The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-09-11 00:00:00

"Pastes anti jlictuts."

SWANAGE.

When somebody Will dying be asked for "more light."
If that be useful on our way out tf the world it certainly
is more so on our journey through. Swanage is not dying,
although we believe tat a deal of her old prejudice and
isolated pride is at the lost gasp. In order to live and
thrive, and to become what the tipsy says she will, she
needs "more light." Even our great Creator first en-
lightened the darkness. Now will the railway bring a
truck-lowl of illumination We think Navvy Light must
forerun the locomotive. On September let to our delight
the gas lamps were lit in the streets. Cer tai al y this is "more
light," and we Can to with theta until the advent of
electric candles. But what we mean now by "more
light" is more poilicity. If Mr. Gladstone says that he
finds it both a corrective and a spur, certainly it should
be fraught with good to us. Therefore if anybody has any
information pro tense public° (which, for the benefit of
those who have lost their dictionaries, we will translate)
" for the public good," we shall be glad to receive and
make the bftt of it. We have enjoyed fair ministrations.
from the putpit for many years, and though we seek the
attentions of sister press we have not cast aside our long
valued teacher. We have no denominational tendency,
and therefore gladly welcome the Rev. James Clegg into
our midst as the new Wesleyan minister. H. comes from
that important but dull eficuit of Salsbury, and ought to
find his new charge a charming change, though he has left
tho vicinity ttf our Bishop and the world famea cathedral
spire. May Mr. Clegg he a power for good !

We commend the earnest effort of our lady friends to
swell On Lord Mayor's Flifili of CORINIO already raised for
relief .4 the famine-struck ismulation of India. We hope
our Home Government will help the Indian Exchequer,
lea even if they do every mite we raise will be needed.
Our zolumns contain such information. Remember the
crops of rice failed from lack of rain. Until January there
is little hope of relief (rim crops. Prices of grain have
fearfolly risen. An Indian could live on three halfpenx
worth of rice per day, but now that sum (the Govern-
ment allowanee) will not buy more than the laity crumbs
which fall (ruin a Portland convict's table. Half-as
million of our brothers and sister. (we are one now) are
already starved to death in Madras alone. Over the blood
streams by the DAIIIIhtI, over the sulphur-fume* of the
Schipke Pass, come the thirty million voices of our far
province—" Give ua bread or we die !“ Shall they cry in
vain
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Next to Famine we ilread'irever. On the eth of August
our Local Board received (or should have) an intimation
that the River's Pollution Prevention Act would be in
force on the 15th. We wish it lowl been a Dribble
Straitening Act. For every bit of a downpour makes our
crooked puddle po'llite the mead and the brewery—
perhaps the beer. We hear that money and good words
have been thrown away in the effort to remedy. It was
flooded in the days of Noe, and therefore ought to be
flooded in our times. How the owner can admire such a
stupid imitstion of a wriggling cell, and to the public woe,
we are at a loss to discover. We suppose we are simple,
but we cannot withstand asking the worthy clerk whether
we are to understand by the Act that it is to prevent the
action of the river upon 119, or our pollution of the river
Are there compulsorily selling clauses!
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Has anyone heard anything more about the subscription
towards taking the Local Board before the magistrates for
the violation of their own awl first bye-law--" The
ordinary meetings of the Local Board shall be held at the
Local Board's office on the second Monday in each month,
at seven o'clock in the evening?' The Bench would get
rich with the fines.
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The E irl of Dudley. the cheapener of coals, is going to
supply with water, at his own expense, the 500 houses of
hisser Gornal, where fever broke out some time since.
When will the rich Langton people conspire together to
to, or cause to be done, such a deed for their village; It
is such neglect which leads at last to the doctois and the
Local Board. If birds can, and wont—we know the rest.

