The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-09 00:00:00

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Swaxtoz.
Somebody (who WU it? I forget, however—Sl/nobody
said we did not give the Local Board their due. We err
mstwilling to dose, but if we are kept in ignoranre ot
tiiirir good deeds we ought not to be be expected to praLe
We cannot help knowing their blunders—it is • law of
nature, had .hings °twit known, revealed in fact in
the newspapers—but our left hand Is pretty soll sore to
ignore the benevolenze of the right. The LB. has pa.
the taxation of the "backers" on • legal heals. Woe I.
"Lucie" for suggeeUeg it We shall
emu Peeples goad looks, bat we can look very smilingli
into the feces of all the ether ratepayers. Much more so I
Through that hint (which grew out of another, which
some other friend, who must he nanselem, gave me) the
ploy pits bare been put by the Board in its right vela/Ado..
Soil, gentlemen, you OW Increase
_roar
ou budr.
without fresh taxes, and with saw taw. Hints are l
seeds, planted they have • tendency to grow. Lathe can
not afford to speak too plainly—there I. somebody, now.
thinks be has been libelled and 'meth about seeking to
dimover the wlriter. instead of to and out in what the
sail libel consisteth. Public men, and seekers after
public positions, become more or Imes public property, and
h•ve to undergo tests, which it would be insulting to
attempt on a pnotte individual, who was no candidate to
become the guardian of *Oar people and public taxer
glection-orneades are not for the owners of thin skins,
especially if they know thrre Is • weak place itt their
armour. Ths pee Is public-man metier fades! If it I.
untarnished why he awn at Our tauctuog it If dimmed.
such anger can but make us examine hors closely suU
To be quite understood by our non-observing readers—
"a nod is le good es a wink to • blind horse"' and if •
mare has once broken her knees, her driver should balers,
careful going down hilt Wh•t we mall of the Guardian-
ointeet lees week we emphasise tht•—Vorz roe Boas
AXD Hoseocz I
Luce

CHAMPION FUND.
At • committee meeting on behalf of the above, bald in
the Rectory schoolroom on Tuesday morning, April tad.
the rector presiding, it eras announced that the fund had
reached the sum of 1/11)16. Nies J. Colson. the Rev. D
Travers. and Mr. Waite were appointed trustees of the
same ; and it tem cordially and u man' manly resolved that
the warmest thanks of the cominitisse be given to the
collectors :—Mxs. Longmore, News G. and T. Burt
mdon), Roberts and Co. (Portland), George Bulky
edouthatnpton). Ceptains W. 8. 11.10.1,11 and J. Nixon,
M Nara. J. Pope, J. Gillingham, J. T. Huth.r, Rebell
Broom, J. Smith, Cockerel!, K. Dilantotto, W. D
Tetchell, B munds (Langton), Jamas Butler, John
Weeks, T. Dixon, C. Summers. and J. Dooland. The
thanks of the meeting wen also accorded to the Publisher
of the Dorset Comity Cirrus for twitting the advertise.
rnent of the fund for such • trilling charge, and to Kr.
Tribbett, of Waretuuti, for priotiog. and Kr. Harman for
stationery contribueed to the toad.

SWANAGS LOCAL BOARD.
Ti the Editor.
Six—l have reed "Lucas's notes dated the Nth of
'larch- In elect be admits that be is • " dlasatisAed
ratepayer." Will be state explicitly why he is "dia.
satislted r Farther. be says that "there is an earnest
endeavour to des= some portion of the power of
cliqueisto so Lag cuninaat in fisraaage." It would be
well if "Lucia" could give your readers more definite
information alxiiit this "cliqueism." Again, whatja the
" wahine expenditure,' which " Lucia" gals Kr• tissorge
Burt r u, of throwing out mere general
remarks, Lucia would kindly state xxacrtv what be
thinks there to to take except4on to la the Bards actions,
and at the same time give no a better plan himself for
carrying on the local government than is at present
adopted, and one which would nit entail extra aspens*
to the ratepayers, he might really be doing excellent
service to the town.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
Oassairga.
Crichton Club, Adelphkerrace, W.C., lot Lpril, 1878.

BHIBILHORW a.
&mg SOW= —TM aonuel meeting of the Sharborne
Au unary of Ma Elntleh and F Telma Btg. Society_eas
held in the Town-hall on Monday evening The Vicar
prri I• 4, and Mani wevi also on the platform the Rev.
J K. Perkins (deputation from the Parent 8 Mem), Ma
Ben. Cern J, Glen, Rm. G. Parker (Wesleyan), Dr.
Williams. mad Mt. L Beuthall The Icabnamed gentle-
mai% as secretary of the euxiliary, submitted tha financial
gsatement, and atter war& the deputation and the Rev.
Carr Glyn detailed the labours of the society, end gava
Instances of the gmd It was doing. A oollectiou 1,6
won taken up at the rim.
Quasi or Perim BAD Ifister.---Al the polie•-court
on Monday. Leet /NAM. labourer, of Pulliam was
chimed on remand vrlth. jawing • counterfeit halt-crown.
From the evidence of Mary Lawrence. landlady of ths
Red Lion pUbltabOUSl. Hol• ell, the miaow came to her
house on the evening of the Stli of March, and tendered
she rein predated 1. payment for Id. worth of gin. She
had a suspicion that it wee not luill4scrown. but the
prisoner took It from her, souaded It upon the floor, and
amid it was silver. She discovered the mistake the nut
morning. —P. C. Marsden apprehended the pelsoner, and
found on him other money, which was all med. Prisoner
said ha did uot know where he took the hal:mown, but
when be tendered it he had no idea it won, bad cub. It
was dark in tit. itvenlas. Yr. Watts. who appeared for
the prisoner, reads aa able addresi for tba defence, and
the having no doubt se to the prison..',

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