under the Game Act. —Samuel
Dodge, bailiff to W. Mardield, Fag., said that on
Monday, Jan. 21st, he was walking through Bran-
' lane, and saw Pitman go into a field called Bran,
belonging to Mr. Manfleld. Witness got into the
hedge and saw defendant **arab among the high
gram till he felt • wire, which he tried to take up,
but it was frosen too hard. Pitman saw witness,
and then tried to stamp the wire into the ground.
The wire was put into a rabbit run.—ln defence,
Pitman said that he wanted to catch a blackbird.
He found • piece of string, which be took up and
put down again. He wanted to catch the bird by
"clapping" his baton it—(laughter.) Pitman had
but recently underarms two months' hard labour.
He was fined 40a, and, in default, was oommitted
for two mouths' hard labour. —James Rife was
summooed for being in unlawful possession o game,
at Puddletown, Feb. 24, but be did not &spear.—
P.C. Bishop saw defendant between nine and ten in
the morning, coming through a bye-lane on Puddle.
town manor. Seeing that one of his pockets was full,
witness asked him what he had got, when be replied
"Nothing." On searching him, witness found •
hare quite warm, which have been
caught in a wire. —lt seemaird defendant to
endant had been
imprisoned nine months for night poaching about
18 months ago.—He was Rood £5 11011 costs, or threes
months' hard labour. —Charles Guy, labourer, of
Piddlebinton, in the service of Mr. Lovelace, was
brought up under a warrant on the information of
his wife—Mrs. Guy Mated that on the 21st Feb.
husband came home between four and five o'olook
in the morning. She beard him swearing at her a•
she was in bed. Soon after her son got up, and
went to the stable, and then she dresead herself and
went down stairs to light the fire. She found her
husband sitting in front of the fire-place. He
knocked the fire-irons about, and dared her to
attempt to kindle • fire. She told him she mast do
it, In order to prepare the breakfast for her son.
He maintained she should not, and said he would Ist
her see who was master. When her eon came in
there was no breakfast ready. Her husband swore
very much at her, and he took up the chimney crook
and etiook at her, but it did not touch her. She
was in fear that he would do her bodily harm. In
answer to the Clerk, she said she was not in fear at
the present time.—Mr. Howard, who appeared for
defendant, said that being so there WM an end of the
caw The defendant was • most respectable man,
and an errinonefina bad been made Used be and his

wife should lies apart, which bad bets carried out
Beth the date of the occurrence in question to the
present time. These proceedings were only taken
out .1 malice.—The Bench diasoiseed the case.—
Mary Hall, of Ableitsbery, wae summoned for
obstructing the footpath at that plane on Thursday,
Feb. 214. by leasing neatly a is aggon load of dung
there.—Defendant pleaded ale bad no other way by
which it could be removed, and it vu left there
logic than urinal because there were no men at
home to remove ,t.—Fined It, costs remitted.
George Stoodley, a man employed at the foundry,
Fordington, was summoned for poaching. —Mr.
Greening, the farm bailiff at Higher Burton, fir W.
klanneld. Fam , said that on Sunday, Feb. 10, he
saw the defendant, in company with another man.
treading the fume in a flalil at Higher Barton,
belonging to Mr. klanfield. They came across the
. road to some rabbit boles. He went up and asked
them what they were doing, and he saw a ferret
come rot of one of thin rabbit holm D-fenilant gave
the names of William Wigan) and William Janice,
hut he discovered he was known in Dorchester by
the name of George Stoodley.—Defendant said his
proper name was William James, though he was
called George Sotodley, which was the name of hie
father•in•law. He was very sorry for what he bail
done. He had
before. He was with the other man, and he asked
him (defendant) to go with him to catch • rabbit,
and that was why he went—lt Deemed nothing was
known against him by the polio.. —lie was fined
10a. and costa—James Groves, • navy pensioner,
was brought up in the custody of Superintendent
Underwood, alio apprehended him on Thursday,
charged with larceny. It seems he bad been lodging
with • man named Thomas Baker, at Chickerell, and
bid gone off with Baker's wife, taking, at the MUM
time, some of his furniture. The goods not having
yet been found, a remand was naked for, and granted
WI next Saturday.