The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-09-20 00:00:00

issues Barks, • gamekeeper, earn sentenced to • montles
imprisonment at Amthery on Wednesday, far carrying
Aromas in • proclaimed district without • bass&
At the Central Criminal Crurt on Wedneeetai. t taut trial
of Kobel Wilberforce for toritiri was PClT'Paa".ln 4eder
that she might hare tome to communicate with lew friends
and
..procure oitassee•
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--irtie-lied.; Union Cower on Wednesday, • resold,
Um was pawed that the Courts of Petty Sessions should
be reconstructed upon the earn. plan throughout the
United Kingdom. During the discussion some strong
remarks were made on the unpaid magistracy. Mad • hot*
was exprowed that um subject would be thoroughly
agitated, and not allowed to met.
At *cochlea Polinstourt, on Wednesday morning, the
Rev. William Bethel, in default of paying Alt Ilk for
arrears In bassudy, was wounitted to gaol for two
months. _

Mimosa OAMI 111 Boluer.—Haaanni mask erioneel7
done: to those with when Landeaers are familiar, have
just been introduced for the first time into Bombay. The
novelty Is stated to have been well apprealaterd both by
natives and liaroposaa
The drought Issa ended in the United States. Rain has
fallen throughout Me country during UN last four days.
TRI Lass OF Mit /1:111TDIC&—A Mosinineat to the
memory of the 316 odors and men lost in the training
brig literydlos, in March, ISM has been placed in Maser
Naval Coasetert.'lo....Tee maiming was designed by Geese
Pale_ Y. /Loyal
mnOTILIM RAILWAY OFFMAOI Os Tax 001121MITL—TIM
German Coned at Livorno. Herr Nismaok, was sneaked
and wounded in a railway carriage at night 14 he was
travailing to Turin. His nifiarlee are not serious. The
smeallants hays not yet been captiamd.
W =LIT Ad Sur 111111421.-I'he minutia of the Wesleyan I
Methodist Conference for the year. 1881-3 are printed, and
from them it appears that the total number of members
in Great Brit•an I. :sum; on trial for church ilemblar
ship. 30,7 W; number of deaths as fully as reported,
kW • number of new members_now hay received,
:46,611. In view of the approaching wamefinlW Ag•th°6l.l
Conference, the following will be intorating, as present-
ing at a gimes the present position of the jparent branch :
Wesleyan Methodists in Great Britain—Mernbers, MUM ;
us. crud for church inenalenhip. 10.7 W; number Of
ministers, 1,510; number of probation= =
numeration,at a Dln Ireland sad eb
bonk 64,230; on una, ministers, la: on erohlkikel.
16; supernumearmies,3& In Foreign Memone—Members,
86,196; on that. 11,764 • number of ministersdoL66 ; On
probation,; superaittineranes. It Preach ensue
—Members, 1,776; on trek 104; number of mlnietere, 10;
on probation,
rch lesTeijrB unable
of midden, ; On probation, 3M ; supernuimeraries,
FM One hundred and seven probatioaers have recently
been received into full connection with the Onalsrence-
-66 in Great Britain. 36 in Foreign Milatues. Ind 6 is
Deena. There bays been 44 deaths in the ministry dur-
ing the year, the Rita Dr. More) Pnnolloq Frederick .7.
Jobson, D.D., Samuel Coley, and William Ceased Siam.
son being among the most prominent names. Six
=Aster* who were in full connection with the Brandi
God arenas have ceased to be recognised Se such. The
examination of preachers on trial is to take place email
timessuey throughout the were distriota during the first
week in April.
Tax FAgenua Wirt. —lt is expected that in the Genres
of another week or so, the Great Northera,Maalway Com-
pany will be able to try the experiment of lighting the
carnage in one of Mak trains by the electric light. The
lamps will be of the pattern known as "Swan'. incande-
scent," and the eeriness will be dtted up with them by
Mears. Crompton, who have bnlliantly lighted the Great
Northern Terminus as King's Crook Great interest will
be felt by the railway companies and the emend public
in the result of the forthcoming experiment,
FATAL ASSAULT.—Mr. Thomas Wait, halide'. 01 Pee.-
marsh, near Bre, an elderly tradesman, went to the
public-house, on Saturday evening, to cash • choluftWad:
his return home he we waylaid by some hop-pickers,
and as brundly assaulted, that he died in • quarter
of an hour. The polio* hare apprehended two men.
The funeral of the wife of the Bev. J. A. Spurgeon,
brother of the Roy. C. H. Spurgeon. took Plate on
Tueeday at Bromptin Cemetery. Mrs. Spurge= was
the youngest daughter of the late rield•Marshail Sir
John B. Burgoyne, Berk, and sister of Captain Hugh
Burgoyne, V. 0., who was lost by the foundering of
H.ILS. Captain, in 1170. Mrs. Spurgeon, it is stated,
never wholly_ recovered the shock of that sad event
A Fara. Potion —A man named Tykes, or Long-
wood, near Huddersfield, died on Sunday night at (lobar,
from Use effects of drinking whisky. The deceased and
some oompanioes early in the al ternoon let an hotel
with three gills of ',kinky in bottles. Soon afterwards
the decried &oak • pint of whisky at one draught, and
fell down helpless. He Was removed into the NAM's of
the hotel to sleep oa the effects, but he died about en

