The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-01-03 00:00:00

loyally OF THE PAST TRAIL
The year 1870 for the United Kingdom has been •
• happy sus. Exempted from the horrors of int,r.a-
tioosj
ty, the country has been remarkable free
hags dad diaaseabaa, and the anarchy has been
nixesigthemedby wise
The liovereign Lady, who has now sat for nearly
thirty-four yeses oil the throne of thee* realms, baa
sheered the haute of her =bleats by owning forth
Ns bar keg asabasion. The Royal Family are rooted
in the aikido= of the people, and the wise approval
by bac Majesty, of her daughter's tholes in the Latour-
tent matter of matrimotty, hsa even oo tad on
Indio:ad& link of union will& unites this Crow.rd
'matey, and earned the %Edda'
isibiad. with her time worn mtd soup*
dem all, but • commonwealth nobly •
helm," ia paced by the surrender of the RUA-
liaised Cherish, the Ott f,of a Land Bill, and, last of all,
by the liberation of the foolish Fenian. by • gracious
and spontaneous set of the Government.
Scotland, to gramoua asaowledzmjtof Peg fo••••4
badows • hddelre=sulen of the House of Camp-
bell, aeon the end aosomplithed
Logibli•
la Upland, we have resolved to send the 'shoul.
maser alweed, or. rather, to bring the rising generation
So the school-hose. Tbe Mention Act of last Ideation
is a social revolation,but the revolution will begradual,
and the result, as we hope and pray, bessicient. The
edilsit= papered to adopt timely reforms,
• •• I mod be dreaded if the seal of
sectarians be 0•01111later3 in a temperate spirit and
▪ watelOwa oburration 411 the numereui signs of the
We besitste to look abroad. The event of the year
—huseeedus to a Iturepe—is the mad war whit* broke
. oat kaftan' Prude and ?ramie all the end of July,
aid still repo without • preemie! sessation. A black
,W Weald rather asy • miasson—"sper indeed upon
eur annul feast of charity. AA empire has fallen, and
Emu is given over to her own violence guided
deplores the misfortunes of her late ally, whilst else
the sees no reason for jealouy at the oonsolidation of
cierinany. Her attitude of dignified aosirality eam-
. lands the rupee of all bat the envious, the spiteful,
and the factious. Our °autumns await the
' golden opportunity to mediate between the belflprt.,
and es restore peace to the Earth.
The fall of this tempted power of the Pope would
hue made mere esuatien in less troutdous times. It
I. like the fall of an avalanche to the serealty of an
Alpine atatesphsee, this eassecitteswe of unseen action,
and at last the displumnsat of • single breath of air.
Eaderiastioal Rome is In rains, without hope of
restoration.
This works of pines have progressed, notwithstanding
the web of anode and the bomberdment of towns.
Two comas have been joined by the skill of a French
eegineer, and the sea-way to India is uninterrupted.
Mount Canis, over whit* the Freese found their way
to Italy in 1859, in at length bored through, and •
tunnel of gigue& diamagnets unites Swiderland to
Savoy:
To the new year we leek with hope., not unalloyed
by appreldnalen. Prmapteoss, Weed, could it be
to repose in- fanded security. be question of the
natio* arcuments mad be the first subject of Parld
sundry business at the opening of the Session, We
wish to remain at pesos ; but, to do this, Ragland
*book be made unpproadiable and Invulnerable The
means to this end mud be earefully weathered, bat the
work meal= to be dons, and without delay.

The year 1870 opined with mild weather, and low
fevers abounded. The formatice of the Dorset
Meadiaity Society.threngh the 'theft of Capt. Amyett
Brows, the Chief Eioestehle, was the first event of
importers" to the sounty. At the Epiphany sessimis
a vote of minpably with Led Partaken, who had
amentl, imeloised melees lajory when out hunting,
grid nessed. There was terrible weather at sea; two
Primal meads weel ashore at Portland, but their
orinewthwe bravely ream= by Parthenon; • French
trig was wrecked at &Upon, mid ewe of the weer
drowned. Co jog. 5 Mr. LE. Bell= mooed= of Poole,
died suddenly. Os Jam 2 the Mayor of Weymouth
(Mr, B. M. Howard) and eleven of the Corporation
offissally attended Gloomateretreet chapith The
guiders of the =ether was shown by • yellow butter.
fiy being memin at Milton Abbas on the 10612. On the
94th died Mr. T. Everett, late County Coen judge on
this circuit, egied 71. Mashers" Derherchanite was
opened es the 211th. Th. annual meeting of the Dor.
