The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-03-16 00:00:00

THE DORSET coliNn ExPREss AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY. MARCH Pi 1875.

thst 1 Maid sly: bare this explanation of the ground.
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on which I

Believe in., my .I,mr Archdeacan.
Yours very aget.iiutiately,
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and the urgent demands for signs awl for wisdom on the
part of the learned and unlearned alike, has unnerved
the church and ham wait her into the armoury of human
argument rather than Mari the ',mice of the Omnipotent
God. Chriet crucified is the. one remedy for the want,
of the age and to preach Him it. siheh h.. to win the
day. P. But how preach 1"..ri4 crucified / that i. a
most important que.tion, an 4 just at tiii. special time
in the religious work whiehi jc Liking filme. neot werthy
of our serious consideration. Paul hineelf 'affirm, to the
Corinthians that he came not with excellency .4 specelt
or of wisdom, declaring mit, them the teetiumny Of
The same teetimony is borne at tide time to the work of
of Mr. Shealy. Ile has neither vecellency .4 nor
of wisdom the critics tell U.). is, the oniee of plait...-
play, and men are at a les. to dieriver the secret .1 his
success. What brine, tokahre twenty (holism! I people,
and'iteeps them coming, and what 101 t that hold. thine ~peld
bound as with some ineuenee to the and, .4 the
speaker I An intereet %Minh the greatest of living writers
and statesmen could not equal, or, at least, exceed, and
which not one of our must gifted men of science could
accomplish I I say this eitoltien demand, an answer,
and where is it! To recribe it to advertisement., or
newspaper articles, or to the American organ and the
hymns of Sankey, or the peculiar !node .1 address of
bloody, is ohviously to fail oPany reasonable explailation
and to, offend our minium' sense. Let us turn again to
Paul, "1 come not with excellency of speech or wisdom."
In other wordy Paul did not ascribe hi. success at Corinth
, either to rhetoric or philoaiphy, which, Munanly speak-
ing. were the only paeeports Li succes, in curb a rite.
Well, in the absence of this human aid, there ie hut one
explanation, and thistle, the meesage preaelwil, and the
' faith of the preacher in it. There is no other explanation.
This is sufficient The power is in the message. Christ
crucified is the grand inemage for the world, and
neither science, nor knowledee, nor Philosophy, shall
ever supemede the need .1 it, until sin is seperseded and
the universe shall be one grand temple of Cod. Paul had
this belief. He was not ignorart of the philoeiphy I.f the
world. He knew all the ...hails of thought, hut the
Christian phil.amphy, the only true philomphy, list
taught him that !Hainan philo.iphie4 were utterly and
helldesalY iullaitant to a Man's need, and that nothing
.hert of the divine inemage id :nervy and salvaldin
suffice. That imeesage Paul premised with unwavering
confidence and with emial mieeems. The true seoret Caere.
fore of the Afeotle lay end...Ml.lly ii, the message it.elf
and in the faith .1 the Apmetle in declaring it. The
Apostle hut-elf died:Mine all other mean, of miCcess.
And, indeed, It,, here that we must realim the mean* of
all *deer. Ileidently mere learning and niere power
speeeh are not stetlirient. Them mirlitiee are ta d present
in any marked degree. and indeed would lie epoken lif by
niany as abeent, in the two American Evangeliats who are
wonderously moving the nietropdis as they have moved
rime of the great Manta:v.:Ming celitn,i of the country.
It I. tlii. faith in Die power of the memel which is so
needed in this age Of OWN. I .10 11,4 forget other enable-
eat —e pieta adaptation of our obireseti the people;
hut oVer and above all other aids, thii is the special want
—the want .1 faith in thel. Thie is what if einl'ln'i..l.lY
absent. It is a matter for heart searching on the part of
preacher* ao well as l'hrietian hearers mid workers
generally. We need to consider how much we believe
the 10,,,,Aefe we Proelaitu. It is here tha: we fail,
and in this want if faith in this gaoled. we ace
the rewem of our little enemas. If we will
meet the wants if the people we must have an all
conquering faith in the me:ounce which am proclaim.
lwread of this faith there i. frequently a lurking feeling
that the people have outgrown the need of it, and that we
must apkly onne other remedy. Let the miniature of
Christ's lohurch preola the Rallie faith in Christ enleilied,
in His death ae an atonetneut fer sin, with all that that
