The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-21 00:00:00

Ea orsttsbirt.

Britian A aerie& —The jute's on the WeSWIM circuit
at the Sprint( A mils will be Lori Chief Jostle. Rival
rind Ur. Jutitioe Blackbnro.

THE Rev. C. G. Wheat, for SOME years past curate to
the Yen. Archdeacon Sanctuary, at Powerstoch, has
been presented to th.• living of ifilhorne St. Andrew,
value £lOO, in the gift of General Michel.

CoMMITTED TO TIN DORSET DoCtiTT GAOL.— As,ies:
Robert Snook, dealing hay at Sherborne ; Cornelis.
Chard, obtaining by fain. prsknoes at Weymouth.—
Hard Labour : Joseph Farwell, leaving family charge-
able at It...minder, 1 month ; Charles Chedx-y, steal•
jug turnips at Sherborne, 14 lay.; Frank Wilson
Medley and William Alexander. vagrancy at Dorchester,
1 month; Thomas William*, vagrancy at Illandford,
1 month : Thomaa Lawrence and Charles Udnll, drunk,
kg, at West Woodyates, 1 month ; Richard Tompkins
and Job Dunford, stealing cider at Burton Bradatock,
1 month; William o.rrard, stealing cider at Burton
Beadatoi k, 2 months; Mary Thereat Story and Hannah
Miller, at aline money, kn., at Weymouth, 1 month,
and 3 yaan Reformatory SchooL

DoHUT Sallie RIT•INING THZIR ANCIIINT SOUND.
—The Rev. C. W. Haighans writes as follows in Notes
awl (tames —lt is curious to remark how often, and
for how long a period, name retain their ancient sound
in the vernacular pronunciation, though their written
form may have been greatly changed. Thu., in
charter rof King Alfred, the two manors of Oissic and
Penile& are granted to Shaftesbury Abbey, much more
nearly representing the oidinary pronunciation than
Ganage and rosined, as these names are now written.
I would also emit attention to another fact, which, if
there be anything in it, is still more remarkable. There
a f emily in this neighbourhood whose name is con-
stantly written Elstoorta, but pertinaciously pronounced
by the eommen people Alford. I have eometimes
dreamed that this may possibly be the old Saxon name
of Wsilfaearil still lingering amongst es, lands in
Cheselborne baying been granted by !Ledger toe person
of that name.
COUNTY EXPINOITUIIi AND GANN PRIORIVING,—
Mr. Edward West writes to the Bristol Daily Post of
laid Friday on this subject. an it coniserns Somerset,
bet the question be raises is equally interesting to other
isountie., and we therefore quote the greater part of ,
his letter. He quotes a case, before the Seth magis-
trates, of a poacher, who shot a pheasant in a wood at
night, bei g eentenc ql to six weeks' hard labour, after
which he was to find two sureties for his good behaviour
for six months; and he says, so this is one of perhaps
scores of similar cases which occur about game in the
county of Somerset, the following may or not be a fair
estimate of the cost of it to that county :

s. d.
Ccet of prosecution, all charges 0 1,1 0
Maintenance of prisoner six weeks, including
share of gaol charges, at 7a. ... 2 2 0
Ditto for six months in the event of not end.

Ell 14 0
This is exclusive of the share of wet of assisting to
preeerve the game by the county police, and of the cost
to the poacher's parish of supporting his family, if be
has a family, while be is in gaol. All in revenge for
the killing it • hen pheasant, value 3s. Now, let us
see how mach revenue the county derives towards it,
expenses incurred about genie. First—this pheasant
was killed in a wood, and not on rateable
lend. Are woods liable to parochial or county rates?
Also, estimating the land to be worth £2 per acre rent,
but let at 375. per acre if the game is reeereed, that
bei.ig lees 3e. per acre for the game. Is that difference
of 3.1. per sore liable to parochial or «panty rates? Arid
if not do not the (aunty and pariah suffer no much pro-
portion of loss to their rates by such reduction of rate-
able coins That this is no imaginary estimate most
lid evident to all those who traverse corn fields after
harvest on which game is preserved, and especially if
highly preserved. And pasture land worth 30s. per
aciv in another county if held on lessee at 11a, that the
game may have free retied upon it. That the landlord
or tenant, or both of them poetess the same right to
preserve game on their lands as the poor man does to
keep hie dog or pigeons or poultry is unquestionable,
and it is quite as much his property on his killing or
tfking it, but with the alight difference that he cannot
claim it as being his own lista he does obtain actual
Possession of the game, inasmuch as it may go off at any
minute to be upon and became the property of another
ndownfr. But can that be a just reason why • pro.
ortionate share of parochial end (aunty rates and
coins-tax should not be borne by the owners of all
nds and woods on which the right to the paws is
mln'eff by the bus:towhee!

