The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-15 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1866:

the projeeeed emillecatiou, and culminating in •
titian lb the Clommoue Home of Parliament But
Dorcbsutar does not appear to poems the familty of
combination, and Wareham in quiescent. AS to the
reeet of the mtastire in • ,eprieentative point of
vie*, it Mettle to be generelly thought that it will
itrelintheh the itositioe of the asneerritite petty In
this neighbourhood.

FOUND DitoWNID." On Friday, May 11,
Henry Look, deputy coroner, held as inquest
at Woodaford, on the body J Mr. Thomaa
Upward, dairyman, who was found drowned the
previous night.—William Tompkins, waterman,
residing at Lowell, in the pariah of West Knighton,
cld as be was walking by the back lake, in the
Lowell meadows, be observed a bat in the road.
Upon looking farther, be Saw sorbethiiag inAtie
water, which proved to be the body of Thorne' Up-
ward. Having obtained help, the body via taken
out. When found Mr. Upward was lying on bra
face, with his jacket over his head. The whole body
was covered with water, and he was quite dead.
George Rolla beerseller, living at West Stafford,
stated that the deceased cams to hie house about 11
o'clock. Witness was in bed, but be dressed and let
the deceased to. He said be was tired, and sat
down. While there be drank a glass of beer. Ile
stopt in witness' bona about a quarter of in boar,
When he left, witness saw him walk about ball way
across tbs green in front of his house very ....11. He
did not appear as if fished had lunch drink. Witeees
also stated that it took bat very little to upset him
and that it was strong beer which be had drank.
The jury returned a verdict of "found drowned."
Deceased was well known, and his death has caused
. no little eseihement in the neighbourhood.

Donee hitLit-El.—The a-wider:ft of this regiment
0.314100/211 to be unesoeptionably good, slid I.i do
great credit to the kiedness of Mrs. Bingham in
providing for them the reading rooms at the Corn.
Exchange, which are well atterided every evening.
The worthy lady cannot be too highly commended
ler this good works. it has prevented • vast amount
of intemperance cod dissipation in our streets. On
Wednesday evening last • temperance meeting was
held at the reeding room, when Mr. Smith, the
misionary, and Sergeant Legg, addressed the meet'
jog. The latter appealed forcibly to the members
of the militia to follow his example sod enlist in dm
temperaoce army, and referred to the many dis-
tinguished soldiers who bad joined its ranks. His
ripped; was Ito far sncesesfal that /Id signed tbe pledge,
and if the) coirtintee in the path they bane ebnien,
we are sure, they will hiss Do tattoo to tepees their
choice. On Thursday *Teeing last the Rev. E
Pears delivered • short &dare's on behalf of the
British and Foreign Bible Society, and urged tm
claims upon the support of the army and navy, Mid
spoke in earnest terms of the good work which had
bees aowimphshed by its agency. On Friday evening
an electrifying machine was provided for the amuse-
, moot of the men. by • geodenian from the estatiliali-
owns of ht r. Cun o iegton, wise merebant, w boos planed
its marvels, Mach to the amuseineet of the militia-
Men. Oa &today the appearance of the wee on
church parade Would not have done chseredit to older
soldiers; in the afternoon they matched as osual to
the County Hell, and in the evening Mr. Smith
addressed them earnestly and forcibly. Last bight
the Mayor gave a reading from various papalar
authors which was well appreciated. On Wednes-
day evening, Mr. Campbell, a lecturer of the National
Temperance League, will address the men on the
evils of intemperance, and show them that leisure
boars may n• more nobly spent than in the mere
gratification of a Senaltal Indulgence, which ham been
the ruin of many, and which mined give solid
comfort or lasting happiness,, The militia will be
inspected on Thursday CO Poundbury, by Colonel
Herbert, of the 54th Regiment, and in the
evening Mrs. ifingliain ham most liberally annodnoed
, she sill give • tea perty to all who clime° to
apply for • ticket. There will be an unlimited
I supply of tea, breed and butter, and cake. provided
Ist six &Week, and at eight • parting addreas from
Mrs. Bingham will be read to the wen, containing •
' few words of wholesome advice to them oe returning
• home, and thanking them for their good condect
1 and respectful behaviour whilst in training. On
Friday morning the men will return their clothing
to Hit store, and on Friday evening the room will be
opened for the last time, whet it is to be hoped that,
although the mac will have returned their uniforms
,to store, they will not fail to maintain the good
Character and orderly behaviour they have Disown
throughodt. On satnrday, the men will return to
their respective homes, and then will end an aneeal
• training, which for sobriety and good conduct, has
—thanks to Mrs. Bingham—never been equalled.
