The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-16 00:00:00

11

District Nits.

000 D NEWS Fall TI POOL— Conservative
member, C. 1. T. Haab», Esq., has most generously
presented the munitsont sum a £lOO. to be expended
In the purchase of 'eels, and distributed to the poor.
This is an appropriate sequel to Yr. Edwards's gift of a
similar amount, and we hope will mush relieve their
necessities at this season, whoa employment is so
wane.

THI ALTIMATIONS AT TIM BATiIL—At the council
meeting on Wednesday last, the mayor bronght forward
tho report of the surveyor, in which be had stated that
Mr. &tiling bad prodesed Do plul for these alterations.
The ground on whir& the erection wits to be built bad
been dedioated sufficiently long to the publis to make a
publis property. Kr. Boiling expresesd bin willingsass
to deposit plans ; bat Mr. Thomas said it was too late.
Mr. Bailing would not promise to remove the erection,
and on the motion of Mr. ICliot, • formal resolution,
asking him do so, was passed.

A PISNOTS BALL was given on Monday aftsroma, at
Mr. Loos's Royal Hotel, by the officers of the 61st
K.O.L.L to the gentry ei W•yetoath. The hall was
amorously afl.tdid. Dancing eonneineed about foes,
and was Iteelep with groat spirit until seven o'elosá.
Th. iagaa& hang 01 the 151s1, led by
.tholr talented
master, Mr. A. Green, perforined • motile selection of
music, in their usual eat:anent style, sad the whole
pared off wills greet eclat W. imov of nothing Mat
gives more *awn in the high it oirellee of Wm town
them the.. eireaskii• Monona.
Roamer BY • Szav•ar Giam..—A girl of East
Knighton, named Emil, Parker, who Tor the last
11 months hits been a dramatis servant at the home
of Mr. Charism P•ro__y, draper, St. Maryotreat. War
mouth, WM on Wednesday morning, brought op
before J. Ayling and W. Talbot, Revs, for
etealing from bar lamiter's shop three pieces of linen,
eight yards lase, foer pima' tape, the same 90militi of
braid, some Might trimming, four yards elastic, • waist-
band, some made dowers, and, pair of stocking, ' she
some feathers, valued at El 10e. She pleaded gnat,,
and was eseteneed to Iwo months' hard labour.
Wantons% Tows CoOrclL.—The quarterly molting
was held on Wednesday morning—Mr.Gollott's offer
to provide a pile-driving machine krt.. for 835105., on
taking the old materials, was sampled. The old
menke7” would be used. Tim harbour-meatier
repotted that a part of the Quay Dear Mr. Damen's
oorn .torea wee dammed and had partly sunk. lie
recommended that it be underline/id allow spring
tides. After sense isenyessation this eras ordered to be
dom. Tim Othumil 6hvia weal into committee for
the appointment' of • Superintendent of Polio',
for whieh there were, as understand, 26 application..
Ultimately Sergeant Vickery, of the County Con.
stability, stationed at Doetor, was elected.

LlVlLlati AID SCIIIITIFIC 11111111-011011. —We are
sorry to bur that thin institution, which ban been the
means of so mach good in the town, and which led the
way in providing rational and improving ounpation
for young men in their leisure hours, 61 in rather an un-
mitiefactory condition as to (nada. It appears that the ,
late alterations absorbed a great quantity of money
troll mtbecriptions and other unroof, and that shoot
1.35 still remained i.e dent upon the building fund.
This was advanced or borrowed from Messrs. Williams's
bank, and the bills for paperabooks,and other amounts,
make the debt amount to between £BO and £lOO. A
meeting of the eommittee was held on Friday night, to
take into consideration this state of things. flie pro.
priety of giving aptheinstitation wee muted ; but this wag
opposed, and Alma inked how it Gould be properly don*
except by a sound meeting of the members, according
to the roles? It wee then suggested that • grand
'Mae might be held, say at the Burdon Hotel, when a
waren might form one of the features, and if Me
Drew would told a short *election from One of his
famous lectures, nod Herr Behnke fret the aid of his
celebrated class, such an entertuntnent might he
organised as would win the favour of all, and raise •
sum that might help to liqudate the debt. Feeling that
the institution is public property, and ought not lightly
to be given up,we cannot but wish moues to an attempt
to gain it renewed rapport.
Dicta or air OLD Toweemnn.—On Friday morning
last expired Mi. Peter Green waterman, aged 80. Mr.
Green wan one of those old aliabitants who reinelyered
Weymouth when it rose In reputation under the dis-
tinguished patronage of that most domistie and practical
of Baglud's king., the early-rising George 111. He
woe, we believe, at one time guide to His Majesty, and
was always • person of ommiderithle note in the town.
The old waterman did not refrain from the habit, said
to be so common with those who live on or by the salt
water, of spinning, for the wonderment of thou wh•
would listen, the most estrunlinary " yarns." " My
Lord Nelson," he wan wont to say to an edified admirer,
"died in these very arms !" and his reminincences of the
battle of Trafalgar were sore to amuse if not to instruct.
Mr. Green wan always the very ping of neatness, and
his spotless frilled shirt and gold anchor brooch were
never, unless he was engaged in his ounoetion, very
far away in the summer days, from the neighbourhood
of Devonshire-buildings or the well known " stone
chair," near the present entrance to tile Pi .e Pier.
Pusenately fond of Bower. be seldom or never &peered
without a fresh biuqoet in his buttonhole, and his trim
appearance and the trustworthiness of his monogamist
always secured to him • han.lsome share of employ.
Most of the visitors to Weymouth know him, and the
Pitires and Mares familia who came het in summer,
mind who wanted their dear oiled to bn taken extra care
of while enjoying the osone•laden breezes of the bay,
were nee to collet him on their side, and many • tone
has be heard the anxious request "Oh ! please be sure
and pleb oat • good safe waterman, Mr. Green !" For
a long time the old gentleman bee been sinking, and ,
many have been the false reports of hi. death ; bat at
lest he it gone, and in him modern Weymouth, with I
her railway, her new pile pier, her market bonne, her
backwater bridges, her fort on the Notai, and wonder
.sq,,,t9litze..ltivjaratirtod laps. has lost amoebic of tici I

