The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-16 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

Ltatillt.— Lord William Lennox is announeed to
believer • looters on Tituredity evening, in cionnection
with lb* Working Mage, Institute, entitled " Pommel
ltorinliectio• ••••-«- • - - :

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FOIDIXOTOX : TEI CHOWS 11151110NAIT SOCIITT.—
The monads ChurehMimionary meeting arse held in F.aat
For! ingtouscholl.room on Friday, Min ietb inst. The
attendance of parishioners and hiends wiis good and
mooning ng. The it... °eons E Moule,whohas so often
a4dre.ae4 theme meetings, is at present absent on •
deputation visit to Cambridge and Oxford. He bad
however prepared • written amount of the siege and
rapture of Ningpo, Chins, by the Tai.piug Rebels, and
ite gallant recapture by the English and French, in
1861.2. Mr. Mould was in or near the aity throughout
tho operations, and his very Interesting paper gave •
striking illustration of the daorsra lonitecit to mia%nary
laboar, and of the reality of thyme salmon in the midst
of them. Tim ken. lit Motile, as usual, presided at
the mewing.
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WIATIIII.—The following ia our meteorological
report for the week ending Sunday lad :

Stale of We4lber.
at II wsw
62 44 w Rath
61 44 S W 16014 m-ow stoma
63 44 W Misty, rain
54 all SW Itintn
44 40 N
44 46 W Oloomy, fine

Utz ix FOIDINGTOZ.—We remedy repotted that
no Me of an action ban bean given to the Town Comet
for Mimeos sustained by the Landlord of • row of
cottage. at Tubb'. Comer, in consequence of (it is
alieged) an overflow from the town 'swore, renderini
be houses (!) uninhabitable. Water still flows freely
through Melo:tutor roones of these 'easement& sad stands in
pools wine the inequalities of the flooring fa.oor its
eolleetion. The inmates are rendered most uneomfort
able, and their dwellinp are dank and noiurne in the
extreme. But poor folks are not wont to complain
—they bac. learned it's no use, no tber make the best
they can of their position, and adopt the adage " what
omit be lured muet be sedated.'" The erceesive rain
be. resulted in the partial demolition of a home in the
mine beighbourhood, vie., at Clare. On Friday after-
noon the outer wail of • cottage occupied by a mem
aimed Oberlin, suldenly felL It was built of mud,
sod the overflow of • Mute had disintegrated it.
Nobody was injitred, end the head ef tie house
clambered amongst the ruins, erooklog his pipe with the
utmost coolness, despite the Uttering sondition of the
remaining portion of the ehetion, and the dangerous
state of the reof, To the excited entreaties of the
neighbours to come out, no was supremely indifferent,
and walked amongst the ruins saying he should by.
there lot twenty years yet I

