The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-18 00:00:00

THE DOtL_SET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1866.

is lost or largely injured, and the markets mount
accordingly; speculation then becomes rife and
the importations excessive, the markets glutted,
and the reaction serious. The fall of money and
the laying of the Atlantic Cable, the close of the
continental war, and the domestic repose of
Russia, are circumstances which must all 000'
Spire against the chance of remunerative grain
prices being maintained for any length of time
by the British farmer, who will, we fear, long
continue to remember to his sorrow the excep-
tionable season of 1866, with its cattle plagues
and its corn famine.

lication, and we believe several of bee oompositions have
been most suooesthilly set to music by Mr. T. Avant..
" Dear Hal at /3ea" is admirably Isail4o to • 'n.
tralto voice, tbe highest note being F. The music
is most appropriately suited to the style and
°hamlet of the words. It would make a good
concert song, and se snob we recommend it. Mr.
Avant has given a most spirited and enthusiastic
rendering of the words. The song is published by
Joseph Williams, 123, Cbespaide, London. We
heartily recommend Mr. Avant's new song as being
good in every sense and very attractive. —L. W.
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alarmed on the subject. Tbe RegiMm4/°°°"ll mak"
useful reference to it this week, and the observations Of
your correspondent "Q." are important. But what is
to be done? tinder the existing aystem of house and
town drainage the filthy refuse of every dwelling is east
into the underground drains, and from that mom!nt all
control over its deatiny and condition is lost; it may
only poison the i
air, and eventually the river. t
cannot
do ese ; it may accumulate and choke up • coneltut, sod
then w hen opened 'iota retried y the evil iteiOanatloosWaY
only prods*e temporary indisposition to the unfortunate
workniao, and nearly kill the servant ordered to oversee
1 the work ; such • case has actually occurred within the
,1 last week, and the servant is still in coneiderable danger
of his life. Lastly, it may soak into a well to mingle
with • river and carry death to • whole community.
Destruction of the material by chemical means may
answer where it is regular and constantly done; but
when will that be? One omission may explode the
magazine. Can it be that the difficulty of working this
problem," How to get rid of tLe escretion of
exists in nature and providence? is it possible that the
great system of nature, otherwise so full of harmony
and provision, in this particular breaks down, and ex-
the contrary, we all know better, we know that the
hibita an unpreparedness and incapacity of notion; On
earth is time natural deodoriser and transformer of all
materials which to our senors have become hateful, and
to our health inhoical. 11 ctlier Worth receives every-
thing we chose to bring to her, instantly removes its
ugly features, and in gond time returns it to us in forms
of beauty, goodness and convenience. This we all know
and metlods of employing this beneficent arrangement
of providence have been devised, more or lees practical
and efficient; notwithstanding, we persist in doing the
wrong thing, as if, by obstinacy, and the expenditure of
more and more money, we could eventually bend the
laws of physical to our purpose, and make tenacious
eolith flow in pipes like water. But, Mir, I should not
venture to trouble you with an iteration of complaints
that now ars commonplace but for the fact that I have
recently seen the right thing done successfully and
effectually. Being on • visit in the country I was
Invited to ioncret a small infirmary for the
sick poor on the estate of the proprietor. In all
respects ite arrangements appeared to me excellent, but
especially in the fact that it possessed no water-closet.
In place thereof I found an earth closet, which in
appearance, method of using, comfort, and convenience
was the counterpart of an ordinary good water-cloriet,
with the difference that est+ no of the handle •upplied
the pail beneath with a certain quantity of dry earth,
which perfectly absorbed and deodorised whatever
material had been cast into it. The attendant in ebarge
assured me that rite use had been most salutary, isgre-
able, and convenient. At suitable times the pail was
token to • distance, and its *entente buried in a pit for
manure. The dry earth was supplied through • hopper
above and behind the closet, and worked easily with
each movement of an ordinary closet handle. It may be
said, Thisbe all eery well for the country, but what of
the town r I reply that, in my opinion, it is just as
practicable for one as the other. Let the Legislature
simply make it penal to pass any solid or offensive
matter into the existing drains or sewers, and the
following results may be achieved :—I. Our dust con-
tractors will enlarge their machinery. If they do not
find it expedient to pay each householder for his refuse,
which I thiok they would. I an certain they woold
find their reward in supplying everything the house-
holder would need to carry out and carry on the change.
The contractor would supply for every closet in each
house he contracted for, three pails of metal. Two be
would leave at She house, the third he would send in the
early morning filled with powdered eedh. The ems
hand that deposited thin in the area would carry away
one of the two previous in the house, which, having
been used the previous day, was at night replaced by
the seeond one, and then placed in the area ready for
the early morning removal just dessribed. Thus, by •
system unobtrusive, unseen except by the early risers,
and perfectly inoffensive, would the source of no much
disease, decay, and misery he abolished. Thus, too'
would our fields he replenished. and many a barren
waste be made "to bloseom like the rose." Moreover,
our poor ill-used river would not only crow to be
defiled, it would cease to he poured out and wasted
with the prodigal hand that makes us now contemplate
another batch in the tinkered machinery. an aqueduct
from Wales, or from Windermere. A grand thing for
the engineers, but one from which the taxpayers for a
yet unfinished high, middle, and low level drainage may
prayerfully hope to be delivered.