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At the meeting of the British Association, held recently
at Plymouth, it was announced that the Eddystone Light-
house must be removed. The limestone foundations are
giving wav before the enormous pressure of the channel
tides awl the sudden shocks of the Atlantic storms. The
Plymouth reople. proud, of course, of their connection
with that which Britannia has imaged upon her copper
coinage, would like to get it as • monument to the skill
of its builder, &neaten. He commenced the construction
of this splendid light-giver in 1756 by cutting the surface
of the jagged rock into steps, upon which to dovetail the
mighty blocks of stone. The first block was cramped in
June 1757, and the whole was completed in August, 1759.
In reality, calculating tide-work and storm loss, the
immense task was done in six weeks. What a testimony
to the builder's skill that his tree of stone Sat high,
joggled, dovet tiled, and lotted has outlasted the very rock
which its roots grip ! The tallow dips which at first
warned the manner of the treachery wave-hidden were
set aside for Argued burners and oil in 1007, when the
Trinity Board took possession of that which private
enterprise had reared. Many improvements have followed
In reflective power—lamps and so forth, for the old inven-
tions. and even tried sinstitutions, must give way if they
are rendered drawbacks by "inure light." Our contem-
porary The Nary argues almost fiercely that instead of a
new house the rock should itself Ins blown up after the
manner of" Hell Gate" at New York. Has he rightly
estimated its dimensions? Bet off the dynamite by all
means if the rock will lead by stout compulsion. Better
remove cause than warn against it. But we want to
know something else. If &loathe could speak from his
honoured grave would he not elect that his house should
go on lighting and .arningl That it will not do on Ply-
mouth Hoe—as a look-out peep. That it mould do if erected
at Anvil Point, where the Trinity Board have been so long
thinking about building us the much needed lighthouse.
There visitors with the weakest stomachs, provided they
had strong legs and strings to their head gear, could "go
round the Eddystone Lighthouse," as they ray in the W,
and gaze up at its noble proportions, its stately grandeur,
whilnt they thanked God that nothing was wasted.
"Nothing wasted !" It is hard to believe that after a visit
to Peverd Point. Where is the fort which, as boys, ossr
grey heads played in? Removed inland. At the present
rate of wear awl tear the coastguard look-out will have to
follow. The magazine of the volunteers is already under-
mined. I believe if some people were asked the cause
and the cure they could give a reasou for this :tenon of the
tides, not merely scientific, but practical. Perhaps they
had better hold their tongues !

Wear and tear reminds me of the " cists," now 14 topic
of interest The remains are deposited for inspection in
the lifowlem Institute. If any person wants a relic of the
tile-slabs they must make haste to the cliff, for there are
two pieces already on view at Clifton. 0, those tourists !
It seems pretty sure that when the bodies were interred
there were fields between their graves and the then cliffs,
but the scour of the tides has wasted the shore as the
swirl of the eddy is now wearing off the Point What a
discovery this has been No wonder tiles are so scarce,
our ancestors used them up for tombs. What a god-send
the discovery of an =tient place of sepulture would be to
our builders ! I have often wondered at the dismal ap-
pearance of the housetops. No wonder no longer. I
would like to ask Mr. J. C. Robinson if by the aid of his
miornscope he I iiseovered what inscript ion the Local Board
of those days allowed on the headstone
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I have pleasure in reporting the iliArovery of another
ei.t. maim tilll,!ftgll, and which few know anything about.
In t•ti Mr. W. M. Hardy and another were excavating
for a vault in the south side of Studland Church tower.
At a depth of five feet they lighted on a stone. In
trembling haste and thotuxhtii of treasure-trove they
cleared away the rubble. They found three strong cover-
ing stones, known by the name of tilling, about two inches
thick, the three being together two feet six inches wide
and six feet six inches long. &liana the flat stone two
human feet were seen, the soles, after the manner of our
times, taking the Eastward pobition, and when all the
cover waslifted • cist containing an encoltned body was
brought to light. The grave was of tile iitones, the floor-
ing thinner than the covering. The head was • sharp
angle, and the cist tapered towards the feet and finished
in the usual fashion of our coffin.s. There was no vestige
of wood or of mortar therein. The body of the man con-
tained in it measured six feet two inches. It is said that
the Mal in the neighbourhood have degenerated in size.
Perhaps this one was exceptionally tall. A Swanme
pebble propped each cheek—there are none ouch at Stud.

land--and another across his throat sustained his chin, the
head being jammed into the angle. On exposure to the
atmospheric premium the fabric collapsed. The bones
were sacredly laid behind the brickwork of the new vault.
The Rector, the Item. Mr. Turner, and the clerk were
present. They searched diligently iv the books for a sign
of recognition, but without avail. as they might have
expected. Htudland yard 'mist in the rourse iif years
have been raised three feet, so that tho original grave
most have been very near the surface.

