The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-02-20 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

T.•E road leading to the Union hal at hnit been
nearly £lOO having been .pent in the work.
Mr. WenArring Wll4 the contractor.
C KNIVALL-R0 SI) iS to be the name of the thorough-
fare lemling from the Great Western Station to the
Brii.iiort-road, and not Nunsery-road, as had been
intei 'el.

A the annual meeting of the London and County
plat, GM., Insurance Company (Limited), held at the
otbc 4, St. Paul's Churchyard, 8.C., a dividend of
6pe cent. per annum was declared.
114 . Jaunt J. HOOPER, of the Western Circuit, has
been appointed to the llecordership of Southmolton,
vac. ,t by the death of 'Sin J. Jerwo Mr. Hooper
was ,• died to the bar at the Inner Temple 1/4.12.
Si geoxs were pmached on Sunday in aid of the
Colo ml and Continental Church Society, and
coll. Sons made, at St. George's, Fordington,of
rjf rs. ; All Saints', £2 3s. I.L; and Christchurch, of
£1 I is. 61 The annual meetings were held on
Mot. lay at the Town-ball.
TI:Itto I /oast:7 nine VOLUNTEER-4.—We are pleased
to lt rn that Mr. W. E. Itrynter, has, with his
accu towed generosity, forwarded a cheque of I:10, to
be ftAdied in liquidating the deficiency which has
beer, occasioned in the funds of the corps in conse-
quell of having to provide a large number of new
outb .1 last year.
A VALUABLE Purzoa.—Mr. J. Baker. of Kew
Brit! .e, London, who, it will be recollected, carried off
the Mayor's prize at the recent exhibition of the
Pout..ry Society with a magnificent pi,•eon which
WM, ,rollotllleed by taturpetent judges aa the best Mr,f
descripti.ar ever seen at an English slmw, has
just sold it f iv. less than ritall, this being £4O in
eye, • of what he himself gave for it a short time
. _ _

IHE MASTER OF THE LIVING ANI/ THE DEAD."—
ThiN is the title of a very tuthetic and earnest sermon
reLitive to the early death f a lady—Mrs. W. Dixon
—w... died a abort time ago. Recent events attach
a n re than ordinary melancholy interest to it. It
was :'reached by the Rev. H. tl. 31oule, M.A., and
Mr. Ling, of the County-house, iN the publisher.
ascr COUNTY IiOSPITAL--The following id the
rep. rt for the week ending February 15th In-patients
a.lO. tied, 3; discharged, 6 ; out-patient. admitted, 10;
din .arged, 6; emergencies, 0; death, 0; in-patients
rem aning in the Hospital, 42 ; out-patient. remaining
.e books, 13.1 ; physician for the week, Dr. W.
V. Eumh ; surgeon for the week, Mr. Tudor. Nu cases
,of -.Adriala have been received.

ile relre.ere BILL—The eecond reizilinvd this Bill
wee carried .on Thuneley by 279 . In the
inaj .rity three voted : V. F. albeit-Stamford,
Cat lin Hon. K. Dighy. Mr. If. Valwanla, Captain
Hon A. Hood, Sir H Limes, Sir M. Lope+, Mr. P.
Lord H. F. Thynne. Sir It. 1). Wolff; and with
the no: : Mr. J. Bright, Sir C. W. Dilke, Mr. H.
Sniunels in. There was a conepicious abeence in the
min wity of any of the leading wen of either political
par V.

rHE DORSET COUNTY PHISON.—
Asst :HIIC. Charles Warren, indecent a-sault at
Whtchurch 'snouicorum. —Hard Labour : John
Daley, alias Samuel White, aggravated assault at Dor-
chester, 3 calendar months ; James Orchard, stealing
beaus at Thorncombe, 2 calendar month.; John
Cowley, the elder, rogue and vagabond at Sturminst-T
Net on, 1 calendar month; George Sibley, drunk and
riot .us at Sturminster Marshall, and Sarah Fick:as,
rog..e and vagab aid at Weymouth, 14 days' each;
Joln Jefford, poaching at Lyme Regis, Thomas Jones,
vagrancy at Sberborne, and Adelaide Jeffery, drunken.
new at Charminster, 7 days' each.
Tar WEETHER. —The following la our meteorological
report :

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IPOW State of WoLther.
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44 W
48 W Rain
46 W •Sae
114 SW Poucoy
NW III"
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WSW ,Oloudy , rain

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