The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-04-08 00:00:00

KOHOKS.

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Zaho, perched OS • telegraph wire crowdng a main
thoroughfare, the other day, saw two gent. pulling
loag faces opposite a tradesman's window which
bed away all the shaken up. Wondering if env one
was dead, or any of the acquaintance, of the fining
were about to bo takes to the bourne "from when°,
so traveller returns,* it woe at once decided that ono
of tho two said gents shoulutric4i and investigate the
matter. Ho did so. very solemnly into
what appeared outside to be e ontranos to Back.,
be ventured to enquire the reason of the outward
esuthlanos of sorrow? And he weds soon informed
that the 'batten had been put up to keep the sun
cult

That gallant volantiter the othihr day woo not
allowed tq do as ha Hard, and aa a salutary caution to
ahem the Boo& at Wartnouth mada an order for
payment of El 10a dna to the corps I

Wflhlim Kamm will not only get the Home Some-
=L
IMO—the only little bit of surplus he hae to the
longstocking —but Ireland is going to do the
dialog also, and William, it is to be hoped, may echo
beck the sentiments of his hurt in hL good-bye to
Portland.

-Whew • the convicts hay; got nothing else to do,
after levelling • glade for the Verne, they are going
to be set to count the flints and pebbles on the Chesil
Beach I
Let Fortune's Well all pull ene way in the matter
of watering main streets and then there will be no
reason to fear but the mainspriig of the con
mittee will work well ; as for the water main that will
be sure to he lorthooming. But do shell out. oh I ye
backward ones of last year, sad not let the dust blow
In your eyes before the time
" Who was it" had a fearful quarrel with his better
half one night? Many hard and bitter words were
spoken, and • little of the Mama fluid appeared on
the some ; but worse stall the said he left his trade
mark upon her guiltless form. Bat he is repentant
now, for, filled with remorse at the shameful past, be
has left off taking his drops on the sly, goes home
early, is very attentive to business, and ab ese all
adores Ma wife.

As there is now an additional mail from Portland
to London every day, it la fully anticipated that than
will he many more' oorresponding fe-sisails than
heretofore
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—ilib7r; la an extra mail a day from Portland, is it
Use that tb• Poatinutar-Genersl is going to raise all
th• officials' Lassies for the extra duty imposed upon
thaw? The rooks echo back, "Nor

It is foll_y anticipated that whoa the new House of
Portlead Ominous meet. there will be one or two new
memben to be introduced.

The writs have already been lensed, and soon we
shall keys the pleasure of remedies their bow to the
chair. Nothin ruiparliamentary is ever again going
to be uttered within the walls of the L.8.R., or there
may be some broken crockery.

But like the old bowie which stand in their an...t.tc..p.1,1
bestifying—even Is their mouldering decay to
days—es will the L.B. stand shoulder to also7Z;.;
Me good of iblb Royal Manor, and for aka ratepayers
whose servaata they are

It la not true that Mother (lirling has converted an
inhabitant oi Fortune's Well, and that he is about to
have for the oskstlal Paradise where he will be strictly
under pettioost Government

The Warrior did not proceed to sea on Thursday, as
there warn too much swell for practice. However, on
Friday the pliant tars, with a company of the fair
sex en board, pat out to ma, sad the ladies were not
at all a..-siak. There was some good firing under the
circtunstrinese.

Ever done Adam's thn• a woman hall been a mate
for a man, and on this oocaaion the tan were well
mato&

Echo was admiring the beautifully-carved coat of
arms of the Howards, and the soon-to-be beautiful and
replete Freemasons' Hall, when two fellows were
observed talking at the oppoeste side of the way—the
entrance to Chesil Beach. One said "Elam, is it not
a pity that, opposite to this beautiful piece of art,
where visitors are wont to tread in order to ascend the
bank of the Chesil, there should be • pathway of filth,
putrid matter, and old tins and pots, which make up
the scavenger's heap?" The other suggested that the
eotranos to this wonderful natural phenomenon,
extending, as it doe., for the length of eight or nine
miles, should at least be made a little more attractive.
Sam added that most of the members of the Local
Board, anticipating the fatigues of the coming
election, are away recruiting their strength, or he was
sure they would not tolerate such a state of things
just under the very noes' of visitors as they emerge
from the railway-station. Belo answered—" Just
so I"