The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-01-20 00:00:00

DOZOKISTIII.

Ma. T, D. Menthe won third prise with his Dutch
rabbit at the Swintloa Show on Wednesday.
Wm an
_glad to bear • obrystathemura sbow will
be lend la Dorainster la tbe autumn.
Tin authorities lave van nesibly abolished the
frog'. mirth In the army bad WM, owing to the
death of • mein at Weimar.
PALM Alm? VICTOR -41 r. A. Legg, of the
Upton Fatal, on. of ltie D 11,007 tanients, resolved an
limited= to be present at the ball Irina to tht
tansatry at lindringhres last nth. Anton ths
isiflunthil personages at the ball given to hit Royal
laith.""
'e ,persoual Weida was Mr. laminae Guest,
A BUNAWAT.—Oei Monday annals sone smite
meal was ceased hairs by the hens of • runway
bans balonghe to Messrs. Fudge, butchers, which
bad in away from Makin Onla. It that
be animal was tied op Millet Meows. • west to
Ws resales powers of some puppies, when the
roles mapped, and the hone started as a
turbos pea towards Dorshester, whit* was mond
Ii misty, notntiestanding that numerous vehl•lss
wove on the road at the suns thaw In rounding the
goner lobo Noeibuquan, howevee, the &Waal tot 0,
the pavemsat and urns down • " crupper" In lc.
stink where it warn secured by one of Mann
Fudge's rasa before it bad the thane of mak pttin
away. Strange to say but littlie damage was done
to tither bores or trap. Ths marvellous part of the
affair is that to. hone should have own such •
distaam—fully three olles—without running into
somelideg.
Vaessecrr.—At the Borough Pc licrenut as Wed-
medal', before the Mayor (Aidermaa Gregory), and
Mr. H. Durdsa, Harriet Mottos, • young girl bang.
Mntwn
oWsymouth, was charged with sl•ipina In a
of an unoccupied house at East ordlogtoo
on Tussdai night. —P.C. Radford said he was on
duty as Ent Fordington about 12 o'cizak and
visited • boon Inds coupled by Mr. Tian. Hs
found the defsadant In on• of the bedrooms, and abs
appsarsd• to have been sleeping thus. fibe said an
was quit* dent on He took her to the pollosstatioo.
Sin bad no moon &boot —DsfemSant said she
was sorry to bs brought baton ths Bench. She
belonged to Weymouth, but had co friends, " only a
father," aid hie could out afford to keep har. Skis
left tonics about Christman, but was In vim of
another plan In three weeks.—The Mayor told the
girl she had batter go horns to her father, and die-
alerted bar, bat mutinied bat 11 brought up again
she would newt to prise°.
TEN Wiliam Acuson—Ws oopy ths following,
✓eferring to this analib.,arhooil, from reports on the
ewes of thed sown with wheat. compared with that
ci I.l=r, wet to the Mort Lan lavas :
—Dorcheeher—The nun of neat
sown In this inunnUate osighbonrhood, which is
allay • wheat-growing district, is about ZS pre cent
Isms than usuaL—Pond—On my farm, lying between
Poole, Wareham, sad Blandlord, 3,300 sires (about
1,300 stable). I sow this year about 90 per not. less
rI am mh in oin the ocenpatioa of • farm the
ote Purley, North Wilts, 1,780 earls (900 arable),
ea which I have sown 11 per nat. lens whin I also
py • farm la North Haan between Newbury and
Wblbshursh, 1,700 eons over (1,000 acne arable), no
tibia I han mown Uper osat. lee wheat to.. usual.
I think that my ronouadiag asiglabours have don
about the it.., but if the pries of wheat go up, and
Yds very favourable weather nations foe • few
weeks, say until the aid of Jenny. more wheat will
be pat la—pietaps *goal to the quantity sown last
per.