fact involves, and there is re, reason why the blaming of
God should not deemel wi on Ur as it did on
the Apotl4, hearer., and a+ it is falling upon the hearers
of 11,xely and Sankey. What is needed is the WWI
intehme faith that Paul cherished, and which was so
graciouely rewarded. The theme) Is still !nighty, and the
writ still feels it, and if we hail faith in it the blessing
would still come. It is above all things eleh this intense
faith and spiritual life that is yet needed With this
faith splendid triemphs would still be reali.e.l, as the
work in the Agrieultural hall denionstratea After
referring to the twefold effe,t produced on Paul's hearers,
and deseribing the !hopel as the power of Gel to
those wh.• were called, the preacher concluded :
"It has • power whieh nothing else can equal.
• power to cancel sin, to sulslue evil in the heart, to
recomele to God, to inspire with the hope of bliss : in short
to lift up the soul to God and glory. nit is the power of
the Gospel and with it there is no power to com-
pare. There vi no moral power in the universe equal
to that of the Gospel an the cam of those who
are really made to feel it as the called of (Md. And
what was true of the Corinthians is true of men
today this !impel off Christ crucified le really the
power of Gm' ; the only power by whieh men can he
raised up ; the only power which can cancel ein ; which
can win the heart to God and goodness; the only power
to save. It is the same powerful agency that it WWI. And
when we find men preaching it with Apostilic fervour
and faith, whether they be American evangelists or
English evangelist., its power is ae glorious as it ever was.
It is because we want this faith; it ie beCathe the world,
by its much speaking and heedful pretensions, has fright-
ened us, and by their objections philmopher, and whence
have mole us timorous, Alia 111 umny cue. Waif unbeliev-
ing ourselves, that it, power is net felt. What we need
is new faith in the ineo.age of the I:ospel—faith that it is
still the power .1 roll. And wherever Grat faith is
witne.sed, even where there is no hear g, no polished
speech, no preteimions to. "rAtury, yet there we wittiesa
the extraordinary phenomenon of thoumiele of men and
Winnell 14 all chasms, -.Altering night after night to listen
to the simple reciter of the t!ru.si, with tlie more
wondrous melts of hundreds heing led te enquire
earnestly about their souls. I say here if a fart that all
Chrietian suinistet I and Christian clitirehee, who profess
to believe in the salvation of mew ought profoundly to
ponder. Flippancy and ridieule here are at distaitof ul as
they are wicked. Ilere are the least of ue, whether
Churchmen or Dissenters, reuplaiuing in the bitter-
ness of our hearts that the ways of Zim;
and mourn, that the intemst of the people in mar
churches, in our chapel., and in our preachitn4 is of
Use "sweet and poorest elesieriptiom. And yet here are
two sf God's servante, with little to co 11111 l end them
as public speakers to their fellowmen, and whoa,,, first
effe:t is even disappointing, yet accomplidiing a result,
such 114 the most gifted politewl orator or literary orator
could not accomplish, and hold br eueceseive night, and
week., thoumn.l. with Mereaeing nlitrre.t 111 their simple
ineiorge. What is the reason of it: Sh,oul,l we be in ally
doula with the words of Pali! before us I Is it Dot true
etill that if we have fitith in Gust. saul primeh Ilia gospel
in the I.chief that it is still the power of thieh we shall have
the ble..ing I It I. only needful that we should have this
faith that we should anew realise the power of fide
gospel ourselvm, awl in them frith we should see teeming
fallimug upon us In COICOUS iIhOWCIII. May WC have such
faith and may we see such Mewled results."
COInTY Parn enemas. natunlay. —Before Mr Williams
fchairtimii), Yr U. n. )(Min.:tom Mr O. Warry, and Br
Kindenha.
JootalAn ti A.rteA WAS SUILIIIOI.I 14e allowing nine cews to
stray et IA interbonic, Steepletou,.
lerfewlaut, alters Melnik...l objection that theme ai,u,u,al. were
hones," which WAS laughed at, pleadoil they were obliged
to conic that way to nett!.
The Chairman sai.l he nimt have .1/IM, Mt in charge of them.
sit nt-vhs slut hue L iai ttseyneart• was
e,....0 tiler. th:•tlird report within
which has,,,,
tthtart..ditheL
Mr spuombe urged that WI then, Way 11.0 tii the Oil,
thsaet girt.C%"111'11::;
llnry. IL WWI loruuukabli, t • that when the pad by the ewe-Kew was
doluntol to the public, it WASI subject to tl,vnssensat of
anima • etraj ing to Ver it
Pefendasit said it could not be stopped without agate was
&newer acmes the road.

