The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

DORCEIZSTER.

Mr. NORRIS, vrtvrinsry surgeon, wu walking OR
the lawn at the hack of Mr. Redwood'e house, in
Fordington, on Sunday night., whim ha blipped and
fell- and fractured one of Ms leg&
quaint AMU/WM.—An old man named Katie,
whore nand man c•ushed by an accident it • Idarry
iii PO/1140d on Wodneaday, lies in the Dorset County
Hospital in • very precarious state. it inhered that
lockjaw may ensue.

Comr Mawr, Baturday. —The 'apply of wheat
was lees this day, and as millers bought more fre•lY.
prime were Is. higher. Tile demand for malting
barley having osaind rates were rather .baler. Oats
ia moan demand at a slight advance on the previous
week's quotations.
Accrnewr TO a Lao—On Satirday evening a
lad named Davis. living at PuJilletown, sae admitted
to ti,. mallet County Hospital. with hie left arm
fractunla •bnve the eihne. Ho was riding I home
to gram, when the animal, in a frisky mood, laid
down and rolled, tens iojering Lb. boy.
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Woutati Exteit hierivirfx.—lbe examination of
Len youth, in onnnection with tbia institution in March
last by the Central Committee iif Educational Unions
hiss raeulted as follow* Sewed Class—Henry Payne
and John I•can, aertilaste. Third Class—Henry
Welch end WI ham Hill, certificate and modal; John
Hate', Edward Baker, awl Jnahos Peony, oartifieste.
COMMITTED TO THI Domirr COUNTY GAOL.
A sines : William Way, burglary at —Hard Labour James Battey, rrmoving • calf °Do"
trary to ord.-re nut ..f the pariah of West Cbickerill.
3 months; Henry (lea), vagrancy at Wyks Segni, 7
days; Thomas Williams, stealing • spoon at Wey-
mouth, 3 weeks; John Stevens, stealing oil cake at
Morden. I mouth ; Mary llolls, stealing • faggot of
wood at Frampton, 3 days.
Comm Parr? Sessions, Saturday.—ln addition
to the "cattle plague *son" reported in another
place, the following business was disposed of:—
Henry Cleal, of Guernsey, for begging at Wyk.
Regis. on May-day, and sleeping under • straw
stook the same night, was sentenced to seven days
hard labour. There were se•erid cases of non-
payment of wior's-rates by parties residing at
Portland. Mary Rolls, for stealing wood at Framp-
ton, was sentenced to imprisonment for three days.
Cue ACCTIIMat —On Saturday evening, a singular
accident took plea is the town, through the melees
carrying of • laded gnu. A sawyer, named
Frederick Landsobeit, of Chartnineter, was coming
out of the oottage in "fiteele's thoroughfare," carry-
ing • double-barrelled gnu (net of the stook), when
be slipped and fell hook, and the piece exploded,
setting on fire the man's ma, and wounding Mrs
Watts, of Knighton, and her daughter, who were
wellasi through the 2a.nge. One allot lodged in
the °beak nf Mn. Watts, sad the young wowan
remised several shots in the dal( .of one of her legs.
. She was taken to the Dermot County Hospital, sod
tile to/poked will soon be discharged rouva)esomSt,
lAnds&rit says he did not know that the goo was
loaded, which ought to make everybody glad that
some person was not killed.

ALL Salmi DAILY flunwicse: Accrreiosi Day.—
The week commencing with three rogation days, Use
Rey. C. T. Proctor at thanday's services explained
that three Mere de)* of preys* and supplication to
ward off evils, awl 000siderlog :be sickness and other
calamities that now prevail, he asked what time
could rogation be more needful to be olwereed than
at present? He announced the services for Aera-
tion Day, (Thursday,) to comnienoe with early
celebration at at in the morning, another short
service at half-past seven, and the midday
celebration at 11, with again another SAMOA lately
instituted as • second daily service at this church at
for p.m. These services timed be all abort and as
at us preible choral Tbe rev, gentleman con-
! gratulatad the people in the growing observance of
AllOOlllllOll Day in our Church r • great (ravel of
the church, and advocated warmly tts observance as
• brilid.y and day of recreation, saying that in this
respect the observance of Christmas had done great
gicid to the church.

TIRO MILITIa RI•DINO•110011 00116011•11 to be well
attended, and tbe men of the regiment have, so far,
conducted themselves in a most praimworthy
manner. Each department in tbe Corn Exchange
sustains its attraction, and the leisure home of the
militia are spent in wholesome recreation or mental
improvement, instead of.. aforetime in carmen* in
low beer-homes, or otherwise employing their time
, to their own detriment and to the scandal of the
public, as this year the militia at Ili bride have done
nso notorious a manner. The regimeot attended
I Divine Service at the Shirehall oo Sunday afternoon,
when the Rev. R. G. Wsteon officiated In the
, evening Mr. Smith, the missionary, meditated •
mervioe in the Corn Exchange. lain evening the
Rev. It. a Watson acre • reading ; the Rev. W.
&roes, of Caine, is this swelling to read (by particular
request) MOM, of his poems in the Dorset dialect, or bleb
gave snob great pleasure !sat week; on Thursday
evening the Rev. R. W. Pears, rector of St. Peter's,
will debtor • short addrem on behalf of the Bible
Societv,givitig a few interesting deteile On -hint occa-
sion • plate for voluntary offerings will be platted at
the upper and or the room, when doebtlem some will
take the opportunity of showing thole thankfulness
to that society for the handsome pesesot of 160
Bibles and Testaments to the reading-room; on
Monday neat, the Mayor has undertaken to give •
reeding; and on the Wednesday following, 111.
Ceitiptiell, an agent of the National Temperance
League, inn invests the subject of temperance with
the greatest interest, is Winnowed to address the
company there. It is wortlY of nodes that this
movement is appreciated by some of the pthlitises of
the town; one has offered • subscription tosetfds
the funds, and another holds • visitor's ticket of
admission to the room. This being so, we think it
may be said the work which Mra Biagliam so wisely
originated sad which she has so felicitously coo-
domed to it. questa Mice, has the approval and
bem wishes of the vole imentensity.