The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-01-08 00:00:00

DOICIIIINITZR.

Tex depth of rain during the month of December
lent Tear was 2.15 inches, and in December, 1876, it
wee 11.33 inches.

Tux Wlrrita ASSIZZIL - The London audit
announces the following se the days end places
wpainted for holding Commissions Oyer and
Tertn,ner and Gaol Delivery :—Winchester, Saturday,
Jan. 19; Exeter, Friday, Jan. 11.

TRANSFER or lacmtnne.-At the Townhall on
Monday before the Mayor (Dr. Aldridge), and Mr.
R. Davis. the following trawlers were made :-Th•
Bull's Head. Fordington, from Thomas Riggs,
deemseed, to George Pitfield ; King's Head. Fording-
' ton, from George Pitfield, to Henry Kanto-Mr.
Alfred Pope appeared for both applicant,.
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General Sir John Michel, G.C.8., notwithstanding
the lAA of his age rendering him liable to compaleory
retirement ender the recent warrant, is to be
permi:ted to retain the chief command in Ireland
until the expiration of the period for which he wan
origin My appointed. He will be relieved in the
Autumn of 1890, when he will be placad on the retired
list.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop at Salisbury an
the 4th inst., upon the preeentation of Mr. J. C.
Manse' Pleydell, of Whatcombe. near Biandford,
instituted the Rev. Charles Robert Div 8.A., to
the Rectory of Stailonei, void by the re.¼uailon of
the Rev. G. Alston; and the Rev. Angus Cleric, to
the Rectory of Winterborne Houghton, void by the
omeion of the Rev. J. R. Cotter.

CON IIrTTIED TO THE DOME? CotOITT PllllOl.
A saizel : Samuel Cox and Richard Hood, stealing
tusk.), and fowls at East Lnlworth.—Earti Lattemr
John O'Brien, stealing whiskey at Portland, 6 weeks ;
John D novas, vagrancy at Weymouth, Joseph
Rodrigues. assault at Weymouth, and Mary Ann
Randall. stealing a watch at Weymouth, 28 days
each; William Day, vagrancy at Wareham, and
George Russell, ;misbehaviour in Came Haien, 14
days each; George White and Henry Williams,
misbehaviour in Come Union, 7 days each.
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Ti. depth of rain during the mouths of 1876 and
1877 were es follows:-
1876. 1877.
Jaourv. 1.50 781
I'ebruarr 1.28 110
160
April a (60
Jon. 1.60 281
Jar • 1.15 tIO
Auguit &06 3M)
BT:ember ... 860 245
/ctober 188 180
November 0 150
December . 11.33 215
Tug WILATHIL—The following is our meteorological
report :

Dus. oo.j

Intreet I
Point at Wind. State of Weather.
I blot.

Doc. I • •
31 41 I 31 : NW 'Fin•
Jan. 44 41 •NW& SW Cloudy. rain, cloudy
47 35 W Foggy, misty
48 se Ng Pin., misty, rain
49 , 43 X 114ny
47 41 Ng Pony, rain
47 37 N %von., cloudy

Tea CHUN, AGAINST • BAND6II•N IS THE MILJTIA.
—At the donierset Quarter Sessions at Taunton. on
Thursday, before Major Paget, ?d.P., and Mr. Wm,
Sparks, Samuel Atdpe, the younger, was indicted for
breaking and entering the warehouse of Silas Dyke
and Sons, of Milborne Port, on the 15th of October.
and stealing therefrom 13 dozen pairs of gloves, vidue
about 220;14 was further charged with breaking and
entering the same warehouse on • subsequent date,
and stealing 21 dozen pairs of gloves, value about CA
tke property of Messrs. Dykes. —Mr. H. Cary Batten
prosecuted; the prisoner, who woe tin.lefended, pleaded
not guilty.—The evidence in the first case was most
oonclueive, and the jury, without hesitation, found
dm prisoner guilty.—The Chairman sentenced him to
knave months' hard labour, and seven years' police
supervision. As the police and the receivers coo-
riested to hand over all the gloves to the prosecutor.,
the second indictment was not procesded with.
Mr. Vigour said be appeared to prosecute in two
charges against the prisoner for stealing two brick-
layer s trowels., but be would make the same proviso
ea his learned friend I If the articles were returned to
the persons who claimed them, the charges against
the prieoner would be withdrawn; if not, he should
propose they remain on the file. The conditions
being complied with, the charges were accordingly
withdrawn.—The Chairman severely reprimanded Mr.
Cromwell, • draper, of Newport, for having purchased
gloves of the prisoner for 7e. 6.1. a dozen, woi th to the
trade Ma • doom, remarking that he had known of
MOOS brought into court where persons were charged
with receiving, to, with no more evideuce than was
against
ung him (Mr. Cromwell). But the Court were
to give him the benefit of the doubt, and
credit him with having done a foolish instead of a
criminal act. The Court would not allow him his
expenwe.

