The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-06-20 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AuiticULTURkL GAZETTE, TUESDAY. JUNE 20, 1862.

Ma. Bmteolea FOallaA.bout 80, many of this.
Primitive Methodists, followed Mr. &mom's remains
I" Returns Churchyard teat Thursday. The Primitive
choir sang, and the Rector performed the ceremony.
Macy iabitants gathered at the grave.
tinv.nas Miasma roa Inicsgairat —A nibble
" tip has been eatablished as the side of the foot.
path between Verne Yeatos and the Bawmill, on the
west side of the main rood. A considerable Owe of
the wall which bounds the footpath from the guff
__b*L,. "w
has been pulled down, and a gap tikaa .
which carts, going 00 the patb, Up WOK= NAO.e Into
the depths, over a Up-block, which is only • little
above the level of the pats. Drunkarde valuing their
limbs and lives most avoid going near, yet let them
not get into another place on the same side, whirr* the
st°°•-ewriltif slush from the saw mill is conveyed into
a great in tui•pond adjoining the tram. Thus the
unsteady walker has a choice between breaking Lie
bars or faiUng'into the slush. is it not rather wars,
however, to make these terrors to ',edam close to the
man road?

Or TSB FLart.—Tb• nt-gangociniote
made for the annual onus* for training and evolution-
"' Fus" of Lb. First Reserve Squadron of armiur-
c/ad. which have completed their terierel refits, were :
—The Hercules, flagship of the Duke d Edinburgh,
who assumed COMM alti of the equadron, was joietri at
Portland by the Hector, L ird Warden. Rapala*/
Defence. 'Valiant, and Penelope, and it wee understood
the start would be made on Friday, the
Duchess accompanyiag her Royal busband down It,.
Channel in the despatch vessel Lively and returning
to Plymouth. The Lively would then rejoin the
flagship, laud the squadron having touched at Fal-
mouth, are t proce,d to Arosa Bay in Spain.
where a stay two days will be made, the passage
to Gibraltar being re.timed on the 24th, acid the
port being reached in five days. The squadron will
nimble • week at titbraltar, and the field pieces
and small.arm men of each ship will he lauded f.r
• osval add day, the mancsunw being exec dad on
the Neutral Territory. on July 7th the Fleet will
make for Cadiz, where tonsy will stop three days,
s:arting next for Viz.. and getting beak to Slat-
head on the 24th. There the vessels will Part
company and return to their respective coastguard
@tattoo&

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST A
POLICE CONSTABIJL

At dm Poole Petty &lesions, Thayagay, wan, a fa
Bauch of magistrate., P.O. Hobo.", was charged with
hisbway robbery. The court was crowded, mid °amidst*
able Miami was insailesied in tbe proceeduop•
Kr, awns ws, of B,ondlord, prosocutod, mid lir. Budge.
of Poole, daiended the ofiloor.
Tao hearing of the cam occopisd Deady au" mon, sad
over a doses witnesses wen- enunitted.
The complainant 1.. tailor, named Joseph Norris, By.
Mg, at tts• promo% time. si Parketons, loot fortorwly of
Bournemouth, sod kis story, to whx., ha a.on most
pueitively, ass that on tits evesitte or Lb, 2 ,d of June,
shortly after U, two/Wm aiming trooi a pub,rot awe, was
What with • fit. to which he woo aocustoind. Els feli
down within Ids own gates, and, although be was unable
to may., ha pamdued perfect oonsciouesein Whilst be
wee lytug there, as ht the defendant cams op,
Inroad him evew, tided his ponkow, and stole over 17s.
Imo piny B. as. put through assverecroewenuninatson
by Mr. Bodge, tee result of which was to snow that alter
...intuiting sue tho mt.*, tut hod spent durum the day, Si
could not possibly bare been possessed of hall the sem
which ha atlegcd be had lost. Numerous witnesses were
sae called to show tbe untrustworthin Not the plaintiff a
stony, and lb. Supt. Suet, tb• clue( constable of Km
heroical. Acid tam wbra be came to of.. Ibma
snid ha 5.4 1051 warty ;he was furthoc quite uscortain
as to who hod Brat foetid DM ill %h, road, believing it was •
141 man, "• olvittat," To. del fondant, Holloway, had
been in the form about eight rears, had had the WA of
Cli!9:8101.081..

---giTicuiite med.. vigorous &dew, duirsoterising the
charge .a. trumekl.up story. brought by • man who had
no reputation himself to lose. Lad for tlis purpose of
damaging that of so Aker to whom the result meant
everything. It we.. Islas sod malicious ono, sad
" I eilt ion." said Yr. Bodge, amid loud sneers in
court, " to retry that oNifirlauce in the defends. t, which
he he. elegy. eniprd from rug superior and the °Newe-
ll and .etch lam certain looting at the facto of Mk
mad, Its has done matting to !Orlin.'
Tog impetrate@ retired for spout 10 minutes. aad os their
return into coast, tb• Chairnian stud they had taken the
matter into raw most o•rious conaiderstion. It wat a
grave charge against the wormable, but he warn pleased to
way the usaninsou• °pilaus or the Beach was, that it had
broken d tCfl 0050 Sa my pants that tbey themaelves
wt re rem!, at • loss to ecoouut for lie having bees brogibt
Toy were pleased to MOW of the good charetnee 111111
401 endaat tied borne for so men, ymrs, sad they way
sell he tote the court without &slain upon li. Mamma
ta.roort.)

