The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-09-28 00:00:00

THE DORSET COIJN ry EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1 75.

ST. Perzit's Sincoar Scifoot..—The atuittal pennons on
behalf ,1 St. Peter's Sunday ~vhont were presolled on Sun-
day I by the Hector, the Itvv. g. W. POlll,l, and the
t., amounted to .Cll lila. ad.

THI Jt:ar Lts•re for the Dorchester division were pre-
sent...l by the Overseers or Assistant Overveers. to the
rnagistrateii l'etty tleasions 13st SatunLly, In 1.01110
cases the list, were not accepted because teirleru.l by
Assistant Overseers not appointed by the ma4istrates.

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TUR death °rearrest on tiaturilay morale.; of Mr.
William Ware, a man very wide!y k town 1.0.1 generAlly
respected as Inspei.iior at the Dorchester station of the
Soutti.Western Medway 'omiewy, which isisition lie had
occupied a ith great Isatisfaction to the public for the past
DS or 10 years. For a year or more his health had been
failing ;in the early part of the spring he had a revere
attack of bronchitis, awl never really recovered from it,
and his death resulted from general I itrAy. Ile leaves a
widow and one child.

3am D. R.V.- A statement uf the results of the weekly
practice sheeting of tha Dorchester corps during the past
1101111011 has just heen issued. The subscriptions were .g. 5
Lieut Hodges, Lieut. Williams. -L2 Mr. It. Williams.
of Bridehead, and by the competitors making the total
1:13 17s. drl. The average attendance was 10.3, a slight
improvement on last year. The winners of pewter.. (pre-
sented by Lleut 1104 es) are--Privates Dibben, Tapecott,
thimond, Sergt. Cross, and Lieut. !lodges. Hut only Lieut.
Hodges and l'rivatc Tapscott have won twice each—the
condition of taking a pewter. The highest aggregate of
three scores throughout the season was_made by Private
Tapscott, whose marks were-77. 71, 72--23. Rut the
Let average score was made by Lieut.. Hodges, who. tiring
eleven days. averse...el 61.10 : the next best was Private
Tapecott, 13 times, average 57.07.
HARVEST TlieNeeeleleo.—()a Sunday the harvest
thanksgiving services for Holy Trinity parish took place.
and the aacred edifice had been beautifully decorated. The
adornment of the font, as in foruieryears, was the work of
Mrs. Alfred Spicer, and it was meet taetefully done. The
top was covered with beautiful fern, awl moss studded
with white asters and fuchsia blooms, the whole encircled
with a wreath composed of the three kinds of grain inter-
mixed with asters, roses, and b,trions choice flowers. The
sides were garlanded with wreaths in which were mingled
corn, harberries, clematis, and sprays of ivy. The panels
were filled in with moos picked out with white asters and
a few barberriee. The base was enwreathel with corn,
hops, and wild dowers, including white daisies, the blue
corn flower, and poppies, with a little greenery. The gas
standards were eutwined with ivy, decked with
asters of various colours. The reading desk was adorned
with ferns and ivy, plentifully set a with room, dahlias,
.ssion flowers, and other blooms, interspersed with corn.
! The pulpit was particularly effective. Around the top was
' a bordering of corn and hops, mixed with fern leaves and
a few white flowers, and pendent from it there were three
bunches of liue grapes. The shaft of the book rest was
tied with a bouquet of bright tlovrers, and the rest itself
edged with white itionortelles and delicate fern leaves.
In front was a cross composed of wheat with • bordering
of white everlasting* awl a few fern sprays. Around the
base was • garland of ferns studded with daluias and roses, 1
with • bordering of clematis at the upper edge. The fronts
of the choir etalls were entwined with ivy intermixed with
corn and flowers. On the Communion table stood two
elegant vases of dowers. The acceding behind was marked
out with ivy, the heads of the arches being outlined with
corn and asters mixed with leaves, and hanging below in
each panel was a bunch of black grape, At the points of
the alternate arches was • hand:wine magnolia bloom.