DORCHESTER.
OR MARKET. Saturday.—lnspector's return:
Wheat, 67.. to 74a. per qr.; barley. 32.1. to 455.
Averages : wheat, 70e. Sid.; barley, 41s. 7d.
MILITARY FIJIIVRA L. —OO Wailneiday afternoon, the
remains of the late IYruin-Major Burton, of the Dorset
were buried •t the 2.einetery, with military
honours. The whole of the stsfr•serg..anta and drummer,
of the regiment attended the funeral.
-" • ^

Fux UAL. - Ou Monday the hole Mr. E.
Rail.-y. who woo employed on the South Western
Sad is ay, and was a rn. enher of tho Hand•in•litnd lodge
of o.ldfellows, was Mined in Furdingtou churchyard,
and the funeral we. attended by nearly thirty of the

brothrro olil;;It.;d7ce:

'SOLD FRILNIM" ANNIVICRBART.—The annual supper
of the lodge of Old Friends, in this town, Is fixed for
Wednesday evening next, at the Plicenix inn. Mr.
Couumilor T. Bennett is annonneed to preside, and those
who are friendly to the objects of this mutual help
Kleist, are invited to attend.
SINGULAR SECOVRRT or liner SANK NOTVL—Early
In December Mr. D. Shepherd mimed two notes,
and, tnough he announced hi• lon, and made every
inquiry, no tidinls of them were obtained till Thursday
Jail, when they were recovered under peculiar Mecum.
stances. Mr. Jambs, of Cornhill, wan in his garden, itt
Friary-lane, when in one of the borders be perceived
the tattered remains of a bank note. On examinetion
it was found to be part of • noto issued by Mesa.
Eliot and Pearce, and Mr. Jacobi haying heard of the
lone Mr. Shephard had sustained, communicated with
him, and the malt was the identification of the note
al one of the two miming. At the bank Mr. bbephard
was readily given • perfect note in exchange for the
remnant an recovered, and it will suggested thnt the
other note lost might also be in the garden. A diligent
esereh was thereupon made, and at length 'sufficient
bite of beak parer were found in the garden to indicate
the emend nista. and that also was ai knowledge.! at His
bank. Thum, alter being exponent to wind, and rain, and
storm for • month, two thin flimsy bank note, were
remvere4 sufficiently for identification. How they
came into the Laden, in explained by the fact, that
Mr. Shepherd just prior to miming them was employed
carting Me to Mrs. Howe's irenhouse, just beyond the
garden, and no doubt they fell from his pocket during
that occupation, and were carrion' into it by the wind.
Benciattn.—Two 'turnpike aidlon," who were hut
wink on msit to Dorebenter, with two mieerable-
looking women and we know not who besides in their
train, were brought up before J. F. Hodg.is, Esq., and It
Davis, Esq., on Friday, under the Vsgrnnt Act. The
police said • very large number of complaiuts had been
received of these fellows going to houses and demanding
money. and in several cases people had been very much
alarmed by their conduct. Evidence was given of their
going about begging, of their stoning a boy whom onis
threatened to "cut his brad off" if be did not give him
something he was cairying, and of their ceiling at
private houses, forcing themselves in, and being with
difficulty ousted. All this occurred on the previous day,
and at the time they were both in • state of semi-
intoxieation. Nearly 2s. 6d. was found upon them
when apprehended. The worthy magistrates strongly
condemned this outrageous conduct, and sentenced
each of them to • month's hard labour, and they directed
the police to be vigilent in the apprehension of such
vagrants. The inhabitants would greatly waist the
authorities in ridding the town of such dangerous
cthh:riai.cltei,sers,wibfethevyi.tied would give give immediate information to
beggars, and sub.. quently
attend before the magistrates to give evidence against
them.

