The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-06-26 00:00:00

ebbs anb a übis.

Wor'dopiness, as a rule, hit pretty straight from the
shoulder,and Mr. Richard Garton,of She Hackney Work-
men's Club, is decidedly no exception. Lord Randolph
I 'horobill. in a recent 'peach, referred to the supporters
Mr. Bradlaugh as " the scum and dreg. of the
population." Mr. Gi.rtm has answered the 'bad
boy' in Verge, from which the following is an extracts
Now whether they are riah; or wrong,
I do not care • farthing candle ;
But "dregs " anti " scum" are words too strong,
And weapons peepers should nGthandle. . . .
For 'tie the dregs hut income pays.
From workmeo come. the food that ells him:
And when he shines with dulling rays.
It I. the toilers' gold that gilds him.
Contempt he showeranpon the poor;
And so it seem • trifle funny
That Randolph, like roma lb umands more,
C indenans the scum but take. their whey . .
Well, let him sneer; the time may c.me
When Randolph, now so great and darer,
Will find the dreg., the mob, the scum,
wal not gen, saucy Lords for ever !
Lord Rzadolub op till now has certainly got the ruse
of it, as a Cockney would remark.

Mr. Bright, in his recent speech at Birmingham,
ridiculed the old women who object to the propowd
Channel Tunnel. lit said "he should have thought
it necessary to go to Bedlam for the suggestion that
we, with 85 millions of people, eight millions of
them being grown men, c mid not defend a hole in the
earth not more than about 15ft wide." Ttat valiant
warrior, the Doke of Cambridge, we know, objects to
it—be ..bjecte to • storm of rein unless he hat his
umbrella with him. But to talk about the French
coming over the sea and engaging our attention while
they send an army through the Tunnel, is simply
twitting ourselves to be what the late Lord Chief
Justioe Cockburn called a good many in Poole, "fools
and fanatics."

If the gentleman who, at the Council meeting ott
Wednesday, objected to t.,e use of the word "lid"
will r.ifer to a dictionary of the late it edition be may
have in hit potasstion, he will see that lilac perfectly
legitimate expreeeion, and, although perhaps a recent
addition to the vocabulary of the day, tersely compre-
hends the hundred and one crAchets which some old
women avail themselves of every opportunity to air.

Mr. Councillor Budge will, f course, have the noble
army of aldermen in array spinet him when be brings
forward the resolutions of which he has given notice.
It is hardly likely these gentlemen will consent to ees
the chief of their cherished privileges swept sway—
via, the election by themselves of my oddities, to
their number. I don't for one moment mean to say
that the choose of their fellows—in Poole, it leant—
would not have been voted int their seats had the
burgesaes been allowed • voice in the matter. bat it
cannot be gainaayed that in 00113. boroughs aldermen
have been elested who WV the very last the ratepayers
would have care I to *se put the robes of odic. on. Mr.
Budge's proposed test of the popularity of • man—that
he should previ .naly present himself to the constituency
so a candidate for &seat at the Council—Heine in every
✓ev •ct reasonable. The public, and not • small clique,
whatever its shade of politics, are undoubtedly the
best jodg.s, and the man who funk. such an ordeal
stands self-confessed unfit for the position. I don't
think, bowers,, any of our present members of the
sidermanic body would feel at all timid in standing
such a test as Mr. CounciLler Budge desires.

lii I tradesman's shop at Wimbonn, the following
advertisement ls publicly plscarded :
WANTED, • good GENERAL BERVAhT, or a WIDOW.

The utility of the first one ran understand. but
what on esr h dose the advertlww want widt the
second. He evidently doesn't appreciate Mr. Weliw's
advice to Ssinivel.

The letter reoeived from the Local Government
B .rd by the Gu,rdiene is shout as severe aa c ,uld
be penned. D. Turner pleaded the carelessnew of a
servant, but the aothoritiee have very properly shown
him that he moat be rap 'ugh's for the acts of those
in his employ. At the same time it most be coo.
feseed that the met exacting of patients are tbooo
who obtain medical assistance for nothing.

A correspondent, who signs himself " J.B. " writes
to complain ot what he terms the *die:rusting "
conduct a the undertakers of Poole in sending shale
and coffins through the streets, uncovered and open to
the gaze of everyone, audio broad daylight The elec.
tire "disgusting" is • strong one, but I cannot lay it
Is undeserved. I think most will agree theme should
be • slight modicum of decency shown in the painful
duty. At present there is none. Lest week two
coffin, were carried through the streets without lids or
even • black cloth thrown over them. Strong robust
peopk, who cas ad iI to smile at such thing., msy 511
nothing objectionable in it, bet to nervous invalids
appearances of this melaeoholy kind are not calculated
to help them towards recovery. I trust some of the
tradesmen of the High-street will take J. 8...1 hint.