KILLU.—A fatal oxidant. ;which
two men lost their lives. °marred on Monday n tit, on
Lb. South-Swath hoe between Headroom and tapir
hunt. A tarty of four platelayers were at wort on the
rails when two traina approeched simultaasously. Two
of the man. inatead of moving od the line altogether,
stepped into the six-foot way, and when lb. trains had
passed. their oomracies found ;Atilt dead bodies shockingly
mutilated.

—A
youth named Boast, residing at Doverooort. near
Hat wich, met his death on Toads" under singular
circuniataucea He wa• in the act of eating some inn
when he swallowed the sting of • weep, which was
contained in the preserve. He rushed at owe to •
doctor' but just as he got to the doctor's door he fell
down and expired immediately.
An Austrian ship is discbargicg at Bristol several
hundred tons of tones, many of them being human hoses.
They were shipped at Rodoeto and Constantinople, and
ea amongst the cargo are pieces of Oriental pipes,hones
shoes and hoofs, and artillery trap Pings, It
these human remains are those of the gallant soldiers
who fell during the Russo-Turkish war.
An lawman's ham—Great amusement was caused
in the Dublin Polies-court, on Tuesday, by • prisoner
appearing lii the dock enveloped In • policeman's long
ovuomit. When wrested for drunkenness in the streets
oa the previous evening, he tore all his clothes into shreds,
and had to walk naked to the elation.
A general order issued by the Field-Marshal Commend.
mg an Chief states that volunteers, when attending
baliOnela, nmentions.s, or rite meetings out of the UnitedKingdom will not be periui ted to wear uniform, nor when
attending ride meetings out of the United Kingdom will
toey be permitted to nee Government arms,
It is very difficult to gtt at the real truth about the
American crop, reports being a great deal doe to unprincl.
pled emulsion The most credible estimates place wheat
between 400,000,009 arid 420,000,000 bushels. The most
sanguine osUtunte we have lien Is aix per Cent. under
average; the worst 30 per oent. Our experience in collate
ing rep ins would lead us to plus it st probably about 15
per °cut under average. At present trade is choked, and
the elevators are tall, the crop being held for • speculative
rise.—Lies &est Journal.
A movement haa been set on foot to present to the
Bishop of Bath and Wills, for the nse of himself and his
successors, • pastoral staff, u the recognised symbol of
his authority and dignity, and u an expreesion of the
sense of his unwearied devotion to the office which be
holds. A subscription list hat been opened by • cow-
mines, of which the Earl °Mork is chairman, and already
the amount promised exceeds a hundred guineas.
A report comes from Nottingham that • smart shock of
earthquake was felt in the colliery district of Teversal last
Friday. There had, it is said, been no mine explosk
and the upheaval of the floor of one of the pits showed
that the disturbance, which moved in • north-weal:lY
direction, occurred beneath the colliery woritivi.
PHOPOSLD INTIMMTIONAL EXHIBITION, IM—A Pro-
mil has been started for the holding of an exhibition of
all nations at Manchester next year. It is suggested that
the interval o(20 years since the lad great exhibition of
site and industry in London is long enough for such
changes and progress to have been made as must justify
an exposition of them in Ragland, and that Manchester
might fairly be the place for it, as being the centre of •
more populous district than any other—a district with
greater variety of productiotui end manufactures than any
other, and easy of access by way of Liverpool to the most
dLetant parts of the world.
The wretches who rob the graves of the departed of
affection's offering. ere not worthy of sympathy, and we
ars glad to flud that the HMI. D. 'Pelham (son of the Marl
of Chichester), who had before him • woman named Mary
' Burley, has sentenced her to a month's imprisonment. at
&intim, for reading flower-jars and plants from the
parochial cemetery. A notice of this conviction should be
, posted at at. cemeteries, and we have no doubt it would
have • salutary result Perhaps • like Pnitilament might
be meted out to banner-staalers at Ketcham, and a maw
-hat lirister sentence upon brawling churchwardens.—
' Caswell Review.

