The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-20 00:00:00

DOROHETER.

urnNIAJUITT'S NIA,/ Paieo. is rido4 fast, and the
immense masses of bricks have been clear.' away
troin the front of the old gaol. A few days ar work.
men rejeiced greatly over the completion of a tine stack
of chimneys, and hoisted • Union Jack thereon.
&Hoot TRZAT.—The Juvenile tea-meeting and treat
were given to Fordington Sunday School on Friday
night, when the Ito a. George and Handley Mottle
and Mr. Charles Mottle attended to the boys, and Mrs.
Go ne Mottle, Mrs. Mary Gslvin, and other ladies
waited on the girls. The children had an abundance
of tea and cake and buns, and oranges were also die-
tributed to each. Part of the treat was provided by a
magic lantern, when several friends came to see the
pictures-, among these were a number of moving
ones, which greatly excited the interest of the
spectators, Mr. George and Mr. Handley kindly taking
turns to describe. On account of &slight Indisposition
the worthy vicar could not attend.

ASSAULT.—thary lieges was charged with assault-
ing Frances Hedges, his wife, at Wyke, on the 7th of
January.—The man wai willing to plead guilty; but
the wife did not wish to appear against him. On
finding that his wife would not aPPeht against him'
defendant tjualified his plea of guilty by saying he did
not meat& his wife Rest : be had been hurt when in
the navy ' • on this occa-don he had a drop of drink, and
it always affected his head. Ills wife provoked him
first, and when a man's provoked, what can he do?—
Mr. Henke.: A man has no business to knock about a
woman.—Fined la and costs (fis.), and allowed to
Monday morning to pay; in default the amount to be
levied by distress.
PICKING AND STIALING. —On Monday at the
County Hall, before It. Williams, E.g., jun., Hannah
Pry, the woman who was acquitted on a charge of
theft at the last Quarter :•teesi no, was again brought
up, charged with having stolen, on Monday morning,
from the Refreshment Rooms at Maiden Newton
Railway Station, four pieced of cocoanut mat-
ting, the property of Mrs. Sarah Peckham.
Sergeant Hitch, Maiden Newton,atated that from infor-
mation received, he apprehended prisoner this (Monday)
morning, on a charge of having et Ain cocoanut
matting from the railway station. He met prisoner
in the street carrying three pieces of matting. She
said she had another piece at home, which he went and
fetched.—Prisoner was remanded till Saturday.
DISTURBANCE IN • CMURCH.—JuAn Pearce, a b
was summoned for disquieting a congregation in a
parish church wherein a congregation of Protestant*
were lawfully assembled.—The churchwarden, Mr.
Francis Pearce, heard a noise in the gallery t-f St.
George's Church, wont up, and found defendant
talking !until..., and on speaking to him the boy said
either he should so ont or witness eh ,uld. He ala
called him pulling-head and woo-len-head, and next
slay he refused to apoloAse. However, witness offered
to forgive him if he would apologise now.—The boy
sullenly said they were sitting there quietly when the
churchwarden came up and pushed him, and defend-
ant answered him back.—Mr. Middleton asked him if
he thou.:ht ho could go into a church and behave like
tiat, liotnirbing the congregation ? —The boy gave but
a sullen answer. and the Chairman, after reproving
hued him on I coat., total CI ;or 14 days
hard labour.

