The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-09-26 00:00:00

may well ask ourselves whether we had better
3 prod etinuttl Exiaro. not " rest and be thankful"
DORMS/TS
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBIA SA URS.

HOWITLL SanDar.--Collections : The church of the
Holt.
orinity, £ll 2a. 9d. ; All Saints, £4 lls. 4d.' •
For n, £5 14s. 6d.; West Fordington, over £5.
Several churches and chapels have not yet had their
collections. _

Commirrco ro THZ Dolts= COUNTY PRISON.
Hatiolll/ : Frederick Hiscock, obtaining money by
false pretences at Piddletowa ,• David Smith and
Catherine Edwards, stealing from the perbon at
Beaminster.—Hard Labour: Jane Downton, stealing
money at Wyke Regis, 2 calendar mouths; Hannah
Andrews, vagrancy at Dorcheste
_,r 1 calendar month
Harriet Stokes, vagrancy at Weymouth, 28 day.;
, Edward Painter, drunkenness at Blandiord, Albert
Viney, assaulting a constable at Weymouth, Jane
Woodham, drunk and riotous at Dorchester, and John
Keating, drunk and riotous at Cann 14 days each;
Annie Mackey and George White, drunkenness at
Weymouth, 7 days each.
Tea Wurnza.—The following is our meteorological
report:— _
Semi

'gilt it Wind.
Night. '
—7- .
geri. 60 46 W Cloudy,
19 60 40 NW Fine
25 59 47 ' 8 Fag, fine
21 69 45 8 Fog, Ane
22 61 63 i SE Fog, fine, rain
f 74 1:0!, 13 1 :: i Fia fine, cloudy

State of Weather.

