The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-04-01 00:00:00

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The Poole magietratee ocerielonally week to impress
Juvenile Wel'annotate wttb a wwwal leneen, by haring
exhibited to them tbe ofliciel instrument of torture,
known as the birch. Ills Horour, at the last County
Court, in • way, held up the birch to three naughty
jurymen. They had been warued to be in atteadenos
at the previous Court, but fact to be so, sending, in
one case, an excuse of indisposition, and in the other
two, that other business prevented their isooeptanos of
, the invitation. The jaige, thereupon, fined theta each
a, instructing, however, the Registrar not to make
his return to the Treasury until after the next sitting,
when the delnqueate could attend and explain their
romance...l if t bey could. Accordingly, on Howley the
three bed buys stood in a row 'actor. his Honour, and,
with their hand,' baled theta, peuitentisily promised
that they would weer do so no more. His Honour
gave them • little lecture on the proper discharge
the cloths of citizenship, and then, turning to Mr.
High-bailiff Stembridge, said " I think you may
return the fines in this butanes." The impounded two
'over:lgoe were then handed bock to each Afenlier, sod
they departed with radiant feces to go and buy their
wives new bonnets with the moos!. It would hi..
well, however, that it should be remembered that in
Sutton e jurymen who shirk their duties are not likely
to get A quite so easily.

Remarks, and not uncalled-far one., have been ins&
with miereQce h 3 the elegiac at some of the places ef
worehlp In the town. Certainly, from • recent
experience at one of them, I most admit that in that
salaam at least it was simply execrable. The fault
cannot be secribed to the want of musical talent in
Poole, for there Is plenty; It can therefore only be
doe to west of meanie:sent. When un-inviting
difficult tunes ere being continually introduced it can
only be expected the congregation should be at see—
I.!, very often when they ought to be MY. The beet
congregatiosal singing to be heard at any church In
this con, ty was brought about some years &rj 0 by the
Vicar throwing open hie ohurch two night. a week for
the elors purpose of practising the hymns and
*heats forth. miming Sunday. Toe attendenom were
remarkably rood, and the church on flatways Wee
always crowd.t. Sm. of the chapels, I am told, find
good meson to lament the sauna, of the Salvation
Army. 111. not t be woodered at people prefer
singing in which all ma join, even if the words are set
to th• ttille of Tomos/at roomfor your noels,"
to the nerve-jarring to which the unfortuaat•
church or chapel goer have too often to bear. Poe
really hearty and good oongregegional singing, I thlak
ht.,7'114.,0ngt., bean away the palm, but there
is am Um MM masseo=l:7l4 net be equally
ploadm al Win

A contemporary ha. called attention to tbe fact that
the bakers do not,aa • ruleoweigh theirbread when hand-
ing it to the cuetouwa. It I. quite trite they d not.
and it is also • fact that they at. bound to do so, by the
Act, whether they are asked to or n /t. I think,
however, the bilkers of Poole, as a rule, give
tolerably lair weight, and it le better to
to have a led an z. short to lie being half-baked,
whioh was the way in which them gently squared
matters eons! years Imo when the question was agitated.

A Motif hie sent me the Marlborough Tines. In
It I notion the following adrertisement.—" Wanted
(esti, in April), 1,1 clergymen's faintly, strong person
II House end Parlourtnsid. Communicant. Age not
under 19. Tall (no )ringe). Write stating NU Par-
ticular. to Mrs. F., Donate Arms Hotel, Abbot.-
bury, Dorsotsbire."

What are tr,1111111.11 rights worth, when not only will
not • Radical Government mire the dears • vote, but
even a young "person" may not wear tam fringe.
" Lydia " to the :moue
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I am told that my suggestion last week to the
Liberal Association to send Mr. Gledetone • resolution
in favour of the Franchise Bull was • little too lets,
a" OEM had bee. despatched .b two days previously.
Well, if matters of Lille kind are kept so quiet. and
at a word "sent I, the papers" relating to them,
the gentlernsm who poll the wires must not be cur.
prised tilt. general public put then. downs. political
foolish virgins.

