The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-08-14 00:00:00

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The Times made a ridiculous flourish the other day
in announcing the very common-place fact that Lord
Francis Cecil, a younger son of the Marquis of Exeter,
who has married a daughter of Mr. Cunliffe Brooks,
the Manchester banker, has been taken into the firm
as a junior partner. I cannot see anything out of the
ordinary in this arrangement, and can only any,
fortunate Cecil, who ham stepped on such easy terms
into one of the first commercial connections in Lanese-
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An article in the StKdater a week ago threw a some-
what lurid lioht on the decline of rents, and the
general disinclination of agriculturists to take farms
under stringent covenants as to game and other
matters. The seine change is, in fact, coming about
with regard to land which has been long remarked
with regard to labour. Formerly there were three
men after one master; now it is the reverse. Precisely
so with the land; it is the landlords who have to seek
tenant fannera, not the tenant fanners who have to
bid agtitott each other for land. Mr. Jefferies, a
well-known writer on agricultural topics, has recently
depicted this silent revolution in the Nor Q,,erterl y
Maya:inc. 'There was once," he says, "a popular
hill/M.400 that farmers went about on their knees
begging for farms. It certainly is lint so now. A
man of experience and skill can always get a farm,
but is landlord cannot always get a tenant." This is
the silent 'evolution of whit h the daily Press tells us
nothing. What a pity that some of those Correspon-
dents shut up in Sbutula, and seeing only through
spectacles of Turkish green, are not sent into our rural
districts to tell no what is going on comparatively at
our own door!

There was a great rage a few years ago, especially
among tetnperAnce advocate% for erecting drinking
fountains. They were built in pleasant and well.
watered village% as well as in the thirsty streets of
towns, and in many cases their architectural preten-
sions gave them the appearance of miniature temples
erected to some beneficent water-nymph, or to the
modern Goddes .4 teetotalism. The multiplication of
such fountains was, perhaps, by no means retarded by
the fact that the portrait of the generous do not 'in-
frequently appeared in the British Workatan or the
Blied of Hope. I wish some new body of charitable
fanatics would get hold of the idea that a plentiful
supply of merely ornamental founta'ns was essential ta
human well-being, and would forthwith make it their
lansineart to provide them throughout London. How
delightfully cooling to the sight in summer, and how
soothing and refreshing to both eye and ear in winter,
and in summer, are the fountains in Trafalgar-square,
that in the Temple, and that in the Bishopsgate
Church-yard The latter, by the way, has been
removed from the Bishupsgate end of the yard, and
rebuilt, in a handsome form, in the centre of the
ground. For individual charity to take a purely
aesthetic form is rare in these days, and ornamental
fountains are not so seldom presented to the people as
peals of bells, which were no common and beautiful a
benefaction among our forefathers.

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bert 131.ta10,L, who was alai vino ert, was fined la and
7s. costs for allowing a horse to stray at Litton 'honey.
ovimri.• R,ere* was charged with obtaining 10s, under
false pretences from Eliza Jane Borrett, of WYke Regis.
—Complainant Paid on the 27th of last month defendant
came to her in her garden, told her as pitiful tale that her
husband had died at Brighton, and that she had an
emigration order to go to New Zealand, and was trying
to colbrct sufficient looney t take her to Plymouth. She
nitntioned the names ot Mrs. Swaffiebt, who had given
her 45., Mrs. Pigou Is.. the Misses Pigou 25., aud asked
complainant if she would make up the sum to 13s. She was
going to do this, on which defendant asked her to lend her
100. to go to New Zealand, and the moment ahe arrived '
she would send it back to her. Complainant lent her 10s.
and gave her a book. Asked defendant what she would
do, and she said "Co to Plymouth by next train, and stay
at the Emigration Home until the ship sailed.' On the
i.t she saw prisoner at Wyke begging of Miss Pigott.
