The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-23 00:00:00

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YEOVIL. —South. Western Rails:init.—An accident
occurred last week HI this line. A collision between
Yeovil and the junction. No life or bulb was lost,
but the carriages sustained some little injury.
TRINITY Ctwitcll.—A 101111011 was preached at
this church on Tuesday last by the !ley. Eliot
Brown, curate of St. Paul's, Tiverton, for the bene-
fit of the Protestant Irish Missions. Collections
were made at the close of the service. The text
was taken from the 19th chapter St. Matthew, 14th
verse. A meeting was held on the ilay following at
the Townhall. the vicar of Yeovil in the chair.
The attendance, however, was very small, about
20 only being present.
YEOVIL RIFLE CORPS.—The members of the
Yeovil Rifle Corps fell in for full parade on Tuesday
last. The attendance at drill continuer to be pretty
regular and numerous.
Scrl'Elt AT HALF MOON INN.—A supper was
given at this Inn on Friday evening last, to some of
the workmen employed in the restoration of St. John's
church. The health of F. Lyons, Esq.' through
whose liberality the supper was given to the men,
was heartily drunk, and the men expressed their
gratitude for the evening's entertainment. •

.I.ASTONBL IZI. Our olonn en.% Attack and
Republe. —lt having been animunced that Mr.
Edmund Fry, of London, would give a lecture in
Thursday evening, at the Independent Chapel in
this town, " On the Anti•christian Spirit of War,
Armies, and Rifle Corps," a company of young
riflemen, conceiving such an announcement an un-
warrantable reNction on them and their comrades in
arms, thought the proposed meeting would afford an
excellent opportunity of displaying their tact and
their valour. Accordingly, as noon as the chapel
doors were opened, they went and occupied a coin-
nianiling position in front of the gallery, not for
the purpwe of hearing Mr. Fry's arguinenta, but to
I,revent his eating them. Ni sooner, therefore, had
he commenced Ins lecture, and begun to wield the
" sword of the spirit," than he was resolutely
opponeil by such carnal weapons as coughing, laugh-
ing, hooting, hissing, jesting, cracking outs, letting
..if squibs, wituading discordant notes on the organ,
with a variety of other heterogeneous noises. One
wide of warfare introduced on the occasion was of
a very novel kind. The young volunteers took wine
dogs with them to the gallery, and alienever Mr.
Fry's argument hit hard, as it sometimes did, our
valiant young soldiers polled the dogs' ears so as to
make them howl, and thus defied all attempts at
argument. Thus sort of dogmatism. combined with
a great deal of puppyism, was so overwhelming, so
strangely confounding, that the minister of the
chapel, who presided on the occasion, seemed to
doubt the evidence of his senses, for he rose ;midst
the strife, and in a state of apparent bewilderment,
exclaimed " Where am I ! Where am I!" Whether
the rev. gentleman's eaniest inquiry received any
satisfactory reply we Lace not heard. Eventually a
detachment of the anti-war party proceeded from the
body of the chapel, ascended into the gallery, and
boldly took up a piiiiition close to the enemy, and by
peaceable reuionstranee so far succeeded in subduing
the insurgents as to allow the lecturer to proceed ;
but the ri leinen kept up a kind of skirmishing till
the close of the meeting. Had it not been tor tbe
tiniely pushing forward of the advance guard of the
peace party it is impossible to say what would have
liven the result, for we understand that the war
party had intended to turn off the gas, and, perhaps.
have lighted up the chapel with squaw instead. The
only harm done, however, was the smashing of a
window or two, and the breaking down of the rail-
ings that surround the organ.
TisriNnel.t.—Our usual quiet village was on
Thursday last the scene of great enjoyment, on the
00Calli1111 of the marriage of B. B. Leach, Esq., eldest
son of the late W. B. Leach, vicar of Chilthorn,
with the youngest daughter of Jeremiah Penney,
E-q., of Tintinhull, by the Rev. S. Robertson, in.
ennui cut of Sutton Nlontua, assisted liy the Rev. W.
M. Smith, incumbent of Tintinhull. Our village
bells rang forth their merry peals at intervals
through the day. The school children, with their
teachers, were regaled with cake and wine. Suitable
tirceenta were given by the bride to the little
juveniles. The walk to the old church gates was
much crowded with spectators. A rchea were erected
and neatly decorated with flowers and banners, with
suitable inscriptions buniz in their midst. The
workmen were not forgot, being provided with a
substantial runner, and at four o'clock the trades-
men, with a number of others, partook Oran excellent
dinner at Mr. Charles Thomas's, farm bailiff to the
bride,room. After the cloth had been removed, the
healtri, happiness, and prosperity of their future
master and mistress beingdrank with usual honours,
the party harmoniously enjoyed the evening.
IlittunwaTEK.—An enterprising inhabitant of
Bridguater has made an offer to the Town Clerk,
with a view to its being laid before the Corporation,
to build a Townhall in that town, in accordance with
plans which have been inibmitted to the Council, on
the site of the eld AStliZ43 Halls. The cost of the
proposed building would be about I:1,600, and the
condition attached to the offer is, that a lease of
the laud be granted by the Council for 75 years, at a
nominal rent.