The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-06-05 00:00:00

BLA N DFORD.

ADVISED CHAILITY.—A woman named Axfoni. the
wife of a disabled labourer, a receiver of out-door
relief from the parish, and a pestering craver of assis-
tance from the benevolent, died here about a week
since, possessed of a considerable sum of money,
amounting, it is said, to hundreds of pounds, and a
large and varied store of new wearing apparel, sad
gifta of odds and ends which charity hail best.% ed.
The woman's death was somewhat sudden; and as
her husband, a well-matched adept in manceuvriug
deception, was from home at the tune, the woman
sent to minister to the wants of the dying iniposter
accidentally discovered large and small sumsolmoney,
in notes and otherwise, in various parts of the room.
The exact amount left cannot be ascertained, as the
husband quickly and secretly gathered all together
and left the town; but, though the sum may le
much exaggerated by gossiping neighbours, there is
no doubt but that this brace of impostors have tees
long abusing public benevolence, and obtaining, we
fear, like many others, parish relief instead of parish
exposure. We cannot but think that if a list of the
in-door and out-door paupers was published annually
or quarterly, much more information as to the real
circumstances of persons receiving relief would find
its way to the guardians, than is now the case. Out-
door relief is granted with the avowed object of
making up a poor man's living income partly derived
from other sources, and in such a case, especially the
guardians, are all but wholly guided in the amount
given by the representations of real circumstances
made by the person applying for relief. Bet were
such a list as we have referred to constantly before
the public, applicants would be frequently deterred
from making false representations as to their circans-
stancias, and if made, the probability of public dam.
tiou and expeure would be greatly increased.

BLANDFOILD Sr. NARY'S FItIrNULY SOCIETT.—In
Whitatin-week commences club-walking. or in other
words our village festivals. Blandford St. Mary's
Club inaugurated the poor man's holiday season,
and though we scarcely remember a club gathering
in St. Mary's field when the weather was propitious
to out•door amusements, yet in these days °fungous&
blustering and down-pouring weather, a tolerable.
spring day favoured the 24th anniversary meeting,
,of this club held on Wednesday last. The Rev_
J. Mansfield preached the sermon, and Mr_
Etheridge, our festival purveyor, did as he usually.
does, provided an excellent dinner, to which the
clergymen, Messrs. Hector, Steel, Lock, Nutbeam.
r.n.l the members sat down. The usual compli-
mentary and .congratulatory speeches followed; and
as the society has increased its invested fund this
year £99 ltra. 70.. and has otherwise passed through
a year of favourable circumstances, a cheerful glad-
ness inure or leas characterized the entire proceed-
ings. There was the usual band playing and
dancing, and the ustrd "keeping it up," but thanks
to the moral influence of the honorary members,
and the moral characters of the villagers, there was
none of those unseemly incidents too frequently
ch a racterizing such meetings, and we, therefore
hope that the St. Mary's Club has not only inaugurated
club-walking but club-reforming.

BOROUGH NIMIISTRAT/s.—(Before the Mayor and
S. (roves., Esq.)—Two sisters, Aon and Laseiaa
Read, were charged with having stolen from a
stationer's shop various articles, a box of pins from
a Berlin wool shoe, and a bible from the church.
They were committed to Dorchester to be tried at
the next Quarter Sessions. Both are under 14 years
of age, and though they may be known as some-
what incorrigible, a more summary mode of dealing
with them would probably have been more desirable,
Before P. G. ?damsel, Fag.. county magistrate
at Mears. King and Johns' office. —A girl by the
name of hroyword was brought up by policeman
Hunt. charged with having stolen a pair of boots
from Charlotte Legg. The property was found in
mom occupied by the prisoner, and identifieed ar
the boots lost. Committed to be tried at the next
Quarter Sessions.

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Ringwood; Mr. Hatton, RiolP"::j
And Son, brewers, of Ringwood,
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