The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-22 00:00:00

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HARVEST TRANKSGIVING.— At the Unitarian Chapel, On
Sunday, special harvest thanksgiving services were held,
and collections in behalf of the Sunday school were made.
Mr. A. Ralston was the preacher, and delivered excellent
and appropriate discourses. The chapel had liesu prettily
and effectively decorated, and the congregations at both
services was numerous.
LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETE—A sermon in behalf of
the above society was preached on Sunday zooming at the
Skinner-street Congregational Chapel, by the Rev. J. H.
Clark, missionary from Jamaica. A. collection was made
at the close of the sermon amounting to .C 5 is. 6,1. A DAY OF MlSRACS.—tbnnuis Jones, residing at the
Wheat Sheaf, West quay Road. was • few days since
crushed by a horse against a wall, and sustained consider-
able internal injuries.—On the same ,lay, • man named
Isaac Marsh, of Lagland-street, was engagml in sawing,
when the sow slipped, and took off • part of his thumb.
—On the same day also, Frederick Budden, while going
up Parkstone-hill, was engaged in adjusting the tailboard
of a waggon, when the chain slipped, and a rusty hook
passel through his hand, doing considerable injury.
ATTI:IIPrvn SUICIDC—A man named Blake, employed
at Kinson Pottery, attempted to rut his throat on Friday
last, Ile seems to have been in a desponding state of
mind for sonic time past, and a few months since he
attempted to drown himself. Ile is now at the Union.
Placa COVIYE nonday.--Before Mr. H. Ramilinn and Mr.
A. Heston. --CITTZTV To A COATI'S 11011116.- - Witha l'hke
and John Short, the former an agent in advance of Rlnnett's
circus, and the latter a bill psder, were summoned for cruelty
to a hors., Sllpt. Hunt Salt/ it was the worst v.,* ho had ever
seen. The horse had no low than ten bad wounds, was worn out.
isml only Ilt for the Anacker's yard. Mr. Yokes pleaded that
the horse had been subject to the bid weather, and the bad
...nary he had travelled had knocked It up. The ncsch fined
them At each and costs 13s. hi all.

BRIDPOR,T.
Govan. Pours, Saturday.—Before Jrk T. Codex.
Jorin Wolbrid remanded from Thursday on a charge of
hating in his t 5,111066111 a leather strap belonging to the Great
Westeni Railway Company. was again brought up, but a
quarter of an hour having elmolcd, *MI 110 prosecutor appear.
he was diseleargesl.-- Mr Colton said of course the primmer
knew h or the strap mese into his possession, and 110 doubt it
was a fortunate thing for hien that 110 WIC appeared toe pro-
secute ; he hoped, however, thee would bc • cautlun to prisonor
as to hie future conduct.

Mr. Ayrton is at present travelling in Canada.
A new nubile-clans school was opened on Wednesday at
Eltham Norfolk.
The Tweed salmon fishing season has been a very un-
productive One
An eastern debating society is trying to settle which is
hardest to keep a diary or an umbrella.
Smallpox is stated to be on the increase in Birmingham;
100 new cases were reported last week.
The increase in the value of property in Glasgow this
year, ex..lusive of railways and canals, Is -C200,00u.
The railway companiesalone are reported to have brought
over 200,000 people to Doncaster on the Leger Day
D .
The uke of Edinburgh has had excellent deer•stalking,
having killed no fewer than IM stags during his stay at
Balmoral.
A Broadway girl has just rejected • suitor because his
arm wasn't long enough to go round her. She said such • suitor did not suit her
At Ilanley, on Tuesday, whilst crossing Nome fields, a
little girl was attacked by a donkey. which tore her arm
terribly before it was driven off. Some boys had been
teasing it.

A Paran musical directory defines a shout to be "an
unpleasant nail° produeol by overstraining the throat. for
which great eingers are well paid, and lunall children well
punished."
The sale of shorthorns at linderley ijfl, realised
£19,777. ne average obtained for cows and heifers was
upwards of .082, and for bulls upwards of : the average all round fully £163.

A DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.
A horrible crime wax committed :he other day near
Henryville, Indiana. A poor man named Gardner was
walking along the side of • railway track, and on his way
to Louisville, where he hoped to get employment. Three
robbers overtook him, took from him all the money he
had, only live dollars, and then tied him to the railway
track to be run over and killed by an approaching train.
This was at midnight, and for half an hour the poor
wretch struggled to free himself. He had succeeded in
this so (eras to drag his body off the rails, but one leg
remained still tied. He then heard a train approaching,
and he gave himself up for loat. The train cut off his leg
near the knee; and the man, thus mutilated, managed to
drag himself to a (annex's house near by, where, after
tatting his story, he expired.