Loy sae or M cam.— Under this head, in our Express
advertising alumni, appears a notice from Herr
Altluius, to which we would particularly direct the
attention of our many musimil readers. He has M
present in view a scheme which is quite new. The
Idea is good and is certain to be well and am-
oessfully carried out. We have knOWII Herr Althaus
for maop years. As • song writer and • *imposer of
great merit be stands high in the musical world.
One of his most popular and beautiful songs is
Claribel's well known "Morning Rids," which he
sot to • most characteristic and fascinating melody.
It was sung by Mims Stabback at the St. James' Hall,
and other concerts, with great wows. The scheme
which Herr Althaus brings before the public notice
is, as we have already stated, new. He "intends
to give compeers of talent, who are not recognised,
employment, and, if especially requested, he will
himself set words to music, arrange Mrs as pieces,"
&a, as stated in his advertiament. In fact he is
about to supply a want greatly felt amongst ama-
teurs. He hail opened • kiod of college where this
extensive work will be carried out under his own
special supervision. We are glad to learn that
amongst the autumn songs will appear Herr Althea&
edition of the fAMOtui peg Donglu, tender and
true," by the author of "John Halifax, gentleman."
We refer our readers to hie setting of other popular
songs, and we are sure that " Douglan " will be
of the same quality, and without doubt a brilliant
succaes.— L. W.

THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY ON THE ABATE-
MENT OF THE OATfLE PLAGUE
'rbe following letter from the Lord Bishop of the
diocese has been received by the Hon. and Von. C.
A. Harris, Arebdeaoon of Wilts :
Palace, Salisbury, September 1, 11366.
My Dear Arehdeaoon,—l an mach obliged to you for
your letter, in which you inform sae that some of my
clergy have expressed to you • wish to make some public
acknowledgement, under my authority, of God's mercy
and goodness in having, to answer to die prayers of his
Chant], greatly mitigft.4 the virulence of the plague
with which he has visited our cattle. Their wishes
have not anticiyated my own. We in this diocese share,
I am sure, the thankful feelinp with which our fellow-
countrymen have read the reports of the abatement
of this murrain. But more than this, our Gal has
a special claim on our gratitude. The greater pact
of this diocese has been altogether spared. With a
few eseeptions the owners of cattle in this diocese have
not bad to bear the burden of loss which has pressed so
heavily on others. What, then, many others sannot
yet do, we may do, and although the time of depreca-
tion of God's wrath, and of prayer for the withdrawal
of this judgment ham not yet quit* passed away, it
would, I think, be very suitable that we should combine
with any thanksgiving service for the harvest an offer-
ing of praise and thanksgiving for this other very special
mercy, and that with a view to this, there should be an
early celebration of the Holy Communion on the day set
apart in any parish for the harvest thanksgiving.
I remain, my dem Archdeacon,
Your faithful brother,

