The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-06-09 00:00:00

Obbs anb entni.

This day fortnight last I "assisted ' at a reception
given by • certain " nobleman at tlie Bourne th
theatre. I won t venture my opinion as to whether
he is the genuine article or " niystery gold." My
readers, doubtlessly, attach as much importance to
my view. a. they do to thooe of any other scribbler.
But renewing my acquaintanceship with jolly old Sir
John Falstaff the other evening I could not heap being
struck with a triage in one of hi. .parches. (if it I
make the once languishing victim" • present. lien.
it IS :-•••• Happy are they which have been toy friends,
and woe unto mftolr;rd Chief Justice." }low will
that suit you, Sirip

By the way, Issir old H.illy• Could, who ii one of the
most ardent uelievers in hie identityithe Claimant ever
had, is on a sick bed. The old wan swears as
strongly as ever that the imoodam boarder at If. It's
lodging-houses is the righful heir ; and I am told he
was intensely pleased to find the Telt-groom had the
courage to publish Micklejohn's confession. How far
Micklejohn Is now speaking the truth is another
matter, but take them all in all, the witnesses fur
the prosecution in the Tichborne trial, seem to Imre
been, to use Air. blantalini's favourite phrase, " a
demised "bud lot.

I was told by • lady of Parkstone that she knew
the tale told by the Claimant in giving his evidence
at the tint trial—that while staying at the London,"
Pole, with • friend, they had some shirts figured
with hones' and dogs head• made at a draper's
opposite, to be true ; for the draper gave her and
another girl the pieces that were left over for patch-
work, telling them that they were the remnants of
shirts he had made for two gentlemen at the hotel
opposite I ha,e al.- heard that a Mrs. —, who
died the other day in Poole could ha% reoogiesed
the Claimant, but she admitted that a golden
Is'er her t-ye effectually obscured her vision ;
and there is even now in individual living at Park-
sbme who had his eyesight temporarily obttuured in
the same way.

The inquest on the old man who was picked up out
of the harbour after being in the water a couple of
weeks gives rise to the enquiry, what earthly purpose
is nerved by jurymen being tomis.llvd to " view " the
bodies upon which they are imaginatively supposed
" sit. The " view in this came was horribly
repulsive ; and it is not every one whose lief SAM can
stand so ghastly a spectacle. Again, in the case of a
death from an infectious disease, it is absolutely cruel
to call upon a man to run the risk of taking home a
filtity plague into the midst of his family. Surely if
bodies were identdied, where they can be, by a couple
of witnesses, that ought to suffice ; and where the
corpse in that of a stranger, say a f.ureigq P1111111&11,
all the " viewing ' in the world by all " the good men
and true "in existence would not elucidate his histarr.
I would suggest to dr. Coroner Aldridge that this
is a subject he might bring before the membor for
East I foris..t when he shall have been elected, whether
that personage prove to be Ur 4:wet or or. Bond.
The proposal to consider Ur. Guest's candidature,
and to hear Mr. Waring on one, and the same day
looks rather ominous. Whether under the circum-
stances the former will feel himself justified in can.
ceiling his pledge G. be bound by the decision of
the committee ; and whether the latter, in
face of his signified intention not to act "unkind "
to Mr. Guist, will accept the invitation are questions
that remain G. be answered. It seems a pity Mr.
Guest does not address inowtings of the general body
of electors His manly, straightforward speech on
Monday afternoon. producisl an evidently favourable
impression. Even '5i..11." to whom anything with
the rem test flavour of Collor(' is about as palatable
as a:dose I isle!, Was loud in his approval if it. It
may therefore be taken for granGsl if Mr. finest made
ktiown his sentiments throvirhout the di% ision, he
would gain proportionately extended tokens ufappre-
ciation;

The propiwal to erect a Mixt :old tablet to the
mein.iry " Hugh Conway," the author of "
Back,- in Itri.tol Cathedral, going a little too
far. The world ha. been attamorl, hilt I don't Immo..
it i,aa been ,nad, I, better toy the literary work
the late young auctioneer. The only object that
tino would ate.wer would he one that prolatltly 01 •of
than who an. is. anxime. Li. ;ay the metnory of Mr.
Fargion this honour would lie glad . of, namely, to
enhance very con.iderattlY the ,:thie of the copyright
of his writing..

The statkurnt nu ci?ntetiiiiorary that the fact of
the Prince of Waler buying a crpy of " Called
Back at WiNlairne hook.otall find "'Nadu" thin
,k,,vel in all I,...onehine. It an • tivuoinhan, huff in
a Society journal. Truth, I believe, that hriiit 1.14 thu
world talking about it.

A correspondent writes you allow me to
draw the attention of the authorities to a terrible
outrage perpetrated in broad daylight, and in the
public streets on Wednesday last. I was passing the
I iolphin Brewery about four in the afternoon, when
there bled out from thelard the following procession
—a large four wheeled dray drawn la three horot
loaded with barrels of•beer, stoht, and the like; then
two four-wheel ditto, each drawn by two honies and
laden in the same manner, and then eight one-horse
4ro7s, each carrying as toerceani barrels of malt liquor
as could well lie piled y nerves ere got yi the
strongest, ant was f to run t, the nearest
pump to keep from fainting. Would Mr. Norton
kindly bring in a bye-law eitliie to prohibit such din•
plays altogetler, or make them ill. gal between sun-
rise and sunset—Yours, Ic., YOUNI. 11VnON."