The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-02 00:00:00

RILBORNE ST. ANDREW.
NEW WESLEYAN CHAPEL.

The certmemy of laying the lettedation non of the
new Woolens Chapel in this village took plus ea
(Intonation day, and &Wasted • large number of visitors
from Dordwater and other plane, so that the little
village of 11.1boree was all astir. A hamar in sod of
the building find was reseed in the reading
rooms,
whin was well attended. Most of the articles offered
e
for sale wend the usual descriptine, him needlework,
children's drone, pin onabiona, hc., but the Habana
friends imparted somewhat of a novelty ia the shape of
a ins fat lamb, which we. readily disposed of to a
hatcher in tbe neighbourhood for a sovereign' The
Wise who oreieded it the three stalls of the burner
were Vie. Keynes and Vise Cronker. Mrs. Bracer, Mrs.
Groves, Min Joiner, and Mrs. Wl...Crocker. The site
.4th, Merman WIMPg is in Chureb-lane, near the
centre of the village. The building will be of white
brick with red bands, 360. by Wt, height. 161 t., and
to bold from 160 to 200 worshippers, The contract
has been taken by Kenn. Celle and Cutler.
The nomedings ',menaced with singing the 6304
hymnal the Wesleyan eollection, after which the Rev.J.
itymorida, one of the circuit presebers, read put of the
6.11 Kinney of let Kings, Tim Rev. Mr. .100/S then
offered up prayer. T. Barn, Esq., of Milborn• Pork
then ornended to lay the none ia the name of
the Blend Trinity, end oosended 11.1. part
of the service by imploring that the great Heed
of the Cherub might be ever with his people
who should assemble lit that plan. He then proceeded
to deliver an address, in the course of which be
nrviewed some of the cleans whin bad takes pines
dining the Past 60 you% Daring that period more
proems had been made in God's work, than was amen
oilskin in 1,000 yeses before. Is Dorsolthire 60 years
ago there was inanely aa reunited clergyman in the
churn of England. A truly pious minister of the
church in those days was looked spouse • rare swie.
Re remembered on. • Mr. Owner, of Snarled, a man
of truly Evangelical spirit, to whom he sad ethers weal
for Myles and counsel, sad et dherborme there wee alri
Mr. Pletcher end Kr. Parsons • there might be • few
th °en. Now be believed (here were many truly de-
voted mermen of Christ. Thee se to the arkdanny ;
where could they have found such • noble man as the
present lord Shaftesbury ? Thee 55 10 the sashes, how
diff.rent they were in their soeversalise end their
manner of life from what they INIMI 60 yens ago. Mr.
Poen thee dilated no the natural beauties of Dorset
. hire *bid said that ask spewed &nosh from Killeen
Port over the valleys and bills, he felt • spirit or
patriotism ries up in his noel, end he fell proud, not
ooly of his country but of his county. He then adverted
to his own family and of their becoming converted to
God, and mid that the mum of Christ's religion had
wonderfully promoted in that part of Dorset. where
his friend formerly Hoed in !contagion, where that good
and holy man of God, Kr. Monte, had don so nine.
good. It would never have been believed in his day
that Partisans would bans rant oat miesion.ries to
(Thina, but such had 1:e so the cs. The work was
going on, end Dortenhire, so celebrated for the beauty
of All &Wee sod lbs lovely ,•Itsys. would Itio•o" .v.l'
more and more beautiful through the power of the
gospel no the learn of the peon. Hio nee. inquire
was elm. has keen done for us In the net SO Teeth He
had Men informed that within the pii.t 22 years 11
chapels Awl b-en erected in the Dorchester anent only.
He thought from this that Use Dorchester =4101414U
net be a prosperous noon. sad *MAW that during
the next 22 years u many more avoid be beils—(ap.