•••••
Ton Bur. H. irloohm's Con'aofl BUILDING
is acknowledged that one of the most
unsatisfactory eireumatancee of this borough is the want
of imitable bones seroommedation for the working-classes
—tbe rents of the preseot habitations are so high that but
few artisans can manage to pay for them without
swarming them with lodger., from which general die-
•eomfort results and the deatruction of that home lose
which is one of the pleasentest and hopefulest features
of English life. The Vicar of Fordiugton has devised •
scheme whereby the working-men may help themselves
In this matter—and, after all, that ii the best kind of
help one can have—by forming • company to erect
cottages suitable to their means and requirements. Our
readers will recollect that the plan wear *et forth at the
enniveretry meeting of the Fordingtou Friendly
Society last May. The propodtion may be thus briefly
.Sated: Let • company be formed by 300 or 400 men,
with shares at £212.. or £3 each, and apply to the Prinoe
of Wales for building sites at • ground rent. The Vicar
thinks the Council of his Royal Highness would not
advise him to refuse it. Then eight or ten houses •
year might be built. The cottages he proposes would
consist of two living rooms and three bedrooms
with every accommodation for clambereg and decency,
and an outer shed to serve either as a washing or
drying shed, • hen house, or a greenhouse. An eight i,
or at least a tenth of an acre of ground would be attacl •1.
The wet would be £l,OOO for eight, and the Visor
thinks that the occupants would get such benefit
from the gardens that they would be enabled to
pay ts. per week rent, without deducting anything
from their wages. For further details we refer
our readers to • ascend edition of the pamphlet
containing the project, which has just been pub-
lislied. In stating this scheme, Mr. Mode said
two qualifications should be required in all tenants and
shareholders, vim—First, they should undertake to
"Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy," and regu-
larly to attend the worship of Cod ; secondly, they should
undertake to separate entirely from the public-house.
Theoe conditions have been felt to he not only too
strict, but impracticable, and in the second edition of
which we speak, the Vicar adds as • postoript,
the first edition of this paper, I have been advised
that the sole qualification for • shareholder in this pro-
posed Building Company, as in other companies, should
be the payment of the share or shares allotted him, and
that the question of good tenancy should rest with the
directors of the conipany for the time being. And lam
ready now to admit that as it would evidently be to the
linterest of all shareholders to mecums good tenants, all the
arrangements might safely he left to them. I only
hope that some men of character and ability will
speedily take this system up and work it out." We
cordially endorse the hope of the Vicar,

EXETRR BANKRUPTCY COURT, TUESDAY.
(Before Mr. REGISTEAR Kum.)

