The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-30 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

DRUNICIIINERS--Robert Stone pleaded guilty of
being drunk and incapable on the 213th Deoember,
end wu fiord 5. including coat& --Richard Pitt, a
seaman, also pleaded guilty of being drunk and es
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malting the police at the Ocean Wave. Fined fie.
and meta.

1413•RIEL AMONGST RILATIVIS. —At the Wey.
mouth County Petty Serious, on Friday, before H•
C. Coodden, L Mende, K. SriMeld, Errs., and
Major Wood, Thomas Jolliffe, quarryman, was sudi•
mooed Ly Elisabeth, wife of William Pour, for
assatilL There waa a cross-summons, in which
Thomas Jolliffe was the complainant, and Elizabeth
Pearce the defendant. Mr. Howard appeared for
Joflak and Mr. C. F. Arden appented for Mrs.
Perim. Tbe two belligerents stood in the relation
to each other of nephew and aunt, and the Beech
urged that the parties should mettle their differnces
amicably between theinselvea Neither of them,
however, felt disposed to take this advice, and each
one's statement was heard. It appeered that
Jolliffe's wife went to his aunt's for her to oome and
tell JoHale to hit face what she had spoken of else-
where. She went and told him that she saw him with
• disreputable gill on the beech road. This Joni&
denied, and he put her out of the house, took his
mit off and wanted to fight her. A great deal of
angry language subsequently pared, and • greet
deal of ill•feriling had NUM been marketed. The
Bench decided to bind both parties over to keep the
PI:00e.

LIABILITY TO 11•INT1IN ONE'S OWN CIIILDRZN.
—Robert Pearce was summoned before the Wey•
mouth County Bench, by Mr. W. H. Scriven, one
of the overseers of Portland, on Friday, to show
canoe why he should not contribute to the support
of his two sons, Thomas and Henry, who were
described as being imbecile and weak in mind and
wholly unable to support themselves It &posited
that the defendant bad got hold of the notion that
he was not compelled to maintain his children after
they were fifteen yews of age. Accordingly, be
placed the two boys in question, aged respectively
lb and 20, in the Union workbooks*, and when the
bill for their maintainanoe was sent in, be wrote •
letter to the guardians to tell them that be did not
inland to pay anything, and that he had two other
children, who were also weak in body and mind,
whom he meant to sand there. Mr. Hare appeared
for the guardians, and called the master of the Union
who proved that the east of the maintenance and
clothing was about 2s 6,1. per bead. Mr. &trivia
was then called, and he proved that the defendant
we. • quarry man, earning upon an avenge, for four
day's work, about El per week. He had also xi:
cottages, rated in the books as follow.: two at £6
per year prom rental, and £4 154. rateable value
and four at £4 10.. each gross rental and reteabl;
value 4:3 104. He had lately also purchased two
other cottages which were not yet on the rate-book.
The defendant said he did not mean to be dis-
obedient to the advice of • kind gentlemen who had
been • geoid friend to him, just to oblige the over.
seers of Portland. He bad four children at home
now to keep, and two of them were imbecile.
One of his children at home, 15 yearn of age, went
to work and earned Is. • day. His own wages were
not always £1 a week; sometimes he earned more,
but generally lee.. Al for his cottages, be borrowed
money on them. He had borrowed somewhere
about £3OO, and paid three per coot. interest. With
regard to the children in the workhouse, he had
been told by his master's agent he could send them
there and DO one could mate him pay • farthing for
them after they were fifteen yaws old. He had
taken that gentleumo's advice, and lie did not mean
to keep :bean nor to pay for them. The Bench said
there were many • persons who limit' rates and who
had but a hare subsistence for their own families,
and it was a hard matter for them to have to keep
the families of others in better circumstantial than
themselves. According to the defendasit's own
showing, his income was at the least from £7O to
kW a year, and they considered his means adequate
to support those two children whom he had swat to
the anion. They should, therefore, order him to
I pay 2s. 61. a-week each for their support. Defendant
said that sooner than pay that mosey he would
take them out of the Union and keep them hiniaeU.