The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-06-06 00:00:00

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CERNE ABBAS.
Prriv SnafuNs, Wednesday.—Prengmt : J. E.
Bridge, Esq., Rev. J. T. Hinds, and Rev. C. W.
Bingham.—John Barrett, of Alton, was fined
13e. 6d., including costs, for drunkenness.—Joseph
Bridle, of Cheseltoorne, pleaded guilty to • similar
offence, and was fined Ila. including costs.—
William Saunders, innkeeper of Buokland Newton,
George Mitchell, of Mappowder, and Samuel
Mitchell, of Hazelbury Bryan, for allowing their
horses to stray on the highways, were (heed ss. and
costa for each onnoe.—Thounas Draper, black-
smith, of Piddletrenthide, for allowing a seed-drill
and two carts to obstruct the public highway, was
fined 55., and coats 7s.- --George Perris, a carter
boy, in the employ of Mr. R. R. Old, yeoman, of
Glanvilles Wootton, charged by his master with
stealing five eggs from a hen's nest on the 27th of
May, was fined 155., or in default of payment a
fortnight's imprisonment. —A man named John
Potter, a redding seller, of Bristol, was brought up
charged with obtaining money under false pretences.
lOn the 24th of May lie called at linish Farm,
Sydling St. Nicholas, and told the bailiff and
shepherd that their master, Mr. Thomas Dunning,
had bought a lot of redding of him, and the bailiff
was to pay him the money for it (£l Os. 6d). The
men told him that there must be some mistake
about it. He assured them that it was "all right,"
and they took in the redding and paid the money.—
The Bench thought there was not sufficient evidence
to send the case fur trial, and dismissed the prisoner
with a caution.

865.

B.IIERBORNE.
VirrariPlShurboraa Penny Bank reeisipts for May
were 13,11 a. 3d., and withdrawals, £6 16a 7d.
THE Church offertories, to May 31st, 1865, at
Sherborne Abbey Chhrch were, for sick and needy
poor, £6 15a. 101. ; for expenses of Church choir,
£lO 17a. 3d. ; togatker —£l7 13s. Id.
Tng NATIOIIIAL 841100 LS —The Pariah Magazine
announces the following aumain answer to the vicar's
appeal kr help to 'pay off the debt on these ad.
!nimble schools ;`,-G. 1). W. Digby, q., £25;
the Rev. H. Platt-, 10a.-; Hearty and rlonourable,
4s. ; Anti-Buzfuz, £1 is.; Rev. Edward Hendon,
£1 is. We embrace this opportunity of directing
attention to the annual Sunday School holiday fête
at Sherborne in Whitaun-week, as announced in our
advertising columns.

SHERBORNIS NATIONAL SCHOOL...S.—The following
letter and commentary appears in the Parish
Magazine t—To the subscribers to the Sherborne
National Schools. Ladies and Gentlemen,—An
anonymous correspondent of the Sherborne Journal,
of the 4th of May, having questioned the correct-
ness of the school accounts for the past two years,
and very unfairly mystified them by his statements,
I avail myself of the circulation of the Parish
Magazine to lay before you the reasons for those
accounts having been sent in as they were. Under
the Revised Code the !secretary of the National
Schools was required by Her Majesty's Inspector to
furnish him with a statement of receipts and expen-
diture under certain heads, which you will find
specified in the account, with the amount of each
and the Total dlettnctly given, in 1863 receipts,
£351 Ila 84d. ; payments, £485 7s. 2d. The
balance being given in inspector's accounts as
excess of expenditure aver income, £133 15a. 541,
with this the next year's account properly com-
mences. The committee thought the actual financial
position of the school would be more clearly laid
before you by appending to this account the subee•
qrtent grant, £l5l 6s. sd. on one aide, and a list of
liabilities on the other, amounting to £56 Is. 2d.,
thus showing it would take £3B 10s. 24d. to get us
oat of debt. Now by simply drawing his pen
through these two items, and altering the balance to
£133 15s. 50., this quasi-anonymous gentleman
might have easily arrived at the clue which I think
it is not true he has himself discovered, and if ha
had been present when the account, were examined,
he might have seen not only the £2l 3s. 6d., but
every other item of "the liabilities" duly placed
under its own heading. I admit I have never yet
learnt how it is possible by withdrawing a given
amount from one account and placing it in the next,
duly correcting the balance, to thereby affect the
result, as has been rather unscrupulously, and I fear
not without some purpose, attempted by our
" rithmetical critick," nor have I any particular wish
to be shown how to do such a sum.—l am, Ladies
and Gentlemen, your obedient servant, THOINAIS
PENNY. Hon. Sec. N. S.—Sherborne, sth May,
1865.—[We insert Mr. T. Penny's letter with
pleasure. His assailant is probably the only person
in the parish whom it will not satisfy. A man who
sees £351 11.. 84d. set down on one side or an
account, and £485 7s. 2d. on the other, and who
nevertheless insists that the difference is NOT ,
£133 15s. 54d. has evidently muddled his brains, or I
is ignorant of the rule of subtraction, and we re-
commend him to call at the National Schools and
take a few lessons in that useful branch of know-
ledge.—En. P. M.)