The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-24 00:00:00

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THE MINIITE BELL.
(Unease.) Oh I doleful bell!
joi.briasing Christmas shows his face.
fitrikast our Marta at all-JoY-killing pace,
What tale dolt hall
Oh ! woe-struck land I
thy freedonigusrding West streak
710111 shores with blood and iron crushed, where weak
I.
mid violence stroog, I seek
wrIM bed where Janice hngers, loth to go;
I till of siket power,
Summer than all the fury of the hour—
Of sacred woe.
(Liretstr.) Oh I woeful bell I
A ruined coennT, shattered homes, and blood
Not yet wiped out, we sea, and fresh-burst 8 ood
oe wasting life from 111•11.1 all-bleeding well.
Whet worse mist tell?
Groan, logien& groan I
The woe's thine own, from cot to throne.
Undue.) The sorrowing Run the coati-steamer sees:
The birds chirp early famine on the leas,
nonwhite snow windingsbeets on Booth-land frees.,
Allies desert us for our tricks and snide,
The Afghan All 'll turned from Ingland's Ada
(Bolt) Her father's deathday Prisons Alice died.
(Liaterr.) Our Alice deed I
Bow down the head
Throughout free Bntein. tight-ruled Allainand,
Toll for our Qseen I
Imperial diadem loom In her hand,
The on. decree she'd wish, the one on:amend,
That her worn bean would Inoue to that strand
Beasts not Alice from the Distant Land.
Toll for the Prince I
0 Wales I 0 Cornwall I loving All ayes,
Dimmed hare In death, yet sign thee to the prize
Greeter than Britain, costlier than thy roll,
Thy runts, thy sports—a borne with Alice' soul.
Toll for the Duke I
Vain thy Grand Duchess brings thee Rossi is midst,
Far o'er thy Russ is Abcs glosiAL
Toll for the Lorne !
As so their sir the chilling tidings pour,
! doubly torn on that snow-sheeted shore,
Moaning sad "Am nada''—" nothing hens ;"
Unable they to wipe their Mother's tear,
Too distant they to watch their sister's bier.
Toll for the rest I
And loud for Woes whose orsage-buda sre nipped
By this sad frost, the cup erf Joy analysed,
But cup of Tantalite ; wailing most be heard
For nstm's lose enhanced by hope deferred.
Toll deep for children left I
No Christmas tree for them with twinkling
No wondrous, costly. Peinoell•Furchmod MO"
But death-lamps round the roan, where in state
(Oh bitter state !) a further lose they wait;
For Mother's Ukasese mocks the lamps' dim light,
Yet Mother's likeness vanishes from sight
Toll for the poor !
The Prinsem Mies cheered up weary boars
With moeey, food, with words of love, with Bowers.
Orief-hollow eyes for her relaxed their start,
Painerompled hands touched lovingly her hair.
No haughty Court our dear one sought; her throne
A little dukedom, all by love hew own.
Toll not for her 1
For Alice, earnest, loving, winning love,
From lin high tide was softly borne above.
No Socialist scare
Disturbs her peace there,
No trembling faros shall srm her Won the free;
• guardian angst to her people's given,
Her children, too; " I tell you that in heaven.
My Father's face such angels always me."
_ . (Adapted by Datum)

December. 1818.

THIt County Constabulary are in mourning, cone*.
quest as the death of Princess Alias.
Pima= Boaz Baow.—A sory good idss is men-
tioned to it—that of • Rose Show next summer for
asnatesus of Dona. A beautiful thought, and we
hope it will be carried out.
Tee Church belle tolled mournfully on Wiod-
woodsy from two to three, during the time of the
funeral of the deeply lamented Princess Alice, and
general morrow wee felt for the Royal (=SW, and
especially for our beloved Queen, and the children of
the Princess.
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We are requested to state that the cheap tickets
from Lcadon to Dorchester, Weymouth, &c., and
wice wren issued by the Great and South• Western
Railway Companies at Christmas, will be available
up to and including Monday, December 30th, instead
ei Saturday, December 28th.
Tar COFTEI Tavins.—We bog to remind our
readers that more than half the rum required for the
Coffee Tavern and Working Men's Club has beta
received. Three who wish to contribute will please
send In their name and amount to Mns. Bingham,
Dorchester, as noon as possible We will give a list
wit week.
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Tlll BLATOZ's BOIIIITT. —The Mayor of Dorchester,
Mr. A. Pope, has very liberally mint tickets to the
and other ministers of the town, for the clergy and
of cool to the poor who are in special need.
Mr. Pope also intends to give a supper to a hundred
or old mess and women, who will enjoy Hi.
Worship's roast beef, plum pudding, and beer, at the
Oorn Exchange, about the end of this year, or the
beginning of &it new.
Fax Nnr GILLNNAI Scgoot. —A most satisfactory
reply has been resolved to the memorial addressed to
the Endowed School Commiadoners by • large number
of the inhabitants of the town, asking that the school
may be retained in the borough and that the word
neer Dorchester, inserted in the dralta chime the other
day, be omitted. The oommlesionine have much
pleasure in coinciding with this most reasonable
request.
Wrzas ASI3 Donn BANC—We observe 'that this
Company have, in consequence of the suspension of
the West of England and South Wales District Bank,
Ipined branched at A slvidire Budleigh-Saltertoo,
Olevedon Clifton, Extuontb. We;l,, and Weston.
super-Mire, and havin.; eecured the services of the
managers of the West of England Bank in those
towns, who are well-known and respected, they must
reap a very considerable acoessi,,n to their bunnies.
To TILIDIIIIIIII.—IIining the peat few weeks, •
ken number of spurione sovereigns have been
In Maidnme, and a mem', Cr of a firm of jewellers In n
the town. manei Edwin Hedges, was reoeutly
79ended. by tin p lice ou three distinct charges
uttering counterfeit coins. At Toestey's police.
court, John Hedges, mar C member of the firm, wag
charged with having inplements in his pmsseesion,
which axe believed to have been used for coining pur-
poses A number of coining moulds were also dis-
covered on the prisoner's premises by the polio.
Prisoner was remanded, in order that the Mint authori-
ties might be oommunicsted with.
Par Till TOO LAU roe nu Route —Mr. Henry
Lock, clerk to the guardians of the poor, inforrns the
Mayor that neither officers or inmates of the work-
house beard the bell on the sth or 6th; but the
guardians have ordered • fresh bell to be affixed. The
muter states that since he has been in the house*,
more than four years, no vagrant has been refund
&dairies ; the Bond, however, are not disposed to
relax their rule that no vagrants shall be admitted after
eight between September and April, or after nine
between March and October, as vagrants know the
rules, and it I. not thought safe for the public that
each people should wander about after those hours.

