The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-09-24 00:00:00

Jlotto an It itttil .

What's the we of making any stir about the appoint-
ment of either of the new m ? The majority
of them are very good indeed, and so Wile 1% DIM as the
Lord Chancellor is sure (?) to have sufficient local
knowledge to perceive qualifications more keenly than
ordinary mortal& And helped, as the worthy Town
Clerk explains, by our Representatives, how can the
Lord Chanoellor fail to perceive who are the men that
the Queen should delight to honour?
Objections in the present day are almost out of
fashion, as nuisances, and we are in • fair way to
decide, and act upon it, that "Whoever is, is right."
There are but few objection, to the list of voters, and
an experienced politician gave me his reason at the
Hall dour. "The extension of the franchise," said I,
" doubtlems qualifies almost everybody?" "No, that's
not the reason why there's not so much objecting.
The fact is, there is no good in It; with the ballot,
you don't know whether you are objecting to an
enemy or a friend." "But are not objections really
made beaus, people are not qualified r"rh.
experienced politican smiled acutely, and asked if I
thought legal gentlemen are paid by their sense of the
eternal &nem of things No ; that might be purity
of motive, but wouldn't dolor political purposes; " we
only object when the party is on the other aide." So I
suppose it toed to answer pretty well, and the list of
voters be confined to those qufied ; but now there
I. little sharp personal interest, and objedions are at •
discount. Thus, in the intensity of party feeling,
were things done with more spirit.

It was an ovendtht of the Biahop's that he didn't
take recount 4 the extra labour men will give for
that which they love most, and the Rector was wise
when he fired up, on behalf of the Church Missionary
Society, and refused to sou to Diocesan Beards

Our Baptist friends have had good meeting.; but
have been a little discouraged, became they were not
good enough. They have been so used to bearing
**counts of the work given with firs and enthusiasm,
that anything slow was not acceptable. Right they
are; yet to hear of thousands of converts, of the
forming an excellent Lieut.-Governor of the Punjaub,
end of faithfulness to Christ when the mission for the
time was quenched by the mutiny in fire and blood,
might stir the heart to genuine enthusiasm.
Whether we are going to war in ARgitanistan, or to
leave India entirely to peaceful guardianship our
Me Volunteers do not intend to relax their effoets to
be ready. The new range hes been got reedy for
practice, and though it has been joctilarls termed
" the Ten Kik," from being so far hum Weymouth,
we expect it to be well used by the ania shots.
Company drill haa aho re-comenced.

Our young man who want to try their skill had
better enlist, and go range, thanthair
time beer and sk 6.• finishing by free Ma, and
weeks, not at camp, but at the Castle of Dorchester.
Eight pounds is • handy sum of money for a cash
balance ; but expatriation' at our Police-court teach it
shouldn't be carried on the person. It woo over £ll
that was found on Junes Smith, sad ott I the weary
bearings the magistrates have had to preside at, and
annoying iournirfe B•lffmat and Mrs. Linthwalte
have had to make, on amount of Miss Connell's lost
£11!

Ifuniclia matters will soon be obtrusive; not only
Is there ty of work on hand, such as the lowering
of UN centre, the strengthening of the Pll..
pier, and the puzzle common to almost every town ;
but the election of six members to the Town Council
must be thought oL Already there ere whispers of a
change, and no doubt some of the members outgoing
hav e done their duty too straightforwardly to be pleasing
to all, while the subject. before the Local Board are
so difficult that some may fancy "new Wood" will
bring the wisdom reouired for dealing with the
notoNtm& A very active councillor is frequently seen
most entire on the other side of the water, while W.
Bennett Ford breeched the matter by premising Dr.
Drew a vote in open court All these are straws show-
ing the equinoctial stirs before the November gales,
that often blow /3 furiously in the municipal se in the
materiel world. Yet we can wait a little looser for
the storms, while we enjoy the remnant of the
" season" so happily prolonged.

