The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-04-10 00:00:00

Alorget Count frpress.

TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1,477.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

produce manuscript facsimile copies, has rendered the
volume so scarce that it can be found only in the
mosques and the libraries of the rich and learned. In
this respect it has been very different from our Bible,
which has been printed and circulated in every known
language. But recent events in the East having called
attention to the Koran, larze editions of it have been
issued in Europe, and one enterprising London publish-
ing firm has sobl many thousand copies. The chance
that the infidels may best know their sacred buoh,
perchance, has influenced the Moslem ecclesiastical
authorities to employ photo-lithogv.vphy, or photo-
aincography for its noiltiplication for home use. The
objection to types is thus aceble,l; but the thin end of
the wedge of progre,: if thus introduced and a begin-
ning ma.l, towArils popolarising a book which has
hitherto been generally left for priests to conjure by.
The detestable practice of dog j.isonitig, we learn,
has broken out with renewed virulence at Sherborne.
No less than five dogs were poisoned in one day last
week. We sincerely trust the cowardly blackguard
will be discovered, and, if one happen to be handy,
tira2geil through a horse•pond. This system of
revenge (dog poisoning) is about on a par with the
sending of filthy letters and indecent valentines.

Dr. Kenosley is getting, as the ladies would
say, quite "too awfully funny. His organ,
relative to a Hyde Park meeting, held on
Easter Monday, of the sympathisers with the
Claimant, modestly puts the attendance at
700,01 M (the London Dailies failed to see more
than 14,0110 at the outside), and thus describes
it :
'• They were all persons of the greatest respectability
not even the wretched penny papers dare to designate
them as ',rash. There was not • foot of the vast splice
traversed in which Dr. Kenealo ass not ballet% et a King
and blessed as a champion of the pc. pie, and it was
marvellous to we the love and devotion to him which
were exhibited by so many tosenablttl myriads of some of
the hest and truest people in thit realm. The Ministry
are so blind. so bigoted, or so besotted. that they cannot
nee this ; the Opposition are so ,liimlifounded and divided
that they make nc effort for the Doctor ; hut whatever
party did a great art of iustice, and made Kenealy Lonl
Chancellor of England—as he ought to be, as being
avowedly the greatest lawyer in the empire—svould
secure for itself such a place in the hearts of the people
and in the admiration of the world."
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INTRsErsli I SF. BEEKEEPER, Arrn.STATION. —Arrange-
ments have been made by the committee of this
association for lel,ling bee and honey shows in connec-
tion with the atilutal exhibition:, of the Sherbome and
Dorchester horticultural Societies in Augnst next.
Prizes to the amount of PM will be offered at each
place.--I'. 7'.
•}lner Cocsry lloSerr cr.. —The following is the
report for the week eishng April 7:th : In-patients
admitted, 3: discharged, I ; out-patients admitted, 5;
discharged, 0; emergencies, 1: death, 0; in-patients
ll itt in the Hospital, -IT; ont-patients remaining
on the books, : casualties, ; physician for the
week, Dr. W. V. Lush ; surgeon for the week, Mr.
house surgcsm, Mr. 11.1. Capon.
A new pulpit has just been erected in the old
parish church ~f St. Mary, Horsham, Sussex. It is
plar:d there as a memorial of the late Mr. Thomas
Sanctuary, of Roffey Park, by his children. In
design it is similar to the pulpit in St. Mary's, Power-
itock, of which parish the Archdeacon of Dorset, one
of Mr. Sanctuary's sons, is the vicar, and it was
originally drawn by the late Mr. J. Hicks, architect,
of -Dorchester. It is octagonal in shape and made of
Caen stone. This pulpit and that at Powendock were
execute:l by Mr. R. L. lloniton, of Cheltenham.
TEMPERANCE. —A public meeting was held in the
temperance hall, Peasc-lane, on Friday evening, when
addresses were given by the Rev. I/ Thomas,
Independent Minister, Mr. 1/errinaan, Mr. Groves,
(Cerne).—Mr. C. Greening, introduced the speakers,
regretting that out of 200 teetotallers in Dorchester,
there was such a scanty attendance. At the close a
vote of thanks was given to the ('sine frieads, on the
proposition of Mr. Davis. On Saturday evening's the
Hall is open free, and all who choose may indulge in
bagatelle, draughts, and various other games, whilst
the cup that cheers, but not inebriates, can be
enjoyed.
ei iMMITTED TO THE DORSET COMFIT I'RISON.
Arsi:(.l : Samuel liennings atul Owen Callan, an
abominable crime at Portland. Sessions : George
Green a, ins Wilkinson, found in a building at Wyke
Regis with intent to commit a felony. Hard Lermr:
Eliza Lanmion, drunk and riotous at Dorchester,
Alfred Paulley, assault at Sherburne, and Thomas
Knight. assault at Weymouth, 1 calendar month;
Hannah Andrews and Harriet Stokes, drunkenness at
Dorchester, and Charles Line, assault at Sherborne,
14 days; Thomas Vile, wantonly knocking a door at
Weymouth, 7 days.
Till: WEATHER. —The following is ourmeteorological
report :

