The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-08-01 00:00:00

SIIERBORNE.

(.11ANI;Li are about to be made at our Polim-station,
Supt. Hare is to be reIDOVed to Cerne, and will be
succceded at Sberborne by Set. Florence; whilst
P.C. Short, a 17 rears' twistable goes to Code
Mullen with promotion to the rank of Sergeant.
Os Monday evening there was a muster of the 7th
D.R.V. in a field near liorsecastles belonging to Mr.
Shemin, for an inspection previous to thew departure
on Monday next for a turn under canvas. There
were present Col. Steward, Adjutant Mowit-liatten,
Major Falwasser, Lieut. Calder, Sub-Lieut. Williams
(who was now for the first time since his appointment
introduced to the company by Lieut. Calder and
cordially welcomed), four sergeants, three buglers. and
45 rank and file. The men were put through some
sharp movements, upon which the Colonel congratu-
lated them at the close, being very creditable consider-
ing that they were burdened with the whole of their
kit. The band was in attendance, and played them
to and from the field.

LIBERALITY. :Last week we noticed a garden party
given by Mr. John Goodden, of Compton-house.
This week his hospitality has been &played for the
benefit of a humbler party. On Monday between 20
and 30 of the Workhotme children were entertained
at C pton, being conveyed thither in a waggon
kindly lent by Mr. if. Enstor. Having partaken of a
dinner at the mansion, such tut probably many of the
[or little waifs had never before bad the good
Fortune to meet with, they adjourned to the park, and
were joined by the Compton school children an various
games and amusements. There was a display if fire-
works at the conclusion.

