The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-04 00:00:00

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Weymouth as • &Almeida.' watering-place, end what,
too, will be said of the Remands and tens of thousands
of oar visitor" patronising hotels, lodging-houses, Ito, ;
and excuisionista, when they pay us their annual visit,
and find almost their only source of amusement and
comfort (the steamers) driven ' out of the town.'" Oh !
J. J. Rolls, at 65, you ought to know better; "end a
rumbling railroad established—after having their bosses
well shaken in travelling so far by rail," What foolish
tteamers to run away from thousands and tens of
housands of customers; or to suffer themselves to be
driven "out of the town," or oven out of the river.
3.—" What is to become of our coal merchants ?"
Answer—Whet are the "thousands and tens of thou-
sands" who visit us to do when they find we have no
coals in our kitchen grates? Or does J. J. Rolls mean
to infer that a coal mine is to be found in Porthuid I I
cannot see my way here. People must use coals, and,
if so, the coal merchants will be the proper persons to
supply them. But it is all of a price. Pray, Mr.
Editor, send for J. J. Rolls, and let hiss say upon what
precedent, or by what reasoning, be arrives at the con-
clusion that "Our Harbour, " "Pile Pier," "Portland
Bridge,""' the' Market House," "the Coal Stores,"
,".Fleet of Steamers," dm, will all perish, as in a general
conflagration, on the contingency of • railway to Port-
land being made from this town. Perhaps the meeting
which is to be called, will have Rolls for the prin-
cipal speaker to enlighten us upon this matter. Has
Devenish X.XX had, any hand in composing this won-
derful letter?
ENQUIRER,

AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESIi:

show passive obedience to their lordly conscience
keepen. Their wits being sharpened by this constant
illiberality, a shrewd and penetrating owner of a boat
discovered that a word had been inserted in their
written tenni es on which a notable quibble
might be raised ; and accordingly, one morning, the
body of fishermen presented themselves before the door
of the Monastery, and pairs the porter, whose jolly
countenanee ill expftted such • gift, and wlMso, hand
trembled when lie received "three small pilehers. ' To
render It less digest/ibis, this happened CO ft rridaY,
I when, by the 'Catholic religion, nothiny flsh could
orthodoxically traverse their saintly the' The whole
body of monks instantly roee, Ind hae .hoir, fishing
tenants wisely given "log bail," an execoununicatory
anathema would have been sane ceremonie healed at
their devoted heads. They categorically demanded the
motive of this unparalleled insult on their ghostly
lords. The fishermen shrewdly and subtlely observed,
that the quantity was without doubt small forthe satis-
fying of the appetites of the holy brotherhood, bet that
by the strict letter of their feudal tenures, they were
only bound to deliver the "first caught," and that they
had only, as true and honest tenants; performed this
tendering to the brotherhood the three pitchers,
The Monks soon saw their error, but as dinner they
must have, and nothing but fish being allowed, they
compounded with the fishermen for that day's fish by
offering to pay Bd. per pound, and the fishermen
covenanted to provide fish for the monks at the same
price every morning. Thus the Monks, who expected
to have feasted jovially at the expense of the fisher-
men, were compelled to give their 'adhesion to thEir
inferiors in wealth, though more crafty in design.

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