She told her how ill she had behaved and said she would
communicate with the police at once.—Mr. Supt. Batty
said he charged prisoner at Weymouth with obtaining the
10. s. from Mrs. Borrett under the pretence of having an
emigration order to Australia. Defendant said she had no
papers, and had not told Mr. Borett so. She said she was
going to Plymouth to try to emigrate.—Prisoner was then
charged with a similar offence at NVyke Regis—Susan
Wotton said defendant called at Mrs. Tonilinson's, Martin
House, Wyke Regis, and sent in a book to MM. Tomlin-
son, saying Mrs. Bonett had given her 10a, and that she
had sent on her emigration papers to Portsmouth, and
wanttal money to get there. Mrs. Tomlinson gave her Is.
On this she said she did not want money so much as
wearing apparel, and asked witness to ask Mrs. Tomlinson
if the had any old clothe. t a give her.—Defenlant said
she was very sorry for what she had done, anal if the
• Bench wouldn't punish her much she go upon her knees
and promise not to do such • thing again—The Bench
convicted on the first charge, and sent her to 11 days' hard
labour.

expense if dm Ilked to come in and talk it over, but she , ord is, .1 bumea , the mails
Jklorriet Cottutti Expreoo.
f Plague le neuscr4e:isit-mat7nngclall cattle to'n
, the complainant first spat at the defenulant, and she, in nort nf debarkation. When. some two years Kos the
be talleanntghtered at the
TUESDAY. AUGUST 14. 1877. : returning the compliment, male a had shot and hit the Peninsular and Orientid Company withdrew their
complainant. —John Mitchell, the nephew, was called to great earns ships from Southampton, he tad the
_ __ substantiate this Iltatement—Dimmisge,t, each party ts sharehudisMuif tide cuimpany that A,..me other trek
NOTES OF THE WEEK. pay thP f•rAtq, IVOIIIII IWO (0111111 to rompon s sate for sum si . ,
a ee and hat
- William Ortane.i, a carpenter, a Darchester, ana a
In A'Beckett's comic " History of Rome," the wars native of Yeovil,' pleated guilt), to e onmitting a breach
of the Romans] and Lamnites are described in true of the peace in High Street West, on the 24th of July.— h4,.wnia,:gri,:itlh: iin ii
~liiixzeiriaii,i,7
.7.7 t niu'iiiiwpopzi;
.Itrzeb.vlet.hirei
Telegraphese English. Every day a Lananite army P.O Gould found him fighting in the street at a quisrter. Ameriea, which hal terently sprung op in dead me it,
iii put to the sword ; but, somehow or other, like the past eleven at night, with another man. As they per. cheese, and huirsee. having one thrmigh the varlons
combatants at Astley's, they pick themselves tip ; suited in it be tool, them into custody, but the other man paragraph' in the report errians, he conclnulei by
behind the scenes, and are ready to begin again next , away, awl had not since been found.—Defendant said mmrAttilitim, the ahareholders upon the fact that the
f,"t. . •‘ • -
nly hit in self-defence—the other began the row.—
day an fresh as eves. There were sui many Russian pe l •is
suom over in in own recognisances of £lO to k la the traffic receipts of the last week
.amuninted to E.10,4fi1l ,
e'''' e and there were prosseets usf its I,oms heszes lie
defeats last week thud the wonder is that there are any ss, „ 111/Mth.. Thi. ro.t him tli. &I.
ove ilsu i oe i
kft to fight again. Isu ur instance, a battle haul been ' fr" 1", rl lit'e, Ishoimer, of Fordingt as ideated guilty m pith wh ii n fth rep it and Ammnnts.
going on at Hawaii for six slays, until for very shame to being drunk and dimrderly in Holloway-row, on Mr. W. S. PoirrAt.. the uleputy-chairman, meeoniled.
the eorrevPondents at Shemin hail to drop all reference Sen.lay, July 21—Acting-Sergeant Pomeroy said there The report was then adopted WO the dividend
to it, and take up their pen to describe other matters, was out-door preaching on the day in pie:Sion, and the , deelared.
