The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-03-25 00:00:00

Somerstuttrt.

Ti. BISLJ 8001/ITY ASETRILIGIOUS IDUCIATIOI.
We have reeeived the following ooeninniestion frog' the
Rae. W. Eliot, boo. see alto. British end Foreign
Bible Boosiy, In Worms, to the disputed portion of
the report presented at the late want's' meeting of hhe
&idol breech of that bode :
Tee committee of to. Bible Society met materday, and Male
deolialag to cat out of their report all relerenoe to Ma Mum.
• quemloo, as wee lepoe.d at Ms annual meeting, ettopted
md passed, am port time report. to. following worth
relating to that subject :—•. The Bible,.. rejoice to my, 0041.
time., to bold it. place and maintain it. intimate la the
edecatlon of the country. More than thirty year. MO the
report of your maxillary coogratulated tie eupPortevi on to.
toot that as the tomato, was beginning to talm •
intone& in the edoestioa of in children, the Bibb loduly
me ready at Imod to nippily that book, without which edam
Imo would be. very questiombte boon. That eastizaant.
&Shovel eireenieterwee have changed much eloce It was
uttered, tour committee diming moot beartily to
and declares its work:aim that it would be the
calamity toot could befall the nation If the Sable showA. al=te
to be the bans of the education given to the Mildews of thle
. . . . . .•

'fli• Bridgwater School Board Wive decidod upon the
appointment of an olloer so look after absentees from
school and to hoot up the " waifs sad strays " whose
parents base not yet 'sailed therms Ives of tile baba&
acaornodsUoa now provided.
It is ro 'ware,' that some of the Somerestehire colliery
roprietore Intend introduaing coal-eatting machines
Into their work. .

The vicarage of Keowle St. Gibe, Somerset, in the
gift of the Ruben of London. and vacant by the prefer.
meat of the Rev. F. & Alley, boa been conferred en

the Rev. J. Louis lipeueer, emirate of Whitehurols
Csaoniooruat. Dorset . .

A marriage is asuouneed to take plias betwees
Charles Rowland, sliest son of the late Mr. Charles
Palmer- Morowood, of Alfreten-hall, Derbyshire, sad
Patients. Mary, third daughtar of this IMalsop of Bath
and W. 114 sod Lady Arthur Hervey.
A vestiry meetiog held at Orewkente, on Thursday,
with rainiest, to a proposal to adopt tha Pubha Health
Act of 1872, was selj mimed withoet say decision bring
arrived at.

A very-doe salmon was taken at °labor, -n-S•visre,
on Friday last, by Mr. Hecoor Knepp. on flitting pro-
perty beloogiog to Mr. William C,oxely, It weiett
43 ha, sad measured 4 feel long and 25 lashes round.
A 813111110 T POI tin iVANGIILILLTION ROCISTI.—On
Friday afmromu, • tramp, carrying cabbage-mot" for
solo, and mitering (apparratly) from • bed foot, sabred
the shop eit Kr. Whitby, hookenlier, Yeovil, aad **lt'd
if that wee the dome: of the British sod Foreign Bible
timiety. On being seaward is the sairmativo be
• said : I want converting. I need to bailey. i• • ba,
bull don't now, for no Gsd would allow thisge to b.
as they are—some people haring all the money sod tho
rest none." Several porton' were in the shop, but not
one of them showed any disposition to try what the
gift of • trifle would do towards convicting the tramp
from Atheism ; and, after abusing the borough maxis-
Motes for sendiog him to gm' for begging the last time
be wae, in Yeovil, ho mond no to try Me empties/
Of some ether dodge elsowers. We should not be sur-
prised to bear that he finds this germ pay. There are
plenty of pions, volt-haexted people about, •lio would
be so ghosted to hem • cadger say that ha doubted,
beams of (be eimptioese of kis own pockets, whether
them was any God, that they would be unable to main
the Impales to demolish his argument by &an him
'Mimeos.
It is currently reported at Beth that when the time ,
for • eineral election arrives, Captain Harter, eon of
Bit William Reiter, sad who sat for Will. till that
borough woe distrambleed, win be brought forward as
• Liberal ciandidste.

.71.;.;tharitaii;;;tonlal Itas bees gives to the *We-
wont that ltajor Aliso, ems of tbs. mambo, for Cost
Somerset and who ham moody boon suffering from ill
health. did not Intend to offsr imistl arala for oleo-
tioo

The inquiet M Sheptoo-liallet, othb old mui,
Thotaar Young, which Ira. adjoaraird from last week,
wit remised Oa Friday analog, at sic o'clock, and
orovinued until two au Saturday morning, whoa John
Watts sod Thomas Pluvial were fatly eoramitted to take
their trial at the waning assize., en the ooroser's war-
raht, for duo masalaagtiter of Thos. Young. Bail woe
morpted for their itOPthrshitt.