The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-14 00:00:00

BLANDFORP.

PRI?' ESSAY.—We are gratified in being able to
state that our esteemed young townsman, Mr. James
Payne, has again obtained a first-class prize of £2
given by the Southern Counties Adult Association,
for an essay on "What governs the rate of wages.',

Win DICSERTION.-00 Wedllollday last, before J.
J. Farquharson, Esq. at Langton, Thomas Batton
was brought up in custody charged with deserting
his wife and family. Mr. W. H. Atkinson pro-
'muted on behalf of the Guardians. The amount of
relief granted was 6a 61 He was ordered to pay
the above sum and VI 61. 6,1. coots, or to be im-
prisoned for one month. The money was paid.

DEATH or • WESLEYAN NitsslONAßY.—ii ia with
feelings of the deepest regret we have to announce
the death of the ltev. Hobert Gilbert, who, fat
upwards of 15 years, laboured as • missionary in
Sierra Leone—" The White Man's Grave.' Mr.
Gilairt attended the late Conferenoe, hut was
brought home in an exhausted state on Wednesday
night, and expired on Friday morning. lie was •
man of truly Catholic spirit and a large heart, ever
ready, so far m his prostrated strength would allow,
to do his master's Work, and may truly be said to
hare "ceased at once to work and live.'

13RGLARY. —WO regret to state that on Monday
night or early Tuesday on murning. an entrance was
effected into the National School-room, and •
number of mistionary boxes, containing the pence
subscribed by the Sunday school children, stolen
from • cupboard in the clam-room, which was
evidently opened by • skeleton key. The thief ot
thieves gained an entrance by breaking out two
diamond panes in one of the windows at the back
of the school-room. The robbery was not discovered
till the following Sunday morning, for though the
master saw the window broken on Wednesday morn-
ing, be had no suspicion of any robbery. We trust
that the guilty party may be soon found out and
brought to justice.
DIWIFIArtYCL CONDOCT.—William Coward, and
Ellen Button, wife of Thomas Button, were charged
on the information of P.C. Hann, with being druuk
and riotous on the night of Wednesday the Bth inst
—The constable stated that about 9 o'clock on the
evening in question he beard • disturbance in
Brvanstoneetreet He went and found that it pro-
ceeded from Button's house, where there were parties
quarrelling. He stayed some time, and on going
away they came out. There were the two defendants,
Coward's wife and • woman named Cnitther. They
seemed to be all drank, and were quarrelling and
fighting. When he went towards them they took
refuge in the house, but NI soon as he went away
they commenced calling out "Murder" and " Polioc."
This continued till one o'clock, the parties coming
out during the four hours five times. About one
o'clock he succeeded in taking the two defendants,
who were quarrelling and fighting together. —The
woman Button made no defence. Coward said his
wife was there quarrelling and fighting, and he tried
to get her home. He however presented a woeful
appearance, having evidently been severely handled.
Thd Bench decided to recommend the landlords to
expel the defendants from their houses.
SPECI•L PETTY SYSEIONS, August I Ith. —Before
Lord Portman, J. J. Farquharson, and J. C. Hansel
Esira —Nlargaret Davis, • woman on tramp, was
brought up in custody, charged with stealing a basin,
• knife, and a diaper cloth, the property of John
Batt, of Milborne, on the Bth instant. Henry Batt
stated that in the afternoon of Wednesday the Bth,
he had • basket with a basin, &knife, and • cloth in
a field in &Morns parish. He put it under • rick
in the field about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. On
going back to the rick about 8 o'clock, he found only
the basket. The earns evening about 9 o'clock he
was up at ths Oak Inn, when P.S. James Hill showed
him the basin, knife and cloth. They were the seine
as he had left under the rick, and as now produced.
He had not seen the prisoner.—Henry Elsworth
stated that about 7 o'clock on Wednesday eventing
he saw the prisoner in • field at ?Althorn°, stooping
down under • rink. When begot up to her she got up
and came away directly. Neither he nor the woman
spoke to each other.—P.S. James Hill said that from
receiving informetion of the robbery, he went to the
Oak Inn, at Millions., and saw the prisoner. He
heard • servant ask her if she had the boy's basin.
She said "No, I have nothing more than my own."
He requested the servant to search her, and the
prisoner then took out the articles produced. He
then took them from her.—Committed for one
calendar month with hard labour. On the prisoner
WM found • blue silk scarf, which the magistrates
directed should be detained.

CHURCH MISSIONLRY SOCIRTY.—The claims of
this society were most ably advocated in Illandford
church on Sunday last by the Von. Archdeacon
Hunter, of Rupert's Land, N. W. America. In the
morning the rev. gentleman took as his text part of
the hut T., I. chap. Acts, " Ye shall be vntaesses
unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and is
Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth."
In introducing the subject he said it had been his
privilege to preach the gospel in the uttermost parts
of the earth, for he had laboured for 21 years as a
missionary in the remote district of N. W. America,
baying penetrated 1500 miles farther into the interior
than any other mintiooary, even to the Arctic circle,
amid regions of perpetual toe and snow, with red
Indians ea his guides. The preacher then
dwelt upon the way in which the apostles
and their ancosseors fulfilled their mission.
They bore testimony to the person, work, death, re-
surrection, and ar:00•100 of Christ Christ was the
beginning, the middle and the ending of their
testimony; and such testimony it had been his
privilege to bear in far distant regions. On going
out there about 21 year. ago he found • people with
nothing but an oral lansuaga To gain a knowledge
of this be lived and Journeyed about with than,
often lying down in the snow, expoeed to the
scalping knife and tomahawk of the natives. Sy
patient attention he acquired • knowledge of their
language, which he conunitted word by word to
writing, and then translated the word of God into
it. This took up about In years. He than
la be
preach the gospel, his March being ths notn e
pine tree of the forest, and hie congregation the red