The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-03-01 00:00:00

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Y FOY! L Venn, sim .-A meeting was 'held at St. John's vestry, on Therada' i morn it
wok B. Phelps, Esq., in the chair,
and nkl; pee-ra
Neale, Boileobam, Leeman, Hill, Slade, Custard and
J. Whitby. This was an adjourned ine
the one hold on the 11thof February, the:4l-infurotmes
of which were read, and noted that a
' called to isonsider the best means for
meatialtrYnl ethe
'."
call made on the parish by the highway Board.
Mr. Slade said the paring of the late
Highly Ao stolished the mode of raising Highway Ratewa • a pariah, and that they must thereto bewiptahr from the Poor Urea. The Poor Law en,. the
the whole of the district within the Union, but
the Highway only • part, the borough Tsar being excluded. They could not pay theoHighwad
Hate from the funds raised within the pariah,
was therefore necessary to make a mein an
ate d
the Highway parish, to raise the demand of ifTEI msda by the Highway Board. It would therefore
impose additional labour on Mr. Whitby in making
two separate rates, and h• would require • high.,
salary.-lir. Hill asked if I well wee separately
collected from Yeovil Marsh.-114r. Whitby 1.911.,]
in the negative. - Mr. Hill said, se eine iiviegium
d.
the borough, be should not be tontent to see a rate made for the outskirts,and the boronih pay for
collecting it -Mr. Slade said the money dr to the
Highway Board bed not yet been paid,althougla due
at the end of ler year, and therefore if was
w not dens at that meeting the Highway Boanl would be obliged to levy distress warrant,,
(IwOgArbir.) Mr. Bodearue said • certain army
nee required, end the Board for which the rats was
collected ought to pay it.- lilt Hill said the vestry
"would not be legally right, but morally wrong, to
'pay such a Mary. Those residing within the
boroagh had nothing whatever to do with the rate.
-Mr. Whitby said that the regular notice for con.
veiling • vestry had been duly posted at the church
doors, and if the fanner, and other parties in
ore
immediately interested in the matter did
not attend, those who were present as
parishioner, must transact the business of
the vestry without them.-Mr. Custard con•
sidered that if a public offleer's duty increased,
his salary ought to be raised also.-Mr. Hill said
It appeared to him that the business of the vestry
was to decide what remuneration should he allowed
Mr. Whitby for his extra labour in making d
collecting a new rata.-Mr. Slade : Yes, there
was no question whatever about the rate, as the
overseer were empowered to make it. -Mr. Hill
they were not justified in paying to what
Ithisled nothing to do with. It was evident they
i had nothing to do in making the rate. -Mr. Neale
• waa of opinion that if the overseers merle a rate,they
ought also to he able to fix the collector's salary. -Ur.
Custard thought the best way would be for Mr.
Whitby to state what it would be worth to make
and on the rate.-Tbe Chairman said they fairly
reamed that the sum was due, and they kaew how it
must be raised, but it most be on souse basis, and
there must he • bans to show.-Mr. Slade said •
rate had to he made, it was extra work for a collector,
and the question was who'a be dolt end what re-
munsratios WWI he have? The Poor Rate would
be taken as the bare for aelculation.-Mr. Whitby
said it would require a different rata from the Poor
or Borough Rates.-The Chairman said it was •
strange thing that farmers and others interested in
the matter had not attee.ded the vestry; as soon as
the tete was Wade *they would in all probability
not be sigretAbla 0‘... it, and they would again be left
In the 'I"AL-1)h. Hill said he considered it wrong
for th, revering to make • rate without the ono-
Mer„4 of • vestry. In the sum named as due to the
sailiway Board, there were other items mentioned
besides the reparation of roads. There was the
wilerk's salary-Mr. Slade said • precept had been
ironed by the Highway Board for the amount.
A rate must be made to meet the demand, and
merely the sum would be raised to meet that
• demand. 11r. Whitby said it was worth 16 a-year
to make and collect a new rate-The vestry oun.
midered it an exorbitant sum in comparison to whet
was paid for making and collecting other rates.-
Ur. Slade said the precept had been iodized by the
Highway Board some months ago, and they had
already expended ilOO on the Yeovil pariah, which
sum did not belong to them-Mr. Custard then
proposed "That Ur. J. Whitby be instructed to
make and collect a rate upon the several occupiers,
residing beyond the limits of the borough of Yeovil,
for the purpose of discharging tin precepts of the
Highway Board, and that be be raid £lO for his
OWIriSIS dor the curer year, such £lO to be charged
with the sum levied." This resolution wee earned
without dissensitei, and the meeting terminated.
WINGANTON. -A meeting of the Highway
Board was bold ben on Wednesday last, and it
Lppaserag that many of the highways within the
district are still prejudiced by the shade of trees and
hedges, and the neglect to open and cleanse ditches,
a general caution was given to all offenders in these
respecta, that they will be proceeded against as the
law directs if they do net forthwith out and plush
'their hedges, prune their trees, and properly open
and oleanes their ditches adjoining every highway.
WWI' COKER. -On Thareday, Israel A posy, of
Went Ooker, was brought up in custody, before G.