oA. we are among or rather in the tombs, let no stay and
meditate. We will announce something in praise of the
Burial Board, and writi a little play in their defence.
They kindly allow • wicket gate near by the consecrated
entrance to the cemetery to remain open until sunset, for
the public benefit. Ahout that gate hinges a tale—rumour
will have it, a catastrophe. Somebody else had it put
there. Now if you and I and everybody in and out of the
parish put gate 4, where were the walls 1 Walls there
must he. To MVO pother, and quite right, too, the Board
have taken possession of the key.
Scene-81.mm° Cemetery.
Time— Dunk.
Pergennel —Straggling ladies, especially one
—Ladies relatives to an officer of the Board
—Young man fixing a headstone.
Curtain rises.
Scene 1., Act I.—The relatives see what they want to
Scene
open,)'

Scene 11., Act I.—The relatives see the big gates wide
',en, lock the wicket ,and go hone.
Scene 1., Act ll.—The 1.1 finishes his trek and does
not want to see anything but his tea, so donn net see the
lad inc.

Scene If., Act IL—The young man shoot the bolts of
the big gates and retires.
Tragedy l—The ladies are—awful predicament—Poeta!
plight —abominable spite—locked in a graveyard before
their time !
Scene!.. Act 111. —The night Ahades fall —how. Imagine I
Scene 11., Act Ill.—The grove shatlec rise ! Horror,
agony, shriek; fainting'', reotrrections !!
N. such thing. The lad is at "MCC recalled and they or
Eel out. Bathe.! Curtain falls, lint the play is sot ~vor.
If we knew what s ittorm followed, we should believe they
had been buried and locked in until this day. The Board
and its Aileen and all the relatives to the thirty-second
generation will always lee a ghmt at the wicket. When
we bear that a mournimt lady has been grimly insulted
by being locked in the cemetery by our Board, we reply
Ire know the gentlemen too well to believe any Cu A
rubbish. They inay eu rin judgment, who does not I
They do not err in int-ntion. Moral (ShakuPoleirel)t
"Much ado about nothing."

Do the Wareham magistrates control the solicitors, or
to the lawyers IJIII4II, the liencli / Without gnintaylng
great is the sagacity and cuteness of Mr. It. N. Howard,
if ever we are "run in' wu hope he will be dittenitaJed
"to get us off." Cockburn mire pleaded so ingenioudy on
behalf of a notorious scamp, that the pleader convinced
the prisoner of his innocence. Mr. 11. IWO equal that. !
On behalf of our local hoard, whose solicitor he is, Mr. 11. !
food John White summoned for one Using, and tried for
another. Ile was brought before the magistrates for
"allowing a bathing machine appropriatsel to the use if
males, to he placed within the distance of SOO yards from
a machine appropriated to the use of females." Ilan any-
body see any connection between that, anti teaching ladies
to swim I Even our able reporter was led astray by the
proceedings of the count, for he say. White "we. further
summoned forsoing into the water with ladies to teach
them to twins Either the lawyer was very clever, or
the court very curious, for White has shown us the Runt'
mono, and it was for undreesing on the shore after MA
instead of from a bathing machine. Perhain the bench
were misled also, or how came the chairman to give advice
upon a point he was not required to decide I The defend-
ant says he had two witnesses with bun (who were not
called) to prove that lie did bathe from a machine. The
fact was that the second summona was not heard, but
White is quite pooled how to act by the gratuitous advice
! given upon it. for if it be law that he must not teach
hulks to twits, how is he to "get his wife to teach" them,
for she cannot swim, and there i4noltotly, but her husband,
to give her lessons. The surveyor cannot help, for if the
bench had not stopped bits, he would have enlightened
them on the quickest way to drfant the fair sex. Dread-
ful man

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Over Purbeck llnipe it fish floats, whirl. puts its gilded
nose to the wind with tottreme nicety. But, .10es it .I,auffe
Ai often as the Local Board's idea of .tecenrY / Idea
determined not long sinre that there should be no lathing
s. of la Noitleto R. 44, now it has enacted that it is only
roper for tadie4 to bathe to the S. For shame you
clumipions of delicacy Will anybody believe the follow-
ing to be Ow lit+t new, hilt MIN..' bye-law. "N. per-
SIPII 111410 or female, boy or girl, shall bathe outside 41 a
111W11111e, without appropriale dress (each article V. be
ego! ii iii ed daily by a duly qualified officer) except our Mir-
vu:) or is present to unaware, our clerk to report, and our
labourer to look on. By order." By and
.by we ai• es.
pecting another Idea called Discretion. wall dawn upon
them (by accident) that the model bye-lows for which they
were ordered to wait may be obtained. Sober truth,
gentlemen. the 1..1 LB. will be only too happy to supply
Obtain them, and pats them just as they are. They are
sure to suit Swanage.

