The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-01-11 00:00:00

Sonutsrtsbire.

Tam Mayor and Mr. Phelps of Yeovil, have sent
a pauper to prison for X 1 day,. On Christmas day he had
had the audacity to go not and ...send the day. For this
frightful offence the master threateuid to put him into
confinement. Hearing this he ran age., wearing the
Union clothes, and the result was as we have stated above
—he got three weeks hard labour.
A CLIO at the last Taunton County Court may be well
" inwardly digested."—Williaus &liea,da, formed/o:1
Newton Abbott, sued Ildaard Cogawill, of 'The eg
Bankruptcy+, and Accountancy Chambers," Gracechurch•
street, London, for £6 cash supplied to defendant,
who had promised to treat with plaintiff's creditors, in a
circular letter defendant sent to plaintiff, who waa in
pecuniary difficulties, he promised assistance and relief,
and, to obtain these the Ld 4. was forwarded. Of this
amount £2 had been forwarded to defendant to affect a
comtoeition with plaintiff's creditors. but the plaintiff
now stated in the witness box defendant did nothiag for
him, and his affairs were worse than before.—His Honour
gave judgmeat for the full amount, with immediate
execution.

A lady whose name is withheld has offered to give •
Dew organ to Salisbury Cathedral at a cost of £O,OOO.
Just now there is a difficulty in obtaining boys for the
royal navy : there are no fewer than 700 ‘•CaleCieS.
The Town Council of Si, Helen's, Lancashire, have
bought the local gaeworks for .C 131,000.
The carpenters and joiners of North Staffordshire have
demanded an advance in the rate of wages, reduction of
the hours of labour, and overtime advantages.
VaLUllath IMPORTATION. The White Star shelithee
" Baltic," which arrived in the river on Tuesday morning,
98th December, brought a valuable consignment of the
eiws of the silkworm ( &whys aeorOconsiating of 80 cases,
weighing about 8,000 Ilia, anti of extraordinary value.
These egge were shipped at Yokohama, on hoard the
eame Company's steamer "Gaelic," bound for Kan Fran-
cisco, and on *drivel there were transhipped to New York
by rail, and thence to Liverpool by the ' Baltic." Most,
I f not all, the cases are intended for France, and doubtless
the eggu will in good time be found to be a source of
profit to those engaged in the business. The North Pacific
and North Atlantic route from China and Japan is rapidly
increasing in favour over the old route, via Sum, as time
is saved on the former, the present shipment only occuPy-
big forty-six days from Yokohama to Liverpool, including
all detentions, the Pacific and Oriental time be'
trigfifty'nine dais.
We have had far worse importations (ruin ac "Us.
pond" than "spelling hess"--el=h why those orthoepic
competitions should be thus we are at • low to
immdne, unless the originator of the title had in his mind.
Dr. Wattle bee, and considered that like it they "improved
the shining hour." And there is not • doubt but that in
newes of time they will prove great incentive, to is
to give • little more attention to their
an amusement, • "bee" must be about as entertaining
and innocent an one as can be imagined, and there is n
raison why it should not be introduced into these part:
it would be as well, however. that • gout modern
Aietionser should be decided upon as the authority, for,
anew, geuerallyrecognised as standard works render words
very different to the ordinary accepted mode of spelling.
Fa, instance, ate "Gee" recently held at Bristol. Gabardine
covering --as spelt by the competitor raised shout,. of
Ironical lautiter from the audience, but Richardson was
and upheld tte form The pretty dower
Mitadaesdgiven by Richardson, upset another, who spelt it
lilac. The latter rendering evidently was the one the
andienos seemed to think right, and they hissed when the
Interrogator pronounced the final " h " to be the correct
war. A competitor came forward and said that they were
Meld that they must keep to Richardaon's dictionary in
every Instance. In that the word "bun" wit spelt
"bunn." Another candidate was knowing, and spelt,
hemorrhage and also hninEr=nd he was ruled to be
sight, having spalt one as does,