The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

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. hel-ped his triumph. Lady Ghiglotto
wsaiLadit,Charlotte Guest, will beet
be in thir neighbourhood and South
Wales ilnder this hater name. She is one of the
Lindsays, and married, when young, the late treat
Iron Master of Dowlais. There is a good story told
of her when Lady Charlotte Guest As is
t
oharaoteristic Of her, we copy it from sem* oridinal
papers published in the Bristol Times about fourteen
years ago :-
Though a fine, handsome and fashionable woman,
With eight children to claim her care, her ladyship takes
an interest even in the minutesof the works, and has
80 keen an eye to the main point, that though she
. might poseibly startle at the question, "What is the
price of pigs?" she knows what the price should
, be. Upon one occasion, I am told, she astonished
1 the wild Cymbri by rain out out a rail bar herself.
'A circumstance was related to me which, if true
tpdhiates her character aptly enoagh. Her ladyship
'.ll generally observed to be is a somewhat vivid state
* excitement about the time the balance-sheet of the
'ilbrks (when Sir John had partners) was being made
up; and as soon as the account wee finished, so eager
was she to see the amount of profits, that she had a copy
it it sent on to her wherever she might be. On one
occasion, (it was, if I mistake not, the peat railway
year) the bad a grand party at her Landon residence,
Jbably brought together to give echll to the project
die bad in mind. When the festivity was at his height,
a courier arrived from Doelais, booted and spurred,
with a tin box coetsining the expected document.
Lady Chariolltd Ordered it to be brought to her in the
brilliantly lighted saloon where she was surrounded
by • circle a her aristOcustie friends and relations,
who were probably occasionally, like her mother, in
, the habit of having • sneer at "I Ae Cinn'er Hole."
"What's that, Lady Charlotte," exelaimed they, an
_..... corps mustered hi Nil crowding round the apparition of the ti-box.
" 'Ms our belanoe-sheet. answered her ladyship.
at Mountfield, for drill and • " Balance-sheet 1' exclaimed the fah Aria' tot "what's
a sictanded as far as Loden. They a balanae...heat r
on :the road by COPlain Coin- "It is an account made up, and showing the profits
down at the works for the last twelvemonths."
as, LAUNCH.-On Monday evening th was The oompany laughed, for they thought with Lady
4ere
Lindsay of the cinder-hole, but the Welsh Iron hisateell
fionobed. froll the ship building yard of Mr.. °jail wife bided her time, for the laugh would le with Mira
, i ilr••••• a aPlelmidl, modelled three-muted OphOonoto as the opened the tin case and drew out the document
',u'`....7.isseed A 1 at Lloyd's, for 13 yeses, and of the fol- "And so that's a balance-sheet," exclsimed her frien
owing dfinensions: Length, 112 ft. ; breadth, 23 ft. crowding round the paper with the double entries i. 44.
,c,as7.l.4nt ; depth, 13 ft. Si. Wane ; and 227 79-100tha • thifl red lines, and they looked on it iia on a phenomenon:
registered 'tonnage, intended for the West Lediii and they had never seen one before, and if they had heard
Breaullian tad, ' The ceremony of christening was of one, they thought it was something belonging tea.tiggk,rnied/ by um Co in the proem*, of a urge ship. " But what are the profits," cried they, as pay
•', number of spectators. Tbe following do, hdt. co, Charlotte scanned her c.yeeepverthe
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y she
provided fFir'hie ,wark people a substantig dins*. I .' t seeu ° h j'il them
decisaid, as thoughd
~
~ . spoke to herself-" Three en r thousand perm e-sa-
..kli.. 1. ,i• ' veey fair year," and the re-committed the balanoashoot
lawli'3 I°'-'1:1 ' ' BRA-"---15POLF,. .m.i...,:
to- He tin case, while peeresses looked, as Lot's wile
D30014T10N,-A rich scarf, ornamented with might have looked as she was being changed into salt
- blue and in/Liy wespresented to the Rev. Prebendary "Three hundred thousand pounds profit ?-What, you
Broadl ,ntl„W-esineeday, by • deputation from the don't mean that In one year r
J. . "./Frigidte Somehy. Tbe scarf wile pro- "In one year," was her reply, OA if there was nothind
curedr
irt I
~. 7,;p41t.e.1a draper, eatibbythguingi at all remarkable in the matter.
1,
"I'd bee Cinderella myself," said • Border countess,
Three
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Lady Charlotte had her revenge. None of them
sneered at the Cinder Hole after that-the balance-sheet
cured them.

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I • RINGWOOD.
Tag CROPS In HAFTS, Ealing, July 7.—Wheat
thin on high lands, good on strong 'oils, whether such
soils are rich or poor. On the whole a full average.
Barley a fair average crop. Oats bad, unless winter
oats or sown in February; a dry April was very un•
favourable to this crop. Beans middling crop. Peas
sweaty good. Mangold fair promise. Swedes a fair
prospect, but in phase injured by grub and 26 days
without rain. Turnips a good plant and with late rains
likely to be a good crop. Potatoes good. Rainfall
January, 4-82; February, 281; March, 91;- April, 66;-
May, 298; June, 298; Total, 1516.—W. C. Spooner
.in Agricultural Gazelle.