The explanation is exceedingly simple when we get to ulefendant, who was very drunk, yeas abusing the part-ms , Dr, l'tNenrs then moved the increase of the
the bottom of it. At Shuinla the correspondents are " holding forth."—Defenulant said the man who wax
g "aan, whom he knew, had ,
' slireetors' remnneration to efl,ooo a year, but an amend.
i not intered as much as if they were in Dartmoor prison: died. preachin said A l bouring m
soul was nem in hell in tsrments.' and hdd e 1 ment that the remuneration shuitild be £5,000 was
and their letters only pass out after being opene.i and like it. no he toll him he couldn't tell, as he hest never carried.
read. If the public care for information of this kind, been there to see—Fined 51. and costa ; allowed a week The CHAIRMAN then, on behalf nf the Board,
they are welcome to as much of it as they can read, to pay. deelined to receive any additional remuneration.
John Aythall, a labourer, of Fonlington, who did not The meeting separated alter passim.; the usual corn.
A little secret oozed nut quite accidentally on appear, was summoned furs like offence on Wednesday, plimentary vote.
Wednesday, which has been long anspected, but of the lit of August—PC. Pomeroy was on duty in High
which there nee' be no longer any pretence of my Bast-street, at a quarterpast ten at night. He found the
,s
The nlegraph was the only paper in the secret ofters7i. utefendant thered drunk andsembler stripped. and wanting to fight.
He had a crow asi round bim, and was ruakiim
Smith's appointnaent to the First Isirdship 1-,f the use of very bad language. He moved him on. There
Admiralty, and its columns contained a leader on the was a previous convictien against him of assaulting the
subject in whichl the puff direct was given to Lord polies--Sentenced to fouiteen days.
Beaconsfield for his discernment of character, and to Robert Storey, trussed in a black frock coat, and Owen
Mr. Smith for his administrative abili at the Mitchell, scarcely so fashionably attit ed, pleaded guilty to
treasury. All this may be very true, and ?'have not fighting on Beggar's Knap.—Bound over in the nein of
a word M
to say against the theory that r. Smith is the £lO each to keep the peace for 12 months.
Ge Orr,. foreman bricklayer, of Fordingtnn, was
very fittest man in the country for the poet; but it is aunnoned for being drunk on licensed ;trendies. Since
none the Inuit significant of what lord Beaconsfield's the issue of the summons the defendant had been appro-
policy would be brit for the ( 'abinet and the country. hendeul by the Southampton police, and sentenced to six
The Ibid.,' Trintraph, with its pro-Turkish policy, is weeks for leaving his wife and family chargeable—The
not professelly the ministerial organ; and yet it is case was accordingly adjourned for two months.
treated as if it were. Al for the poor Slamlard, I can Gleams Stone, shopkeeper, of Mill-street, Fordington, was
nn'y say if we have team, we must ',reprise to shed lnd m to ha
by Mr.
having defieie Supt. Cowardi as inspector of weights
lt n eights in his !Lie
them now, for itssu the met crtiel case of wife-desertion ane
sum mon' the 'Slat July. They were—lib., 12 drP;hivrai
that I know of in political annals. deficient; 211 r, If drachms; 20z., 11 drachms.—Fined 10s.
inelouting resits.
The scandal of no many prisoners remaining untried Thomas Boirerr. 14Imurer, of Darehmt,r, was charged on
&wing three or four months, causing expense to the remand with stealing from the pet-con of William Brett,
country, and sometimes defeating the ends of justice, of BroadmAyne, 3.,. Yid. On the Sth, the prosecutor was
has led Mr. Crone to bring in a short Bill to amend drinking with the prisoner at the Royal Oak Inn. He
this state tif things. The Winter Assizes which have hfterwftrri. went into the ita'ule and fell asleep. He was
come off in November are to be put back into the awoke by finding the prisoner's hands in his pocket lie
rae
Autumn, dit is now lawful to hold the Assiz esed the moot>i and n aft
es the stable, and an off up Pr the prisoner whorinces-street—P.Chad left.
