The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-05-01 00:00:00

DOSONESTEIt.

THE depth of rain that fell during April this year
war 4.00 inches; the same month last year 3.23 inches.
oe Sunday the Mayor and l'orporation and borough
officials attended Divine service at St. Peter's elpirch,
when the sermon was preached by the Bev. E. Pears,
from the :had chapter of Ephesiatis and part of the
2n.1 verse. There were present the Mayor (Alderman
!sock). Alderman Galpio, Durden, Slade,
Burnett, Hazel, Pope, Gregory, Bennett, Lock,
Emeon (ex• Mayor and llosk;ee ; the TOVII Clerk,
the mace bearer', and bonnigh
Jrveethe Otuirri.howe.—The annual return of the
Juvenile Odafellows ef the " Bud of I lope" Lodge for
the year ending December 31et, 1876, has just been
printed at this office. From it we gather that the
amount of benefit fund at the beginning ..f the year
wee 00 13s. •Pel. ; the expenditure was 1:9 2s. &1., and
the eggq at the end of the year was VG 134.
The management fund Ahnwell a small increase, and
the total :nlwe o: the I, slze is £7O 125., with 108
members.
COMMITTED To THE DOCSE7 CorNTT
Hard Labour Henry Bienop, are.snllng polies at
Weymouth, and Edward Smith, stealing timbe,• at
Wimborne, 2 ..alendar months ; Thomas Cox, vagrase•;,
••t 1 svngliatn, 28 .lays; George Graham, misbehaviour
is. 1!„-idts,rt 1-not, 14 days ; Williain French,
vagrance a.: Weymouth, .lays. Felice
Robert ear...e.r Read, obtaining money by means
.4 a tale rlejn,e at Don:bester.
,pAyy COUNTY HORTITAL—The following is the
report for the week ending April at:th : In-patients
a.l6.itted, 6 ; discharged, 2; out-patients admitted, 3;
.li,harge I, 10; emergencies. 0; deaths, 0; in-patients
remaining in the Hospital, 4e ; out-patients remaining
.•it the books, 101 •' casualties, 29; phyeician for the
week. Dr. W. V. Lush ; surgeon for the week, Mr.
(bosh; house surgeon, Mr. I). J. i'ap.m.
I Masses. ST. M AND DAVI:N.I'OR: 41eses and
~.,e&g,,,re of the Theatre B. vyal Southampton) pay us
a visit on Wednesday next—to be extended to Thuni.
day. They bring with them a carefully selected and
well organteed dramatic and operatic company. We
have not as yet had the pleasure of witneesing their
performances but if we are to judge by unprejudiced
Southampton comments, we think we may fairly, and
without any fear of disappointed expectation result-
ing, advise our readers to lend their patronage. Mr.
St-. Maur we may state is of the Strand and Olympic
Theatres and Ifr. Davenport of the Queens—no bad
eeedsntials.
A COVIERrONDENT writes
•• ca. LothiEg be done to stop the I.:ackwsur4ly and dis-
gustinglanguage gissle use of in this town, not only by
would-be-fancie I nice- helebledehoys—but by those whose,
age or pretended clainis to resnects7.yy ought to teach
them better! A ixthooman 1,. ~,ofere, is not of the
slightest we. Will our active superintiodett send cut a
man or two in plain clothes sonic evening as an e.rwri-
ment I And will the magistrates when they get the next
offender brought before them give him the full benefit of
Ike law?'
ve Jympathise with our correspondent: the gutter
tn s.•hich distinguishes Dorchester is a disgrace
ges' town. trn:y on Sunday evening in our Walks
we heard foul-motithed ut:evances which, we thought.
at the time, would have ena‘ied us effectually and
asirmatively to settle the question "loan o^e blush in
the dark "
TexWesr_qte.—The following is our meteorological
report :7

I Lowest .
Date. Noon. Point at Wind. Stale of Weather.
; 1 Night.
—,—=-
I
April I . 1 ;
23 1 10 ' 11 W ,Ilain,Ane, thundershowers '
14 ' 66 33 11 (bud,
21 0144
61 16
'Pine
r, :: 3 E
. E eland,. ane
IS ' 44 18 NE Rain, itoonty
36 53 . 36 NE Gloomy, auk cloudy