The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-04-10 00:00:00

about, to bring him in. Could not say where he lodged,
and never saw and company with him.—P.C. Bartlett hail
frequently seen prisoner on the Dorchester road, loitering
about at midnight. Prisoner had been here about two
months : he generally loitered on the Dorchester road, or
in the railway station, he generally goes out that way ;
but you cannot tell how be get++ back, as he comes hark 3
different way. Lodgings he had been traced to; but de
often goes out for some nights at a time, and w lien lie
comes 'hack changes his lodging'. The railway polieenian
had ordered him out of the railway station.,—Defenilant
said he hail a perfect right to go for a walk any hour of
the day or night —The Superintendent said that he hail
given instructions whenever the man was found wander.
rag to bring him in, as they did not know how he sdA hit
living.—The Bench gave Mr. Vickery instructions that
prisoner should be arrested and brought in, if he wero
found wandering abroad in • suspicious way—Mr. Vickery
ha no doubt that he would he .1.1 to be brought in for
• lodging at the station every night.—Prisoncr's enitraving
tools being produced, he was diechargeil.

SCSPECrEI, CRACKSMAN.
Georne Green was biought up on toispicion, for haring a
picklock.—P.C. Bartlett said he had found from Mr.
Harman that prisoner, in the name it.f Wilkinson, had
sold him two lots of horsehair.—Prisoner said he sold the
horsehair and other things to Mr. Harman honestly, and
Mr. Hm aran paid him honestly : the things he sold he
obtained honestly, and he gave the Ilante of licorge
Green ; it was Mr. Hanna,, who made the mistake. —ln
answer to Mr. Arden, P.C. Bartlett said that when pri-
soner went out he bad not got his working to to, only the
pieklock and a bag.- Prisoner said he was a labourer by
trade ; bit being ill with the rheuinatics, he wsnt
rags and bones, and mending unibrellas. The "picklock,"
as they called it, he did not make last Platy, huts fort-
night ago at Abliotabury, to pull up the springs of
umlir, Ilas.—The Dew% dismixsed primmer with a cautlon
the pollee were directed to diecharge him
be narrowly watched. , and he would

sureties of £lO to keep the peace towards him wife for six
month.
A VERT OLD OPPVIDER.—ThTnaII wee• up I
for heir - • •

_ brought 1.,
for being drunk and riotous.—The Mayor imid prisoner
had been here many times before.—Dr. Drew 25 times,
I ihoul,l think--a silver wedding.—The Superintendent
said 31 timett.—P.C. Carter found the prisoner heating the
Vnion door Net night after ton. Ile wee down on his
lack, and bed bed his bat. Witness "hove" him up, and
brought him to the station. He made so nitieh noise that
witneee heart him at I. tn•belowne.—Supt Viekery nail
thee did not relieve any one after eight o'clock at night.
—The Mayor nail prisoner won an incorrigible drunkard •,
if he coda borrow 111, this morning, he would go out and
tnake a beast of himeelf again.—Fined 10s., or to go to
Doreheg.ter.gaol for seven daya—Committed.

The child Dope we again brought up. and, in answer
to Mr. Alden, male hic age out to he about 11. —The elder
broth-r, in an.wer to fr. Anion, said his grandfather had
written to his mother; but mho had not replied and the
grandfather would not give him her direetions.—The
Soperintendent gated that Mr. Ransom° was keeping
thi. boy at the Siilor,. Ilion-. —ln anmwer to Dr. I brow,
the ,iailor boy Dopre said be had been on board chip 15
months, and had been a g.l boy all the time. The
charitable do,tor thereon " tipped the sailor boy some
silver, and of t.rward. gave the other juvenile some money.
—The child Wai then committed to an itobtatrial school,
to ronain there till he non 11; years of ago, Mr. Milledge
eking him g,vsl wkire and another "