Re JOHN THOMLS Elteol, Auctioneer, Dorchester.—
This wss a meeting for choice of trade assignee. Mr.
Symonds appeared on behalf of the firm of Williams
and Co., bankers, of Dorchester; Mr. Petherick for the
estat • ; and Mr. Hughes for the bankrupt.
The official amignee's report showed that the bankrupt
owes to unaecured creditors (including e moiety of deficit
of the late firm of Baker and Ensor) £5.046 1 Is. 4c1.; to
creditors holding security, (512 13.. 101.; to liability on
account of late firm of Baker and Ensor, £1,150; to
creditors to be paid in full, £26 141. 6.1.; total
£13785 ls. 81 His assets are thus set down;
Debts, good, £1,840 13s. 91.; doubtful, .C 4 8. 6.).;
furniture, £100; other property, £95; ten shares in the
Antelope Hotel company, valued at .1:60; policy of
a.suranee fir L'2oo, valued at £7; policy of mamma
for 1:300, held by a secured creditor, valued at £l5; a
p die; of assurance for rim and deeds of Repository,
Dorchester, also held bye scoured creditor, value £700;
total mete, £2,822 24. 34.
Bankrupt, examined by Mr. Hughes, said : I entered
Into partnership with the late Mr. Baker in 1832. We
had a joint account with R. and H. Williams, bankers,
Dorchester, in the name of Baker and Razor. Mr.
Baker died in February, 1862. After that date I eon-
timed to receive moneys due to the late firm, and I also
drew cheques in discharge of the liabilities of that
firm. I opened a separate eccount with R. and H.
Williams and Co. under the name of John Thtthias
Ensor. The bank be •ks show the distinction between
R. and H. William and R. and H. Williams and Com-
pany. The joint account was finally made up six or
eight months ago. It showed an overdrawn account to
the amount of £3OOO. I have been engaged in d,fferent
transactions with Mr. Paul. I have been employed to
sell stock for him. On the 9th April, 1866, I gave him •
cheque for £1000; and about the 14th I gave him
another cheque for £6OO. On the 9th May Mr. Paul ems
to me and requested me to settle his account. I there-
upon commenced to draw • cheque for the balsam that
I owed him, when he said "Don't do that draw it all
in one." I told Mr. Peal that I had alrmly given him
cheques for £l.OOO and £600; and he pulled out the two
cheques from his pocket, saying "Hers they are." I
told him he was very foolish to carry them in his packet
so long. He tore up those cheques and I gave a cheque
for the whole amount due—about f 1.890, Mr. Paul re-
turning me a small cash balance. I drew several
cheques in the course of business between the 9th and
the 17th of May. The balance in bank as my credit
when I drew Mr. Paul's cheque for 1:1,890 was about
£2,200. On the 17th May I received a memorandum
from one of the clerks giving me notice that the bank
would not honour that cheque as the balance in my
favour was only £1,500. Upon seeing this I consulted
some of my friends, and we tried to make arrangements
with the bank so that I might continue nip business.
The bankers offered to honour the cheque if I would
give thew • mortgage on the Repository for £2OO. I
was compelled todoclire that ofier, as upon wooden-
ton I thought the other creditors would be injuriously
affected if I accepted it ' • and I wrote a letter to the
bankers to that effect, adding that I must trust to the
leniency of my creditors to enable me to carry on my
business. I received a reply on the 19th of May re-
questing that I would not draw any more cheques on my
account until some definite arrangement was come to
with respect to it, and also with respect to the mount
of Baker sod Ram. On the 21st of May I was requested
by one of the bankers' clerks to draw • cheque for .C3O
In favour of the Rev. Mr. Watson : they would sash a
(therm., for him is be was • creditor of theirs. I was in-
debted to Mr. Watson end I drew the cheque which was
duly paid. On the 22nd May I rewired a letter from
the bankers informing me that they had deemed it
necessary to transfer the balance of my separate account
to that of Baker and Ensor. The amount thus trans-
ferred was £1,500 odJ. On the Zird of the same
month I drew a cheque in favour of Mr. Paul for £B9O,
but the bank refused to sash it. This I intended to be
on account of the £1,890, the cheque for which the
bank had previously dishonoured, and Mr. Peel opt,
nented to wait for the balance. The reason that I drew
this cheque was this • I knew that I had • considerable
balance; and, as they had cashed one cheque for £5O
after having given me notice not to draw •ny more, I
thought they would mai another for 11390. If they had
done so, I should not have been at present a bankrupt.
Cromexamined by Mr. Symonds : I did not draw any
other cheque than for the £B9O. alter baring received
the notice tkat my account was transfered. On the 9th
May. when I gave the cheque for £lB9O, I had •
bnithee of MOO at the bank; and between that
date and the 17th May I drew various cheques to the
sumo( £4OO or about that amount I cannot tell unless
IMN tbe bankbook. 1 did not know that I was then
overdrawing my account. In 1862 I purchased
my Repository yard for 2.500. and the money was
borrowed from Mrs. !therm, who held the deeds of the
property, and the policy of one of the lives upon which
the property was held, as security. This debt was paid
off about six weeks ego. I borrowed the money of Mr.
Lacey, who is Mrs. Sberren's solicitor, and the securities
were transferred to him. When my partner died,
in February, 1862, the joint account was in
credit. When my separate account was corn•
menced it was arranged that the old account
should be continued open in order to keep the transac-
tions of the partnership d•siinet from my own. At that
time I represented to the bankers that I believed the
estate of taker and Ensor would realms sufficient WOW
to meet its liabilities. The first time I ever intimated
to the beakers that the mete were insufficient to cover
the claims upon the old firm wan about eighteen
• months since. At that period the account was
considerably overdrawn. I don't know whether it was
overdrawn to the amount of £2,000. I drew several
cheques is favour of Mrs. Baker after the death of her
husband, as I anticipated a surplus. The profits of my
bosinens sines the death of my partner have been barely
enough to pay turnpikes, the proceeds of one sale beieg
generally overlapped by the liabilities of the presaging
sale.
Mr. William Hill Denman, of Troytown, Paddle.
town, Dorset, was sprinted assignee and the last
examination was fixed or Tuesday, the :Ord October.