THII CHURCH AND COUNTRY NZWIIP•PIR COMPANY
(LOltint).—ln the Court of Equity, London, Lett
Saturday, before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood,
Eidis appeared in supwirt of • petition by Mr.
Manbell, of LI irchester, • large creditor .4 the above
company, which was in the course of voluntary
liquidation, for a compulsory winding up order.
The company was formed in the yea, 1865, with
a capital of £3.000 in 240 shares of 1:12 10.. each,
ti etrry into effect in agreement for the wale by the
petitioner, to pertain proven', of soma local newspapers,
for the sum of £1,150 ; the plant to be taken at • vale.
alien, which was valued at 42,256. The beak debta
were alto purchased at g 3,132 Me. 21. Of these
two stuns ouly L'256 was paid in cash.
Business commenced in. March, 1865, . and
.the

ir-s-t general meeting was held in October', 1865, since
which time no account had been published, sod on the
. .

2od of -Fe-h-ruary, 1847, the reaoltaion for the -voluntary
winding up was paw& Mr. L ek, Folieitor,
appointed voluntary liquidator, and he issued adv. rtiae.
meets for putting up the copyright and plant for sale
by auction. The copyright of the Westrrn Flying. P. 4(
was 1,01 I by tie liquid ,tor to Mewra. r an I Tate of
Yeov ork2oo, and t heoopytiv. tOl the Dorchester papers
with the pima t the chairman of the company for 1:6.17,,
. . . . .

and the xlirgatiol ••1 the prli.ion we that the It .1 •
wax made IA- the tom named although both Mr. Lock and
the chairman of the comnany knew that £7OO wax offered
- .

for the property. Mr. Kai Q.C., and Mr. Harvey ap-
peared ifr the oompany, and the petitioner's allegations
were in soh-tance denied or explained by MR lavit.
The Vice-Chancellor (after bearing Mr. Eddie in
reply), said the Tali lity of the sales had not
been suceessfully impeached, but inumueli me the
petitioner we a Mega are.litor, he WWI entitled
to hate the liquidati n curled on under the supervision
of the Court. The order to continue the winding-up
under nupervi.i.b was therdore made, with literty Ii
any of the parties to apply at chambers if necewary :
the liquilator to have hie oosts of the present petition,
but the coati f the petition in other respects, and of
all aubsequent prooeedings, t be reaerved.