Yr. Oupt. Heat Uwe 'sedated • warrant wider •
bastardy order against the defeud.utt, Wood by the From.
magistrates. ead was about to take bum law custody, but
be at once tald the Alto.. Tae Beach sac ordered lurs to
par th• yard. of the c stot is the ,aett
At Um •sure wart Gone Brown wee eanstaosted by
Jam ys Curtis for Luang tar.aentai !seated.. Mr.
Atkuteon was lot the ootaplataaat. .ad Mr. Budge for be
d.weadeot 5.04. 044 It ws. a trumpery asoe sod
dblastleed, each to ear thou own ow&
BLANDPOR.D.
Hu/atonal) Wool, Fats is fixed to be held in the
Core &change on July Sch.
WILI)01110.—Our town was setts. on Wednesday oa
the =aloe of the marriage of Kr. U. Fleetwood,
y the raepactact manager of the Wilt. and Dorset
Saab here, with Was Ada Stickman, only daughter of
Mr. °bastes Rickman. Both bridle and bridegroom
befog wall•kuowa and highly respected b.rs the
church was crowded with eager species= to witessu
toe Interesting ceremony.

BRIDPOZT.
BOZOOott PoLila, Tuesday.—Before the Mayor,
William Fraser, • tramp, was charged in custody with
=kiwi • false atelianimt for the purporie of obtaining
redid in tee borough no the previous day.—Prieoner
pleaded guilty.— P.S. liessard said prisoner rains to
Lb. Station for • ticket for Liu casual ward, dating he
had only lid in his posesadoe. On being 6d.
in coppen was found on him. Prisoaer had asid he
cams from Weymoutb.—The Mayor committed
prisoner for seven days.
A DIUIII.IIII Taw.—A young fellow, giving the
name of Joseph Vaugdeo, was charged at the Borough
Po/ice-court on Monday, before the Mayor, with being
drunk in the streets. Ili was tam into custody, and
made • statemeut to P.& 'laniard to the idiot that
he had Put been discharged cured from Exeter
and was Hokin employment as &travelling
e•lesdian.—Tbe story being credited, his Worship
discharged him with a cautaou.

DOW the Local Board forget that cal,. few short
mouths since, Mr. Mathews, who colleotsd the rates
for malty years, ins Mediae* refused an idea...?
Th• Board th n invited tenders for the teak when
several wellAnoms inhabited's made applicatkm. tint
~,,pootaggnat being 40•00 to Mr. Z•1111S, lib: rend
046et.r. Now, r. gram is a qui., salve
man, who does his duty well—hacked, ia seta • manssr
that no oos osu utter • complaint. Albeit, would It
not have been &wise nolioy—a policy of somosny,before
granting se lacy • rise to tbe "young" collector (ere
he has well if ot into the rouldas of his work) to have
disoovseed whichher the unsucceseful applicants were
willing to du the work at • cheaper rate, ea saver. of
tbrim stated their willimptese to do the °War day? I
think so, especially warn I consider the financial
condition of the Board, mad the already terribly.taxed
neighbours .1...
But. altar all, this le only one of
the extraordinary vagaries 4. municipal body, which
at one fill stroke abolish. the service of • much-
Beaded policeman, and presenta £4 per ansuna to the
rate-collector.

The Harbmw Constable ham been told to smit fresh
fields at a mcnent when his services promise to be
10001 then ever required—at that long neglected
quarter 01 the Borouch over which be had swayed his
sceptre—l mesa his staff. ?roe, whoa a few
magasohnons members of ow Parliament voted for
his extinction, they were not aware of the remit of the
Railway Meeting, but now they are aware of it, they
had better set thsmeelva siout voting him bock
Wk.

"Third to BridPort t Ottatert" Thie natural demand
was beard on Monday last at Maiden Newtoo with-
out the oat 'Dishing request for "Eighteespemm"
Hurrah I railway accommodation improving with
reduced fares. On lb* 2nd of January, 1880, I
ventured to "wire' my belief that the Brio:IFNI Heil.
way would be anomsfal in their miprovements,
which would finally bring about the natural privilege
of travelling third-dare oa the tussah. TM War has
arrived, sod now that we have looked after our own
interests. I bops the Great Western Railway will
look up our carriages, giving ma maamahlau better
in exchange for our old bowe-eltskers, in which we
have., often been jolted up to Maiden Newt= erad
beak. Some lof them doily "third." ere not
even good enough for us to ran down in to sniff the
briny omen.

What with the extension to the harbour, ditto of the
platform, improvemenk to the goods-eind, tad the
abolition of those fearfully-maligned quadrupeds which
used to drag oar rolllog stuck lob, the statioa, strangers
hers will henceforth believe they have strived at the
wrong destination.

If in the wide world there be ate individual who will
hail with delight eux " thirds,!_it will be • commercial
tray.ller I met at Maiden Newton the other day.
Arrived to hot haste from Yeovil, sad thiakiag (deluded
maa) the Bridport train would start within a few
minutes, whereat it had semeitting over 100 minutes
to wait., the commeecial traveller marched to the
piesoo-hok, with "third to Beidport." "
penny " wari the response. "Third to Bridt," I said,
uttered the *commercial traveller in oorre Welt
Ifight-s.eopecce " Mince' mend Lim clerk, who
wondered at the audacity of any travella who weld
expect to be rolled over nine maims of such model line
at USA than sight-e-enpeoce. " Whet an me you meet
be," said the commercial traveller irritably, "ant to
anderetand • plain question; I askubfor-a-thititto.
Bridport, is that plain enough r " Quite, dr, but
we vs no thirds ; you must Was a esoond," said ties
clerk blandly. "Then why the devil didn't you say ,
so, but I'll me you and the company shot below* I pay
idOtaion peace. No, I'll walk firm." And walk he
did, for about two hoard after I saw the commercial
traveller at the fkidport Station, where, harke arrived
several minutes before us, he was cracking his little
foam to the officials. _ _ . .

LWOW Libria.