The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-05-20 00:00:00

BILIDPORT.

A VIOLTNT CUSTOIII3,-At the Borough Police-
wart on Thur. lay, before the Mayor and Mr.
Edmunds, • youog laborer, Albert Parsons, South-
street, wee charged in coat. IT with being drunk sod
riotous on the night previou.' sod further with
wanking Charles. H. Fricke, (P. 0.1 in the ex-cution
of his auty.—The c iu•table stated that prisoner was
drunk sad offering to debt in South-atreet, and when
witoess interf. rat pro .wr, gr.., violent and sall it
we. no " odd• " to him, lie struck witnes, on the
head, and kickii,g desperately at him, inflicted a
wound on his leg. Ho was $ violent that help had
ta be procured to get him to the 'Cagan. —Delendatit
was filled on the first charge 56. and 8.. wets, or 14
day., and In the mooed, 101. fine, and 3.. 61. coets,
in default 14 days.—Prisoner applied for time, but the
request was not granted. He was removed, but
subsenoently pal.l the money.
raoriTABLS Paorkseloa."—At the County
P Ii e-e out ou Friday, bef we Mr. W. Oolfox, 8.A.,
and Mr. A. W. H. D• 010111,11, a yoneg " °mak" giv-
ing the name of Jobe Robert Foster, was charged in
custody with hawking without a Wiens* on the day
previous at Whitehureb.—Tee prisoner, who bat his
wife with him, pleaded guilty, but added that his wares
were perishable.—Mrs. Mary Gem., of White:Minch,
said prisoner milled at her boom, and inked for a
paper which hsd been left there—a "doctor'. piper,"
but one had not been lodged there. He in facial her
to purchase a bottle of medicine (prodamml); he
wanted Te. 61. for it, but she gave him 6.. 111., that
being all she hal in the house. The "medicine' pro-
'tuned was • coloured Bald, la an ordivary medium.
bottle.—P.C. Lets., of lawns Regla, who stated tot
prisoner hart soil a aimiler b to an .ther w man
r sevenpenc., .tate I Mat primner went about and
induce., even the most healthy.looking women to
helive they were suffering from li.er complaint awl
p iii.• betweeo the Moot ler.. Oa tie previoue day
trace I prisoner fr lam/ Regis to Wbitchurch,
where he a.ked him for hi. Jennie& He had not got
en.; he gave a fictitiow name, and afterward. said
his Ilene. wet Foster, hut an examination .1 his
papers eh mired that his name woe R dee al.—The
I Caairmen mid it wee • ...awls matt .r, for he ill! not
believe he ha I given value for value. As the °sets
were heavy (164.), he would be fined ffs. only, or one
month with tear 1 lab 'or—Removal pending payment.
BICTCLS ACCIDZ•S.—On Friday evening, ais Mr. T.
B. Baker, draper, II ot..trest, was riding his bicycle
d South.etreer, • little child ran in front ot the
machine, and litre M-. Baker c euld get out of the
way the machine c lid .4 with the cbild's body, the
remit beiug that the rider .ra. tbrewa and sustained
a Ira, tire of the right arm. The <Mild was compara-
tively uniojorei.
I)lltTit Irt DIOWSIIIO.—On Saturday. • little boy
&bolt sis year. of ago, named W. W. Collin. son uf
Holey Collins, ioniser, B errnik.street, was drowned
in the Ask., strewn. The little (-Bow went to the
river to play in c unpin, with two • the, children
au I fell Into deep wat r. His c impel ins ran of)
friAtene I, wi I some time after inform -1 • sail .r,
named Pitch, r, i.l the °newsmen. Pitcher aunts-
ou otly found ti • holy. &remit Hazzard, bifore
removing the b aly home, mei every endeavour to
re •t ..0 11121111111 Hon, but eh to DO purpose..

