The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-04-19 00:00:00

GENERAL ITEM.

Asummsz._The Aahantm ban sent to the
au inindena•ies and to 'h., foreign purr
a•king them to int. rc ...it's the Governor. end obtain
term. el pence. Toe m. reheats have declined. It Is
pent able that ennimis ton will be •o•nt to C inflates,
31/o"rn"sewedir thoilinweinone'd '
who ottl brie' to VI Sven! D in write Club. Ito .-
..treat. She the 14. r which none Itirnerck smuts ti
5,,1 Il anvil!. ;e•t icing the E tglith Government t.. 1
pr snnite the Fria/pit."
Ti'.' number of stow ire in the meteupolis oc the ant of
the first wok of Ap.d wee la se& of whom 51 5121 wee° in
workhotte, end 41,690 :et dean outdoor relief, Goni.
ti•eed • i•io the etr•espot Oise webs in Mil/. 1679. an.l
1878 cbese 'knee. ..hotat an increment 5 69), 9,032, and 9 126
re•iteetiveiv. The nititiber of vagraLt • •• tieved on be
bet day of ton *oak as ROI. of 'chow 592 ice e men, 171
women, and B.lct.itdr n %Ind, 16
ABDUCTION CIV ENGLISH (illll.s,`"The I ial sf a Ulan
named Permit., ti, wife, and their woven'. tussled hi•o•e•
cert., berm en Tuoolay, at linteeele, for tine •n
of a young Enelieh girl named Lou as Hannessy. It
Appear ••I from the evidence that tee girl was decoyed
tlife „zo by to,m refer of • I tUStIOII ia
Park. Si' wee conveyed to Brusnue, and placed in •
hedge of ill.fatne, tinder a labia decleratinn as to her name
end or. She watt detained by terve awl brutally treated.
jn•lement ivae (erred. The tei one,* womrunricisld
Wednesloy. Porn tie an I his wife 'ming sentsnce4 to
fonr veer imprisonment each and Sell-nerta t • Fix yearn
An UNPLEASANT TINE TO LOOK FORWAILD TO I—A
string t•f +peening prediction.. 1. r the men n years 18817.
doe to a Traneatianne profeevor, Is detailed by the
Albany Sunday Press 0 eine to the four great planets—
S •turn. Neptnne. and Cranut—having hien in
perihelial. in IMO, he prophedei ewlul digest, re through-
out the who'o vrorla. ehief •••11nos wniel. Are •So
Or black 'bath. Awing 11911.5, end two years of fire to
ohteh ,hell dense. tin. earth from the teeth, floe.
Air and e a'er shell alike be poieonoue, volcanic Proptioue,
earthen %ken, and all possible etintienheric .14 'thane's
will ore ir conetently, enintd end flit) food will be deadly,
many ea te of the art rld will ho dePorm'a'etti by diseaee
while eii i I •orde on I etory kind of veer .rd anarchy will
pr.-veil. •t dw wle ttio earth will be eurrniinded by
healthy et•etricity. soil the whole world will prosper.
Toe spin of life will he twos colon, on now, the friend
doubly productive—in fact, the tnilleniniu will have
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POSTAL 0 DDDDD Ann Item lc ens —A memorial bearing
the Ilanl-4 01 ne•oly all the erten- henkera end joint.
stork bank. of L t ogetner with theee of numerouv
provinci I banks ef both clues., has been presented to the
Postmastet-Genersl. complaining of the regulation, re-
girding root.' orders an they affect banker.. The
memorialtde point out that under the regolatione • delay
of two or three dare at leset take. plum between the
presentation end cashing of inch ord-re when presented
through • bank, whereas when preented he a private
individual they are ra died Jaime lively. Under what is
known as the "exnrees arrangement." an uncertainty as
to their ultimate nayment is slid to exist for ten dais.
Referrieg to Yr. Fawcett's t xelanation that the delay is
necessitred by an exemption from liability in favour of
the pnblo„ which did not saint in the rue of the old
money orders, the memo•iellete reply that they fall to
perceive why bol.'ers presenting their orders indirectly
throueh a banksr should be placed at an exceptional dia•
advantase.
A few night. 'co. burglars forced one of the windows
of the parish church. Stratford...on-Avon, by climbing the
buttress of the po•ch, and, having ob•eined an entrance,
they brake nun toe elms box. Thi box, however, was
emptied of it. crotents on Sunday evening, and contained
nothing. The r evi lently knowing that the
Communion plate ant other valuables are not keep in the
church, mede no ;VMS to easeeh for them, and apart
from the minis b.x • oihing wag disturbed. Subsequently
they visite,' the Kerwin Catholic Church, where they
were more eurcessful iu their depredations. Two chalices
of silver gilt were stolen from the sacristy, and the alms
boxes were forced and their content' taken. A reward
boo been off-red for the detection of the offenders, hut it
is not expected that they will be apprehended, the pence
bevinz no clue. A few years ago the parish church woo
entered in • similar manner.
On Good Friday. come Tern ancient and Cu' inns customs
, were observed in some of the city chumhea in L indon. At
Lombardnitreet, after the morning ureic-, an
Interesting c-remony was carried out in the same manner
Ist it has been for in re than 300 years. Peter Sys:need',
by a will, dated 15.96, left a sum money that. sermon
might be preached at this church, and providing that •
new penny and n packet of eels na or pining should be
ir yen ti ouch of 60 young scholars of Christ's Regrets] who
shall ottend the service. The will deo pmvid..d for the
payment of a twines to the rector for preaching the
urns .n, and of shillings and loaves to the poor of the
parteb, which at one time were riven away over iymond's
grave in Li rerpooletreet, near the snot now covered by a
railway terminui. The Chritt's H.tepitil bey. received
pennies, rallies, and shun each: the poor of the parish
• shilling and a loaf; the Ward S :hoot children • shilling
each; the members of the choir a like stun, end the
Sunday 8-hool children sixpence each. At St. Barthole.
mew the Great, a custom which is still more curious was
observed, in purulence of a will of an old lady who many
years ago melded in the perish. She bequeathed property
for the formati in of a fund for having a sermon preached
on Good Friday, and for glebes 25 p tor widown in the
pariah ed@pence every year. She stipulated that this sum
should be taken by the reeipientt from her grave, and those
...he were by age too stiff in the joints to do this were not
to hove the tonsil gratuity. Niproeision wis ever made
for the preservation of the old lady's grave, so that the
money had to be placed on a stone in the chumhyard near
to where the benefactress is supposed to have been buried.