B""r" Prm Solon*. Muckkr —Wien) Mr W. Taw' and
Mr W

To the Veitetabietbe Archtloacons of Dorset,

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4.1.7N7 Aran %MT On TIM rOLICS ST A 1.01.14111.
Rotore Grey.wy. 'nitrate .4 the ;Nth ilriga le depot, was
brought up pu.. cooper, ..n Saturlay night.
P.C. Cooper was .oi dint u st Mary-street, about • quart,
before eight, and .Ira piisoner "with three other soldiers, want-
ing to fight. they saw Wu CAM% Alhi went further up the
.nrret. and agabist the Statue hesair pri-oner challenging again
Ordered them away and they refuse I bi go. tusl Pri."lrr
off his belt• put the leather tart round his haul, so that he had
I. ah buckles ..ut, and then atkosptal to strike witness,
end also called on the other three to eon., on.
tediums went I i take hint into eusbaly : when he ran
any. but mute again in the 'mine attitude. They hal •
struggl and prisoner hike I hint ni the groin, after which he
fell down. as the kick tulle hint Itn.ught prisoner to
stration with anshitrati, rat the mation. primner said he
mien ied 4i be in, in another hour. but he was not the con-
stable. he hal missed Ina mark. Prisoner hit been drinking ;
but he was not drunb.—Th Lope porter at the Midway
nnT°b°reltsi C4...Per.—Atiother sillier tried to rescue
Gregory (bite the constable ; but the crowd pressed in, and he
took the other soldier front the wino/hie —P C McMahon laid
soon alter pnsoner cense in, he said he meant it 1, another
unistable ; he booked at the clock, and said he might as well be
lii now, for be lucent to he In. In another hour. —Prisoner had
nothing to say. —the lataimun said this was a eery serious
charge, suit prisoner might hare been brought there on ono
even snore serious.—Thres months' htrd labour.—Prisqaer :
Thank you, sir.

DORCHESTER.
THi INCONETsx.—Two Dorset:umbers voted in favour
of Mr. Sandfonis proposal to exempt incomes of lest than
43'013 Yaw from incoine-tax :—Hon. E. M. Ashley, and
Mr. Henry Edwards.
Hour TRINITV CIIVRCII. --The work of demolition of the
old fabric prooesals apace. suet WO undenite.nd that it has
now heen decided to re-huild the south si.le als so that
1 the new church will he entirely of one character.
I DORCHEMEII I.7xiox.—At the meeting of the Rural
Sanitary Authority on Saturday last, at the County Hall,
Mr. Vs illiam Chick was again elected Inspector of
I Et_taancea