FOWL KILLING •ND STILLING. —Yesterday after*
noon John Harris and George Hunt, labourers of For-
dington, were brought up before the Mayor and J.
Bishop, Esq., charged, the former with killing, and the
latter with stealing a fowl value Is. Gd , belonging to
William Garland, grown-grocer, of the same pariah. It
seems that Hunt has a flower garden in front of
his house, and the four fowls kept by Garland took
• fancy for picking there their early morning meal, and
thereby occasioned some injury and • good deal of
annoyanoe. Yesterday morning, between 5 and 6 o'clock
Harris, on going out, found the four fowls pecking
away with their accustomed seal, and he forth-
with ejected them and draw° them down to their
owner's premises. On returning to his home
be prepared his breakfast and dinner to carry with him
to work, and sallied forth with his basket to join two
fellow workmen alio were paving, when he was angered
to find his old enemies, the fowls, strutting about
his garden as confidently as though they were on
their own dunghill. He did not stop to think
what was hie legal remedy—perhaps it would have
been no use if he had, but he picked up a stone
and threw it at the fowls. One was struck
and fluttered about the garden, the other three
Sew over the fence. Harris taught the injured fowl,
and put it on the dwarf well, which, with tits rail
fence placed upon it, seperates his plot from the
publics road. He then went on to his work to the
Great Western railway. Mr. James Griffin of
Holloway-row saw the fowl in the middle of the road,
and it was there ten minutes after. In a abort time
Hunt *me along, and, seeing the dead foul in the
road picked it up, pot it in his pocket, and went to
his labour at the Gas Worka. He showed
the fowl to his fellowiworkmen, and told
them how he became possessed of it. Shortly
before eiAt o'clock, Garland discovered his loss
and searehed for the fowl and made inquiries about it,
but het could learn nothing till nearly II o'clock. He
then communicated with the police, and P.C. Haste
apprehended both the prisoners. When he told
Hunt he wanted him for carrying away the fowl,
he replied "I have never • one,. but when the
constable risked him for his jacket., he said the
fowl was there, and showed where it was. When
Harris was told he was wanted for knocking down the
fowl, be said "I thought you were coming to some inn
with a summons, not to take me up." Mania admitted
throwing • stone at the fowls, but said he had
no intention of killing it, and nook* of the annoy-
to which he was subjected by them. He
was vivified that he had his remedy in the
County Court, and ordered to pay the value Is. co. and
costa—Hunt maid be picked up the fowl in the middle
of the toad, and thought no harm of it; he made no
secret of what be had done. The magistrates sentenced
him to • week's imprisonment. which they hoped would
be • warning to him and to others.