Dunn
in September or October, as well as November It a,snrehended him the same day, about two hours after at
is satisfactory also that the Irish and Scotch Prison the Royal Oak Inn, where he lodges. He said he knew
Bill is out of jeopardy. In Ireland such a consolida- nothing at all of it. On him he found 3s. in silver and
tion of prisons is more urgently needed even than in copper. In reply to the prisoner. Brett said he was in the
England, as there are counties where, but for the kitchen of the Royal Oak on the evening previous, and he
staff, the prison might as well be closed. Besides, then let some money feall...litutwlther piockedup,and.he
the Reformatory system has been in force for a much in:l:heti:mount h h
drinking that:M n
ornihe following
longer time than an this country, and, on the whole, not tellill that occurred. Prisoner elected ts be tried by
has been much more efficient County prisons are the Bench, and said he knew nothing whatever of it
little needed in England ; and scarcely at all in Case dismissed, the Bench considering the evidence of the
Ireland, prosecutor hardly conclusive, seeing the state he was in.
COMvvr Perry SRSSlONs,Saturday.—Before Me Herbert
North London, or, rather, the N.E. District, will Williams, Mr. G. Churchill, Mr. H. B. MiddletAn, Mr. G.
soon become fashionable, as the Princess of Wales haa Wary, Colonel Steward, and Mr. E. L Kinderaley.
selected Cleasold Park, Stamford Hill, as the residence MASTERS AND SIRVANTS,
of the royal children when in London. The sanitary Mr. Chapman &loaders, of Watercombe, was summoned
arrangements of Marlborough House, leave much to by a labourer. Frank Bailey, under the Master and
be desired, and, though the drains are to be thoroughly Servants Act of 1875, for wages. On the 22nd of July, the
overhauled, and repaired where defective, it is not to ' c°wm2ll.li uf
oanr th4ce 'derf
de.indg to h iaststiLtemteetialsoird logo hoeing
be supposed that it will ever come up to the standard Zbem te:vice There wastho agree"inent as tPoerthe eTit
of modern requirements. If Vanity Fair is an I was to occupy. He went on and did something over eight
authority, it would be well for the pocket, as well as acres, and than he came back and began to go over them
the health, of our Upper Ten if they moved off to the I again. When be had got through the worst of them, Mr.
N.B. district. In the West the coat of entertainments Saunders came up and said the rent did not want to be
is something excessive. An evening party small and done. He toll him he should finish as he had agreed, and
early COBt9 two and three hundred pounds, a ball more r Saunders then said he should not pay hini if he did.
' Mr
that he concluded his work, and tu
than twice that sum, and a concert with a star or two
to sing about E6OO. This; is paying for their whistle I summona —The Chairman said this was a ques'k out the
tion of con.
tractand they had no jurisdiction.—Mr. Howard requested
with a vengeance ! i to he allowed to ask a few questiens and in reply the
complainant denied that he exposed the roots, aid did
more harm than good. Although Mr. Saunders told him
to stop, he still went on with his work.—Mr. Howard said
this was the most lawless case tbat had ever come before
the flinch. There was not the slightest pretence for it.
Defendant agreed to go through the field, but instead of
that, when be had only gone half through in spite of Mr.
Saunders'e remonstrances he went hack, and consequently
undid all the good he haul previously done—The Bench
thought it a case for the County Cana, and dismissed the
sninmenx.—Mr. Howard asked for the expenses. It was
very hard lines for Mr. Saunders, who had a peat claim
' for damage done, to be dragged from one court to another,
The Midland Railway is going to make another but he would undertake the costs should not be pressed
step fuirward, and ti provide a dining saloon for its for, if the Chairman matter there ended.