NEW CoegEr HAOISTEATIM—At the adjourned Quarter
Se.iions, held at Dorchniter, on Tuesday. Sir T. Framer
ilrove, Bart., Mr. W. Albert Itankeo, and Captain Biddle
qualified as magistrates for the county of Dorset.
ItgreE.o Tickers. —A concession has just been made by
the 41reat Western Company to their first and second-class
passengent in the shape of an extension of the time for
which return tickets are to be available, A new regula-
tion came into force on the Bth instant, by which first
and second4elase return tickets issued for any diotanos
under 50 miles between stations on the Great Westeni
Railway are now available for seven day,; and first and
second-clam ticket, iosued for any distance exceeding 50
miles are now available for one month. On and after the
594th March the saute privilege will be granted to third-
class pasitengers, whose ticket.; will be available for the
same periods for the respective distances.
lMitegr Cot NTV Him'ITAL —We hear that Mr. Ft, T.
Hearn, one of the intending candidateo for the ofilre of
the Houoe-Surgeoncy of the 14oroet County lloopitaL about
to he vacated by lir. Barton Smith, has withdrawn from
the conteot I n hearing that come of the Committee still
insioteol upon lib dining with the preoent Matron. It was
this rule which occaoioned the resignation of Dr. Barton
Smith, and after the notice taken of the affair in the
medical patent, it been.o not unlikely that the only two
candidateo remaining may withdraw al.. before the 4lay
of election, vit., the 10th itiaL, unleo4 the obnoxious rule
, is amended in 4.4ine ouch way that it became, permissive
and not obligatory.
Jere:llD: onurru.ows.—The committee of manage-
ment of the Juvenile Branch of the Buil4oLllope loolge
of thldfellow• (Mancheoter Unity), held their lint annual
meeting us Thuriolay kit, at the Trinity Infant School.
room, when the balance-olivettluly auditnt wao preeented,
from which it appeared that the total receipts for the year
amounted to £24 13.. 1141.. and the payments to £5 la 9441.,
leaving a balance in hand of £l9 lls. 4.1., of which man
£l5 is invested in the names of the three truoteee, Messrs.
Pike. Chick. and Lamprey, and the sum of t 4 114 441.
remains in the hands of the Treaourer. Thio ocetiusa very
satiofactory statement, as the Juvenile Branch ham 4oily
lawn in exiiitrlice our >ear, and consist, of EIJ members.
This most intern' institution tleserves every encouragement
from the public generally, inotilling frugal habitat in the
inindo of buys, which will have nit doubt gowl influence
on their conduct in after life. At this meeting the officers
were elected, o ix., Hearn. Grove, and Chick, president
and vice-president reopectively, Mr. W. E. Dwell, secre-
tary (rinelected), and Messrs. Chick and LenteU, sick
visitors.

reMI BURNING. —Two dreadful accidents
front fire have within the lint week been admitted into the
Dorset County Hospital, the first, admitted last Thursday,
was I.lle . 4 Mr. John Floyer's servants, Harriet Ware,
who-se clothes became ignited whilst poking the lire.
The poor girl ran from the kitchen, along a passage, and
into the housekeeper's room, in a perfect blase ; here she
would its all probability have been burnt to death, had
not one of her fellow servants thrown • bucket of water
over her, which partly subdued the Hamm and allowed
the rest to be got under. She lies in a most precarious
condition, being burnt about the trunk and arms in the
moot frightful fummer.—The second rase was that of
Martha Frampton, aged 31, of Warmwell Down. Iler tale
I, very sad. She had been married but • week, when she
WA{ mdsed with an epileptic fit, to which malady she
waa subject and fell into the fire. She had alnioet every
particle of clothing burnt off her. Her injuring Include
the chest, back, legs, and anus. Curiously both cases
revived little or no injury about the head. They are under
the care of Mr. (had, who, together with the House
Surgeon, Dr. Barton Smith, show these poor sufferers
unr.einitting kindness and. attention.

