The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-07-27 00:00:00

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good tools for the futuro of a family.
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DOBOHISTRB.
W. DO RDRN, Rol., Mayor, and Men Darden
attended the Mansion House Ball.
THE ASONTHOUS ATTACKS ON CLZROTHICL—We have
good authority for stating that the insinuations which
appeared in an out-cninty paper were utterly false.
ANIMAL LICIXIIIIM Mire.' —At the Borough
Court, on M ,nday, Mr. Devenish and Mr. Davis
appointed Monday, August 30th, as the annual
Booming meeting.
GIRLS NATIONAL SCHOOL —The 'cholera and friends
enjoyed • delightful treat on Thur. lay last, at the
grounds of Colhton House, through the great kindness
of the benevolent owners, the Mimeo Churchill.
Foam:tenor Vic kaaog is being ex tensively renovated
under the direction of Mr. L. Tilley is fore the now vicar
goes into residence, the roof, outer garden wall, kc.,
being strengthened and improved affoloat th• approach
of winter.
MEDICAL Success—At the recant examinations
held at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dr.
Alfred W. Edwards (son of Mr. H. Edwards, dentist)
was one of the successful candidates, and received the
(lipid's& of Lioentiate of dental surgery, L.D.S.,
ii.C.S.I.
Druertimar.—lt will be sees by an announcement of
our advertising columns that Mr. Deana Webb, of 43,
Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-x-onm London, W.,
visits Dorchester every alternate Saturday, his con-
sulting rooms being at Kr. Lockett's, 1, Cornhill,
Dorchester.
LARGIR SHOP WI:MOIwe are inc invenient in • WWII
snore the boys and the genes are so much in motion
as in Dorchester. Mr. Liss learnt this unpleasantly
last week, when what Mr. Barnes calls • " gran-
stwone" went through an Efi pane. As for OOP
windows an I our neighbours', they are scarcely ea
mended ye,.
UNLUCET FOR THE VOLONTIIRS. —The weather,
which has ..cenerally been so foe of late, altered
materially f r the worm on Sunday night, and drench-
ing storm. fell, which were repeated on Monday
morning, thoron4hly *Galin; the ground. Even U
the rain should cease, it must be • I mitted this is an
unfavourable beginning for the camping-out week.
Tits New Bamrsar.—This very fine building is the
subject of an engraving and a descriptive article in the
Breeters' Jorritel for July, wbich states that—“as the
moat modern plant and machinery ham been
the brewery, when completed, will represent th=
establishment of the locality." This is rather hard on
Dorchester, which we thou6t had other large build-
ims besides breweries, about the County
fiftumerna and Library and the Grammar School!
VAORANOT.—At the Cons? jetty Boredom on
Saturday, before Colonel Bing , Atha differeasss,
of Weymouth, was brought up in the custody of P.O.
Nortbover, charged with sleeping under • hayrksk at
Wyk' Regis. —Primmer, who was utterly destitute of
money, &a., and who was also under the inficemos of
beer, was found by the polka officer asleep under •
hayrick belonging to Mr. Willman—He had been
several times in trouble before, and was sentenced to
seven days' hard labour.
Out R.H. A. went off for Okeluunptou on Friday,
for the purpose of attending tier autumn manceuvren
Another battery, the G. of C . Brigade, came into town
on that day. Serpant-Major ~,,mahnd
until next day to deliver up the Werke, which were,
as usual, in excellent order. The G. of C.', pro.
coded on the followincelay. The batteries entered
Heliport about the middle of the days on which dm
started, and were receirol there witfi honours, as Al
he seen in our Bridport mws.
Memento • Fahorn.—At the Borough Magleitzgese
Court, on Monday, before M. Deveniali, Esq., and E.
Davis, Esq., Bussphrey Moores wm brou6t up far
having been drunk and disorderly, on Sunday night.—
P.C. Dunn found him in Duragatosimet, with • girl
named Jane Prows. • he was cursing and swearing all
the way up. and ',plaided to be very drunk. Witness
told him to stop making use of such language, for
prisoner was milling Prowess foul name. She knocked
him down; but witness lifted him up, and told him he
ought to be ashamed of himself. Prisoner replied with
some impudent language, and the amiable locked him
up.—Prner said he had been along with a friend,
and taken • glees or two more than he ought.—Fined
17s. Id., including cogs.
Womusn's Ovrigo.—On Friday lag between 10
and 80 of the men employed at Messrs. Crocker and
Co.'s well-known iron works made an excursion to
Bristol, leaving Dorchester at half-past five and
arriving at their destination about 9 a.m., when they
prooeeded to one of the numerous dlnlng.iall. in the
city, where • substantial broadest was provided.
Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Zoological Garelens,kc.,
having been visited, the party returned to the dining-
hall, where • capital dinner had been laid, which was
presided over by Mr. J. E,eeping, Mr. T. Gerrard
rain the vice-chair. The usual Alta.-dinner pro-
p having been ably carried out, the party
visited- the various places of interest in the
the time for the return josirne had arrived, and bor.
chaster was safely reached t half-past ten, all
having spout • thoroughly pleasurable day.
Prounc•non or Eizargas.—As the city of Paris has
tried various chemical and other means of dealing with
its sewage, and is now irrigating about • thousand
acres of ndwithin five miles of the Tuileries, the
following from the Republiqwe IPrenceise will be of
interest':--" On June 23 last the Municipal Council of
Paris resolved among other things To approv
firstly, the oominnation of irrigation in the fields ol
Gennevilliers, and the carrying of the se to the
lower 120 db-western part of the pitaeof St.
Germain and adjoining farms, and the delivery of
sewage from the conduits to poems on their routes,
who shall be willing, by agricultural, chemical, or
other means, to cleanse it at their own expanse and
risk, for the sake of what they may be able to get out
of it, subject to rules to be prepared ,• secondly, to ask
the Guvernmant, in meg the 1,500 hectares (3,700
acres) might be Insufficient for the purification of the
without any annoyance to the neighbourhood,
;sow= into immediate consideration the extension of
the present proposal and the irrigation of other districts
in the valley of the Seine.' "—Glatt.
THE BOROUGH SURVEYOR AND OUR
WATER TAPS.
10 the Alibi%

The lose of e 155, beside ontt, which ha, 1.1110 upon
our most experienced auctioneer, Mr. 'C. Ensor, is the
more to be regretted becartsa it appear, to have been
entirely undeserved. We Are not, of c mrse, arguing
that his Lordship was le.pallv wrong in d•clding that
the auctioneer most suffer ; but, having a lively recol-
lection of the flourish with which, not an very long
a;'. it was announced that Law and Equity had been
assimilated, it is very diaappoicting t I find that, appa-
rent' y in the ordinary course of business, so severe • lose
can les inflioterl by I try upon an ex:srrienc-d iron whom
all a Imit, and the Judge met p .intedly so, acted with
perfect bora lieu. It would seem that in order to
make himself safe in each cares, An auctioneer
mad be perfectly sexpitinted with the announcements,
multifarious as they are, of bills of sale. lb difficult
a matter is this recognised to be, that two firms at
lout make it their !twines, to publish pat eve which
are intended as guides tr what appea a in the Gazette.
And even in the pap tre referred to them re announce.
meats fill many pig*, though summarised in single
lines only. How then it would be at all likely, not
to say passible, for an auctioneer, however expe-
rienced, to know what claim there might be on the
stock sent to him for sale, seems to nut very difficult to
answer. Not only must he carry "Stubbs's" or
" Flint's" pip iodicab with him, but be must he perfect
master of their c intents, and must be able to tell
whether the stock tent to himfor sale have, or have
not, had money advanced noon them. The expansive
and troublesome 'search for title" which is so
necessary at present in &slim: with the conveyance of
lend, must, it would appear, be initiated to some
extent, before • sale 1 tranr:o sock can be safely
made. Under such circum.tanees whet becomes of
the freedom of We and pu-chare no necrsaary to; the
home cattle trade?

From the early " rulw and or lers" of the St. James's
Sunday Schools. Poole, we learn that the schools were
to meet "precisely at elirbt o'clock in the morning
from Ladyday to Mich- e'ma., and at nine o'clock
from Micheeltns. to Lalyday." The children had to
a•tend Divine service at the church in the morning,
af•er which "they •vere e I todheir r4pective
homes." "At one o'ol -ck in the afternoon, throughout
the year," the children met for instruction as in the
morning, then about three o'clock attended Divine
berries and at the clone returned to their 'chichi for
instruction "till six o'clock during the long days," and
" at other 11011111001 as long as they could convenieitly
see by daylight." This rule, we should suppose, will
be read with some surprise by many teachers and
young people at the present time, when the custom
NIKO/ to be to crowd all the Sunday school instruction
into about an hour-an-a-half on • Sunday afternoon.
" Why should people be made to pay for water ?" is
the question that rises to the mind on the suggestion
to make people who have gardens pay for water
whether they wish or no. It seems to be taken for
granted that those who do not pay for water will steal
It; but surely the oorporators who support such an
Idea set a higher value on their euene-pumped water
than on the inhabitants' honesty. Last year the like-
lihood of people stealing the water was quite reduwd
to zero, yet we do not learn that the Council greatly
profited thereby. Tb• fact is that deep-well-water,
like that 'applied by the Corporation, belongs to one
of the most unsuitable kinds for watering garden', and
this unsuitability is increased by the earthy salt which
the Dorchester water bolds in solution. Excellent as
it may be, and is, for human consumption, many
gardener will prefer to wait a little for the natural
supply of soft water from the clouds. It is perfectly
true that garden bed, are often found freshly
moistened when there ham been no rain; but this is
often by • most judicious application of water that has
bees dirtied by use, but is still applicable for garden
purposes. In the interests of the inhabitants we
protest against any vexatious multiplication of com-
pulsory rates, however petty they may be in amount.