Over the reredos was the text, done in wheat on redl
enclosed in an evergreen lorder, "The earth is the Lord's.
The ledge extending round the duel:el heel a bordering of
iey and flowers,and the splays if the side lights were tilled
with moss on which asters were laid. In front of the
Communion table was • sheaf of corn, the gift of Mr,
Henry Mayo, of Cuker's Promo It was made into sheaf
by Henry AVM*, an old labourer on the estate, and
garlanded with flowers, Excepting the font, dune by Mrs.
A. Spicer, the decorations were the joint work of Miss
Lock, Meld Oldfiell. and the Misses Penton. and in no
former year have the adornment' been more tastsfut
The Rev. H. Everett chose as his text Genesis viii.fel—the
promise of seed thee and harvest, and remarked on the
lessons for our sour, health which God's providence in
nature should teach to all. He proceeded to gay that
their thanks were specially offered that morning for the
harvest recently gathered in. It was not, he believed, a
very abundant harvest—not even what was called an
"average" harvest, owing to the heavy rains at an im-
portant Liszt of the season; but, what of (list? It was •
rvest sufficient for their necessities, and sufficient most
certainly to demand their gratitude Whether it was
above or below the average yield, they were called upon
to render thanks to Almighty God for His mercy they
ought to thank Him for giving any harvest at all; let
them thank Hint that the harvest and all the other crops
are so good—thank Him heartily that things were not
very much worse—that in these unquiet and restless times
He had spared them the crowning trial of scarcity of food
and all the evils following in its train. Let them con-
eider the nitwit of theme 1111111111 harvest thanksgivings.
They first rendered thanks to Almighty God for giving
them the harvest. Not the ',tougher, the sower, the
reaper—not human industry, science, or "high farming,"
not even the fostering earth which received the seed and
helped to fulfil its mirk, ware the donors of our daily
bread, bat (bet Himself; Ile gives us the harvest. Just
as in spiritual things, Paul planted awl Apellos watered,
but God gave the increase so in natural things, one
ploughs, auother sows, but God elves the increase : and
without His blessing no labour le of the slightest avail.
It is Ode we iltelare to-day—that this years harvest is
God's doing awl His gift; He has kept His word,
has remembered His promise—" while the earth remaineth
Ked atel and harvest . . . shall not cease." And they
sliewed tbd.,r tient fulness in three ways; let, by singing
his prhies in psiiltiria and letens ; 2n.1, byre-114 e of them
—not very teeny (perhaps re v. X:: 14. e ...rly ler many to get
ut)—areMilloling at the table of the Lied, and euting the
hallowel bread and drinkina the hallowed wine. It, testi-
mony that Ile ie intleuil the bread of life; amid 3rd, by
tlistalt•offerinit, in eekeeeledgeleeet 44 His goodness aud
mercy. Their offerings would he ileveted to the Dorset
County Hospital, awl he did not think there could be a
better or more appropriate object. In conclueion lie
reminded Dann ef the lesson of thankfulness which this
harvest fustival should t:ach, and that thy would ere lung
be reaped off the face a th,., and gathered to the
storehouse of the grave, till th.. t:ree whet, they should
appear on the threshing fluor of judonoit, and God
would cattier up the good seed into His ecerlastiag gainer.
Might Jens Christ in His infinite mercy keep them tow,
and finally store them there in that laud of God
Where saints atm te for ever;
Whrre golden dells spread fair and broad,
Where dews the metal river.
The strains .d all its le.lv throng
%Ph ours to-day are iffendina,
Tories tiessel is that le.reert sung
Which lever lath as; vialme
At the afternoon service there was a crowded ciao:len.
tin. The special psalms were the 164th and Mk and
tlii.eyewhooirrkegli. Rector lss anthem
huei.:6„.
tilt Lore! : how mivaiitfekl are
i
"They joy before Thee according to the joy in the
harvest- ' The preacher re led the congregation of wir
acwonanidn.myinennsc4infiltlalitionbhicitgidlalTalti7,ith.cale,lieirll4irbe.frat:lpreetdhain,atUreTkillf4t,ii,trviolt'rhirgse,
greaeutnd to l 2 hmvu6tEat the 'nd of
the world.