- .
TIMPIHAYCZ ENTiRTAINIIF.NT. —Mr. W. Tbew,
(deputy captain o/ the East London " Dainties?' Tem-
perance Lifeboat crew) on Monday andTueeday evenings
lost addressed well attended meeting. at the Park-street
temperance lecture room. The chair woo taken by the
Rev. J. Id. Willis, on Monday, and the Rev. S.
Shortridge on Tuesday night, the Rev. R. Trotter, and
Mr. H. Hobb•,.secretary to the Weymouth Temperance
Society, being also on the platform, lii. Drew spoke
in the scarlet uniform usually worn by the member, of
the Temperance " Lifeboat crews," an I explained the
rise and progress of this movement, which originated
ten years .go sinong • few working men in one of the
midland counties, ha• widely ...tended in the north of
Engbutd and now numbers about 11,000 members, who
have en organiution similar to that of • stew,
with captains and officers, and who speak, Eng, arid
recite in their uniforms. Tai, custom Is usually found
to attract large audienees, and the esprit de corps
shown often mese in indnoing many to sign the *dee.
Me. Drew also related the story of his life, from the
time when he wu picked up by an old lady in toe
streete of London, wrapped in a boodle of rage. The
only school from which be derived any *donation was a
• Sabbath school. He, however, got on in life, until, by
the rnistotaken kindness of the superiqUedeat„, he was
treated to wine, and his then tutitig it for the first
time was the first step to hit downfall. He grew
more and snore careless, sail at tut so des-
perate that he metitatel suicide, but was
attracted ly erring. e number of people entering
• temperance noun. Though in rags, he wits
spoken kindly to, lie came in, and heard a speech from
• working steel, which indicted him to sign the pledge.
Through net building one proper foundation, but trusting
to his own strength, he fell son after keeping the
pledge for nine years, nod was tempted to embattle the
nacmey of his employer. During hisl2 month's Imprison.
steel, he became converted through the kindness of the
chaplain, and resolved, by God's (nos, to coach
intoxicating drink again. He was token in hand by
the Sul of Shafusbury and other kind friends, and Ins
since been labouring in various ports of the country for
the temperance cease. Hi, labours bays been as
inicosesfel that at meetings addressed by him about 7000
persons hive signed the pledge. The address was
interpereed with several walruses@ melodies, in the
choruses of whisk& the indiume heartily joined. Mr.
Drew hes a peculiar style, which is very attractive to
the large audiences whom be addrisues, and a vote of
thanks was unanimously pissed to him at the sloes. On
Satarday evening next, Mr. Drew I. enraged to give on
entertainment at the Guildhall, whieb has been kindly
lent for that purpose by our respect-4 AI ;or. We refer
our readers to our advertising edemas for farther
detail..

