The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-10-11 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

ittiLlt 001IPIL— We hear that the Boy. IL Everett
Ls to be appointed Chaplain to the 3rd D.E.V.
Fanner& CLUB.—Th. first mooting of the session
1870.71 is fixed for Saturday next, at the Xing's
Arms Hotel.

Hat Fraser POSTAGS.—During the first week of the
operation of the halfpenny stamp, nearly 16,000 were
mold at the Dorchester post-office.
VOCAL ASSOCIATION —TO he. 1.. 4naand t. *A.,14
SS MOINTOIS or tau aawsidation, persona beloneAng to
*harsh or chapel °holm at tbe reduced rate of 61. for
the whole wawa. The fee for other persons la
13s. 6d.

SCHOOL Or AWL —This valuable looal institution
commences a now term on Friday nest, and we would
again (*almond it to the especial notes of artisans. For
• small fee they may attend the evening class, and the
time so occupied will he both pleasant and profitable.
It would much gratify the bon. secretary (the Rey. B.
L. Watson) to ice a large gathering for evening instruc-
tion, and the time fixed arms • good opportunity for
young women, who are aLsiatants in shops ox are other-
wise employed during the day, gaining a knowledge of
drawing and painting. If four or five will give In their
names to the boo: seeretery, an evening female der
will be started, and then no doubt many will avail
themselves of it, benefits.

T. WILATIIIIL —The following is our meteorologioal
report :

21. State of Weather.
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Fog,
Fog,
Fog, ra
Cloudy,

2 I
4 z 3Jz
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3 68 37 E fine
4 45 37 NW dc Nr. flue
5 55 47 NW & E 3,4, line
E 5 th 46 & SS I'4Am,
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fru.dy
7 65 BEB 8 og, rain
8 63 47 WM! .fine
9 65 31 W Stormy
COMMITSID TO TIN DORTIT COMITT 1111803.
Sestiou : Francis Hansford, stealing trousers at
Symondabnry ; Thome, Weldon, Elise Haler, stealing
gold watch chain, he., at Shroton ; George Mortimer
and Charles Mortimer. housebreaking at Wimborne.—
Hard Labour : Joseph Randall, assault at Weymouth,
3 calendar months; Jane Wells, fortune telling at
Dorchester, 2 calendar months; William Oliver,
vagrozoy at Bradpele, 1 month ' • Matthew Knight,
vagrancy at Weymouth, 7 day.; Charles Holloway and
Arthur Norman vagrancy at Radipole, 7 days.—!,..
prisenstent : Eatina Banbury, drunk, he., M Lyme
Itr, 2 months • Henry Durrant, bastardy at Yarn.
hull, 2 months; months;
Clark, expcOag KW Pelson at
Weymouth, 14 days; Charles Churchill and George
Hodder, maul/ at Do, cheater, 7 days.
WOIJCING 11211.8 lIIWITICTI.—This lecture season of
this Institution oommenoed on Thursday evening when
the Rev.!. B. Owen of Chelsea, delivered his " Tales
of Emigrants," at the Town•hall. The audlenee was
scanty, but those present seemed thoroughly to enjoy
the constant flashes of wit that illuminated his lecture,
and were deeply tounhol by the pathos of his "tale of
a convict.' The advantage of emigration to our
colonies, and especially to the Dysart settlement in
Canada, was the burden of his address., and he gave
some striking illustrations of the helpless in this
country becoming helpful out there and attaining to
positions of wealth, intllloooo, and honour. He warmly
eommended NW; Rye for her work in taking out orphan
girls to Canada, depicted the joyful reception they
a:pen/need, and argued in favour of an extension of
her scheme as an enterprise of the highest advantage
So those who leave this country, and also to nue' who
remain In it.

-iOllll7-11F-TILLING EXTRAORDIII/AT. A singular case
a modality was brought before George G'arme. Seq.,
at the polloecourt, het Thursday afternoon. A woman
named Jane Wells, who is travelling about with an
itinerant tinker, was brought up, charged under the
Vagrant Act. Ann Bead, honamitald at Dr. Goodell's,
told the following story: Last Saturday afternoon the
woman (Wells) came to Dr. Cowden's, and asked me
and the other servant if we would have our fortunes
told. She said "Shall Itchl you a few word.?" We
were afraid of her. sod I offered her sixpence. She
said I must give her the largest piece of silver I had
got, or she could net tell me anything: I fetched half.
aorown, which I gave her, and then she said she could
not tell me anything unless I gave her some wearing
appareL I fetched her • dress, • altlrk sad another
garmeat. She looked at my hands, and mad* me repeat
three words—what they were I forget: I was to be
married on Now Year's Day; but, she said, I had one
enemy—• dark woman She gave me some melt, which
she told me to burn the next morning, and that would
burn my enemy. She also told the wok and the boy
their fortune., and they gave her sixpence each. She
crowd my band with the sixpence I gave her first.
On Monday morning the woman called again, when
the Gook and the boy had something told them, but
I didn't. Cross-examined: When I answered the door

on Saturday the woman did not ask if there were Loy
umbrellas to mend. I did not oak bar to tell me my
young man's arms. I did not tall ber that if eke oould 1.11
me my young man's nsin,,and when! should be muried
I would believe bar.—The magistrates sentenced prisoner
to two months' hard labour. . .

" RINGING 71111 Cituout."—An ingenious device has
been practised in Doroheater daring the last few days
for swindling the publinass. A man, who gave the
nuns of Thomas Johnson, and is believed to be in league
with • man and woman committed for trial on • eharge
of pocket-picking at aihroton fair, came to Dorchester
iast week, and was waiting here till his friends were
Wed at the Sessions. To while away the time profitably
he has visited public-houses—The Phoiniz, the White
Hart, the Duke of Wellington, the Royal Oak, ko.—
and practised this fraud : oelling for half-a-pint of beer,
he lenders • damn** is payment; 012 !Wait= the
lehnnfe In Peneet he sere "Ohl I and I have id, will
you return me the sizputoe r When the demon and
the pesos are upon the manta, belays,' Please count ,
the coppers, to see that they are right r and while this '
Is issisi don., be adds, "I should be obliged if you
would g.ve m • shilling, instead of the email change,"
and Imposed upon by his politeness, the altaing
I. at ones given, he pushes forward the
penes aid sigmas* in rotate, sad diP m
the gainer of his half-pint and 40. A similar dodge
Is performed with coins if higher value. At the
Phoenix inn twice on Saturday he defrauded Mrs.
Barrett. Oa Sunday evening he called again, and asked
the Madiord to dire him two sisposese for a shilling.