AOXICULTCIAL ItOSPICIII.—With the exception of Stem
favoured dietec:e in Wales and in Ireland, agricultural
proacecte haw, darkened cmaiderably during the week.
There have ben a few hours, and possibly • clear der
without rain, tut the grain secured under such circum-
stance* has ony added in the bulk of tail, harvested
grain. Steadier crops and grain in sheaf must have
suffered diaastroue damage from tbs muggy, wet weather
which characeeieed the earlier part of the week. In fact
agricultural propane are now so bad that it ia difficult
to find a redeeming feature anywhere, Boot outs are
making rapid gnwth at the top, but are doing nothing
below; all bulbs require a warm dry autumn to mature.
We may LLLLL t i fine, dry, warm autumn, end with It
fair root Crop; bit at present there Is plenty of led and
very small bulb--lell too and no bottom. Stack of all kinds
Ii now becoming an anxiety preempt resources are email,
whilet the future is unmistakably inclining towards a
ecarcitYof whilerkeeP.—Karit Lew digger-
A PROTEST LOINS? Sea BURIALS ACT.—A few days
ago the beeatif I eaurchyard of AU Elan Beet Moved=
had its first visite:ton under the Burials Act. The pro-
...dings were cold acted by the local preacher of the
Plymouth Brethren—of which sect the father ef the
deceseed—a boy even Team old, unbaptieed—is • mem.
her. At the principil door of the church was the following
somewhat tranchaat notice :—" The church is closed by
my orders during be perpetration of an act of sacrilege
In the churchyard reader the Burial Law. —l3. R. Sexby."
It au= however, that the fortitsr in re was mot mac-
by the seeitsr in mead, since upon representa-
tion to the vicar that the reristrani certificate had not
arrived, he at ono furniabed a pais eutborlejng the
churchyard official to aooept the medical oeyUflate
Instead, thereby spiting hia adversaries the Iteeelettl for
going Wench the rbole prooeas of notice serving, kn,
anew from the begetting.
Dears OP Loan Cangw.—The death la announced of
Lord Carew, alter 'short illness, at the fatally redden" =square, London. His lordship was attending his
entary dutie in the House of lards till 'be end of
the session in atrfreanntly excellent health. Hews. born in
NM Shortly afterattaining his majority ha entered the
House of Gammons ma • member for county Waterford,
and he continued torepreeent that constituent/ till 1„,..„841.
He was a Liberal, aul a supporter of the Whir petty.'`"' late Lord auccee fed to the barony oft the dumb of his
father in June, 1856. Lord Carew wee a descendent of the
great and ancient tinily of Carew, on. of the fee Una" now remaining white can trace their descent without
Interruption from toe Anglo-Baxon period of history. By the death of Lord Carew • green
the Order of Bt. Patrtk is pawed at the &Wong of the
Prime Minister, sad the Lord Liagaimapa el Wexford
bums§ vomit.