The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-09-16 00:00:00

Sotto anb WO

Rae. C. W. Bingham proposes be Stlith as • conve-
nient day for makine «inactions fur the County
rittaalm.
mCertainly let it be the :•iteday before
Day for people who have to pay yenta;
but we recommend Hr. Newham to be wire as •
Wesleyan, and hare another ceillection, one from the
Land owners, sit soon as pueMble after quarter-day.

A miniature world appears in the districts comps.
ting for Use prime al the Lybourers' Improvement
50de4...../11ach like the world outside, there isn't
ew hooey to show for the lost time, the wasps
kg.° out on gardens and heaths, 11. they hare
among the nations, and bonergetting has be-n checked
In Dorset and the bigger world. Wheo will the bees
be woos enough to keep down the wasps and turn
out the drones?

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Great rejoicini, there it to be at Etingham's
Maloorobe. Their work was excellent, and yet=
were beaten. The clergyman of that farm:A
Is too good • claseic not to remember the chime who
rejoiced at losing a poll, because his state bad so many
more worthy than be.

"A little cottage of his own,"
" Mtn bonny Nankin uvergrown,"
If occupied by the British workman, :night be ail
odious sight to those Dorchester dilettanti whom horror
and dread Ls a " second Grove buildings.' But U they
will have villas, why don't they make the Tills-
occupiers as comfortable m they can?

We are told of villa like reedeoces in a group that
barn not even surface drainage, and the water dis-
tributed on the gardens there finds its way between
the soil and the hard chalk, and unplearently moistens
the lowest parts of the home. Even Mr. Mode did
not intend to do away with water drainage, and if it
be true that the Council do not supply such to the
villas we mean, can it because they are studying the
effects of damp upon the human frame What a pity
It is that the Cruelty to Animal& Prevention Society
dose not extend It. care to the float animal I Only ft
would have too much to do, for the aches of damp-
ceased rheurnatisur might rival vivisection's pangs.
Corporation poking near Gray'. bridge I. Innuaria
thus as a dark eight. The praresegure travel along
the raised chalk footpath till they get somewhere
about the middle, when they go down over the heaps
plied there by PerMiNIAOI2 of a paternal Council, and
senetimes rise, lancing to heap fire on the path-
asakses heed.

With the good 'Northman of asphalts in Dorchater,
tor instance new Trinity church, the geometrical
wake in some of the flagged foottrays set us thinking
what Is their raison al 'km, and we give it up. Some
of the pavements of Dorchester want mare than •
little se=e the riscks. See the south side
of High

In the Western World there is • plant Ni. flowers
of which smell like carrion sad its surroundings. We
wen neer some gardens between the first and third
street in DorcheilW the other day, and fanc4d there
woe • grove of these badiretwated plants close by.
Bat aol the well came from • elangliter-homee.
That's • delightful thing to bane in Ni. heart of •
county town, and very little consolation 'Ni that the
=.owners near must stiffer. The Dorchester
have some &bums to remedy at home before
they aut Utter themselves they bays done all their
duty by putting reins* into the Broome. With pigs
on the pavement', and elau6tsring between their
streets, Ni. municipal noes in Doraeder wants to be
blown. It hoe either • bed cold, or too much esentisi
baoclkstobid.

No, two. Dot ties Gas works that mad* the senfil.
Perhaps them me few works that are so dewily and
gerearegszmiling silk. Deschestsr noes ; and, that littl•
or no " solphoretted "or bi-sulphide, or other noxious
compound escapes, is proved by the gariaod of beauti-
ful Bowen and 'roguery In which the Dorchester Gas
Works are wit, while the good dividends of that com-
pany show that profit is milled to the beat management
and the absence of west..

