The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-04-02 00:00:00

THE DORSETCOUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1872.

every evidence to show that UM Mrs we doled. sad then
Vas nom to .how Usat the man or the uremia were tioaduct-
tog themselves othereise than Is a respectable way. and
ther,fore he t. mlldetil ii.,Leet Ibe Bench to di.ntint the cow. 1
tuagldrates retired, and on their return the Mayor
wited If it one it... intention ef the defendant to 1.11,0 this
I house
MI. Ifewaril mid et was; tot not everyone would let their
bou.c t, a man stitt seven children, es Short had. Ile had
t Imo to Mire., r .ut ut, me led lens I.lare.
• T! c 11,) r tl
Howard lei the dame,. Toese Is doutt tint pis.milf In
this cam bed lust kept Mew If outside the ; but the Bauch
sso.4 distinctly whaled to into that at H their decided eotivie-
lion that the house ie of notoriously loot chaseter, although
Mr. Housed no. mote right in mylivg Hut the Men and
women were not proved to he .4 such • character. There wan
no deold the proemotlen hid failed to prove the °dews on
thit veal!, day. and therefore the charge wee elletnimed, but
If the Mune is the men, of such doings no hove been charged,
and they are proved. the Hunch ,will certainly treat the CYO
with the greatest severity. It as th, ..f the magi testae
that the pnlice keep • Mart, I 4.1. out ~n the... premises.
Supt. Vickery saki there hot been mute mistake In the
.unimons. Had he not beim confined to the date auctioned
therein, he could himself have proved that be saw seven or
eight people In the house of the character named ; but he WM
not prepared to be bound down to thia particular day.
The Mayor : This specific case la. broken down; but we
wish to express our opinion that this lv a notoriouely bad
house, 1111 d we will certainly mark such practiom with our
▪ .ngeot .Iprolastion.
Mr flow•W said whatever might have bees the character
of the house, Short litteodeel to leave it He undentood there
were other 114:0131o11.05, and he hoped they would not be
Snood before defendant had had time to get out of Use hough
The return of the licence woe also studied for.
The Mayor : inumuch a. the cam hae failed, you must hood
the lir..re b.k. (To defendant.) You have run • very great
risk Indeed • you hove rue very clam to the wind. As long
no
I hare Use hour to sit bees, whether It is your home or
say other house in this tows that he. .ucti n character as this,
I will do my beet to summit. It.
• TRITE BFLIABER CAUGHT, TWO NONTEIW

PIDDLETRENTH IDB.

TIIIIMAXCE Itcyn en was hPIA In the Wesleyan
chepa here ee WeSarsdl.y, the 20t'i instant. under
the tirerideney of Mr 0. W. Groves, sib... Mr. °mid,
er she troika Klosters Affirms., gave one of his
stints' lecturers on the di ff root kind of onssiene •
shot men or" presses..l of, esarlating of bilis', 'lamb,
dead,. ennvietsil. Si% We pre sorry lb it Vie attend.
but 51.5”, an the lecture WAS not mail. known,
• it ph snil hire hen : and t.e ablent ice, lobe
Tiab tie 6r. noel. Ai thy may not set the oepol kooky of
h2oriug bore for some Nov.

TII R AGRICULTURAL L 113OURBla
An ITuto

epect.l correspondent of tho batty /Yew,: dooeutbo4
tbe f 'obourere. strik., ea f ,bowes:—
•• • .

