The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-12 00:00:00

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H RRRRR OF FRS MaIMP OF B.lllslollT,—Eorly in
tie week the Bishop Of the Diocese lifs /Salisbury for
London, for the benefit of his health, and tie daily
aseonnti rainiest of bia lordship Lie on the whole,
favourable.
_ . _

Tics Rev. Precentor Lear, as Cousehreary of the Loid
Bishop of Salisbury, lass oustitrited the Rev. Jonathan
Jones, clerk, M.A., to the vicarage of Berstock, coal
by the resiguation of the Rev. John Bragg°, clerk, the
last incumbent there, on the petition of the mid
Jos/than loose, the patron. The Rev. Thomas Stringer.
clerk, IL A., bas beets licensed to the euracy of Hortou.
Witrs Quanta StartiOns.—The Court resolved by
a large majority that on and after the Ist day of Feb.
next all the county prisoners shall be removed from
Salisbury Gaol to that at Devises, and se the Conit's
power to do this is admittedly very doubtful, it was
. farther resolved to apply to the Home Beagega,7 for the
I necessary power. Mr. Gabriel Goldney, M.P., for
Chippenham, admitted that In anticipation of the sew.,
which would be adopted by the Court, be had wailed
upon the Home Secretory, and had learned from Me.
Brace that he would be prepared to grant the neemenry
order, if an application were made to him for that
purpose by the Conn. The Sty of Salisbury objects to
Item decides, and it seems likely steps will be taken to
reverse it. A county rate of three-farthinp in the
pound was adopted. The County Lunatic Asylum
report stated that the practical resit of the year's
working, at the rate of Os. 4d. a week for each patient,
had been to . aocamulato £1155 Os. 9d. focusses of
the expenditure ; and under these circumstances, eon-
'adoring the present price of provisions, the committee
felt themselves warranted in recommending a reduction
in the rate of payment for county patients to
he: 9d, a week, commencing with the present.
quarter: A poetise rate of eseensighthe of
a penny In the 2 was made. Mr. Merewetber, Q.C.,
mass an appeal for the sum nesmeary lb be raged to
provide judges' lodgiop at Devizes. The gest of the
building would be £2,000 of which sum only £2OO had
yet been subscribed by the whole of the county. The
trials took plows on Weirs's-ley and Than-lay. Sarah
Puree I. a married woman, for keeping a "arta* mom-
moo, ill-governed, and disorderly home. at Trowbridge,
between Jan. lot and Nov. 30th, 1868," WY senterseed
to three months' imprisonment Five men were charged
with rioting at Trowbridge election, on the polling day.
It seemed there was a large crowd, and some of the
prisoners were shouting and irritating the crowd, and
driving them on to anti of violence. The prisoner Bray
was actually using • Sisk ; Johnson was seem to throw
mad; Davis and Jones were seen to aped trucks, and
also irritating and exciting the people. Bath was aer-
ie' to fight people and was saying that "Little
Trowbridge erse sot to be pat down by physical !erne.'
—The jury, titer • few in atlas ssosahatba, returned
a verdict of guilty against all the prisoners, bet room-
mendsd Jones to mercy, on the ground that be was all
so long in the disturbances—The Bench emaidend that
Beth had been the worst, and they therefore sentenced
Mat to one month's imprimonment ; Delis sad Bray
were each untamed to three weeks' Imprisonment y
Jobrison to 14 days; and Jowls to seven
Alfred Barrow*, a farm bailiff, was indicted for its.).
log two bushels cogwheel, the property of lb. Edwin
Lywood. his master, at Maddington. Mr. Snowden
tor the prosecution; Mr. Bead for the &im den
I—!=pd eared that the prosecutor gent the wheat to •
barn, to be winnowed up with eau other core; and
r told one of the men engaged in winnow-
log it down to his boom The man said be did
not like to do so, but on the prisoner sayiem it was all
right, he took It home for him.—Tbe prrtsower eidnitted
baying taken the wheat, and be said he was sorry for
what hoe had dones—lnctosamanilnation, Mr. Lywood
admitted that there were amounts still open between
him and the prisoner. He was £4 in the prisoner'.
debt; and two days after charging him with stealing
the wheat, he bought two pigs of the prisoner.—
Mr. Read did not deny the taking of the wheat by the
prisoner, but suggested that as there were cross
accounts between him and Mr. Lywood, he tally
intended to throw it into the amount, and to pay for it
like an honest mans—The Chairman (Mr. B. L. Lopes).
In summing up, said whether the prisoner took the
wheat rightfully or wrongfully, he could not admit the
principle that any servant, whatever his position, and
even though his master was in debt to him, had • right
to remove any portion of his master's property. A
nod extraordinary feature in the case was that the
prosecutor
had dealings with the prisoner deer he
preferred • charge of Ulan against him; and he
could not help thinking that it was a very reprehen-
sible practice for a farmer to hen running accounts
with a labourer, bemuse when, as in this mu, the
balsam was in favour of the labourer, it sotnetimu
raised up a pretext in his mind for doing that
which he might not think of doing under ordin-
ary circutustanoes.—The jury acquitted the prisoner.
and the verdict was received with applause, which wee
intently checked.—The prisoner was further charged
with stealing two sacks of oats, also the property of
Mr. Lywn.i. In this cue, the prosecutor himself
said the e awe taken from his granary, and it was
proved that the prisoner told • man named Matobett
to take them to Tanner's-lane, where Mr. Lywood has
a farmyard. Mabbett would have to pass the prisoner's
home on his way, but just before he reached it Mr.
Lywood made his appearance and ordered the oats to
be taken back to the granary- On being qmertioned,
the prisoner said the tarter at Tanner's-lane bad
applied for more corn for his horses; but Mr. Lywood
said the prisoner had no right to send it, IA the earner
receive his usual allowance of corn on the previous
Saturday night. It was, however, admitted that there
was • want of "feeds"—Mr. Read, for the defence.
submitted that the onto were never out of the prosecu-
tor's real or constructive posamion ; and eventually.
the Chairman ruled that there was nothing to go to the
jury, and the prisoner was discharged.—During the
sitting of the court, Mr. gupt. Wolfe made a statement
to the effect that a woman, named Mary Hodges, the
Mialmr of • prisoner who had been sonseted, had repre-
sented to him that she was without means to enable
her to retarnitober friends at Bristol, in commutates of
his having been charged half-a-crown for an order to
Nee her brother, The order, it appeared, was signed In
Mr. J. P. Stuomnb, and the charge for it was made
by Mr. &skeletal, solicitor, of Coippenhaeo. Mrs.
Hodges, in reply to the Court, said Mr. Bakewell told
her she could not me her brother without paying 2s. 6J.
In consequence she gave him •Itallsrown piewe.-714
Chairman said the transaction was one of • most im-
proper suture. Of course, his friend Mr. Staneomb,
who gave the order, never dreamt that • champs would
be made for it. Mr. Superintendent Wolfe had better
take • note of the woman's statement, because some-
thing further might be heard of the saatter.--Subea
quaintly Mr, Superintendent Wolfe informed the smut
that he, had men Mr. Bakewell, who had promised to
refund the halfairown.

