The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

CRAW BOLTRNE.

PRZEIENTATION.-It is announced that the members of
the Wesleyan Societies in the Wimborne Circuit, are
about to mark their appreciation of the services of the
Rev. hi. H. Smith, their second nanieer, (but who, to
the great regret of nearly every one, is about to leave
them Inc another circuit,) with a silver tea service. Tbe
presentation will Übe place in the Wesleyan chapel of
this town.

SALISBURY.

Wr ( Reader) hear that one .of our most important
national monuments has had a narrow escape. It was
intended to hold • Congress of Archaeologists at Stone-
henge, dig under the altar-stone, and raise the fallen
trilithon. Sir Edmund Antrobus, however, the owner,
has, we are told, wisely set his face against the proposal.

EWlB'B ROYAL PAVILION. —Thiz company are still
performing nightly in the Butts, at the top of Castle.
street, and the pieces produced during the past week
have been received by crowded and respectable houses,
With great applause.

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FATAL A CCIDENT. —An inquest was held sii,rtielesitn•
firmary, before it. M. Wilson, Esq., coroner, on ay
last, on the body of Edwin Brown, who died from
injuries he received by being run over with a wawa, at
Temple Coombe, on Monday, the 14th inst. A werdict
of "Accidental death" was returned.
ACCIDENT. —On Monday night, a middle•aged man,
named James Creed, a shoemaker, who lives in Scot's
lane, was admitted to the Infirmary, suffering from a
fracture of the right ankle. He was found in St.
Thomas's churchyard by two young men, and he states
that he has not the least idea how the accident happened.

CONSIRVATIVZ Ansocuvrotr.—An Association for
Registration and other purposes has been formed for the
Northern Division of the Count". His Grace the Duke
of Beaufort has consented to be President of the Associa-
tion, which, it is said, has been formed, not to promote
the interests of any particular person or section of the
Conservative Party, but gener•lly to promote and uphold
the Conservative Cause, and "for the purpose of milting
the Conservative ranks and strengthening the Conser-
vative Cause in North Wilts."

Tat WILTBEITBZ DIALICT.—The following dialogue
actually took plane, a short time since, between a viaiting
examiner and a pupil in a school near Sainsbury :
Examiner : Now then, the first boy in the grammar
claes.—First Boy : Flere I be, zir.—Examiner : Well,
my good boy, can you tell me what vowels are'—First
Boy: Vow's, sir eits, air, of course I can.—Examiner
Tell me, then, what are vowel,? —First Boy: Vowls
sir! why, voids be chickens
COONTT PETTY Snastotre. Tuesday. —Before Viscount
Volkeetene,Lieut,General Buckley. and E. Hinxman, K
Everett, James Hussey, Kora, and Rev. E Doke.—
John Baker was sentenced to be imprisoned for 14 day.,
for stealing half • gallon of apples, the property of Mr.
Biddord, of Biehopstone, on the 12th August.--George
North appeared to answer an information laid by Mr.
0. M. C. Whatman, charging him with cruelty to a
home, on the Britford road. Mr. Whatrnan said he saw
defendant beat the horse in a brutal manner with a
thick whip without a lash and a heavy stick, the latter
of which he took from him, and now produced. He
also kicked it. The poor animal appeared to be in a
bait starved and very weak state.—Fined 10a. and mists,
Of 14 days' imprisonment. —Arnold Paddock was
-owdeseed to six week..
Itite stealing a fowl, the property of
'IW hiteparish.

George Page, at

BRISTOL ASSISCS.—(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)—
Raise,. Terrill.—Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. M. T.
Cole were eounsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Edlin for
the defendant. This was an action on two bills of
exchange for £lOO each, of which the defendant WM
acceptor. The defendant pleaded that he had accepted
the bills for the aocommodation of Edmund Parfitt, the
drawer of the bill, and that time had been given to
Parfitt. The plaintiff was a butcher at Bath, and the
defendant a corn dealer at Salisbury. The plaintiff bad
been in the habit of discounting bills for Parfitt, who was
a fanner and brewer at Frome, which bills were chiefly
accepted by the defendant. There had been many bil
transactions between these parties. Parfitt became
bankrupt, and the defendant was then sued upon these
two bills. The defence WAS that the plaintiff had given '
Par fi tt time without the knowledge of the defendant, and
the question was whether there was a binding agreement
between Parfitt and the plaintiff, no as to tie up the
hands of the plaintiff, whereby the plaintiff was pre-
cluded from ailing the defendant. Parfitt staled that he
had never given the defendant any consideration fr the
acceptances; be had arranged to pay the plaintiff PM
monthly on three bills, which were overdue, and he
had been paying from £2O to £4O interest for discounting
these hills, and it was arranged that he should pay the
plaintiff £25 a-month until the whole £3OO was paid.—
The-Judge said that was not an arrangement not to sue
the defendant. An acceptor was bound to pay says.
there had been • completely new contract not to sue
the aceeptor.—The jury at once found a verdict for the
plaintiff for the amount claimed. .
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Attwood, Esqrs.—
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