The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-05 00:00:00

DORCHESTEL

Bouillon FOLIC; Mooday.—Bodora th• Mayor and J
13,sh,T, Erg., PAward cainar,of Hardoot-lano,laboorer,
for being drank and dirordtrly in Httb W.st-stro t, OD
ty.,,urday oibl, was coontui,ted for 7 days' hard labosr,
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MUNICIPAL. —Let Friday, Mews. J. H. Taylor
and J. Yearaley Welt elected asseasora, and Mews.
J. H. Jonas aud F. Mai auditory for the enentos
year.

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Consr-isantsr, Saturday. —Wheat was offered
more freely this day than for seeeral weeks past; asd
U the onndition sae rather better, numerous sales
were effected at fully lam rates for beet quality. This
demand for barley was slow. at • further reduction
~, IL to Sla per quarter. Oats sold readily fur seed
at late rates.

Boutin% -During Thursday night one out of •
number of pigs which bed been killed and dressed, and
were hung no under • shed in the be-too belonging
to Kr. T. Bennett, merchant, at Fordington, was
stolen. and, until Howley, no trace of it was
discovered. On that morning • dog which a game-
keeper had out with him Lear the Duck inn, between
11.ington and Midden led to the pork being found
amidst some forge barbel. When stolen the pig was
divided down the middle, but notrit wad in four Mama,
and bad evidently been pushed through the fate, by the
side of the road probably in •rather burned manner, for
the four pewee were dropped • abort .1 tan es apart.
We understand that some due has been obtained to the
perpetrator of the theft.
DFASITION OF A PSIYATZ OF TEI 5678.-On
Wedn,Aday morning, et Dorchester, before O.
Patine, Esq. (Mayor), and J. gnaor, Foq., Tblllll..
&e'en, a private of the 56th regiment, was brought
op charged with being • deserter. P.C. Meek appre-
hended him the time morning on the 11111. bunk,
Fordingtoe, on 'seek:doe of loving disposed of part of
his regimentals, as he found bids *oaring A cwir of
navvy boots, and the regimental number woo gone from
his dep. on the way to the lockup prisoner said he
came from P.trtland Let Peturday without leas, -
Remanded till Monday, when he was delierred op to a
sergeant of toe 56th to be dealt with by the military
authority.
ThtLAWIFOLLY DIALING Wrrli RIGIVINTAIA. -
James Vincent, shoent•ker, Pease-lane, Dorchester,
pas charged with pursbasing • pair of soldier's boota
It dented that the detiertor In the previous ease
informed P.C. Kititah that • map named Mane Mows
had sold his boots and shirt, and it was found that the
!mate bad been add to Vincent for 3.. Toe regimental
mark of the hoots was 56, the number 1167, the date
I& Defendant said Moore offered the boot, for sale
&tying they were his own property; he thought
they were pensioner', boots, sad bought them--
Jane Bishop. • married woman of Fordington, was
charged erith buying the shirt. She gate 2a. for it to
Moen Moors, do ..id it was his own. She had not en.
aminerl it The shirt was now found to be marked
"T. Elsrtelett, 1167, 56. Jan. 1887."—Mosee Moore
eas charged with selling the doredid boots and
shirt. He told P.C. Hsieh the soldier said his
sister gave him the boots, The tionstahle said, being
a militiaman. he most hove known they were regimental
boot& Moore said he barroom erten • pair of regimental
boots like the., belore--eo high op behind.- The ease
stalest, the three defendant,, ea. remanded $ll the
following Monday. The Mayor told them they bed
ms,i...rost themselves Bade to • pettilty of £IIO sad treble
the value of the property. -Mosel and Mn. Bishop wore
liberated on bed, and Weer" in default of runlets was
committed to gaol. On Monday the ode came before
the Mayor and J. Bishop, Esq when Mrs. Bi-hop and
Vincent were discharged with a caution, and Moors was
1111•011100 I to two montbs' hard labour.
Dominant Nuricitst Somoots.-Tbe annual
report of those important sehools has Just been issued,
and we recommend It t., the serious masiderstios of
all our reader& The receipts for the past pow
amonnt to gsm k It, and the Mpirtditurt to
£376 6e. St. The Average nbee ad the nuister
of the 'toys' school was 176, end the &von* 48412
attendance was 131; in the girls' school the number
on the register avenged 212. sod the daily attendance
averaged 160. The report lame &Sows :-"The
Committee of the Dorchester National Schools, in
presenting their report for the past year to the in.
habitants of the town, beg to mill their attention to
the state o be sebools tbstistivet, and of their
Somme. While the tepriet of the Goveinmebt Is•
specter shows that the effidesoy of the schools hes
been maintained; and the increased ascent of tabool
pence is an evidence that they have given eitilfertiou
to that class for whose benefit they are designed;
the flneocial statement exhibits a coneiderable falling
'4 in the fonds, and ainaquently a balance of
ttl let &I. due to the treasdrer. This deficiency
arises pertly from the withdrawal of SIB from the
mina/ grant of the County entity, to be followed
in an additional withdrawal of mother flO doting
the current year; partly from the falling off in the
oollsotioas in the churches, arising from had weather;
and partly from a necessary outlay or SIB in provid-
ing desks for the girls' sebool. When *domain,
wotboilt religious iiptivoloe, or intended only SF •
vehicle for opera/Aim, is being offered to the poor I
end parents are tempted by cheapness, and other
attractions, litsperlithe the highest and most im-
portant poi if the education of their &Hint ; the
Committee trust that the Christian people of Dor-
chester and the neighbourhood, will by their in-
cruised support, peevent the necessity of leseesing
the efficiaeoy of these schools, and thereby giving
pergola an fades for removing their ehildren from
Christian and Proiestilin superinteadeate and in.
struotion."