MOODY ASD S . . In the course of his sermon on
Sunday morning the Rev. T. Stave made frequent
reference to the work of Moody and Sankey in London,
which is enlisting so much attention both of the secular
press and of the Christian Church. Founding his eli.
course oh the words of l'aul in I. Corinthians i., 4 23,
and 21 verses—' For the Jews require a sign and the
Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified
—unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks
foolishness ; but unto them which are called I.th Jews
and Greeks Christ the power of Goal and the wisdom of
God," the preacher aaid,—Paul'e message, as a preacher,
stood in direct opposition radii to human expectation and
human demands. It, first effect was to awaken intense
disappiintment and opposition, and as frequently to lead
to utter rejection wed scorn. It made its appeal neither
to human weal nor to human wonderment- It came,
indeed, as a message, which, on the face of it, stood
opposed to all onlinory conception of wisdom and of
power. In the doctrine whirls Paul preached there seemed
to he neither, owl, therefore, his massage was to the Jew
a etutubling block and to the Greek foolishneso. In each
case nothing but surprise and disappointment were ex-
pressed when this message was unfold.' to theta. Need
we ray that the matter stands now very touch 4,1 it tli,l in
the Apostle's day, with this difference—that possibly there
ie a granter effort made in these slays to get nd of this
preliminary difficulty by endeavouring to present the
Gospel in the attractivene.s of human wisdom and
pleilimophy. To the extent that the messengers of the
ereos, endeavour to strip the Gospel of its seeming foolish-
ness and its tendency t, offend the tastes and ex-
pectation of knell, to that extent they may rest
aasklire,l failure must ensue. It is enough for
ns to declare the Gospel as God has declared
it to us, and if the "foolishness of God is wiser
than men, awl the weakness of Ike! stronger than men,"
that Gospel with all its apparent unfitness 4, 'sect the
requirementraif hien, will yet lie amply successful. If
anything were nee,lell to prove this fact, it would be the
extraordinary impression sin all classes of the community
which the American Evangelista, are making meantime and
which they have been making for some time past. That
the Lotion Pre. should devote large spare to review their
proceedings indicates how very powerful is the impression
which is being made, and when the Lord Chancellor of
Faugland and other distinguished personages are found
among the auditors, which indeed comprise all classes of
the co unity, it really becomes a matter of supreme
moment for the Christian Church and especially Christian
Ministers to enquire whence the secret of this power and
to see whether or no it be not answered in the words of
Paul, that this gospel which is fo,lishiesui in the eyes of
Use world is yet the power of God and the wisdom of Gist
I am satisfied that it is in this direction that we shall find
the true explanation of the wondrous impression and
interest which are being awakeieral by the Lvangelists
whom I have referred. Whatever is to be attributed to
other causes, Use great publicity whieh is being {IWO'
to their work in the pre.s awl other ways (a fact itself
which needs explanation) still the read explanation must
he sought elsewhere, and I believe it will he found in the
view which the Apostle gives A his work and of the
(lapel of Christ. Having spoken of the two main facts
embodied in the text, the response, viz., which the
Muffle made to the demands alike of Jews and l.reeks,
and the twesfuld effect of hi, message, the preacher said,
to the demand of the Jews for a Shill, and to Mel:reeks for
wislout the apostle presented Christ crucitiol "The
Jews rooms a sign awl the Greeks seek after wisdom,
but we preach Christ cruciiied." Having referred to the
',atonal tendency of the Jews to look for miracles, and of
this Greeks to lo,k for philosophy, the preacher said—ln
thus disregarding the simianl claims of his hearers, the
apostle takes 4 much more coneprehensive view of their
needs than they did themselves Whist the Jews nooks!
was something else than nairaelm, and what Use Greeks
needed was something else th.sn pheb.opley. The long
history of the national life of each too clearly demonstrated
that tact. The Jewish maim may by said to have been
craned in miracle, and yet what slid miredos do fur them
What id' the miracles in I.:gllit, at the Rol Sea, in the
wilderness, aiel in Canaan r Was the nation one whit the
better of these miracles! IS It not the constant cueuplaint
of their prophets that they had forgietton God and the
mighty woolera which Ile wrought for them Anil I eiyoud
the national vanity with which the memory of the., elies
tinguishol favours of God fired them, it is not elegy to sue
what relih.4lll4 good they conferred upon Went And as
with the Jewo not kW Was It With the Greeks. Nursed in
philosophy, beyond giving their nation a prweeuinenue
&along others for their culture, little or no good WAS con-
ferred ulaat the people. The apostle therefore ilisocnied