Boutin:oat Perry Ssasiorn hfonday.— Before the
Mayor (Dr. Aldridge), and J. Bishop, Fact —Mark
Crate, labourer, Fordiegton, was summoned I.r
assaulting Sarah liesvie, a lame woman, at Fording.
ten, on Wednesday, the 251 ult. —The complainant
deposed that defendant (whom name is well-known
in the annalit 4 this court) interfered with • blind
man, aed ta-ntad him with being an impostor.
She then interfered, when Ong* knocked her down,
her net, and threatened to beat her brains
out with her eruteh, but was prevented by s neigh.
bour, who interfeted.—htsfy Norris, the neighbour
referred to, corroborated coal plaseriet'e testimony, and
Keziah Hicks, aunt to complainant, Moved seeing
defendant strike her niece—Defendant totally
denied the charge, end said he was "as innocent as
a ohild just born," and called • female %Vitae/IS named
Ball, whose evidence we* totally unreliable, and
drew forth a severe rebuke from the Bench, who
told her that she had rendered herself liable to a
charge of perjury. Another witness he called, made
matters worm, and corroborated 00111plainsat's
wee. Supt. Pommy, 26d P.C. Cocaina proved
several former convictions for poaching and assault.
nog the police, and he warn fined dl including sows,
er lii default 14 days' imprisonment. Allowed •
fortnight td ply. The defesidant, on leaviug the
wart, threatened to do the plaintiff and
her witnesses ODOM serious bodily berm, and
Was brought back in charge of the police, Ind
severely reprimanded by the Mayor, who told him
if the offence were repeated he would be committed
to prison without the option of • fine—Henry
Harding, • boy of eight years old, was summoned
for aseaulting babel Tuttell, seed four, by throwing
stones at her, on the 9th inst. 'this was a very
trumpery case, and evidently arms out of an old
neighbours' quarrel, the odenia elleivid being
obviously of very slight importance. The Mother
of the complainant made • rambling statement, and
the Mayor having admonished the defendant, &s-
-wigged the summons. Frederick Brown and
Lunen& Brown were summoned for an assault, but
as the principal witness was absent, the ease wee
adjourned for a week.

Viougit b• would see embrace Cbrietianite. One el Om
chiefs, however, by appealing to I.i, cupidity, led him to
sees et • sacrifice on the occasion of a fen•ral.
Whil.t the aortae was beieg coosuised so the faaerel
pyre, the olinon worked himself Ith in a limal fr"//,
ineuked Met devils to Mite poem-son of him, jumped
upon the hffroing in. end took up *One of the honor
sod reseed them I A fa* dai• afterwards he
w se laffen ill. and we. leek even unto &tub,
lost he would ern at his son Web lb.
Inktionery though he Intreate I the prime man to
take care that his simer was 04 owned to so one •••
Yelled native. Next he spoke of the erneuretion of a
yoneg Brahmin, and said that when what eras mailed the
marred @trio( was tied &fogad his auk, the client
Brahmin present advanced and whispered • grand esuct
to him, It was tide, "The troth i., there 4 but on*
God, only you must II it to the common people."
That was part of tbe ceremony always observed, which
showed that what little truth they knew was Intention-
ally kept from the common pa: and argued the
impatience of nthelaseries aunt who eould
present to thme the trath awl the whole troth.
He then related a sembee of incidents 'bowing
that the natives were salters to bear the Gospel.
In illustration of this he said the district ester
his charge jscldded pint of • immu "'"l01 1..
and be had often heard of the wild men of the
reountains, whom the label:titer:ea of the low country
had told him of, and he felt • curiosity to see them, in-
asmuch as he was told they did net nudeness' th..
Tamil language, and hod no idea of • 0.4, of e hears
state. A friend rif his asked him if he would go into time
jungle, some If miles on a journey with a party of
lioropeans. A guide wee procured and the party set
forward, and on the journey be tilst feta of these wild
men of the wood.. They turned sad rots away, but the
rev. gentleman ran after than, ar..ci they tried to
escape him, but he found one or two di 'beat
crouched in the brushwood. He spoke to theta
but to no effect, -they were perlealy ignorant of
the Tamil language, and these poor outcasts had to
depart without having heard of the unsearebable riches
of C viii. Bet, straitge to my, some i 4 his catechists
applied a shod thee after for ten days leave, .
to go into the hill country, which was
granted, and their journey tholeb h consider-
ably over ten days was Wowed to the i=ii:fdthees poor
wild men. On the return of the catechists, the Kee. 8.