„.
” Titer, tat. War wieksbire • villore eallid Weetoe,ma
the other dile of Li•onitie,ton from Welleshourne ; of
it happened th.t me or two of th- Won't) mime
e.bour.rs chanced t ri.ol in tho ahoy oopy of ato
jO4113•1 • preempt% mentioning ti n. tome min of
%Valium had rei.cd their vole.. (urea ince-met of wv,ic.
demi* the Wellerboame labourer. if • Mee, fowls by
mune, who In ha tone be/ louod b 6 way out of atgbt
of the steeple of the ill.ge church. During • resides:se
In the Bleak Country, this mm hal. It appear., semi
somothisig of the miootn of trades unionism, and he
kindled with tho suggestion that Wellosbourne should
combine to bettor it-elf. Five or six men met to talk
the matter over. We may picture that Sunday even-
ing's dismission— I.,wis,the ememipated, doing hls best
to strip the lifc-Jl4 'seditioual awscitillug clothes from
off the tniods of hie associate., men who have 0,:),
got the lemth of realising that their lot was a very
bard one, awl on whom the thrilling °ominousness of
ability for self-help had not yet fallen. It warn deter-
mined to tir. In Buford there dwells amen who is
at once • day-labourer and a Ilfethodi.t preacher, a
loom far seperior in every reelect tri his c.a. ; not
• .tly eilighteued by culture, but with • keno r Elea
...voting Wart, a hohlness of tmuart, on independeme
of (Monist% a 1.. .potation- comoratelieg wide teepees,
end a rough, fervent, natsural eloquence. that marked
him outs. specially fitted by nature for galvanising
into •Igorons action a movement that seemed half
frightened tr 'avert Baehr, yet for which the time wal
ripe. To this Buford preacher and toiler, wham nuns
Arch, come the Wellebonrue men, and asked him
whether he would 'peek If they nada bring a
together. U. amiented. No circulars wee=
calling the meeting. No advertisomenta apple:B4 ser
handbills were posted. From farm to farm by weeded
mouth spread Um tidings of Dew thing in the loaded
stolid apathy. Over Welkin:urns-green, • noble ohs*
net still shows Its spreading arms, sod under the greet
chestnut, six week, ago to-morrow. the agricultural
labourers of South Warelekshire shook from them the
fitters of centuries. Wallaboarne was t almost
too man' from the adjacent hamloU, fPraZr Moreton,
Looluley, Cbarleoote, Hampton Lacy. and other piens,
..eavy•fouted, rirw-psood meis, converged wonderingly
to the tryst ender the calostnat & atomised and more
wire resent Arch poured out on them hi. fervour:
h • stirred up their dull Mbe1111444 with the fore* of his
reasoniog. 13411010 the reeetiag was done they were
regenerated. Ornableatlea was urged, sad a turista
proposed. Leek meld so* write fast enough to tabs
all the o•wes th•t were windowed. • weak aka there
was soother meeting. Mere satires poured in, • Coen-
moos was formed, a Ihesretary appointed, mad as
or... Mutton Mathew]. Weldon were served epee Mu
farmers oohing for wages of if.. • week (18e. liMe bbs
.com at ant, spoken cff), with a week's tones U refused.
On the following 8 iturday. when the men went for
their money, the farmer. sadly declined the advance,
and the men implomoited &their lactose 'ad etniek."
The Banbury Chamber of Agriculture met to ma-
eider the Labour Question. Yr. Westover read •
paper saying—that toe labourers within the het few
weeks had assumed an attitude so dietatorial and
debut that the farmer was absolutly put on his
defence; and mach rimiest was the more aggravating
as they had bees paying them for many weeks for doing
temper:viva', toothier, owing to the soutinumply wet
weather. ide said that men had more money than had
beam atated at the veriest meeting. held, and he found
that the men on his fern bad for 3/ we-its fres 3.. 44.
to 4,, 31. mire per week. Teak deli...Mors were
sods...oaring to rola al the public, and if • fa r epee-
union were offered to the men, be dui not think Vicer
meddling absolve set *tors would allow them to take
it lie aurgested the formation of a labour sonferenes,
Ito members to oonsiet of one representative trust every
parish within • given radius of Banbury, had tat it
.hould deliberate on all matters &fluting the supply el
lahouroied to resommeed subatituter for an, aoSteipsted
ci &team ; to seasider the practicability of forming
oom pen lee for the la trod tuition of &team power machinery
: and the application of steam power to other imple-
ment., and by that means get a larger amount of work
• done In Ism time, with fewer hands. Very Mosel. son-
nested with the supply of labour was the gelation of
the kind of edusat on to be imputed In their villags
school'. The Revised Code pissed the Mended too high
' for rural distriets. The adulation given la their vales*
• wheels should be suitable to the reptirenteate of the
; rural populatiom It humane • very serious creeetion
whether they woull fore* upon village children an
amount of temblag adenlated to drive them from yin-
elltural persaits. Yr. Westover soneladed by moving:
—l. "Thsit the Chamber is of opinion the{ mush barn
• been written and spoken of late reeperniag the soudition
of the agricedtaral labourer without real felandailiz
and, earabined with the elalmeete adman= pro
to be impeded in Meleela, is calculated to eater
ill-feeling between employer sad employed, end to raise
; expectations in the Wads of the labouring due whit*
r cannot be realised." 2. "That this Climber &primates
• most strongly the present attitude of the met, and their
exoemeive demands, aa tending to destroy all 'madam
between motor and man, and to Nathan seelael class."
. 3. "net It le desirable to form • labour emferenee in
oonneetion with Chambers of Agrieultere." After a king
dhetusion, in whisk some of the speakers spoke Moog',
of the labourers' union, the Chamber agreed to with.
draw the part tithe diet resolution relating to edam-
ten, but agreed In subsesues to the emend. The third
• was withdrawn.

