The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-12-19 00:00:00

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ARISTOCRATIC TRADZSMEN ! Tee Rao, the other
evening, expressed a disgust, which those pommeled of
any kin Ily feeling in their composition cannot but
join in, at a faM on, now rampant in Paris, and there.
tore certain to tiod its way across the Channe , the
wearb,g by "halo; of the pod f dresses "literally
smothered.' in the fe Ahern of choice singing and pot
birds. Thc grito is hopeful that 'Masculine public
opinion way I,,,,siidy apply, timely corrective to this
barbarous freak of b'sshion. '

Than, my contemporarY does on to say
And yet what riaht have we te expect that the male
members of fashionable society are better than the
lentil. I We read that a throe days battue shooting,
ending on Friday last at Lord Wimborna's estate. resulted
in the killing of 2.:11,1 birds In this business eight pew.
sons were eornied, oil., the Doke of Roxburgh", the
Matquises of Northampton and B 4h, Louis Kradlesharn,
Wino!, one, Loyal, and eaatleiosie. and Sir Arthur Scott.
Thee. noble •poi tauten killed on the average rather more
than SO bird. per day each, and they are so proud of the
achievement that the rvsult is duly published in the news-
papers. 'there must have been tome vary wenn c mows
at Canford. Due omiisi oi in tlx" item of intelligence
really ought not to have twen overt° tired. Who are the
poulterers ii whom Lord Wonhorne and his euests set as
slaughternien There are plenty of peolpe in London aho
wooid enjoy • pheasant all the better, and consequently
pay an ennanced price for it, if thy knew that it was
killed by no man b-low the rank of a baronet, and that
the chances are three to four that it tell ti the gun of a
Marquis or • Duke. If the porn" of Lord Wimborne are
not situdied with bird carnage, they should CAP, to Lon-
don. They will yet be in time to dispatch moat of the
beasts exhibited at the jolinuttun Cattle show. It is true
that the wielding of the pole-axe rtilutre in.. physical
strength than the shooting of pheasanx., but the slaughter-
men really run no greater danger' than they would In the
Caw ord Coyertel. Tao• 43 who lark strength for the pole-
axe could occupy thrmielves with wringing the necks of
f.awls who are quite as tame as ptieurinte, and nearly ns
harmless.

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Some tin shockingly vulgar people will probably
wonder if these swell iisam-,lsalsrs take out a license
for their " occupatiou. ' I see by that aid al annual,
the bract and Suntlract 0i)1111ila AfutaeacA;, it
amount.' to only LI a year. but I very much doubt
whether it is over paid by them. An exciseman
would bed mil like a hawk upon • sparr pw on poor
Bill Hodge, lii he venture t keeps ragged, woi &hies.
—although not, perhaps. in his eyes—terrier. without
having previously handed over hie three hall-crowns ;
bat to aok a:noble lord if he had taken omit • license
for dealing in game why he c.ruldn't possibly summon
up the courage

lIANDS."—I 111111 compelled to repeat the
phrase. I used it a fortnight ago, but I GUI think of
none more suitable. Everyone will be glad t
know that at this particular mason of the year two
old friends have re-sheathed their swords. A though
between you and me, dear reader, it would have been
• tine thing for the papers. If you read the report of
the Council meeting, in another column, you will see
that the Town Clerk has fully vindicated himself,
however awkward the coincidences at the time may
have appeared. Without doubt he would have pur-
sued his former course, hal not the energetic and keen
agents of our two politica. parties suddenly have Cora.
polled hint tr seek an authority which fully justified
the misgivings he had previously felt.
The real delinquent is Undoubtedly the Revising
Barn- er. It is said you :ran drive a waggon and four
through any Act of Par:lament, and the gentleman
who revises the lists in this district seems ti be a
Carter who dares do it. But, at all events, in this
particular matter, he must in the future " put on the
drag." -

The manly way in wbicl one of the two gentlemen,
who bad raised on the political horizon the little cloud
no bigger than • man', hand, and now happily
vaniahed into .pace, announced ttiat he had done his
part in the way of conciliation; and the kindly
manner in which it was acknowledged by the other,
must have grat lied every member of the Council
present. Here's their good hea.the, and may they
spend • Merry Xmas !