EARLY eLoNnO A ;weir:nom. -The weekly meetin.•
in connection wj,h thia association were revolted tau
Friday evening, wle n Mr. Joseph Drew. of Weymouth,
delivered his lect,re on " Labour, the poor man's
capital." at the Guildhall. The Rev. J. Fisher occupied
his usual place as Piesident The intuit, was given by
Mr. J. Robinson's choir. The attendance woe meagre,
which is probably attributable to the weather. The
lecture, as its title indicates, was town a branoh of
political and social economy, which is now receiving
much attention, and it was treated by Mr. Drew with
oonsiderable &Miry, in elegant and vigorous luiguaise.
In the out-et be referred to the downfall of the classic
nation.. and, while thivaing that in destined course
England would also come to naught, he believed that
the event may be delayed by judicious end faithful
Government, just institution., respecting the rights of
others, economy, and the existence of proper relations
between capital and labour. It was to this last item
reijuistte for the national stability that the lecturer
chiefly devoted his remarks. Having pointed out that
labour is the poor man's capital, and that wealth is the
accumulation of surplus labour, he urged at wino
IC, gth the right of the working man to bargain for his
labour free from any interference., and the importance
of such freedom to him. He denounced the tyranny of
trades union', likening their policy of requiring all men
of a trade to be paid equal, to a bad shilling expecting to
purchase as much a. • rerling coin. In eloquent term.
he described the iffecti of attikes, and gave
statistic; as to the money loss recent strikes
bed caused to the tiasles in which they
occurred. In refetring to the late tailors' strike, he
observed that it was not brought about by an attempt
to raise the pries of the ready-made clothes and shep.
seller.' work, which was paid so miserably bad, that the
workers could scarcely keep body and teal together by
continual toiling, but to get better prices for work at
which • good livelihood could be owned. He incident-
ally alluded to the tyranny of cepital, saying the price
of all descriptions of dairy produce in this county hail
been doubled in the last 15 or 16 years, through the
avarice of one man. Slavery he atttributed originally
to the indolenee of • portion of the labouring population,
and he thought it would be • useful institution to this
day if kept for th, idle and the vagabond—(b'hr, hear).
Did they not think it would be • good riddance if our
convicts mid beggars, and vagrants, and idlers could be
Fold for a shilling a piece? rather than that they ;Mould
have to contribute to their mainten ince in prisons and
prowling about the count; y —(applause). He ex Nesse I
himself greatly in favour of working man's benefit
socie;iet and of co-operative emulations. The lecturer
was frequently applauded.
BOROUGH PETTY BIBSIORR, Menday.—Before J.
Galpin, Req. (chairman), It. Davis, Esq., and J. Bishop,
EN.,—George Hatton, Charles Ridout, two sailors,
Flora Gomm and Emma Dodd, we... charged with steal-
ing a coat at the Railway Tavern, on Saturday night.
Henry Hans, an elderly man, said he lived at the Rail-
way Tavern, South-street. About half-past four on
Saturday afternoon, he had • great coat hanging on a
nail upon the kitchen wall. Flora Gomm, and another
female or two, and two men were there in the evening.
He was "middling drunk," in fact "cherry merry,"
but "sober enough." He only knew he had tut his
jacket, and he wanted it. He missed it "bout Orel,*
o'clock. The coat now produned by P.C. Keats was his.
He swore to it, and they could not bother him out of
it —(laughtee).-17.rownexamined The coat was hanging
in the kitchen, which is the common drinking room of
the house. There were • few people there in the evening
He remained in the house from half-put four to the
time be miessesl his coat, but be was not in the
kitchen all the time.—Tbe prosecutor was the worse
for liqueur, and had to be put out of court. He said be
would have the juket The Town Clerk told him he
would not be allowed to take it. Hs replied he'd be
if he wouldn't. He was removed, protesting he
would have hie coat —Edward Jeffries, a young man
in the service of Mr. Longman, said be was at the
Railway Tevern, at hall-put ten o'clock on Saturday
night.. He saw the four prisoners there amongst others.
He left about II o'clock. The sailors and women had
gone before. Afterwards he saw the sailors in the Swan
inn, sitting at the table drinking. There was a goat on
the seat by their side, similar to the one produced.
There were five or six other people present. About a
quarter of an hour after he saw the sailors at Mrs.
Gomm',. He jest looked in there himeelL—Cleorge
Applin. a youth of 16, was at the tavern, when the
prisoners were there, and he said they left about tune
nine o'clock. He saw Ridout take a coat
from a pal on the wall, and take it with
him, when the
Did not see Hann till sifter tag o'clock. Witneres was
prisoners all went away together.
not altogether sober.-1 he magistrates would not hear
him further—P.C. Keats said that on Sunday morning,
between three and four o'clock, he went with P.C.
Mitchell to Gomm's boom; in Mill-street. He knocked at
the door. and Flora Gomm came. He told her • coat
had been taken from the Railway Tavern by some
sailors who were with her, and he had come to etie for
it. He went up stairs, and found the coat produced on
• bed, occupied by Hatton and Dodd. He took up the
coat, and asked Hatton if it was his, and he answered
no. He thee took it to another room where Ridout was
In bed, and asked him if it was his, and he replied
"No, his jacket was downstairs, on a chair drying.,"
i
Hatton said "The girl (Dodd) brought tup and put it
on the bed." A. they were unable to give any account of
it, he told them they most all go to the lock-up. On the
way Dodd said it was Ridont who brought the jaeket
there. Racket repeated that sit was not his jacket
Con.m said the jacket wen not there in the fore-part of
tho right, and one of the sailor, must have brought
it—The magistrates dismissed the ease, because they
considered the witnesses. except the constable, were
unworthy of credit, seeing the state they were in. They
advised the men to be careful what company they got
into for the future, when they cams ashore. The
Town Clerk said this was another illustration of sailors'
conduct—they earned their money like horses, and
spent it like asses. He then woke of the annovenoe
to which men going to or from the railway are xubjected
by the loose women who congregate at the bottom of
Soutb-street, and the Bench directed the police to watch
the neighbourhood, and apprehend any they saw
&eventing men.

