The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-05-20 00:00:00

DORL a ESTER.

Tau maßmgoAta was beard on Wednesday evening
jut in the neighbourhood sej lining Procne House.
31n D.R.l7.—lit is errenpi that tho annual " outing"
of the Dorehestm °twos on Whit-Monday, be this year
• trio by /ail to Wool, and • march theses to Luiworttt
Corr, to spend the day, sad return the same war st
night. With line weather it wUI n doubt bean enjly-
&We day,

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0011111ITTID TO TUS DORSI? COUNTY PRISON
Hard Labour Thomas Pike, awash, &a, at Stowsr
Proust, 3 oalervisr moothm, and to goi sureties ;
Tbomu Karr, riotous conduct sod ellful damage at
Portlnod, 5 weeks; Charles 0,0 ateozig ow st
Wiefeitb Newburgh. 21 &ye; Jahn Dunkaa3, drunk
sod riotous st Br dport, 21 days.—/strisosounst: Loeb
Warshaw, ttuling fiuter.hota at lwasee Minister, one
Weeder mouth, and 3 year in oh. Botormatory
School.

s439otuis Socossi.—J. Porkies, a aoholar to the
Doralngmar Boys. National flannel, has been, during the
past week, door • maw:tiling ethminatian, elestei to •
Clerkehip in the :Loudon Termioas of the S.W.R.
Company, the examiner highly iminolimeotinit him
on the very sotheasful araminatiou he had pasted.
This most be highly gratifying to the fries& of the
school se showing the kind of instruction given in is,
for we are informed that the lad bed not received oae
momeot of "special preparation 'for the ith.roination.
ISMliestlON TO CoMILDs.-11 will be seen by niter.
timar•nt In another Gotham that the peesago tooley for
farm labourers sari fent tie dome ,tie ',remota han been
redwood to the small mom of £2 fia each. Free Grants
of Land ire al.* given to actual settler. in Conada.
Mr. 11. Cowling, who has resided there for 15 years,
and who received Instructions • few deye stage from
the Government of Canada to take pitmans out on tb•
above advantageous teram,is now rariog in D.tre 'letter,
and will be gad to give all information. Th-n I.
great demand for I.bourers lo Cathie at good wages,
and with such they terms of getting there we have an
doubt many will athil themselves of the oppoitatnity of
trying their fortune in the far west.
Arent. YON ALLOTMENT GIMEDINS.—One of the
dielooltie. with knish working me* in Daroosster hare
to wound is being nudge to get gardeaa, an I • few
weeks ago • memorial wee got up ant promoted to
ELFIN. the Prince of Wm, asking for ace numndation
in gum matter. The following was the rept', : •
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Duchy of Cornwall odic*. Iftiaklogham Gitn: 8;11,

