The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-07-04 00:00:00

TFIK DOR..4ET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AaRICULTUR‘L fiAZETTE, TUr:-,DAY. JULY 4, 1882.

Mary Aan Gallop corroborated the story of the
complainant. Defen.lant, she said, lived with them,
awl boarded j'tat hey did, lie scarcely ever paid
any. hing. He gave her se, a month ago for three
months' by .rd and lodging.
I'. I.'. No. 6, who talc the defendant into custody, said
he wan drunk and staggering when mprehended.
Mr. Supt. Hunt st.,te I that in October, 'Bl, defend.
ant wee lined for being drunk and disorderly and
assaulting the police.
He wee fined 5.0. In each missend the costa, in default
14 day.' hard labour for each, and to be bound over to
keep the peace for air month'.
lie sail he would kick out both, and was removed
In custody.
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Faaa-Vnecort—l have been favoured with • copy
of the F•ed4inker. 1 didn't tear It up and I didn't put
it on tnn sr,. I simply sat down and read it through.
I felt that if my religion were not strong enough to stand
the on-slau,hts of &paper like that, why the I.st thing
I could do would be to look out for • new religion.
But 1 am bound to say I do not feel touch shaken In
creed by what I perused in the Peeditiaker. No doubt,
there was much in it unanswerable, and equally on the
other band there was much that was simply profane,
and • burlesque of things the great majority of people
rightly hold to be sacred. But. I hope it is not true
that • wall-known tradesman in the town bas" sacked"
an employee simply because lie is one of a band of young
men who have enrolled themselves here as a society of
freethinkers. This would he a specimen of narrow-
minded bigotry that would do more than anything else
to help the freethinkers • rung or two up the ladder.

Elisabeth ElHoley, wife of a mariner, WWI charged
witl, stealing water, the property of the Poole Water
Company, in Cliurchetreet.
She was seen with a bucket of water by William
Leg:, who told her she ought to know better after
being cautioned so many times, and she admitted that
she bed taken it from the company'. taP•
Defendant sail she would not deny it.
51r. Porton said he had brought the case as defend-
ant bad been repeatedly cautioned. The owners of the
property bad complained greatly of people coming Into
the yard and taking the water.
h ined 1.. ant costa, 6.. 6d.
Defendant sail she could not poesibly p ‘y. She bad
to work bad fur Is. • day, and, am Mr. Porton said
be would not WWII for a CO ovictioo, the Bench said
thev would give her three menthe to pay io.
Bessie Pickham, who said she was 16, bed looked
on'y .bout 15, we, mought up in custody &mod
with stealing a coat.
Charles White, of the West Sh. re, stated that on
the 518th he left his coat huagin..{ oo the timber in Mr.
Not .n's yard. He afterwards found it had been
stolen, and he Rave information to the police. He
valued it at 24. 6d. (Laughter. It looked dear at 6d.
for rags.)

Here are four or five lines from the writer's
remarks upon Poole—" Like nearly all the channel
towns of the Middle ages, Poole was always prepared
for war—public or private mattered very little. It was
rather accident than motive that determined whether the
inhabitants were to be regarded at any particular time
as pirates or patriots. If the King was lighting of
course their national heroism was undoubted: if be was
not they fought all the same, a little lees openly it might
be, but none the less stoutly, and took the conse-
quences." Can any one deny there are plenty of chip*
from the old blocks to be found in Poole in the present
day I

%Villain Hsrmaa, mate store dealer, proved the
debit Mut came to him with • Mindle of rags, rouud
whidi wee wrapped the c•mt. He gave her 3d. for the
Toe rag, were collectel from the scavengers'
heave.

THI SALVATION AILMT—; title which, as Lord
Shaftesbury sari, savours of rank blasphemy —have, in
this town, I hear, lost • warm supporter in • well-
known alderman. ik lias become, and nature/1y as
every b44IJC person would, disgusted with the antics
which are uow bring imported into what they cloven to
term their services.

she plea led guilty, sod her father said she was not
exactly tight In her head, and bad been OIAIDIIIe I by
th-Ldocturs.

waa a previous conviction eftelost her, hut the
Bench avid they would deal leniently with her, sod
@wend Judgment. (Api.lauee in court.)

On Thursday last " (be General" with his satellites
bold an 'All night with Jane" meeting at the Lower
Ilan, Clayton, t, Tickets ware issued bearing the
inscription " l'asa ono to the All Night with Jesus." It
is really horrible. And the ticket finished up by inform-
ing the recipient that be is "not to send any communi-
cation with regard to the meeting or anything that may
occur in it, to any newspaper, religious or secular,
without the moment of tho General,

