The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-07-15 00:00:00

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The Poole Telegram Bays :
As everybody was at the " Fete" it lo useless for me
to write about it, but it went off remarkably well, and
those who subscribed to it think their money Is very
well spent.

The Conservative boy, who had lds Conservative
wee cut, by a Conservative woman, at the Liberal
Pte, and Who died, and we. buried, &c., ,tc. is now,
I hear, gone back to his work again, and all right.
We do not read of any Liberal visitors to the Pte
throwing mugs, and did we not know that the speeches
and the success of the whole affair were the means of
converting several "Conservative working men," we
should have regretted the presence of any of our
political opponents.

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I have never been to a Fi•te at State yet. and I
do not intend to go, unless I can be persuaded that
Conservatives have a better way of amusing them-
selves than a few of them had at the Liberal Vte.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery. The Poole Sun
now copies our weekly tide table, and " Table Talk"
raads very well indeed

Th. Isle of Purbeck Yacht Club Dinner came off at
the Antelope on Thursday week, and from what I can
hoer the club flouri.bee, but very few yachts are out.
Two things are essential to yachtsmen -the first is
money, and the second is plenty of fine weather. Just
now a great many yachtsmen have neither, so the
pastime ia at s discount.

A better man than Mr. Haddon, of Wimborne,
could not have been found to explain the fallacies and
injustice of co-operation to the select Committee of the
House of Commons. lam sure that with the present
state of trade we can ill afford to suffer from co-opera-
tion, which should be made illegal forthwith.

That the "magistrate cc-oft-no-Guardian" question
will be taken into the Court of Queen's Bench before
very long, in now no longer a matter of doubt. lam
sore that if "Queen Bens" had known what a lot of
ill-feeling she would be the authoress of when ehe
signed that charter constituting Poole a town and
county, she would never have had anything to do with
IL

So Sir Ivor and Lady Guest have had pres.nbe of
plate because tAey were detested at lirietol. In con-
fidence I may as well tell you that the pieces of plate
the Poole Tories are going to give them under similar
circumstances at the next general election are ordered
from Gounsell'e—but please don't mention it

In the address presented with the plate I read the
words, "In consequence of our opponents being able
to select their own time, and thus prepare deliberately
for the election, we--were beaten." But what
about Lord B. selecting his own time for a dissolution
of Parliament?

How about all the pennies which were subscribed in
Poole for the " Wmth " -are they to be returned ?

I am so pleased to see the road widened at the foot
of Park:tone-hill. The new footpath is an improvemeek
and reflects credit on our Borough Surveyor.
I hear that, although the Tories are to have • Fate
at Sterte, judging from the leader in "the Mawr "
they will have no such foolish nonsemee as fireworks,
acrobats, fiaga, banda, banners, and the lilea A few
speeches, and l.ts of beer to follow, and then their
enjoyment will be perfected.

If the Tories know as much about FUes as r think
I do, they would not hold them on a Bank Holiday.
especially Ant Bank Holiday.

I hoer that the " topeswyers" amongst the Tories
didn't want a Wt.—it was the "Conservative working
men" who wanted it. Jtuit so, make the meet of the
few you have left, my friends, until next election, and
then you'll regret that you had anything to de with
them.
Poole, July 7th. 187 r.

'hEz Wunsass.

ICILSORIFE IT. £XDUW..
A lIJOURNIIII INStr..4r. —On Wedneerlay the
on the Isndies Id William and Elvin& titickland,=
had been adjourned for an anslymie of the viscera,ll6.,
waa held before ?4r. W. H. Atkinaon, aproser. And
the jury. The result of analysis was that nit . the
least trace of poimin cnuld be diecovered by Dr. -eon, and the jury, by direction of dispense* mattlipOd
as their verdict "That the children died from wawa
raa...s." This result is nasct attisfactaly,reliaikagdia
mia41....f the parents and friends aitis 11 piths ai a
great weight of sundowi care. r•

