The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-11-17 00:00:00

Norottetire.

notninations for Donset are as fotlow
Sir if:Pliant Henry Smith Marriott, Bart., of The Down
House : Ivor Berth: Guest, Bart., of canton!: John
Montag Pleyeinil, Esq., of Whatcombe. Tho Snit-named
Li usually appolntoe.
Tim Bishop of tialistairi has lireusol the Roy. Russell
Day, Clerk, 31. A., to the Vicarage of Lytcliett Minster,
void by the cession of the Rev. R. F.. I'. Blunt, on the
nomination of Eton College. His inrciship has also
Iketased the Rev. Nicholas bower Godys, al-.ek, to the
Citric" Melcombe Regis.
ZORCHESTER.

'apt. W. If. Flowr.g has teen granted the honorary rank
of major of the Dorset MUIR&
TIIE :Rd D.R.V. corps was iospeete.2 Isst Thursday
evening, by Adjutant Mount-Batten.
MAJOE-GENERAL T. TAPP, C. 8., formerly of mais hint,
retires from the army on a pension, with the hotiorati
rank of lieutenant-genernl.
Pwize Plogo:tt —We tetra by telegram that at the
Crystal Palace poultry and pigeon thew to-day (Monday),
Mr. W. Bishop, of High East-street, Dorchester, has
added to his many succeaves in former Muesli In the
clasair for Dragoons, his blues were highly commended,
the antes,: were awarded third prize and two highly
conimendens,;.nd his whites carried off the first prize and
the silver cup.
Tut Si son.—A measSt„...;( lay representatives to elect
synislinuen for the rural deanery of Dorchester, Rae held
at the Shire ball last Saturday, wino. the Rev. Reginald
Smith, R.D., met about thirty of the lay ispresentatives.
The gentlemen elected were—Mr. R. Davis and Mr. E.
Burnett, of Holy Trinity, Durcheater ; Mr. M. W.
Hawk's., Martinatown ; Mr. Cockeram, Friar Maype •
Mr. J. Fieyer. MV., for Dorset; and Colonel Oldfield, of
All Saints, Diircheetar.
Muutow MicArg.—Ou Yeas. of ILA Mr. Ware,
the well-known Inspector id the booth-Western Railway
at Dorchester, was passing the new Wssloyan chapel in
course of erection in South-street *hoe a Jews of (assber
used as a " strut " sprang from Its position on belay
rellarod from the weight of a 2-ton stone just hoisted, and
fell at.. thisstreet, grazing Mr. Ware in the Ads of the
face, and seeding him sprawling in the mad insensible.
haul it caught MI6 10 on the head or face, falling from
such a height, the mask email scarcely have been other
than fatal. Ile WM picked issieml taken into Mr. Ensor's
where he received attention. Dr. gmon was sent for,
and Mr. Ware was removed home labs. carriage, where,
we are glad to hear, he is doing well.
Tux Waxvica. —The following is our meteneviegical
report:—

3
Nov. •
10
11
12 13,
Is 41 '
16 311
12

Wind.