Canon Girdlmitate has written with reference to the
Warwickshire Strike of Agricultural Labourers,
advising the adoption of whatever may tend to insure a
coutionanoe of that oordlal understandlog between
matter aud otno which it is desirably so inezetao rater
that diminish, endearing that if be understood rightly,
all labourers in the disUict were in the naesipt of lbs.
• week, with good cottages, the prospeot of leaving
work at 4on Saturdays, alothing clubs, garden allot.
toents, Ike. Uadertheee oircumrtances he would advise
them to leave well aloes, and do nothing to stir up ill.
will between themselves and their nesters, who
appeared to have treated them generously, and in a
Christian spirit. The bulk of the labourers In North
Devon, la• remarked, had only Ss. a week, nos* more
than 9a., with bad cottages at high rake, sad may two
quarts of bad cider: Efe asked the labourers of War-
wiaskin, who are wetting there Mean a week, tottlak
of the eonditioa of their brother& in Devonshire, sad
send them something every week to moist them.

Protestor Fasten writing respecting the strike says
—Each particular dispute between employers and
employed must be judged, not in aceordance with some
abstract theory, but by the particular eireamstanees of
Lb. case, and It would be presumptuous for any one to
express • oonfident opinion as to the merits of • disputa
eh., is not intimately acquainted with the 10•111 end
other conditions of the industry in which the difference
leas arisen. It was dated at the meeting held in
Werwitekehire last night that the employers were
endow to pursue • eoneillatory palsy. and that they
were willing to raise their wages*, 15t • week, this
representing aa advance of Bs. • week. I should be
guilty of the preemie ties upon which I lave just
remarked if I sapriesed any opiates as to the advisa-
bility of the I tbonren seeeptlag these Iona& Ceases
Girdestosse &Wises the Werwlekststre labourers
I gratefully to sompt lbs. • week, and at the same time
reminds them that the North Devon labourer is oily
receiving 2e. a week. The eactrest which is thus drawn
between the wises resolved by labourers who have
Dever yet shown power to sombine, and the wages now
offered to those who have formed themselves into an
onion, will probably be regarded by the labourers
generally as • striking Westration of the greet
advantages to be derived from oesnisiciatious. It is
frequently supposed that say &drams In wages mast
Dome "Manly oat of tbe employers' peeked. It has
often been
peculiar
the remark applies at the puma
time with to aphelian, that the
lowed paid labors te=wlthe most wetly. No ate
will deny that it is a mistakes Gement, to nadeased a
horse; aid Is their and reams to suppose that a farmer
is not just as mach injured by harks his land tilled by
labourers who us half-starred cm Bs. or 10s. • week,
as he would be if he attempted to move money by
depriving his part-harms of part of their usual supplies
of corn and hay. If space permitted, It would be easy
to prove by official returns that lend owners and farmers
derived not the greatest, but the least, profit from the
land in those minutiae where the lowest wages prevail.
The Doiiy New "speMal" makes himself •
boarder" in the homes of • lekounir whom ha Wake may
be taken as • type of the disariet. early, I
Intruded on the family • little before seem, in time foe
breakfmt. I made the eighth at du little Uhle on the
gagged door. Then was the father, • bent care, ware
man, who yesterday bad bees to Birmingham about
work; the wife, a neat little woman, prematurely old,
dressed in • Bases gown, seed without • hair or • hook
out of its place; and five children, ranging from 16 to 4.
The eldest boy earns throe shillings, driving the horses
In a plough ; none of the others bring myth's, in. Two
go to school at a penny a west, the two yenned toddle
about at home. Gar breakfast waa dry breed and a
Bold in which a lively Imagination might moguls, •
distant flavour of tea. The wife owned to having put
but one special In for the geese, and she was nut
allowed to amend the record on behalf of the eighth.
After breakfast she and I formed a ocuncalltee of ways
and means. I was not so fortunate as Ms. Lowe in
being able to elucidate • surplus. I couldn't see my we;
at all, and the little woman could not help me with any
returns. Idbe cried • little, and said "God only knows,"
when I asked her, with fell and ham personal cognis-
ance of the perfeetly fiendish manses la which children's
boots go to pines long before they have a right to be
worn out, how she contrived to keep her family 401
I trl,l the ealonlation of making ends most all meaner
of ways, and at lest had to give It up in blank bewilder.
meat There could be no manner of doubt that Um
an
bha only enhis.doodittr was paid for, were but
12. e, 's
and aata
was the 3t earned by
the eldest boy. And here was the home before me—
mwtnat tw
the wife, meek, neat, and trim; the ehildrenpoorl clad
but neither barefoot nor in rags ; Only. „. Zade
is
point of perminelly ascertaining, a few shillings of debt.
I way be • bad financier, and therefore I give the reader
the opportunity of Bening out the problem for himself,
Ite ; maes. 5e..... JO 16 0
Tho week'. breed and flour 4O ..9
Ono cwt. of coals
0 I
Schooling for children .. 0 •
RO,ll allotamet (I firth,)

