The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-10-17 00:00:00

SHERBORNE.

DAILY SERVICL—In his sermon on Outlay mornieg
the Vicar alluded to the scanty attendance at daily
service. The day before, he said, they began the ser-
vice with only one worshipper, and although the
Wednesday evening services were bettar attended,
stall an average congregation of 50 or GO could acaroely
be considered a proper proportion out of a population
of 6,000.
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A " Swarr TIIINo" IN EXHIBITIONB.—There has
been exhibiting here during the tovst week a "living
skeleten"—a gentleman ai exceedingly spare that he
weighs but a little over 30,bs , and can pass his wrist
through a half-inch opening. If all the human
curiosities now tiavelling were gathered together, what
an extraordinary *collection we should have. An
Arabian woman recently gave birth to a two-headed
child. She strangled it a few hours after it came Into
existent, If it had li,en an English mother she would
lotv., hire I a esiavan, and fared sumptuously out of
prdlts aroing from the exhibition uf tbe poor unto,
tuuste. Which, Mr. 1'U1,401,11,1., is humacltpl We
have also had an elo.lsteel Bpi:chum of humanity, who
showed that even in these days there are giants.

TRAMPS AND MILIR TROUBLES: A Coaloca OLD
GENTLEMAN. —A man, named George Bennett, a
native of Portsmouth, but at tho present time an
inivato of our union, who, thinking his Ullln Clothe.
didn't suit him, tore them up, ha, been brought up
befom the magistrates. For this piuoo of superfluous
incluotry he was awarded an old pair of trousers oed •
nrar.lee imprisonment with hard labour in Dorchester
Jai. A tramp, who some ttrao time ago received
puttirhutent f.,r the stun offerme, called the other
evening at the gotten fur n "order." He was asked
wh the he had done with the canvas nit he bad bren
famished vitt% aSl,erborne. His r.-piy showed Le
did out much u.ltaire the cut and fashion. As soon as
he left D.,re:iest g wi, he said, h ondoavoured to tear
them up, but they were too tough, 110 wore tbem as
far as ywontli, and then no old genteluma whom
he met gave blur • fresh lot in exchange for his,
which ho wiaLe I to ks. p as a cure Marty in reineru-
b.anee of the Bono he cut in them, lie was very
glad to embrace the offer.

TOO 11000 01 TB' " TAP."—A woman named Ellita
Chase, was eharged before E. &withal!, Esq., with being
drunk and disorderly in the public streets. She hat
come to Slusrborne with her Isatalonad to receive his
perulion, and the pair, upon Vas strength of it, par.
took tee much of the " strong." Tao husband
usanaged to return to Yoovil, bat the wife entertained
an Cr tort od:ctiurt for the Swan tap, and although
abu was put out soveral tunes, she again and again
("reel her way in. At length finding she could obtain
no mori drink at that establishment, she, as the
noarat approoh to that felicity, gratified herself by
lying do an on on the pav,tu,nt outside the gates. A
your in ,n, not prec.zely acquainted with the nature
of her ofe.inent. endeavoured to raise her ; for which
he was rewaided with a grip in the calf of his leg that
drove hiin to tho conclusion that if her husband was a
p:nsioner, alio herself was a pinchioner. As she con-
tinued to act In distinct contravention of the rules of
polite iscr.iety, the polio) were sent for, and • couple of
" activa ant intelligent olfiours" managed at last, with
diflicalty, to lodge her in one of tho pollee colic Tho
neat morning, although shaky, she was sober ant
penitent, and the msg wet° kindly restored her to the
arms of her spouse, who, with a couple of blank eyes,
attended to claim his errant better half.