higher needs, an,' if lie refused the Jews miracles and the
Greeks phitera,phy, it was beeiause he eliacerned their sired
of something higher and better, and because lie had a
message whose highest miracle was to touch the
heart, and whose highest wiolom was lye give
light to the soul. To both, therefore, he preached
Christ crucified. I. Ile preache.l Jesus as the sin bearer.
This was the peculiarity of his message, a peculiarity
which kunst Beals earite the sunrise and astonishment
of butt, Jew, and Greeks. To the One it was a stumbling
block, to Use other foolishness. Yet it was precisely the
message both needed. Neither " oigns • nor " wisdom "
could supply the sperial want of their natures. "Christ
crucified," i.e., Christ the sin bearer could and did. A
true apprehension of their needs would sweatily reveal
this fact Whence were their deepest necessities I their
deepest sorrows I leen tine felt conviction of alienation
from toot Even these mirocles were an unconscious cry-
ing out foif the unseen power of Gol ; aged this call for
philosophy was but a call for the revelation of the unseen.
This call for iniraelm WY really a call for some goal
message (non the unseen Go", and this call for wisdom or
rbibes,pley was equally • call for light frau, the unknown
amid the perplexities of the seen and the human.
Beneath Is,th, therefore, there VMS that want which Paul !
now newts Or" Christ crucified." Die want, viz, of some
knowledge ~f Gol. Christ crucified supplies that know-
ledge he its completonms He reveals in this crucifixion
and death of His, the d of God, in all its fulness. Ile
declares the love of God, and skews how Gol seeks to
open for • fallen world, a way of life and hope, Christ ,
bearing I Me sins and the sins of the "whole world" IS
thus the true revelation of God, and the truest appeal !
both to the call of the Jews mil the Greek". This
crucifixion oft Ihrist, however much it might appear as a
: stumbling Idiwk or as foolishness, could only ilo so in •
superficial knowkshre alike of than/WSW and tf God.
A truer view both of themselves and of God could
not fail to reveal Is,th the power and wisdom of
Paul's meow, Here at least is the message and the
answer which the Apostle deliberately makes both to Jew
and Greek, he preachy.' Christ crucified, i. e.. Christ an
:tenement for human sin, in tke place of the guilty, and
by Iles death opening awaits l.n,i for the fallen and the
sinful. Till* as the grade,ssu truth which the Apostle
declared. He skewed that this cross of Christ WIN an
atonement which Ile mole for human transgression, that
Ili" death was in the stead ..f*,. guilty • that his suffer-
ings were an expiation for guilt, and that by them God
was glorified ; His righteousnue and truth and justice
honoured and vindicated. To the superficial observer this
was foolishness and • stumbling.block, and yet it was the
message which their deepest necessities craved for, and by
which. in multitudes of case they were met. This, he it
es,,eree,k is tree of men toolai : true of us se of Jews and
Greeks. We are asking for neiraeles and wisdom after •
fashion to-day as eaneestly and a. eagerly a. in these ,t.}.„,
of the .tpostle. And the question which meets the
Church toolay is the question which met the Apostle in
his eloy —How shall we answer the deutands of the age?
This question is being rePeatral frets almost every
vertebral awl every platform—how can we reach Use
msuitmsl4,l the It is seeking signs and wisdom. The
spirit I Of enquiry is &wool. The spirit of knowledge is
universal. the cry is to knoie as' •. the future AS well
SA present !MAO. NOW thi. is is timid) momentous state
of things, and the line-lien tss how IS this State ~f things
to he met I 71,is is the must urgent question I
ear think of. Is there any help for us in the
words of St. Paul I Would the Apostle hue
have. .sue ilittii•ulties if lie were living amongst us, and
wieobl Inc solve them as he rake" them anions' Jews and
Greeks in his oven I 1.5) f We are bound to believe that
Is,' wontl in answer to the demands of this age, preach
I Christ crucifies' : that is to say, the same grand central
(acts of Ili. knessiisie at Corinth or auywhere else would
Is, this staple of his teaching Dow as then. Ile would
preach "'brut crucified, Christ the atonement ter the
sins of the world whether fur phae.eitis pea,ants,
ism he would command the Lame homage and
attentio h NI n ew he did then, altaaug hi might fail
to &stay the requiremeies of the &dowdily Reeks, and
kindred "ravers, who would prolably see in his !peerage
what the Jews saw in it, an offence, and what the Greeks
saw, fodistessues. Christ micitied is the great measage
for England to day, as it was fm-I snnthi jo p„or. slay;
mei neither ..11r advancement in seWlSre, lior in pliiiiasophy
le seepersol—l the nevd fur this divine and all embrac-
ing sewssage. 1111. pie.trieeus,Lass the Chuck of Got
seitlilently grasped Use messes:as anal Use need of it, awl
, has she sufficiently credited the unrasaffe as fit for the
nook of our fellowmen I esuenot believe she has done
either. In the 14esenel: of the ',retailing unrest end un-
belief, the church hes eased feeble in faith and effort,

