The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

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MI. 13101101 HI:IMT DARSOW, o ksr,., •
was on Wednesday elected to in open senolannagp
Wsdhsm College, Oxford.

IT is steed fist Lirut. General the Hon. Sir James
York tioarlett, G.C.8., will contest the borough of
Portsmouth at the next election.

Etta Geozaz GRIT will preside at the aremonies to
be observed at the inauguration at the statue ot Lord
Palmerston at Rooney.

WE understand that Stephen Witt, whose death was
reported to have occurred at Ringwood, from the enacts
of the bite of an adder. bad quite recovered.
THE RINGWOOD CHURCH CLOD; after the lapse of
four months, bee been get going, the funds sisimary for
the repairs having been ooßmsted by Mr. H. Holloway.
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THI annual festival of the perish choirs in tbit Win.
chester ChorAl Union took platoon Tuesday, ia the tee
old ehereh of Bt. Cron. Siveuteen choirs took port,
numbering 278 voices.
THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION,-Th• first °Meet
and fourth man to enter Magdala was Ensign C. C.
Connor, of the 33rd Regiment, recently • amebic of
Marlborough College.

EMBUILIIIIINT. —Mr. Henry Hollingsworth, late
cemetery of the Boothima Pier Company, has been
arrested at London, at the Matzos* of the directors of
that oompany, charged with embezzling more than 0100
the property of the company. The gummed had hem
for some years a member of the corporation.
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THU sixth annual festival of the North Hants Choral
Union vas held at St. Michael's Chunk, Beeingstoke,
on Thursday last. The den represented gave an
alliarlitt• o(400 voices. It was evident that there had
been at work daring the past year an votive spirit of
emo'ation swoop' the leaders of the respective choirs.
All were tolerably well up in the various parts of the
ernes, and the afford was on the whole most gratifyine.
A Feral. BLOW.—John Mitchell, aged 23, of the
military train at Pones, was retuning borne with
some enaradea, at midnight on the 12th of April, when
they fell In with some marine artilliwymen. ate of
whom, without any provocation, struck Mitchell on the
heed with • knobbed stick. It appears the man mistook
Mitchell for • volunteer. The d.ceesed walked to his
quarters, but subsequently got wane and died. The
Inquest is adjourned.
ON Tall Thom or Pinning. —On Monday mornin.g.
the 25th, • party of pugilists small, but probably
distinguished, ea "Nat Laughers' wee at the number
—slighted at Romney station, having travelled from
London for the enjoyment of • "set to" in roars rural
retreat in the peaceful neighbourhood of Duabridge.
They were, however, hampered if not honoured by the
constant presenee of certain da1p419110.8 do ,ei.o4 in
blue, who would not be shaken off. Mr. Isumben and
his friends had provided • break at Denbridge to
convey them to • crake rioontry nem ; but even
this careful provision bad been heralded by the
electric, wire; and Superintendent White, with a
vigilance which does him omit, posted off to White.
parish to see that the travellers were met with the
respect doe to their vocation, should etreninstaaose
dote than to pass the Hants boundary and reconnoitre
the adjoining county. Here Superintendent Matthew,
hod already made the neeemary arrangement, for the
reception of the visitor., having stationed Inspector
Obey, of Downion there with • posse of Wilts con-
stabulary. After proceeding from place to place, with
Her Majesty's servants (who were on foot) at
stances Irons the fancy group, • ring was lia
di bal
Slertleld, but only to be unfixed by the authorities in
blue. The latter was so persistent in their attentions
that Mr. Longhorn and his party at last tell beck
upon the Hatchet at Sherfield, and refreshed ; and,
se.ine no chance of developing the" glorious art of
self-defence," the company returned to London without
bodily disfigurement or broken boon, but sadly out
of temper with the bluea, end minus their ropes,
stakes, too.
Tax CILOPIL—Mr. Joseph Bludcfl, of Sotillarop6oo.
reporting on the crops of this county, rye there is on
&handout gran crop both on arable land and the upland
pastures. All kiade of fodder Grope—tares, rya, and
trifolium—are also very good. The Grope of wheat and
Loot corn generally are looking well, at lout where the
land has been well treated; some of the barley and oat,.
where sown after a turnip crop fed by sheep, show the
effects of wire•worta, partionlarly in those portions of
the field where trodden by sheep in wet weather, for it
is found, if the corn pews usildndly, it is sure to be
attacked by the wirewoves, ewesia4 in • drtarsaare.
There are seas ow MI6 et barley whichre not
mats up regularly owing to late sowing and the dry
weather, and 'rethink this eirenineksen eight to Whom
parties to crop the lend with another reel or gross aw
in Prelannes es hie sowing of Lest eon, hr we bold
that a malsiag sample of barley is seldom to be obtained
frown a later eosins than the lint week of April. The
whistle looking any wanking upon most soils where
the leadje in good condition, it is especially straw and
rank yen the heavy land, and if the preset forcing
weather ebeeld matinee it may be too Ingurnat to
give a good yield, although it must depend chiefly upon
the weather daring the next eight or nine weeks • and
should dry weather with a high temperature prevail,
the crop may he most abundant. In looking bock,
however, to previous asernes, we that the
' greatest crops of wheat have been pr.= grown in
than seasons when the Lent earn sad pules Grope lune
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harm sod Published kg the Preps~sr% se thelr
011 lee, Church-stroll, Dasehaster, by FRIDIMMX GILL
POO?, DI the Parish of P.idlalto., ia (*nil of
DarsaL
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