At the railway atati Q n Poole I see stuck up an
Appeal to the general public in behalf of • fund for
Lb. widows and children of railway servauts killed in
the perfot soca of their duty. I venture to think it
is ono that ought never to be made nay more then the
solicitatuto bung up at the Parketune station alull Is
for the relief of discharged ooldlers. Io the one cam
it is • rrfitction upon • powerful trading interest, in
Lb. other it Is. Jinni* to the ouuntry.

Those of my readers who know William Day, tb•
oelebrated treiner, of Coo[denim Lo Hoot., will
be hiteneted to 'sera that his bankruptcy hem mullet
is the acceptacov of a dividend f 6e. 81.10 the ti
be full ...red by a further one of 34. 41. The debts
proved amounted to £3,846.

The County Cricket Mach, Wiltshire v. Dors.t.
shim, will be played at Sherborno, August lit and
Ind. Last year the Don't gentlemen were &Meted.

Our fashionable neighbour Is very much agitated
with the qusetion whether it shell or shall not IDIDD
OD to itself a share in the pomps and va,itle. of this
wicked world in the shops of • Mayor and Gorpora-
lion. The chief argument with the opponents of the
scheme Is that polities would be imported into
Municipal elections, sad the quietude of the town die.
turbid; and than they rather unkindly point to Poole
a. DA example. Well, it can scarcely be denied that
Poole k • fighting borough, whether tionsidered
politically or physically; the blood of the old
smugglers still runs in the reins of their desosudante.
But then, on the other hind, if then nervous Judi-
viduals will only turn their eyes to Weymouth there
they will see • Council Maned upon the basis of fitness
for Allos, and not ths n.en pretext of • sheds of colour.
Out 41117, to reed some of the reports of the meetings
of the Commissioners, the serenity of the place cannot
materially suffer front Incorporation.
I have received a wort of some 200 pens, contain-
ing "The Opinions of the Hebrew and Greek pro
lesion of the troven Colverridoe f Bible lt-ivi.res
and of other emiuent Scholan and C immentators on
the Scriptural Aspect of the question regarding the
legaliz Won of Marriage with a Deceased Wife's
Si.ter." Should argon* of my readers be contemplat-
ing such a step, I shall be happy to lead it him for his
perusal, and he will find in it quite sufficient argu-
ments to satiety every possible scruple of conscience.
. .
Of course, there are two .i les to every question. So
there ars to this. Most of us know the oil eastern
par•ble of the men who sought admisi ,n to Paradise,
and when questioned upon what grounda he based his
request, replied "I',. been merried," and with the
sympsthising remark, 'thin come in poor man," was
at once Introduced to the bliesful realms. The story
goes on to say that another applicant thinking to
oak. assurance douhly sure, pleaded that he had been
married brier, when the door was at once shut in his
fen, and he learnt they did not have to Is in that
community. This, of cools., applier to teconi
m ended' in I, but at the lams time it might be
used by the opponents of the proposed 0311&11114.

Oa the other hand, the Ist, Lord Palmereton used
an argument overpkiwering both in it. weight an 1
simplicity in fsvour of sllowine • insn to nwry his
deoesised wife's si.tsr. The bluff oil earl said it c ,m-
-mended it elf to him, hecaum it would save • man
who thus indulged the affliction of having two m4Aerr
is-taw

But, to regard the queliti in seriously, it],.. seem •
tociastroui and • brut anomaly th•t If a womsn goes
ind to Australia Sod maul • her late sister', widower,
she is • reverted matr a trith in tbe eye of the low
sad of so istli while, should ides omee bock on • visit
t her friends iu England, the moment she puts foot
oath. land of the' brave and the free" she becomes
• concubine and bit children butter&
M.O.P.