The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-01-27 00:00:00

DOZOKISTIS.

ML P. V. igilet, aneticeser, of Dorchreller, was
drive* toward. the town is • dog cart au friday
snafu& sad what near the County Police States the
midge collided with • waggon bangles to Mr Paul,
Oagee rare, mai Mr. Reece aid his man were throws
out with peat velem" The horse bolted, and
Mem ender M Goatee with • lamppost, it wm
=dby MS employed at Use brewery. Mr. Senor
rather • •••••• lutizry to his as, mid
although the horse was anlalared, the trap was tom
=OTwreaked. It appeared the wean was M tbe
I the meidest naatteaded, Me seder having gone
to the Maim
TIM Dregailiemre or Mit:rm.—With • view to
provost the aegis that ensues ea en disbandment of
regimens, Truth gays .—The proper way
would be to forth. payment of the men after
.11• J 'um their bogus, lasted of, as sow.
leg them thee money at the same Use aad that
Mae when they are most Illtely to speed and
shun It. The scsuding of noir pay may molt Is
11 Profit to the pu lobeces Minn of Um nelebbonr
hood la wade the training Is had, but certainly not
to the mi., or to the onannutity at large. Truth says
walla( about the' nee " at the seemoblv.
Doneneena Wong ea Mesh Inman. —The
moue gement meeting of e' e memberd ol ten club
was had is the swain-room of the le seance of
Wednesday eviVaim
Tbere was a good atendenoti.
Mr. Jeanine ( t) took the chair. The fret
busing' was t eleotioa of president. sod Mr.
Jammu was noised to that Aloe; Mr. Enatt wee
needed vios-predidest, Mr. EL Hill, temente, ad
Mr. James, boo. an 'llse followise were elected ae
the comadttee :—Masen. Betty, A. TIII.y, S. Earned,
J. Dodds, U. Payee, F. Mortar, MWourt, sad A.
11111.—It was eared to add "Modes Society "to lbs
MS of man ; also the "Pill Mall Gagne," and
"1=8" mad to dissoatinue "Daily Telegraph,"
'Words." "Lutist. Hoar," mid " Poesy
Volles."—The sale of papers asd petiodkule followed,
sad unneastly high prime were obtained.
A °mon Osinermow.—Tbe Poll Mall Ganda
meetly Wired • prim of ten guineas (or an but
Het of the t.sjv.sts.t living Englishmen, divided Into
tea dames. Tb, offer seems to bars been attractive,
aid to have elicited s "me curious return This roof-
wane is vested with • certain atonal of Ind
Miami, tad it Is swims to fame in tin novelist du'
Mai Ms. Thomas Hardy (the Doren novelise)
NOUNS moss votes thaa Hawley Smart, 13 Reedit,
Aatitoeircil K
ollope, L. °Upbeat, J. WO any,
Idles toe, Edmund Yates, n. Handy
Wood, or ugh Conway. We 6o sot Mean much
bapeemada, however, to the canvass, it Meg In eon*
partienteds etrespay ludicrous. For laseasco—the
muebrocem ensile, Hugh (betray, seeds fairly well
ca the list, 1611•1111, snob " drake " me Vista, Hugo,
Mark Twain, Thacheray, and O. Owls, nears
otaUtouse
cants 'so
h.
HALL—The sauna tea gad ramang
of the Dorchester Teel Anemias Society, wash
holds lee gaiberiage at the Temperance Hall,
Mid ce Tuesday enalng, and proved a very atoossefed
ash, n• penwediage somenemad with Oat at
whisk between 50 and SO sat down. At sight o'dook
• ev. J. FAS,J meetia
g wee
weerataaifi•fi
R. Dan Thee • barge
IS was maaalmosely neolved that Mr. Charlie
Greenlee be sleeted to the office of president pro is.,
also neentary sad tremors, ; Mr. 3. Uttar was
aseled vkie-proddent, sad the following wen obsess
ea the multi« :-.Mengs. Holley, Sheppard, Wake,
Rawlins, Shepherd, Hawked', Hardy, Bonet; Moon,
aid Martin. Sellable hymns were song and doceilsot
midgemes delivered. The Rev. W. L. Taylor (Port•
lend), gave an admirable lecture on " Preeideet
Wools." wade was • smarm of gretelveante and
amassment to the andienoe. Mr. Gre proposed,
aid Mr. IKOOIII 111100114111 d. a ballet, vote of thanks to
Mr, Taylor for his neaten lecture, sad the mottos
was serried by asalarnatice. The Rev. W. L
Taylor, baring responded, proposed a vote of thanks
to Me Chairman, which was noanimouely mooned.
• colleens was made at the aces.