Really the Prince of Wales ought to look after
his interests.

13ut really, laying joking aside, is it not time
some notice should be taken of the scurrilous
abuse levelled week after week at those who
hold high judicial positions in this land through
means of this precious rag. The last issue un-
hesitatingly accuses the Lord Chief Justice of
having committed murder—of having some 20
years ago, when at Bristol, stabbed a woman to
the heart ; and it says all those S wieties, who
so honoured his lordship in that city, knew that
they "gazed upon an wsamin." There should
surely be a limit to everything, even to that of
dignity, in the consideration of Unpudence.
But this goes far beyond mere Billingsgate—it
is not low-bred abuse, it is foul assertions.
which their author should either prove, or, if
unable, pay fur with the sacrifice of his liberty.
To regard matters of this kind with silent
disdain may be sufficient in dealing with those
whose opinion is worth the having ; but there
are always rogues only too happy to propopate
lies, and fools who will believe them, and it is
not upon every occasion the wisest plan to allow
the one or the other to continue in either their
wickedness or their Zany-like credulity.

A hook entitled "History of the Barmaid
Industry," which is talked of as likely to be
published by an enterprising firm next Novem-
ber, will be looked forward to with much
interest. It seems that there are upwards of
300,000 barmaids in Great Britain, and that
their average earnings are upwards of 3s. a week
each more than are obtained by the members of
any other profession, except that of "compan-
ion," to which women can belong. As is now
known, the barmaid industry has extended into
Scotland, and very recently two of the ,lophoo,
of Messrs. Spiers and Pond in Edinburgh have
been married, the one to a Dumfriesshire landed
proprietor, the other to the son of one of the
most popular clergymen in the Scottish metro-
polis.
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A scandal from Somersetahire. The daughter
of a county magistrate, holding a high position,
has run away with one of her father's labourers.
She went on a mission of mercy to the
labourer's cottage, and when his wife (lied, con-
soled him by eloping with him. The young
lady boa since been captured. Heiresses in the
West of England seem fond of these freaks. A
short time ago a Clifton lady, with £5,000
year, was so struck with the devotion of a young
crossing-sweeper to his mother that site proposed
to him, placed hint in the hands of a tutor for a
couple of months, and when he had been
intellectually veneered and polished, married
him at S's elLs Cathedral. The experiment was
not a success. The lady is now 'Hieing for a
divorce.

We understand that the l,ieela and the Prince of
Wales have revently had sobanitte I to them lry
florist and an art:latent the dravrings of a very novel
structure which it is propoed to erect as a covering to
the Prince I 'onsort Nienvorial in Kensington iianlens.
The proposal is to construct a large bnilding of iron,
copper, and glass, octagonal in form, 200 feet in
diameter, with prnjvwtions on four alternate faces of
the octagon rrsi feet by 27 feet. The figure of the
Prince Cons. rrt would stand under a domed roof MO
feet high. East rind west of the central structure,
and 111 l eeterl with it by erwridors, it is proprserl to
construct ganlens containing trees rind plants repre-
.enting the vegetable kingdom of the world. By all
warn., if the Royal Family would like to rwe the
" gilded Prince" under glass, let them give the miler,
hut don't let the country be called upon to defray any
such costly fancies.