teth Loril. 1•73.
Sir,—l no, directed to acknowledge lb. in mond aldreerod
by yourself and other working sea of D echoes.. to Me
Royal Higher the Pr nor or Weis, skits tan • portion of
?occlusion Fi.ld ay be at out aod lot no alionnont 'farina,
and in reply to Site Mat at the present tame owing to the
misting rights over the gotd. It would itt be poseble to do
orbat is aaked.—l as, Sir, your obedient secant,
Cloo. Wunanous
Sobidt? Di tea. —On Senday night died after only
• day's illness John Wills, aged 3C for about tea yearn
past cermen lit the employ of Messrs. Hodge* sad Son,
wine merchants. He was about his nanal work in
Saturday till four in the afternoon, when • fooling of
&Woe's mime over him, bat no ptin, and he had tn
go home. Mr. gmsou, maroon, attended him, but he
gradually beoame wore., and died on &inlay evening
betereen 'even and sight Hie death is attributed le
lel numation of the bowels. Toe funeral took pines
on Turachy, and he wlll4 iOllOl/14 to the grays by Mr.
Hodson and Mr. J. F. Hofgee, Juno, as well.. his
own rdatlyes. lie looms • wife and ter young
ehildren.
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Tie ROYAL Home AITILLIRT.—The members of
battery D brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, were ollicielly
impacted on Friday by Mejor-General Sir Cohn
Dickson. LC.B, at Maiden Castle The man
mustered to the strength of 148; find with their sir
nine-poandsr gent arrived at the "mums of oration" at
1,. o'clock, beinr under the eammeud of Colonel
Tupper, while the following °floors were oleo present--
Major Lyoe, Captain Liles, Lieut. Pools, Lieut.
Dolphin, and Lieut. Des Burge. The battery, in •
creditable manner, *vacated various field movements,
and thee returned to the barracks, assembling on foot
parade at two &cloak. Tbe 'redone Gabes in the
eaveral deportments were minutely Inspected, is were
alto the appointments of the men ; the battery, well
horsed and equipped, gaining the highest eassorniums.
Loom, litraovegters. —The demolition of the old
premiges next lb. Pci,t.oMee, whieh have, it any rate,
of late looked dangerous, is a great improvement to
the &epsomite of tbe street; the line of view when
walking on Corohill is now unobstruote4, aod the
setting back of the boundary to rause with the build.
logo on either elfie sill hoc great gado to the footpath.
It is true the eAusl extension will not be greet, but as
proverbially en inch is a good deal on a mem's rime,"
so is half a foot eAdcd to a path scarcely a yard wide,
aad Mr. Start is daterving of besot/ thinks for the
promptitude and readiness' with which be aeoedrd to
the repraentation of the Town Coattail in the matter.
The bridge at ths Great Waster, Railway station
with it. weep avitut has how to many elderly gentle-
men of sublessee (to say nothing of ladies) as groat a
tilde. the pats asieoruss in youthful days, and at lest
the Company bare Improved it, by langtheumg to.
statrome and thereby, of course, soak! g tits assent
more gradual and easy.

OTAL POLAND- Ten EI•N ? DULL RiKOEU —The
old teetotallers were always • " mild" b sely in Dor-
chester, and their efforts to pnineote abstinence very
Nal and uneommonly dreary i bot the Geed Templar
movement MIMI to have not only tocreesed their num-
bers bat their spirit—if we may be allowed to me snob
a word in cormeatiou with teetotalism. The Handbell
Ringers were introdooed to Doreheater by the new
organisation, tbey adopted every legitimate means 60
attract sudieoe-s, and eitoe.se rowarded their exertions
In • twc-fold sense. On Friday siteraoon they had •
Wire ooreploy of children and their guardians, M six
o'elnek Mrs. Bingham enter. d them to entertain the
militia; and at eight they bet a capital house of grown.
up folks to beer them Si that numerkeilly the enter.
ettiornente were • eneoese ; and Invieg got so
many people together. they took tho opportunity
very properly se Temperanee Haudbell lingers—l.
sandwich their pretty musia with addresses in favour
of teetotalism. lg mrlbodr oblotrd the bell-rififilligs
they had • good pr-gramme of buses and handled the
bolls ; and though some thought there was too
meek .old water thrown in, It hart nobody, and haply
might exist a beneficial bananas. Let it be noted
however, from thb that the Dorchester teetotallers are
revived, aid that we may be lately to hear more of
them than lo past years.
Dominions 'hoot Q.O Dorchesser
Troop of the 411•414'S Own Reihhefte of Yeeteuef7
Devilry assembled for mounted drill at Mahlon Clesths,
at 11 a.m. on Monday, and were pet through • variety
of evolutbes, which were performed in • very at-editable
MOM. Ti. men looked remarkably well, and nice
ospitalle mottated. Tb• °fibers present were 0.0.1.
A. B. Foster, Vest. B. P. Guidry, Cornet . B.
, Middleton, Burgeon J. Good, Pity. Bargees) J. Howe,
gamier Master O. S. Miller, four estrum* sad 28
steak sad Me. After the drill the troop dimenated,
sad mewled to the elle babe to shoot ler • direr fop