The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-01-20 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH TOWN COUNCIL

return to Werner* the serpent was identified at
the yerry.bridge, while on duty there.—Colour-
Sergeant fir Oerthy, of the company to which the A meeting of the Town Council was held on
prisoners belonged, mid: Yesterday Sergeant Brine Wednesday. Mr. Ward, engineer to the Wey-
cm" M the Verne Barracks, and the commanding mouth and PortJand Railway Company presented a
who
committed
sittets unistbe
it,,,hbbmim in finding the plan of the proposed tramway to the harbour. He
omffiencerwhd . He rand proposee it to run clue to the Backwater well from
the glees produced in the chimney of the worn the railway station to near Mr. Wellforite timber
where the three prisoners lived. Perry sod llogettan pound, at the back of that, and thence in • straight
were very good charactere, the former bad two 11°°4 line to the corner behind Nicholas-street Chapel.
radar stripes, and the latter one Bortolas hao To do this it will be necessary to take in about
on one or two occasions been unsteady. The three three quarters of an acre of the Backwater. The
priscaerewere on pun on Saturday eight They were company will erect s wooden wall and excavate the
n'Pottod he' having returned to the barred" at le Backwater to the depth of 6 feet low water, for
o'clock.—The ',Awn Snell on being recalled, rid filling up the space taken in, and the portion not
When the prisoners were with her they were ill takes in, above that which is required for the
drink.—They were eammittel for trial at the
Amisee tramway, to be the property of the Cmporation, on
condition that the Corporation bear the company
A Voetortra's Format. —On Friday week harmless from any claims made by owners of pro.
the led sad rites were performed over the mortal perty for lees of communication with the Beck•
remainsof Mr. .1. Attwooll, a private in the We), water.--Mr. Drew thought there could be no °Wee-
month Volunteer Corps. The interment took plane non to this proposeL It was the best proprion
in Wyk, charchiard, and at his own request, pre. that had been made for years past If the nßack •
vioua to death, the burial service was reed by the water were escarated for filling in the space re.
Bee, W. H. Wale, curets of Trinity Church. His tinned, they would get rid of the offensive amens,
rema'no were followed to the grave by the members Verdi could come alongside the tramway wall and
of his corps, and his brother Oddfellowe, whose unkied, and the spares not required by the Corpora-,
society he bad joined soon after the formation of non could be employed for theerection of stores. I"
the lodge. After the conclusion of the beautiful erlie &Cavite prpoeitibn.—Mr. Devenish thought
service which oar Ostrich has appointed for them that if this work was carried out, it would he the
Mei= occasions, the burial service appointed hy the greatest improvement that bad been effected for the
Manchester Unity was read by one of the offlous, lad 30 years.—Mr. Hare rid the company could,
dter which • portion of the volunteers fired the if they chose, erect e viaduct for their tramway,
usual number of volleys over the grave, in accord- but the they were willing to go to a little more en-
emas with military federate penes for the purpose of effecting a greet public
AN Er Teat.—One morning •mu was miming, improvement to the town. The only difficulty was
sad end not be heard of for • fortnight. His Wife the question of right which any party might raise
was to such distress that when at lad his body was rot loss of free communication with the Backwater
found in a fishpond, near the house, no or liked to on account of the embankment. Mr. Drew
tell bee, more eopemally as the drover) of the body did not at that moment recollect but of one
was accompanied with what people thought would „„onerti „ haying this right but for so great
shock her dreadfudy—bainely, that when it was milled t' r'''.
0., I groitgoLotit, of eeta fen on the grass from it ; an
nimpros_ improvement
arranged.
t ho thou gilt this question
the body was, in fact, full of them. At last some one align. rie . s ry_ _
_Mr. Ape/land
had the coo to tell the widow, and to add the cur- Thomas said that Mr. Devenish had pre.
eumatance shoot the eel,. The widow replied, amid yierely informed the Council that the road to the
her tears, 'Send home the eels—and err Aim again. bridge would have to be raised only 18 inches, but
lam very food of eela"—Life in Normand,. Mr. Beaet bad just infonned him that the
COUNTY COrlT.—During the pest you 1./7 plaints etigiseees had told him It was impossible to make
have been taken out against debtors in the eyeteeth the tramway without raising the road 3 feet —Mr.