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The Chairman said he thanmht on the whole they "Raid
Mat mt.

FlszeJ bld&nj the costa.
Mr Norrie It.per *. Dorchester Milthoray Beard. Mr
)1111. fr o.nuplatualit ; Mr Ilayue attenJ4.,l as Waysrardtak
r.r'nli"o""
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Mr 11. It Middlct.lo kit the Bench during this case.

Mr Symonds, said these went proevmdingel. ompel the repair
of a highway in FonWigton, from the o.toni b ovi.lary of the
6.nnufli 4 lawchester, to the weeteni boundary of the boundary
.4 the pariah of Fonlington —which was substantial!) front the
tt'oeeaug of the Great Weston, railway .ni the Bridport road to
the boundary of Fortin...ton on the Bri•lport turnpike
Mr Norris Koper, of lank Brody, and that the road in the
!wish .4 n411)10011 Iron Ilse (timing I. Bradford to Doe.
ehester am out of raptir •0.1 had teell for years. In smut
[deem there was IN. metal at all It took loni threiruttartantof
to hoar L.ower V. drive toiled than It tont to to
Mr Jerity, surveyor ol Dorehmter 1141seray Beard, sald from
the *agent boundary .4 renhimton, at Bralford taming, v,
Do, bridge on the &Vapor!. ros.t, •ras two cluin• Short .4 tvoi
nob., and it em in very bad condition. it belooged to the
ac, turnpike trust.
Mr'ytnooinsuggested as the our.. 01 proceedings -the
issue of • summons againit the Cleric and Trmsorer of the
Ilarnhaut trust (Mr I.:ootub. and Mr Andrews) for this day fort.
night and the appointment of a Surveyor to inspeut the nod
and moportot, 17th inst.

This wail ordered by the Ilench, Ilr IL J. C,X. Dridlairt,
being named a, 111Sp.tor.
It was Said, if the trust has Nada the clot of repair will coot
from them, and if not fuom the general ilistnct rate .f the
Dorchester Highway Board, and not from the parish of
Fordlinctoli alone.
llnuy CoUimi was suminoiml for leaving timber cameoa
on the h4thway at Erershot. Mr bytuundi for defendant.
1.. C. Wendell said on flotruy, let March, about pm ,
defendant lame to him, and asked for lesie to put two buded
timber carriages mi the highstar at Nvershot. Told him he
could not—it was mire than he tiara' to do A little while after
saw delendent's horsie pus, and then found one the carriages
on the cross routs, in the middle, turning to Girt : end SI yards
further • •.".,d INIIOd In to the side' but within three yards of
the centre of the road. It was it very dark night, and he waited
about lest anYthing should drive into the nt, as it we. In a
verY di...genius spot There we. moles,i o the curiagra
fi
In the ut'tntiiiC between seven and eight. defeadant and others
c•tue t.n.lt the carriages away. T. 1.1 h.. Sholdkl RIUMII.,IIII
him Defemhint Imlrgial him not to du So. SIMI took out his
punic and offered him is to my nothing. lie also offered NM
• drink f gin. but he told him" he did not do business like
that "