Sisk of Wustber

Foggy
Gloomy, doudy
Fine
Cloudy, ruin
Fine
gloomy, misty

41 I EkS
-1 NNW
31 7-
91 1 NW
s
41 WNW

Cormier= re rue Hoaxer Coexer Pgisx.--Cosietis :
Ahltie El itabetl.l Matissfenl. stealing wearing' aPPard 4 r'.
at Marshwood. Aarirsa . hums Senior, wilfut Murder at
Sherburne, and Sarah Macey, ceucealment of birth at
Foutmell Magna. !lard Lsraoi, El); aril ' Cliinclien.
assault at swami" and Kidney Cush. poaching at
Ifilborne, 2 calendar months each : {trade Woods',
dealing bonus at Restipole, 42 days ; Archibald Xrihe.
assault at Blaridford, 1 calendar month; Ambrose Jeanie',
stealing elm board at Folke ; John Long misbehaviour
In come Unbm ; John Miller, William 'Wilier, and Charles
Steel, stealing isdatoes at Kimono; Stephen Gulliver reel
Margaret Hose, wilful damage at Weymouth, 11 ilays'
each; George Witt, vagrancy at Kington 3lazia
7 der..
ANTRA:dig STMT.—The shill weather and the dearth ,d
social topics of excitement have led some waggish spirit
Is, circulate an astonishing runner?. It WWI rumoured on
Satunlay night that a luunper had arrival at the Great
Western Railway slatisos. alarm-sal to an unmarried
official, which; when cpcned, rm. found to contain a
living infant Of course, the basandur was nonplussed ;
he would probably have preferred a white olevlcsnt : when
his goal gar6ts appeared in the peroon if • a Pierdly
Porter, without " olive brandies," who 'gLidly'lialledoeft
charge of the strange llama Then was Illustrated
" virtue rewarded," for—so the tale ran—when his wife
was unloosing the gartnents in which the child ley
enswathed, there fell out sovereigns enough to cover the
floor no less than 2,00 a ! It's a very funny dory, and
would raise all sorts of interesting questions but for tins
one thing—it isn't true.
THE biennial sale of useful and ornamental work, sec.,
in gal of the Church Missionary and Jews Societies, took
place at ge Town Hall, Dorchester, on Thursday last,
the dells beiut; presided over by Mn'. Reginald Smith,
NW Yeatelan, JLro. Ludlow, Mrs. and Miss Andrews,
Mrs. Clapeott, irs. litut Lett, Mrs. e. Bingham. Mrs,
Urquhart, Mai. Aldwngth, and Mite Osborn. The day,
though cold, was unusually tine; did the sum receives
I. dialing donations of 1:2 from MOS. IL (1 (. aatlew, A:
frow Mrs. Pattison, I:1 front 3lrs. Matthew, (late 4
)iallatrY IdectstrY), and two other donations of a guinea
each, amounted to ahem 4:15. The attendance, whieh
included Mrs Flow, Mrs. Prevost, the Misses Cloirchill,
the Misses Eitideraley, Mn,. H. I:wk.:ram, Mm. Coombs,
del many other ladies of the town and neighbourhood,
, was mist, however, quite als 14 nu,crt Ile, nor the Seel received
so great, anon some previous ocensions. Thyrefore, should
any persons interested in the object of the sale, Wive been
prevented from attending, and feel dispastal to assist is
lessening the difference between the present allure. iota
sales, such adistance will he gratefully received by either
of the ladies named as laving taken part therein.
CHURCH ASSOCIATION. -A meeting of the Lasecluster
branch of the Church Association WU held at the Town-
hall, last Friday evening. Mr. It. If. Eliot, of Weymouth,
presiding, with whom on the platform. were—The Rae
ltsginal Smith, RD., the Bev. C. W. Bingham, R.D. the
Rev. H. P. Reifies, the Rev. W. C. Osborn, and the Rev.
M. F. Evans, The Rev. Fs. Ludlow and Rev. If. F. Jonas
were in the body of the hall, also the Rev. T. Heave, the Rev.