Th : The C
hillman cam I wish the directors success in this Thee following WIN another ourt are against the costs.
case under the same art.
experiment ;but the necessity is not so great in this Henry Chorchill, had a cum of a claimed against him
country an in America, where A passenger gets on by Mr. Williani Toleruan, of Winford E sgle, for absent.
board literally at New York and disembarks at San ing hirmelf from his service. Mr. Howard wai for the
Francisco, after a week's run across the entire defendant, and set up the simple defence, that the reaesn
Continent, he left the service of Mr. TI-man was beetuse he was in
ill-health. am, was unable to do the hedge-cutting Ms
his master put him on, the weather being such that he had
not a dry threat left upon hint Mr. Toleman PAO
him up all his wages when he left, awl told hie to go,
and now sun! him. —Complainant denied he Mid hint to
g i, hut when defendant refused to do any more work for
him be certainly slid pay him up. Defendant was ordered
ts pay is. for the damage, and Is. CS. for costs.
Jain" Painter WAY fined lid. and tis costs for being
trunk in the parish of Holy Trinity, at Dorchester.
Frederick Le...tricked was tined Ss. and costs for leing
rrunk and riotous at Charminster.
Charles Dodge was suminsned for furious uhiving at
Maiden Newton, on the nth lest —P.S. Freeman proved
the offence.—Defentlant'A master appeared, and explained
the hone was in tlm habit of " jibbing" iunl getting
uncontrollable. and the niagistratre, accepting the ex-
planation, dismissed the summons..
Samuel Miscack, who did not appear, was summoned for
being drunk and disorderly at Upwey, on the 6th in,ut
P.S. Hitch proved the offence, and the defendant was
lined 31s. and the costs, or one month bard labour in
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Mr. Weston centinued : Among other cases of cruelty
they had beard of hunting down slaves with dogs, but still
they little thought that such would have occurred in their
own thuntry, but yet, if his instructions were correct, he
should show that this was really a fact. The defendant,
because he could not get a poor man off his farm, actually
hunted him with a park of dogs, joining in the chase on
horseback. All the offence this man had committed had
been that he was found kneeling down praying in one of
the defendant's fields, and, because he would not leave, he
first threatened to send for the police for him, and aubse-
quently set his dogs upon him. The poor man, pursued
by the savage animals, ran for his life. Dunning all the
time holloaing his dogs on to bins, and finally managed to
get through the boundary hedge, but his conditien might
be imagined when he told them that the man was now a
raring h,sussiieiii Fannon A 6ylron ! If he proved that Mr.
Dunning, although not the primary cause of the malady of
the unfortunate man, ha,' done what had been the effect
of increasing it, and of rendering the man from a quiet
Inoffensive man toa raving lunatic, he must be responsible
for the mischief which hail ensued. If the man :n being
hunted over a hedge had fallen and broken his neck, he
took it Mr. Dunning would have had to take his stand at
the her on a charge of manslaughter. Having minutely
narrated the facts, Mr. Weston said although Dunning
might not have meant in the first place that the results
should have happened which do, yet he believed the
Bench, however reluctant, would impose a very heavy
penalty. The highest monetary punishment they could
inflict was £5. To Mr. Durining,lwho was every rich man,
that would be merely nominal, he therefore asked them
either to pass a sentence of imprisonment or to send him
for trial at the Quarter Sessions. He then called,
James Randal, a native of West Coker, and now residing
at Forstort, Will working for Mr. John Saunders. He nekton
Thursday the 111th of last month, he was working for Mr.
I lakley Saunders, in a field at Higher Burton. /lin brother
Williarn and John Hyde, were with him. Whilst they were
so engaged, they heard a "dreadful moaning noimi "
which some thought Wan fighting, and others cows.
Hearing it again they down with their hoes, and ran to
the tap of the field. Getting on the top of the hedge,
they now the man Cox on his knees surrounded by three
dogs and Dunning. Dunning asked the man to go off his
premises, and he replied "1 cannot, sir, I baint able.
Defendant then said if he did not he would get the
policeman for him and help him off. The Man kept on
saving. I can't, leant, and Dunning said " target my dogs
at you again then.' The poor man begged " heartily" and
cried " don't, sir, Oct them at use again." Upon that
Dunning called the three dogs and set hint at the man
who was on Isis knees crying for mercy and
praying to tire Lord. When the dogs sprang
upon him the nian got upon hi* legs, and
ran as fast as possible. Donning rode after hint WWI still
kept foreing the dogs upon him
The Chairman : What doyou mean by the word forcing?
