The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-11 00:00:00

DOZOKIIIITIER.

Twg ODDRILOWS. —The balance sheet of this ably
conducted branch of a prosperous and useful institu-
tion will soon be in the hands of its members. From
it we gather that the lodge—" the Bud of Hope"—has
over .81,100 to its credit is the Wilts and Dorset Bank,
while the money inverted in consols and lodge pro-
!=s_antounts to about IMO. This shows an inertia's
on for ODD over the previous year. There are
Frtasembers, of whom 38 were admitted this last year.
The esergetie secretary is to be congratulated_ eFee
haviM es estidactory • balance sheet to lay adore
the Wile. We may add there is a juvenile branch,
which shows the very respectable etrength of 111
members.

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Richard Marsh, ;fah-Wirs7r,-;ra-s-egiCririd with malty to
animals, and Mr. Jesus Lucius of Puddlehinton, was
summoned for having caused the same.
Mr. Howard disfed.
P.C. Ilatcham (74) proved seeing a hone belonging to
Mr. Lovelace hummed to a plough. It was in • very
bad and poor condition, and he examined it. He found
on the right shoulder a wound 41n. across ; it was bleeding
and the collar was marked. Marsh was driving, and Mr.
Lovelace wasin the field with the men, and he heard
him urge them on to finish that day. He (the constable)
ordered the man to take the hone out, and com
i muni-
sated to Mr. Lovelace the state he had found t in. lie
said he knew it was bad, but it had had • rest, and he
did not intend to work it any more. The constable said
there were a "lot more" wounds and sores about the
horse in addition to the on* he had spoken of.
By Suitt Batty: Rim he served Mr. Lovelace with
the summons he said the constable had no business to
have reported it, as then no one would have known any-
thing about it, lie told him it was his duty, and he was
bound to, and upon that he threatened to get him re-
moved out of the force, and ordered him never to come
on his land again.
Cross-examined by Mr. Howard: He had been in tbe
force about three years. Previous to that he was • boot
and shoe makes His father, a carter, kept a hone. The
day he saw the horse was the 114 a.
Now with your great experience of horses, de you
think such wounds as you have now described would still
be visible I—l haven't had great excelence.
Mr. Howard: I thought not; that's exactly where we
Wet
Mr. Howard said as the two cases were to be dealt with
separately, he would call Mr. Lovelace.
Mr. Lovelace was put into the box, and denied that
there were any wounds on the hone when it went out,
and he also denied having threatened the policeman.
When asked by Supt Batty if he had found the fact of
the constables having been a shoemaker interfered with
the mover discharge of his duties he declined to answer.
Mr. Howard disarmed any idea of having intended to
impute that.
A couple of carters were also called, and they both
swore there were no wounds on the horse when it went
out.
Marsh was also put into the box as a witness for Mr.
Lovelace, end gave similar evidence.
The Bench said they had had some difficulty in deciding
the case, because the policeman had acted in good faith.
It was almost certain the hone was hardly in • fit state
to go to work, but it was equally certain there *ere no
wounds on it when it went out, so they dismissed the
cases
Josses Lai, of Litton Cheney, for being drunk on the
public highway, pleaded Uty and was thud be. and
costi, this being the second conviction.
A lad named Charles Day was charged with stealing •
foul the property of Joseph Roll, of Puddlehinton.
On the find of April, information of the loss was given
to P.C. Ketcham 74.1wh0 foundtthe thief had got into the
premises by creeping through a drain way in the wall.
Further enquiries showed that the boy had sold the
foul on the previous evening, to r dealer of the same
place. When apprehended he admitted it.
Mr. Howard for the had pleaded the respectability of
his parents. He had been five days in gaol, and he asked
the bench not to taint his future life by convicting him.
The Bench sentenced him to receive six strokes of the
birch. On the applicatton'of Supt. Batty, who said that a
boy suffering from heart dimes, had recenUy died from
fright it wee ordered the whipping be inflicted in the pre-
sence of • surgeon.

DEPARTURE or THE REGULAR&
Yesterday (Monday) morning the A Battery of the
B Brigade of the R.H.A. left the town ea reek for
Woolwich, prior to their departure for India. The
men have been here about 12 months, and their
general good behaviour and civility have made them
many friends. It is a matter worth mentioning that
not one of the number has had to appear at our
police-courts during their day. Taken as • whole
they were a fine body, and their hums for the most
=ere splendid animals. They had a capital
*c club, and Sint. Murray will long be remem-
bered as the man who bowled over a good many
civilians at our spelling-bees. The morning of their
departure was in striking contrast to the glorious
weather we have been enjoying, but it doubtlessly well
accorded with the spirits of "the girls they left behind
them "—damp and gloomy. The band of the Militia
was to have paid the compliment of playing them out
of the town, but as parchment is no slight constituent
of the music of the force it was thought the rain would
would spoil the drum,inod the order was counter-
manded. However, • number of "young lady-
helps " turned out to bid e warriors good speed ; and
we understand that our music sellers may ex=
extensive enquiry— that is until the next
arrives—foe that melancholy Ethiopian melody com-
mencing
"He is gone and we shall min him."