The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-01-23 00:00:00

TIMSDAY, JANUARY El. 1,177.

NOTES OF (K WF:EK.

Anti-vaccinators may vasibly feel a special
interest in studying sm., staCstics in the last
weekly return of tile Rogistrar-Getiersl. It
appears that during last year 735 persons of all
died of ionallyox. "If the numbers
novaccinated and vacemated among the living
were known," the Registrar-General affirms,
"it would be easy to determine the mortality of
the two classes, hut in the absence of an actual
enumeration of the vaccinated, all that can be
asserted is that out of a comparatively small
number of person.' unvaccinated 439 died; while
out of the great masa ,if dm vaccinated popula-
i tun TA only died."

The convent in Carliale-place, Weitininster,
seems hardly the most fitting establishment fix
bringing up a child iu the way he A. mid ini—to
lie " made a man of !" In the 20 mouths from
January 1, 1875. 47 out if the 48 children
admitted to the institution have died ! With
unconselints irony the guardians of the
George's Union h i.e passel a resolution express-
ing their censure upon the managers of the
Institution, fix continuing to incur the grow
responsibility if receiving fresh children. Do
Cardinal Manning and the Lady Superior for-
get the example made of the Devonshire baby
farmeress, and do the authorities also fail to
remember how, after agonising stivensii they
finally hung her.

!fere is a lively specimen of red-tapeiam. A
fanner of Warrington has been fined because
on hi, horse's harness he had four figures of !
horses heads surrieoada:l by wreaths, in brass.
Three were held to be "armorial bearings."
We would with the utmost respect stiggott the
..Meer of each's) and tit., magistrates sh,,uld each
adopt tha tatorreath,:td heal of another aniittah
as their own "armorial be:dings." But, perhaps
after all it is not their fault. The parties
probably most to he blatotol for this idiotic
stretchine of the law, the foolish old fogies
who sit up above—in the Circumlocution office.
There is a very old. ditty condemnatory .4
those "who would rob a poor man of hit beer,"
but if the "secrets'. revealed at a recent ease
heard at the Lat Bradford County Court, are a
true exposition .4 the art of brewing, RS generally
practised, why it is evident, "he who ideals my
beer steals trash." The brewer, to arm ale and
porter merchant, living in that Yorkshire town
brought an action against his master—it does
not matter what their names were—to recover
ftolth: small sum 1%,r work done. The plaintiff
had be. n employed at the magnificent wa•;es of
22, per weal. This was to rexch 30s. in the
course of time. But, it would seem the
merchant la aa x....icustomed to nee a very large
quantity .4 sugar in his brewing. For the
" teupenny h,• us:id 23.51 b. of sugar, two
°otters tied ;-ix bushels of malt, and 251 b. of
I;,,ps barrels ale of 36 gallons each :
while for "Shilling eh." he used 2801 b. of
"knrtecopenny,"
sugar, and for the 3401 b.
Awl when iti,Julv there atis 44"44'78P1r.' rile
in the price fingnr, hIN e itioht
highly superior quality that it ran out on he
hags like " treacle tire:'," The result of the
use of this precions ingredient was that the
beer turned out had, and the brewer received ,
his discharge. In the course of the evidence it
transpired tith what hilt Honor called " this
li!: hy stall', i lei:y for a common tower" is
sent to Dublin to be converted into Dublin
stout ; and that this very retqwetable and
coe,citivi..ll4 merchant had 'lately sent about
o.ooormllou. ..f*he turek there, for the purpose
of Icing tints disgitise.l. Really, after this, one
would he ineline.l to follow ha the wake of Sir
Wilfred, if, like the teetotal hart., they could
only afrotsl nuliinited '1.114." - •

_
A mall Vile of fluinness's porter can be
purehased a ywhero for two pence. That is
tit, retail p 'OO, and the profit to the manu-
facturer nins 1, ' 2 ititesimal. yet r.in_drros
~:,t,, the •ver, •uta Ow ocean of profita
r' .4 by 11 escirs. Cluj:no sa is simply amazin.!.
Sir Ite.lanti Onititicss paid plc, , tax on
f 56,000 a y ar. ft k !tat et] in town that thu
protiis res:; i by Messrs. Oninttess's brewery
anent to tl t inat,mificent figure of tlOO,OOO a
year, and v e partnerahip has been dissolved
upon the firm that Sir trthtir is to receive
4:1,1100.900 0 20 years' purchase of Cso,ofal a
year. It Is also said that Mr. E. Cecil.
c„i„,,,,,, wit,) he,,,,vm the role owner of the
brewery, 4.lrered to draw 1 cheque for one
million ir minis—his brother's share of the
concern. W., have been ftecustomed to think
a cheque for £40,000 or Vio,ooo a wonderful
document and to look upon the drawer with
curiosity via natimishment. but we are utterly
lost in wonder at the idea of a fellow-citizen
offering to draw a cheque and pay down the
c. tin tothe tune nf acne] million. One can imagine
the amazement of the bank cashier to whom the
' cheque would be preeented and the blank
! consternation of the manager at the sudden
demand, and 'tis probable inability to meet
it without realising securities. The population
. of this country is 39,1X10,000, awl wt doubt if
2flittaiviation tett of that number could draw a
• like
The citizens I.f Dublin ought to Ito irsind that
; they pommy in their miast a butiinecf tif such
tfi•fattlic pniportions.

They have Tell-ine w,yo f makine bets in Ghester,
oceording to a rn.se revently heard in the County
Court there. During Christmas week a tarty of
men met at a pnblic-house. and in conversation about
WilliATUTell'n exploit.. a man n oned I Ind.on staked
ft -overeign that he wonl.l allow aturnipto be shot off
his herel with a idle. The bet WaS accepte I by a
marine.store olealer named Wick. and the stakes were
afterward. doubled. Rick alhreed that ,ine of the
vonditions was tint Ifirlson sle nil stand at one end
of the sh.)ting ao,t the shot he fired from the
oth.r, but thia derne 1 by the remainder of the corn.
pany, a oi the turnip wis fin.l at with the muzzle of
the ).run only tw or three inches away. Wick nosy
sorreht to recover £2, but it or .eared t'lat though lie
protested h never asked for his money. and he •ff.l.,
It) licked, for the jud ml.o.vejud..)inent for the defend-
ant.