plasm). than as he travolled Koos h• took particular
notice of the Dorsetebirs labourer. and he mu.t say that
be onside& they looted well—they were Irina dhed.
strong, and obeerful-looking, Ind nothing to he irdsented
of, and the !redid gentry had no cause but to be prowl
In borne much as. to till the soil Daring the poet 20
you. • greet change for the better bad taken plan in
their condition, and thocuch emery now and then tlt y
saw in the newspapers something about the "The inv.
preerible Dowel labourer," when persons wished to
show up what they aonsidend tbe evil. and shorioomieir
of the szhitomen of the country, yet be considered the
Deceit Warners would not gaffer by comPans°6 stllt
the SAWS/ of Birmingham, and if he ever met with
Mr. Bright be skald not mind challenging him to pro-
duce from the working Kamm of that city men whose
I cleanly, \Way, and happy costented appearance would
equal ths Daniel labourers. It might be true they
CP.B.NR ABBAS, wood e good deed awe IS/011leZ1it tiMas. but their
pemarsi....ooodrommitioo
"wasjitatanyeeepaimser. He,sheadlnerewerho,,
FORMITir.—A greed deleemennies sad will
take place hare an the July, sad if the weather be saw hes and weeny.
ieeelmke,fre wtheazePsfks"ehe of laa usint l'Ttimitpsiouglibt tohebe no sabiammmabetweerthem. All should
pro.eedlegsendeavour to do their duty in that note of life in
enjoyable.
which it had pleased God to all them. Mr. Knew
Pirrrr SIMONS, Welamday.—Before the Rev. C. W. then proceeded to show that the principals of Wota.n
Bingham, and the Bev. T. Itinds.—The hewn of the Methodism were built on the foundation of
"A 4101014 " C•rus, wee inSWIWT•I Ito. Imes gospel, and mid the doctrine which would be
Wills to Chaos Way, and the leen* of the "Hun penned in the chapel about to be erected, would be
len," Piddl•treoillide. irom John Darts to Joseph the old-fashioned doctrines of their forefathers. If
Chaldsott.—The OVISISS3I of Gradmenstme• (Messrs any of their nowhere &deemed anything °pottery to
Roby and Groves) were semsnoned by Mr. James Tally the great doctrine of lestileation, by faith they would
Voting, the poor 1•W auditors for this district, for term them out. He illand ea the nesemity of &ow-
Deep pant of SS 14.. 111., the banns loend to be lag fruits of their belief in • shrink's life. Afar
dad at the lan midis front the overseers an passing "peaking on the rarnealisea hoi been Wight
their eseoents. The detour* arse, that se there ern by some, and of the redoes ents sad parties late which
pp Slow in the parish officers, the delmodants thought the Mirth was divided, Mr. Lear maid that seem,
ernessen lo p.y over the woo« to the tromortir, why erne not &strain% but unity we., and be then
to law they ought to have don with- passed oe to make • few remarks on the three greel
In nem oats saw 411,Z audit Mr. am* el You'd. Parties of the Churn of England, and expr.s.l hi.
a. log SI ',Unsay to the auditor, attended end elairsel belief that the trial ander which it was sow salmis'
DS IS.. for eons and expereces. As the bdanoe had would only tend to It. parity, and that It would sums
been previously mid Into the beak, eel se the defend. forth more asafel than it bed ever tam li. ene
anis bad bees in the fret plan misled by the anditoes' enneth.led by espreming his unabated sittakoset to
lema,l. ige„ Behr, the Binh lowered the costs a this principles and *Web government of Weehrears
far ac they mold. awl the iitteatt wee reduced to
Adak we. at 000,..._= "Whoa mu sow. mr. JOINS aneeened that Mr. Ithear bad
1164itin. • Welakia."' rl".„_ _ brought istreated estotrOrtekies to 1115, tam Kr. josaa had
op to on • am* at *imam.' •••••••• with,sat PA awl totem Mort U.
brother, Hi Honlial. bbs*""l" . him
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BLANDFORD.

