The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-07-31 00:00:00

POOLS.

Ti. Mayor of Pools (Mr. R. Aldridge) was or of
the gusts at the Lord Meyor's banquet given at the
Karl= Howe last week, wham his lordship enter-
tained the provincial Mayon and other distinguished
guests, to the somber of about 300.
A Satiation funeral took plias oa Saturday altar.
nom, whoa re of the male megabars of the body wr
buried et the qaostary. The darer had died from
rho, not °bolero, as tiros etopMly rumoured. Captain
Strom, who had bean the sear of dialoged', raver.
, don, performed the funeral service. TM °olio con-
' Iroise tbe body was borne on tbe shoulders of the
sol tiers, two or three funeral coaches following tbs
4sters and brethren.

"eiisOioruas. At the Polioe-curt on
Saturday, before Kr. G. Curtis sad Mr. F. Milk;
two good-kw-nothing fellow., named Edward Kirby
and g'•orge &MM. Inn charged with refuelog to
Perform their allotted treks at the Union Workhouse.
They b,th treated the snattoi In a very impudent etyks,
and said the porter, Georg* Wither, when they went in
and produced their tickets. jumped at thole lilt? a wild
bout This wan denied,. although, It would
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have been almost excusable if he hat.l. as Mr. Ougdale,
the Chairman of the Board, who was in Court, stated
the fellows were a perfect nuisance to the authorities.
What time they did not spend in gaol, they spent at
the ifaito, and they were • source of continual
trouble.—Mr. ()laic., 403 master, said both of the
prisoners bed been prevlotaily onvicted of • eimilar
offence. They were in the habit of enreing into the
Union in the most filthy condition.—Kirby retorted
that it was the places that was dirty, and was a dig-
grecs to the borough. (Those who have tweeted
the Howe know the untruthfulness of this statement)
Kirby, while in the polio.-cell, dm tore up his lt 'WHIM
sod now appeared in Court with a blanket wrapped
round him Zola feshion.—Mr. Supt. Hunt ban led in
a list of no Ism than 24 convictions against him, the
lest being one for sm4los • meerschaum, wiPzi the
Boarder plainly ensured him that if he ever came
before him mato he would send them into penal
servitude. —Mr. Curtis: The Bench here decided to
send you, Kirby. to gaol for three months' hard labour.
You. Barnes, do not swear to be quite so be i.—
Barnes : Oh, give us both the same. Might at well
hemn there as out. —Mr. Curtis: And you will It sve to
go for one month—Barnes: You might let us hsv•
bob alike 1
Neuman eau OF Diowirtgo.—,ta inqu at was
bola at gm Town Hall on Saturday, by Mr. R.
Aldridge, acting as deputy-coroner, on the b sly of
Mims Clara Price, of fleeter, whom body was picked
up on the shore ipear the Sandbanks on Thoraday
evening.—Aocording tet the seldom* of Mr. Robert
Grey, brother-in-law to the deosesed, and manegey
and assistantwecrstary to the West of Emden i rre
Insurance Company at Exeter, she was a.mut 61 years
of age, of independent means, and bad been residing
at Mayfield Hones, Bournemouth, for the benefit of
her health. She was very oonalortably off, and there
was nothing to cause her onemeinees as regarded money
matters. (The witnesses were, by_pernaission of Mr.
Aldridge, examined by Mr 8. H. Dickinson. who
represented tits family); but she bad a peculiar liking
for walldng into gm water and paddling about as
eldidna would. itser billi War. 40:0111/11114 singulatly
formed, being apparently too heavy for her, awl in
consequence she often tumbled about. She was of a
Ely religiose tura of mind, sod always
suicide with the pietist horror, His
ra
was—in fact it was the only thin; that
suggeeted Beall to him—that she went into the water
lie. for the parinera of eaelieg feet, that she fell, and,
leeks( unable to irgt up was 5400.ted. Two
witnesses, • lad, named , and another visitor,
ir.d BLit°, who diam eyed tite'body, stated that
tigb• • hw yards oust, and the deceased wag
fkoe (Wigwag& fliti bad ea Mt boots .