The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-11-27 00:00:00

" flasbos anb Slickers."

SWANIAL
FORGIAT AND FIUMM ERI. —We have read of. Yankee
advertisement in which the Editor expressed his sympathy
with the labours of his office boy in these words,
"Wanted, logs, not too hard for our devil to split r We
shall have to advertise as follows, "Wanted, flats, not too
soft for our devil to baste, such as those who troubled the
Editor last week." Not to be enigmatical we explain our
meaning. Somebody sent him an account of a lecture,
said to have been delivered here on the preceding Satur-
day, at what building they omitted to state, accompanied
by a letter purporting to have been written by • lady of
our town. Editors do not mind fun, when they know It.
author, but they do most strongly object to forgery and
rascality. That lecture was never delivered, and never
will be. The twaddle said to have been talked threw open
to the public view the Englishman's caotle—his home—
with the intention of lowering the dignity of a respected
resident. This was cruel. Our maiden ladies were
clumsily caricatured. The grammar was execrable; the
style suggestive of a schoolgirl's examination paper • but
HEAVY PENALTY 'OR PERMITTING the slanderous hint with which it closed was an insult to
DRUNKENNESS. an honourable family. In America the writer would have
If enry Frampton, landlord of the Red Lion Inn, been horsewhipped. We would recommend a study of our
Sturminster Marshall, was summoned before the Rev, native language, a course of moral philosophy and practice,
and the application of supposedtalents to less questionable
Carr Glyn and Captain Biddle. at the Wlmborne Petty
Sessions on Pride!, for permitting drunkenness and pursuits. The Elitor'o waste paper basket does not require
1 filling, but far more practice will be demanded before such
disorderly conduct in his hots.' on the 16th of November.
—Mr. Howard appeared for the defence. —P.C. Worsdell effusions can and their way into a better place, in fact it
said he visited defendant's house on Friday at four o'clock will take more than average skill to atone for this
in the afternoon, and found John Golton in the kitchen.
unmitigated folly.
He appeared to have been drinking. He visited the I
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house again at eight o'clock, and found Galton still there, TO-MORROW CAN& —I he coachman did not show himself
with others. drinking. Milton was nearly drunk then. but sent an influential deputation from the seaside place.
About quarter to ten he came by again and heard • irreat On arrival they discovered Boniface strutting up and
noise in the kitchen. He went in and found Galton down In the sunshine, his thumbs Inserted in his waist-
there drunk. There were 12 or 14 men in the kitchen, coat arm-holes. Ile did not seem to know wc - - a about
singing and hallowing, and the greater part of them were what happened the evening before, and ••
more or less drunk. He saw the landlord's daughter, and coachman must have been dreaming.
told her she had a very disorderly party. She said they permed on, calling at several houses. One
were only einging, and left him. He told the landlord suffering from a severe headache and co,
Galion had been there all the afternoon and evening, and anothm bad been called suddenly away •
he said it was a lie, and abused him, and he left the of when he would return ; a third ale-
house. Hs saw the men leave, and Halton ins staggering. &Mild Se them. he had a

Ar the Swindon and North Wilts Poultry Show on
Thursday, Mr. T. D. R. Rawlins, of this town. was
highly commended for Black-breasted Red Game.
The same birds took third prize at Cirencester the
week previous.