EARLY Ctorturo Assocla:mfr.—The 12th sod
last feature in oonneotion with this alweistioll walk
dellsatad to a crowded sedieoce, in the Infant
Floho.l Room, last Thursday evening, by the Rev.
R. G. Watson, N. a„, Head Master of the County
School, ou " Elisabeth." The rev• gentleman
divided his subject into two parts, in the first of
which he very grsphically integrated (with many
amusing aneedotes) the failings and Vanities of
tissbetht and in the secood, the lecturer shored her
lairttles—tltat she had ell tbe strength and spirit of •
lb* without any of his nonsense, and, by be.
inessonittle ooadoot when the Spanish Armada
threatened our shores, how well she earned the title
of "Good Queen Bets" The Ten. Arciftdeaeon
Brom prysidod owing to the seven inppeeition of
the Rev. J. Wishaf, *boss phis* esy regretted.
The,Mitate irte ably ishelated by Mr. like 'misted
by Meters. Bennett and Corfe, and it comprised
" The Month of Mt; " "; newersate," sec; "When
dull we three inset iiain" from Macbeth. The fact of
bstweso 3,000 and 4,000 having attended Mese meet-
ings al i gratifying proof of their having been
appreciated, &zit we bops that next winter the
association may be cnabed to make similar arrange.
meats for enabling ast 0017 t" mumbstfoi "11 "any
of the townspeople,to pass some of lb. lowa syssloas
pleasantly_ mid ,prolitably. Thanks :re du• to the
II". J. 'Leber far 'the ceistanoe and conotdoaace
he bas given to the movement, to the lecturers, and
to "toss wbo have kindly diversified the evesint
proceeding, by the - introdeotiaa of magic i
result. is we believe, as foliose. I —Reosipts
at eleven proceeding lectures, £227a. 2d.; lectarere
travelling 'apemen. -.Sti ; Meagre Smith and
Robinson for numioal sirsipes, £4 4s. ;(4.83, 48a. ;
, Printina. £.5 ; oissuitig, gas, &cc,. aria them up
tn £2218.., !saving • Warms in treasurers hands of
141., which with the proceeds of the last Motors
will be handed over for benefit of the fond for paying
the debt rammining an the Infant School.