The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-07-11 00:00:00

DORSET MASONIC CHARITY.

A mistily of the Committee of thia body woe held at
Blandford, on Tuesday last. Bro. H. C. Burt presiding,
when Bro. Moo. Bftsretary Boa.. presented a most amis.
factory report. Toe Comity nu now £1.178, and cash Cl
ita banker* over 100 gunman, in addition to which it will
receive nearly £.20 dlvidrnds it this month, and ito relief
pawn will then amount to £5l 10s. In ths course of the
year its fund. h tiro Woo augmented by several handsome
donations, including .C6O from Bro. W. B. &worm ; LW,
Merthyr Guest. Ideq. : P. U. Lodge; and the R. W.
limner. kW 0, 3.1. for the preliminary impasse& A very
d.,esrviog case having been presented from Lyme, the
Committee unsoimomilY vot.d it £2O. end reamomended
so &Atli°. from (IL The Reba and Asuman.=
Commits' of the yur was appointed im before, •one
member from each lodge. It was ancomancrid that the
&and( orl Brethren, who had entered most baertaly into
toe project of Um abandoned hamar, had determined to
present to the foods of the Charity the aim It wee mica.
lewd they would have expanded In ths bazaar, and the
result of their liberal conduct will be an addition M about
.C. 15 to the sum mimed above. Worsham will be the place
for holding the nail general meeting of Committee.

COUNTY PETTY BLUME&
SATURDAY.
Won Maim Almond Sir Charles D'Oyly, Bart., and Si,
William Smith-Marriott, Bart
Kober ll.tcher, a carman in employ of Use nilway
company. ern summoned by Samuel Barnes, landlord of
the Eagle Tavern, for esesuiting him on the 13th of June.
Toe Immo defendrut wee also charged with committing an
assault on George Searle, a young man In Barnes' employ,
at the setae time and plan. Defendant pleaded guilty.
but in extecuation of the offence urged it would nothave
hap.tened but for the c4Prepsated trona= of Barnes'
children in his garden. to which they had dime mandating,,
and at was opoahing to them on the matter that Wu:11141m
came, which led to the asimult comp timed of. Barnes
then gave hie version of the affair, sad was followed by
Searle, who stated Hotelier woe and pulled him off •
waggon-shaft, whereon he was standing. A. wittiest
named Light also spoke to seeing the 'anal; which he
"nsidered an unprovoked one.
A summons brought ' u Janet Goodman. 1.e... of
'the house In which Rat:terprides, against Samuel
' Barnes. the younger, a little fellow eight years old; and
Cootie' Pout', for traipses In the garden spoken of by
• Hatcher, en heard before the Bench decided the foregoing.
Paull pleaded guilty to going into Lae garden to set • ball
thrown into it by the little boy, but denied doing
any damage. Mrs. Hatcher nail the boys of the
neighbourhood were contently throwing things into
their garden, and go often gout; in to fetch It, generglly
leaving the gate open. and rushing soy where to Had
their armies, treading down anything in their way,
and an asked for protection from such annoynces.
which had continued for nearly • year and a half. After
some little wordy ware between the litigant., who are
residing near each other, tin Bench decided that each
party should pay their own chit., and intimated that if
any other similar can came before them from that
usighbourbood they would indict • hoary Ana
Henry Read and John Pum, was charged with dranken•
nese and riotous conduct, in the pariah of Tenant
°Linville, on Sunday evening, June 17th. Read pleaded
guilty : P.,ft pleaded not guilty, anti stated be had only
on• pint of beer during the day, but on peeing Riad,
who eunuch Win. It upset wed excited bins, and he
admitted str,pping to retaliate th s injury natained.
P.C. Downie p giiively amerced Poor eat drunk, as
well as the other del endant, and the bench considered the
charged proved. and Sued the delinquentesl. each, incliad•
ins amts.

.irede.—rick Gillingham, of Charlton Marshall, labourer,
wait charged with assaulting Timm. Edw'-s Halsey, • boy
of the village, on June 17th. He pleated guilty, but the
bench wiehing to hear the lola of the wise, the boy's
(ether gave evidence to the effsct that the boy bad been
to tipettiebury ts sing in the church choir' and on return-
log mot defendant +rho had too much drink, and be
gave the boy a severe besting. Toe defendant said the boy
called him bad nuns., and asserted he only hit him once.
Fused or in default seven day.' Imprisonment
Albert Gibbs, tailor, of Blandford, was summoned by
Supt. Moore, the school attendance officer of the dieirict.
for • breach of the gducation Mt by neglecting to tend
his daughter Alice to school, according ti the require-
ments of Na, said Act. This c.a. way adjourned from the
lett Gout for production of • medical certificate of
inability to attend, the mo her of the child giving as
excuse for nowstiandance illus.'s in the house. At this
Curt defendant did not appear nor was he represented,
so as there wee no cmlificate produced of illness, and the
inspecting ollivir stating he hat much trouble with teem
coildren to attend school, the Beach inflicted a Eine of Si.,
inclddizig.pnets.

A ••• • packer oa the railway. was suet by
Sarah Jane Brown, a young w.unen of Blaadford. tu shoe
cause. etc. Defendant admitted the paternity, end en
order 01 la 61. per week wee made.