The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-05-06 00:00:00

Year ;13;c1i6t eervant,
AN INVALID.

Weymouth, April 30th.
THE WEYMOUTH CORPORATION.

Sig.—Within the last few months your excellent paper
has been raised, in the estimation of the public, fully
50 per cent. It had passed from good to better before,
It is now best. Your excellent leading article of last
levet wadi mush talked of and justly praised, and if you
continue the course you are now pursuing, your
exertions cannot fail to be productive of much good.
It is of no nee people saying it's a paltry penny radical
piper which nobody reads." I know better. I know
that it is more caught after by the "men in office" and
the ruling faction in the town, than all the other papers
put together. They know no other paper dare ' show
up" their follies to the public. Why, Sir, they are all
•- bought, and you might have been bought too, had
you chosen. I know it, and can prove it. But you have
more than failed your promise in the lint instance—
you have not only maintained your ground as • free
and independeut journal, but you have not failed to
point out abuses, when really opposed to your own
private interests. Now. Sir, the town is full of abuses,
such as the breaking up the asphalts pavement on the
Esplanade, a more barefaced job than which, when we
recollect the disgraceful state of the back streets, sure
' never was perpetrated. And now they have passed a
law to prevent poor people to sell their garden produce;
7'• and it seems, are doing their beat to drive the coal trade
from the town. They hese now added to their police
force, whereas, if they looked more to the marine store
dealers, and compelled them to conduct their business
aecordicgi to law, this expense might well be saved.
But you have exposed ammo( these abuses, and if you
will only look about you, and soutinue to act as you
have hitherto done, even (if not acknowledged by the
publie generally,) you may fearlessly lay claim to the
conscientiousness of having done your duty to the town
in • fair and impartial spirit. Wishing, Sir, every
IitICCOS to your able paper,
I beg to subscribe myself,
"IMPARTIALITY."
s • • Weymouth, April 30th.

VIIE rump VZABCIII ,roaN BARLEYCORN.

Sue.—in the Telegram ef last week appeared a
nupert aftwtheeting oftheDerehestar Farmers' Club,
at ',hi& sethe salon, whose name do not now
recollect, said that teetotallers could not do a hard
day's work ; now, I, as a workingman, and a
teetotaller, am of a different opinion, as I worked all
bat haytime and harvest without beer, and those
a 4 worked with me, who
.were not teetotalers,
will bear e out an the assertion that I did as much
v merle As ,ibly did, however, as the proof of the
pudding is in the eating, I now throw down the
gauntlet, and challenge the best man they can
bring, either in the hay or harvest field, to work for
one, two, or three days; their man having as much
beer or other liquor as he likes, and I
will take nothing of an intoxicating nature,
If they accept the challenge, a letter
,addressed to the "Secretary of the Whitchurch
Temperance Society," will meet with immediate
attention. I also observed that Mr. William Man-
field said, that "When farmers wanted two days'
work out of a man for one—then they must give him
beer, tea would not do it." Let the working classes
think of this, and refuse the Foisonous draught,
when offered to them.