County Court, and upwards of 100 judgment ear Devenish said he had communicated to the Council
menses have been lard, being the tweed amount of what the engineer told him. That was all he knew
reined trahmeted in one year since the establishment
about it. After about • hour end half being spent
of the Court, and two-fold greater than it was three
in discussion and examining the plans, the following
years ego.
terms were submitted by Mr. Ward :
Mu. GRUNDY AMU; WHY Mil WITHOUT!' e'lst. That the Corporation grant to the Railway
CORPORATION •11l Net SINTLICID To PISA'. Company the right to emigrate the necessary materials
SIRVITUDI AT PORTLAND. —Deer klauster Heath from the adjoining Backwater, free of cry charge of
hitter.—l be very glad as bow yer sent I royalty, provided it be done under the supervision of
" Xenophon's" letter. Xenophon, I most confess, the own Council.
be • oncommoa modest sort o • Yeller, • Miura o' "..nd. That the Corporation undertake there:arty
yer hap 'cause yer publishes my letters, says as how arrtheements *Oh the °Omni ind tenanta of the
yer bunt lit to hetht • pauper sa have got so large OdMieloit Progenies affected by the Premed ailing of
• oirdeatioa, telh yet WI how yer ought to goo away, the Backwater, if any, and deliver in the cemteanytlie
an then lase yer to publish Ins letter, which whole of the lend trend for panne, out the works
as I think ad make a gun cab,'!. Now free of all liabilities; so much of the land as shall not
be required for the purpose of the tramway to remain
Xenophon ortto eknowd,l should a thorght, as how the property of the corpnretioe.
yoo Headhitters &Ilea cautions yer correspondents
~.
.''rOn.,bahalf of the V. erruouth and Portland Railway
not to hexpect their communications to appear if c (Sinned) "J. W. WARD.
the Benin MIA address o' the riter bunt added. "January 14, 1863."
But who do yer think this Xenophon he? Why he Mr. Drew then proposed end Mt. Burnt
be • chap as has been a monody gotten in my way seconded, and It was unanimously carried :—" That
an so I've treaded on bus corns • few times to Mike the propositions now made by the Weymouth and
'on know his duty; but he bunt got no manners, Portland Railway Company, relative to the filling
although babe in the ormation. And now sely up • portion of the Backwater, agreeable to the plans
just look at is dart. Hs thought as how if is letter this dity produced by ads engineer, Mr. Ward, be
Was ported a twoaso he'd be found bout, an so he Accepted I and that the Town Clerk be instructed
sets to • Kitten is wife to copy is letter, an sends to prepare the necerry agreements for carrying
an to Sere Regis to get pouted. Twer I clever out the same, in accordance with the memorandum
dodge, but yet re, hit ripper to be 'round bout. dated January 14th, and signed by Mr. Ward"—
But, talker' 'beet the Corpmtion puts I in The Mayor thought they could not allow Mr. Ward
minds how I've a ben kitten o 'am aloan now for and the two gentlemen who accompanied him to
dree weeks, which, yer see, be a long while iii • depart with out expressing their thanks to them
person's life time. Well, has I was a ride° out in for the information rendered; and to say that
my carridge, I theft as how I'd goo over to Wyke, the Corporation would her retieh pleasure in reader.
but when 1 cuind to foot o' the bridge the toll ing them every andstente for facilitating the works
oollecktor cum'd howt an ited very perlitely, "six, to be carried oth. —Mr. Ward acknowledged the
pence, please ma'am." So my footman paid ; for yer compliment and withdrew.
use, the servints as bleep to the harialmersoy allus LAIL TRIASOWIR.I ActOUNTS.—Mr. BMW pre-
pays such things, and we pays them agen. But they posed, Mr. Upjohn seconded, and it was carried
bridge tolls eat I a thinkun a good deal. Elio unanimously :
fart, they sent I right off into • meditation. Let Me "'that a Ceuimitte. resisting of the Mayor, Messrs.
see, I thought, thinks hi to myself. A little better Councillors Hare. Maunders. Drew, W. Thomas,
an two year roe, the Corpration took away Milledge, R. Themes, and Hibbs, be appointed to report
dres hundred pone from thick yer bridge vend to the Council their opinion as to the hest way of deal.
an lent it as ern zed, to the barber. I wonder ing with the various balsnees now standing to the credit
whether the barber have ever paid intrest for that ? and debit of the late treasurer."