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Ilausorstimr or Emirs Otoerra—The Rev. Henry
Houle, thus states the experience in the use of the dry•
emth system at the 10..reet County School. Th.
temporary buildings of that issetitalion assaltaakdis the
High Street of the town of Dorchester, • position which
to many would appear to present • great obstaireles to the
supply and removal of the earth, and to render the
eocusail of the schools very slow to substitute the dry.
earth, glean foe the eater system. For thin Is • ease
of sehetitutlon of the one for the other, and that in •
small town which at great cost has very receetly been
•nbjeeted for the water system. At the sloes of 1886,
dating which year the school had been twice dispersed
by scarlatina, the change was effected, sad the dry-earth
system isontinuer to gave astialaotion to the master and
, all the establishment How frequent the supply of
meth I know not, but the motorail ekes pleas only 0000
is three menthe, and with ordinary care this is done
without the slightest offence, even in the open day, to
the public Now, that for which from the 11116 I have
contended is,—if this can be done for one house in the
midst of • town, the OM., by the Monism of appliances
for supply and removal, may be done for 10, 20, or HO
houses for • valises for • small town or for portions
of large towns end, whet is more, the poorer
dames out on this system, ar-d without an lacrosse of
the burden of legation, have the moss ettention shown
to their berAls, their comfort, Lad decency, ea is now ,
almost limited to the upper and middle claims. For
pular delusioaped prejudice Is re being. dispelled by the d which the iftesedoe of this question, of the ppm-
parative efficiency of the two systems, has thrown upon
it. It ham been commonly sa that the water
! system enters the °Darla sad ya of the metropolis,
sad that the dryearth &mem
mid other large towns,
1011006; whereas the truth lithe eery eontrery of this.
The latter OSA ester the lowest wart; and still more, It
can afford fell relief in the chamber of sickness. The
eater system does net pretend to eater the dak room.
or the ward of a hospital ; end 6 I tends Lad alloys, He
application Is • bare apology: for let sal one go Into
the back parta of the large workshops of London, or into
any of the slams—let him go into towns in the North
or in the South—and he will se* a single place Greeted,
and often with re insefilident supply of water, for 30
men, women, and chUdres, or for 28 families, or for 60,
100, or 200 men. Ask almost any public officer who is
Mai butt on applying the water system to amen towns
sad villages, what he will do with (*Hems of 2s. 24.8 d.
▪ week rant, and he will tell you they cannot touch
thee.. But th• drY•earti, system do anything?
s,▪
no, 'n• humnino4 "ttoets mar on this system be keel
from all offensive eyhalationa in the bedrooms es well
as elsewhere; sad 6•••••3, be as fully moored there as
in the dwellings of the rich. If the cottage be not
north the 01Po:ilium a to. on the additioual comfort
a mechanism, or if the owner saanot, or will not, afford
It, I doubt sot that the Berth Closet Canapes, would at
• moderate sort for • plan for • town, or diMriet or
village, show bow, at the itost of &few shillings, with the
use of a. ordiamy seeop, that sotzsziet, both upstairs sad doeuotaire, be residered mad free from
effetteive suella

Coring Ontral, Thared—There ware 60 plaints
entered at this court, the greater part of which were
disposed of by the &Oskar (Oils. Byinonds
Amongst the curs before his Honour (T. K. P. Lefroy.
were the following :-
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have MelietA v. Stephen Mach. —This wan • claim of
EN 4a. id., brought by the plaintiff, who resides at
09er Hingeombe &valiant the defendant, who is of
Cbeddington, for the value of 50 begs unlawfully
detained, and for the biro of the same. Mr. Baakett
for pl.ant. and Mr. Howard on behalf of def.ndsot.
The plaintiErs ease was that In November, 1897. he sold
50 matzo( boatel to defeedant, sad delivered it in 50
hired Bads. The IMMO of the oompeny of whom they
were hired was on the bags, and they were to be
returned to plaintiff in • fortnight. In the spring of
1868 be applied to defendant for tbeto, when be said
the person to whom he sold the barley bad them and he
would get bum to return Oen:, and pay for the hire. In
November plaintiff paid the company for the bags. He
could not get them from the defendant, and beam the
action. Mr. Howard, for defendant, said that the sacks
bad been delivered to the company's a gen st Warminster,
but as they were not numbered, they could not be
identilled.—His Honour, however, gave jadgmeat for
plaintiff, damages ri 19a. Id. and 0011 b, that being the
missal sum plantiff had had to pay on account of the
misdkg sacks.

Andrew Lorefau V. &soil Toyfor.—Both the parties
live at Piddletronthide. The nction was for £2. balm*,
of rent of a field. Plaintiff's daughter attended, sad
rid her father was toe ill to be present. A convereation
ensued between Mr. Andrews (for defendant), the
Judge. and the Registrar, and ultimately the cant was
adjourned for plaintiff to ettand and produce his wit-
DIMON all to the letting, unless, In the meantime, Mr.
Andrews should be intuited defendant his no ease.

