The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-05-23 00:00:00

A NICE BOY AND A CHANCE FOR
SCHOOLMASTERS.

At the Hastings Police Court last weak, Mr. Cammack
made an application to the magistrates on behalf of Mr.
P. Maclean, of Penrhyn-terrace, to obtain an order to send
his son, Gilbert Maclean, II years of age, to an indwitrial
sztiool. Peter Maclean, sworn, said be lived at Penrhyn.
terrace, and was a mill-wright and engineer. The boy
Gilbert Maclean was his son. His wife had hien dead
four years. He had had several reasons to complain of his
son's conduct for the peat few years. He stole a presenta-
tion snuff box value £8 from him once, and bartered it
away. Hs had also stolen a pair of shoes and some steel
toola, and one day sold his hat at school. He was sent to
Kr. Foster's day-school, but that gentleman had to send
him home because he would not keep himself clean. lie
even would not wash himself nor let anyone else wash
him. He was willing to pay any amount for his
maintenance at the school. He had taken to knocking
the servant about lately. Mr. ROll4 said he thought the
father might wad his son to • boarding-school ae his last
resource before sending him to an industrial ukool. The
school was more for poor people who could not maintain
their children.

All the goods guards employed on the Midland Rail.
way, numbering about 800, have sent in their resignation,
THE BRITISH DAIRYMAN'S ASSOCIATION, owing to some alterations about to be made in the time of
To the &firm . the men.
Stn,-1•'or some time mat • discusion he The Lioerpeet Poet says that Mr. McArdle, of that town,
concerning t
formation of • Dairyman's Association for these Islands • member. of the Town Council, has within. • fortnight
has con going on in the columns of the Aspired:urn! lost his wife and six children from dipthena- • disease
has become aluicet epidemic
Gentle. Appeals have been made to those whom the !thed„ecal„,,,,,,,,,,YeiYer says) which
Association would concern, but am yet few answers have
been received, and but little enthusiasm has been aroused. 'no7.&"raY-night an Excise officer liaised Roes, while on
duty at Crofton, a villexe near Wakefield, was shot by two
The reason, for the formation of the Association have
men. Having met them with tirearmsin their possession,
been given, and its objects have been stated, but these
be asked them for their licence, on which they discharged
a to have created no echo in the minds of the vast
number of intelligent men and women whom they would their guns in his face, injuring him so seriously that his
powerfully affect,
life his despaired of. His depositions have been taken.
This smithy and indifference displayed
by the agriculturiA DROP TO NOM -A singular accident happened on
iits of Great ritain towardsß an • ma-
Son which is calculated to do them an immense and Tuesday, at Nuneaton. Fourteen persons were drinking
Nuneaton
the parlour at the White Horse Inn, on the occasion 07
they were sitting suddenly gave way, PreciPitating the
varied benefit are hard to understand, and harder still to
• eaten fair, when the entire floor of the room in which
witness with composure. and with hopefulness for the
future. Surely the interests involved in that partic•uler
whole of the company, to with tables, chairs. lugs,
department of sgricultursl industry, which such an
and glares, into the cellar below, • depth of about 18
organisation is calculated most beneficially to affect, are
Important and urgent enough to justify the promoters of feet. Strange to lay no one was injured.
DINONSTRATION.
the organisation in the hope and expectation that it will AGIJCULTDRAL LADOCREaIi '- The
be taken up eventually and handled with the warmth and fourth annual demonstration of Kent and Sussex agricul-
vigour which it so justly claims. They are considerably tural labourers took place at Maidstone on Wednesday.
over • million and • half of rnikh rows in Maitland Mone In the morning about 10,000 men, women, and children
Dot to mention those of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Oi paraded the streets of the town, and in the afternoon
this large number, it is computed that cue-third are there was &Pit, nearly 20,000 assembling is the Medway
devoted to chasm-making, the remaining two-thirds pro Plealare_. j ,„_,./fazdeila,, ;The reYera__,Yead at___,..the,eantaal meeting
diming milk for the towns Si. cities, The &mutual veins s''''' "a" the en`eit eeet,"'" e.""w '''...o mellow",
of the produce of these cows is probably about thirty and the sick fund 7,000 members. The available balance
millions of money I is £3.100. Nothing material concerning the labour
This great interest, this important industry-the question has iimurnW during the year. A baby show was
posed dairyman a association-would influence in • marked among the day's sigistukos.
sad beneficial manner. It will scarcely be disputed that at Ka- aLiameire itnaxtriamt 'The Wercaa'n fk 4ir n
di‘
an
events the cheese-making branch of ibe deiryiLe sitys:-" All enormous beech-tree was drawn treat
Industry of this country has deteriorated in the quality Of Hawarden-park yesterday by seven horses belonging to
Its productions, and this deterioration is probably owing Messrs. Breeeeiraie and San' "lea. merchant,,3 Y.orth-
in part to the system of" high farming "which has bo. wich, to the Wrexham goods station ef the ' cinales
so general,
in &till
increased
