The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-01-13 00:00:00

DORCHUTZR.

Bozooos Mama, OFFICIS or HiALTH.
tious are invited for this new borough appointment,
and the eandidn'es are to state the salary thy
require.
tit% P In% CH MICH. —The annual BOTOIOIIII on
behslf of the ohoir were preached at St. Peter's church,
on Sunday last, by the itector—Bev. $ W. Pears, and
£lo3i. Ti. was eontributed. . -

DORCHISTIR USlON.—Advortiserof nta ore issued for
sandidates tor the °Moe of Master, and for that of
Porter, at the Dorchester Uoion Workhouse. For the
first•mentioned appointment there are already several
persons offering.
COLONIC. NAPIIII STUNT, UP., paid • visit to
Dorchester on Monday last, and was very cordially
welcomed by snob of bts constituents am had the
plearinre of seeing hint. And everybody mays--the
oftener he comes the better.
BANI DIVIDIND.--The directors of the Wilts and
Dorset Bulking 04repany have &olive.' a dividend at
the rate of '24 Mir Dent, for the half year. making, with
the Juno dividend, a distribution of 22 per cont, for
the esr—the same rate as for 1'74.

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Palls POULTRT.—At North Wilts poultry show last
week, Mr. F. L Turner, of Fordington, was awarded a
first prat tor duoks, and his dark Brehm' fowls were
ctoromeoded. The black East ludien ducks of Mrs.
Bayne, Fordingtoo, wore highly commended.
MArtogin —At the January meeting of the lodge of
" !faith and Unanimity," held at the Masada-ball la
this town, last Wednesday seeping, Bro. W. H. P.
Cocker= was installed W. B. for the ensuing yeer,
and be appointed and !nestled his officers as follows:
S.W., Bro. W. o.mond ; J.W., Bro. R. J. Denton;
Treaaurer, Bic. R. Case ; Bee., Bro. W. H. Dean;
8.D., Bro. W. How; JD., Bro. Alfred Atkins; DC,
Bro. 11. Ling, P.M. ; 1.0, Bro. C. &orb ; Org., Bro.
J. itobinion, P. 11.,; 855. Bros. J. D. Robinson and, T.
Bevies; T., Bro. J. Lovelace.
Dlacovany or Savbaroes.—On Monday and Tues-
day, while some labourers In the employ of Mr. H.
Mayo, of Cohere From., were eogaged In opening a
chalk pit on his farm, they came upon four humeri
rkelotons about t•tr feet beneath the carfare. The
inttruient had been made in a very rude fashloo, the
sides of the b leg formed of loose 11,5 stones. It
was evident the remains had been deposited in the plate
for an Immense number of years, as they crumbled
immediately on exposure to the atmosphere.
'fill Wearittig.—The following is our meteorologleal
report:—

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Wind
6 k glf ntutc of VV,ktlna
L A 31.A1
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Jan . •
5 37 33 NW Fine
11 39 30 EWA W Me
7 39 13 8 eknaly
8 42 42 N Hain
9 47 41 8& SW Nail,
10 40 35 NE lk W Clon.ly, fine, glo.luy
11 37 35 NE kN 8 W tfloun,)

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Diantantno A rrAin.—Au h quest was held hart
week at Plymouth on the body of Mr. Joseph Whittle,
formrly of Sherborne, and lately agent at Plymouth
for the Sherborne brewery. Mr. Whittle married •
Miss Hawking, whose family is oonnemed with Mar.
thistown. Al Obrietniu Mr. and Mr& Whittle went
up to Sherborne and were receguisod and greeted by
r many friends there. He seemed in good health and
spirits but it appeared that hi* sioo,ents with the firm
were considerably against him and that In had recently
purchased a huge hoses at Plymouth for the sum of
£2,000, being at the time minimised. On his return
betas be celled at /me obembts and on pretence of
wanting to pobion a dog obtained from one strychnine,
and from the other prussic aid. This win on Satur-
day, neat day he halt the house and returning about
midday he put hie band to hie aide observing a Duty
spawn; I felt it oomleg on." His medical man was sect
for and be then sent bls wife out of the room and told
the doctor be had taken potato. Antidotes were
adreinistan,d, but he died la the evening. It appeared
that be had obtained pawls also • month Wash He
left a touching letter. "My dearest wife I em in each
livable I °enact 101sfel Lite. 110•1 I cla only a troubLe