TES REPRESENTATION OF WEST DORSET.
The Hos. Oodirsee Bettie, Conservative candidate
for Wed Dorset, has retired is f &Tour of Kt
Farquhano• to provost a divielea of the patty.

THE gussrloN OP MUSICAL PITCH.
eerier Or rHe QOM.
lii. ansounced that the Queen bas saectiooed the
adoption of the diapason normal for her private bead,
and that this will in future be used at the titste
creeesrls. It may be hoped that ino Wastrioue an
slam* will be universally followed, and that the
uniformity of musical pitch frequently and urgently
advocated by all the most eminent musician will
soon be an earomplisbed fact in England.
The Rev. W. lines Barnes, the secretary of the
Salisbury Dicessan Choral Associatiou, In the amuse
of an interesting letter la the currant eumber of
Madded Opinion end Music Treals Amine, on the
subtlest of pitch, settee The great Injury which
the cloehtsios of pitches bat indloted upon art is
England is acknowledged on all silos • there are few
musicians who have not ezperlinneed Vie leo ,avernitscoe
of It. An earned pvot.sto. the part of the models's
of Reglead agalnst the continuation of thn evil, for
which the movement amongst European sailors in
favour of an laternatlanal pitch affords a most favour.
able orportunity, would in all probability secure
=family for us, especially if the manufacturers
would support the movement by giving notice to their
coetomen that they will said out all new inetruments
tuned to the international pitch. unless ordered °tap-
ed... Me marvellous progress of the tat few y 4 ars,
shove amongst other ways, by the number sad
prolate°, of the caadidates from all part. of England
for scholarships at the Royal College of Music, proves
that Faelsed le feat advancing to the foremost place
se a maim of musicals. ; sod It would ledserl be an
hargerable reorescb U the eche. Europese nation.
should ado.. -as laternatioual pitch, and E usleasti
alms. sr them with die Red lodise., and other avers
tied sead-ol rated settees, shosid prase to retain the pre.
NM
Babel of pitobe There are di fficul ties no doebt In
the way, but wbat great work barterer been accomplished
which has not presented difficalties to be surmounted
and It should be remembered that the difficultiee in
the way Ma' raising the pitch did sot prevent the
pitch frees being rased,' and that the lowering of the
pitch would cause leis inoonvadence than the Wale,
of It has done. But have not the difficulties in the
way of change bora overreted ? The priocipal have
referenos, the first, to the precast pitch of ooncert
room organs, the mooed, to that of orchestral In-
strusasete, to which might be added tee lest to
niusiolans who play their own instruments, If the
arehatra adopted • lower pitch. It Is said that
dessert orgasm at the high philharmonic pitch would
be maim U the Ditch were lowered; but 11th. French
diapason sonnet Is adopted, a. same most coobable.
that pitch is about • senaltose lower than the phil-
harmonic, and we shall only be adding one more
tramped./ fastens:ant to our orchestras if, whoa the
pitch le lowered, the organ parte is written as for
organ Intl Should • permaaent alteration of the organ
to the lower pitch be desired, the plan, which is
oertelnly pasiblis with two manual organs, might be
to the larger lostroments, namely to cut
eiceestettes of the hays with the pellets, shift the
keys hall an bah, end reconnect with the pallet. •
secatose below; lb. toning-horn and reed-knife
would rapidly moomplisk the reel in either COM The
next difficulty in with the reeds and Beta of the
orchid.; the braes, It is admitted, scald be altered
all a balm oast, which would not be worth madders.
tics. As to the reeds, the eatioa has roost liberally
provided hods for the establishment of the Royal
College of Maio ; would there be any difficulty, if an
effort were seriously made, In procuring by public
subseription the few thousands which might be
seesseary to supply to orchestral players who provide
their We bestruseente, end orchestras which adopt
within • slated lime the Internatioad pitch, new
lealalmants In exchange for the old! A sale might
be lewd for manufacturers stocks and the discarded
leatessesents of orchestral and military beads, in the
celestes or amongst than bras and reed bands of the
swath, and militia, and volunteer bands, which might
for • time retain the old pitch."