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HOSPITAL SILRMONS.—The annual %amnions on behalf of
the Hospital were preached in the Congregation yesterday
(Sunday) by the Rev. T. Weave. In the morning the
preacher discoursed from the words, "And Jesus went
out and saw a great multitude, and was moved with
compassion towards them and He heeled them," Matthew
xiv., 14. The discourie was an exposition of the spirit
and aim of Christianity as a compassionate and
benevolent power. In speaking of Christianity as
related to man's physical and human needs the Preacher
said, "It contemplates the physical and human as well
GI the spiritual, It does not overlook man's physical
being. It does not treat his lower nature as if it were
unworthy of consideration. It regards the lower as well
as the higher as from God, and deals with It accordingly,.
Human happiness is designed by God to be the portion of
His creatures as truly as spiritual happiness, and
Christianity takes cognisance of this fact. It seeks to
remove out of man's path all that injures and oppresses.
It seeks to remove disease, suffering, and misery in all its
forms. We commit a grave mistake when we overlook
this fact, and when we have no regard to human miseries.
The gospel deals with these, and when its full blueing'
are seen it will be seen also that it is the forerunner of
I all e=liti well as heavenly good. Christ began with
the in His own ministry. He healed the sick, He
conferred uman and physical good upon the people, and
this was but to thew them that His gospel was • vspel of
human good, as well as of spiritual and heareab good.
In the history of Christianity this fact had been strikingly
rillustrated. Its wooer has been the prees of
earthly good--good In government, in social weal,
In domestic peace and comfort; all that can really
constitute happiness for Ruin Is got by the spread
of the gamed If, therefore, we would seek
the spread of human good • if we would seek good for
man in all the aspects of his life in no better way can we
do so than by seeking the spread of Christianity. It is
only u the gospel spreads that all human good will spread
with it. This truth, continued the preacher, is coming
Into more vivid prominence day by day. The time was
when the Church was liable to overlook it, when it con-
fined its attention' almost exclusively to the higher
blessings which Christianity confers, when items indifferent
In • large measure to the lower and the human. That
state of things has passed away largely; and men get to
feel that their Christianity must express itself in actual
efforts for the physical good of man—diminishing their
Ills and meeting their urgent needs. When any help is
wanting In human suffering the first to proffer In help
are the followers of Christ; Christianity is thus the friend
of man in his human ills as well as in his spiritual needs.
Much has been done, much remains to be one;d and it is
very certain Christianity must deal with human want' as
well as with spiritual, There is no other remedy for the
seething mass of human misery by which human life is
characterised. Christianity is the salt of the earth for
its physical as well as for its moral ills, and just as it
spreads so will human misery disappear. Haring dwelt
on the preeminent mission of Christianity to meet spiritual
misery and destitution, and having shown how the
can alone be truly felt as the spiritual is realised, and how
the experience of the spiritual influence of the gospel is
the supreme creator of the benevolent spirit and inspirer
of all human effort for the reduction of the world's
miseries, the preacher continued to dwell on the active
helpfulness which the gospel demands of all Re adherents,
first making them compassionate and then actively
benevolent. Christianity does not stay to express sum-
PathY merely; it proceeds immediately to help. The
two facts are connected here—" He had comparsion," and
"ge healed." The two things go together. That is no
compassion which merely compassionate@ but does not
help. Tree sympathy forthwith proceeds to act. This is
the spirit of Christianity. If proueds to dud with the
actual needs of man; it urges forward It. adherents to
action; it moves the springs of action by pity and love:
but to act is its chief function. The greatest worker in
tids sense was Christ Himself. "He went about con-
tinually doing good His true followers are emanated
by a like spirit. The whole structure of Christianity
proves that it is an active agent; its principles, Its laws,
ils spirit, all rat forth its practical aspect. It lays down
active lawb fcr the government of all its subjects, and it
covers all huffish 'need- it bids us feed the hungry,
clothe the naked, reliee ..91?preu0, succour
the afflicted—act out, ill shore. di t 4 *Olt
plea of the life of its founder. He, therefore, w
knows mod of Christ and realises most of His sgt wtll
most fully live the practical life of Christ Himself
will seek to help forward every human good; spew!
and be spent in promoting human happiness In every
possible form. Thus Christianity is not a religilln of
sentiment, but of action; it stays not to weep meanly: it
proceeds to help: it longs to send its followers into the
great field of human scrim : to battle with the manifold
forms of Lutuan ;to banish human woe, and to spread
every form of human good. It is not intended for the
clouture. nor for thesenctusry, nor for the clout. or study
merely: the true Christian is intended for the greet battle
field of life girding himself to battle with every evil, to
combat every wrong, to combat every woe: to diffuse
light, joy, peace, blessedness over the heart and homes of
men. Christianity is practical as well as theoretical;
active as well as reflective; it leads all its followers
to a life of earnest, continuous self-denial. In the
evening the discourse was founded on the words
of James L, 17—" Pure religion and undefiled before
God dud the Father is thth to visit the widow and
fatherless in their eXiction and to keep himself unspotted
from the world." The prenJur discoursed on religion as •
life not • creed, nor storm of cereminilei ; but • life of
constant, active, benevolence. In both services earned
pleading was made on behalf of the hospital and all
kindred agencies for the good of suffering and sorrowing
man. In consequence of the threatening weather in the
morning the congregation was not so large as usual,
although in the evening there was a good audience.—
The collection amounted to £3.
&mound Potica, Thursday.—Before Mr. J. F. Hodges
and Mr. C.. J. G. Gregory.
Jaw Weedliaes was charged with being drunk and dis-
orderly in Trinity-street on Wednesday afternoon. —P.C.
Dunn proved finding defendant in ty-street drunk
and swearing and • crowd of perdu round her. She
resisted and bit the constable in the hand.—Fined Ils ,
including costa. or 14 deli' hard labour in default. She
went to prison, from wWch on the day of her escapade
she had just emerged.
Fadier.—Refore Mr. Devenish.
William Weeds, for being drunk and incapable in the
iridportroad that day, was fined 2s. ticl. and costs 15a. hi.)
Boaouoit Perry SUIIOIIIk Monday—Before Mr. J.
;dein, Mr. M. Devenish, and Mr. J. F. Hodges.
J oh* Dues, well-known in the Dorchester Market as •
vendor of puny. was charged with being drunk on the
Itith of September.
P.C. Pomeroy proved finding defendant about five
o'clock in the at ternoon lying down on the pavement
close to the entrance to the market. helpleuly drunk'
with blood running from his mouth from • wound received
in failing.
Defeudant said he slipped over • piece of peeve on the
market. and was not drunk. He had been in Dorchester
37 years and had never been summoned before, and had
not been before • magistrate.
The Chairman said the magistrates would give him the
benefit of the doubt, and dismissed the case.
Charles Barber, in the employ of Mn. J. Seymour, of
Greve Buildings, was charged with vending bread, not
haring proper scales and weights, on the 16th September.
The Clerk said that in a case recently tried it was held
that • baker was bound to carry scales, whether he was
delivering breed on a previous order or otherwise.
DefeudaM pleaded guilty, and said he came away in a
hurry, and forgot to put the scales up. He had not been
out before without them.
Defendant was fined la, and Ma% 8.. Od.
Willies* /math Robert Whits, and Richard Charles Whits,
Were charged with committing • breach of the peace.
P.C. Pomeroy was on duty on the London-road, about
IL p. .op the Ilth September, and found defendants
and ftige. fie parted them. Richard White
diu with sAn imunnwp. There was a crowd
We managed to qoiet them, and the superintesi-
-len Place, the crowd was gut away. Isaacs
Gross-examined: Re saw Robert
lived at
White come dent the lire" ,PreViCagli with his wife
d another man. did not ,Ilnow en,, row being on
athnen. He did not see Richaid lute go acorn the street
at 10.30.
Isaacs said that he was going home when someone
shouted eft& him, saying he was a " country joskin," and
h,, replying to their cries, was rewarded with having
shout 30 or 40 of them "on him" at once.
Defendants sack made rambling statements, but the
substance seemed to be that they were drunk and
quarrelled, ani the metier ended in • good round fight. It
seemed to be, as the Town Clerk remarked.' case or"town
against country."
Defendants were bound over to au* Lltb Peace for sit
months, in the sum of £lO.
Geo,r Bartlett, • poor lad of Fordington. was MISP
with riding without reins. Defendant pleaded guilty,
bail gt
been to plough all day, was coming home with an
empty putt, very tired, and got up to ride.—Case dismissed
with e caution.
Mary WiU, qf Kingston, near Yeovil, was charged with
causingshoree tots used in an unfitstathas recorded in our
last issue, when • young man named Dyke was charged
with working the horse in se unfit state. The evidence
as given against Dyke on thb previous Monday was read
over to Mrs. Willis, who said that she was not told boy
defendant Dyke, that he had been cautioned noth work
the horse.
Mr.. Willie said she did not know Anything about the
horse being raw. Dyke had only recently been taken on,
Dyke was fined Is, and costs ?5.61.. and Mrs. Willis's
cue was dismissed on payment of the costs 7s. 6.1.
Charles Janes Steyr's was charged with assaulting
William Clarke.
Thomas Franklin, residing at the Swan Inn, Fording'
ton, on the 9th Septehber about seven o'clock in the
evening, was coming out of his mother's house, and sew
complainant passing with • bag of coal, someone in the
crowd said something to him, and on his turning round
tiwyni pulled off the beg from his back, at the same time
Clarke stuuck at Swyre, on which the latter struck him
on the nose two or three times, after which Clarke ran
away. He went to this,. and remonstrated with 8 wpm
for his conduct, on which he WWI 10514 to go into the house
and mind his own business.
Defendant said he did not intend to hit al'edallt,
although he struck at him.
The Chairman said the magistrates considered it • ease
Shat called for severe punishment. and fined defendant
Ills. and Ils. costs, or 14 drys' in default.
Watieue Dyke and Willies* Olyds were charged with
sleeping In aloft at the George Inn.
P.C. Berland about quarter to 11 last night went into
the hack we)" to the (MOP Jen. and found the two defen-
dants in the hay loft. Is wrote thes., up, and asked them
what they were doing there and Duty rige.ied sleeping,
end in answer to other queries said no 01141 aytkor,sed
tben, to sleep there. With the sergeant he efts *Ws
returned to the 1011, and then, in answer to • ii on,
Clyde *elle had net demi In • bed since last
',eh. warp both taken to the police-station,
Clyde had and Dyiso Id. in their possession, with a
pipe end tobacod oil
Mr. Irish said it was the mail stable ea loft, and it was
net usual to look the doors, but for the fidureee wouldsee
& hilvivassubeicrg:k7futenym: penal d up,
ma duce
.6tit eon at Taunton to 9 tionths'
I • teid theoshi supervision.
rap4lT 'with • caution, but Clyde was more
dam 100, w',ll belteenold to a month's hard
sever,
labour.