But whether it have or hand, it baint no odds, the SORILTOWB BILPORT. —The Surveyor presented
Corpration had no hither to lend it. The Corpra- the..
leave to cell following report
n as i-
-1 br, lour Mention to the bad state of
ti, on, the trustees o' the Bridge trued, 'aim no s, Eep "de chains ; would recommend
half a ton
power to lend the money. The hact don't gee 'em ,g
new chain be purchased immediately, so that a con.
the power, and they cant doo't legally nohow. tinuous length of new chain may be placed, and we may
Why it be a misappropreystion o' the SWAM entirely, find come few feet of the old that may be used at differ-
an • breech o' trust. lea, it baint no more nor no ent places. I would also re:1003.11ml the early repairing
1.. thane breech o' trust An what, says Ito my- of the chairs and paining. I iikid not tell you the
:elf, be the penalty for breech o trust? and an, coat of these chairs, end the state they were left in lest
after I'd a ben sedan and thinken a little bit what mason will hasten a rapid decay. It will be necessary
iterne, ii shot into soy ent all atone., as how Sir John to renovate the south side of the Esplanade walk, equal
Dean Paull, the gurt banker as was, was sentenced to the north side, early in the spring, so that annoy.
ance may be avoided to visitors as the semen mi-
te penal servitude at Portia' aorta 'stablishment preaches. Perham I may he allowed to state that
for breech o' trust. Horror o' horrors! Can the parties impressed with the iiica, at the commencement
Weymuth Corpratton, I eat myself, know what 'em of the repairs of the north side last mason, that the
ha ben about, Du 'cm know as what they ha' done wrens step was taken, have now acknovrlielvd t,he
'morn' to what be tarni'd breech o' trust, and as work to have been curled rod oe the right principle,
how breech o' trust be punishable we penal med. securing an uniform cam-pet walk. I bee leave to remind
tudet An yet 'em ort to know't for zum o' em be You of the repent I rye in reference to the bad state
magistraits. If. however, 1 mind right, I reit it of the bridge, when I removed the obnoxious tar and
in the pauper as how the Town Clerk did warn em Intrixlined metalling. 1 then stated the planking was
as hcw 'twee a breech o' trust an they darn't don't. vielt:'`glil direeZai, isefol beg toaccntnitrenerywhrieopmi natteenai
But they ud, an did, in spite e waraen. Yet see, tat the same time, whreenaLw planking is Pii't ci. n, I
Zit, they be so oucomMon clever in their own eyes. would recommend the bridge lowered eight feet. which
When they Ms • head o' anythink thee bunt no "odd be carried out very easily without the treffic being
turaeu o'etn. When parents a got a clever child stopped. The plan I recommend would he to take out
the nabers all sex as how "tee too clever to live." the etches and censtrect 'foe ttened girders, four feet
An too 'tettl be we our Toery Corpration ; 'trill in depth, rile lower the present owing, part of which
die—goo bout joss like the snuff o a candle gum o' *lll still answer the purpose. I find the present height
these yer days. But Ibe • gettun wide o' My mark froni the crown of the bridge to the pavement, at Mr.
I ion& well, es I wet a myen, inienpropryetion oi Seymour's,.ironmonger, to be twelve feeetthrerefore, by
trust vunds be • criminal offence. S'poas, then, lowering
It ell%
feet,.the aseenet,ll,l: a matter tetwor.Zumrseel„
tee"' was 't.° take the matter hop' what a Part 7 'smite side woyum place steps sideways, and construct
vigger 'ern rei cut at a bar o' justice ! An spree the paveinent outside. 1 would also do the seine te
as how the trial! was to goo agen 'em ea it did agen Trinity Church stem and the steps to the ad rent
Sir John Dean Nell an hie confederates, and they houses, and lam well petrified the Ornerl and occu-
be sentenced to transportation, how 'ern ud stare un pants, when finithed, would be much satisfied with the
Mean uns stars for been so mighty clever. Yer iniptrement in conjunction with the public generally,
knows u how tee zed, what be sus for a goose be and the expense not heavy, in proportion to the great
sass for a gander; and hit se, why yer see, our improvement obtained. I think you will give me the
Weymouth ganders shad be eared like the betaken credit in never failing in an undertaking you have been
Bern now, I almost • fairies as bow pleard to direct me to carry out. The
inform
ef
the portion of the quay will I have to you is
rse.elhun, as I be • mitten an nten o' this, a diggen
sez near ooninletion • the east of labour, in conjunction
stoance is the Portland quarries. Poor yellers,
with lights retrui;ed at night tides, /to.; ho., up to the
I, my 'art quite bleeds a thinkun out; for yer see, present time, will be found to be rTi9 lii. 10d. I
Disaster Headhitter, I ha' got a :oft 'art when my woold recommend a stage constructed outside this
yeller erectors is in trouble. An then, no doubt, wall, and a crane erected on the west end of stage—this
%was done in hignorance, 'cause yet. see, sir, sell being the most suitable place for traffic in the harbour
cored allus have its vonndashun in hignorance. —especially • well of great depth and strength. I beg
It be martini true as how bignorant people shudn't to call your attention to the dilspidated state of the
a ben trusted we the management 0, oorpretion Park Well ; this wall, as all others, not hat.