Roman soldiers, the Builder tells us, were kept out
of mischief by having great public works to labour at.
Perhaps Marimba:7 was thus constructed. and this
would answer the question—" Why was it made so
larger For we learn the stiles Romans, was employed
eves at tutosorsertry works. Happy must the ciritaa,
Dear which • legion was quartered, have been, when
the soldiers found enough leisure to build it a splendid
pile, for which it could not have paid. We are not
sure whether the soldiers ot the present day are better
fcr having so much leisure in time of peace. If they
built as public monuments, It would be • certain way
to prevent rusting, and

—" The soldier slighted_
Whoa the wan an over sad all things righted.'
Plraeg dram of peace, however, we fast will not
coma- till Mr. &yaw and a good majority of tha
M.P.s like him cease, lanablike, to crowd, in the ovine
lock, and vote for those who spend the country's
wealth, and have nothing to show for it but • horrid
butcher's MU before they go off to their sports, along-
side the yet uncleared &MO

Digester in Afghanistan after disaster in Zululand,
stamp the present Government am being the most
unlucky, as It has already proved the most haughty,
puree-proud, wasteful, quarreilsome, and swift to shed
blood. Yet the wasp-drones of the Treasury Bench
see staspected, if we msy judge from the ravings of
their organs, of intending to smear over their blunders
in another sea of blood. Frightfully has this nation
pad for its pride and lunacy at the last General
Niection, which gave iso long a lease of power to
the party whose principal use we. thet,like • swell on
the noarb.box, they might hold the reins a short time
while the regular driver refreshed. The poem.
gees were " taken " with the eh my driving of thy
swell, bade him goahead, and pride alone prevents
their taking the reins from his hands now the hones
are running away, and the coach threatens to upset.
It ought not to be a party question, Liberal or
Conservative; but how most quickly to oust the
obstinate blunderers who thrust their countrymen
into • wasps' nest, and pretend to be angry because
they were stung to death. If the Country sad
Borough members still allow party oneness to
triumph over common sense the re n on their too
'amble gregariousness will be—
. _

- "-Sic vco non vobis lealficatis over."
Only official bloating, am to be allowed to reach
the public from Afghanietan In the " war of
" The furious society journal that ex-
the army to deeds of slaughter and
CVof which "Blow • dress from a gun"
' • apsofms, will be in danger of not getting
the als it desires, for oserespcodents
under official censorship will scarcely dare to publish
the varieties of violence which they have used to
"moth. the savage bremt" of the Afghan nation, and
to attach such good Mumulmans to them in Christian
love. The fact is the cowardly treachery of the
Cahalan will probably be repaid with terrible T.
Amos, and it would not do to allow snob horrors to be
raml by gagliehmen and women, or we should ma, not
only •4111 • demon I. war, but what demons it makes
at our own fellow•subjects.

Exuma each as those pat forward by the officers
under Irios4aaperor LyUon,erill naldeasim the new*.
rapers whom correspondents hare shown no the
photographs of war. Sada' correspondents may be
allowed to take the risk a their own defence or loss
of life, sad such man as Archibald Forbes, who
beat tie military menewers, an not likely
to encumber an army. We cannot help feeling
that horror* may be perpetrated by our Asiatic
in the name of Britain, that will not bear
the Ughi, and we know who ha. said 'They loved
darkness rather than light—becanee "—lf tha .upper.
tare al Imperialism have not thrown overboard the
second party in the alliance between the two B's, lit
these relied before they allow to be committed, in the
dark, deeds that may stamp our name with eternal
hatred In Moslem Asia, and throw Rneelaa'e
opponent. Into Ramda's arms.

.I=lmpelslist papers, like the Golog. and IND
4ig IIL Psiersborrp are sure to pablisb aoooants
ol oar Asiatic soldiers' &AT and probably exams-
stri " atrocity " tales, Kogliehmea are not
allowed to tall the troth Islamist fear of. superkw
°liars' Masa

And far all this misery, awns, danger, and dlemnok
we us indebted to the bombaWc players at Govern-
-111110 like a trampastlas COUlipsay, ars alwam
gf•ing as performance' fall of villalns, hair•briedth
=horrible madam and thrilling cembsta,—
as made as Zmprem • Vicelimpsror, and an
Uri, but alma Sovereign mart by this dos be Wart-
weary of the socebotooom cry from her f arose and bar
neighbours—

" hoe hoperstaix toortart is oelutsetao"
Kay the nation return to malty, may we kayo ao
mare dads of vengeance to be dome away from the
light, in the amuse of " Who Impsratein." Bat with
000neellors who love their followaubjoato, sad havo
hope al the peaceful triumph al freedom and all other
riblia_a the world, may we rejoice yet mom in Victoria
" May the defend our Isom
A.llll ewer ii,.- or so
To shoot .4th bandied Tole,.
God we the geese."

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