The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-26 00:00:00

lILANDPORD.

RITIJI COIITIL—Tbe committee ..f the H e neenel
Dorret Voln•iteere bare decided t. porch..se a
cb..lleug• COP for fortnightly couipetiti m next year,
ar d Lieut W..tut babe expreewl • prouiise to give
another up to the member w&hi g the be,t 411111uer
of cAr.p• y .1,1110 dun g the yra .
EVANCIZLISTIC Szavickn. —At the Corner Coffee
Hours here thi. we a. Sc al eviuigeli.tic services are
tieing h.-1.1 nightly. lb. principal speaker le Herr
Eirimeir, an artiste, who is termed a converted

Hu. 'groat SAIL—At Senior and Creech's fort-
nieb•ly sale In the sale-yaid at th. rear of the railway
'twits here we, a large sapid) of at ie ..n .11,r, and,
doubtless on .count of the Caine. ouwpri-iog 41 dairy
c.es and calves fr-m lit. IL It. Farqdisoaoo'. dairy
at amount., the a tecolaticc of buyrra was n p .rtioo•
af.dy 1.r.t.. The dairy cows and cal,.. ...Hoof from
112 i. EU 10*. ; fat *terra add at from ISt. 20 KUlll,a. ;
calves from 88.. to ICBa.; lambs from 275., and rams
at 70..

YOWn COCNciL —Au adjourned meeting of this
Council was held iu the Town Hall on Tueeday. There
were preeent —Ti,.: M•yor (Mr. d Abbott). Aid rm.'s
H. dips, Burden, and J bus, C nricillors Gil. Sad, h,
I, wire. ce, J. J. Ball, R. Ryer., J. W. J. Ball,
P. A Barnes, ad .1. I Batues.—The minuted of the
previous meeting having teen ,ead, the Nlayor rep irted
thst he bad received ~ne tender for the Corp r.tiou
field at the top of Salisbury-et, set; !his was from Mr.
Brennan& wi3O on halal( ol himself and 'lr. E. O.
Richard., offered £2B per annum for the said field, on
• lease of mew year . with leave to terminate the
lease at three years in case the acheme proposed by
them should not answer the anticipations f the pro-
lector.. It war ...wad th- ground would be utilise las
a recreetion-grund for cricket, lawn tennis, archery,
croviet, qu-ita. etc. A discussion followed the reading
of the Wilier, several members thinking the idea •
capital or-, s 111 dolford ham no public recreati,m
ground. Ultimate'''. subject to slight alteratious in
the worki, gof the lease agreement, it was riporied
by Mr. J dins. and sec otded by Mr. Ball, that the
tender be arc-pted. This was put to the meeting,
and there beer g so ammoimeot it was curried.—Mr.
Akiermais Burden reported that Mr. Portman had
called on him the previ,us day, and wished to know if
the Corp.ration had decided in what recess or other
place, they intended to piece the marble bust of Vi..
c oat Portman's father, offered to be given to the
Council at their last meeting, and which had been
accepted and acknowledged by the Mayor. It wee
stated his lordship whaled to have • block of P,rtland
at •,-.11. Is a ba-s for the bust to stood on. It was
ti..dcstood the best plus would be to hare the bust
tbs.., and thee decide open where it woull be roost
au sable to place it. The meeting was adivurnod till
Otto-

--B-I...itorOat) TOWN CLOCE AND CHOICR BELLA.—
After a rather leogthene 1 yeti., of time, our towns.
(4k are now in the qui rot, anziouely wishing t., bear
the notes 44 the ne•ly•recast cliur,b bell., awl the
I.liptalked of chimes ..f the rew clock. It may be
members I by our rea lets that at • public meeting
he'd tido 'King it was .ecide I to have the old peal of
* re-east, and a new town clock subetituted f .r the
one which bad lately failed t be as correct as could be
wished for In these days when "Time is money." This
argo.neut woe u•ed at the said meeting, sod as an
mor -at of the mails,many libr •ally .übecribed to the
hbje,t m view. The bells asilved from Toylor and
Co.'. foundry, at Longtvwourti. last Friday, with
mexibers from the firm t .eup-rioteod the hah-,ing, ttc..
at,.. the c' ,IcAthe work of erecting havuog be-n
node, taken by Mr. Hal cock, of this town), ha
• from eoldoo P. 4T'Auly. The belle, eight in
comb hove been numerously examined d, pa*
ioher* during th. week. rbs bell weighs id
cat., and is the gift of Messrs. Barnes, woolit *piers,
of Blorif ord. at scat of O. It bees, the followin;
a.:—" This bell wag reookst at the exposits
of J bn Iles BerMee and Philip Abraham Barnes, of
Woodford, Isa." And
"My voice will tell when joy and grief betide,
Mount with the mourn-r. wale me tome the bride."
The next lorireet bears thi. inscription:—" This peal
0; bells was re-oast in 1882, C. H. Fymes-Clint in,
✓ector, R*l3.rt Evers Frederick Liavie,elinrchwardens,"
whilet the sm.ll-4 peal is inscribed :—"The Children's
Bell,- tte re-rutin: tbi. heirs: .1-f .ye ly
p-mice euhricribed ur gathered by children of B.and ford.
Toe bells avp.ar thoroughly to sustain the reputation
of the firm of bell-founder* Woo howl wocagt them, and
we hops their tote will justify the assumption.