Me Chamber of Agriculture was luslA on the 29th.
Pb. society then had a Preside= ,l 2 vioe•Presidents,
250 members, and • balance of £4B.
On February 25b.e Dorchester Town Council resolved
ague to imply to the Darby of Cornwell to grant
Beggar's Knepp for • fair and market ground. Wey•
month was in general trouble about the removal of the
" Look.oet" on the Rothe by the War Department.
Oe the sth • handsome salver and IZO sovereigns were
presented to Dr. Fox, of Weymouth, on his retirement
from the medical profession. On the 11th Poole Town
themell, urged by Mr. Western, =ponied &imamate°
to consider the improvement of the harbour entrance.° a
the 16th the master of the Rolls adjudged Mr. Weston to
pay to his wife the emeriti= allowance of £l,OOO • year
stipulated. On the 19th two poachers at Wool who were
ordered MI by Mr. C. Hankbro, IL P., hest the hon.
patiseese with nicks. fbalismaantly they were Den.
tentied to three months hard labour each. On the 22nd
at Poole,the worklng.men's testlmonliJ, • Wirer epergne,
wee preepted to Mr. C. Waning, the detested math.
date at the general election.
On the first of Mao* the Dontheeter Vocal Amok.
Mon was established at a public meeting, said 80
members quickly jollied it. Oa the 14th Bisbee Moborior
sonmerated St. Mark's Church, Tabor, • little village
heiffeen Poole and Boasnemeath: At the Lest &mime
was light: an indictment for perjury by
Mr. Toogood, seedsman, of Southampton, against a
farmer named Warwisk, failed. On the 23rd Etridport
railway company &eland • 6 per gent dividend on
preference shares, and ls 61 on each ordinary sleaze—
ahe first money the original holders of the stock received.
Ow the same day there we, talk ia Weymouth Town
Gamma of reclaiming the backwater. That day also en
=l:sonforence was held at the Palace of the
feSalisbury, under the misplace of the Dimes=
Bowel of Limeation. 'for the purpose of considering
the Gewerament 'titillation Bill and the general position
of the Biliesation Question.' The Bishop presided, and
1111110111110011 spraying of the measure, and in favour of
direst tompubion, were passed.
Weymouth was distinguished in April by having •
public badger boat. On the 15th it was reported by
• the bon. sec. of the Dermot Mondioity Society that the
member of vagrants applying for relief in the past
them meths was 1,483 lees than in the corresponding
of last year. At e Easter sessions, Mary
period th
Blundell,
who had swindled various Weymouth trades
melt, was estibseced to six months' hard labour. Several
lanntly eoseisile at Portland ware Soared. On the 18th
there was a enseemiel review of volunteers in Kingston
Lamy Park. On the 18th the recruits of the Dorset
tallith assembled at Dorebeeter for training; On the
nth the PliDllo of Wales inspected Portland Convict
• Prime and the Breakwater. On the same day the
Duke of Cambridge visited the Weymouth fortifies.
Moos. April ••WM the perish church of Corns Abbsa
Mes es-opeasd after restoration. The tonic sot-fa
t SOW of slug's( WU popularised at Weymouth and in
.•heaelgbboerhood through the efforts of Herr Behnke.
Os the 25th • complimentry dinner wee given at
Wareham to Mr George Bond. as the @measlier le the
Rad of Eldon in the mastership of the Purbeck barriers.