ddifficultywhichhas breiugdifficultyiy which htt withltoirdinfiulnycee Quay Railway for transit to Manchester. It was felled a
are .dairythate.
few days ago by Mr. Gladstone, who, notwithstandisw
maids experience in successfully handling milk in the that it measured 13 feet in circumference, accompushea
process of cheese-making. There has consequently arben his laborious but agreeable task in less than six hours.
s work in a thorough buainems-like
• distinct want of diffusion of scientific knowledge and The tree contained over 200 cubic feol, and weighed
means, by which them increased difficulties can be nearly nine tons. Experienced fellers tell us that the
encountered and °vamoose. An organisation of the kind ex. Premier did his
spoken iibout, aided by the researches of scientific mei, as manner, and quite to the satisfaction of the purchasers,"
well as by the experiences of practical e Pious Btaceur.-" A minister write, to the Dans
be would • powerful medium for the dissentinaUon N.......... The tares ' black mall' was applied in
knowledge which could not possibly WI to very favour- earlier days to levies made on the gouts of their
ably effect the quality of our cheese production., neighbours by certain apparently
Itit
h win-s
Persons, who
The mob,* otermidi by which the Amodason would roar were in secret alliance with
seek to sceompash its objects would be by discussions at bad many shades of significance in tralmen. It hase same direction
Its annual conventions, and by various papers reod end since then, but I really do not think it an unfair word to
publications issued, bees-Ina immediately on the subject describe the widelYPaarolent Practice be which merchants
of cheesetnaking. Man y useful and important Noe now are compelled to subscribe for local sectarian purposes all
having only a local influence would be collected At the '?v•r_,.........,the, country on PDID of having their business sense] meetings, and would afterward, distributed.- '9'l°' ."'"' with. ”ere are • batch of letters
" beforen & line& &ennoble to the entire cheessuashing community of imumuse . ato firms in London with which lam acquainted,
she country. in the Interest of which all persons would he moo_ny from Wales and Lancashire, d mainly I sinoordially invited to contribute the information they sorry to eh, by Wesleyan& dirmandingpecumary. 'aid for
possess. The lack of unity and intercommunioation which • busier. chattel repairs,repairs,• deficit in the minister's salary,
at present unfortunately exists among cheseemakers is and so forth, and in each ease the application is coinci-
felt to seriously hinder the program sod development of dent with some settlement, or negotiaSoa, or the visit of
-
cheasemaking as an art,
e and this desirable unity the •, cemmarcinl___, thattraealAet:. 'living inquired of mama' firms
=O,. would
of
to ,n...mote and eeitint, i sun assured retinal OE suchapplications,applications,whenever
a body D'r.; band themselves together in attempted,a has been Promptly f°lhiwad by the staliceaere
pursuit of • Oven object, that object is Molest invariablY er his custom to some less scrupulous .In
at.i.d ; but, while disunited, however sinner* they some mess commercial travellers, dependent an Macint-
osh strive after
_proper, it is at best parti&l, desultory, • ages on orders, have interfered to my* a customer by
and uncertain. But not cbseee-roakinx alone all dairy offering donations from their own pones. A modern
fanning-butter making, the supply of milk to the towns Phi_laa9lri barn remarked that 'Oar casts„.fai,ef__.....,it the
and Mae& and the of cattle for the dairy, sad .."0,003DX0 jewel of our soul,' but it is to ow ow.. Volt
agriculture generally-would come in for a due sham of even amid re temptations of business tome DTO 000,0 to
attentioa ; and it will not be denied that all thew ' whom that jewel still is honour. and who will not betray
branches id rural industry are open to improvement and their Prtodpies by submitting toetterriedona If
bonding a new
•
expansion. It is on theme ground. and for tbsee purposes imbue Methodist MOM asked 4
that the formation of • National DMlTtnan's Association synagogue, is& Prosibrterlen in so for • •DeDIDTIIi
LI . ady•catit. . a1""E . cannot mole of it, and good ig hall, it would be raga:d wanta ad vitatrou to betray their
certain! Let DDYMOD• therefore, unite in pursuit of principles, end any pecuniary oonsidaratioss aceotupeeky.
OM C 00121012 good and mutual benefit. Let them put tag the male as [winking the Irtitltilioos id the ' thirty
their shoulders to the wheel, and is advance is inevis. *me But ought not those e 4 the more
urularjr
able. suasion' to consider that the Jew who is ed to e
.7. p. fp........ avisteee urea...ads, the Catholic who i... asked to help
Sloss, kshbourns. Derbyshire, May MU& 187;17'w‘ build & Mithisirste=the, 3,lF,,ilerlon who I. required
P.S.-It is that the friends of this movement t• lubsidiastl": ~.., w ,svini. um/ have torn
attend • meeting at BArrolim, during th r=trw^•••-.• I' No doubt the is
welsh the show the Royal Apimitural Society 0; rinsk_. bas-i-wieked pound
Ragland is held there to consider what further er arta weeW. live° ; eeti it is te he leered tirtatba=
should be taken. I shell be glad to motive • ratios sad.riseralitg ere the Werra It is not the beet Way
end also the mums of any persons vrilling to • of •:i .ates le MU /easel article. to NOM WM
hers of the proposed association. -J.P.3 . mom- edutegesee mem religions prindpiss.
to