The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-05-21 00:00:00

DOZCZNITSZ.

Tui Earl of Lichfield has been appointed Lord High I
Steward of the torough of Staked, in succeed= to ,
the late Earl of Shaftesbury.
To Doo Ownsna.—Dog owners should bear in mind
that the new 7s. 61 duty will take effect from the Ist
of June next. The old licenses remain in force till
January next.
Toe new dietary t ibles for the prisons in England
and Wales came into operatim on the 15th inst. They
present a pester variety of food than has been
customary. but the quantities allowed are not seriously
altered. The dietary consists of four classes, whereas
five has been the general rule. At many prisons
cooking has hitherto been avoided for the Sunday's
diaper by giving bread and cheese or milk and bread.
but in future boiled potato' and suet pudding are to
be given. Cheese does not appear in the new list, nor
does the familiar Indian meal pudding, this letter
being substituted by stirsbout, every pint and wltalf
of which is to contain soz. of Indian meal and boa of
oatmeal. Flaked or Admiralty come, which Ilse not
been usually given of late, is also to be introduced.
The bread used is to be made of whole meal, as
alternative' for English beef, the governor may
supply specified quantities of colonial beef or mutton,
preserved by heat, American or other foreign beef,
preserved by cold, beans and fat bacon, fresh fish,
salt meat, or salt fish.
CAUTION TO LOCAL TRADISIL—A shwkeeper at
Fishbourne writes as follows to the est Soma
Gazdu : —My wife was taken in when I was from
home by two men, to the value of six shillings. The
first man, stout, with red whiskers, and wooing light
trousers and waistcoat, low hat, and black coat, cam*
into my shop and asked my wife for some note paper.
She served him, and as lie was leaving the door be
turned and sail," D.. you sell the Vermin Destroyer?
for I am come for the season to Captain Thompeon's,
1 Ilthiener." My wife said we did not sell it He
:1 " I ;hall he here again for grocer's', fur we deal
here." My wife thanked hint. Of course, having
been only a mouth at the shop people are strangers to
us About an hour and a half after the other man
(who is tall and thin, with dark clothes and high hat)
came in, and said to my wife, "Will you allow me to
appoint you agent, from Frances Sons, Tottenham
oMrt.rowl, to sell the ' Perfumed Vermin Insect
Destroyer?' Erato's., :rets' applications for it are so
numeroua that titer wish to appoint &tents in every
place' Ile then mid to toy wife, "Yours being the
best loo'4ing Atop I My wife then took six
e''''th• He said she would gain half. He
left a chow card and receiptsd the bill. On my return
home I found it WAS all a take in, and what they left
not worth a penny a bushel I went on the Bosham-
road an fast as ni legs would let me, but the men beat
me, for I saw toe train start with them for Ports-
mouth. My wife and I were very much taxed, and
thought it our duty to warn others, particularly shop-
keepers, that they might be on the lookout. Porta-
to,uth being the fellows' destination then, they may
poesibly find their way to Saliabdry, and so on to
Dorchester.