CAOTIO-11 TO LASOORZIL—At the County Court
on Thursday the only ewe was that of Loveless
v. Leach, where • farmer had entered into a written
contract with the defendant to enter into his service,
and had sent on one occasion two horses ands wawa,
and on another • wanon and throe horses to Wag
defendant and his good. to the place of 'orrice, but he
refused to come, even altar the waggon had been sent.
—Mr. R. N. Howard. of Weymouth, appeared for
plaintiff, and asked for the moderate ram of 10s. only,
es nominal damages, by way of warning to other men
that they must not do such things. Defendant
admitted the facts, and the sum asked for was given
plaintiff. The ease was mottled before Mr. Symonds,
the Registrar, and there wee nothing to occupy the
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Paorouro Ra-rawuro or FOIDINOTON Ottani
A vestry meeting was held at St. George's Church on
the 12th last. "To consider the question of re-taring;
It appears that cotudderable mums (among
from the patron, Prebendary Pierson,) lave lately
been clued In cam such a scheme should be set on
foot and the vestry, which was well attended, cor-
dially recepted those oikre, and resolved to sPut. •
committee to collect the hinds wormary. (Jsretal
plea had been prepared by Mr. A. Chapman, end
met with general approval. At the vestry muting
were present—Rev. M. C. G. Moule, curet* (in the
chair, se representing the vicu), Messrs. W. Galpin
and Hunt (churchwardeis). Mr. R. Mayne, Rev. G.
E. Mon* and other parishioners. There can be no
doubt of the real need of better and more comfortable
sittings in Fordinston (torch; indeed, we under-
stand that but for special difficulties in the way the
work would have been pot in hand many years ago.
We may add that contributions will be gladly received
.inithanse Fl= or churchwardens, or at Marra

Amur:mum • Poticoma. —On the Mk instant, t
Sim googistrMai clerk's Aloe, before Mr. R. Williams'
Jun., and Major Churchill, Lot Derry waa &meet%
with smaulting Polio' Constable Barter, at Toi4r
Precast's, on the previous day. It appeared that on
the previous day the constable saw Davey on the high.
y at Toiler getting ready to shoot something in •
fiekl adjoining the road. Swim being in want ef the
man for another purpose, and surpecti— nghim of haring
been on lands for the purpose of killing IFILM, went
towards him, and upon Davey seeing this be took to
Ms basis sad ran away, the constable following, and,
otter a short chess, he overtook Ms man as he was
atasrst:Ognksta-hiatrha veioT:btewtzttel I'D' with
his having • leaded gm in the other hand. The
Men dosed in with him, and after s short
ho enocendsd in securing Ms opponent. Davey,
who nothing to my in his &Mum and them Wing
two or three previous ocerictions against him, was
fined ami 1114. oats, and in default of payment to
be imprisoned for throe months' hard labour, to coos-
meow at the expiration of mother teem of imprison-
ment of one month for gam* trespass, for w hg
was ocavioled on the Nth of September lam.

BRITISH AND BOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.
The quarterly meeting of this catholic sccietes Dor-
chester aurniary was held Hi the Town Hall, on Tuesday
seenb3s, under the presidency of the Rey. T. Pape,
rector of St Peter's, supported by the Rey. Deoclis Nook_ ,
the Rey. Handley Made. and the Roe . iletiostow ovine
to the Weems oold, the atteadaewe woe bet small, but we
obeirred Dr. G. Clams, Mr. IL Devenish, Mr. MIL,
da.
The CHAIRMAN hilt it hardly hied to those few who
irlsgariskved he iIitHIMWADt WOILN4f W-Dight to nob a
Yr. George Moab lied sleds
Oil special eueSiacl they whiled to diva bin an,
felt poor MlLlt= al hi!
azdaLr. Pwerelb.wirees voice to
am st
desolation sad had bees Wash the elleattei
with which he ,oestea the deism of the