The vintage in France Mak Year Iflves ekcollentlresulte
Lord ronuoy, Lord-Lieutenant of the city and county
of Cork. dhal on Thursday, from_paralyaia of the brain.
It is proposed to present Mr. Disraeli with the freedom
of Aberdeen.
Marshal McMahon has returned to the Elysee from
his tour in the north.

It is proposed to introduce the German coinage as
speedily as possible into Alsace-Lorraine.
The Queen has knighted Mr. Campbell Anderson,
Attorney-General of the Bahama Islands
Energetic preparations are being made to carry on the
ecclesiastical campaign in Brighton next month.
Eight hundred cases of Henri-Martini rifles are about to
be sent to Ireland for distributMn among the troop. there.
Mr. Disraeli, staying at Brethy-park to suffering from a
slight attack of indisposition.
Dean Stanley was amongst the ruotuixers at the funeral
of Guixot,
The first native Chinese telegraph kas been successfully
opened.
The Admiralty have prohibited workmen belonging to
the dockyards from keeping public-houses or beer Mope.
The Brighton Yown Council have resolved to raise a sum
of .1.35,0110 for extension of water-works.
A movement is on foot in Manchester to raise Like%
for the relief of friendless English girk in Paris.
Monster meetings are contemplated to be held through-
out Ireland in furtherance of the Home Rule movement.
The Customs duty on tobacco and snuff pail during the
year ending tha Mst of March amounted to £7,3140.074
les.
The Glasgow municipal authorities have agreed to
memorialise for power to use the cat upon persons guilty
of robbery by violence.
It appears that in the financial year ending the 31st
March lad, as much as .04,5h8 7a lIAL was forwarded te
the Chancellor of the Exchequer as " conscience money. "
James Johnson, a bornbar.lier in the Depot Brigade
W , Royal Artillery, oolwich, has drowned himself because
a young woman had jilted him.
A rumour is current that Dr. Kenealy has purchased an
edate in the county Cork which is to be called the rich.
borne Dole.
The farmers in France are beginning to thrash their
wheat, and Galignani says the abundance of the harvest
aurpasees all expectations.
The NI. to York /braid mcords, as an instance of " un-
paralleled bravery," the fact of a young ruan eloping with
a middle-aged woman and her six children.
A new distinction the Order of the Lyre—for persons
eminent in the musical and dramatic professions is to be
created in Germany.
The Marquis of Lorne has been lecturing at Toberrnory
to a local mutual improvement society on the Spanish
Armada
Soule friends of the Claimant have been placsrdinf the
walls with the statement that he is dying. There is, 1°
far as the prison authorities know, no tnia, in this state.
went.
The Tables has received the following telegram :
Rome, September 17 (evenind —The Pope intends send-
ing a religious souvenir to the Marquis of Ripon. whose
Fa"...er"-..... greatest consolatiou.
conversion gave the Holy
Mr. Nnwndfntet 14-PoZaking at the North Warwick-
shire Agricultural Sordid I dinner at Knowle, said the diffi es culti which for Past four years had beget agriculturists were now. • away,
Mr. E..
.J. Reed, IL , formerly Constructor of the
British Navy, has received no less than Lfill,ooo for
designing the two German iornclad vessels Kaiser and
Deutschland, which have recently been successfully
launched at MillwalL
It is reported that, harvest being completed, the
fanners of the Whittles( ord district of Cansbridgeahir°
have renewed their antagonism to the National Agricul-
tural Labourers' Union by locking out such of their men
as are members of that association.
Mr. Stanton, of Hornsey, having undertaken te__ roles on
n bicycle from Beth to Kensington in eight
er met
at seven o'clock on Saturdne morning' .km-toowlaia a'rzet,
with two mishaps—his machine being run --rifleman'
and an attack being made upon him bY • gghg.
inniarntlittos'44etobrricour—, thus losing 'wring vire
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first sale of Lord Bective's famous hero_ of ,__,„___ •
prices rearmed were extraordinaryl_stfro
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1,200 guineas, Mai:Ahoy 770 guin•Vorua and el the
of the caws and heifers being
bulls 4U lb. Id. at Li dbres.rrm.
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