Proitteric Pniitarg.—l dare say • good many of my
readers have beim° now ellen led the clerical thestre
of St. Alban'., High Holborn fists manager, it.,. A.
H. iHsckonochie); and they will probably agree with
in. • in .re silly traveetie of the ritee of the Boman
Catholic Church—dissusting alike t Roman Cstholics
from it. mummeries of their creed, and to Protsstents
from it. At unlit t invest the ..taa and sober services
of the Church of gaglaud with pantomimic effect,—
hes r.irely been Petlll. We all know th.t "not •
hundred mile, '—to ILO • well-recognised phrase—from
Poole. feeble imitations of this kind.. -thing exist.
Mr. Dlsckonochie, I read, has exchanged hi. 'ivies
with anther priest whole " going on the old lines,"
and this he did upon the dying recommendation of the
lats Archbishop of Canterbury. But adds this weak.
minded disciple of the Great Pastor —"lie could not have
'mooted hal it involved any 'snoring on his part of
what he had always insisted upon—via, that the Stste
had no jurisdiction in spirituel matters." The sooner
such men give up the cumfortiog doctrine that the State
is solely responsible for the pecuniary comfost of the
Church, and by leavinc an Authority whose legal Con-
trol they will 04 a lira while they bold out their
heeds for the loaves an I fishes, the more quickly will
ordivary-minded people begin to respect them for con-
sistency.

Woollen RClll,Vitglitti ..To descend from the would-be
sublime in church matters to the undoubtedly
ridicaloui, I would uall attention to a very able
psmphlet recently published in London, entitled " A
broadsile fired lot., the Salvation Army." To th ise
who are ab Alt to attend the opening of the " 810
and fir,' (eleg tot phraseology) Barrack, here on Sun-
day, I give the advice to afterwards obtain it. It is
published by It. If. Squire, 52, Fleet-street; and A.
Ritchie and Cu., 6, Red Lion; and is prim Id. Here
are a few lines of extracts which I think must com-
mend themselves to all :

" Far be it from us to say that Mr. Booth is likely to
des unfairly with the funds committed to his care, but
what nf those who will fotlow t Can be give us any
guaraet te, save his julgruent an selection, that his sac-
chows will prove boanat 1 An !mufti man rimy safely be
trusted to deal with toe vast property now committed to
the General's keeping, there may be no necessity to ask
for accounts from a men who as beyond tonptatton, but
vrloo as bonsai and who Mbeyon I being tempted! We have
had one specimen of General Booth's liability of being
misled in the choice of instruments—am y we think we
might safely ..y that the case of Jane Johnson, the so.
called 'trophy,' is far from being the only erm.
"The claim to be imtuaculat•—for that is what it
amounts to upon the part of the General—is absurd upon
the far, of it, and, beyond that, impiously presumptuous,
acd we queittian whether at should be tolerated. When
a man goes so far al to say that he will not submit to be
questioned, that in noway matters he will do as he pleases,
rendering no arc aunt mite Ito',Hina whores servant be pew
(ewes to o be, then, autimally, it is right to argil that he
pr claims himself to be immaculate ; for what less would
warrant the right to send out begsierletters without let
or hindrance? We submit to appeals for funds being
sad. for religious and charitable purposes—for church...
for chapel., for ho-pitas, ant soup-kit :hens ; but we are
justly ou.pictous of appeals that come from individuals
who render no public balancenheet of receipt and expen.
Clare. o..neral Booth, like many more Who app al to
the Nolte for subserlytiona, as behest; but why should he
be allowrd ti what is forbidden to others? Lit hint
either drop his bagging system, or be made to render •
avid' ictiory batten,. •Meet. LI tom do Gots, not to proVe
he 1,0,.0.t3,. wch n•i tiai• wryest:hen but from • sense of
deceucy towards the law."

I am going to give title people • free gratis
a ivertisement. On Sunday next their hall is to be
opened. Vs • fine structare, and reflects great credit
on the builder, Mr. J. Danford. It's • pity it wee not
dedicated to more retionel purposes. Mrs. Geemd n
B.oth will be the shining light on the occasion.
The gallset "General sap the reception given him
by the honest, humbug-detesting fishermen of Poole
when he lost visited them, erns too warm to be
pleasant, so he will send "the cairns," and stay at
home to look after "the till."

THE CONEIDEZECI THICK. —I should imagine any
one who ventured int • London crowd with • fifty
guinea witch in his fob must fancy be lived in the
day's of King Alfred, when everybody was so honed
that an erratic individual, who chose to bang up his
"Lever" on the branch of a tree found it there twelve
boors after, when rolling home in the morning, instead
of in these times of Queen Victoria, when you can't
put out a bit of linen on the hedge to dry, but what
it is sneaked. A well.known, and equally well-
respected gentleman id this town, I am told, corn-
mittte a the error on the occasion of the review of the
In demi troop., and if any oi,a now asks him "what'.
tue time" he refers to • modest silver arrangement.

VAGRANTS.—This section of Society is an undoubted
nuisance in Poole, but still the magetrares exercise a
wise and kindly discretion in allowing them to leave
the town—a sort of judicial "over the garden wall,"
you know. Don't bother us, but call next door !
That may be • pleasant and easy method of getting
rid of troublesome characters, but why is not Captain
Amyatt-Amyett's method of relieving vagrancy
adopted in the Borough. If it were we ehouldn't find
so many broken down tradesmen (?) skulking around
our back-doors.
MAN ABOUT POOL&