The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-06-11 00:00:00

BLAB DFOB D.

A NCI ENT ORDSK OF F ousts'. Fius. useful
society is progressing very favourably in tine town.
The Court "Golden Arrow" has been removed to
the King's Arms Hotel for the purpose of having
hatter acoorno lation than was afforded at the Tem-
persnee Hall.
AO RICO LTI, RAIL SOCIETY. -On Saturday, June
let, the annual shearing match, in connection with
this eiciety, took place in the Crown meadow.
Nineteen persons entered the lists, to whom were
awarded the folloring prizes:—

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Premiums given by J. J. Farquharson, lfsq.—To
the person. reooinmended by a member of this society,
who ahaß shear three 'beer, in the best rummer.- 14
rise, a coat end 10s., to Henry Young. recommended
y Mr. John Ford. jun. ; 2nd, CI 10s., to Henry
H•trr a, recominend,d by J. J. Farquharson, Esq. ;
.3rd, I. to John Den nett, recommeaded by Mr. Cliarims
Corti', jun.
Premium given by John Myer, Esq.—The champion
prize of a great cost was awarded to Thomas Harr*
recommended by Mr. Wijli.,ui Foam.
Lads under 18 yeats a2e.-Ist prise, £1 10a., to
Charles Weeks, recommended by Mr. If Small ; 2nd,
Cl, to Henry Penny, reeummended by Mr. Robert
Rogers; 3rd, 104., t.. Henry Oates, recensseended by
Mr. George Keynes.

Mr. Aaron Moody. Mr. IV. W. Porter, and Mr.
Giles Hardy acted a. judges on the occasion.
BRAS% RAND. our readers *ill be pleased to
hear that Mr. Eyrea' brass baud will commence play•
lug on Wednesday • veiling, June 12th, on the
lawn in front of the Crown Hotel, and that this will
be continued every week during the summer
months if the funds will permit.
Temrsit•scs Soar-tr.— At the close of the Band
of Hope meetings. con'anted by Mr. Robinson last
Wednesday evening in the Town Hall, a meeting of
the adults took place, Mr. Hodges in the chair.
Mr. T. A. Smith, chemical lecturer, Loudon, aci•
dresieNl the audience above two hours, and he illus-
trated his remaiks with a series of most beautiful
experiments, showing that alcohol existed in all
intosicatiog liquors. In reference to the theory put
forth a few years past by Leibeg, that alcohol acted
as fuel to the body and was alse.rbed by it, Mr.
Smith said that recent experiments had shown that
the alcohol taken into the body was thrown ont
again through the pores and by the breath. To
prove this he had in his experiments engaged two
cabmen in London to breathe into a tube containing
hichrumate of pdash, which was burned into a green
colour. Mr. Smith did the rams by passing his
breath through a tube containing alcohol into one
having the teammate of potash with the same
result, and be said that by enclosing a man's arm
who had taken alchohol, the alcohol would pass out
of the pores of his arm and discolour the potash.
Thus alcohol DOW may be said tro be neither hod
nor flesh. It had many uses, yet he maintained
that to swallow it in the form of iutoxicating drinks
was essentially wrong. They were not necessary
for the support of man. He had done without it 26
years, and they, he argued, might do the SAMS. On
Thursday evening lie delivered a lecture of • similar
character, illustrating it by extracting alcohol from
port and sherry wine, and other intoxicatiug drinks.
The Temperance Society is much to be commended
for bringing such able lectures within the reach of all
classes.