THE Smoot or ART.—Th.lm' the management of
influential and wise (Accra, with • good master, and by
offering Vie heat of •rt education at • email cost, the
school of art, which was eatabbsberl here at the tregioreng
of last year, has completed its first 1,4.44111 pio-perously,
and the only circuinstanoe which tends to mar what
would otherwise be its c implete succors is, tket the
ervsan class— for whose epeeistl berefit the goer, iiiii ent
inter 'ltch aehoolx—have not argued their-selves of the
advantages offored no lergely as it was hoped they would
do. But it meat he remembered, that the popularising
of -itch an ii. tutuino. the .1"""g" of wt°eh to
the
workman hare only Ide y been discerned by our
legirlatora, must be necexamily slow. When, however,
the in' clunic or caroeuter finds Mixt skill in nmolianical
and architectural drawing raises him to • higher grate
in his busineo, with increased pay, without doubt the
young journer men and appreutoes to the varion• hand-
crafts will take care to devote their evenings and the
few abillings • quartlr charged at this sehool, to making
themselyee fitted for inch superior employment. This
in the light in which it ought to coinmend itself to our
artisans. Doubtleas, •rt education will rt fine the mind,
and in a certain way usefully ‘-ais the intellect, but
these ulterior sgivantager will bring few working-men
students to the school, for they cannot afford to
purchase them, but what we wish to point out
to them is, that baying the education given at this
school will prove an etc:a:lent investment—it will make
all the differenoe between a young man's being an
ordinary e•rpenter and a first-clout Vreman—between
another nmaining • journeyman rimebanic, or becoming
• skilled engineer—between a third contiouing a COM-
n3Qp painter, or being • skilled designer ant artist.
This in • very practical question, which we cointuend
for solution to our artisan rcaden. If they .% bat carry
out the conclusion to which we are satisfied they must
arrive, we are confident there will be a large increase of
arias in &cholera at this school, which we conceive to be
an excellent means of "self-help" for working-men.
Let us now turn to the year's operations of the school-
A meeting of the general committ-e was held on
Monday, the rith 'natant, John Moyer, Esq.,lllP ,
the President of the school, in the chair, when the fol-
lowing report was read :