I:ossn' OP THE TIMES.
lovic,ol ii t,otntnnnaatn jnn-inn, is an axiom I can "strongly
ree.i.omend " to those who want to reform the system of
our rate eolleetion. I trust nobody will he severe on toe
for il ablating inn Latin if I give the meaning of what I
intend to convey, as "Thu height of law is the height of
justire," through of coarse the translation is not literal.
Really, with Mr. Walker about, one ix almost afraid to
say what is, and what not ! but even that former prince of
lecturers, the Rector of Wyke, wouldn't let me be so
slavish as to say "The highest law, the highest injury."
The sentiment I cotninen.l to our reformers, who want to
libel the collector to bold as Waal' a sum of money in his
batels so ptssilde. It must be remetultered that the
mks close at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the
trieasure: may want to receive befere that time what the
e..llector wialtes to pay in, so that the receipts of a large
pertion of the shorn ion, and the while of the evening,
cannot Conine into the treasurer's hands until next day.
I How, therefore, to draw the line that the collector shall
1 daily pay in his daily receipts is a matter that I think,
[nay exercise a little thought Then again, how is the
treasurer to know that tine collector h i Inns paid n all he has
received during any twenty•four hours stated Tn make
'owe of that, there must not only be a daily audit, but a
daily investigation, to see what receipts remain in the
rate books. The customs of the law, again, interpose
anther barrier against making all secure, for in wane caws
a Bank Ileliday May intervene' or it naay Imppen that
practic ally there are yet more days, during which the
collector could not be expected to make his returns and
pay in his cash. The naive I look at the matter, the more
liffieult and unreasonable tlo I scent that any party should
expect to hntatil the collector so closely. There
confidence, and these most be sureties, unit with these I
fully expect, even were the collector not such a good man
as Mr. Blard that the ratepayers' interests will he fully
protected. without attempting to draw , the law too
tightly, and so suggesting that it should be evaded, while
Bank holidays must remain.
That curious holyday, Good Friday, was meet
widely observed this year, being a tine .13y. Most
wide, too, were the forms of its observance. The
Ritualists had solemn prayer all day, and I learn of
one place where the young men "kept the fahlstool," for
the forty-eight hours Friday and Saturday, one kneeling
for an hour, and on his rising the place being taken by
another, and another, and another, until every hour of the
forty-eight was marked IT the "outward and visible
sign " of prayer. Devout Church bakers, after their work
of bun-making on Thursday, no doubt went weary to
chtarch, while the street boys were selling their wares for
them over country and town. Other devout churchpeople
might fall into the soktuu spirit of the day with less
weariness than the bakers the Wesleyans in none
instances hail a lighter gathering in the afternoon, when
and cake, tel talk, made the fast less wearis.ome to the
flesh. (was it AM at airchester ) other denominations
regard.l not tine day, except as an anniversary, and at
Portland the Independents had a great anti hearty gather-
ihg, 'helped by tin Weymouth friends. Further to think of
of the spending, I noted that marty took it entirely
as an pleasure day, and to somc the only fete ilay of all the
year, while careless toys took boat, and seven of them
mitt-he fools of themselves an Weymouth Bay, waded
axleare for dear life, and no doubt wane if them will spend
future days as Miners spent their Good Friday, in the sick
nom. I leaVe preaching to the "reverends," and with
grateful thought .4 Him Whose suffering the day recalls,
I hope those were right, who were able to enjoy the
beautiful sunlight on our hilLsland B ty, where you seemed
to see "The bridal of the earth and sky."
Itat in what a different way some people in Ilartlebury.
Riw spent the time ! They drank beer and got "jolly
d ,
ro n
ak more and snarled, drank m k yet ore awl quarrelled,
drank again, and had to call in the pollee, awl then great
John Rogers, at other tittles hardworking, the father of a
Noade, must jump out of his window to thrash the
1,„1,..,,mais Fourteen shillings and sixpence, a very
considerable share of Ms week's wages, went for this
curious phasure-taking, and John Ringers is Inn .ky that he
41,1n.t fall in with a magisttate instead of a policeman,
to thrash, or I doubt very much if several weeks' wages
would have boom evia to his tine, besides the six month's

I oimling over to keep the peace. Our policemen are really
go.I I ouvl I agree with Dr. Drew for taking care
of them, but I would in future s.tiggest that they take care
of themselves, somewhat as a schoolfellow of mine :
Expecting a oounl thrashing, the youthful wag came up
smiling, and when the worthy schosolionister laiol on, the
blows fell hollow. The dust flew ; but no torture appeared
in nay fritters fare, and our mentor at last, suspecting
something. examined inside the pupil's coat, when he
espied a Slll3ll collection of slates, and a respectable library
of school hooks, ingeniously arranged as mail armour,
between the outer and inner clothes. Sonic such fore-
thought. Sticklanol may use, and lie may timl a stout
inner lining, when mauled about loy a great drunken man,
and two tierce women, • better protection even thee the
likelihood cf gettin.: his opponent tined live shillings for
, aesault on the police. We may also expect, after the
torigistrates' iolea of what protecting the police is, to see
, our con4tal Iles it.. as the warders in the old time—
%loco they drank oho rot wine through the helmet barrel,"

Tut alcain's gifts have always been put to bad uses, as
sotto."( the cleverest iron-worknien in our convict prisons
c odd tell. But it was a wonderfully simple little lit of
iron that the police pounced upon, aud judged George
Green to lie a felon in intent. An angle at each end, and
flat edge hid-king one end, and there was, said Sergeant
Ap+ey. "a pieklock that could open any of the prison
doors." " A hook to join up umbrella springs," said
Georgre Green. Lot George Green he an innocent, poor,
hut clever workman, or let him be what the police say ; it
remains that a trumpery Is king hit of iron put us all at
the mercy of its owner. What can we do to increase our
safety :* It is old and trite that "love laughs at lock-
smiths:" but it ft uncomfortable to think that such a love
as Mr. Green may have the power to vt use in the dead
of night. We can't preach total abstinence from iron, or
even taken away the smiths from the dangerous people;
so for a Little longer we must try bolts as well as the
locks.