The di...creditable slanders which have long been
culating against Mr. Gladstone have just met with a
check. In a recent speech at Brighton, the Tory
member for that borough, Mr. Ashbury, condos...ended
to re-echo the childish statements id certain Conser-
vative prints, to the effect that Mr. Gladstone had
taken up the Bulgarian question merely to make
money out of it, aml that he had netted over 4:10,000
by his pamphlet on the atrocities. Brought to book
by the ex..Pretnier, Mr. Ashbury has been force.' to
make a humble apology, and to withdraw the state-
ments complained of. .Mr. Gladstcne, in accept, ug the
palinode, states that so far from having made £lO,OOO
by the way of hia pamplets, his gains, during fortly
Jean of authorship, have not come near that sum.

The London tapers publish an extraordinary
Address which has just been forwarded to the Arch-
bishops and Bishops .4 the English Church by many
leading members of the High Church party, including
tie Deans of York, St. Paul's Manchester, and St.
Asaph. the Provost of Eton, and several Canons,
Archdeacons, and other dignitaries. The memorialists
not merely, carefully refrain from censuring the illegal
practices and rebellions attitude .4 the Ritualist
clergy, but speak with respect of the excesses com-
mitted, condemn the measures taken for forcing the
lawless to fulfil their ordination vows, and ask for such
changes in the constitution of the Church as will give
the semi-Homanists unrestricted freedom to proceed in
their present paths. And, as it is foreseen that Parlia-
ment may not sanction such a proceeding, the memorial
goes on to contend that the synodical wt.., of the Church
should be placed beyond the reach of the Legislature—
in other words, Convocation is to take the place of an
infallible Pope, is to make its own statutes, and to
supersede existing tribunals: while the clergy, vested
with State privileges and in receipt of national funds,
are to be in no way accountable to the nation! This
monstr.un scheme is put forward for "retaining the
relations of Church and State." If it really has ob-
tained the assent of the High Church clergy, it makes
the Impost step towards effecting the ends of the
Liberation Society that has yet been seen.

A case which was before the Bow-street magistrate
seems to illustrate the expendicency of an alteration
in the law affecting drunkards. A woman named
Ann Blake was charged with drunkenness; and her
husband stated that up to October last he had paid
the sum f 010. 10s. incurred by his bibulous partner
in lines for this offence. The woman asserted that
the money was paid out of her own private income,
which she had a ri4ht to spend as she liked, and the
stipendiary magistrate gave her the opportunity of
contributing ten shillings ;more of it to the Treasury.
The alternatixe was seven days' imprhomment. The
case, however, sumsts the desirableness of a law
which shall deenve confirmed drunkards of Mrs.
Blake's type altogether of the option of condoning the
Miens.* by paying the comparatively trifling sumo( ten

The resignation of Prince Eismark is generally
attributed to his misunderstanding with General von
Stosch and the manner in which the quarrel was
settled. It In well known that the imperious Chan-
cellor can brook no rival near his throne, and his
resignation was quite in accordance with previous acts
in his political career. There is no doubt, however,
from the latest accounts, that the Prince has recon-
sidered his determination, and the only question at
present in suppense is the appointment of his substitute
during the leave of absence which he wishes to take,
and upon that the Emperor's decision has not yet been
announced. Although there is not at present, and is
not likely to be, any vacancy in the Chancellorship the
German payers are it is said, already quarreling over
the succession.

It i stated that Mr. Henley, the " father" of the
House of Commons, will resi4.,,n his seat for Oxford-
shire at the close of the present session.

Sir George Nares has received the permission of the
Admiralty to publish a narrative of the late Arctic
Expedition at kis 0v.,1 repro 0.
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Some peoples lines assuredly fall in plea,ant places.
The Rev. Mr. Rodwell is the rector of St Ethelburga,
London, a parish with a population of 1,065, and an
income of about 1:1,4C0 a year; and yet, strange to
say, this hardly-used Apostle's parishioners are die.
satisfied because he has gone Away for a two years'
holiday, and left his only son at home to do his father's
work.