Cocrwrr Pouct, Saturday. —Mon Kr. E. Pearce. and
Kr. G. Cbwebill

-14Taa;--filri-e—w, of tad 90th MA 'Maimed at Portland,
was charged under the following circumstances. On the
evening before het Yr. White, wine end spirit merchant,
Fortune's W.lI. Portland. on hie return from a journey,
mimed a bottle of Dunville's old Irish whisky, In comae
guano, of bit attention being called to the fact that it was
goon—Prosecute, was asked the value of the bottle of
whisky, and he replied that lately be had suffered several
robberies by soldiers, sod the concoction in question was
whisky and water and other things, mad* up hy • chemist
On the back of It was a cross to Mow It wee not to he sold.
—Kr. Chnichill thought it wee a pit. prisoner had not
been allowed to drink it —P.C. Killer (US) ass on duty at
Fortune's Well on the evening of the 3rd, and heard some
on. hoar* "slop thief." On looking round he my the
running from M White's stores. Re caught him
tryistrr e
cost as he rut by, and he mob the bottle inquisition
from him Re took him back to Mr White's, and charged
him with ste .ling it. when be said "Nob not ma"—Edwin
Whits, sots of prosecutor, deposed to rousing after pri.
screer. end calling out Moo thief. —Prisoner bad sot!altir
say in Ins defame. except that he did not tak•
—There were no less than 14 previous Inditary conviction;
owlet the ortopos. in • 1.1 months service—TM Ranch
odd bad his conduct been different the sesece would
bare teen treated more lightly. as it wm. he would go for
six weeks' hard labour.
• tram named Jain amid warn charged with an offence
at ptwtis6am which need not be narrated. —The midge°,
was inmeclosive, and he was disgorged.

THE LATE ACCIDENT AT WEYMOUTH TO
A DORCHESTER TRADESMAN.
We regret to announce that Mr. W. Pouncy, who
Mot with severe in arias by falling over • cliff at Wey-
mouth, on record.d on our mond page, died at the
WsTwouth Hospital on Sunday Akerson' about •
quarter to four.
At the inquiet held Ude (Monday) aiternoas (full
=lsof which appear In Thursday's
vadick se "Ameliiiilel Doak" was re-
bused.

THE DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL.
Darin the week =dint J 3rd, there hare
Wen ad.itted patints 7 ; 4 ;061
retzte admitted, 4; discharged, 10; woorpocien. ;
1 :—ln-patiente, in the hospital, 47 :—Out-
EWaski, on the books, 171; PhYfici", f" the
Dr. W. V. Lash ; surgeon for the week, Mr. J. Good;
house margeoa, Mr Herbert J. Capon.
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The Hones Surgeon is desired by the children in the
Hospital to expects their thanks to hire. Good, of High
Weetstreet, for her kind_pricenta to each 2f them on
Christmas Day; also to Hies kluegrove. Dorchester,
for the amusing and pretty acrap-book received during
the week

Amnon%
Stephen Dibhen, about 12 years old, working for
Mr. Chapman Saunders, ol 'Narrow.ll, while attend-
ing to some horses on Sunday morning, fell out of •
window about IS feet. His forehead was *overly cut,
and his right arm brakes. He was at one conveyed
to the County Hospital where his injuries were
I attended to by the Hones Surgeon, and we learn that,
under Mr. Good's care he bide fair to do very well.