Poor Cornwall-fowl threatens to bring upon as all
the tremendous burden of altering the disposal of the
drainage. The Council, or those am org them who lead,
seem to have fully decided that the irrigation of land
the most effectual mode of purifying sewage.
system,
water, is out of the question. Why they should
so absolutely and, as it seems to us so arbitrarily decide
against that plan, with starving soils at Moreton
apparently gaping for their waste liquid, we do not
presume to deride It would almost seem that
some of the lower levels under Firldletown
Heath, or not far from the river-side between
Woodidord and Moreton, were placed by nature
foe the purification of Dorchester: but for the
present we bow to the dicta of lozal experience. Even
yet, we cannot admit that the circumstances of the
Western district ought to force the Council of Dor-
chester to the expense and troubles of • "sludge"
system. If the Council like to occupy themselves by
acquiring an acre or two at Loud 's Mill, no mat
harm our be done, and if the acquisition be so beset
that it will require some expenditure of "brain-power"
and also delay, the Council may take it as • pastime
and • source of answers wherewith to treat the
Government Board. But if they at once intend to
a/I*AM* the troubles of the Western district, they
must provide for the surface and subsoil drainage,
excluding the sewerage. That this will be no waste
Is evident from the argument of a supporter of the
sludge system, who rightly contends that the surface
said "abseil water must be kept out. But the Western
district has no drainage of any kind, and its inhabi-
tants are therefore prevented from adopting such plans
as would ameliorate their condition. Let the Council
carry oil the surface and subsoil water from the water-
logged district, and Mr. Floyer will have no cause for
further complaint, while the deodorisation and utilise-
sie=, which will meantime be put in use by the
ta of the Western district will provide more
valuable experience for the Council than if they sent
She Mayor to Coventry for the rest of his natural life.
Some kind of relief can no longer be refused to so
Important a district, and one of which the population
*sett so rapidly to increase. The estate was admir-
ably suited for building purposes, it offers an
excellent means of providing for the growth of the
borough,
nor can any objection be urged to it on the
of situation. In a neighbouring borough, a
building district is fairly objected to, because the houses
are in effect "built in ',hole," and add to the difficulties
of the borough drainage; but the Cornwall estate is
ethesally well situated as to this point. The row known
as Great Western-terrace is perhaps not so well off as
the rest, from its situation near the railway embank-
meat; but surface and subsoil drainage would obviate
the principal objections here as in other parts of the
Estate, and we wain contend the Council are bound
to give what relief they can. Comparisons are odious,
it is true; but there are pieces of property that far
snore deserve to be declared unfit for human habita-
tion than the Cornwall Estate dwarves to be kept
back from drainage, which can be granted to it with-
out increasing the annoyance of gentlemen below.

Sir,—ln your report of the last Council meeting I
notice that the Borough Surveyor complains of some
of the ratepayers having employed mechanics in their
meal times to do the repairs required to their water
taps. What on earth this has to do with the ettizz:
lamat • loss to conceive unless it is that he
to be consulted on the point, so as to have the oppor-
tunity of recommending a part/mist person. As a
householder I protest most emphatically against the
surveyor's interferenos in • matter with which he has
no more to do than the " man in the moon;" and at
the same time to 'enure him that, whether be has the
support of the Council or not, we are prepared to
resent his unwarrantable dictation, should we hear
anything further on the point, in a manner which will
be anything but complimentary either to the Council
or their paid official. Far better would it be for the
s= to direct his attention to providing some
scheme for redressing the sanitary grievances
practical
we are DOW suffering—and which In the
present warm weather may be productive of untold
evils—than obtruding his advice upon matters of little
consequence like them, and quite beside his official
duties. As far as I can ass it matters but little by
whom these repairs are dons, provided they are
executed in a workmanlike manner; and It scarcely
adds to the Corporate dignity that they 'Maki eon-
damned to waste time in cl4=tedng these minor affairs
whilst they fail too lamentably in dealing with other
and more important questions, which ought to claim
their whole time and attention. The surveyor makes
no complaint, as fez as I can glean, as to the nay la
which the repairs are dons, and this is satisfactory, as
showing that, whoever were the mechanics employed,
they certainly know how to do their work properly.