CIIIIRCB MAT/1W '
Lest wook,,attor a score or wars of peers' aketesolk I
resolved to have &pother look at the case dear old church
of Milburn& the envy of half the country round, for its
picture gallery, its monuments quaintly carved in marble,
and its pieta Gospel 'preaching. " Between the storm.'
et this showery Midsummer, I Weeded my way put the
gardens tiled with beautiful dowers, past the reading-
room, where, I hear, the turbulent youth of modern
Milburn,' make Ilimpagible to read with coenfort and
arrive opposite that trophy of our Wesleyan friend.'
seem, Man. &beet Askance I cast a look at a plum-
b...king ptructure to the rear, and learn 'tis • big Pinery.
Well I well t let us hove the proprietor will galn • go'
prodt, without his neighbour, getting .ocel err mee.
the pretty make of tb• churchwarden. and on tos
those line old trees—with a kindly remembrance of
who was oDce the biggest farmer and the most ir
manly yeomen in these parts—and after half a life'
again catch • now of the old tower at the top of
kill lane. What • smart new pt.ce l.th. b, -
chunk how stack and span, and how much b
Wore I What maple room Chop parialikeners sat
their church I 'AU Wet gold that glitters,:
acquaintance, and whoa I have renewed my,
of the old adage of the Norman arch, and at I
Wade, what a shook as old worshipper gel
Picture trallerl It de MOM the Old hak
vanished, sad eves the anal imarbies

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of sight, while • painful sir of perersou speciosa= Is sew
about We :carpentry everywhere Stall there's a big new
north able, awl • pieo• more that looks wit it was meant to
make a Roman cross of the church, only the south arm
isn't dow yet. "Large increase of room here." I remark
internallyoe Wing to forgive iwerethiag for comfort'. sake,
and, turning wider the tower, I ruiss the old gallery, but
road with satisfactiou
"Toe Incorporated Society for Building Churches
granted XV, AD. IS-7. towards re-seating and restoring
this church, all the seats are for the free use of We
parishioners accsrdlne to Le"
Did they, now? ! Let me see. that isle., than •
third of what the Wederrane at Dorchester gayest a week
night meeting last week. Well, £4O wouldn't ruin the
lords and bishops of We Incorporated S Witty. and as to
the re-mating. I'd have forgiven them if they'd done
without It; but to have the seats in the church free
ere 'mine to law ,a a figre4 rain. For what says the Free
awl Oven Church Seedy. I forget the exact name.
"Eeerybiely has a right to • seat in his panda church."
Awl the right to sit in any =lmo pied seat has, I belie,,
been defended at law against official, who would WV to
the poor. "Stand thou there, or sit here under oir foot'
stool" Bt where are to' hatchments gone I I spy the
monuments after long search ; but an. left to wonder
whether the county f•miliee bought beck their histchments
with presente of money to the restoration. WhAt slot of
money they must then have given I And no wonder if
the long-named Societe only had to giVe • miserable courts
of scores of pounds. But when I get down into beautiful
Old Hollow and hack into the village, what a tale is told !
They say—" Not so much room as before for the poor;
nobody allowed to sit in the chancel—that is kept free
from the smell of the laity coming between the wind and
the denier's nobility." The greater part of the seats " apore
pasted" for the Noba of the piece the north aisle filled of
a morning with reformstor7 boys, the north wing with
school children, and adults, if not thought grand enough
to have "appropriated" seeds, thruet heck to a wanly
allowance ignominiously named "free." No wonder the
spirit of the Dickers roused • wife a that old
Milhorne family, no wonder she parched
vacant seat, and did'ut want to be turned oat Not for •
moment do I approve family matters being raked up before
a rom.regation, for that might he " brawling" la church_
But it the seats of the poor were not so much encroached
OD by clerical exclusiveness one way, galley-hating
futiellousnees another, richilarmer-wershipine in • third,
and reformatory•boy-petting in • fourth,—then I don't
think young women would find it fun to attend early, and
plump down in the beet seats, to be afterwards turned out
Unities class distinctions &re lees thought of in llilborne
church, it won't be found enough to have taken away We
hatchments, last they should be more Interesting than
the clergyman's sermon, it won't be enough to say—
" Stand off, end come not into the chance)," it won't
suffice to make the inside of the church look like an
alanshexual mated of a home Some other attraction
must he provided—some other means taken to Imperil
the untutored with reverence for the priestly and
easiseant-priestly orders—and then may Willow., have to
copy Bete, and—(to adapt an old .rhyme)—the discaesion
be renewed—

" Whether a chorister slruld weer
A black &was, or. white dines I
Nreon Intoning, white-robed clown,
Wawa ol welbstarched rude and gown).
Responding in ha ninht-dreen"
Rz•Viarroa.
liiiborne, Midsummer, ICS.

PUDDLETRENTIRDS AND PUDDLEHIN.