The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-08-03 00:00:00

WEYXO ITT If.

THE Iturc. L. GZDTE, vicir of Fleet, has been
appiinted Engli•di chaplain to the residents and
visitors at Cherbourg during the season, and will
commenee his duties on Sunday next, August Ist.
PROPUTT SALE. -- At the Weymouth Auction
Mart, on Tuesday, was offered, by order of the Court
of Chancery, the property In the Cali of Fo ke r.
Senior. Mr. James hidledge was the person appointed
by the Court to sell the 10 lots, every one of which sold
—the total realised being £BBl.
ALLOWIYG A HORSE TO STRAT.—Wii/i4/3 SAVTei
was ammo mad on Tuesdiy for allowing a horse to
stray on the highway.—P.O. Bartlett said on Friday
last he saw the defeadant turn hie horse loose on a
piece of gr mod at the b ttom of Boot-lane, and
among a lot of newly-planted trees. The animal was
there for neatly an hour —Defendant's excuse was
that the horn. got out of the stable.—The Bench
decided to dismiss the case on payment of the costs,
amounting to 31.

DRUNKHINISS.—GeOrge 0/01/CT, on Tuesday, was
summoned for drunkenness.—P.C. Spicer said he
found the defendant drunk and saleop in the Corn-
mercial.rowl on Saturday night.—Glover's defence
warn that he had been on the beach all day fishing
without food, and on coming home met with hill uncle
from Bristol, who gave him a drop of drink which
overcame him.—Fined 5i.--For a similar offence
William John Long was fined SL—P.C. Kale proved
the case.—A tailor named George Byall was lined
51. for being drunk in School-street, and a lad named
Frederick Bovxring, aged U, was ordered to pay the
costa (Sc.) for drunkenness on the Esplanade.
SHIPPING NEWS.—Arricals : Brighton, Falls ;
Aquila, Flisher, Jersey and Guernsey; Smith of
Ireland, Pearn ; Great Western, Blampied, Cherbourg,
general; Empress, COWIN, Swanage ; Carham, Halle,
Bournemouth; Prince, Masters, Dartmouth, piss'n-
gere • Lilian, Norton Bridport, sand ; Princess
Beatrice, Short, Southampton. passenger,; Surprise,
Mitchell, Newcastle, coal; Three Brother', Dalsh,
Cowes cement; Caroline, Wood., sea, flab; Jessie,
Stariii;a, Hartlepool; Williomma, Norman, Shield'',
coal; EMMA Maria, Warner, Littlehampton, nil.—
Sadings Empress, Comm', Swanage, passenger.;
South of Ireland. Pearn ; Great Western, Blampied,
Cherbourg ; Brighton, Fella; Aquila, Filcher, Jersey
and Guernsey, general ; Carhane, Halle, Bournemouth;
Princess Beatrice, Short, Southampton • Prince,
Masters, Dartmouth,passengers • Lilian, Norton Port.
land, sand; Dee. Eastwood, see6nl.4 ballast; Union,
Moyne, Lyme, oil; Raven/worth, veil, Hartlepool,
bailees.
Hoerrect. SONDAT.-011 Sunday, being Hospital
Sunday, collections were made in most of the local
places of worship in aid of the Weymouth Royal
HospitaL The Mayor and Corporation associated
themselves with the good object by attending St.
Mary's Church in civic state, where an appropriate
sermon was preached by the Rev. Talbot Greaves, the
rector, who took for his text part of the 56th verse of
the 9th chapter of St. Luke—" For the Son of Man is
not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them."
The rev gentleman made an earnest appeal on behalf
of the hospital, and the collections amounted to about
1:45, or about £4 more than last year. At Holy
Trinity earnest appeals were made by the Rev. J. D.
Addison (incumbent), and the collections amounted to
about EIS. At St. John's the Rev. J. Stephenson, the
vicar, preached and £35 was collected. The Rev. 11.
Palmer preached at Christchurch, when the offertories
amounted to £lO 84. 91 At all the place, where the
claims of the hospital were advocated good collections
were made.