" The committee of management of the Dorcheeter School
of Art have much i•lcamre in presenting this their first
report The proepecta of the school are satisLetory. It
opened in April Ise, with 66 students, and has been attended
during the nine months of Its existence by 79 Including
temporary pupil*, and 61 etill rentaiii upon the hooks. Your
committee regret that the entrin in the artlean clam have not
been so numerom as they had hoped, but they feel sati.fled
1i..) the more the .ystem of instruction, Lnyi the advantages
offered, become bone n, the mote ell they be oppreclated. and
the more estenevely will stu ,enis be found to avail themselves
of them. The income of the echnol 1,. In • healthy state. There
boo been received on amount of suberitaions 3 3.. Od.;
andents fees, £ll3 12. ; totsl, £136 15.. 64. Pahl morter'e
sanity (three quarters), CW: lOs. Greening (attendance, go..
tc.. Ell he. 3d.; advertisements, and petty paymenta.
£2 10a, 10,1. ; total £O9 li.. Id, leaving a balance of
£37 la !d. In f•vour of the maintenance fund. If against this
I. et the estimated expenditure for the next quarter, En 4s.
there Alll4lll remain the omit of lot 17s. bi. to the redit of
the school. The preliminary expenses attending the
eetabibdottent of the school hose heen necessarily
heavy. To meet them, your committee resolved
from the tint to look to the donations alone, with-
out trenching upon the annual ineome ; and here, they
regret to sm, there in a comidenble degnency. The
donation. received have amounted to LT!, 1t,.; ; while the
liebinues for <soda, model., ahromodithegra.M., drawmr.
(both chalk and pencil), desk., benches, tittinirs, and Mj,
cellanetrus charges are ill% 0... le.ving a baance orairost
what may be collet the esttblialituent fund of Cl 2 IS..
Your committee feel esoired that there w •uld hero difficulty
In wiping off 'hi. deb, If only the s ell-is 'sheers to he I tutu,
tton would kin ily render their assidance in raising the
neceorary funds. It will be in the recollection of many
members of the general committee, that before the establph-
ment of the school, & protect was on foot to erect • •tiltahle
building for P. accommodation, with the eadstanee which the
Science and Art Department render.. vul that it fell Into
abeyance in consequence ~f • pron..' being made by certain
gentlemen to unite with them In the ern.% oi of • building
which shoull provide acenmmodation f,r the County Multeum
• and Working Men'. Imtitute. se we I so for your school.
• Sub-committees of each body were anyointed to form • joint
committee, and met orl two occasion., the last being on
leYernher rith, 1866. Since that time nothing further ha. been
heard atoiut it, hut pale cotetnittee woul I esprit« • hope
that so dedrable • project will not be all owed to fall to the
ground, not through the apathy of the puldic, but because
rep steps have teen taken to bring it before them. At
ant rate your committee feel that the nece.-Ity of
pro. id log • bull line for theme' re. mu•t not be
bort eight of. Through the kindness and liberality...l the
magiat rates .1 the county, the me of the Shirehall is permitted
, them free Id charge. Still the arrangement I. one of only.
temporary nature, and Is subject to frequent internaptlons
, I arising from the requirements for public senter. Tom coin-
mit•ce hare very great plea.ure in reveling that they have
, received as presenta—• statuette of "Eve at the Fountain," he
Bally, from Mr. Herbert William., • statuette of ,Vletnry,.by
Westmarott, from Mr. Hicks, a statuette ~f "Helm '.0,1 ..me
fossil., from Mr. J. V. D. 1•11.111012, to whom they are
indebted for the painting of three large ntarue.: molt. of
t "Mary. Queen f Reda." "Shaltetpe r." and "Milton" from
Ur. Burnett. a few 'hell. from %leder eracraft, one of the
, students, and wane articles of else and earthenware from the.
Godwin. To all thee gentlemen they beg to tender their
, thank., as well es to the committee t 1 the County Hospital
for the 100 of • skeleton to enable the ma.ter to illustrate his
• lecture on Artiglic Anat -my ; and to the magistrate. ~f the
• runt) for the grattiltou• use of the boll. Your Committee
, memo bring their report t, a concludon without bearing their
hearty tintimony to the pains taken, and the gre t ability di..
, played, by their muter, Mr. Dewar Compleil. The high
reputation which he brought with him, he ha. fully sustained,
and your oomm flee conicntulate thenpelves having
obtained the senices of no talented and efficient a teacher."

The report was adopted. Some ennversatinn coined
as to the d.sirability of off. ring prig.' in connection
wii h th. school. but it was thought expedient to defer
any steps in this direction, until thy debt remaining on
the establishment fond is liquidated. It was also men.
toned that in ?iamb next there will be an examination
of to schoolsby the Government Departm nt of Srienc•
and Art. This is an event of Importance, and we call
esrly •ttention to it, in order that Orme who have nit
hithef to availed themaelvea of the school's teaching
may put themselves in the way of receiving benefit
from inch inspection. Some of our Dorchester youths.
thanks to the Working Men's Institut., have found
consid.ratile benefit to arise from the certificates
granted by the Southern Counties' Adult Educe.
tion Society, from which we any infer that
a certificate from the examiners of the Science
and Art Government Department would be ail.
vantagisnus in the highest degree. This examination,
we understand, will not be confined to the students in
the school, but any person, on payment of a small fee,
can be examined, and than test the quality of the in-
struction in art which he or she may have received.
We sincerely wish for this school increased prosperity
and meow&