The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-06-28 00:00:00

I HER BO SWF.
MASONIC.— At the Lodr of BOIOV01•1101 on Monday,
Dr. P. Colour was rump smugly elected W.M. for the
east& g 7,&r. The lode a Bourielawif._

A DANGEROUS BEAR.
Great excitement was canned in Half Moon-streeton
Saturday afternoon dui log the performance of • depot og
bear. A little b named Ellaway, about six or seven
ye us of are. was in the act of giving it a piece of cake,
when, getting too clnwe to it, the beast ii ,wed him, Sad
pulled him to the ground. The keeper at once aeiz-d
the bear by the head and threw it over, and Fred
Lambert caught the boy by the legs and dragged him
away, relieving the terrified child from its most
da, gerotts position. The poor child was deathly pale.
and after its reieae returned to its mother. Lambert
called oat Mr. Yearaley for • gun, and declares if he
could bays got one he would have shot the dangerous
brute through the beryl. It. keeper quickly made
tracks onto( the town; but we have received complaints
from other pbues (Yeovil for one) against this danger-
ous nuisance The sooner the keeper can be stopped,
and tbe animal transferred to the Zoo, as shier and
better.

BRIDPOST.
MILITART.—A email detachment of the Royal
Horee Artillery from Dorchester arrived in the
town with a mounted band, on Friday at noon. The
detachment carried four guns, ambulate.. As., the
men being quart ire,' till ths following morning, when
they proceeded for Homiton, on the way for One.
h ampton.
SAD A CCIDIXT. —An accident of a serious character
happened at the Bull Hotel, oc Friday morning. One
of the drivers, named Oeorge Hawker, was standing
In a ladder, (*ding piglons, when the la lifer slipped,
and Hawker fell to the ground. He received a fearful
cut scram the forehead. which bled copiousy, and
sustained a bad 'Train of the wrist. When citified
home, Hawker waa insensible, but under the treatment
of Or. 11. y is improving.
CHURCH TIMPIRANCR. —Under the auspices of the
Church of England Temperance Society, the Rev.
Canon Hatching. preached at St. Swithires,
Allington, and Sc. Mary's, Bridport, on Sunday last,
before numerous congregations. On the following
(Monday) evening the Rec. Canon delivered an
appropriate addre. in the National Schools, Guidry
Lane, riving statistics of the society and a complete
explanation of its plan of prosecuting the work; the
results being of • highly satiafactory nature. The
chair on Monday night wag ocmpied by the Rev. S. S.
Redd'', vicar of Allington. 1
DISORDS/LY H —.At the Borough Bench on
Tuesday, before C. Elmturir, F,aq. (Mayor), and F.
Good, Esq., • pugilistic-looking fellow, rejoicing in the
Same of John Britton Smith, hawker, from Bristol,
was charged at the c implaiut of Sergeant Hizzard,
with being drunk and diaorderly.—Pris •ner was very
bland and penitent, declaring that hie mate bad
deserted him, and in consequence he to dr to drink. I
—The Santorini said he had been most disorderly and
used frightful langu .ga, and in consequence was
expelled from three publichouses.—The magistrates
told him he would have to pay la. fine and 6s. coets, or
go to gaol for seven d iwith said he wool I get
the money at the Pack Horse, where his g Kis were
MISS ARMSTRONG 025 " HSALTH."—A. course of six
lectures on "health "are being delivere i in the Town
Hall, by Miss Armstrong, of Leeds The series com.
mooting on Toes lay, to end on Thursday next, are
attracting gratifying audiences, and an lite discourses
are in the hands of an intellectual lady who has giver'
them • deep and praetical study, they promise to be
productive of much lasting good. The following a-0
the subject,: " Food, Cookery. Water, Other Drinks,
Healthy Homes, Communicable Diseases."
A Sitvgis•ago-Sixrugv BIGGAR. —At the Borough
Police-o mrr, Saturday, before C. Edmunds, Esq., and
Cornick, Esq., Abraham Phillips, who said he was
72 years of age, was charged with heggiog on the even-
ing prerfous.—P.C. Andrews !roved the case, stating
he found 4.. 61. ii silver and 34. in coppers on the
prironer, besi les tea sad tobscco.—Frisoner said he
had been w rkircr in FrAnco as an iron moulder for 15
bit had been seen home to England by the
reach Omani. He now wanted to snake his way to
Wales , his native place for which a gentleman had
given him the silver, and various people the copper,. '
—The Mayor warned him of his Riegel course, but
discharged him, providinr he left Bri !port at once.—
Pi is roar. bunting into tear • declared he would "run
at once." and imp!ored the blessing of Heaven on his
Worship.