FOledllollll Wonlite Maa's Otria.—The monthly
• social " in woniection with tha above took plan
on Monday ovsning, whit the B. W. Pope, of -
Bradford Puseell, vary kindly gut • mace lantern
eatertalornsut. That those Katharine an lasouning
more popular was evident by the 6rge number of
peens presoak The room was orainund, and several
of the hinds bad to be refused admission, every
:Lill=
wrote being occupiei. The sotartainmant
with ths pathetic story of " The Seilor's
Wife," sad the pktons exhibited wen noesclingly
good. Next followed various slaws of cathedrals and
skurobta, followed by • oink hunting skein of
Dams Parker, whin' nut the andante Into roars of
laughter m they followed th• adventures of the
Worthy old dams. At this pout an Interval of ten
minutes took plan for rstrsshno.uts. provided by Mr.
sad Mn. Stook, to which full justice was don. Mr.
Sargent and Mx. Spitler readered souse capital songs.
Lights being lowered the audience were shown the
various type,. of ships from the earliest times to our
own modem ironcla&. Tines was • striking rennet
between the war fleet of Hoary VIII. an that of
Queen Victoria's, which welcomed the Shah of Persia
to our shores. A splaudid pictur, of the Victory
man-of4rar, which every Englishman always takes •
paid' io, from tbs fact that Nelms, our greatest naval
ban, died there. Then followed lb. Eddy4orne
Lighthouse, duriag calm sad storm, ths latter part of
whin was .tclkhngly delineated. Soma onto slides
wars now liszoducsd, caning SOMMINOMit to both old
sad young. After • von of thanks to the exhibitor and
the of th• Nation) Anthem, ths company broke
up, declaring they had spout • very pleasant
evades.
Doer is Wainscots& —Om of those bewildering
return that the Local Govegamsot Board send out
at intervals to *bow bow they employ their staff, bat
Just been met to the Illitardians In the Dorset, Wilts,
sad Haute Union It wenn of • mass of figurer
=d over • sheet about sixteen times as large as •
ot Inbar (not note) paper, and It purports to
Sill ths "Dietary of inmate, of Workhouses,' and
the" ONG of beer, wins, and spirit. worunaed." The
ent of printing snob a return mu 4 be cionsid anis. a. d
trout first to lost—in the laming of forms to be filled
up in the various unions, a noel of probably •
bandied pounds has been incurred. It is difficult to
see use a small percentage of benefit from ths outlay,
said if the Board alone dashed to 1n.., whether the
Alton Union drank tha famous ale of that noes, or
brewed Its on beer, there la no reason why tin
answer should be printed and sent round, to
flabbergast the Guarthass of all ths Union of ths
dirtriat, If, la addition to %bias wasidsrationa, it
should turn out that tits return la definies In ItasU,
we really think some serious nen should be take,
of this ream, and the practices ot Minns such
papsrs. Ono column is headed "What is the numbs,
of Aloes and servants of the workhou.• who draw
rations r and tin mown from Knudsen is sit.
Tin answer to ` What is tht total wet of 0001WWW1041
oonsurned by aloes and sonnet during lb. year"
Is (from the tams union) "Masts, and Matron six
shillings." Porter, none, asd industrial trainer In.
In Ilea of rations. It may be that in Kinsale,
Vain, with • total of 86 pauper', the officers find
their own rations, but the "allowance in lieu" is
wholly lassplionis, and may it... " weakly " or
"rob" Ties idea of waning with • Workhouse
Water that he is to receive three shillings • year in
lieu of ration amens too ridiculous to haws nee made.
add
.d.
one an eexplanatorynon ought to hays bean
b Under the heed " Wsyraouth Union" we ars
all told the "numbs, of officers and eervatatv who
draw rakes" it six, and that the ant of their lump
for provisions only in the year Wbi £791, or about MN/
hundred and thhty two pounds • heed I—in addition
So which £290 was spent on " onsmaries " for then
id: oaken aid servants. As no fewer than 13
esnmas of this return are devoted to questions con•
estesd with boar, wine, and spirits, the suggestion
arises that Bine Ribbon influent hays something to
do with ties ratan, tad if so, however useless or MIS.
leading It any be In WOW respects, it la not altogether
unettecesdul Is prises' the Temperance loony with
t. Waste' of the Etherborns Unice nein
leamirroalsat with about a gallon and • quarter of
beer per Mad la lb. year. At Dorchester the exi-
=:kle levee gall.. Judging from maw we
esmosa to find it as high at Altos ; but that.
Ohs average Is only four. At Fannie, bosoms ( •
bop coushry) ft is 17. In Havant It seams to be no
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