The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-10-10 00:00:00

HOUGHTON.
A MurlEci in lohalf of the Church Missionary
SJc,ety WWI bell on September 27. The speakers were
the Keys. C. J. Dawn, J. Kemp, end J. S. Kingston,
Esq. The collection amounted to £2 81 &I.

POOLE.

Sr. Janite.s CHUICEL—OnSanday the pariah church
of St. Jamas was re-opened, alter having been
c'eaned and renovated. The Mayor and
Corporation attended. Special sermone were preached,
and the collections ruche nearly En
CHENTS4OIIO STILL IN VIEW.—We are all elated by cer-
tain rumours set all at by the Bristol papers that the
Midland Railway Company intends to run • first-olese
lot of steamers between this port and Cherbourg u soon
as the new line is completed, uniting the Midland from
Bath to the Somerset and Donut Railway and Eva-
°reach. We only trust the news may not be too good
to be true. _

THE Buttons Liam—The revision wm held on Map
day b!fore the Mayor and assessors. Mr. Jastican
appeared for the Conservative party, and Mr. 11. Moore,
of Wiruborne, for the Llurala There wore long lists
of claims sod objeotiorui, but as the Mayor required
that the persons claiming or objected to should attend
personally, the revision occapied but • short time, as
very few perems attended. Conseqnently, in the aue
of nearly all the objections, the names wore struk out,
Gni with but two or three exceptions the claims were
distil ,wed. The result, in • party reuse, wee &boat •
"dead heat.''

Guou TSIIPLLU. —On Toesdsy evening • lodge of
the Independent Order of Good Tempters wu opened
in Poole, and will meet weekly on Tuesisy evenings at
the Tempareooe hall at eight &tilos*. It is simply an
"order" of teetotallers. The Poole lodge hes been
named the "Lighthouse." The Rev. G. Rio ie performed
the opening ceremonies, initiated 30 male inembers.snd
installed the odious for the ensiling quarter. Females
are also admitted into this order. This makes it
pleasanter; and mu in some slrt osnipens lite for the
good cheer lodges another sort favour in their Meet
devotions.

SHOCKING DEATH OF I. CHILD FROM BURRING.—
Oci Wednesday lost G. B. Aldridge, Esq., held in
inquest touching the death of William Holloway, aged
&ergo, liOn of • reaunn living to Walltrstre.t. It seemed
that on the previous evening at half-past *even the boy
and his sister aged nine went up-stairs to bed, taking
with them a lighted candle. The girl immediately
returned for something, leaving her brother undressing.
In a minute or two the lad screamed out, and on his
grandmother end meteor hastening to the bel.room,
they found him running about the room with his shirt
in flames Hit mother took up • mat and extinguished
the tire, applied oil to his burns, and sent for a doctor,
but Die shock to hie system was fatal, and he died at
oix the next miming. Before dill% he told his mother
that he thought he heard a mouse, and, taking the
candle to look for it, set Lis shirt on fire. Voiding,
Accidental death."
LICRIBDIO SR3BIOKB. At • special ilession. on Thum
.121,h...f0re Adlcrenam Harlem (Mayor), and Ileum W. 1,. C.
kley, an I W. Pearce, Mr. Johns, of lUngwood, made an
application on behalf of Mr. Warren, to be allowed to have
the liconet of tho Duke of Edinburgh public house, instead of
Hobert Hulloed, to whom it had been previously granted, and
who liss absconded. After a lengthy argument, the matter
ad) iunied until the 11th of November. The special
comae* granted provisional:l on a form... occiai oi to Mr.
Bennett Burma oil the June on hotel, and the wino license to
I Mr. Hicks, grocer, were stated to hare been confirmed by the
fieenttary of State.
WARMS Or cacILTY To • noo.
OgJosseii Karst* was summoned for illtroating • dog belong-
ing to Mr. William May, on the getn September.
Alfred
linty, .011 of the complainant, add he was leading the dog
with • chain when the defendant knocked It down with • gig
umbrella. Ile had previoully thrown • bagel nut at the ani-
mal, which barked at him but did not bite. The dog esemed
stunned, and remained so till next day. H• demibed the
animal as • very quiet one, but the defendant said It was
vicious dog, and dew at him biting a hole in his mousers. He
denied striking IL—Fined la