Hobbs paid them a visit, and foetid a good work b gun
enianpt them, -birth evidently owed its origin to native
agency, for had they been visited in the Gest pises by
an Bail sh missionary, it would have bees untie:4-
i they woad have lien terrified-ti Tamil language
was one of which they wilf• totally ignorant,
and again many words in that language have
• different elgnillestioo in • Christian and in a
heathen sense. However, be d d manage to converge
with them, at first by mesas of the catechists
and then by detecting that in their senvers•tion they
q•ed several word. of Tamil origin and derivstion.
roue words he fixed in this memory, sod after •
time by coottaoi study he beointe tolersbly well
' thqa•inted with the idiom and construction of their
' di4ect. Ile thee coavereeel with then, and salted,
When • arner chte what becomes of lei, life? and woe
answered, it goes to Clod . Will all people, be eon
tinned, go to God, good and bed? nod they iniusediataly
replied, yes. Bat, be remukeld, some poade steal, tell
lies, and do other bad thing., will they Ed 60 flod 1 y. s,
was the answer, they will. And will God he pleased
with them? said he. No, they replied, be will punish
them. Bev, be asked, cannot God forgive witboet punish-
ing I and they said no, he's a jest God, rind must punish.
He then spoke to them of the subject nearest his
, heart--the salretioe of their souls. At first they
lithined in strange aseaserneet to the seory of the Cross,
they oodld not understand the wondrous love of God In
...riding his only begotten Son be die for them, till the
Holy Spirit de end awe, the wists from their minds,
and they s.w as in • glees darkly. Tons rolled on, and
he had to leave the wild men who bad bees ea strangely
brought to hear the truth, and go to his own 'Wiwi,
huts. he truell-d homewards his hurt ens cheered by
the thought that hislaboare had been biemed- thee 04
had given hint suds to his ministry and noels far hts
. hire. After urging the cleims of libti society in an
ounest and forcible manner, the rev. gesthessan re-
amed his meet.
' The Bev. Hewer lIIMILL vicar of Furdington, spoke
' of the mission in China, with which he two sons, th.-
Here. Georg. and Arthur Motile, are specially con-
nected. He Mid that the Key. George Monte was
induced to go forward from Nine-po to Hang-chow by
the entreaties of ,la, ottothiste, though at the ume he
Iran chug d by the Comsonitt • wog to go, told by Sir
Henn Perkeir that if be proceeded thither it would be
, at his own responsibility ache scold not protect him in
Mee any didloul4 erode, and notwithstanding that his
medical sitter onnsidered it neeswary that he should
Teter. home for the sake of his health. But be had
coafidenee in God, and "rest forwent, and his brother
wr.te to the Commie.. e of the Society almost cow
plaining that at the tiese when More resources were
needed they should be *entreated. Ai that time he
himself thought it necessary to lay the touter belon. a
meeting of his parishioners and friends in the
town. He m its a statement as to the work his
est. seers rug god in, and naked if they slid not
think it right to support two persons gel.'
forth to mash the gospel there. It wa -
seam ed by the Ku, E W. leers that a number of
persons should undertake to celled • sovereign each in
the enures of a year, and ten or twelve, embracing one
or tweet the labouring class, pit down their names
to do so. His statement was lie•rd with emu in-
terest, and El ws/ tattooed. Stun then he had remind
several eponymous odhlributions-one for efi, and
sltogether the special fatd here reached Ell, and he
calculated that by the completion of the year £2O would
have been thus raised, mainly for the support of cite.
Mists in Ning.po and Hang-chow, who involved an
outlay of shoo 810 a year each. They bad that giornieg
to thank God for a cheering letter from his younger eon.
He cross: Yesterday I gave to my curate (catechist) a
list of the towns we had visited daring the pest year, in
*kith I h.d preached Wes and the catechist four timea,
and they amounted to 123. The eutechisi said I had
emitted! sumral/4,0 • and he made up the number to 140 •
towns, acintaih a population of 240,000 people, in
which we had marbled to preach, no man for-
bidding us. Tbe letter contained faeta as to the mu.
evilest. state of the people, and their Testiness to bear
the gospel, , and his Mil said that if be had
tints he could introduce it into double the somber of
towns where it had now ben preached. As to the
attendees at their religions meetings two or three
eateneets were made. In one town on the lass, into
whigh he bad introduced the gavel, be was on • visit
to the huh. of &settee merchant, and •hundred potions
were present whiles spoke to them upon the first six-
teen verse. Of the third chapter of St John's Keeps!,
and the eon el the merchant cried out, "If Jesus was
God as well as man, as you say, sod we have nothing to
oder hint, and hare done nothing but Bin mullet hen,
how is it pest* he should come down from Heaven to
di* for us/ and he ess answered, because he is God as
well as man. In anothet plate, one of the coeval.s was
a.ked shoot his belief, and he replied, "I inept)... sir,
0.4 called cue, and so I came." But this was only one ,
sphere, and . small one, where the work wee going on. .