What can be done for the safety of the Town Council,
as we can't do without a meeting Oar gathering of local
magistrates for lousiness has become a time-wasting
Parliament, a D bating Flub. without the good feeling
that brings the disputants to he friends. Personal feelings
are cotsulted, personal biekerings indulged in, personal
14sions vrorked up, and personal rase given vent to.
Floods of talk often sweep away the business itself, and
always waste time, labour, and temper. The result is
lamentable, for standing orders are disregarded, and the
proper respect to the I 'hairman is honoured more in the
breach than the observance. The Mayor, with every
desire for the good of the town, seems unable to make
Lead against the talk that, first showing itself iii streams
of pump-water eloquence which do nothing worse than
waste time, then get hot with the desire to demolish
something, and by and bye get changed 'like the troubled
sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and
dirt." Further still goes the change sometimes, and we
have " It-sting waves of the sea, foaming out their own
shame." Though the Mayor seems to do his utmost, yet
he might try the severe hand, and when the meeting
tends towards being time-wasting anti disorderly, he
should exercise his prengative and declare the sitting
e100,,L Some svich strong hand (only can prevent the
verdict of public opinion, who, pointing to the mace, will
deman,l—" Take away that beside." The conduct of
sine in the Corporation is keeping visitors iron, the town,
and I charge the came on the long talkers, eloquent as
theh are, who stir up the spirit of tivalry in the ill-
tempered and foniquoutlied, till the reports disgrace
the town, and snake visitors think Weymouthians are
i ncorrigible.

Little Dupre, the incorrigible nnie of Trinity schools
at wise years old. is br be sent to an industrial school
at a charge of Is. per week to Weymouth parish,
and rrs. is week to the Government, if the parish
authorities will consent. Dupre, in spite of his father's
desertion, his mother s inattention, and the despair-
ing throwing—overboard of him by Holy Trinity
school, will Is a fortunate boy after all, if its.
a week are to be oilfield by the Government and
Parish on his behalf. awl he is to be kept till it, and put
to a trate. It would he worth knowing what the deser-
tion by the father, Impro, has cost the Parish: for the
child, who I noticed hall the fat, happy-faced expression
of genuine childhood still on him, said that after his
father went away he was" in the union with his mother
live yeses." The struggling poor who keep their families
without union aid exercise far greater heroism than is
supieved hy tho-e who affect to despise them. Mr.
Edwards often tries to encourage and to raise the poor;
awl lelsoirers' encouragement societies would find • wide
field for their exertions in towns. It strikes me that
many a hard-working porter and labourer would be rich
beyond his dreams if he hal to, a week for every boy
above nine years old, even if the schools did not find him
as incorrigible as little Dupr. But surely the schools who
do not give up bad boys as incorrigible at the hardened age
of nine are the one, that ought to have public support
and Government grants. It is astounding to find that
even Brard Schools refuse stroll children. If as, what on
earth are they good for' I would strongly advise that
any school which shirks the management of a child of
nine ought itself to be " thrown over in despair." and the
Government funds saved for schools which will help the
needy when he crieth—the poor also, and him that hath
no helper. And who more needy than a deserted but not
union-house child of nine with a bad character? The
, Great Master said, " They that are whole need not •
nhysician, but they that are sick:" and how few of us, or
even of School Boards and School Committees, would be
enjoying that blessed Help if He had, like certain schools,
c list us into outer darkness, to go from bad to worse, at
nine years' old !

we'l the country deserves of the rifle volunteers is
.liown by the Easter Monday Review. With very few
holidays in the year, the young tradesmen of Weymouth
and their comrades of the villages gave Easter Monday
to wearisome details of drill in a field at the back of the
Collegiate School. Not long after one Bugler Jeffery
blew the calls, and from then till half-past live the men
were devoted to rifle corps business, while other people
were out holidaying. Every roan of them deserved to
appear in Mr. Debenham's photograph; and I was glad to
see their drill was witnessed by • good few of the fair
sex, ant there would have been many more host the
rendeavous been at Itodwell, as was intended at first.
Diner-NS.