The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-05-06 00:00:00

I am Sir, yours respectfully,
A DISCIPLE OF THE PUMP.
Whitchurch, April 30th, 1862.

81R,-Will you allow na,the Committee of the Whit-
church Temperance Sodety,the privilegeofreplying to
the speech of Mr. DI oilfield at the Qercheeter Farmers'
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meeting, afar -.'reported by you' in your impression of
the 17th. We thought that some more able pen than
ours would surely have taken up the cause last week,
' • but as they did not, we feel ourselves in duty bound
to do so, not that we wish to bring ourselves before
the public, but as it appears that Mr. Manfield is
labouring under a great mistake, we should just
like to set him right. It seems almost impossible,
as our worthy chaipaan said on Thursday evening,
that any person in this, the nittopeenth century,
could have uttered niche speech ; Int as it became
public property by appearing in the paper, we
are somewhat bound to believe it; and, leaving the
rest of his speech for a future time if it should be
, required, we beg to inform him that some of our
labouring men at -Whitehurch feel indignant at his
words, where he says "That he never yet saw a
teetotaller who was a fit man for a day's labour,' when
there was a great deal of hard work to do ; and if he
will take the trouble to come to Whitchureh they
will show him that any amount of hard work can be
done without beer as well as with it; and we also beg
to inform him that it has been tried in innumerable
instances throughout the country, and in every ease
the Total Abstaining labourer has done his work
as well, if not better, than his opponent ; but if Mr.
Manfield is lain incredulous, we will arrange matters
with him so that our Total Abstaining labourer or
labourers,just ashe pleases shall work with any of his
drinking labourers at the forthcoming haymaking
or harvest. Apologising for trespassing so far on
your valuable space,—l remain, yours respectfully,
on behalf of the Committee,
E. S. SHAVE, Hon. Sec.
Whitchurch, April 29th, 1862.

PRINTERS VERSUS PUPPIES.

SIR,—Is the printing profession fallen to so low a state
as to justify its members being called "fellows," and
their company avoided for no other reason than that
they are Printers? Is an employment more b'onourable
because it does not soil the fingers? lithe messurirg
a yard of calico or weighing half a pound of clout nails a
superior occupation to setting up long lesders in the
Times, even as Cox is madeto do in the laughable farce?
For the information of certain young men in this town,
allow me to inform them' that Printers are "fellows"
who form an important section in the wheel of life,
and without them the axle on which society revolves
would be of little use whatever, though they may
introduce their weak and rotten "spokes. '
"Yellows" indeed those whom they have to thank
for their education, their general knowledge, and to
whom they are indebted for information of the passing
events of every day life; who, while tliejs are happily
slumbering in the arms of Morpheus, are oft-times
engaged in a closely pent-up building, preparing produc-
tions for their amusement and instruction, and to which
the policeman on his lonely beat is too often a witness.
" Fellows" indeed! 0 ye gods and demi-gods, ye
finny tribe of the deep, whose silvery scales gild the
depths of the briny aqua, what an unmeaning and
illiterate expression! It may sound Bash, but how
vitint!.
! Can they, with all their seeunn wisdom inform
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gush language, or
Mal problem' We
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solve to us an arithmetical or geometi
make the challenge, bat fear the
inform them that
ifynorsoos Is bliss.
"Its folly tab' wise."
Printers, awake from your lethargy;
emadition —your degraded position ir
csorurany is disdained, not desired;
Spirit of Ulysses, transportation to"
would be Milnitaly preferable to s.
existence. Though not Fellows of
members of a typographical society,
'edged to be England's boast, and the
realm. We speak plain ; if might
defence, let them reply.—Yours re-
Yeovil, April 21, 1862.

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When first introduced into England. pure wholesome
Tea was alone imported, Dr kkimuel Johnson liked
Mob, and the frequenters of " ' in the time of
Chaska the Second obtained such, and recent events
have fully proved, that a large portion of the public
will have such now, in preference to the usual
'artificiany faced' sorts; to meet this demand, Messrs.
Horniman were the first to import pure uncoloured
green tea direct from Chins, per ships 'Cherokee' and
"Canabethe ; a large sale has ever since been experienced;
the stock hi the London Docks last month, was by the
minted retains upwards of one million pounds; since
then two ships have arrived with v. tire cargoes of
pure anselosored. Horniman's teas po- extraordinary
eirengeh, the Black is not intensely the Green is of
a natural olive hue,—not is. like Mal
watt, aoki. Arais aa advertised.
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