Oas of the mug remun.rative speculations of the
nicstmeoth century appear, to be the decoction and
ready sale of a liquid—probably • third of a pint of
c Ad tea, flavoured and tioted with • few grain, of
permanganate of pota.h. Such an " eaterp4mr "
solemn,' le,fors tw . of our county magistrates on
Friday last in the shape of • rolitht-looking fellow,
who wee charged with hooking without • license.
lie &weird to be aa wmte am he le enterprising. If.
gave an ant vatic name to the c 'n,table who
apprehends 1 him—later he told him hie name was
Faster. but • echo erptent tic onination of hie papers
proved hi.. same t be IL be in. Now Mr. FoMer, diem
Idolmon, • lowed the c-'on' of eighth:Li wintry dames,
and, in spite of their he .Ithy appearsnae, to frighten
them into the belief that Vey mould shortly expire of
" intern 411" nolow they sought the
nor. r-falling rein° ly in hi. bottles of garnet c 'loured
flulf. A Mr.., Gauge. of Whitcburcb, proved extremely
credulone in hear dealing. mita the young quack. Sbe
Purchased • b tie .4 the "tercet coloured " for
61. 11d., and would have testlered 7.. 61., but the
6e. 111. was fortuoately all tn• cash the amiable
woman had in the hone.. Whet the feeling. of the .
said Mr.. Genre were wle.n 'Me discovered that a
neighbour had
_purcham4 • bottle of the fluid
for "7.1.," of R 'boon, ariaa ,otar, I know not, but
her anspici ins may be bett, imaginal than de.cribe I.
At any rate the neigbb cur did pu clam • bottle for 7.1.
—probably Gi I. mo:e lbws I wa, worth. Ito. pity
the law calm it, or rather does not. more "seised
Seely " t .uclo the Ira IT who fail. to trice value for
value, and more particolerly should the law be
stringent in a race of ntht like R it.. a', alias Foster,
who prey up .n that credulity which there is every
roma to bars I. far more provalsat.tliso apparest.

This yeas; wreak was mulcted is • rralata, or
I•Art11.• SaleOth at I)nrobs•Cor. Bat there Is MB.
fear '4 Mr. it I. ga•shi,ig "—it he Gods •
ady •ale fr hi. tin:tare in .ther p•r..ints, did
ig Whitcharch Cannata irn gt ,n't thluit or worry
10004 about bad-a-405.5 fine. per "rook.

The org in of the 0 •netegstiosal C lurch, built
exprerely tor this nretty edific • by J. W. Wsiker end
S'., L union, in 1861, bee, thrice the pt.t fortnight,
undergone an entire renowstion at the Is •nde of the
representatives of this we.l-kno en firn. The Instru-
ment, which is an unc•tt illy fins ode. Is u 4 mine fly
the best in the urgebboorbo di. It has pt been
cleaned or renovated sing it. erection antil now, and
this lace speaks well for it. =skew.

S?eakine of renovationa, I Co 'hal to notice that
the municipal b d 1.. recently sent Vrth
Its fiat for the re-a instruction of I of
our pavement', Irltch Cr. being nista wades
the aupervidon of the inrasynr, and not a whit
before 1NK"....1. This want ham several timer recently
been mentioned In thee, c ,lornoa, for many p.telb-c
of paving were positi,ly dangerous. I would 101 l
the attmtio •of the survey .r 1 the fact that several
more patotaet myth.* his attention, and ow:morning
whiob no municipal orders here, al yet, been hand.

Th • L'beral electors .if Po,lo .r.—to kyle* from
my elcoilent on:temporary, the Beidport Neses—a got
of fully Thum I. what the B.N. • •ye
A petition •ieinst the return of Mr. W. J. Elan*
Conservative member, wee duly filed on 'Needs,
afternnin, on the granni of bribery, treating, and
other legal practioa." 11,1 r, if bribery sot treating
tinier Ito o,wropt and illegal Practical Prevention
Act of 1893," are legal, wh.ro, in the n.m. of every-
thing, ere the ground. for filing a petition/ I leave
the ei.lntion of the ouliim in the campeteat hauls of
the Etlito !