The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-29 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

Tax peculiar character of the season to shown by many
persons In Dorchester having now fair crops of straw-
berries. and Mr. W. R. Vatcher, of Trinty-sireet, has in
his garden a capital row of peas both blooming and bear-
ing well-filled and perfectly green pods of good size.
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Ws: understand that on the first four Mondays and
Tuesdays In November, working men from the Evangeli-
sation Society, will give addresses in the Corn Exchange.
The Rev. K W. Peers will be glad to receive subscriptions
towards defraying theexpeuseL

CON/MT= TO TR/ DORSET COVET! PLOW/C-116rd
Labour: George Johnson, stealing cloth it Bridport, and
William Higgs, ragrancyat Wimborne, 1 calendar month
esch.--fsoprisoarecer William Cleal, breach of the peace
at Bradpole, 3 calendar months ; James Glare, stealing
milk at Weymouth, 7 days.
LEcruits ON ARAD !Arr.—lt will be seen by advertise-
ment that this (Tuesday) afternoon Mustaplui Ben-Yuied
will repeat his interesting lecture on Arab life with Illus-
trations, at the Town-hall, and we can with confidence
recommend all who did not hear it last week to ateend,
assuring them of good entertainment and much interesting
information.

Tun WuTng&—Ths following is our msioorological

report

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25 65 43 1 SW rine
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2; 64 51 ' 8 ' r°l4, fine

the business could not proceed. Fcw wore than half•an.
hour efforts were fruitlessly made to secure a second
magistrate, and at length Mr. Churchill was waylaid
„ssing down the street, and at 11.10 a court was made.
Novr„ as there are nearly 3%1 magistrates in the Dorehecter
division, it is rather too bad of theni to lollies on Over-
seers such a loss of time, for their parochial uties occupy
quit! as much as many ran spare. On ordinary Petty
Session days • delay occasionally wows, but gentlemen,
hiving greePted the dignity of Justice of the Pelle.%
should in fairness take their share in the duties of the
position. Those who attend with any regularity are
tower than can he counted on the lingers of one bawl,
while Mr. Williams is the only only one who is seldom
absent and %hen that i 4 the case he is greatly nlianna• If
a rota were drawn up, and certain magistrates undertook
to attend on set days, it would be equalising the work and
sating public time.

ARAN Lim— On Tuesday evening a very interesting
lecture was given in the Town-hall, to an overflowing
audience, by Mustafa Ben-Yusuf, an undergraduate of
Cambridge, who has been in this country about 13 yeara
and desires to qualify himself for the work of a medical
missionary among his Malionietan countrymen. At the back
of the platform were curtains of the sacred green colour,
bordered with gold fringe, and arranged before it were
tea youths and men of the town arrayed in Eastern
costumes, to represent different classes of the community.
In their unwonted attire they looked lugubriously solemn,
and were drolly stiff, in marked contrast to the lithesome
activity and geniality of the lecturer. However they
showed off the costumes, and that was all which could be
expected of them. The ben. H. Mollie presided, and in
introducing the lecturer said it was with no little pleasure
that he welcomed him in Dorchester as • lecturer, being
an undergraduate of the university of Cambridge, the
university of himself and his sons, as well as of two or
three of the clergy of the town. An African boy appear-
ing here as a lecturer was to himself at to them, their
attendance showing it, a matter of great interest, hut
there was something else which attached to it a far deeper
interest in his own mind. It was that Mustafa Ben.
Yusuf was • member of the Union of Prayer established
in the university of Cambridge—a daily prayer meeting
of half-an-hour, divided into two parts, for supplicating
the outpouring of God's Holy Spint and especially upon
the work of missions. The object of the lecturer was to
raise funds that he might qualify himself So • medical
man, and then to go back to his native country—be was
born on the site of ancient Carthage—as a medical
missionary, and thus this meeting might tend finally—let
them ask it—to the glory of God. It was remarkable
that in this little town there bad been established for years
very intimate relations with the China mission", also
during the past few years with the Zeuana mission in
Hindostan, and who knew but this might be the com-
mencement of intimate relation with Africa of a similar
kind. In conclusion he asked the audience to join with
him in prayer, and said the collect "Prevent us 0 Lord,"
followed by the Lord's prayer all joining.—The lecturer
remarked on the great thine, in science and art we owed
to the east, and above all it was the home of the Bible.
While western nations had changed their dress and
customs, those in the east were unaltered. When first
our ancestors came to England, which, he said, was "but
lately," they were great savages, wore very little dress,
and painted their bodies, yet now they hail become so
civilised as to think chignons essential to their adorn-
ment (laughter.) Haring remarked that donkeys were
the chief means of transport in the towns, yet not said he
such shabby little creatures iu this country, he introduced
a donkey driver, and showed that his head gear served as
a protection from the sun, • wallet for his food, and a
purse. As to the latter he disparaged English as coin-
trilrd with Arab honesty. Next the lad appeared as the
, and the houisehold mill for grinding was shown.
As • slave the lad was also shown, with tongs to carry the
live charcoal for lighting pipes. A. Eastern merchant then
came forward, and some said they discerned in him the
sexton of Fordington. However, he had a flowing beard,
huge turban, • cavernous purse, and no end of daggers
and pistols in his girdle. But it was explained the arms
were only for show. Kissing the beard is a token of
respect, and mitring "by the beard" renders an oath
Inviolable. The meant being seated cross-legged with
some dfficulty, he was furnishesl with a chibuuk about
two yards long and whiffed solemnly. A ladies' pipe was
shown, consisting of a glass vase the lower part filled with
rose water, and the bowl proper supplied with Persian
tabac, which is very mild, while the tubes are various in
number Wives, said the lecturer are cheaper than pipes,
and as the men cannot always afford • pipe for each, they
have one of them with 10 or 16 tulles to it as the number
of their wives may be, lie described the bazaars, the laziness
of the merchants, the slowness of bargaining, the inevitable
coffe drinking and smoking. Carpenter blacksmith, draper,
and grocer all sat erosielegged at their work.and smoked and
sipped coffee the while. The only measure in use was the
cubit, When disputing they will smite one another
with the shoe. The scribe with inkhorn in girdle, and
green turban indicating that he hal made a pilgriinage
to Mecca, was next illustrated, Then the Pharisee making
a display of his phylacteries. The sheriff with the green
robe indicating the Judges of nobility. The shocking and
dangerous state of the streets at night was described, and
various kinds of tempo shown, the i uaration giving special
point to the passage, "Let thy word be a lamp unto my
feet, and a light unto my path." The house brush,
without any handle, was exhibited, and the lecturer
showed the way in which it is used to indicate the action of
" diligently sweeping the house.' Ladies out-door shoes
seemingly very difficult to keep on, and in-dour slippers—
' kind ot wooden patten with very high toe and heel
pieces, the explanation being that the house is daily
washed, with buckets of water, and those peculiar shoes
prevent the feet getting wet. The height of the slipper
is taken to indicate care and neatness of per.n, and when
seeking a wife it was said the young nian asks "How high
is her slipper from the ground r Half a cubit is the
highest that can be worn. The " bed" in the passage
"Take up thy bed and walk" was shown as a simple mat
about ti feet by 3 feet, easily rolled up and carried under
the arm. The Ishinaelits, of the desert were described as
very warlike—one was shown, with spear in hand, and
constantly invoked to looked dignified. The mototony
of travelling in the desert on camels was spoken of and
the Bedouin with camel's hair raiment was exhibited.
The lecturer ridiculed the half-naked pictures of John the
Baptist and others which are seen in national schools, and
said that in a " hard" climate like that it WM necessary to
cover the whole person as a protection from the sun. Tent
life, with their mode of eating, was amusingly illustrated.
The sand causes many to suffer from opthalinia, and fine
eyes are highly esteemed, so that one of the twist
beautiful terms of euillearment is "Oh, my eye The
shepherd with his sling aud pebbles, and the Arab musket
were shown. The punishment id the beatified° was illus-
trated. Egyptian lady's dresses, "a root of many colours,"
sod various other °Weds were introduced, &Nei the
lecturer finished with an Arabic song, with chorus by his
assistants. It was after ten o'clock when he concluded,
and the meeting hastily dispersed.