property, no more than children shod be trusted we int sufficient depth of Joandation, at several
edgetools. An yet, it Wet tiler fault re much iiter oleee' is ifl`en `ll,r• Whenyou ore pleased
to turn i your attention to t, t would recommend the
all, woe yer see, the 'lectors shadn't • lamed ern. wall to be tarried out some 83 or 100 feet farther.
But then p'raps sum nil say as how hif they be so
he ter/ Board of liea Itlt.—l beg leave to inform
higeereet' they °rtn't to 'lei" angel"' he a hen your Board that the water carts have lie- en washed, and
leckted, but to that, yer see, ther be this hamper, ;,honid he innsodietely repaired and painted. I beg
which his, that the moast hignorant an self-con - leave to nay during the last week Immo 150 yards of
sorted, an incompetent, be the very %ma as &Bus material has been used in metalling the streets. A
tries to worm noselves into plans and power. But great quantity Is required to complete the metalling in
iliac be another question as is to be teck'd on 'pen the various streets. I would impress on yonr Board,
thick yer subjeckt, and that be—whether higoor. for the future, the necessity of procuring materials for
are, an selfeureet, and incompetency be a stiffi. metalling in the summer months, when they can easily
cient hanaer for mumpropreyation o' trust money. he obtained, and at a much less cost. I have (by the
Idyote an insane people, I knows, band hold els to be brought in
Mayor'ser:que.torth slhore ordered' the Bark water. I beg „
responsible for ther acktions ; but if 'em was put fromninie the
brought in "ass sample the hist. eveoinz, nay
up= thee tryst!, cud they bring freed a sufficient duty has delivered as a we* tee loads of material
amount o' evidence as lid zatisvy the judge an jury for metalling- it hst been deposited in York-buildings
as bow they was so idyotio or insane as to render road—one Mad being all broken flints and the other
'OM not ameeriable for their conduckt ? If 'em cud consisting of thremfourths pebbles ; I would moommend
manage this I spree as bow they'd be shut up in • the former. I would tremolos,' the old materiels
rylum, an if 'em cudn't, what a change 'twod be a taken up In St. Aire* Row to be used in repairing
liven 'pou prizzen diet instead o' riden ruffshod Newertreet, when the work is carried out. I would
over the Weymuth rate-pairs. The prima' diet be strongly recommend a sewer to be laid down in St.
altard now. The convickts helot low'd no beer Alban's Row before the new road mid pavement is
nor hockey under the rules as cani'd into rbr:i:torniinas arm 7:7,llnr,rtatti wve." in wme.oc'hrewant
hopperation a forted agoo, an thervor 'twod goo on. ot jotter-stones, curb, reared flatteners, and pave.
common bard we'ern. It strikes I ILI how they'd went for jobbing. I would recommend your Board to
then like to ha' rum o' Divinishes beer as was geed order 500 feet of pavement. 800 feet of squared fiat.