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In the Pier company willing to turn an honest ungrudged
penny? How / If they will encourage the art of diving,
now so lamentably lost, by fitting op a few cheap appli-
ances at the end of their property, and allow males tot ,ke
refreshers before breakfaat, they will earn the lasting
gratitude ,d languishers for a plunge—and their coppers.
Do it gentlemen, next season it will peg. Meanwhile,
without the shareholders are short of cash, we would DA-
vise them not to sell their share.. Huth ! heritors of
gloom and gliimpx, the railway scheme in not dead, nor
even the doctors .uninioned ! The lirert.pr4 are now con-
coloring what eagns they shall give oar friend. The
‘hriek of the whidl, will ere long alarm the choughs on
Corte roinn, and we to all the "coo," gentle awl ximple
who run their horns against our buffers of capital. " Take
your near entlemen, and don't leave the train whilnt Its
moving,"

AS Sir floors° Cho, carriage wax t.roccedinz through
S kuth-street on Wednesday aft,rnoon lal, at., of the
horses stepped into a bole in the road, and, being
frightened, bolted. The reins were Jerked frotn the
driver's hands, hut the horse was kept somewhat in check
I.*' the other horse, and, when near the mil way stato.n,
the driver of the Digt,), Hotel 'Bus, sprang ir front of
them and succeeded in impeding their progreAs before
any thing serious oc,urred. _ . .

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AN SCAIIP.—GIong Smith, a diseharged
soldier, who for IM...induct had been sent-need to 12
the hard labour at the tiape and a " dose " at
Sllepton Mallet gaol, woo on Friday placed before Mr. E.
Bennett. on the charge iif atealing a coat, the property of
Messrs. Woodward, and Dorling, drapers. The therktook
place the previous evening front the shop in Half-Moon-
street, where a number of articles of clothing were bong
in the door-way, and the prilioner was seen by Mr.
Dolling to pull down the coat and decamp. Before he hail
gone the length of the etreet, however, he was captured,
and Ileliverel over to the police ofllcer. Ile was no trly
naked—Mr. Dorliug's evidence having been taken, Mr.
Superintendent Florence asked for a remand to promieute
inquiriea as t../ tile prisimer's former offence which led to
his discharge.—Remanded till Thursday.
Perry SESSIONS, Thursday. —Magistrates present : Mr.
Edward Benthall and Mr. Hendon Littlehales.
LICENSES—This being the annual licensing day, Mr.
Supt. Florence, retained that he hail but one complaint
ta make, and that was against the landlord of the Gran'.
Head, Nether Campton, for having deficient mea-ureii
upon his pretuisea The licenses were, therefore, remwed,
Rave the one referred to, and the renewal of thit was
adjourned till the DeXt court-day?
A PUBLIC HOUSE BRAWL—Jarnr4 Miller, a tailor, of
Yetminster, was charged with aasaulting John (tole, a
labourer.—lt appeared that on the Ilth lilt., complainant
weat into the Suiesex Inn, Yettuiniiter, and, seeing
defendant there, asked him if he had sold his wheat.
Dvfunitant abased him and subsequently hit hint • blow
In the face.— Witnesses were called by defendant to
endeavour to prove he was the aggrieved, but the Bench
thought the case was proved, and tined defendant lilt. and
the costs, another les., or seven days. He chow the
latter.

POACHING. —Alfred Ilaggna, • labourer of Sandford
Orem, was charged with trespassing in pursuit of game,
on lankls in the occupation of Messrs. John and Edward
Symes, at ('tube Farm.—Mr. J. A. Ffookseepresentend
Mr. Digbv, and stated he had no wish to press the case.—
Thomas Compton, a keeper int be employ of Mr. Dishy,
proved the offence. lie saw defendant put a gun to his
shoulder twice, but he did not shoot. —Fined 10f. and EIR.
coAts.