Time ,ffrrtorie.
am te

SYcll At KiniSTON PARK FARR. —Mr. G. Symonds
illby'auct.on tc Frsliry last the Hem sheep and beasts
of Mr. W. Wa:-, sew: ia.,uitting Kingston Park Farm.
There WAS is large attendance cf tricultunsts. At the
brucheon which preceded the .ale, Mr. If. Fookes, of
Whitcclucch, prc,,Hl.,L Mr. Frost, of the King's Anus
Hotel, was the caterer. After the reputt, the Chairman
briefly gave "The Queen and Royal Fatuity," and then
proposed "The health of Mr. W. %Vay, and AIICOOAS to the
alto." Ile had looked over the stock, and he was very
pleased—and, he must say, surprisol—to see It. rho
! conditieu of the sheep was much superior to what ho
expected. Mr. :'ytoonds spoke the other day of the
advantage of having ymir.grtcL to begio with and Mr.
Ways WAS certainly ts.rtsr that. an; thud( he had seen
elsewhere this season, at,' 4.. t good t. Lit Al ....11) ono ItCosl
WiSh to he joissessul of. Wherever Mr. Waif might tanY
It business in future he booed that be would not he
subject to the annoyance ho had received there. Ho was
very sorry to find that the landlord Ital locked his gated
against persons driving to the sato —(applause). It was
an action unworthy of any landlord —(applatise)—and •
most unhandsome thing to to. Ile concluded by expres-
sing his hope that Mr. Way would have a good sale—
(.jpPlatute). ju the absence of Mr. W. Way, his brother
(Mr. 11. W.,;,-) iriepy responded. "The health of the
auctioneer (Mr. Giles Symandsr concluded the toasts,
and the company proceeded futile sale wig. Mr Symonds
having read the conditions of the sale, proceeded with
the fullonouth Horn ewes that had been to Down rams.
jular circumstance was that One of the ewes ap-
with a lamb by her side ! It 'teemed this was a
casualty. The sheep were 601 d in scores' three lota roads
614., a similar number 645., Mr. H. Duke taking two of
them, and Mr. It. Fuchs took a score at 655. The last lot
went for 4145. The six-toeths were then offered. These
Ind the younger ages had been to Horn rains. Mr. Slade,
Isle of Wight, took the first lot at ga., two more at fins ,
and the culls at 455. : Mr. Norris Roper had; a score at
Ws., and Mr. NV. S. Hull took ono lot at tils, anti a second
at d.h. Of the four-teoths. Mr. Lucas, of the Isle of
Purbeck, took two lots at es. and Ws., and the others
were fins., tigs., and (tie., with • retuanet at 495. The two-
, teeth. ranged from OW. to lilt, excluding the odd lot at
! 51s. Mr. Hansford, of Loden, took the highest priced
lot. Mr. White, Mr. Lucas, and others securing the others.
The chilver lambs were a capital lot, and generally
admiral. Mr. Pole and Mr. Lucas took some at 435.,
Mr. Slade and Mr. Pearce at 445., Mr. Hendon'
at 45d., Mr. Slade at 46-4., and Mr. Pearce, tel Kit-timer-
idge, at 485. ; he also hull the last lot at 375.
A six-tooth rani was offered. descended from Mr. N.
Roper's celebrated flock, and it was stated to have
I've-mired itglbs. of wool for the last three Isar., but there
seemed to be no ram buyers Present, and th 6 and the rem
lambs were withdrawn. Before proceeding withe
beasts, 100 Down ewes, belouging to Mr. T. th
Lock, of
Kingston, and descended from Cr.D Chapman Saunders 's
flock, were submitted. Mr. G. Slade took them at 575.
