The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-04-30 00:00:00

THE FUNERAL.

This melancholy ceremony took place on Monday
in the burying ground adjoining Stock House. It
was intended to be r private as possible, notwith-
standing which, we noticed the Sir W. Sleillycott,
G. W. D. Digby, Eeq., the wholeof the
neighbouring clergy, the tenantry, and as many
of the friends of the deceased as were aware
that the ceremony would take place. The
funeral service was road by the Rev. H. Boucher
in • deeply impressive manner, being himself so
deeply affected that it was with difficulty he was
able to proceed to the close.

DORCHESTER PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday,
April 27.—We had a very large attendance and an
exceedingly dull trade. There were three samples
of wheid pitched, and • few pocket samples on offer,
the quality was vastly different, so much so, that
prices for wheat ranged from CS to £l6 per load.
Barley and °the- spring corn on offer, but we heard
01110 sales except • little doing in the oat trade.
Seeds unaltered in value..

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DtifICIINSTY-R CATTLE MAREICT, Saturday, April
V.—There was as usual a very pour show of stock,
mostly lean kind. The attendance was meagre in
the extreme, and the amount of business dune was
quite unworthy of notice.
RIILK PRIZE SHOOTIM—On Friday afternoon
nineteen of the members of the 3rd Dorset (Dor-
chester) Rifle Volunteem assembled at the rifle
range, Maiden Castle, to shoot for a rifle field glass.
and A second prize fur the extra entrance fees. The
distances were 200 and 300 yards, live rounds each
distance. The parties contesting were evidently all
more or less nervous—A circumstance which, we

trust, will never oceur when they are called on to
repel an invasion of hostile foreigner& We append
the rnrticulars of the scoring:-
200 Yards. 300 Yards. Total.
Sergeant Homer ... 11 2 1 1-6 ... 1 1.2 1 1-6 ... 12
Hogg... ... 3 1 1 1 2-8 .. 1 0 1 0 1-3 ... 11
Corporal Mears ... 10 11 2-5 ... 31 1 0 0-5 ... 1
Sergeant Gregory ... 0 1 2 2 2-7 ... 1 0 0 1 1-3 ... 1
Color-Sergt. Davis... 1 1 0 1 1 -4 ... 2 1 0 0 1--4
Joseph Homer ... 11 2 2 2-8 ... 00 0 0 0-0 ...
Ellis .. ... 10 2 1 1-5 00 0 0 3-3 ...
Sounders 1 1 1 1 1-5 . . 0 1 0 1 0-2 ...
Rogers . 00 1 3 1-5 ... 00 1 1 0-2 ...
Thomas Homer .1 2 1 02-6 01 0 00-1 ...
Corporal Chick 12 0 1 1-5 0010 1 -2 .
Day „ 11112-6 ... 00001-1 ... 7
T. Pouncv 02 11 1-5 ... 01 0 0 0-1 6
Greening 02 1 1 1-5 ... 00 0 1 0-1.... 6
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Hodges ... ... 00 1 1 1-3 10 0 0 0-1 ... 4
Robinson 000 1 0 1 .. 10 0 1 1-3 ... 4
Sergeant Turner ... 11 I 00-3 ... 00 0 0 0-0 ... 3
THE MILITIA.—Tho whole regiment of Dorset-
shire Militia mustered on Poundbury on Saturday
last, previous to undergoing 21 days training. The
regiment is greatly strengthened since last year,
the recruits, which have assembled for drill for the
last fortnight, numbering nearly 400
DPW -me MILITI% lIV —We bear Clat 1.1 ~fricer
0r tile Stall, cuuiniio.r.it .lcpartiii iii Li. la• 011 to
Dorchester during the past week, to inspect the
meat supplied by the contractor, Mr. Hayward, to
the Militia. This officer seemed perfectly satisfied
that the contractor was doing his duty, and ordered
that the mutton which WAS purchased elsewhere on
the Saturday previous should be paid for by the
person who ordered it, and not by the contractor who
very properly declined haring any more to do with
the contract, unless the meat in future be allowed to
pan a Garrison board instead of a Regimental one.
This demand was readily complied with, and we
trust that the new arrangement will be the means
of preventing a recurrence of those ridiculous
refusals, which lead to more serious results than
many persons would suppose. The way in which
the public purse is partly emptied by such
squabbles is really a serious matter, as this
LASS Will clearly illustrate. In the first place, after
meat has been refused (when wrongfully of course,
we mean) a purchase is made in the market regard•
less of cost, which somebody at some time or other
must pay for ; then a letter is written by the
contractor to the commissariat general who sends
down an officer of the staff at the expense of tbe
country to make a personal inspection, and enquire
into the character of the contractor whom lie finds
suppling more than 4,000 men, and giving general
satisfaction. Thus the public money is expended,
and taxation increased, and contractors raise their
price as compensation for annoyances, and poor old
John Bull has to pay the cost, and wonder, what
next I

BINCOMBE WITH BROADWEY. &MOM were
preached on the last two Sundays in the
above-mentioned parishes, by the Rey. F. Fisher,
curate, in behalf of the Indian Famine Relief Fund,
when collections were made as follows : —Broadwey,
£5 Si. 6d.; Bincombe,l7s. Oid.—total, £6?. so.

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CONWITTIED TO THI DOHCRIVITER GAOL.—SeMia-Ri :
Frederick Cross, stealing copper coal scuttle, at For-
dington ; John Hunt, stealing cow, at Sherborne ;
Thomas Andrews, stealing money, at Winiborne Min•
ster ; Ellen Seymour, uttering counterfeit coin, at
Unsay. Hard Labour: Daniel Me earthy, drunk, at
V. Regia, 14 days ; John Hawes, vagrancy, at
Hinton St. Mary, 1 calendar month; David Hodder,
stealing fence, at Portland, 2 calendar months ; William
Garrett, stealing wood, at Dorchester, 1 calendar
month; Ellen Taylor and Eliza Gale, stealing money, at
Dorchester. I calendar month, and 4 years in a refor-
matory • Mary Jinn Taylor, stealing money, at Brid-
port, 4 Calendar months ; Susan Lathey, stealing money,
at Bridport, 3 calendar months; Rebecca Hallett, steal-
ing apples; it Marsbwood, 1 calendar month. /Pori.
swimmer : Uriab Smith and Charles Hughes, drunk, /cc.
at Blandford, 7 days; Margaret McCarthy and Mary
McCarthy, drunk, Ike., at Weyinoutb, 7 days.