The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-11-07 00:00:00

A HUMOROUS DEFENCE.

At the Liverpool Police Court yesterday, Dennis
Scanlan, described sea passenger agent, was charged
with being drunk and riotous on Saturday night--
Police-officer 552 stated that defendant was drunk :tad
fighting with another man in the street.—Defendant
said he would prove that the case was "a hit 4.f 3
conspiracy in a small way.- —(Laughter.) He am
charged with being drunk and 'righteous,' whereas
he was sober and the other man drunk. The .the
man was a policeman in private clothes, and as soon
as the offher found this out the two went and had a
it of a " oillogue" together. Afterwards the defen-
dant was "to led on at once."—ln answer to the
Bench, Police-constable 552 said the man whom the
defendant was fighting with wmi a policeman, but he
was quite sober. The defendant here stated that he
had been suffering from " Harris debility " for
eighteen years. Ile asked the attention of the
magistrates to his then excited state, and said thatauy
toliceman coming up the street, timid" eotehin'
fighting going on would think ho was drunk. Pro-
ducing a bottle, the defendant stated that the eontents
- beef tea and cayenne pepper - was his drink, and
had been since he was born, and he was always
obliged to carry the bottle with him where.er he
went. --(Loud laughter.) He aided, "If it ea. not,
ear en yen presence. mid for the respect. I hate Co. the
court, 1.1 take a sup of it now.--(Renewol Leiglitrr4
As !Won as the officer found out the other II lan N7l, a
policeman he rounded 011 MO, and raid it Wa-- all my
own fault. Undoubtedly, if be had not Is, n ,11„..
loan, he would blame walked him olf. I often , into
the public•house next door to hate a chat, a ith the
landlord about tolitival matters-- the newhipal
election in Ahercrombr Ward, tho Br.
(*.mimics, the Eastern ,pnation, MP I 1.11. I -1..."
--( Tau ghter. ) —.% lieu- hearing am.- w the
defence, the ina.„4:trates thought the 4.11 m :4. lo
awl inflicted a tine of 201 and co„t,,

WALKINU HALF-WAY TO THE NlooN.

I in t6s.e ,laya ..1 ;_reat pedestrian feata it k
while t.. reeor.l the doings .4 All .4.1 V.orkshiretaau
who has just died, tt. the ripe a.;.• ..1 st ye.ors.
Marshauc. Janie. Ileap was a sch.s.linaster, mad
earsied..n luie in a ii ill awl I.leak part .4 the
country, walhiug esery day a dist:cure of eight 'MI.,.
11., licol at a cotton mill just below the tillage .4
. . . .

which it the westi;rit-portion of that 1-tart
Yorkshire called Marshanishire. Ills Sas W2ll
Cnur miles distant, at rolsterdale, which is $llll further
west, and anion.; the bleak moors mad wild hills 1,4
lug away to Westiw.reland. A stornt of wind awl rain
is no trilliw; matter in these parts, awl durhh; a pw•
storm the snow clry often drifts s• thickly as to wake
the roads almost impassable : but Ms Collaitisll .4 the
weather or the atm...pin:re could Shake 33111, 11,11;1
air:Of:AA purpo.e. and he never had any ailne-id ft
accident which kept Ititu from going hi-, daily r.eni
to the wins,' and home again. Many a time letd he
t•• wade Um nigh snowdrifts to find that hi.: pupil,
were lit aide to reach the school, :Ind Is wan
constantly subjected to a drenching rain in the whiter
months. Yet from I leek:miler, ISt:, to damlarY.
he never missed it Single thiy, awl .lurim: V.r.v2,..n.e-
-enthe weeks he walked more than iill.llllll loilet.

nearly live time num.l the world. Nor w.e. h, alto.
gethte ille MI Sundays, for duriog 12 yea:, .1 All
Perhal he shared with others the teachim of a Sunda,
mama at & plaw called Summerside, about the None
distance from his home, and in an equally drvarj and
wild district on the us sod with i'.,lstenlale sei.nWen
Surdays in each year during these 12 year. dhl hrwdk
uiht miles to teach, which adds an a7g.;re.:ate of 5,712
miles to the former sum, so that takin.: Sundlys and
week days into the reckoning, he would, if liv had cm-
tinned his work for rather more than anther year,
have covered &distance equal half to the -pa between
the earth and the moon. The old man, until quite
lately, enjoyed good health, and the Schoolmasters'
Association had only lately written to tell him that an
annuity which he had been in meript .1 for .4110 thus
would, after the let 01 November. be till further
increased. This arrangement, however, he did not sec
tarried out, for ha died last week.

Captain J. K tieverne, the Conservative candidate fur
the representition of South Shropshire. "fl FridaY
elected without opposition for that division, in suerawiieta
to the late Major-General Sir Percy ilerbert.
Her Majesty's staghounds inaugurated the hunting
'lemon on Tuesday. A stag was unearted at S.ilthill, near
Slough, and gave a large field a capitol ran of All heir and
ten minutes. The weather was very tine, awl there was
a large attendance of visitor, from tlie metropdts.
During the first nine month. of the present year the
mercantile failures in the United Statue amounted IS
number to 7.111A' I. and up to the :loth September. .•ver
3.110,0410,0(10 sterling of debt has bees dealt with by the
United States Bankruptcy Courts.

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in the parish of Holy Trinity, by Gno. Pnammix, of the
Pariah of Fordington. Dorchester, for the rreerietor
Tuesday, November 1. 1870.