The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-04-24 00:00:00

MU anb enbss.

111, quite possible that if the HU Court of
Chancery were co null d, that awned, tribunal w old
dif-r from the decision give', by the 111.6 C nrt
Justice at Pole on Thur.-lay. in the saes of the chili
Mabel Furner. It in Tilts certain the law rano Ibe
twi•ts I t. suit the wishn. or. convenience* rd those
•h• appeal to it. If a man invoke, its .1.l to I yore
his title to property May kind, he in a 1.., hound to
discharge the responeibilities et.e.bing to curb oweere
ship. He Cannot alellale a contr. I obe mon:tent, when
be imagines it would prove profits:le to him, mid
repudiate it the text. if be finds he ha+ make a mis-
take. We d., not Vr •pe moment au. g.rn, that there
wez soy c .asiderattaa ooptectly.• ...team ages to
explain the great-grin Path r • or Miss Furner's
sudden interest in the little waif whom they *might to
possess thetneelve• of. We ho. w the wool 11. to full
of lose and chilly bur dich to wed ever to weigh
for one moment in deed. of kindest... There are
always tender-hearted people ready with open arms to
Clasp the., little children to their ay napathet ic breast.;
sad it can be nothing but utter Fe retold y on the
pad of the brats which induces them. in any case, to
pridee a workh num to a loving fir. -si ie. It is tins
the Children's Home do at admit these nolo tomato'',
hut then that I. quite rizlt. it is earn ing out the
Scriptural injunction trial, ve t. the visitation of the
sus f the fathers utou the children So it would
Feeni the child's, great gr indf, her having been
declined by the Bench t I. ire legal guardian, of
in comity there follows the magiete dal doctrine that
a man is responsible for the maintenance of the pro-
duct. of a great grandson's wilds. .1. ..t • great grand-
daughter's lacka. That a man is calied up so to cite
tritiute to the suppet of his dentitute grand childten
Ins well-known fact, but to extend this to the third
generation, and even to include illealtimatos, Perms
startling in the extreme, and to lend overwhelming
weight to Mr. Punch's advice to that* about to marry,
viz , don't.

Mr. Booth, or the '0 1,7 can milord to laugh at
the whole bench of Bishops. At hi. Exeter Hall meet•
int: teat week he netted £lO,OOO. Human credulity is
apparently inexhaustible. No one ant blame Mr.
Booth for making., much u be c • 113 Oat of his sense
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ti .n, neither can be grumble with thus who may
doubt the decency of the Army, when he permits "all
night-creeping. for Jun," in rooms filled with the
L"DR of both sexes and with the hg) to turned out.
The moot deplorable feature of the whole *ff.& in that
those g. ml p-ople who tine all these large sums of
mine, do it very much with the same Idea., one
traveller hands t.i another the money to Like him a
ticket fore railway journey—they fancy they can haok
themselves, by paying, for the Promise I Land: They
live selfish live., parting with just what they won't
feel the inoonvenfeoce of hieing, and then when the
end draweth nigh and the voluo of money to them la
rapidly depreciating, they become charitab'e at the
expense of their beii a.
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A, somewhat lengthy rem orta in other columns will
show, the Aeolus it Winchester have taken us away
(nut ole for six day., and, ao so many from this
neighbourhood and county found it incumbent upon
them to interview Baron Hirldleston, a few fleeting
remarks with reference to the arise week may not be
out of place.

•••
Winchester Is a highly respect ,ble town—as all
Cathedral cities are. It has a splen tid street .4 shops,
hut how the proprietors manage t ready with their
cheque* a- quarter-day the visitor fail, to cr njecture.
Publichouess abound, but. in the home of the
Wilber force., the landlords. as may naturally be
supposed, are not particolar'y happy. They would
like t, see twcrthirds of the house. blotted out, their
own particular establishments being, of course,
Included in the exempted one-third.

A cote par parentkesis. If you want to go to a
highly romfortable. respectable, and well managed
hotel when at Winchester, patronise Aueten'e, near
the railway station. You will find some Poole MUM/
In the Visitors' Book.

Winches'er hi. s eight more voters than Poole, and
retnrns two m mbers to Poole's one. Sorely thin In a
sufficient an.srer to the bogey with which Mr. Bond's
t'uste hen, hman Is trying t frighten the Wareham
tie dom. At all events it knocks the ground from
under hie I at, -

Winchester is also light. I with nil. Like Poole
they have fallen out vrPh their Gas C .mpar,y, and
they 11141115 %boot MO a year by It. But as rezarde
the li:ht! Well, the lee, said the belt,. It le
'enrnelY equal to that of Poole In Its palm (ol)eat
The Use Company, however, pays well. They
give their allowed 10 Per rent., and manage to
emusele In an additional 5. Ate eels of Nhares about
• week ago, £25 share. realised £l5 100-
e.
Anyone who wishes talc ow more about Winches-
ter. in a goi.le.b.s.k Nose, hvi better run no and see
the plsee. If yon do dear reader, don't forget the
splendid nave of the Catheiral or St Cross.

As regard@ the resultsol the trials, the sentence
that will strike nee, above a,l others, is tbst pasted
DPOn he unfortunate man Watts. That be was •
grebt scamp is instilled but t sentence one man to
Seven plus became he set fire to his dwelling-house in
I orossdeil Anat. utterly carelvss of the fats of his
osiikh,ors, and t give another • similar punishment
for burning a dgassiaad pullannee, hardly Noma moon-