LITZRaIf INITITCIIOII.—The Rev. W. Burnes, &D.,
delivered an interesting lecture on "The Bourcus of the
English Language," at the Lecture-room, on Wedneeday
evening last. The evening was miserably wet, or the
attendance would probably have been large, the esteem
In which our Dorset part me held, seeming him • good
audience everywhere. R. N. Howard, Req., wall in the
chair, and among those present were Err. Templonian
Mira Whitmarsh, Mr. and Elise Notler, Era Drew, &a:
—The lecturer showed the deri•stion of the pure English
tongue from ancient Baron, mid read gorse portions of
the Bible in Saxon, showing the point. of resemblanes.
He then proceeded to abo• boar the Norman invasion
left its mark upon the language. It was the language
spoken by the court, and its trues still remain, inas-
much as nearly all our law terms are not English but
Norman French. To know what that speech is like one
must go into the coolie at Jersey or Guernsey, where
venom are still permitted to give their evidenee either
In English or French. The lecturer instanced the words
"jury," the French jure ; tlaintiff, from mini qui plaint,
"the man who eomplains; "defendant:" "mein," the
last from • French word meaning a sitting. Then
" appeal" was derived from appeller, and when • bishop
dim the Qusen send, to tho deco and eth•orer • to.9‘
ceel int. or permission to elect "Jedgment by default,'
" fief," a manor holden under the Crown, and "fran-
chise," of which we have beard so moot 'stet', are pare
Frensh words. In the phrase "doing homage," the
latter word comes from humme, maa, and riconetage ia
the act wherein • MAUI vowed to be true and faithfel to
his lord. The term " mortmain” in French riguilles
" the dead hand," and first of all it was applied where
land wan holden by a woman or • clergyman, who could
net fight to keep the land. " Parliament ' is porkeenst,
meaning "talk :" seri Amt., Aoverit ; treasure trove,
!rigor troimi; and 'tenement, tenure," some from
French words signifying "what is holden." Thus it ii
shown that oldie tbe Normans held rule over &intent
theirs was the ipeeeli of the law, and so the study of
speech is one of the greatest helps to the study of
history. The Saxons had different words for these
things—demon in old English is the word for judge,
wbenee we get " doom, ' judgment, or demion.
"Ordeal" is trial by law, and instead of "Parliament,"
the Scions had wriCessageinot. "the meeting of the wise
men," of which a mingle member was waled MO.. But
while the alterations reused by the Norman invasion
were going on over the heads of the land-folk, these
land-folk kept up the pure old English speech, Anil
terminy, beymaldni. and pleashing, end the terms
belonging to them, are still prim Bagli.h. So it came
about that while their worthy chairmen had me kind of
month, men engaged in country oceepatlons need quite
mother. The leelann- the. came down to the tinted
of
the poet Chaucer, who though he hem Mee called the
well of English anda/led, yet really wroth in the
Norman English spoken by the zipper clause, an Mimes
of which was found in his um of the word guise.
Wickliffe lave the Bible is the more modern form of
speech, end Tindal in that of a Wm age, and this
brought as down to • time where the latigtagewe. iamb
liks our own, Mr. Barnet thee afluoed to the, ka
which thine amps were brought shoat. Eno epee&