' ALARM OF FIRE. --Sergeant Mitchell and P.l.
Dunn on Friday night, between *even and eight
o'clock, Saw a vast quantity of smoke with burning
" thinkers" pouring out of the drying chimney at
Messrs. Wright's, High East-street; the inmates also
had discovered that the chimney was on flre, and the
fire-hose-reel was immediately fetched from the
Market-house, • length of hose attach--d to the main,
and in about four minutes from the alarm a stream ,4
water was poured on the fire, which Was extinmiahed
In about throe quarters of an hour, Supt. Coward
directing the police. It appeared that in the chimney
a quantity of bacon was being smoked, when the
string of a' side" broke, letting the bacon fall on the
fire by which it was Line smoked. The bacon
frizzled and blazed, and set the soot in the chimney on
Ere, and the flue became so heated that after all was
out the wall in the passage coul 1 he felt very hot.
The damage done was not great.
Convicrs AN!) Payson WARDER..— At Exeter, on
Weduesdey, John Philllipe, an a.sistant warder in the
prison, WA' charged with having conveyed to a couvict
two ounces of tobaczo, soma note-paper, envelopes,
pencils, and two newspap..m. Mr. Toby, who prase-
aged for the Treasury, pressed for a heavy penalty.
Suspicions were ariueed against the prisoner, and the
convict was searched, the result being that the articles
mentione.l were f. .1 upou him, and oleo cuttings from
the newspaper. The warder, in whom the other por-
tions of the newspapers were discovered, signed an
admission of the offence, but protested that when he
gave the parcel to the convict be did out know what
It contained. John IL Smith, the convict in question,
who W:l3 sentenced at the Exeter winter assize, in
October, 1978, to eighteen months' imprisonment for
burglary and stealing a ; ortmanteau, was called, and
gave evidence against the defendant Phillips. Ile also
stated that in one letter which Phillips gave him there
was a half-sovereign, which he handed back to
defendant to get things for him. The prisoner now
said he was; very sorry for what had occurred.
Defendant was fined klti, or in default three months'
hard labaur. The money was p dd.
TEARING Or CLOTHE3.—Mary Weed, who had put
on sackcloth, warn brought up for tearing up his
clothes, and also 3 snit the property of the Guardians.
—Mr. Henry Pearce, master of the union, said the
man was admitted into the casual ward last eight, and
this morning was found to have torn up his clothes
during the night. They gave him another suit ; but
he tore up that also.—The man said the other things
given him were not fit to put on a scarecrow.
Llis own clothes were dirty, and he could not get
them clean.—Mr. Pearce explained that he told
prisoner he had had a great many applications
for more author, and he'd see about it —Prisoner
denied being told Mr. Pearce would see about it;
as to these things they had given him— (a pair
of trousers stamped with vari, us trademarks)
—why knew what he should do, no one would
give him a job of work if he wore them; when he came
out of prison,heshouldsimply walk down street naked.
—Mr. Symonds: Then you'll simply go back to prison.
—Prisoner said the order of the Local Government
Board was that the clothes should be disinfected; but
the excuse given was that they hal no apparatus, and
he had put up with the Me mvenience and smell till
be could bear it no more.—Committed for 14 days'
hard labour, the Chairman remarking he was liable
to three month.. —Priioner : As for the,.-- things,
I have half A mind to tear them up here. —Prisoner
did not appear either pale or thin; he had a good
colour and was moderately full in the face, and
seemed a rather intelligent man ; but he was evidently
much taken aback at the queerly stamped " bags "
which he was clothed.

Sreslim-ois;i1)--erl-LAt the County Petty Sessions,
Saturday, before H. B Middleton, Esq., Colonel
Henning, and R. Williams, Ew; , jun., a wan named
Lutes was brought up for seating swedes (row his
master, Mr. J. T. Enno.-Sergeant Mitchell, Oa
Thunder, 13th, about seven p.m., met the defendant
Lucas on Forclington•hill, carrying the ba,l of turnips
produced. Stopped him and asked what he had in the
bag, when he said it was a few turnips given him by
hi. master, Mr. Ensor, The Lergt. told him he should
take him back to Mr. Rumor to see if the statement
was true, when he first replied that his master only
gave him a few ; afterwards he said he didn't give him
them at all, and on being charged, he added "It was
not from the Repository, but from the field, that I
took them." Witness wet to the field, where they were
aU put in heaps.-Mr. Frederick Ensorengaged defen-
dant to puU the swedes, and he ought to have finished
Lest Saturday, but did not until Monday. Never gave
him leave to take away any turni: a. -Prisoner elected
to be dealt with mummarily.-One month hard labour.
ITathicesegn Gov. -John Welatoad was summoned
for u without a license at Dewlish.-Mr.
H the case, but asked them to
Howard admitted
hear an explanation. in order to induce the Bench to
reduce the penalty to the lowest amount allowed, and
also to recommend • further reduction. Mr. Thomas
Tuck, of IJewlish, for some years has taken out a game
licence and also a licence for Mr.Welsteed, his bailiff,
to carry • gun. This he had done for years, although
he waa not,obliged to do so, affl,be had * game licence,
and the gun was only need for scaring birds
and killing vermin. Thus the Goverrunent had had
the benefit for years, of Dlr. Tuck paying for two
HOODONI; but last April Mr. Tuck omitted taking out
the licence, therefore Mr. Welstead ought to have
takes out one himself, and Mr. Tuck had done so •
but not until three days after the eummons takes;
ont.-Mr. C. T. Atkins bad no doubt it Will an
endialon on Mr. Tuck's part, and would be pleased to
further any recommendation of the magistrates to the
°°ln2"l.4"es• -The thavistratem inflicted the lowest
penalty, E 2 i 11.., with • recommendation to the Coen-
Iniseloners that the fine be further reduced.
in= POACHING. Jaeaa Brownie°, Jan Wi;:e sr,
Prosaic Holladay, Sawed Maitland. and Witham; raytur,
were summoned for taking trout from the Froome, on
Sunday, 4 Ch. -Mr. Weston pp.secuted, and stated that
Pomeroy and another had seen men fishing in the
river near Lowls Mill, and secreted themselves, after
which they saw Brounsea take two fish with a 'wire,
out of a hole. lie then signalled, the others came and
by Illeaol of poking the hole, and with wiree, took two
mere flab, when omeroy appeared, spoke to them,
And the men ran away. Pomeroy and Meech were

HIGHWAY BOARD CAS.
Mr. R. William', jun., retired from the Bench duriae
the followlne cues.

Oliver Boatswain, summoned for non-payment
of a contribution order to the Highway Board, had paid
the order but not the cost,.

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--Mr. Coornb., the clerk to the board, therefore applied
that the cute should be adjourned, which we agreed to.