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

BRIDPORT.

THE annual meeting of the autiecrlbere to the
Bridport Town Mission is to be held in the Conned
Chamber of the Townhall this (Thursday) evening,
at eight o'clock.

THIRS will be lectures at St. Andrews Church
•.rrl Friday evening at 7.13, during Lent which
will be delivered by various clergymen in the
neighbourhood and from a distance. Al Allington
church also the Hew. E. W. May, the curate, will
give lectures every Wednesday evening al 7 o'clock
during Leut and on Sunday evenings also.

A LFCTURIS is InnOileloest to be delivered this
(Tootlai) evening at the Town hall, on behalf
of the Young Men's Christian Association, by the
Rev. W. C. Templer, m.a., the inkjet:it of which
will be "Rationalism and Ritualism, and from the
controversy now going on with respect to ritualism.
slate will no doubt be • full attendances. The chair
will be taken at 8 o'clock by J. 11. P. Montagu,
E8(1.
A compete-rig has been formed in this parish for
the purpose of collecting funds for the drainage of
the cherch, the water leaving for some time accumu-
lated under the organ eo much as to canoe serious
apprehensions as to the great damage that might
swath in-ooneequestos to that fine instrument. There
are 'hetes round the church, but there we no drains
'to carry oft the water. The amount required it
about £35. which we trust will he soon made up,
the committee having gone round during the week to
:Heti sulecriptions for the purpose.
Comm, Poucs, Monday—Before W. ilooneell,
and J. P. P. tiondry. Eeqn. —A boy named George
Steples, was charged withesealing a ferret, the property
of Mn. Henry Walbridge, of Whischnteh Cenonioonnet.
During absence from home Jan. 3, the ferret was
teken from • box. Inquiries were made and tut
Wednesday PC. Abeam found it at Sarah Hallett's
(prisoner's hallodster's) et Eral. She *aid her brother
had brought it to her Jan. 13, saying he had (pond it
at Wootton, and asking her to take etre of it for him,
and, if an owner was found, to let him hare it. She
made known around that she had the ferret, and several
who had lost ferrets had been to see jilt was theirs--
Mr. Hounsell said the case watt a very inspections one,
bus the °ellen.» was not sufficient in the opinion of the
magistrates to justify • conviction. so they dismissed the
eau —Ranh Norris, • little girl eight years old, was
charged with stealing a gold weddine ring, value
El Ts. 641, the property of Mr. Thom.. Englend.—Ttie
prisoner was stated to be one of a fami:y of eleven
children (one of whom ware m•rried,) and when inlet.
In custody was in such • dirty state that she was obliged
to he c'eaned and fresh clothes provided for before she
wield be brought before the Court, her own being in
such • miserable ragged state. The father was said to be
earning 14s. per week, and the mother woks in the habit
of going out to work, and leaning this child in the house
to take oars of three other children young. r than
herself, and the poor little things were almost in a state
of starvation it appeared. in unary* nee the parents
neglecting to look after and provide for them,
and leaving them in such a disgraceful state.—
Mrs. Esther Ragland, wife ef pronteutor, living at Park '
Form, Broedwinsor said she mated the wedding ring
on the 22nd inst. She was tusking that day sad placed
the ling in the kitchen window while doing so. The
Prisoner came to her beak door to bay mme cheese for
her mother, and wither left the kitchen to get it,
leaving the prisoner alone in the kitchen. After an '
&bunco of a few minutes, she returned and gave the
ohee.e to the 'Amour, who immediately left. Directly
afterward, she missed the nng, ran after the pi-wooer
and overtook her, and elmeged her with baring taken it.
Prisoner at firm denied doing so, but on man:anew her
she found it tied up in a handkerchief. She then went
with the child to her husband who gave her into
enstody. Prisoner swore at her very mach indeed. The
ring ems produced and identified by witness.
—P. C. Wills said on the 22nd inst. he went to
Lower Park Fans, and in the presence of the prisoner
received the ring now produced from Mrs. England.
He charged the prisoner with stealing it and she said
she found it under the tithle.—The father and mother
of the child were present and the mother asked the
magistrates to let tie .1114 off, sell was the first time.
The father also said Mr. fine/land did not want to preu
the charge if he got bmk the ring. Mr. Hoeneell how-
ever told them thet the prisoner was • bad little gill,
and from what the magietra'es lied beard it seemed
they did not set her a proper example at home; the
magistrates had then fore decided on sending the child
to an Industritl school for five years, where she would be
educated and brought up ProPeriP The mother cried
very much, and begged for the child to be lee of, bet
Mr. Huunsell told her it was evideut they did not look
after their children properly, and she ought to be
obliged to tho to for sending leer Loan Industrial school
as it wee the kindest thing they could do both for the
child and for herself also. Mr Mc Has said some little
time ago the father was brought up at Beantinster on a
slums of druakenneso. and he got him dinchargsd on
account a his large family ; be also said that one night
ven,ntls, sev.n out of the family, including both
father and mother. were out drinking at • public how,
The child we, oedema to be taken to the Beauties •
Union while oegueietions took pin:el/or admitting I,•r
toes Industrial school.