Datum ANN RIOTOO/I—Wdltant Coward and William
Short, both well known in Biendford, wore charged irith
being drunk and riotous in the streets of that town on
the 24thIsy. Short did not appear.—Fined 54. tech.
DRO KKKKK east —John Pitman, John Smith, and
George Vines, were severally charged with being drunk
In the streets of Blandford on sunday, June 23rd.—
Fined 5a mob, and Smith for a previous offence, ss. in
addition, or 14 days' imprisonment
Ora Dourr ltanday afternoon eleven
of the members of this corps emoosted for Use gold
medal and Lieutenant's cop. The gold modal was won
by Lieutenant Johns with 58 points, and the cup by
Colour•Sergeont !Wooden with 55 points. The nest
highest snores wens made by Serpent Davis and
Sergeara Green, 54 each, Private Groves 53, and
A nnourer King 51 points.

STEALING GRAM room A RAILWAY B.NBAIGLIIINT.—
Elisabeth Aon Pitman. Maria Anna Brown, and Maria
Wilford, the former of whom vu not able to appear
through ill heal th, were summoned for steal mg • q U&111 tity
of goese, the property of the Somerset and Dorset
Bellamy Company. .Both of the defendants pleaded
P^rerty. and e.rtainly their snowman's did not belie
their statement—hr. Wood. inspector of the line, who
appeared on behalf of the Coronany, stated that the
object wee not to pan'ab the offendern for stealing, ee
muah as to protest the line from parties encroaching on
it. —The Bench cautioned the defendants, and fined
them 6d. each, remitting the testa.
NAILIOW ESCAPIL—On Wednesday afternooll a lad '
named Steiner. who hat] been sent on • mowers into the
tows on boesebook, bad a Teel providential tempt from
instant death. He was riding at fall !Teed along Kest-
street, guiding the lior by a halter, when enddenly the
&Mittel dashed against a lamp-post, Naar the Star Inn.
Fading be aoalri not wave himself any other way, Stainer '
eangbt at the lam p-posi with both his Lauda. The bees
of the shock comoletelv broke the post in two, but in
falling it fortunately caught on • projection, aad Stainer
vu Ada to extricate himself without any further injury
than • savers bruise on his knee caused by coming in
"anted with the lamp-post. The bores was knocked
completely on its hack end sustained some injury through
the force of the coneueaion.

CHAII.O6 or BIGAMY. —Anna West, of Blandford, was
on Thursday tut brought up in custody at the
Magistr • tee Clerk's office, and charged before G. P.
Memel, Esq., with having on the 14th imie, 1887,
married John Ifidont, her husband, Hesekiah West,
being then alive. Mr. W. H. Atkinson, superintendent
registrar of births, marriages. and deaths, for the
Mandford district, deposed:— On the 31st May last I
gave the certcate for marriage now produced to the
prisoner, LIM& West I produce the certificate of her
marriage with her husband, Haseidah West I also
produce the register of marriages, shewingthe marriage,
on the 4th of June instant, of the said Hannah West
with John Ridout at the Wesleyan Chapel. Blandford.
--ffiesekiah West deposed I live at Wimborne. The
prisoner, Anna West, is my wife. I was married to
her at the parish church of Ashmore in the county of
Dorset on the 31st October, 1847. I have not seen her
for eighteen years.. We parted by mutual consent
• year after our marriage. —Prisoner in her defence said:
"I was very innocent but thought that I was at liberty
to marry. I heard my former husband was dead."
Committed for trial at the ensuing 1144/116.

CRAWL 01, PINJUIIT. —OO Thursday last, at the
magistrates' clerk's °Moe, Blandford, before G. P.
Menial, Esq.—John Ridout was charged with
wilfully making, and signing, a false declaration and
also • false n“tioe, for the purpose of procuring •
between himself and Anna West —The follow'
lugevidencewas given. Mr. W. H. Atkinson said: On the
Bth day of May last the prisoner came to my °Mee and
signed in my presence the declaration and natio, of
marriage neliproduced. The signature in the book now
prednood by me is in the handwriting of the prisoner.
John Moat I afterwards on the 31st May last granted
to Anna West the certificate now produced for the
purpose of a marriage between the prisoner, John
Ridout, and Anna West, nitre since ascertained that
at the time of John Ridout's signing the said declara-
tion and notice, he knew that the said Anna West was
&sister of his deceased wife, Elisabeth Ridout, and also
that the said Hannah Weat had a husband then living.
produce • oertificete of the marriage of the prisoner,
John Ridont, with his former wife Elisabeth. formerly
Elizabeth Bench, and also a certificate of her death.
I also produce eertificate of the marriage of Hesekieh
West, the said Anna West, then Anna Bench, and a
sister of the said Elisabeth Bench. I also produce the
register of marriages for the Blandford district, which
contains an entry that on the 4th June, 1887, the
prisoner, John Ridout, was married to the said Anna
West at the W Chapel, Hesekiela
West deposed: etTire l, It
at V.' imbrone. On the 31st
October, 1847, I was married to Anna Bench, at the
pariah church of ahmore. Elizadeth Bench, • sister
of my wife, was married to John Ridout in the year
1848, and I have heard that she is dead. I have not
seen my wife for 18 years.—Mr. Supt. Brown aaid :
I apprehended the prisoner, John Ridout, under •
warrant on Monday June 24th. He said "I
suppose it wi I be worse or me than for my wife, as I
married her sister, and got • family with her.—This was
the whole of the evidence, and the prisoner was fully
committed to take his trial at the ensuing wises.