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• Pt:msg.—A woman, named Elwabatli
Dowell, was, on Tuesday, summoned for stealing a
purse, the property of Alice Pearce.—Mr. R. N.
Howard appeared for the prosecution. —The prosecutrix
said her father kept the New Inn. About a fortnight
ago she lent the defendant • shilling, and she gave her
two pawn.tickets for a security—one for a pair of boots
and the other for a jacket. In the defendant's presence
she put the two tickets in a purse, which she placed in
the pocket of her dress. The purse was of • dull
yellow colour, and she identified the one produced as
hem She had bid It for six or seven weeks, having
bought it at Mr. RueseWs, On Wednesday the defen-
dant was at the New Inn, and in the evening she
missed the purse from the pocket of her dress, but she
had no suspicion that the defendant had taken it. She
had Oven the rouguelauk Is. to (St some gingerbeer,
bat on Sunday she found out she had not paid for h.,
sud when she saw her at her house she told her about
it. Defendant then took a shilling from a puree to
Ova her, when she identified the purse as the one she
had lost. In the purse was a pawn-ticket for a pair of
boots. She at once took the purse from the defendant
and claimed it as hers- She took it from her again, and
she had not seen it till that day.—Mr. Pearce, the
father of the last witness, gave corroborative evidence,
and also identified the purse as belonging to his
daughter.—Defendant esdd she bought the purse at
Mr. Russell's for 614., and had had it for three months.
—The Bench decided to commit her, and although she
pleaded hard to have a fine inflicted, she was sent to
Dorchester for 14 days' with hard labour.
FASRIONABLZ WILMITING.-00 Thursday last a large
number of persons assembled in St John's Church to
witness the wedding of Mies Marianne Frances Leir
and Mr. John Russell Cox. The bride is the eldest
daughter of the late Rev. Charles Marriott Lair,
rector of Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, and the bride-
groom is the eldest son of Colonel Cox, of Beaminster,
for some years Chief Constable of Dorset. The brideeroom was accompanied by four groomsmen, viz., Mr.
Gundry, Mr. Thornton, Mr. F. W. Leir, and Mr.
L. R. M. Lair, and the bridesmaids were Mho E. C.
Lek, Miss Marriott, Mies Bonsai-I, and Was Price.
The officiating clergy were the Rev. W. Marriott Lek,
uncle of the bride, and rector of Ditcheat, Somerset,
and the Rev. J. Staphenson,R.D. (vicar of St. John's).
Mr. T. Avant prodded at the organ. The bride's dress
was of handsome brocaded white satin, with tulle veil
and wreath of orange blossoms, and those of the brides.
maids were of white silk, trimmed with lace, and
caught up at the side with real roses. They also wore
ruby velvet turban hats. Before the service com-
menced the well-known wedding hymn, "The Voice
that breathed o'er Eden" was sung, and at the dose
Mendelseohn's "grand Wedding March" was finely
played by Mr. Avant. The wedding breakfast was
said at the Burden Hotel, and about 40 ladies and
gentlemen did honour to the newly-married our.
Among those present were :—Mr. and Mrs. John
Rumen Cox (the bride and bridegroom), Colonel and
Mrs. Cox, Mrs. C. M. Lek, Rev. C. S. Lair, Mr. and
Mn. Richardes, Mr. and Mr• Vicary, Mr. P. Cox,
Mr. J. Gundry, Min MarrioMarriott,aneMss. Methuen
Leh, Miss Bonsai!, Miss C. S. Leh Rev. W. Marriott
Lek, Rintt.Carnac, hum 'Stephenson Mrs.
Dews, Miss S. Dawe, Miss H. Dews, Mrs. Davies,
Miss Price, Mrs. W. Lair, Mr. Thornton, Captain W.
Lair, Mr. W. Hot4illienn, Captain Berkeley, Captain
Evans, Mr. F. W. Lair, Mr, L. it, kg, Lair, Dr.
Smith, and Rev. 3. Nephew:tn.