The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-01-23 00:00:00

DORCHZBTER.

000niugto.—A imellag of Owennoigas Coursing slob
I, filed for Thursday, Feb. 8.
Mr. IL Gum. M.P., hut lately seat from Omford
20 pheuants for the patients IA the Desset Coanty
Hospital.
Lou, Pourtuosn's Hognrim —We undenasad that
Lord Polamore cilsoontinne bunting in Dorset after
the present mesecin.
coumovions were matte at AU Sabi% Marsh on
Sunday in aid of the Irish °Marsh Bastentadoe Fuld,
when ,C 2 17s 14 was eantributed.
Till lianusi meeting of the Fordington sad Dor
theater seamietion for the Hangehow mission is filed
for next Friday evening. at 8 p.m., in Fordiagton
school-room.
Donn 000rn Borml2M..—Dr. D. W. William,
late of Bayswater, Leaden, who is about to mum to
Dorehestar, is • candidate for the ease of Physician
to the Dorset County Heepttel.—Ses advertisement.
Fsitirsse Cum.—The monthly meeting of the Doe-
&ester Farmers' ChM was held on ilatarday evening,
st the Antelope hotel. There wee no paper read. sad
the praseediam were private. We underebtad that
Mr. Spooner, of Bang. Southampton, is to be invited
to give a lecture at the February meeting.
Tait thanksgiving pryer for the troovvy of the
Prince of Wales was reed in all the Musgsbes of Dot
sheerest ea Bundy ; sad, st Fordington St. Gump, at
evening servise,. the easelading volunteg;Zid on
41. wu We m the Mose* nf " At
Holy ty Bed bless the Prime of sad
the National Anthem were played.
Dincangess T 111111•11011 Img.—On Tuesday,
January likb, • meeting of We misty was held at
the British seheel-rome, to sleet Meows sad • soar
mitts, for the easiging year, when the following were
duly elicited :—Praddent, Yr. J. Dean ; vies-president,
Mr. C. Parsons; tnesarer, Mr. (3. W • ht, jam.;
, Kr. W. Pommy ; eominithee— J.
riicirot..,lllW Foot, 8. Banal, 13. Omni's& J. Sheppard,
J. Brown, J. Berge, .1. Wemott, J. Beight, C. Fooks,
O. Wiehtmaa, and C. Vagg.
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HIGHWLT Boann.—The annual debesseal of are
eounta of the Donau/dm Highway Board far the peer
1871 has jest been published. whereby it appears that
the district aeraprisse dzkrtwo parishes, with a milldam'
of 243 miles, end a riiteeW value of 11141.875. no
total expenditure unmated to £3,003, being after the
rate of EU 8s per mile, or • little more thee Sd in We
pound on We rateable value. The ineemeed outlay
daring the peat sear arises peinelpaily from the extra-
ordinary expeamtare in the !sada of Broadway, where
the total amounted to £579 44, the length of the roads
in that perish being only 2 miles sad 6 furlongs.
Dadaists' the itzidire under the heads of "law
sharps" sad hapromeneate," the average outlay cm
the roads would be 12 per sae, or 44 in the posed on
the rateable vales.
ROT/!. HOLM AITILLEIT RlLDlllloll.—This eater.
talament was anneuneed for Friday evening, but owing
to the death of we of the mildew's wives, it was post-
poned till Tuesday, when it same off with peal ROHM
The programme opened with a plop "Lord of Lorne,"
by Maas Lydon, on the pianoforte, Trumpeter Bright-
well wrest, and Bornbadiec Conway pimple, which
went very demerably. The Mal was a reading by
qautermasterSergeant Laagrish. Drive( Ainsworth
then sang a emnie song, entitled "Oblekhiery Cove,"
and wee loudly moored. The duet " AU's Weil," was
sung in capital style by Trumpeter Brigbliwell and
Master Lydon. A semis and. the "Three Topers,"
by Trumpeter Brightwell, same next, aid wee the hit
of the evening. The singer was eathaeleedeally sneered,
and repeated a few MIMI. IMut. Parlby then read •
huneorom dem about a frog, which ameed roars of
laughter. Miss Lydon played a solo on the pianoforte,
which went very steely. Hawser Gibson followed
with • amnie song, which he meg very amedagly, and
received an ensure. This madaded the drat part of
the programme, alter whisk We Amateur Christy's oi
the battery entertained the aompeay with soap,
dialogue, be. and the performance dosed with the
Hatioaal Anthem.
Oaaoin 51IIIIL —NOM& Harris aid Sea, of the
Nurseries, Fordiegtoss, have jail lewd their series
eatalogue kitchen garden sad dower seeds, palest
bedding, stove, and greenhouse pleats for 1872. These
medsmen have been In We trade for upwards of 40 peers,
and therefore ma speak with welders°, WWI authority.
In their address they date that" seeds having been well
harvested, we are able to offer at lower prima," an
announcement which, In 111.1•11 days, when the prim of
almost everything exempt newspapers and glasses of ale
is going up, is gratifying. The eafalopee bees' with
kitchen garden seeds, and We list NOW to Wein& the
best of new varieties as well as Woes which 'animism*
has ooalirmed as exeollent, and the prices are very
moderate, being lower than the Landon houses, while
purchasers of Harris and Son have a local guarantee
for genuineness which should not he overlooked. The
list of choice English and German dower seeds la very
complete, and • wellarranged table shows the duration,
esiocer, height, abanteisretknend pfee per peeket of the
dittoed viAlidem, ranging hem 14 upwards. Gler•nlions
en i timbales are also deseribed and priced; then comes
°limbers, and neat greenhonse and stove plants. A
choice selection of bedding plead, offered at low prime,
In named, then ferns, aid the satakigue Mashes with a
list of trait trees sad seimelleinessa artieles in the had..
It Is a complete catalogue, and will meet the require-
ment, of the largest as well as provide what Le
required for the smallest prilla.
DITEMILTIONAL Aadriltaldod.—A Imams on "In
national Arbitrates" wes delivered In the Town-ball
OD Thursday evening, by the Bev. (2, W. Ehmaphreys„
IL A., of Wellington. The chair was (landed by J.
P. Aldridge, Esq., IID., and a Ve7 eod &adieu°.
amembled. The UNIPUPS wee oPIoK by Dreyer by
Mr. Davis, of Manchester, and the &airman in
introducing the Waterer said, that the subject laud
be felt to be an imporbeat am and worthy of their
sympathy. War was a sad sad sorrowful thins, and
anything which could be dement to settle the
Morena« by which widow were drawn into it would
confer large blesidnp on hamealty. Itefereade warn
made to the horrors of the last war, and the Nahum
spoke in oommendetory terms of the proposed mhos,
of arbitration by the Emperor Napoleon. as esibeetiag
Um greatest honour on his sagsaity sad toretheeght.
In his Wotan, Mr. lignphreys sought to ealWil the
sympathise of the neople of Dorekestar in beheld red
Mr. kishares f mothss la the Hoene of
Comeau it lateraelleaal Azhheatioa, aid he sae.
su4lbd 14 'ribs* by the facet of his etalwaiste. the
galgebbY el the aailkewe. who at the eine of the
knee • yeeslatlea wkieh was
Ru/1/011,4":10741/. eseesded by the Rev. J.
a, the Wowing set—' That this meeting