The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-08-26 00:00:00

DOICIEASTZI.

Detrnene.—lt will be INGO by an announcement in
our advertising columns that Mr. Wallace, of 91,
Harley-street, London, visite Dorchester every alter-
nate Saturday, his consulting rooms being at Mr.
Lockett's, 1, Cornhill, Dorchester.
THZ FIRS BRIG ADZ. —lt Is proposed to give our
Volunteer Fire Brigade a suitable uniform, with a
distinguishing badge. The cost would be about £O,
and the amount might be raised by public subscrip-
tion, for we doubt whether the Council would advance
any funds for this purpose, though certainly, considering
bow mart our Fire Brigade are, and how quickly they
arrive at any fire of which they receive information,
they are well worthy such • mark of public apprecia.
lion. At the fire at Monckton they appeared twenty
minutes after hearing of it, and as this was after going
over about two miles of n,ad, it follows that from ten
minutes to a quarter of an hour was the time occupied
in getting ready. Should the Council be tlispofted to
consider the plan favourably, they may remember that
attendance at country fires, for which two guineas each
is received, pays for the hum.
Dane' Ana Viotore—On Monday, before the
Borough Magistrates, Charies Roils, who had been in
the R.H.A., was brought up for being drunk and
meaulting the police. —Acting-Sergeant Carter found
prisoner in South-street on Saturday night, about 20
minutes past 8, when Mr. Randall, of the New Inn,
called witness to moist him in getting prisoner out.
Witness went in and found prisoner drunk, and he
said he should not leave before he had another
pint of beer; but witness put him out, when he said
he should go back and fight any that was there ;
when whams said he'd take him to the police-station,
and on this prisoner kicked and struck him, and
behaved so violently that the sergeant woo obliged to
call the sesistance of P.C. Bartley to take him to the
station; and he said he'd rip all their -- insides
out if he had his spurs on. —ln answer to the Bench,
Supt. Coward said prisoner had not been in trouble
hen before • but elsewhere he had bad six months
for stabbing a man.—Fined 101., and warned he had
had • wiry narrow escape of eanething wone.—
Allowed • week to pay, and in default 14 days' hard
labour. _

Sv7ins Fria. —On Friday, before Colonel
Bloghani. H. B. Middleton, Esq., G. Churchill, Esq.,
and A. Esq. The following places had been
declared by the magistrates infected places. 28 days
ago or more, and no fresh cases having occurred there,
the Committee of Quarter Sessions declared them non.
Infected places :—Mr. Gale's,_Broodwey ; Mr. Irani
Con's, Puncknowle, and Mr. Edward Pansy's, Grim-
stone.—Sergt. Thomas Steed Hitch found swine fever
on premises at Winterborne St. Martin's, in the
occupation of Mr. Lane ; 20 pigs were there of which
one had died, and 17 others had been attacked; but
the two others remained healthy. -Mr. Lane had
bought them of • dealer, and Mr. Goodden remarked
he believed the disease originated at Maiden Newton;
but Sergt. Hitch stated that Bridport was the source
of the disease. Mr. Lane Grad his pigs were part ef the lot
of which some had been declared affected at Grim-
stone.--Mr. Lipscomb' thought the other two pigs
belonging to Mr. Lane might escape, IPA they were
larger and stronger pigs. —The Bench ordered the 17
Infected.
.be slaughtered, and declared the premises

—CciAJA:i Or &WALING A BRUSH. —At the County
Hall on Saturday, before H. B. Middleton, Fel. (in
the chair), and O. 0. Churchill, Esq., /Amiss Moore
wee charged with stealine a brush at Portesham.—Ann
Goddin, the wife of James Goddin, a baker, of
Portesham, and living at Portesham, said the brash
was her husband's ; she aaw it on the 10th inst. in the
morning and missed it in the afternoon, and did not
use it again till the 214 lust. Prisoner came
to their house for his dinner; but it was not ready
and he went away. The brush produced was theirs.
—John Wyle, who keeps the Royal Oak, Charmouth,
said that on Tuesday prisoner came to his house and
said "Master, here's a brush I picked up; you can
have it for a drink of ale." P.f'f. Barter cAO3O the
saute day and took it—Pt'. Barter said that on Tues-
day the 19th inst., with another constable, he went to
Charmonth in search of prisoner, and the two other
men about some knives that were miming. Went
Into the Royal Oak, and the landlord told hlm about
the brush, and he followed the prisoner to (Mary Bt.
Mary, in Devonshire, where be apprehended
Prisoner we. &eked whether be would be
tried now or
sent to the fieerione, he chose the former.—The
summons was dismissed against the prisoner owing to
there being some doubt.