JAIERS DRNSISON, Or THI WINTRRN CIRCUIT,
AND CHABLIS DICIRPR. —Tlio Western Times has
the following :—Looking in on the Commission at
the old Guildhall, Tolima, brought to our mind
scenes of days long gone by. On the right of the
Commissioners, at the table below, sat James Denni-
son, wbo for forty years has been Western Cireuit
Reporter for the Times. Bred • lawyer, he for
many years reported for the Court of Queen's Bench
for the leading journal, and few members of the
legal profession would, we apprehend, surpass him
in his knowledge of legal principles, and his fitness
for his nselier. James Dennison, after reporting
Lord John Rowell, at the Devonshire hustings, in
1835, rods • post chaise raw with the illustrious
Charles Dickens who at that time was a member of
the reporting fief of the Morning Chronicle. Mr.
Dickens was one of the fastest reporters of the "Gal.
lery," tod had been sent to Exeter, especially to
report Lord John RusmlL The representatives of
the two journals started from Exeter each in a post.
chaise-and immediately after the speech was
delivered. Their race is generally understood to
have suggested the narrative of the post chaise race
of the elopement in" Pickwick." "Jemmy" Den•
niacin, as he is familiarly celled by these who are
entitled to the privilege of approaching the Nestor
of the reporting circuit, is • wide-a-wake subject,
and knew the road well, for he bad plloped over it
more than ono* before. Dickens got the start as
became him, and when they neared Moulton, his
post-boys, as they ascended the hill into the town,
finding it all serene behind, and hearing no noise of
the pursuing wheels, slackened their len 108, and wt
leisurely into the yard of the old )
"Golden Lion
Inn," but to their astonishment when they came
there they found Jemmy Dennison master of the
situation. The order had been given to the postilion,
—" First and second torn out!' Fresh hones were
being put to the Times' chaise and Jemmy we,
first out of Bonito°. The fact is that he knew a
back way into the town, got into the inn yard be-
hind, and thus stole • march upon th• immortal
' Box," and rattled off ahead of him. Bo: now
bed to take his turn in the rear—"a stern clues is •
long chaos," but Dickens took it easy, for having
calculated upon writing out his report a few hours
after starting, be had secured relays af horses from
London to Winasuton, at which town ths race
ended. At Winoanton he delivered his notes to the I
courier who proceeded at • stretch gallop to Lon-
don, and thus gained • couple of hours on the
TiT•24, whose reporter arrived in due course of
posting not until alter the Ctiroiside was printed
and in circulation. The gentleman who sub-edited
the Morning Chronicle, a cute hood, knowing
where the Time. must he, slipped two or titres
immanent@ in the report to trap the Thunderer,
who, as be suspected would be the came, borrowed
the report of his more dapper oonteroporary, and
the fact was notified the day following in "an
amount of the express run from Exeter to the
Times Office by a heavy Dutchman" with the proofs
of appropriatioo of the more rapid report. This
rao• was held to he the fastest ever run on the
Western Road.

How NOT TO PLOPAGATI CHOLLA/. AND
Thos. Hawkeley. C. K, who ballast reoolowootted to
Waymonth a syMvm of drainage to oast f 16,000, writes
as follows in the rimer of Friday, in favour of the earth
closets of the Rev. H. Meals. of Fortlingtoo Vl
Dorchester, and suggesting that it should be mad=
to pass anything except serfage water into drat's or
sewers:— Siam the philosophie mind of the let, Dr.
Snow Aral; dsmaastrated the ProtaldeSims of &eters
through drinking water, instances to the same offset
have so greatly multiplied that the public mind, it is to
be hoped, will become both well Warmed and well

nessessary that we should get au early. Accord.!
ingly riming at five, and fortifying ourselves against
old Neptune by a hearty breakfast, we proceeded on
board the steamer, but found that the wind, I
which had been blowing hard all night, had I
freshened to a gale, and it wan uncertain ae to
whether the captain would put to sea. Of the ,
many pasengers assembled. POMO were anxious I
to start, oilers to wait till the wind should have
moderated, while two or three, either from motives
of prudence or from being apprehensive of pea sick-
ness, went on shore, determined not to start that day.
At about ff o'clock, the weather having brightened
though the gale *optioned, the captain decided
to make an attempt, and at all events to see how the
weather looked outside. Sheltered by Portland
island, the vessel steamed steadily on, until, when
clear of the land, she became exposed to the full fury
of a south-west gale and a heavy head sea, which
compelled all who were not good sailors to take
refuge in the cabins, and soon every sofa and berth
were occupied by porpoise in all stages of misery.
The weather got worse rather than better, but
having arrived in mid-channel, it became as well to
proceed am to go back, and another four hours brought
us to Guernsey, when having disembarked some
paasengers and taken in others, we started for Jersey.
which we reached safely after • cruise of about 12
hours from Weymouth. Disregarding the appeals of
I the porters, we got a cab and drove to the now
Imperial Hotel, a magnificent building erected on
high ground above St. Helier".