. On the lath died the Bev. J. Fisher, rector of Holy
Dorchester. On the 28th Portland Local Board
resolved to memorialies Goversuneat to make Portland
▪ mall port:
On May 7th was laid the foundation stone of East
Mord= church. On the 11th the Bishop of Salisbury
museerated West Lulworth church, which hail been
rebuilt at • sort of nearly 29,000. On the 14th the
T.O. mitered Weymouth 304 strong for seven
tubing. On the 110th they were reviewed by
Killer. On that day the fortis numbered 322.
Oa the 38th Colossi Willis reviewed the Dorset
and said they were "second to none." On the 36th at
Weymouth Town Council meeting • letter was read
from Colonel Belleld greeting the use of the Rothe as
• recreation ground for Weymouth. During this month
the foot and mouth &seem appeared In • herd at
Bilempeton, and has since prevailed extenairely
throughout the comity.
On the 2nd of June Private Graham, of the 7th
Royal Fasibere was killed by a train whim walking on
thb Portland Railway. On the 6th the Bath and West
of England likelety's exhibition opened at Taunton, and
Mr. Henry_ Meyo's yearling Dosst ram won the first
prise of 1,10. Mr. A. J. Smith and other Dorset breeders
also gained prises. Os Jane 13th Mr. Gale, of Hotting-
ton, =II= soddenly left home and it I. believed map
mitted suicide by jumping into the sea when voyaging
between Southampton and Guernsey. On the 25th &shirk
at the Natigial Provinaiel Busk, Bleniford,eloped with
Miss Marian Greatheteli, the daughter of a widow
keeping • ladles school in that town. Os the 17th
Dorset was visited by • tremendous hail-storm, the
stones that fell being of • size unprecedented. On the
251.11 Government sallied the ettentioo of the Poole
()wawa to the mortality in Lytchet sub-district from
scarlatina: and Dr. HemlUori subsequently reported
that it arose from the deoompusitioa of the cleansing'
of the park pond. At the Midsummer eessious on the
22t5, the kfm. J. H. Austen oomelained of the polies
hounding about ripens. On the IMMO day a Fenian
moven named Thompsom, who was wooers= in the
attack on Inspector Brett, at Manchester, died from
mosomptios. liis remains WWI exhumed se the 14th
July by permission of the Government, and taken to
Ballast.
On July 5 there wee a forgivel of parish choirs at
Wilaborae MiaaSsr. The same day Elkton Martel
=awee cousecrated. On tLe 7th Bloxworth church
bed been re-built, was formally opened. At the
Repel Airier:Bata Society's show at Oxford Yr. H.
apes sicarling Dorset rant won the first prise.
IV Dorset hawses, oa the 25th, Thomas Kat-
was Imatea*d to death for the murder of
l
hanged on let tth ofeetiaadAugust.°seleiceOn PrieeeJaly 24. thHo e awed%
a aim of heath were bout between Pool': and
Godard. On ths 25th Wm Alexander • young lady
from London was drowned when isathied at Burton
The missal s low of the Doreheeter Ell' ung Society was held es the 30th, lied Mr. J.
LP., presided at the dins=
On the Ist of August the florist Voluntrers, 490
weal into camp at Bast Lulwortb. The
OD the 4ch. when 617 meetered,era Colonel
Willis said they were •mg efficient foroe. On the
Ind the body of Mr. G. F. Chick, grooer, who dis-
eered tress Bridport. Annecy 10, were pakug up al
pmt harbour. On the 7th Loudest sheath was
wrapped slier restorseisa. 011 the 9th the De
Whig. MI the Dorset Gouty School, at Citarmiesterv,
was opened with great eclat On the 15th a 0011 rid
POrtIO, OrolBll7, died from injuries dooe to
owe of his feet kr • Math, width he wilfully placed on
tikle that he might pt into lite infirmary. Aug. 16
Moberly mininterieed Ids primary visitation tear
wthe 961 k the Bey. H. Iverett read
mama In as Mostar of Holy Trinity, Dorobeeter,
wcfpxoth races Were held cm the 30th and 31st.
Oa tbe fah ameist named 13estamool,
local*dßielthiltimaa Pri"4 Ina 1,18 caught tritzutrots
whiddkot•waisd 9ft the 14th Mr.
at Bath, 96 the