The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-08-08 00:00:00

YEOVIL.

POOLE.
AT the Police-court on We.imselay Thomas Cartridge A CRUSHER.
was charged before Helios. F. T. Rogers and C. J. Stone About a third of the soil of our three kingdoms was
with threatening to kill his wile on the previous day.—
Prosecutor withdrew the charge, mud prisoner was released carefully cultivated by monks. Can dukes show any
from custody. patent, any form of right that they should exact rent
THE fortnightly meeting of the Board of Guardians was as a return for the toil of monks through centuries?
held en Thursday, and WAS attended by the Chairman Have they any greater claim to such an inheritance
(Mr. J. Hayman), Mr. F. Milk's, and Mr. E. C. OakleY.-- than any of our peasants or artizans ? Then such an
The Chairman read a letter (rein Mr. C. I'. Meat Yard inheritance belongs, not to any class, but to the
asking for an increase of salary. The applicant, who is nation. Can this M Clinker
the relieving officer tor la teliett alimder, Lytchett—m
klatravers, and Ilaieworthy, is at pre,eiit sly paid 1.10 • "precarious," from landlord and land tenure, came
year. There being suck m a small attendance to signify dangerous? But
of Guardians • nker tell us how the word
it is idle to deal out to such
the consideration of the application as deferred till next a man facts or queries ;we have been taught not to
meeting. I throw pearls before animals who cannot appreciate
GRAND BAZAAIL—A grand three days' bazaar in aid of , them. Indeed, our quotations and facts are to edify
the mean fund of St. James Church was formally
our general readers, nut to convert a sham Radical to
'
opened at the upper schoolroom in Church-street on I
a good land tenure reformer. Ile man that can
'N'ednesday afternoon by Lady Cornelia Guest, who was
accompamied by Sir Ivor Guest and their children, and glorify his ignorance as common s3nse and use it
Mrs. Arthur Guest. The room had been tastefully with insolence to decry a specialist, can never be much
decorated. by MOWS. Veuables, Smith, and Imber ; and, more in this world than a nuisance. If he is prosper-
by the kindness of many friends, nine stalls were well one he is merely a purse proud fool; if unfortunate,
laden with useful and ornamental articles. The object of he may have wit enough to plunder other, but
but to
the bazaar was todecrease the debt incurred by the resters-
make humanity more toughtful, more comf
tion of the organ of St. James' Church. The bazaar WWI and more independent and self-sustaining, --he is no
well patronised on Wednesday and Thursday, but on
more likely to do that than he is to farm out the moon
Friday, the cheap day, the rain unfortunately descended
in torrents, and doubtless kept =Ay away. Taken as a on his notions of rent. —Labourers' Union Chnntidc.
whole, however, the undertaking was moat successful,
and after paying expenses abut a:100 was netted for the
organ fund. This leaves a balance to be raised of some-
thing like 090, and we have been requested to say that
contributions however small, towards the fund would be
thankfully received at the Rectory by the Rev. J. A.
Lawson.
Prrrr Sessions, Thursday.—Before Messrs. C. J.
Stone and G. H. thatch.
SUNDAY ADUSUIENTIA
A use Steyres, wife of Thomas Swyres, a labourer, was
summoned by Elizabeth Bryant, wife of John Thomas
Bryant, landlord of the Bell lan, for smashing a window
on the previous Sunday and doing ss. worth of damage.—
Defendant did not appear.—lirs. Bryant said defendant
came into the tap-rosin and made a disturbance with her
husband, and also entered the bar and upset a glass of gin
a young man had just been served with. She was very
abusive, and she was obliged to put her out of the house.
When outside defendant smashed the window, and the
cost of repairing it was tn.—Defendant was ordered to pay
the damage, 50., and the costa, ea bd. —A aecund charge
against defendant for areaulting complainant was also
heard—Complainant said defendant pinched her in the
arms and took her hold by the throat whilst she Was
putting her out ef the house—Fined Is. and costs; in
default of payment 7 days for each offence.

A DRUNIGARD'A RECREATION.
Leonard Lawrence, labnuer, of Parkstone, was charged
in custody with assaulting his wife and threatening to
kill her, on the previous day.--loss Lawrence said her
husband came home tipsy, kicked her several times,
struck her in the (ace, and threatunixl to kill her. She
only wanted to be protected, and did not wish her
husband to be punished. - Prisoner was bound over to
keep the peace for six months in his own recognizances of
£lO.

[Anglia Harland., charwoman, was summoned by her
sister, Anna Marla Ricketts wife of Edwin Ricketts,
bricklayer, for an assault committed on July fltith.—The
evidence disclosed a disgraceful state of affairs. Com-
plainant and her witness Ellen Macey alleged that defen-
dants little boy insulted complainant, and on the latter
speaking to defendant about it she assaulted her and
nearly strangled a baby of seven months she had in her
arms rolled up in a blanket. Complainant produced a
bundle of hair pulled out of her head in the light, and also
the baby's hat torn to pieces—Defendant said they had a
fight, but complainant begun it. She called William
Holloway, who said complainant took hold of defendant's
hair first, and then they went to fight—The evidence
being so conflicting the Bench bound each of the loving
sisters over in the sum of .f.:5 to keep the peace for six
months, and divided the costs, 12s, between them.