And lithe surveyor Is only able to deal as seas.
factorily with the great question for which he is
believed to have such 'pedal qualifications—as thee*
poor unfortunate workmen have been with their tap
repairs—it will be • subject of no slight consolation to
the ratepayer,. and will prove the surveyor to be
of tar greater abWty then some at present
are inclined to give him credit for.
One WllO DIMILIXSO lIIPMIIIIUIT INTLIUMISOL
Dorchester, July 24, 1880.
THE NATIONAL SCHOOL PRIZE-DAY.
Last Friday the prises won by the scholars who have
insetted ally passed their examinations were distributed.
The following is a list of the winners :
DOW ICZOOL.

A oorrespondent of ours was indignant the other
day at the idea of the superintendent of polka being
provided with • "suitable residence" at the expense,
ae "Lyn Bye" supposed, of the ratepayer.. But it
appears from the proceedings at the lest Counail
misting
nithat the money was to be lent from • fund
to the police, viz., the Superannuation
Fund, and that £4 per cent. interest was to be paid on
the loan. The proposed house, therefore, appears in
quite another light from that of • perquisite or
additkm to the superintendent's salary, while if the
die wig, unsuitable, ea it folly • pears to be from
the objections urged by Mr. Alderman (lapin, the
party viotimieed by the scheme will be not the rate-
Eut Mr. Coward himself. The scheme appears
y objectionable, though not in the way
at first ; and the Council of a borough who
are troubled about sanitary matters should be the
last to take wt in the obnoxious system of jamming
houses together without decent outlets.

Albert Dun, Sydney Dulderidra William Dennis.
Frederick Gulags Slop Wescott, Charles T 0.., Arthur
C. Cala, Charles Crocker, I !ward Fox. Arthur J.
Westerman, Arthur Searle, Walter Tuition. Joseph Willa,
Thomas Webb, Alfred Young. Thomas Slade, John Bee-
combs, Arthur Courtney. Walter Dibben, Walter Green,
Arthur ,y Samuel Holly, William Hutchings, Robert
Hillier, Robert Hyde, Alfred Pitdold, Walter Stiekland,
Charles Spieer, John Wismar, Frank W Charles
Wilkinue, Alfred Banks Edward Brown, Char Davis,
Gilmore Dudderidgs, Robert Fovea Thomas Frith,
William Holley, Richard Hardy, Arthur W. Hart, George
Jaws, Gauge Lake, William Legg, Arthur Knee.niam
New, Albert Addy, Thomas Maack. Thomas
William Sharron, George Slade, Arthur Wallis, MI
Young. George Amery, Charles Collins. Charles Coward,
Arthur Dibben. Edward Tripp, Frederick Ford, Frank
Graves. Frederick Green, John Gould,. Edward Guy,
Arthur Norman, William Pitcher__, William Palmer.
William Roper. Charles !Wetland. William Storm John
Axe, William Buell, Arthur Barker. Albert Barrett
William Borden, William Cox, Robert Coombe., Alfred
Carter, William Damn, Louis Dlbell. _Thom.. Ford.
Frank Harris Leonard Hyde, George nodes', JohnJ•tkUlatl,Thoinsa Lester, Horace Marsh, Alfred Pesree,
William Pipe Henry Spracklend, Freak Wink William
Bartlett, John Bartlott, Ernest Coward, Frederick
Merles, Arthur Gawks., Arthur Hutchings Frederick
T. Harder Arthur Luis Henry Letter. Chutes Leech,
Edgar Mile., Wafters, Joseph Kitchell. Junes
Oxenbury, rim T. Pirated& Henry Pitileld William
Foyle, Charles Roberts Maoris SlVStriat., Siilaey Guy,
William Storer, Frederick Stroo_g, Joseph 8
William Spine,. hingtolerlt,hGaLeg TholuebhJat
Titterington. Arthur Whits
Andrews. freak Brims, 'Maria &Lbw, Wailer Bush.
rod, Charles Slandemore, AIWA Ooditoop. John
Charles Dann Thomas Nem, Arthur Hellard John
Read,
William Lucas, Arthur Nobba. Den 011 ears. Albers
Willi= Smith, Charles Soo* Weiler Moque, George
Williams, Job Williams, Henry
Wallis= Bird, Albert It• Greashr,
13aVirkin Godwin, Arthur Jacksmaj.Ed Edmund James,
Arthur Mitchell, Robert_A Q. MK win Rada.
etsr_lloote. Freak NOM Mild= Jii3=
, George T. ate Mired J. 00111614
Eger% Sensual Harris, William Vag,
Frederick Charles Lush, Arthur Legg. Made Warders,
William Morgan, WOW NOffila:mimund POW*
William D. Short. Albert White, Henry Wright. John Boehrod, Henry
Warren, Hmr, W. Burk George Dare Charies''."l7=7
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'earners Much. deur Old. /Urfa
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