SHORT SIEASCRES.- ffifrie, landlord of the inn
known as the " Halbway-house. was summoned by Mr.
Supt. Florence with having had in his possession a quart
cop quarter of a pint deficient, another quart cup 24
drachms deficient, too pints, one 24 and another 8
tritely. short. —Defendant virtually pleaded guilty and
was fined 9s. costs.
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Mr. John Cony, landlord of the " Rest and Welcome,"
Stockwood, made an application, through Mr. Watts, for
a license to sell wine and spirits on his premises. Tne
applicant, Mr. Watts, said, had had a beerhouse license
for 20 years, and his house had always been well conducted.
The house was situate in the public road between Yeovil
and Dorchester, 2; miles from any other licensed house,
and a memorial in favour of applicant was signed by the
rector of the parish and the principal inhabitants—Mr.
Littlehales said although the Bench did not wish to
increase the number of public-houses, yet they thought a
good case had been made out by the applicant, and the
license would be granted.
Mr. John Senior, of Bishop's Caundle, applied for an
order of ejectment against Thomas Andrews, a labourer.
its sufficient notice had not been given the application
was refused.—Mr. A. Dingley, of Sherborno, through Mr.
litmus, made an application for an ejectment order
against William Sellers, occupying a cottage in Acrenians
street —Ordered to go out in 28 days.

At the borough peTt7"sess—io-n7o-n. Tuesday it was the
annual licensing day, and the licenses were renewed to
the innkeepers. Several complaint were made against
several beerhouses for Sunday trading, but the licenses
were renewed with a caution.

Edicoi /looser, of Iteaminster, was tined 11. and Si. 64.
costa for cruelty to • mare at Bridport.
Frederick Stoodky was fined 10+. and costs for stealing
apples and onions from Mr. E. Norman's garden in East.
street.
Harry Pomeroy, James Sltettpack, Edward Gifford, and
Albert Sprake were each fined 45., including cost., for
stealing apples from Mr. Biddlecotnbe's orchard in North
Allington on Sunday, 19th August.
Mns, Howsm) Paula —The entertainment which lots,
take place on Thursday evening in the Town Ball by this
talented actress ought to be one of the most successful
ever held in the town. Mrs. Paul is well known both
to the stage and the concert room, and we have had
no artist who is so popular in her capacity of a public
entertainer. She is a host in herself. She carries with
her, under one bonnet, twenty living characters, a
world of humour and satire, a theatre of dramatic
stories. But the public is about to see the last of her
in this capacity, as this is to be her farewell tour. The
programme includes two entertainments by popular
authors, in which she assumes a variety of characters
and sings some new as well as familiar ballads. She is
supported by Mr. Barrington, a clever mimic and
actor, and has the assistance of a clever 'denude ha
Miss Featherstone. We feel sure that the public wil
not miss this opportunity of giving Mrs. Paul a hearty
welcome, and that her last night will not only be
memorable for the excellence of the entertainment but
for the crowds who assembled to say " farewell and
God speed."

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A paper sap:—" A girl whoo-makes riM-utelf too cheap is
one to be avoided. . . . Cheap girls attract nobody but
fools and rascals." Remember this, parents when your
daughter map you for thirty shillings for a new bonnet,
iszel you feel like calling her " an expensive girl," and think
a crown's worth of new trimming on her old bonnet is
good enongh.
They were walking UM in ann up Micidleuitreet last
evening, and just aliewl of them was a woman in a new
Princesei dress. The setting sun was gilding the western
heaven, and throwing a beautiful eritusen glow over all
the earth, lie said ins subdued one. "lint it lovely r
"Well, I dos% know," was the reply of his fair companion,
"I don't think the trimming matches very well, and It
doesn't fit her for anything." He shuddera
THROAT AFFICTIONS AND Hoaffigsliga.—All suffering
from irritation of the throat and hoarsemess will be
agreeably surprised at the almeat immediate relief albrdetl
by the use of " Brown's Bronchial Troches" These
famous "lozenge. " are now sold by most respectable
chemists in this country at Is. lid. per box. People
troubled with • "hacking cough, • " slight cold," or
bronchial affections, cannot try them too soon, as similar
troubles, if allowed to progress, result in serious Pulmonary
and Asthmatic affections. See that the words "Brown'.
Bronchial Troches" are oath. Goverantent Stamp around
each box.—Maaufectured by Joan I. BROWN ago Bona,
Boston, Uniica Bilick Nick 4P Oaf ord-staroak Loudon