changes more or lees rapidly, and none keeps tbe form
for nutty years. Boma of them are brought about by
the wear of words, for just as even an roes instrument
wean by use, Bo words wear down into shorter forms.
We shorten words for the miring of time and of lip and
. tongue work, and especially when we have to speak
' often of the same kind of thing, there is a roadie's' to
I shorten its name. A hangover, is the attendant on the
• hosts • but the sailor um the word so often that he
shoraas it into "bosun," and a pennyworth we Mill a
" psionorth." Other causes els° work; we do aot like ,
to say that our soldiers or sailors Lave plundered • ,
place, and so we have borrowed • word from Undo°.
statute, and say the plane was "looted," which is slug,
for It loskste le talk of bad deeds in a form that others&
not understand, Ignorance is another mum of change;
Erdo not hke to say " methinks," although it is
aoglisb. meaning "to We it seems." 41 sherteln-
the words we sometimes lose the right meaning, as
In 061 spell, meaning "Good memage," whereas
now we have "inepel," and lose the true meaning of till
word, "King," too, is • shortened form of " Kining,"
the head of tin his, or nation, or race, which we
shortened by leaving out the first n, while the Germans
have left out the last, making it Kortiii. Another
mune of change in the tongue has been the brining in
of resin words from Latin, Greek, and French, whereby
English hsa become • mongrel kind of speech, and more
fit for the leerned than the poor, and less
fitted Man it might be for teaching the lower
ranks. This has .risen from slighting Saxon English
at oar univerdties sad sehools, where Latin,
French, and Greek are slmott the only languages
studied, and from the use of ionise words instead of
English onee there has some • need for • two-fold
learning. Take ea • case the word "yearly," which
Is understood by as. who knows the nmanind ot " 7•""
but to know the mewling of "annual," we must learn
what is motet by mask whence it is derived. To ,
i a derstand " fraternity," (brotherhood we mast
ow • the messing of !rater ; coadjutor. coadjurn I
per, the French drop, (the old word was " cloth-
tiger"). A man may have • dovecote, which is well
ien
toed; bet nowadays, he mast say he has a
'N'tomkg&Ult—flanghkr). The &tont had eS•111 good
words, What do ere gain by saying "ignite,' =to"
" kindle r Allied with this word is "candle," which
Mr. Barnes showed means that which is white-shining.
He denied that the language M richer for these Latin
and Greek words; for sines they were brought in many
of the good old words have been set ssida He inetaneed
anoeston, which had supplanted fore-elders; beauty,
fairbood ; epidemic; maa-qualn; iniquity, wreageriseness,
and so on. Sometimes English had grown poorer by
them worda thus "library" means either the books or
the room in which they an kept; whereas oar forefathers
would have Galled the Ant the book-board, and the
latter the hook-room. It wee well that the lest
tramways in the country were made by working men.
and so we still have railway, sleeper. Mink, trolly,
ballast, sheet, siding, all white are good English words.
What should we gals by taking the Frond' 11•1110 for
railway—Antis de fer?—{bear, bear). The nee of
Latin and Greek words in ribUrth is often bad for the
poor people, who complain that the preaching is too
high for them—not that the doctrine is too
high; bet the worda too high-flown, and Mr. Barnes
esotedthe words of a clergyman who thought the words
By roman of our frailty we cannot always stand
upright," too common, and so altered it to—" cannot
always maintain an erect position,"—(latighter).
Mr. Berne, did not wish • new rendering
of the Bible, for in the arid plague, there
would be • war of opinion., and mut he Nand the
poor man would lose his Bible became the new version
would be made by uaiverslty men who know nothing
but Latin and Greek, sal Meat the people would not
underhand their wards. The power of the latigusge
wan shown in those besatital words u "Beek vs Ant the
Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and MI them
things shell be added unto you. Tale therefore no
thought for the morrow ; for the morrow shall
take thought for the things of itself, saM•
rent unto the day is the evil thereof." There ie
only one Lurie word in this—"stiMaient," and bow
good it Is! how it reaches the heart! But it is said
that the Latin-English is more refined, bet this is
untrue, let refinement mast be in the thoughts. People
that ought to know the meaning of these words very
often miscue them. "Dilapidated" is misused shame.
fully; Mr. Barnes bad heard of the omits of • Ash's
stomach, or. lady', dress, being "dilapideted." Bat
the word comes from lapis, • stone; sad is tightly applied
to the state of • house or wall built of Moose. Than a
man would write of a,' period" of his life; but that
comes front pen, round, and odor, • going; and it is •
part of time after which things come round to the point
If= which they started; thus • day,a week, or • year,
Is • period, but there can be no period In a straight
line, as man's life. After • few laughable examples of
high-flown Johnson English, and of • medley of ',relish
and English, Mr. Burnes went on to show bow
moiler' land w•r having been learnt from the
French, or Italians, most of the war taros
are French, or Italian wad brought forward,
among others, army, general, colonel, captain,
lientensot, ensign, sergeant, corporal, infantry, oevalry,
lance, grenadier (the latter coming from the grenade, or
Itandebell which the men threw against their foe),
barracks, magazine, parade, combat, volley, cannot',
rampart, bastion, and troop. While, hoverer, the
terms in land war had been taken from foreign tongues,
sea terms are all English, for the English never learnt
to be sailors from any but themselne—(applante).
After some further remarks about the Holstein speech,
and the Frisian race, he read some bum showing the
likeneat between their words aad onr own. In tionehl.
mon be hoped that English people would think the
subject of their language, though it might rem to be
, dry, worthy of some attention, and he believed that
I nothing would so touch the English heart as the English
, tongue—(appleusie). He then read his touching "Child
1 and the Mowers," the sad beauty of which affected =toy
I brat,. This yea followed by " Don't ears," &stretch of
I sprightly independenos, showing • noble qeality et,
1 nclisl,. wom•in„ an-I mush relished. For a little bat of
; 1.-, . pos. re of an ii;Mriatlit " ,_1"1".: 1—•......" -to
I paint—" The Kettle and the imii Nrdh.,
.."1,.7.-1,"1,.::
1 audience were delighted with the entertainment, and
1 the Chairmen said they were always plemed to see their
, friend Mr. Barnes, who is always very good to (tome
there, and who mixes instruction with amusement. '
Although the words he had spoken of were simple words ,
used every day, yet be feared lie could not have told
whence thoy were all derived. Returning thanks to '
, Mr. Barns,, he said the sooner they saw him Gioia the
1 hetter.—Mr. Barnes supposed the, weather had be,.
, against meaty coming; but, if only six or even three
people were willing to hver what he had to say, be
should have been willing to ourne.