Harbin sad T. Monitor, Bova, nursed with
attempting an unnatural moult on a boy, 15 years
dig., named George Crouch-Mr. Sidney Watts
appeared for the defendant. - The complainant
stated that on Wednesday, the 3rd February, he
went to Yeovil, and returned with two other boys-
Frederick Baker and George Hawkine-betwese 8
and 9 o'clock in the evening. The defendant
Sham on the railway bridge at the bottom of MIT
ford, and they overtook him afterwards at the top
of the bill. Defendant then took bold of the *oiler
af Macoat, and led him on to Yew Tree Close-gate,
when he let him go and ran after him and the other
two boys with • stick, and struck Hawkins He
then to the other boys to go on, and stopped and
lighted his pipe. Mter he bad done this be caught
hold of complainant round the neck and knead him.
Tie tried to get away, best defendant led him on to
the bottom of the hilt and endeavored to commit
the alleged result at the gate there' bet com-
plainant called out to the other boys, and &thereat
then let his go. Beholdeni was very drunk. The
other two boys-Baker, aged 13, and Hawkins,
aged 11-gave evidence r to being In company
with Crouch on the evening in gueedion, but said the
defendant only played with them-driving them
before him with a stick. One of these fail they
could see complainant and defendant at the gate,
but the other stated that they could not.-P.C.
Fry stated that bearing the affair much talked
alert is the village, be, after making inquiries,
=tthe defendant on the previous day.-
herobill was celled, and she secompanied
the defendant and the boys from Hendford to
Coker, and denied that there was any truth in the
alleged charge ; but complainant's mother dried
that this witness was moat Several other
witnesses were called for the defence, and Hr.
Watts, in addrering the Bench, .pointed out the
retradicitory nature of evidence /or the prcescution.
-The ereistrates dismissed the nes
BREAK -BAD I1111011•LITY.-Ao inquest was
bold at the village of Bryan, near Wereasuper.
Mars, on Monday, before Bruges Fry, Esq., county
coroner, on the body of Mary Webb, otherwise
Dunn, :aged 13 months, the Girl illegitimate child
of Betsy Webb, Trisheromen, living in the sorrier of
Mr. Joseph Hitchins, at Borrow. There being no
Inn in the parish, the hawse( Ur. William Sperrisili
the kind and hospitable churchwarden, was thrown
eel for the accommodation of the owner and jury.
The coroner, on opening the case, rid he had re-
rived iestructions to hold the inquest from the
churchwarden and polimoffioer, and had felt it •
proper oosepliment to wait on the minister, the
Rev. W. Halifax ; and he understood him to lay
that the woman had had four illegitimate children;
bet he had linos been informed she had had six,
tour of lihoo4 114•111 died, which probably that gee-
lissom meant He added that, if on bearing the
evidence say suspicion attrined to the am, they
would be justified in calling in Mr. Chadwick, the
sorrow to make • exaini
Ann
clear up any doer on their minds -
Irwin, said: lam wife of James Webb, labourer,
of &am, &merest. The demised, Midi Wel'h,
f no
otherwise Dunn, is the illegitimate child of
dinglther. Betsy Webb, living at service as .
Joseph Hitollias, at Borrow, and the body lying
deed at my homeland's boom is the body of the
Mary Webb, otherwise Dunn. My daughter Betsy
was delivered of twins about twelve mouths ago.
She lay in at my husband's house, and went to the
=ion with both her children five weeks after their
birth. Staved in the union ten weeks, and then
came out and remained at my husband's bones for
about four months She then went to ferviee, and
left the two children under my care. and Wood to
allow me gl ii-quarter each for their nunntenanes.
I received within from any other source. Deceased
had be= ailinghom birth, and I never showed the
child to any doctor. I rat for Mr. Chadwick the
day the child died. He came, but the child was
deed on his arrival, I never told the doctor that I
gave the deceased syrup of rhabard on Saturday, or
Sunday, nor rester oil. Tim child died on Tuesday,
the 164, sad went off eery titostiy. The ette.i
r
twin is ill, sad he told re to give that child
liver oil, sad I did se ; mod Mr. Mader-la rid tit
the child was likely no ge eff the eorrtuway• but
one told me to give the child wfwegoisy bag bed
six
I have given it to children before.
Sass children. Four died wider my tare, is my
Loma. The doctor, Mr. Chediriok, attended two,
and Dr. Board another one. No inquest ins held
on either of those children. I moseyed the Mae
pay in sea et those mom via, •-loor I°l
and the hum never allowed re =riling, aeither
was my cedar made Thar lather, rosin is use
ern have seedier mimed Swab. She
he at preens is the deWdr prow, with a ha"
child; that is her third or berth, 68d all living. es I
believe. Betsy is tfi years old, and Sarah's age about
the Forearm The other children died sit the
ve are of Sheen weeks, eleven months, sad
thirteen months. Illy Imehead's averse weirs are
8a id. I that wood wia the hemerd mousy tomein.
yin impagy, nod the children. I else keep two
bees children of Sarah's, who le at praises en the
Moon. She also agrees to pay me e-weerter for
41116 of the children, bat has eel des..., She bee
paid ine 44 whisk ie • hide aoso Ilra bait for