Croge-examined: rho n.I where the last mrriage was is
about six or lie,en 'anit wide. The carriage was entirely on
the •nt. 44, by the old.. The other stopped the rest
iknwuk I°nv 'tin, tint there was nether turning by sthieb
they could get to ilia. litlendant mid the horses were tirml.
Nothing came liy while he remained there.
Mr Symonds sad no tousle of the carriages the case must fail,
no it had been held by high authority that the highway was the
stoncil portion, awl nit the waste at the eide rt.g.eti t
the •VCOII.I there might be some.,
obstruction, hut it very
alight. lhifendaiit was 'akin these lonia el timber from
Yetininster liri.lport, net broke the f", the "heof
his hors.. Although it no 'l.O belt teehinieal offence, he ur/t4,
was
the public in....nose., vas id dm !smallest, a the cuntit,,
which possibly obstructed the we" snoooo 0 r"°*i ka.lit4; to
place 0 here imbody wonted to go. As to the alleged brae., be
lottbleitted there woo 11./ .Idoiru to impede the
but that delcodant inereli offered the em rid s gimeof th te
use the waste 14 tiiiie trell, SWIM) meril involved.
Final il and outs 7s.

Ge•,le Ihrde waa strunshiel for beiriz in piesemion of a
portion of (env:, the property .4 Mr Pope, of Sutton. Mr
Iloward for the praaecution.
I'd'. Willes, of Ita.lipoie, ,eii i ou 22n! Februtry he searched
defetidart a house under a warrant. Iletween the Joists of floor
not e. din:: he found a rail 31 feet hem, recently cut iii two
*".l ti. n'il. 'frown. It was te,rth In 61. He toll defendmit
he ahould take it away an I met an owner for it. Ile said " all
ri,Tht " Ile went on Mr Pope., farth, to where there ie a .1e0114,1
Ohne. Mr IlwWard : A dosery, I *Whim. '' Wheels : No, a
tunnel tunic, where they .Irat for oral. Anionzn the timber
fencint there lie ',hal a rail which the taw marks and rain
showel had originall)- fou:i.l O ie piece with tho -titer
Mr T. l'ope nil lie ocerapied Sutboa farm, And lad nais...4
thlltae thrill the fenehr.; .4 the .11.u.e1 mine
licfendarit said lie picked u. the timber .m the ecashore, and
fiat 1.1 it in hi. li 'we over , ti.,rti•
Mr. Popc and th.• he ien w a mile arid half trim flail pise,,
an ali .ut Wit ) art., let. teloin .kfcridaata home.
lined a 1..., 14 .lA)ir ball lAN.,
l'ltitriem Trim was charzed with oremirrx A stemn rwi,in.
within 2,, Yard* .4 the hiotrany at WiiateriKinic Stouvlet•iii,
10th rebratary.
The umetabl, found it tas kw .wily ton vanle fr.au the road.
.V.k...1 I.he it was e• Self. 441e:slant east t. catel the straw
further uPthe 80.1- li. feridarit And he hal liven an enenie
driver metal )eare Tol,l Ii lin he Might 4. know bettor than
put it Oh Mee Later in the tic it was lii the nine Itiiict'•
"
i....lwiit Awbi it wooa b e road, arid it wouhl have b..en
more tr. pulite to mit it further olf

Ilia aml4.lar lPathaitt • trap Jul not pass that tray outs
a tortoi4ht.
Fate,l Iva and :I costa

FONTXEL
Poeuesr.-0a Thitr.ll4 an inquest Wag held at the
Crown Inn, Foutniell Magna, before Mr. .i. r. Leah,
coroner...l the baly of Ein.na Tudin, aged 17 year.. •
sin.:le woman, who ilied on Tuevday, ti. 2nd inst., after
giving birth to a male dal. Tne evidenee showed dir
ceased was taken ill on Monday, the lvt. and a woman
flawed Abed Fe%ham, $ midwife, was called in. but nal
considering deceased very ill, she went away and returned
next day; in the even in,:the poor girl was confined, but from
the evidenee of Dr. Wykes (who Wiel not called in till
after her death), it appeared the deceased was not praperlp
attended to, awl death resulted from hemorrhage
through such impropsT treatment It also appeared IT
the evideniv. aol WA.. not deniel by the woman Felthain,
that she went away niter she had delivered deceased, and
when sent for again refuerd to attend, for which she wan
reprimanded by the Coroner. The jury returned a verdict
that dealth revulted (rein hemorrhage, and they also re.
primended Feltham for not visiting the deceased rafter the
birth of her child.