Among our nobility, that is,the nobility of our visitors,
I don't reckon those, however fashionably dressed,
who send all the m• they can out of the town,
direct to some co-operative stores in London. When
I see ladies whose income are evidently far above the
genteel level of £ZIOO a year, fussing about in goods
Motions for parade from the co-operative
stores, and directing their own delivery agents, I
wonder what, in the name of impudence, possessed
" shabby genteel," that they should come here
to enjoy our bay, our breezes, and our hills, and take,
unremunerMing, the sweet services of the Italian and
:=l, band,? They will not Alford the least
of profit to trajeszaen who endure the long
time out of season; yet them are the very peopl, who
grumble if they have to pay two or three guineas a
week for the beet portal shousethat,
MOO a year. while they would have the beat furniture
and attendants into this bargain. If the "Awn at
dealing with co-operative stores at • distance were to
become widely speed, I should recommend the trades-
men who so Illegally Pupped the sports of Weymouth,
to keen • closer eye upon the lodging-homes, and me
what (dad of people they are who rink us, and with
whom they" deal." Fortunately there are still • vast
majority of visitors who are last and generous, and
who are willing both to" live and lei live."
" Nothing succeeds like suocess,* we are so duo
told that anyone might be disposed to accept the large
houses which. night altar night, welonned the"
Dominos," as an indication of triumph. I have
previously stated my opinion of the play, and there
comae to me, very well-timed, • recent part of "Social
Notes," edited by Mr. S. Cl. Hall, Y.S.A.. wherein
• Mr. D. Christie Murray thus shows his impartiahty
with regard to the drama :—" There are few things
more wearying to the candid intellect than the talk one
continually hears from some quarters about the
ennobling influence of the stage. It is possibly still • 1
little more distreming to listen to those well-mean* I
ignorance
who, having sedulously kept Mermanes in
of the theatre, condemn it as the vary
portal of deetructice." Mr. Murray is evidently DO
purist or Phariese ; yet ke writes :—" liutti arly man
chose to defend the secrete of the Pink Domkoe, it ,
esnideliesely be epos She pound that hie wife and I

could get hem ham ft,binnurn they
tlitolr no
oadarstanditanadiums. Vitom°d•llostelY
tricked out tun that Purity ono la.• at it, and tali*
It for pare and inno ant humour. Thal in its 'MY Is
no doubt • irk:mph I bat it is aot • triumph to be
proud of. It ha comfort to find my sun:trims of the
play conanned by so toisraut a man, so careful a
thinker., to the dramas, and, reatembe ring the large
audiences on the "Pink Dominos" nights, I am
rather alarmed far a larg:epart ol Weymouth society,
for, says Mr. Murray,—"rhe Awe reflects us truly.
It is corrupt and inane in thase of pablie corruption
and inanity, and noble when thous by whom it lives
care to have it so."

Dam's.

=aux° TIZ WAILRIOR.—A perry of mechanics from
Portsmouth dockyard are fitting a new steam steering
apparatus on board H.M.S. Warrior.
Trig Storm MAD& —The staple trade of the Island has
recovered from the depression, and is at present in a fairly
prosperous Mate.
Ten Out& —Sunday was a very wild day, with a heavy
was raining in the %Vest Bay. Ti. fishermen hauled
their boats up on the beach, and no casualties ate
rer Boecrwmt—Lieut. W. B. Bailey has bean
appointed to tel Boscawen, Moo Blackett transferred to
the Atalanta. The latter vemel I r training ship for
young seamen ,• she takes the place of the lost Eurydice.
and is stationed now at Devonport
H M.S. TRUNDR:Ril—Gaptala J. Wilma, of the Thum
darer, has been apoointed commodore of the emend clam,
and also senior °Skier of IL M. ships and vessels on the
Australian station, vies Anthony H. Hoskin; c.a., wham
period of service is expired.
Gao POR Tee WIRT= —At • meeting of the Local
Board on Monday evening the only matter of importance
was that of the public lighting. It was decided to light
the !Amps on the same conditions as last year, commenc-
ing co Oct ,bet Ist
GOOD Tgertanr.—" Star of Portland" Lodge celebrated
Ito anniversary on Tuesday by • public tea and meeting
at the Maiden Well Lodge-room The comma) were
addressed by Mr. Osborn, of the Wesleyan Temperance
League

