The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-12-12 00:00:00

SYMONDSBURY.

Holes Missiows. —The Rev. A. Codd, vicar of
Beaminster, preached two sermons at the pariah
church, on Sunday week, on behalf of the Additional
Curates' Society, when the sum of £2 13s. was
collected.

SALISBURY.

TEMPERANCE. —On Tneeday evening the Rev. John
Moss' of Trowbridge, lectured at the Temperance Hall
on "The Chemistry a Intoxicating drinks, illustrated
by experiments. There was • large audience.

THE CATTLE PLAGOE.—The Mayor of Salisbury has
prohibited the exposure for sale of any horned cattle,
except such as are fat and fit for immediate slaughter in
this city. for • period of two months Every animal
sent to the market is to be slaughtered within ten days,
and every animal not retained for slaughter in the city,
is to be driven direct to one of the railway stations
before eight o'clock in the evening.
CouarY Glam.—James Harding, who WU convicted
at the last assizes for this county of the great burglary
in the shop of Mr. Fes, draper, tzo., of Devizes, and
sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude, has been re-
moved from the County Gaol, Salisbury, with Thomas
Godden, who was also at the same assizes convicted of
arson at Erlestoke, and sentenced to ten years' penal
servitude to the County Gaol at Taunton, by an order
from the Secretary of State.

ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday evening, between seven and
eight o'clock, an accident occurred to a young female
who was passing acmes toe road near Mr. Barker's shop,
at the corner of High-street. A gentleman's carriage
came up at the time, when she was knocked down, and
the wheels of the vehicle passed over her. She was im-
mediately conveyed into Mr. Barker's shop, when it was
found that her leg was broken. This part of the city is
certainly a dangerow; one for pedestrians, the corners
being very sharp and the roads narrow, and the wonder
is, not that an accident occasionally occurs, but that they
are not of frequent occurrence.

CITY PrITY SESSIONS, Monday.—Before the Meyer
(James Hussey, Foe.), Mr. Alderman Fawcett, J. C.
Wheeler, F. 8.. Fisher, and T. W. Gilbert, &qrs.- -
James Waters and Thomas Marchment were brought
tip on remand, charged with stealing • quantity of lead
from the Cathedral, where they had been working under
?dr. White, the contractor for the repair of the roof.
Mr. White declined to press the case, and the prisoners
were discharged.--Tane Feltham, wife of a shepherd
In the employ of Mr. E. Cone, of Winterbourne, was
charged with stealing a basket out of a van, belonging
to Robert Cook, carrier to Newton Toney, in th-
Market Place, on Saturday last. Taking the woman's
apparently destitute condition into consideration, Mr.
Cook did not press the case, and the prisoner was
discharged with a caution.—Hugh James Brine,
hackney carriage preprietor, was summoned by
Sergeant Mel:lough. for offending against the Bye
• Laws of the city, by conveying the dead body of a child
in a carriage for which he was licensed. The child died of
measles, and the body was taken from Barnard's Cross
to the Cemetery on the London Road. The defendant
was fined 20a and costs, and was also severely censured
by the bench.--Charles Westoott, of Bedwin•street,
was summoned_ by Fanny Westoott, his wife, for as-
intuiting her. He did not appear, and a warrant was
ordered to be issued for his apprehension.—James
Pearoy, a man in the employ of Mr. Bridger Gibbs,
Gigant-street, was summoned by Sergeant McGough, for
offending against the Bye-Laws, by depositing manure
in the street, after being told that he was acting im-
properly.—Fined 108. and costs.