The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-29 00:00:00

PILRIESTONE.

SUNDAY SCHOOL Pit- savcrsvi-oi--i;n Wednesday evening
last, there was a meeting of the Sabbath School teachers
connected with the Congregational Church, at which the
esteemed superintendent, Mr. W. B. Coward, was pre-
smiled with a gold pencil case. After a sociable tea in the
vestry the minister of the church, the Rev. J. 1. Tolley,
said he was requested by the teachers to express their
high opinion of Mr. Coward's long services. extending
over • period of more than years. His method of in-
struction won the children's hearts, and his uniform
kindness was appreciated by them all. They desired now
to embody their feelings of regard in the tangible and
enduring form of a small present —Mr. Cowanl, with
much emotion, milled briefly, stating his Veal
and his gratification, at the hearq and spontaneous re• ,
of his frieuds. The pencil MO ham the the following
inscription :—" Presented by the teachers of the Park-
stone Concregational Sunday School to their suverintend-
ent, Mr. W. R Coward, MI • small token of their esteem.
September 23rd, Kt"
Bousmagoirrs.
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Tffk church of Rome is making converts here fast The
news now comes to hand that Lady Victoria Kirwan has
left the Anglican church for that of Rome. Iler ladyship
attended formerly St. Clement's church, and from the
manner of conducting the services there, her perversion
cannot be wondered at as there appears but the slightest
perceptible difference between the service of a Romiah
chapel and that of St Clement's church. A Dissenter of
the name of Coles has adopted a similar course, and it
is stated that a well-known gentleman of the town is
about to do the same.

A Notions Gat Evan& —Last Sunday, the congregation
at St. Michaels Church was somewhat alarmed by the
sudden extinguishing of the gas, owing to a novice having
attempted to turn it on full from the meter and doing
quite the opposite,but this fault (which was soon remedied)
was nothing compared with what all worshippers retur-
ning home had to combat with, for not a single lamp was
lit in the streets or roads. To make the matter worse
Sunday was one of the darkest nights that could possibly
be an , d those who had to wend their way along n;
shaded with the everabounding dark fir trees were sadly
inconvienced and alarmed. The Gas and Water
Company's dividend for the pest year has been declared
at 10 per cent; surely the expense of a little light on
S lay evenings might be borne by them supposing we
have to thank them for the state of affairs on Sunday
evening. If the fault lies with the Conimis..ioneni they
have begun to adopt a penny-wise and puund-foolish
policy on an extended scale.

OFIRDITCIII7I3I7II.
SERIOUS ASSAULT. -Lionel Fester, a smith. was charged
on remand on Monday last, before the magistrates, with
maliciously cutting and wounding John Browning, an
ostler and waiter at the Tregunw ell Anus Inn, at Bourne-
mouth, on the 12th inst It appeared from the evidence
for the prosecution that the "insulter was abusive on the
night in question, and was several times asked by the
prosecutor to Is. quiet. Instead of doing ohe stepped up
to Browning, and struck him a violent blow on the side of
the head with a COIM 11111 l glees, breaking it, and severely
cutting the throat .4 the prosecutor—For the defence
prisoner said that the prosecutor used an offensive expres-
sion towards him respecting his wife, and that he struck
him forgetting he had a glass in his hand. No witnesses
were called to corroborate this stateineat, and the prisoner
was committed to the Quarter Sessions to take his trial.