St,OOEN DEATH. -Mr. Edward (lenge! of Lyming-
ton, had been for some few weeks staying with his
cousin at Rimpton, Mr. Anrewa Mr. Gen,ge was at
the Poratington camp on Wednesday, ansl on the
same slay. being unwell, be called on the doctor, who
prescribe(' for him. Next morning, however, he
asked that a doctor might be sent for, as he believed
himself to be dying. He would have fallen to the
gnoind, but was caught ansl placed on the sofa, and
Mr. Turner immediately summoned from Sherborne ;
before that gentleman s arrival, however, life had
become extinct. At the inquest which was held at
Itimpton by Dr. Wybrants on Saturday, Dr. Garland
said he believed deceased died of syncope, and the
jury returned a verdict in accordance with this
testimony.
THE Canr.—The cavalry have left. Daybreak on
Thursday found the camp all astir with preparation
for the march to Salisbury, starting at six o clock in
10 divisions, by as many different routes. The dis-
mounted portion followed subsequently ; but the
A.S.C. and A.H.C. still remain, and, if we are
correctly informed, the commanding officer received a
communication on Sunday to the effect that they were
likely to remain is slat,' 11110 for some little time.
Various rumours are going the round; ea:ad-ding to
one we may expect to be favoured with a visit from
one or two Irish militia regiments (if so we trust they
won't bring their shillelaghs with them!) ; another has
it that In consequence of an outbreak of fever at
Aldershot the 'limners and Lancers will return to the
liowns ; but nothing definite is known, even by those
at the camp. On Saturday evening a hay-rick of con-
siderable size belonging to Mr. Parsons, fanner,
standing in a field in the vicinity of the camp, was
found to be on fire ; lent by the valuable and opportune
efforts of the A.S.C., who regarded the affair as a bit
of diversion, three parts of the hay was saved. The
owner of the rick, by permission of the otficers, showed
his appreciation of their services by inviting them in
the evening to a little " free-and-easy " in a baro,
! where he 'waled them with an abundant supply if
bread and cheese and cider. With the aid of their
clever nigger party, the occasion was made one of
lively jollification and one of the men was heard to
say it was "the first field slay they had slay."
AT a meeting of the Board of Health the usual
subject of overcrowding again came up; but, the
cottage accommodation of the town being MO inade-
quate, nothing could be done but pustpone the settle-
ment of the matter. Tbe Chairman, in presenting for
signature a cheque for 1.!;r13 18a. Sel. in payment of
interest elite on Mr. Digby's• loan, remarked that
ars dher s' ainsoint could be paid before long,
which would be in sliest a gain of a year in comparison
with the former comfit' of payment. - liespectin;.;
! the stoppage of the Conduit water, of which Mr.
Dalwood complained at the last meeting, the Chair-
lii en states' that the two committees, one from the
and the other from the School hut met. The
school governors had expressed themselves as anxious
as any 0110 that the water supply in question should
not Ire lost to the town, and they accordingly en-.aged
Messrs. Easton and Ams. to examine ansl report upon
the matter. Besides this the supply to the school had
been stopped. The Surveyor, in his report upon the
sewage nuisance in Coombe, recommended the con-
striction of a cesspool there ; but this slid not meet
with the approval of the Board, and the subject was
for the present left leaded. -The Surveyor also
presentee' a report 5115511 the scavenging question, and
recommended the Board to take the whole work into
their own hands. lie had prepared three different
schemes, the expenditure involved in each being
severally estimated at I:111, £137, and £142 a year.
In one of them a consielerable addition to the number
of hydrants was proposed. A ter POlllO 11601.140111 the
present scavenger. Brown, was calks' up, and he com-
plained of the insufficiency 55f his salary, it being only
is. a day for the services of two men, a boy, and thrgs
horses. LIO might perhai., he said, be made of the
ashes ; but ha had now on hand 100 loath; unsold. He
also said he understood that :mother haulier, Abrahain
Gillingham, had had the offer of the scavenging at a
th's notice; but this was denied by several of the
lioard OA a fabrication. -Mr. Taucock observed that
under the present system they knew what they had to
pay, ansl were saved any further trouble ; but if they
kept their own horses it would be a very different
thing. The Chairman remarkesl that the abolition of
the turnpikes would soon throw upon them the whole
of the roads ; awl, ultimately on the proposition of
11r. ilitegg, it was decided to offer the contractor a
quarterly Isnots of frs, which should be regulated by
the discharge, satisfactory sir otherwise, of hiss duties,
an arrangement which Brown, upon being re-callesl,
ars paimeed in.
Peyry SUL'iIIONS. Thursday.
The Rer. G. R. Gardner, of Leigh, was summoned by
the Supervisor sit Excise for keeping a slog without a
license.- Mr. Ffooks, defending, admitted the offence;
but, in extenuation, submitted that it was Owing tO
defendant's not being aware that a license was not trans-
ferable, the animal being a present front a friend.--The
Bench thought it rather sharp practice on the part of the
Excise authorities, seeing that the license was taken out
within a week of the •flisvr's visit; but the latter stated
he was only acting snider instructions from the powers
above, to whom the matter had been duly represented.
A slight passage of arms occurred between Mr. Ffooks
and the Excinetuan anent an alleged want of civility on
the part of the officer to Mr. Gardner when he called
upon him ; hut, the officer replying that "civility was
slue on loth sides" the matter dropped, and defendant
Wilts hued in the mitigated penalty of Is.
A similar charge was prefemxl against Mr. W. Deisiususuj
of rhetnole, of which that same slog was the bone oi
contention, and the plea of ignorance of the law was,
through Mr. Watts, again put forward, with the result of
a s lan tine.
The " hutl, of the law" failed to Drove a awe iif cattle
straying against Jam,. Ridata, of Folke, and it was
accordingly dixtuissed
.10an Creche r was, however, less fortunate, being
mulcted in a tine of 111 for allowing a bull and cow to be
at large on the highway at Leigh.
namisa 111100,i, landlady of the Mitre, was summoned
for drunkenness. It appeared that sin the 19th June the
police, being called to quell a disturbance at defendant's
house found her fighting with another woman, and in
anything but a state of sobriety.—ln defence. Mr. Watts
said defendant was only turning off the preuiiscs a
refractory customer, ansl that it was her who tirst sent
for the police. As to the heighten.l colour of her fair
cheek (which the constalilm had in their evidence observes"
upon) riasr ;laltiettri,buatiaiLdietwtooawcietalain cbrio,unc.scouitz
flare intervening, " put the extinguisher on it" by stating
that Mrs. Bligilon was often drunk.—A fine of Is, and
costs was indicted.
N'fliiine Longman, a by-no-uwans dangerous looking
individual, was, at the instance of his wife, who alleged
that he had threatened her liM, bound over in J:10 to
keep the peace for three months.
William !legion!, whose inordinate fondness for the
" social glass" has procured him the privileic of a long
acquaintance with the "gentlemen in blue, wax again
brought up sin the usual charge. Prisoner had been
" wanted" fur a similar offence committed previously,
but had kept aloof.—lle was now heel only fil. for this,
lint for the latest freak lie WWI sent over the hill for 1.1
slays.
Nlr. James Burrows, of the Three Elms Inn, North
Wootton' applied for and was granted a temporary
license • also the widow of James Worthy, late landlord
of the Laisihi, end Mr. Belben and Mrs. Suns were granted
their game licenses.
An order of ejectment was made against James Cake,
of Lyme, at the instance of James Backbone:it.
The lest wise au affiliation caxe, the parties being sand,
Ann Dailey, of Nether Conipton. a respectable-looking
la. of 23, and (10,0,- Wiumore, 20, formerly of the same
place, lout now of the Metropolitan Police Force, who,
with hit showy attire and the ostentatious display of a
ring on his finger, hal evidently come down with the
• intention of " astonishing the natives."—The applicant
said defendant was the only one who ever paid his
zuldreaes to her, and he used to visit her at her father's
house. On learning her condition he promised her
marriage, but from September, 1573, about three months
before the birth of the child, he had been flea rat until a
few weeks ago, and then he refused to see her or to hold
any communication. When served with the summons
defendant asked the policeman who brought it if he
thought his absence from Compton for upwards of twelve
months vrould not place him out of danger.—Mr. Watts,
for the applicant. slrew attention to this, and submitted
that this was identical with what was held to be corro-
borative evidence ; but Mr. Jolliffe, who defended, denied
this, and urged that to prove the charge, it was necessary
to bring forward testimony of acts—not statements—on
the part of defendant, direetlY pointing to his paternity,
otherwise no nian would be safe from such accusations.
Ile contended that Mr. Watts had failed to produce any
corroborative evidence ; neither letters nor money had
—The Bench retired, and upon their return the
iliTiertan said they considered the evidence before them
sufficiently conclusive to warrant them in making an
order; whereupon Mr. Jolliffe put Ilefendaut into the
witness box, and lie denies' the paternity, also having
had any intimacy with appliclnt, or having even walked
with her since his 11th year Ile also swore he was quite
ignorant, when he went away in September, 11373, of her
condition, and had never promised her marriage, having
been engaged to a Miss Bartlett ever since 1871.--To
supplement this Ise called two witnesses, Thos. Bartlett
and Eli Bantle. who stated they hail seen applicant
walking with other youths at night settled
the
each party was saddled with its own s•asta.--The case
ss-cupled between four and live hours, an infliction for
which possibly the Bunch were not dispceed to feel very
thankful to the defending solicitor.