Botb Saits of Volga emotions.

18 DR. THOM RIGHT
DIRECTORS OF OVE
AND CO. (LIMITED,

'EREND.

ROSECUTE TFIE
GURNEY ANI)

Purists and sbarobolders
say "Yea," beams—

Commercial men and'
dir•stors say "No,'
tocause—

1. If the chnnre he makes
well-fatuaded, the offence
should be punished in one
ease se well es in soother.

L The gentleman pro-
secuted hare bees utterly
ruined in pocket by the
failure of the Company,
and bare, both in that and
In Aber ways, suffered
quite enough already.
2. They did, after all, do
what they tbot best for
their sharehrs at the
time, aa is 'widowed by
the large stake they bad
ttierneelves in the ocessero.

2. He, and the share-
holders be represents, have
been great sufferers by the
failure of the Coropeny.

3. Directors in general
bare been much too
tenderly treated of late,
and it is both proper and
desirable that they should
be made aware of the 000.
sequences of misrepresent:a.
lion or suppreessoo of facts.

errors of judgment, an I
were not founded In any
criminal intention. It is,
there( ore, not an appro.
prime Gees for orimina
punishment.

THE TREASURY TO
IE THE PECUNIARY
CIVIL sztvANTe t

3. The minute will not
prevent fellows, whom
salary will not keep
them, from getting Into
debt, nor from dying
kites," though it may make
them more earefol not to
be found out in it.
4. That ate is them-
fore ea , In.
elfeetuel, and osmj,s
publics:Zia& upon the
Civil

lONCIL JUDGIONT
A MAW= FOB.

P4ll Marshal= sod
indiffervatistai " No,"
becalm--

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1. It
.bri?pe the boas&
d the AnPow Oh lush to
mash narrower halts than
before, tad if earriod oat
at both ends out modem
both Low Chafehams sad
Ritualists.

-2. It it an Imp°lnge
Inferiorities with matters
whist' are purely maniere
a taste and el no real
imenewinnee. ate way or the
Obit , to the Protest's g
WA.

-3711 will weaken tb.
Mara by ilytato cti-
coonlest, ..d to
soomios, • Ism pm oi
bit preoutt maskers:

Insolvent and imposes -
ions persons, and junior
*leaks. ley "ho," be.
016/0-
1. "The o" has no-
thine to do with a man'a .
private affoirs, so long as
be performs his work Wis.
factorily.
2. lt he does not perform
his work mticiaolotily
there has always been
ample power to dilation's
rd Mat rnwo i• as
incremed by the recent
minute.