Rill/Alta /Oa GOOD SOLDIZIA.—A medal for long
service and good cooduct, with • gratuity of CS, has been
awarded to each of the following In the Stith Regiment t—
t-Inetruct of Musketry J. Carty, Sergeant-
Cook at
Linthwaite. Sergeants P. Goodwin and J.
McLaughlin Lance- t J. Lascornbe, Privates J.
Fortune, J. Barrett, R. and J. Sinnott
Crone= MtesioNsav Smarr.— On Sunday sermons on
behalf of Church 1111Aeloas were preached at St. George's.
Ratans*, by the Rev. J. Pickford, late missionary to
l'lnnevally, and on the following evening was h •
public meeting, and addressed by the Rector, the Rev. J.
Pickford, the Rev. J. Wheeler, an
The Beeeseren boys returned from their holidays on
Friday last. On former occasioes there have been troubles
with the tricks of two or three of the boys, and they have
IGlneginleg nteuusd nothing like so clean and tidy se when
they left. Lest week, however, there was no cause of
eoroplelot, and by the trim end orderly empoirsoce at the
lads they mewed to have token to their homes the good
habits learned on board.
CAFSIZING OF COUNT METAL'S YACHT.—On Thursday
afternoon the yselit Bijou, for Orav«end to Hastings, wee
taught by • squall four miles of Demesnes., and sank
immediately. The owner, Count Andrea Metexa, the
Countess, and her brother, Mr. Claude White, were saved
be the mat Oetiose. The nueterr, Andrew MW., and his
soo, ewes et the lieu. ar.asing. The Nor was • yawl
I of about twelve tons.
EarLszogusdrr or TIES cAmuni.—The camber pl.r at
I the land end of the short Breakwater is being
and • steam circular saw has basset up for the necessary
timber cutting. The extension will be eantned to the
straight Sieve, which will be lengthened shoat 50 yarde"
the tuner or curved piece will remain. The new part will
be formed with • row of piles driven lilt. into the bottom,
and an inner row driven Sit. deep, and between these two
rows of pile@ some thounuids of tons of stood will be
WAITS AND DANOUL—Laet week a serious escape of gas
was discovered in Chesil, near the Crown. For some time
past • Oran' smell had been noticed, and at last it beanie
soled that the men employed br gas company traced it
towards It. source, when • quantity was found
issuing from the entrance of • drain; they struck •21‘.125
and immediately the gas took fire, and the dame
some twenty yards farther down, when it was found
an old pipe, completely rotten through, led into • house
near Mr. Flew'., which coos had been eapplied with gas,
but from which it had been cut off. The pipe had not
been take: away, and during the years of leakage, the
Ices to the company must have been considerable, to
nothing of the nuisance to the inmates of that bolas.
Home's Visa ro • TOTSHOF. —A teem belonging to
Mr. Immanuel Knight, of Weymouth, was coming down
Mysenor I Knap on Friday last with a load of wheat.
The road there was hard, smooth, end slippery, and the
"took dun as e—that is, the weight w too much
for horess, who were driven on their haenches down
the hill. The sagacious animals pushed back with all
their might, bat they could not stop until the leader had
got opposite Mr. Major's (former) shop, when in
deeperation the hires popped his head through
a pane of glue. There he managed to stay, and chock the
team and waggon, till his heal warn got out of the ;
but a:lonely was he liberated before the weight began to
move again, and the terrified animal thrust his heel into
another pane, when, fortunately with the penes be had
taken, he was able to bring the wiewn to a stop, but not
without damage to the carter, who had done all he could
to prevent an accident, and was severely struck against
Mr. Major's house, damaged his forehead, and was much
, cut. Mr. Major himeaU, who happened to be coming out
I with some cases of type. had to drop them quickly, and
socape how he could. When the horse was liberated, both
head and legs were found gashed, the legs to the very
bone. _