--- 10
Iwa%vs f,,r butcbes 'a most, tea, sugar, som, lights,
loltor Ind Oat, v 1,4114,1 for eeSsn peranns, boots
.ns also Sr neren persona, beer, medicine, sal
pocket moon, per nook.. . ..... CO 6 1
Shall we leave the problem in lapilli., sad mho the
little woman's " Dod knows how hi donor Attachod
to the outlaw, is a littlo plot—a few yards square—of
garden ground; but that does not grow butt:that's meat,
tea, or book An tho ordinance received, I was assured,
rat three owt. of oral in winter, nod for a short rose
in the collet mason • quart of soup ogee • week.
Dinner consisted of potatoes fried la some serape of
baoon rind that bad Mee left over from the half-pound
(at 6d. per pound) that bad constituted yeeterday's
fare. 8 twetimes Me fondly, whose goad I anl, dins
elf a salt herring nod pototom, the barring having
obviously to be divided into seven portions. Often the .
only tare is dry breed; sometimes it °owlets of a
cremate in cookery known on " teakettle brotb• —•
ounouotiou of hot water wit k • few greens and herbs,
and • "tag end" or two of blieesi. Potatoes cost de. eid.
.Perwisoldhtltallo. =mai, aowywepa.contd
ti.notainaltrrd to
gobil bla•7
.d6O
amidst of three
_poisons of potatoes and hall • pint of
milk per man. We had no milk sad moo( As eight
et us was sertehd7 not the sedum se a mark el pel

saner', I kits cot yet (Mel is hoar, and I feel as
hall .w • • drum, bat I resent AY, d.AtOpoll ELIA lAA,
be nee bitl,l• and turn any lload ti lan:lath towar.l•
suppar, whirl e to oo.elat ol broad sad b. lord ',swore.
w (hoot 10:01ragmant •of latoat ni. +blob tie (Poulton
detoured at dinner time. What ko.d at a day'. work
eau yea ...spent from • mut 1,11 luh •hir lain
a.•,,r, 4 thst our t...Jsy's lanai. at. :warier 4.'0,1. of
the lainitt's dnt throuchoat it • yr.:. A m•!,..1.1
m•t•t te -Icy 1.14 ts Who I,ves a. doe. Ors Lou,urer...

Tht W:lishournt Labour. fi, 611•* Liaa y cwit
cioir,spoill..nt, have pate Le. of i. I ,to. •,t, 14.
yrth•ot thy ray rent at, iha r..ts cis.. p o :•i t. I oty
are • great boon, but with workag noun, ire long their
cultivation trenches on tine OA: nature is enut.ol
glom for recuperation. In winter tle lab-are, Leaves
for hia work at Nix, and comes howo about seven. In
slimmer be leaves borne considerably earlier, and works
Inter then In winter. It la obvloue ttnit after •
d.y's toil of title duration be is little fit for working
hia own laud on hi. *Holm. ut. Several of the
atria.) mni are corking r.:l the allotni,Lt. es I ent•er
them. They will use thcm w.th their oottages, if they ,
have to quit the latter; but the loom:Ling termite has
to pay the outgoing for the crop In the ground. Among
the workers in a large-framed old man, w.th a dr,
homer. us exprearvon of fan. lie is one who ha..
t, bOtIrL 1 tfo, worn•out lehour.-r—th.
li.. Lid ii,l he ..574 before be had to be.
oona • 1141114.1. iii reared, ht Sella nse, slot sau, alt
dauuhtere, and never 6..1 a farthi, g of pais., relief
" till he !ailed no.' All Lie faintly are grown up. usd
from none does he receive any aid, His whole Mooing
couniata of 3s. aid a Iduepouuy load per week from the
pariah, and the 'modem of his allotment. One cannot
halo getting Intaisted In the questions of the disposal
of the Incomes he hears of. The old man goes into
finance committee with me on the spot;
Imes:
Itu Id. per weak ..... ........ ....... ....... 15 0

Eir-ourvai
Root of oottooo SI 146
Allototout mat .. • 0 7 6
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W9-99199,-(l4l.—par- .9resk
ruind, 9d. per week . . .. •
Litt a.u., ti;:,; the
Twig, lost, seed., sod sundrien .

i 00
10 - L. 70

£1 el I)

old mus's beverage is either mato. or
"Al leayst it hermit tray, it be water bewitched." }le
hoe • gift of four cwt. of Goals at Christmas. Whim be
CM • young man wages wore 8. per week, and lbea
"roasyt war shosyper, bat bread wet a main bit
dearer." lie never learnt t 3 net or write; "nobody
did to them dtp." to truth among the adults of
South Warwtokahire edaostioa Is at • low ebb; but the
children Dearly all are getting some eshooling, and the
parents, miserably poor as they are, am paytng for it.
Thal is sorely someeking to thole credit