FORTUNE TELLING IN BOUENEMOUTIL
A remarkable case of fortunedellltur came before
(Assam R. Stephens and F. C. Hyde at a special
mentions, held in the smell "lowa Hall, on S iturday
morning. The prineciit 1' WAS • housemaid, named
DMA Wilcox, in service at 113,urnemouth, and the
prisoner (who was Lr.cl and ailwelaimded by P.C.
Aldridge, on the previous at her residence,
Newton, Constitution Hill) was a hawker of lace and
petty jewellery, named Rhoda Berton, and belmged,
it is sail, to one of the tam lies of gipel. a which are to
be met with in this neighbourhood. She was charged
under the Vagrant Act with being • rogue and raga.
and o'esining a sovereige from the young w,man
by falsely reprasauting that she wa, ebbs to tell bee
" fortune." The cSASO was one of rather an interesting
t her actor. The prosecutrix stated that she was a home-
maid living at • bowie in the Christchurch-road. The
'Moos, then proceed.l with her evidence as follows;
On Friday usuruing, between 10 an 11 o'clock, priaoniar
came to the house where I am living and offered
some lace for sale. I bought some to the cost of is., and
pee prisoner half-ascrown. She then began to tell me I
looked very unhappy and that it was about. young man.
She said I should either have seven year.' happiness
or seven year.' unhappiness, in o insequence of •
difficulty. The "difficulty, she said, wee about a
dark young man. She said that she could
torn his love back to me again. "But ti it had been
the Lord', work," she said, "I cioulii not do so. As
it ie the dark woman. I can turn his love back to you.
and you shall beer from him by the 9th of next month."
She then took up some card., and told me to tuna them
up three times. I did.', midsize said' Them is the dark
young woman, and that is the fair young man. The
dark youog woman I. telling tales about you. She thee
. milted me to take the garter off my left leg, and I did
, did so. She put it round the pack of cards.— rhe
prisoner (interrupting) : Oh, my goodness I—Witnees
(continuing her evidence): Then she 'eked me to bring
• the largest piece of diver which I had. I said "I
have not got • large piens of silver." I brought a
small French coin, but she said "That will not do.
but gold will do. I don't want to take it away." I
then fetched a sovereign, which she told me to put in
the garter, under the pack of cards and, after placing
• finger of my left hand oath. psai of cards, to make
• wish. She then took off the garter from the cards,
and told me to wrap up the sovereign in the garter.
She then took out an envelope, into which she put the
sovereign, and was about to place it in her basket,
when I said "Don't take it away I Oh, dear, don't do
that, for that is the only sorer* ga I have." She said
"If you have not more faith in me than that you'll make
memos. I will promise to bring it back on Monday." I
told her I would • low her to keep the Gd. out of the half-
crown I gave her for the lace. She said, " What I do
borrow I return again, but what I have given me I do
keep." The prieoner, in answer to the charge, said
that no money besides the half-crown pealed between
herself and proeecutria. l'he Bench sentenced
prisoner to six week.' imprisonment,

Surely this is despotic enough. But the outside
public are ignorant of the lengths to which this autocrat
goes. I will give them another instance: A "captain'
was some tints ago removed from Poole to Bridport.
There he made the acquaintance of • young member of
the "Army," and wrote to the "General" announcing he
was about to be married, The man Booth replied com-
manding him to postpone the event for three months.
tic declined to place his neck under Booth's foot.
He was married, and at once "cashiered," and be and
Ins wile might have starved in Bridport had it not been
for the kindly and timely relief given them by •
gentleman of this town, to whom I am indebted for these
tact&
Lamthult. A handsomely bound and admirably
printed Record of the Labours of D. L Moody and
Ira D. Sankey,' the great revivalists, has been for-
warded me. It is edited by the Rev. John Macpherson,
and published at the office of the "Christian," 12,
Paternoster-buildings, EX. The contents as a mere
record are deeply interesting, but, in addition, the
conunents of the editor are golden Wle sermons in
themselves.

A insOILACIFUL KEA, 1 am told, took place Wed-
nesday night at the West Station, Bournemouth, on the
return of the last train for Poole. The passengers
were hustled about by officials, who seemed to have
kept up their loyalty at the expense of common decency.
Two gentlemen of Poole, I hear, were felled by a
drunken porter, and, losing their train, had to pass the
night at the Pembroke. I only hope they will make
the company pay and this pugilistic drayman smart.
But whore, on earth, were the responsible officials ?

I us Len TO NAZI the above remark., because, I side of the picture ti ri.w the nobler. Here they are
believe, were I to make application to the energetic minted by tender and loving llama which, aecnompanied
manager of the Poole braueb uf the -Peed" Assurance by sweet and sympathisin, mike, remove much of the
Company, to effect an insurance upon my life, be would gall and wormwood of duteaa.. Here surgical and
require • premium about equal to that he would ask of medical assistance in given, and every comfort—yea,
the Emperor of Russia, Arabi Pasha, or Mr. Guiteau. and even luxury, when c enietent with the dissase—La
That is, if all is true I bear. offered. And for all this, and much more, which apace
will not permit dwellitur 'time bare, a gabhath—ona
Sabbath only is eat apart every year—when denomi-
national offerines enbly ewell the funds of the grandest
and most ptilanthropic work mankind can be
capable of. To the me lit of Bridpnit, it ham an insti-
tution of this kiwi, and the annual return proves the
efforts made on its behalf to be replete with math,
factory said beneficial !milts to suffering humanity.
I am glad t twins, that the 'Mist Church consresatioi
again this year beets the lee, (C be found in another
column) •kb Ell 7s. lid., beior £2 3s. 2id. over awl
above any other offerine. Thin en *km well f r the
Evangelical Church, e•pecally when I consider some
neighbouring sanctuaries bait of 'bible it. number
of attendants. Altogethr hospital work, is whatever
way its interest in advenc 01, is • touchiest picture of
sympathy and unwearied poll-no.; an admixtore of
Christian self-devotedness, selfoacrifice. and charitable
ministration; there in no work teetninx with such
benevolence, so replete with I h. istian charity, • work
to which few ate complete strangers, for it 'some which
ham long mince rouwei the hearty enthusiasm, and
'Erred the purses of every cis Sized Dia..
Lycra Libris.