Mr. Malcolm MacColl's book on the Eastern Ques-
tion makes some revelation of Cabinet secrets that are
strange if true, and if untrue certainly require con-
tradiction. lie tells us that Lord Salisbury s mission
was doomed to failure from the first, and that dis-
patches were tel%mphed from London to Constanti-
nople behind the back of the Marquis, which led the
Grand Vizier to declare openly that, however opposed
by Lord Salisbury, he could reckon on the support of
the English Premier and Foreign Secretary. Mr.
Mac Coll also quotes the damaging remark of a
Turkish official, that the English Government is only
• drum, all skin and wind. Of skin-and-wind diplo-
macy we have already, according to Mr. Mac Coll, had
a vast deal too much at Constantinople. In fact, the
volume is ne of the strongest indictments against our
foreign policy that tor a long while has been framed,
and it will be remembered against the Ministry when.
et or their conduct on the Eastern Question shall come
up before the country for judgment, as it must some
day or other.

The Koran has never been a very popularbook even
in Mohammedan countries. The prohibition of print-
ing it, and tile great cars and trouble required to

Dorett
Date. Noon. Ponit at Wind. State of Weather.
Night.
AprilS
I 43 NW &W iFine, clout.
SE & Clolidy, rain
43 1 3511 434
8 Misty, rain
5 I 46 40 5 Rain
6 30 04 EW & S elou.ly, rain
7 35 4.2 S Clouds., fine
8 31 44 _ . ... • .