To give an ides of the seek ping that I. being effected
et
Hang-chow, he remarked that efts the Hew. George
Moule's first visit, he left there a eatishist sod
• Dative convert of the American missionaries. Twiee
they wete beaten severely by the Buddhist priests, hut
since then the Governor of the city bad Woad a prod.
m Son warning all agalse illjtreating the missionaries
and their eats:hi-ie. and seflog that no mercy 000ld be
shown to thy who did so. His eee O•orge bad now two
, Buddhist monk, in his house for lastractioa; one the) '
had heard of before, who expressed hiss& reedy to
undertake any menial services*, as to h•ve the oppor-
tunity of studying the Scriptures. Mr. Berdoe, ewe of
tOs oldest missionaries in China, after three winks
spent in that district, wrote saying that the mention
eras fully pee for effort, and urged the Committee to
send out nil sionaries and "Olden% helix These were
quer which should enoitrage them in their specisl
itilleetione, and to evert theessalvee is re and mere is
this woad/ens look, which was indeed the work of God.
11. had no madams whatever in any other means than
thou Christ himself provided-the simple gospel sues
of Choi, and he er a miriade/ that if the Christians of
England would really and in fakh obey their Lord's
~,,,,,end, Ilse gospel would prove to he the power of
God unto solution, and the Issue will sod mast go on
sting till the whole earth ts leavened.
Bev. N (I WHIT/STOOL i.e. spoke in highly
eulogiseis terms of the society, and mid that those who
had endured tidritual dueness sad captivity themselves
could feel for stoat, who were MAI under the dominion
1 atan-stir in the peeler of the winked one-and
still ander the condemnation of God, liaise who had
been delivered from the bondage of sit., were eintentined
to do all in Munn power to seed the 'rowel of Christ to
all the nations of the earth. There was great oases for
thsakfulness in the lam that the lame" of the Mundt
Missionary Society had been so largely bleated, but was
it not a tut diet the unit eneessiful churches had bees
monary elturebest- their missionary spirit was the
but, of their soften i and the first record of church
bleary- the Acts of the Apostles-eras nothing bat a vast
..p.t..me of iniseosary effert sad missionary enterprise.
There was no eases in the present day for demotes
dewy. but on the other hand reason for greet thankful.
sees to Almighty God list the Willem geese was so
abundantly seeeersfaL Why the noon. of the satiety
I. the IFS sews of its existents was sureely more than
COM, end sow it ruches 1:100,000. That was • cen-
tres, ; "fait only
showed how Tad %different* had been
effected-not by their instrumentality, bet by Um hnlp
of that God who bee always showered his blueing on
the efforts of his 1111(Valitn to spread hi. muss, and to
pnash the truth as it is in Jesus. With regard to the
war is New Zealand, Mr. Whitemose spoke earnestly
and feallasay on behalf of the Maori's, and refund to
the wreck of H.M.S. Orontes, and seetrarseed the
difference in the kindness shown them shipwrecked
merinos*, and in the treatment of nnfortasate sailors
cast on thus - shoe-.. some 40 or go yeem ego. The ree.
gentler:sae then spoke of the work of God in the north-
west of Americo, and ridiculed the ides of eiviljsetsoa.
preceding evangelisation, that, he said, was potting
" the cart before the horse," and quoted an observation
of • tiara gestleman who spoke of the value of the
missionary work in keeping pease on th• frontier, sad
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subduing the passion. o/ the dusky sau"l of •
far west, to the effect that "one salssiosary eas of
valise than fifty moldier', sad • miesiocisry ship thicl"re,
fleet of gunboat.," and urged that if she rolgyeee
societies of England could not afford to gelid out
pious, devoted ceeci in each • week, the Govern t
shou d take the matter in bend, and send the mis-
sionaries out at the expense of the nation. Saab •
testimony from an °Meer of H.lll's nary was of Miners
value; it showed that though the aloud at gra" was no
larger than • usan's had, it had now partly overspread
the skim, and though many, many yeare must elapse
ire the full showers of blessing descend epos the ill
and thirsty lend, an impression had beau wide dry
on
the minds of worldly men 115 .1 there was something
more than mere eathusium in the mimeo° field, and
Mut the time was rapidly bin( when the fruits
of mision.ry labors would more evident, and ttes
it would be emu that these men of God had sot laboared
1., vein, or spent their strength for nanght-(appisuse).
The Camames, in coachmen, spoke In laudatory
berms of the work of the society in variess earls of the
globe, and tolled epos the meeting to same tempi
liberally tell,. help of atone who gave time aid Waste
to the sena* of God, and in sedeavoariag to lead their
fallen horthres be the Nay Seven: of sookied-eleeee
clriet the Righteoes. He then annowseed VIA ht one.
spumes of there Wag a merles of readings, ha, he the
Whiles reedimj rzobhus aoderooatta the Tuesball, it,,, I
sob deemed to hold the otoood %en
la lb.maim& andasisiqugAi7 ii 'saki =I le the