BOROCOH PiTTY Sith.iO3/1, liot.d.—Beforo the liayor (Mr.
0. J. 0. Cregory) and Mr. J. F. Matzo..

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The only bushel:ea was to campic from the payment of pour.
rat., the permit% in each parish recommended by Use Overuse”,
on the gruuud of poverty.

FORDINGTON SUNDAY SCHOOL

Will you allow me LI emrect a misconception which
may have arisen from the account, which you kindly
inserted last week, of the se.miiile holiday given to our
Sunday school! I wish to explain that the holiday was
entirely planned, not by myself or my family, but by
teachers in the school, and the expense, were wet by •
subscription, with which I had nothing to do. I gludly
take this occasion to express toy hearty thanks to those
friend., and to all who in any way aided in the good
work, which will prove I trust, with thid's blessing, •
great encourapment to the work of the schooL

HENRY 1101: LS.
Fordington %%wage, Septamber 23rd, Had

HOSPITAL SUNDAY IN DOECIIE'STER.
The claims of the Dorset County Hospital on the
liberality of the people generally were specially brought
before the congregations at several of the itLace, of worship
in Dorchester last Sunday, in connection with thanks-
giving services for the late abundant harvest
At Holy Trinity church, the festival was marked by the
decoration of some of the principal points in the edifice
with fruits of the earth and dowers, and the Lugo conae-
gations testified to the interest the services evoked. In
the vestibule on the wall opposite the entrance door was a
large red field bordered with yellow, red, and varieuated
dahlias, intermixed with box ardi ears of barley, on which
warn beautifully formed with corns of wheat in bold
lettering' The Lord bath dealt bountifully with thee."
Entering the church, on the Communion table stood a
sheaf of corn, including wheat, barley, and oats, and
having several fine bunches of grapes pendant from the
band, the combination being, of course, emblematical of
the commemorative bread and wine of the Lord's Supper.
Around the base was a wreathing of asters and rose,. The
sheaf was provided, as in former year,. with Peculiar
fitness, by Mr. Henry Mayo, of Coker's Frame, the
principal farmer and ratepayer in the parish. Over the
reredos was the text " Praise the Lord " done in wheat
on • red tablet, having &pretty edging compooed of oats,
wheat, American marigolds, largo white burner, &IA
loaves, The pulpit and reading dook were each adorned
with a string course of autumn dowers and ountswhile
the candelabra were entwined with fuchsias: The font
was chastely decorated with :nous, clematis, and blush
roses, with a circlet of bright blooms around the upper edge
of the bowL The ladies who thus tastefully and beautifully
adorned the church were labli Coomb., Mrs. A. h 0„,..
Mrs. Gone, Miss Panton, and Miss Bowye, and, of course,
Mr. Cooper, master of the National school, gave his
asustanee in affixing the various decorations. At morning
service there warn a full congregation. The Hector read
the prayers and preached. The hymns were suitable to
the occasion, ths opening one commencing