The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-31 00:00:00

" Pastes anb flickers."

Our poetic townsman, Mr. Gooey Lewingdon, sent
sympathetic letter on the 14th December, to Her
Majesty, enelaring them Ikea :

Is Negooriass.
" Those kindred eyes tia.lll lost their Ark
But God has raised her spirit higher.
The father, whose life she watched away,
Is waiting at Heaven's gato to-day„
To meet Me one be torsi eo well,
Borne on man wings to men
The chorus in the num stm -
Where Bi loved oar always
With characteristic promptitude the Queen's secretary
replied :—" Lieut.- Pousonby has received the
Quinces oommands to thank Mr. George Lewingdon
for the sympathy expensed IA his oommanication of
the 14th incant—Bocklagham Palace, December 14,

o Two or three signs of the wskom• premium of our
honoured townsman, Mr. George Burt, we could not
help observing
earvij on Saturday last. Our old friends
Flasks. Flickers" were both alight, and our
older friend, Dam* Rumour, was busily flitting from
tap to tap and ear to ear. Malicious es usual, with
only • small percentage of the real to ground her
expectations upon, she succeeded in working the
unwary up to • feverish stater of excitement "The
Sheriff will walk to church to-morrow in hb robes."
Need we add that he did no snob thing. We dis-
covered, however, how the silly ides moss directly we
entered the church, there stood Mr. Marla Damon,
our dear old parish-clerk, robed in a gown—the Snit
time of wearing. The new churchwarden his;
evidently • sense of the proprieties, for the exercise of
which he deserves the thanks of those who believe all
things should be "den. decently sad in ardor."
o

. - .
The loyal endeavour of our stonemasons to have
a balance to draw at Christmai will fully account for
the state of the street. Stone has been rattling down
to the " bankers" at the liveliest rate during the last
few days. Under the circumstances even "Lucia"
will impute no vices to the LB., but, to these his
eery dear Mende, to the many anxious enquirers after
our personality, to "Observer," of precious memory—
we are eo glad to know be is yet alive, and onoe more
a "constant visitor" at Beraazge ; to even our noble
relieving ofdoers, and all else whose nuts we have tried
to crack, though oftener (they will observe) to the
danger of our own teeth, together with our constant
and numerous readers, to these all, out of that bound-
lees charity, which even the preciously remembered
cpose, that we poess, we wish A HAPPY New
—:_o

A notice wax sent rounith all the members of the
&renege Bench of the Couaty Club in a printed form.
About 100 members responded to the announcement
and presented themselves at the room, at the time
stated on the notioe, expecting to be enlightened in
regard te matters concerning the state of the club.
The members waited anxiously for the arrival of the
two revd. gentlemen, when presently they were made
acquainted with the fact that the revd. gentlemen
could not attend that night. but would meet them M.
mine future time. Some 19 gentlemen had come all
the way from Sttulland. The members were oil&
satisfied with the club before, and this disappointment
has not made matters better, for the men went away
much displeased, and &palmed in our hearing, " It
will take something snore than men • special
announcement to cell them together again."

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About 50 responded to the invitatkno Bina by Mr.
Sheriff Burt to the Choral Society and Church Choir.
;le
z.gt at Purbeck House sod took tea tor,
the 'Tomlin the saunsamont oornioned of
sod , sad Mr. sheriff Burt kindly gave
so opportsuoity of nein him droned Is kis official
robes, after arbb thry a/1 sat down to sawn, and
displayed about 11 o'clook. The evening was quit* a
racoon, *Tarpons who attanded Nemed to be very
planed.

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Mr. Obsorver tht be had made suns al his
mark before he etztr.ed in the cause of defendina
the member of the Board ; bat bale mistaken—Lome
and always was resident in Swag:age, and will most
likely eej :y his Christmas dinner in the same town if
not from the same table is Mr. Clarkson.
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The body ol John Bell, late of the Ship Inn,
&akwee hinted like • dog at 8.30 p.m. on the
Deosraber. Toe cluarity's sake we most protest
whit Me I IS l• this fre ma Purina brim too