Brown v. fare—Plaintiff iii labourer, of Puddle-
Milton, and he sued del.adant,a yeoman of that parish,
for El 15e. 54 , Odium of "amount tor work. Plaintiff
said he made 75 lug of hedge at sd. per log, and male
up 540 (snots at Sc. per hundred. While he yeast his
work defendant off-red him a watch for £2, saying, as
he averred, "If you go on and do my hedging at sd. per
lug, you ran eaaily pay me for the watch." Plain ilf
state) 'ha" he Inver bought the watch, and did not
want onia Bet he put it in hie pocket, and had it no w !
He had asked defendant for the money due to him, but
he had refused payment until he media badge at Dole.
hill, but that he never agreed In make. Worked for
defendant in July and August last. Defendant paid
him after the ricks were made £6 or £7. He had the
watch then. Nothing was taken up for the watch till
the last settlement. No fault was found with his
work till he refused to maim a hedge at
Doles bill. Deteadant took up 13a. on amount of
the watch, but ha never agreed to pay. Defendant
rave hi. memorandums of the payment. He told
defendant be could not afford to bay a watch.—By the
Judge: Never had a watch before in my life. Had •
wife and six children, and mied to earn ls. 61. &dar,
and pay Sc, for house rent His youngest child was 16.
Tye witnesses were called in support of plaintie cue.
—The defendant said the watch On question was one
which belonged to one of his eons, the youth wanted a
•a•ller one, and he gave blur one. Plaintiff said he
lauded a watch, and be agreed to bay that one for £2.
in.- wetch was handed to him, and he put it in his
pocket. —He railed • man named Samways, who was
present when the watch was hand. d to plaintiff, to
prove his (defendant's) version of the tnuiseetion. This
witness also spoke to hearing defendant complain about
the work piebald had done. It was about • month *go.
_Another witness Duped Whittle was celled to prove
that the hedging was improperlydons,and that the 'smote
were too rusk —Challis Guy proved an imovednigly
voluble and troublesopie Witness, and didn't give the
defendant's case much support —The judge said he
thought the plaintiff was entitled to his judgment
The eels of the watch was a subject of oontradietory
evidenee, and be should give Vie plaintiff the benefit of
any doubt he had. He should set aside the sale of the
watch, and rive yliintiff the amount of his claim Mitts-
with and scawn Toe watch was returned to plaintiff.
Braes and alters v. Staiser.—This was an action
against a labouring elan, to recover possession of a
ocakage and premises at Cattistook. Mr. Howard (for
Yr. Weston) for plaintiffs. Defendant was willing to
go oat as soon as be Gould get a boom to go into.—Mr.
Howard said that it he would go out ins week.plaintiff'.
would forgive him all the rent he owed (C 2 or £3). This
bad a happy effeot on defendant, for he gladly under-
took to go out in that time. Order accordingly.
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There- was one summons for commitment,
Weileami v. James Gould, of Fordinttoo. Defendant
bad • judgment against him for the trinittlinti supplied
to hie wife's °coffin. He refused payment., and plaintiff
sought for judgment, Tbe regtetrar informed the judge
Out defendant died two dope atter h. wail served with
the mammon,.

Willies Payee, of Grove But Whip, i bankrupt,
came up for Ma order of discharge, supported by Mr.
Howard (for Mr. Weston). Mr. H. Lock opposed on
behalf of J. Fellowee, Esq., of whom bankrupt haot had
some timber, but the judge decided that bankrupt was
entitled to his die:lberia

COLIETT POLICE, finturday.—Before K. Pearce, Eau.
floury Chia, of Abbott.bwiy, was charged, on
remand, with stealing some hay. value Ss. belonging to
Mr. Biome, of Portisham. This in.. is singularly
illustrative of the " setivltv" of the polies. P.C. Foster,
about 9 o'clock on Tuesday night, found some hay
scattered shout a gap in the hedge of Kr. filymee's field.
He went home and got a candle, and diligently looked
for footmarks. He found some. and, actually. than
w. re the prints of diernond-shaped nails I and, of coarse,
tt• -e were mitre miming in the boobs be found
Cited wearing. The bay wits traced to within
sizty yard's of Creid's premises, and there about half a
sot was found. The persevering policeman esamined
the traoks in Crieds garden, and, of miurse, they
"wetly eorresposided" with thole sbottt IN op.
u...-..-th•to the bon. ear ea.. IME a Ptit of aMttft
remarkable how hind policeman with • weak case are
to those toy want to coupes* with any offence. But
" the brat of friends must pert," and the
man at length was left in the look-up. He was
brought up before H. Williams, Poi., and remanded.
bail being allowed. To-day there was no more seldom,*
than we have indicated to show Cried bad anything to
do with the h.y, and Yr. Pope (Meows Andrews and
Pope) had not much difficulty In convincing the
magi.trase that Cried could not be convicted, mid he
was dismimied.