—Here, hint, take hold of hini ; have him.
The Chairman : Holloaing them on.—Mr. Dunning
was still au his horse. The man tried to run ,ulf the
farm, and either jumped through or fell through the
hedge, which led on to Mr. Saunders farm. Dunning and
the dogs still following. Dunning then truth ul back
rejoicing at the fun and laughing. Then they went after
cox. Ile had known Can a fortnight previona to that;
he was working on the same farm. U'hen they came up
with him they laid hold of him, lie was frothing at the
mouth like a madman and said " don't come near too or
you wont be living ling,"—Mr. Andrews entered an
"hjection again-t these exclamations. But the Cinch
',led against bins—lie kept repeating times out of
number "Oh they dregs." They got him to Verger's
barn, and then sent for the police. They at
removed him to his lodgings at Burton. He
seemed to he a little bit quieter, and they kit bins for a
quarter of an hour. They went back afterwards in
consequence of what they were told, and watched him all
that night and Sunday until he wan lanes away. cram-
examined : At West Coker, twine-making was generally
his work. He haul been up here for the last Ig years. The
lost person he worked for at Coker was Mr. Edward
Taylor. He worked for his father who had the repair of
the roads.
Where does he live there I—There's no numbers to them
streets. (Laughter.)
The Chairman : Don't get into too many bye-ways, Mr.
Andrews.
Mr. Andrew.: No, sir, I want ta gat into the highway
—(laughter)—(exbilriting a tithe map to witne-s). Could
you point out whist part of the farm you were working on
at the time?—No I ain't dune much ta that geography in
my time. (laughter)
Witness Was then interrogated at some length whether
there was not a chalk pit in the tidd in which
he was working: he amid he didn't give his
mind to chalk pits, but to how much he should
get an acre for his work. Ile didn't know in
what direction it lay. He slid nut know much about they
telescopes, but he could tell the sun did rise in the east at
six in the morning. Ile uluda t know this case was coming
on or he would have booked it. He was about two or
three hundred yards ferns Dunning when he first saw
what was going on. The shepherd who 'was there was
laughing at Mr. What's-his-name smiling at the joke.
Mr. Andrews: A joke ! How do you know he thought
it a joke I—Bee ouse he laughed at it; you wouldn't laugh
at sorrow would you.
Let on bear what the mau said, as you say he was
praying for mercy?—" Coln; Lord, do—come in a
minute ;" tie repeated that time after time.
He couldn't tell what sort of dogs they were, they looked
like tigers—at all events they went at hiss just like some.
It put him in mind of slavery. There were two biggish
ones and a smallish one—the first two appeared to be full-
sized sheep dogs.
Have you had any conversation with any one about
this I -Y es, or he wouldn't be here. The police came to
them.
John Hyde, a native of Loiters, who had also teen
working at Mr. Saunders's was working with the last
witness, when they heard about half-past five a dismal
noise. They ran to the hedge and looked over it. The
witness here described the affair in almost the same
language as the previous witness, stating that when
Dunning set his dogs on the man and he ran away, he
first of all trotted after him, and because he could not
keep up with him, put his horse into a gallop. Ho otter.
wards came back laughing.
Cross-examined : He did not hear Mr. Dunning 'ay to
Cox, "why it isn't In minutes ago you tried to knock my
shepherd down."
William Randall gave similar evidence.
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Dr. Symes of Forston. said the man was brought tn him
just after 10, ou the following Sunday. under the usual
magistrates' order. As soon as he was admitted to the
Asylum he was taken to a bath in his presence. There
were a great many bruises about his body and marks on
his hands were they appeared to have been tied, but his
body was literally covered from head fo.it with recent
scratches. lie was • raving maniac, suffering from acute

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