The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-09-03 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF AN ENGINE-DRIVER ON
THE LONDON AND SOVI.H.WESTERN
RAILWAY. .

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One of the moat imposing funerals that ham taken
place in lkirchester for several years peat took place
on Sunday afternoon last at the cemetery (by special
permisition of the Burial Board) for the burial of vte
late Mr. Richard Finch, .4 Charles-street, in this
town, for several years first.clim engine-driver of the
London and South-Western Railway Company. 'To
show the esteem in which the d.cesrned was held by his
fellow drivers, firemen, and clop/opts in the Company's
factory at Northam, no lees than 98 attended hie
funeral, several having come from beyond souidiarnp.
loss to be present, as a last mark of respect to their
esteemed friend. As the deceased was • member of
Court " itobin Heel,- held at ,outhampton, of the
Ancient Orthr of Pore.tere, the officers and members,
numbering 41, of Court " Progrew," No. 3,038, Dor-
cheeter, attended, wearin.; their funeral regalia, to inter
their dece.ed hr,thvroorliior to, the laws of the Order.
The funeral service of the A.0.P., adopted be the
High Court Meeting, held at Brighton, August, 1869,
was read by Bro. .7. Shergold. P.C.R., the first part
being read over the coffin at the house, and the latter
part at the grave, by the kind permiesion of the offici-
ating clergyman, the Rev. IL P. Rakes. 'I he
foil wing was the order of procession from the late
residence of the deceased to the Cemetery :
Precedies the Hearse was the Foremen. Dd.'s, Firemen.
and implopla in the Locomotive Department a
Smthaulpi on and Darchwt. r, to the number of 9a
The Hearse drawn by two Honor.
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Mewing the Hawse were the Oillaws eel lianhers of
Oeart Prager* No. FM, ILO F., Dorcheeter,
sambaing 41.
Mourning Coach, drawn by two hones, containing the
Widow of the Deceased, their two eldest Children,
bet Mother. and three Friends.
Tour Firemen walking two ow each side
Following the Mourning Catch Mr. IL Marsh, and Mr.
Talbot, Friend* of the Downbeat.
The prooasion wound its way slowly along to the
efereetary, which warn reached a little before five, when
the calla wee placed in the church, and the Rev. H.
P. Rates read the Church of England Burial Service,
which being over the deceased was borne to the grave.
The finishing part ad the service being *included, the
rranrammed, the Foresters leading th;arzy
eir late brother's residenoe, where they
Deceased was 37 years of age.
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INICLE"-D ABUSE.
To Ow Editor.
Ifr. Eslitor,—The people of Dorchester hays, for
some considerable past, been grievously exercised
OD the question of heir sewage; but there are various
forms of public nuisance Lad filth, and psrhaps your
readers will epos with the writer in thinking that of
afl ths forms of local disturbance in the shape of
nuisances, Dot the lewd disagreesbie is that sehith
frequently emanates from newspaper ofiloes—l don't
refer to the waste of their printing peewee, but to the
11th and rubbish which frequently disfigure their
papers. As an inhabitant of the town, and jealous of
It. reput itlon, I hare read the diatribe of the Clieonick
on our Mayor with • sense of chants and indignation.
mingled with the • ,ti4action that only the Chronic's
could be guilty so h malicious and vulgar abuse
which would be wowed In a common tap-room—ehem,
;the way, one imseinee the • riter must have gained
2is edoestioo. Thst any paper, without the beet
shnntl fall f oil of the chief magistrate of
the town. wb, fills ids office with great ability and
divity, in ianeu see u contemptible as we believe it
to be untrue. is a dishenour on the whole community,
11111di which I, for on., imimaantly repudiate. The
argent question, Nis. Editor, is undoubtedly drainsee I
and if any groins cool I hnt ,1,..vi0• a method by wbieh
the authors of the ramoicte could get their intellectoal
fi cerri.l "ff without appearing before the public
and contaminating its intellectual at ',sphere, he
would be conferring • substantlal boon upon the
soatinunity.
AN lirmarhyr lintearraan.