SAt SE stffoonV, rain
A NAtte-AAKE of the County town—Dorchester in
Oxford—has Putt set a lesson which might, perhaps, be
advantageously followed in isinte of the towns in our
own county. Fruit the Ikrka Atlo rfixrr we learn :
lin Wednesday last this village was busier than for
many a long day since. Mr. Bannister (a Ritualist) was
proposed Si parish Chureltwarden. at the vestry on the
preceding day, in opposition to Mr. W. Cook, (a Low
Churchman), who has hell the office for many Year*, and
a poll was demanded on the new candidate's behalf. The
voting took place in the Boy's !ichoolraim, and was not
by ballot. A good deal of interest was inanifeste4 in the
proceedings, and a large proportion of the parishioners
went to the poll, which, for the convenienee of the work-
ing classes, was kept open till eight o'clock in the evening.
The Vicar acted as retnrning officer, and the respective
parties—High Church and Low-- worked hard to bring
thed• supporters to the poll. The result was largely in
favour of the Low Churl, rantli•lat.-, for whom llts votes
were recorded, against 37 only for the High Church repre.
sentative. The antemncement of the numbers, which
was made a few aa iaa utes past eight o'clock by the Vicar,
Ir. received with loud cheering. Both Mr. Cook and
Mr. Bannister are popular in the village, but the votieg
went not for the into, but their opinions, and the
Protestants are highly elabsl at the sueress they have met
with. Placards were in circulation on behalf of both
candidates, and so warm did matters become, that even
sandwich item were called into nspaisition, a novelty
never seen in this village before. Yesterday one of these
menatill found employment pert:tiled t ing the streets with
the state of the fx.ll written in large characters in front of
him, with a huge cross in red lel
AN, ,IstmExr or I /v gltsrPits. —At the Shindiall
Saturday before Mr. IL Williams, (in the chair), Mr.
A. liankes, Mr. fi. Worry, and Mr. IL IL Middleton,
the f• dlowing overseers were appointed : • -Abbiltsloiry,
John Hayward and George For!; Bincombe. Percival
Cake awl John ('aim: Bradford Peverell, Alfred
Henry Word, Joseph iiytnes ; Broadmayne, George
Voss and Henry l'hrieCiplier ; Brotelwey, John L.
Mayo and .f. 13.,w•litch ; ( lanninster, William Henry
Dunning and William Tewkesbury Chanien ; West
Chickerell, Thomas Lowman and Charles Allen;
West Compton, William Toleman and Thomas Fry;
Compton 'Valence, John ('hick; Dewlish, Robert
Rogers and George Brett; Dorchester, Holy Trinity.
Richard Rein anti .1. 'l'. S4)1111.11, ; Evenihot, Ann
Peach was first on the list, but being nearly SO years
of age, William Mayo and Thomas Frampton, were
app. anted ; Fleet, Jasper Marsh; Fordington,
Robert Hunt and S. A. ; Frampton,
William Comben ; From° Vanchurch, John Trivia
Kingston Russell, Thomas Samiom • West Knighton,
John Chileott and Robert Duke ; 'Langton Herring,
John 7Miir4e, jun., an•l William Henry Roper ; Little.
breily, Norris li•mer ; Litton Cheney, William Pitcher
and the Rev. Eugenie Legg; Stephen Vine
and Mary Elizabeth Symes ; Maiden Newton, George
Mitty and Robert White ; George
Coleman and James Tucker; Piiildletown, William
Stallard and William Paul ; Pielillehinton, John
I)unnian awl Charles Mayo ' • Portesham, William
Symes and William Mayo; Portland, Charles White
and Richard B. Striven; Poxwell, John Mayo and
R. Tranter; Sutton l'oints and Preston, Thomas
Fooks and William Sargent • Puncknowle. James
Laver and Susan Stevens ; Re:dipole, Richard Mama
and George Gale; Rampisham, Thomas Butt and
William Wakely ; West Stafford, John Goldring and
Rosalie Gobbing ; Stinsford, James J. Sherren and
W. Hull; Tineleton, Willisrn Robert Slicer; Toiler
Fratnim, the Rev. Malcolm Bicknell ; Toiler Pocorum,
Thomas Way awl Thomas Haine ; Tolpuilille, James
Crane and Thoinas A. homer; Upwey, George. Worry
and .J. Lipst.ombe ; Watereombe, T. Chapman
Saunders; Warmwell, John Brest ; Whitemnbe, W.
Sbeperd • Winterborne Abbas, Walter Harris Allen;
Winterbirne Herringston' E. W. Williams and \V.
Jackson ; Winterborne Alonckton, G. Symonds;
Winterborne St. Martin, Henry Thomas Lane and
George Scutt ; Winterbonw Steepleton, Charles
Robert Pouncy and NI try Groves; Womtsferd, Henry
Duke and Joseph Warne ' • Wyke Reels, Henry
Reolffs an•l Charles Joseph Stone ; Wynford Eagle,
William Toleman and Charles Sprake.
Illroeyrr Prrry SessioNs, Saturday.—Before Mr IL
Williams (chairman), Mr. A. Bankes and Mr. G. Worry.
David Nrecffilate of Pudd letcren, was summoned by Susan
Wallace, to show cause, Ate Defendant del not appear,
Arthur Medway proved having received a letter contain-
ing a sovereign from defendant, to give to complainant,
and he was to offer her 2s. per week, towards the
support of the child. The defendant could not write it
seemed, and the case was adjourned for further evidence
Edward Shaw, of Bore Regis, was summoned for
obstructing the highway at Stin.sford, by leaving a waggon
loaded with timber thereon. He admitted the offence,
but pleaded his horses were tired. He atayed with the
timber until 11 o'clock at night, but as it was very cold
went home, and fetched it early next morning.—Fined lid.
and the costs.