Sump° Bus 1)11111,0 PILORIBITID HOUR&
Samuel Barnes, of the ' Eagle Tavern" beer-hoase
Damory-Courtotreat, wee on Niturdav last at Wood-
ford abused before W. P. Okeden, Esq., and a fall
boon of magistrates, with gelling beer during the
hours a Noise service on Sunday, June 23rd.—Mr.
Moore appeared for the dsfendaot —P.C. Cheney,
of the Dorset eonstabulary,stated that on Sunday, about
about squirter to 8 o'elosit in lignioning, two most
came to the defendant's boas. wed had • quart of
fourpeany; and another bad a pint. Several others same
In during the morning op to • quarter pest 12 o'clock,
and had ale and beer which they paid for. —Mr. Moore,
addressing the constable: What are you, where do
you tome from?—Mr. Flambee, one of the magistrates
present: You see what be is, Mr. Moors. He is
pollee-constable number 08, of the Dorset 000stabolary. I
—Mr. Moore Is it your habit or do you make it al
eneontoo prairies of going about the country in diesels', I
catering pubic-houses, and by proton ling to be an
agricultural Labourer, seeking work, solid the sympathy I
of the landlords, oily with the virtu of entrapping lb. I
unwire? A. I act acconling to my instruction.. —The
Ghanian sea that solicitor had,. right to ask snob
a qnestion and laid Cheney be was not bound to
divulge any of the instraetioas he hod received. Mr.
Mnore contended that be had a right to question
U.. ennetable se to his doings in other poem. He then
asked the eriestable if he was not the same person who
bad given information against tie bakers, sod was
now Illogassd as • spy on His publieens:--Mr. Hamlin
rather warmly took Mr. Moore to teak for asking sub
questions, but defendant's solicitor still mantaised his
ground god said the ease WU in his hands and he
should do that which be considered right and fair
towards his client. He then asked the constable if be
did not represent himself to the defendant u • labourer
end asked him where be could get • job of turnip hos-
kegf—A. Yee, I did.—Q. Did you not go to
defendant's house on baturday night and asked if you
*odd lodge there? A. Yes.—And yon 'toyed there all
night, and the put day till the afternoon on purpose
to entrap this mu. Do you call that • paientana
duty I—The chairman said that by asking such questions
the time of the wart was being takers up anaseirearily.
—Mr. Moore. I submit with all due mom that the
duty of the court is to investigate the truth, and as
the defendant's solicitor I feel that I am quite right in
saki's( such queetions.—The chairman. The tonstabie
was only doing his duty by obeying the instructions be
reasind.—Mr. Moore, to the constable: Did you say
anything to the defendant, or to the,. you my you ea.,
come in there for beer, sa to their doing wrong. DiJ
yoe warn them. "No I did isoa"—Mr. Moore thou
addressed the bench. He said that the charge on
whin his client was bronchi before them woe
founded on a most unworthy set of the police,
As act which he considered was • diagram to the
country and to the constabulary, and one whin he
sincerely hoped would be repudiated by the magistrates'
at that bench. By falsely representing himself
to be an agricultural labourer seeking work he
had obtained lodging and armoramodatsou in the
defendant's boom, where be remaiDed from
Saturday till the middle of the DOI{ day for no
other purpose than to entrap the man who bad given
him shelter. Such conduct ought to be scouts-I. His
client wee • man who loot, several hon., and employed
men to take thane of them, and he should be able to
prove that the beer and ale was suppled to theta as a
pert of their regular wagn ond that none was Paid for.
If be proved that it groat now that what they had
beard fr on Mr. "Cherry blossom," as the ol I 1 irly in I
court bed wallet him, wee entree. (fiernal parties in
end hem gore unmistakeable signs of their approval,
but were Instantly necked by the Chairman, who said
that if any farther iaterruntiou we, given he would
bave the Pout cleared.) Mr. Moore having agate
referred to the conduct of the polissmao, was about to
call as witness for the defenoe a man named Preach,
who lodges at the defendant's holm. but as it imputed
he could only speak as to the trouble the landlord bad
I. getting the constable to bed on the Saturday night,
hie evidence was not taken. Mr. Moles then applied
for an adjournment, defendant stating that another 1
witness was engaged carting wood. The Bench decided !
to giant the application, bat almost directly after the
delniaat throwing aside the *dyke of his solicitor,
said ho wished to hove the oar settled at nues.—Tbe
Chairman desired net this application might be re-
corded, awl after a very short 000aultatio• with no rut
of the magistrates, the Chairman (W. P. Okedeo,
asiled the attention of the defendant to Use fact that but
a very abort time previous be was convisteJ of • similar
abuse, sad therefore under such oinomstaness woad
be fined £5. —The money was tuid,