Mr. besets were then offered. They were a good
lot of dairy cavil, ptincipally Devoe, but some showing •
strong dash of the longhorn breed The prices ranged
from .Cll to C 26 165., Mr. W. S. itua oyin4: the highest
sum, and taking lialf-a-dosen others at prices down to
£l2 15s. Mr. Garland, of Worgret, bought several at
from XII to £l7 U. Mr. H. Maio had one at gin. Mr. T.
lacrk one at the same price, Cr. J. A. Smith one at
£l5 lila., Mr. Sherren several at priced from Zl2 Iss. to
CIS kir. V. B. Watts bought at 1:16 Lis. The
heifers, rising three years old, rustle from LI3 1.51. to
kW 65., Mr. Hull buying at the top price Mr. It. (lunge
taking two at lie and £lB 551.. Mr. T. Cox purchased at
£l5, 1:15 and XIII 55., and Mr. Fry at .CLiand £1510..
The barren Leifcra, rising two )eam old, were sold in
pain, at front gif 10s. to C•A Iths., Mr. Gene buying at
the highest id.ion, taut also a pair at L.I. Mr. Fry pur-
chased at ASS las' .1:22 let, and I'2l and Mr.
Batotton. of Wmt 14.."itighton, two paint at id/ Ills. Several
horses were then offered, all aged. They made from
171 guineas up to 65 guineas, Mr. J. Way seettring a
am, at that Price, after c oupetition with Mr. tleorge
Symonds. The s:de was C./IlClllded about live o'clock ; and
the weather, which had betto threatening for wet, con-
tinued tine all the time.
hot Y TRINITY Cuenca—Ono of the commonest modes
of oh:An:inn soy for benevolent or religious purposes
newli'daYs is .-1'"••••••• holding of a fancy fair; and, although
there are many pros. aroi cons, on the subject, we ma),
take it that while Ills such an cacy and delightful way of
raising fund., and enlisting the sympathie'r of the many,
this way of following the injunction b. "get money " will
not lightly Ile repudiated. The re-buibling of ihaylrinitY
church will cost large sum of money, and, having well'
nigh exhausted all possible subscriptions, the committee
inslnnirtonl Ore suggestion thrown out to them to pr to
a bazaar. Assured of the hearty co-operation of many
ladies in the neighlsturhood as well as the pari.hioners,
the fancy fair wad annouuced, and for several months
past much time anti labour have been devoted I.y Inslitos
and children chiefly, although some gentlemen have
tt
helped, in the preparation of artlcles for sale. The follow-
ing ladies kno y
consented ta be patronesses of the bazaar
--Lally Augusta Stmt. Crichel ; Lady Emily Williams.
Brittehead Lady Smith-Marriott, Down House ; Hon.
Mrs. Portman, Brysinston ; lion. Mrs. Williams, Herring
stone; Mrs. 1(r0k..., Wolveton
,• Mrs. Floyer,__Statfonl
Mrs. Hawkins, Lowell Lodge; His. Fader, Wannwell
MIAS Yellowed, Kin n gsto House •' Mrs. Brynier.
town ; Mrs. kinds:miler, °rife House; Mrs. Sheridan,
Frampton; Mrs. Bingluint, Dorchester ; Mrs. Herbert
Stinaford Mrs. Thornton Frome: Mrs.
Mithlletou, Bradford Peverell; Slrs. A. MaiiiseL Dorehester;
Mrc. Burnett (May
Smith, Stafford; and Sirs. Frampton. Moreton. The
°man. Dorchester ; Mrs. Reginald
Rector (Rev. IL Everett) and the clitutliwardons (Mr. It.
Davis and Mr. E. Bortiett, the Mayor of the borough),
enlisted the sympathim of many in the good work, and is
large quantity of mleable articles were received at the
itectory and try the ladies who undertook the duties of
sfall-keeperv. The bazaar was held on Wednesday and
Thursday lag, and fortunately the weather, which had
beeen so wretched on Tuesday. cleared delightfully, and
WAs as line as could be desired. The Corn Exchange.
wham the bazaar was held, was astrotrably whetted for the
purpose. Seise stalls were provided, three on either side,
and one across the top, Awl they were elegantly designed
and adorned by Mr. Wood, upholstartr. ch stall was
canopied with Pink and white gland calico, =a the front