to yes and all my dear Mende. My slag have been
the cause. Do not regret your poor unhappy husband,
but look to • brighter future which I shmerely trust
God will grant you. With kindest love ta your ,
dear *elf and all believe me your loving husband Jon.
P.R. Keep the dear children with you if you can.
Train them up to serve their God better than their poor
unfortunate father he. done. Kiss them all my dear.
Good bye God bless you. I cactus cheque for £lO ;
toy book is at the bank." The Pity returnod a verdict
'of temporary insanity. The deoused who was of •
kindly disposition was well known in Dorchester. When
• young can we was • resident here for some years.
SUNNI PIMPS Into for. ign lands were given at the
Town Hell on Monday in Mr. Evan Roberts' panoramic
entertainment. The room wes thronged, many of the
audienoe attending "for old eoquintanes sako."
Madame 81. Clair, whou father, Mr. Pyre, had been
associated with the Dorchester Press, was announced to
appear as a irenrer on "Women's Right's." The
'odium) were shown 70 Interesting seines in all *limes,
Mons. Bt. Clair and his wife lecturing to terse, with
pianoforte suoropeairout and songs at Intervale. Tim
descriptions were clear and intelligible, while many of
the paintings were admirable picture'. The lecture
had been partly written by the Lion. Grantley Berkeley,
and it was given with vivacity and effootively. At the
close of the entertainment Madame fit. Mir thanked
her patrons for their attendazias, intimating that title
was one of the last unmaking of her appearause thus In
public.
BOLT TRINITY CHURCH. —The annual sermon, on
behalf of the poor of the perish of Holy Trinity were
preached on Sunday by the Rey. H. Everett. In the
morning the text was Luke ail, 15—" Take herd, and
beware of covetousness; for • man's life oonsisteth not
In the abondanos of the things which be possesseth."
The preacher said be wished to direct their atteotion to
the nature and duty of almsgiving. He Vohs of the
many warning, there are in Holy Writ against the sin
of oovetouent as, mentioning the wedge of gold secreted
by Aohan for which he was stoned to death, Getosi
coveting the fferinp of Nsaman and punished with
leprosy, the sin of Balsam, and the betrayal by Judas:
all serving also many beacon light, to warn us off the
rooks and quicksands on which so many before us have
been ship •recked. He adverted to the idolatry of
covetousness, in drawing away the bout from simple
faith and trust in Christ; and then of the strife in
families canoed by oovekotosss; of its belt g the cause
of so much untruthful desliog between men and man,
of falsehood and fraud, of crowdin" of tbe poor in on.
wholesome and horrid hooehi, and emplo tog them In
doogerou trades without A.. protection and sore,
shutting up the bowels of oompassion against" Legatos
at the gate." of leading to wishes for the death of those
who stand between us and some coveted poseassion, to
say nothing of more 8 quint crimes of whtch it mu.t be
oonfeseed this age was as fruitful as soy that has gone
before. He then referred to the powerlessness of money
against some of the worst ealamities of mankind—bodily
suffering, anguish of mind, bereavement of friends; for
man was made to and the fruition of all his desires in
the fulness of God. Lie commended to them the habit
°tutting apart some portion of insome for the service
of God and the necessities of the poor; not • bay pro-
miscuous alma-giving, which did more harm than good
—not the careless giving of • coin in church, which
would be Wend, but the deliberate dedication to
God of a portion of the income whit& first came from
Him. With regard to the statement placed in the pews
relative to the offertories of the past twelvemonths, he
hat year expressed a hope that the amount would be
larger than heretofore, end he was happy to say that
woe realised. Whether it was as notch as it ought to
to—whother it was exactly what it might be—whether
it proved all had done to the best of their Utility, he
must leave to them to answer. He asked to-day the
offeriogs of the whole congregation, and not, II was
generally the cue, of the sommunicants only, on behalf
of the poor. What simple and yet sublime words were
those which in the goapel story they so often read our.
writing our Muter—that Re had compassion on them
all. "Let the same mind be in you which was also to
Christ Jesus." Be pointed to the love Christ had
manifested for them, and urged it as an indueemeal for
them to try and lore one soother. In the evening the
text we. Romans xli, 1—" I beseech you therefore.
brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your
bodies • living amides, holy, ausptable unto God,
which is your reasonable ureic* ;" and the preacher
Indicated the duty and blessedness of cberiabins &spirit
of self•renunoistien as oontradiatinguished hoot the
self-pleasing disposition of the age. The "etetemeot"
issued shoes receipts from offertory, *Ai sr. 81. ; cool.
!actions for the poor, .£lO 17e. Si.; total, £55 St. 21.
lizpeoditure—peld to slok and needy through the
District Visitors, £33 65.; blanket society, £2 40.;
olothkg club, £l3 ; occasional alms, .£4 13r. 2d. ; total,
£55 3t. 21. Number of communicanto during the year,
1.188. The collections on Sunday am muted to £l3 24.
Cousrr Purr SIMIOnbI, Saturday.--Before Mr. H. Williams,
cal Liaut.-Colonel Steward.