J. Moffitt, and several dissenters. The attendance was
fair. —The Chairman remarked upon the present time as
a crisis in the Church if England, and urged it WWI the
duty of Evangelical Churchmen to combine in defence of
its Protestantiam. —The Rev. C. W. Bingham, as s...Trutary
of the branch, followed, and the Key. G. IL Concannon,
organising secretary of the association then delivered
an address on "Sacerdotalism." He pointed nut that
the ritualists are now making a street effort to
establish the eastward position in the celebration of the
Holy Communion, and the wearing of a distinctive vest-
ment during that office. Already four or five Bishops had
expressed theineelves favourable to • special dress, and
High Church papers believed it to he the chasuble. The
speaker strongly opposed both proposals, because the
doctrines thereby symbolised are closely associated with
the Hanish mesas. The ritualistecontended for the clergy
standing with their backs to the people in celebrating the
Lord's Supper avowedly as sacrificing priests. By the
Prayer Book they were directed to stand at the north end
of the Communion table, and assuming any other pasition
was lawleesness, lie quoted some of the horrors from the
Directoriont A liglicamen in respect to "eating our Lord."
and proceeded to show that confession necessarily followed
the acceptance of the Real Presence doctrine, in order
that the priest might know the communicants were
in a fit state to receive Christ ; for, they so.
for • quarter of an hour after you have eaten
the bread "the Lord is in you ;" then the species
begins to change, and Ile leaves. He merely
hinted at the "beastliness " of the confessional, and
denounced it as implanting evil thoughts which would
otherwise never have been entertained. The rev, gentle-
man naturally remarked after all this—Nonconfor-
mists may say, " A pretty Church this of yours r
but, he said, the Church must not be judged by its
ministers, but by the Thirty-Nine Articles: for "they
are fe us, but not of loi." The sacerdotalists relied on
two passages of Scripture to estaldish confession: lot
"Then went out to hint Jerusalem, anti all Judea, end
all the region round about Jordan, and were baptised of
him in Jordan, twalessiag their sias"—(Matthew iii, 5, fi.)
--au which he remarked that to "confess" so many
according to the mode now adopted John must have
lived until now; and, 2nd, Judas Iscariot going to the
priests confessing his sin in the betrayal of Christ, but
the smoker observed it should Inc remembered that
inuuediately afterwards Judas went out and hanged
himself, and therefore his example was not encouraging.
lie deprecated the authority accorded by the ritualists
to what the homily calls "the stinking puddle of mauls
tradition," and in conclusion insistent in the necessity for
controversy, and the importance of defending tin unfet-
tered Bible, pointing to Spain, France, and Ireland as
beacons warning us against prieetcraft —The Rev. W. C.
Osborn read a long memorial to the Queen and the
Bishops against the adoption of the eastward petition
and distinctive dress for the Communion cervices and
winding up by declaring that Convocation does not ero.
mly represent the Church of England. He remarked
that the rubric warranted him in placing the
Communion table in the middle of the church and
gathering the communicants amend it, and suggested
that "before the table" meant between the wall and the
table, really the westward position. He also referred to
the oaths taken by clerfermen as giving no sanction to
}tarnish doctrine. —The Rev. Reginald Smith seconded
without remark the adoption of the meznoriat —When
the Chairman was about to put it to the meeting, the
Rev. T. Neave rose and asked permission to move an
aniendment —Mr. Eliot asked him if he was a member of
the Church Association—(a laugh)—and Mr. Heave said
no, he simply attended a. • citizen of Dorchester invited
to the public meeting.—The Chairmen said only members
could be allowed to speak.—Mr. Nears said he had
no wish to speak except in the spirit of courtesy
lie agreed with much the lecturer had detect,
but he thought the question for the meeting wal—
ls sacerdotalism in the Prayer Book If it be, on
whist grounds are You proposing to persecute men in
respect of the doctrines which they have subscribed to,
and have undertaken to teach I—Mr. Osborne rose to order,
and maintained Prayer Book revision was not before
them, but simply whether they would support the Church
Association in the measures it proposed to take —Mr.
Commences mid he contended there was no Parente-
talbon in the Bible or in the Prayer Kook. Priest in the
latter was only is contraction of Presbyter: so said Dr.
Hook, of Chichester. For himself ho was willing to
answer any questions till 2 o'clock next morning, but he
was in the hands of the meeting —Tim tffiairman begged
Mr. Nears to desist, and he aye it up.—The Rev.
Reginald Smith, In morleg a vote of thanks he the
G. B. Cone:Almon and the Chairman, remarked on the
mistake and falsehood of the doctrines of time eucheristie
sacrifice. In neither the Church of Rome nor amongit
the ritualist.. dill they attempt to deny the great doettrige
of the atonement, still that fundamental truth was
impugned by • supplemental sacrifice, and they attempted
to carry out that idea hty the eastward position and
eucharistic vestment in celebrating the Lord's Supper.
That was a doctrine they must contend against in the
spirit of charity and brotherly love, and they must stand
firm against the legalising of the I estsuent.—The vote
was carried by acclamation, and the meeting was closed
by singing the doxology with the benediction. [Some
remark hex been made on the refusal of the Chairman to
allow Mr. Ness's to speak, as the deputation at the open-
ing of his address invited remark,' or questions from any
person preseatl
RuIIOVIIII Parrs 81/1510A. Saturday.
(Mr K. Burnett).
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BAtore the ILtyor

Jo h. Mao., of Polklionown, cat 6.lltrucd with being drunk
and incapabie, on the Ivoeloo roci, on Liu previous evening.
P C Timed proved the rat:nix

Pined be, In;fuding cost&
yoavar. the Mayor (Sr E. burnett), aud We Ex
Mayor (1(r G. J. O. °revery)
Mary Ann Bridger, of Fordington. was brought up lor
wasting a disturbance In Sigh Heat-street, on Sunday slight,
about 10.30 P.O Gould apprehended her. Ske trss uSnit
very had language opposite the Plnenix. i3hr had Ouse drink-
ing. though she was not drunk.
Prisoner had been thrice before runs-kind.
She mid she waa v...ry sorry.
The Meyer sentenced her to two months' hard labour.