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Robert Comeen, of the Grove Inn, Portland, was
summoned for selling beer during probated hours. Mr.
A. Lock watched the case on behalf of the owner of the
I house, and Mr. R. N. Howard for the defendant. —P.C.
Coates. stationed at Portland, said that on Sunday, March
' Mk, at 3 p.m., he went to defendant's house, entering by
the back door. In the kitchen be found four men, John
I Stone, William Stephenson, Henry Glazebrook and John
William Miles, the two latter of whom were men-of-wars
I men, on board the Bescawen, Stephenson lived at the
Prison, and Stone at Wakehain. Stone had a glans half
full of beer before him, and the others had beer before
them. Asked Comben why the men were there,
and he told him Glazebrook. Miles, and Stephen-
' son, were lodgers, and Stone cane there as a
friend. and the beer he had before him was
what he (defendant) had I-ft from his dinner. At 10.30
the same night he visited the defendants house and found
there were no lodgers there—Mr. Howard addressed the
Bench for tbe defence, and then called the defendant, who
said that on the day in question when the man came to
his house there were four men in the kitchen. Glazebrook
and Miles came to his house on the Saturday evening and
had their supper, saying they were on leave till Monday.
I They slept there :tel hail their meals there next day.
, Stephenson was a warder at the prism, he came in and
' said he had been to Weymouth since the day previous
and wanted a dinner. This was supplied him, and he was
having it when the policeman came in. Ile hid not
drawn anything for Stone, the half-glass of beer was what
he (defendant) he' left for his dinner—John Stone said
that on the 111th March he was at eornben's when the
policeman called. Ile hail had nothing to drink. He had
been a teetotaler for inure than six months. He hail
occasionally taken whisky as medicine—when given him.
—John William MR.., of the Boscawen, proved going to
defendant's house, lodging there, and being there on
Sunday. —The magistrates convicted, and lined defendant
20a and costa 10s. Defendant paid and thought it was a
very hard case. The summons against the sailors was
dismissed, and on the suggestion of the Chairman, Mr.
superintendent Batty withdrew those against Stephenson
and Stone.
BOROUGII PETTY SESSIONS, Monday.-1-sefolw Mr. H.
Lock (Mayor) and Mr. M. Devenish,
Edmund Ncuterry, of Fordington, was summoned for
using obscene language on the list inst., in Tnnity-street
—Defendant admitted saying a "few word.,," to the boy
with him, in a passion.—The Mayor warned defendant
against such conduct in the future, and fined him ss, and
ss. 6.d. coots: _

—Tii;ine-Tinonifituier, of the Crown Inn, was charged with
having his house open at If am. Sunday morning, on
April Ist., for the sale of intoxicating liquor.—P.C. Gould
said that on the morning in question he was at the Crown
Inn, in company with P.C. Carter, and found the front
door open and the bar door. A man named Thomas
Sibley Wm standing at the bar door, and the landlxrd was
inside drawing bear in a pint cup, • shilling wee on the
counter. Re asked the landlord "what was up," and he
replied, "Toni only brought nie a bit of greens, and I am
going to give him • drop of beer." That was all that
paased, but when outside he saw Sibley through the window
drink the beer.—Blandamer was then sworn and maid in
defence that Sibley was his first cousin, and it woe very
seldom k• missed coming to his home on Sunday. He

kept no man or maid-servant to do the work of the house, write to Minna Harvey, offering to let the premises
Sibley came on Sunday mornieg with a hit of 'greens for on a tense
t.°Tthlteilsaw, Cf7min3eil lyeabur,sdness. an they then at
their dsnner. colas sisted him (defendant; in cleaning. up
the place. He drew • pint af beer bt fore they commenced. /l 9 the J. wal Board of Health.
and drank it hetween them. Being his first coosin come
to assist hint he did not know hut that he was finite
justified in giving him a drop of beer.. The shilling the
polieeinan 7.1 W on the counter was one he had put down
for Sibley for hauling • load of manure, porehased of Mr.
Atkinson--Gould, re-examined, said Silky bad II.) greens
when he • ent into the house. lie saw defendant take
down the shutters. Sibley came down the short walk and
went straight to the door. About five minutes after
witherso visited the house Sibley folio wasl him and
Carter through Mill-street. —The magistrates decided to
hear the nest c.c.
Sibley was then char,ted with being in the house at the
time above mentioned. I'S'.— Gould ref•-ated his evidence
auto seeing Sibley at the house awl hie dr.nking the her.
—Defendant made a similar defence-to that the land-
lord, and said there were very few Sunday mornings but
what he went to the house to hvlp.--Illanilamer was
fined 208., awl Sibley 103. including waste.