lug DanGnat' or MySENOR'I !CNAr were, besides the
accident on Friday at Mr. Major's, illustrated on
Monday and Tuesday. Carter John Price woe coming
down on Monday with Mr. Ward's team and a load
done; again the load overpowered the horse., and pushed
them to the bottom of this bill; but they efieeted • stop
opposite Albion Crescent. Next day Mr. John !fodder,
jun., wee coming down with his brother's team and • load
of atone, and had jest peeved over the brow of the keep
in front of Mr. E. Comben's, when the horns found the
intern slipping, and started if at full pare down the
hill. It was something like •hooting a rapid, and bad
there been anything in front to meet the stone waggon. It
must bath been destroyed, for it was impossible for the
latter to stop. By good management Mr. Hodder con-
trived to ether the ponderous lot, without accident, round
Into the Cdtle-rosd. It cannot be doubted that stone
loads, which are often of tremendous weight, ought not to
be sent down this way. There is the stone railway and
Incline, which, we are informed, are ample for all the
stone got out and sent down at the present time fl.
damage to the ordinary road by stone loads is very great,
and deice lady have they so nearly come to grief that it
I. lobe hoped the it ine owner, will confine their great
loads to the Railway. . .

CIuCKET. —Portland v. I/hoe—The retarn match took
place on Thursday tost, at the Navel Ground, when Wool
brought a specially strong tem, went first to the wick,ts.
and scored W. The Portland eleve who were @eland
entirely from their own doh, follow and 'cored 90, and
attar two wickets Mere down for Wool, the gauze was
decided on the nrst in favour of Portland by 40 roma
Scores as follow :

Wow.
lit Inninirn Yad Inninga
Kindenley, e and b Weigand 1
Luckbani. b Rao ... not out ... 21
Rev. W. Dillon Brow., b Rae 1 b We5t1and......13
Vanigban. b Ras
Rev. H. Dodiartion, run out
W. J. Scutt, b Westland ... not out ... 6
Garland. lbw. b Hododon b W 8
Baorombo, Hodadan...
A. Scutt, b Haddon
Clarke, b Westland ...
Killiabask, not out

ES
PONTWID.
Dr. Stone, b W. J. Scutt _.
•
Will. c Luckham b &wombs ... 10
Rey. Monday, b Dodingten ._ 11
Stevens, b Dadin 0
Westland. c Ltickham; b Dodington ... 90
Watson, b W. J. Scutt 1.1
Dr. W er bW. J. fic;iitt 1
Johnson. not out.. ..

90
GOOD TINTLLIT.—On Tuesday, the 17th 'mt., the sixth
emir areary in Portland (and the tenth in loglannd) of
the Independent Order of Good temple" we. celebrated
by a tea and meeting in the ilaidenwell Bible Christian
roboolroom, under the auspices of the "Ss& of Portland"
lodge. The members haring taken tat together, the
Public meeting begin shortly after lIOVDD o'clock, Bro. W.
Way. w.c.t. In the chair; and thore was • very good
attendance.—After aiming mad prayer, the chairman
called upon Bro. Henry J. Whore, S.D. (Organbong
of the Western Temperance who
delivered • lecture on "The PriniglipTan7ol7ects of
Good Tpliiiy." The lectors referred to the origin of
the Order in England, its early days, gradual progress,
and rid its present position eras shown in the nitres
working of 2 500 lodges, which consisted of 100,000
adult and 60.000 Juvenile paying member,. The lecturer
then west in to explain the Order, remarking that it
warn not for a class, but was a temperance society in
eeriest, having In its ranks all sorts of men and women,
from the peer downwards. After some references to the
teachings of Yr. Joseph Lively, the founder of the
teetotal movement, the speaker msle an earnest appeal
ton triotic and other grounds to those present to sign the
, and help the temperance friends in Portland by
Mg them He characterised the Templar Order as
gysteinatic, esrnesk educational, pens.*l
evenpathetic, political, and successful temperance ;I:nt
quoted the statistice of life meurance companies
to show the longer lives and better health of
abstainers, and mid that their movement was not ea
obstruction to the spread of the Gospel, but was the hand.
meld of religion. Tbe lecture, which occupied an hour
and ten minutes in delivery, wiz listened to with marked
atteatiow