&hay at Christmas. That was a disgraceful fair, an teners, 500 feet of curb, and 500 feet of gutter stones;
I wonder, Mr. Hcailhitter, as how I vor-got to a told and if ordered directly we may not get it for several
yer bof it avore. But it be this. Yer see, air, months. I beg to call the attention of the Board to the
llauster Halldridge Divniah be a madgistrate, an is &Molar necessity of making the road in Spring-lane;
rellative, Manatee 'enry, be the mair an chair iii. quite useless to pretend to do anything otherwise
madgistmte. These two be partners in the brewen than lay down a foundation. I would recommend a
trade, an so, about Christmas time 'en geed away a with a curb and tenders called accor-
ding tothr.thewn up with
tbst'yoar Board may be Pleased
lot o' beer. Zuni on 'em has went, I've 'eerd, to older. I beg to remind your Board of the plan and
drinkt as much as zix or ser'n pints, or may be specification drawn for sewer pipes laid at they hack of
more, an got so drunk as 'em cadn't stand, an Waterloo, with the gully grating complete. I would
'ad to be carried whoam. Others got • fishtail, recommend the work be carried out, as Can streets of
an lota o' eta was a tighten all at wens, an Victoria-street and Lennox-street are fearful for want
the 'piece 'ad to be seat for to quell the dire of gullies to carry off the surfer water. I beg to call
tarbance. But none o' 'em didn't get birmght the serious attention of your Board to the state of all
Aaron the madgistrates vor drunkenness, naythr the movers; through neglect the mud has been allowed
was the brewen charmed aware the Bench vor to overflow in the sinks and run into the sewers which
has caused the drains to choke up, and the re:ult will
haven disorderly characters on them premier nor be the cost of a vast sum of money to open the drains
a drawee beer for people as was drunk. But spoor, and cleanse them. Had proper attention been paid
hinstead o'this diagrasful occurren at 'Ope square this would not have rourred."
it 'ad occurrid at won o' Miura, Mason's and e,
Company's priblick houses as lives at Dorgestier, vor °TIT= Or RATING MIDI* THE LOCSI BO•RD
they've lots o'bouses here, wad no notice • ben Or HEALTH. —Mr. Maunders brought forward his
taken at then' I guess as 'ow ther wod, an no motion for rescinding the resolution of the 26th
mistake. Why then shun% all be teed we the 'lOO5 haat' as M the PraPeratMes of the estimates for
rem brush. Yer see, what 'plies to the corpration, Ileaeral district rates, and the preparation and
of estrm .
ate*, and the making
'bout hignorance an incompetence, wont 'ply to presentation
and collecting of the rates of the Board. He
Mauston Dirndl, cause them be r clever an 1111
observed that in this notice the wrong date
wide synth an shrewd tradesmen as yer'll wind in •
had been inserted, it should have been the 23rd
day's march. They ha' cut all thee eye teeth yer
June.—The Town Clerk said the wrong date
may depend, and I spore as hoe 'en stands as high
had been inadverten
in the teethe world has mood people in the county. 1 Placed on the notice
paper.—kle Devenish thought that this would pre-
Good aster, no dout, was the raison ether gran
elude the resolutions of Mr. Meanders being carried
away ther beer; an' may be tag good n on
at the present meetieg, but perhaps he would lay
the part o'pablicans zundimes to low thee cum.
touters to stay liter 'ern ha' got a drop too much. ,heime the Bawd. . his proposition, might
Whet puts I out be thick yer—wby shod thew he tione that they
ne considered in the interim of the next meeting.—
mand vlesh o' one and vish o' totber 1' My motty be The 'Po Clerk said Mr. Maunders's 'scheme would
this, equal jostic shod be 'ministered to all, we'out render a rate peccary every two months in order to
k„.._.eep the
an
ntressomzwar in t foconldaleet-o.,Mr,.Hrearetiptphooingalt
1 favour or infection; an I think, sir, as bow, you'll
agree as bow Ibe party nigh right. I was • go'unthto that
he could tusks out the books as well as collect, and
I say a word or two 'bout our charrittys, an 'bout e
that the Town Clerk would not then object—Mr.
tramway to the barber, es I ha' heard as 'ow they
Maunders entered upon an explanation of the
scheme, and laid on the table the following resole-
cold &II they rites to the Railway Company vor the
paltry sum o' vivre thousand pound. I her deo got a
little word or too to say 'bout Zir Voyer's to tions he proposed to move at the next meeting :
is earrints, foil looks onconimmi as hor:Preri be with° meeting:—
"Thai thelerew'telasthie.e.Parit on ttaheeZageedneJrausedia. 1,686.2 i
guider o' the corporation. Then ther be the queen= ratio he mewed..
whose house im do live bin; but I mod leer ...That a committee, consisting of four members of
they vor discussions in another number. In 'this Board. de, two from each ward, and the Mayor
the ISOLA time, sir, I begs to 'Mile' myself yer amble . for the time being, shall he formed, to be mood the
sit Tint, /Lim Galitelse. P &timer Committee, vines ditty it shall be in lie LA

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