G,.p

COMM POLK.", Saturd&i.—Before Mr. H. B. Middleton
and Mr. L L Kinder&lay.

• LID Cal&
A respectably dressed young woman of about
named Jane Downton, of Wyke Regis was c
with stealing a cash-box, the property of 'nooks+ Hnele7.
dairyman, of the same place.—The prosecutor stated
that on Wednesday he bad his caah.box in his bedroom.
The prisoner was there teething on Thursday, when it was
missed. In the evening he went for the police constable
and gave her into custody. The box contained 211•• in
, silver and some coppers. She denied having stolen it, and
'he told her he hoped she had not. He bad nothing to say
against her nor yet for her.—The Police-constable
stated that thaprosecutoraccompanjeci him tosplaoecalled
Rock's Torr, in the name perish, where they found the
defendant, who was then given into his custody on a
charge of stealing it. She at first strongly denied it, but
when he locked her up she admitted it, and asked him to
forgive her. She also took from her purse 3s. 11d, which
she said wu all she had left of what she had taken. The
remainder she had spent in purchasing wearing apPaswl•
Having been duly cautioned, she pleaded 'I am guilty
eir."—The Bench told her it was a easy 11660U11 offence, for
as she was engaged in the capacity of a servant it
rendered it worse than an ordinate caw of stswitow,She
would have to go to prison for two months' bard
James Snelling. who appeared with a nicely illuminated
ele, was lined 20e., including carts, or 14 dell' hard
labour, for being drunk and fighting at the Breakwater
Hotel.

THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON THE LINE.
The young man Joseph Barge, whose recent
attempt to commit suicide in a railway carriage,
we have already recorded, on the line between
Malden Newton and Everehot, was brought
up on Saturday at the County Prison before
Mr. E. Pearce and charged with the offence. He
appeared weak, and had nothing to say for himself
beyond that he thought he had "lost his acceptance
of God, and his desire was to quit the world."
Evidence was given relative to the attempt, an
account of which has appeared in these columns
and the prisoner was conunitted for trial at the
Sessions.