The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-03 00:00:00

Perset Conitiq Cxprpso.
TUESDAY, BEPTIMBER 3, 1872.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

A correspondent, showing up the darker side
of Primal= discipline says that practices of
striking and cuffing soldiers, military ,Pultish-
ment such as imprisonment in total darkness
and the suspension of victims by the thumbs,
Sr. permitted—Thousands are flying from •
country in which however great may be lie
prestige abroad, the citizen his virtually no
rights and the most vexations obligations. The
writer enlarges upon the horrors of Prussian
military discipline, but he is an Englishman and
sees defects through the magnifying glasses worn
by foreign visitors. We have no doubt conti-
nental visitors show up our "darker aide;"
they can get a peep at our Belfast riots, sketch
our Hyde Park episode, fix upon the reports of
the gentleman casual who gave such a harrowing
description of our neglected poor. A few in-
stances of our wife beating reports and miscar-
riage of justice would illustrate our domestic
felicity and judicial purity, and we should figure
ass land of awful depravity.
If her Majesty avoids state pageantry it is not
. for want of taking an interest In public affairs,
as is evidenced again by her graceful and gratui-
tous recognition of the services rendered by
M. Stanley, the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone,
In the present of • magnificent gold =nil box
richly set in brilliants. Aocompsnying the gift is
a letter from Lord Granville expreesinj the
Queen's high appreciation of the prudeaosand zeal
displayed by Mr. Stanley in opening • com-
munication with Dr. Livingstone, and so
relieving the anxiety which in common with
her subjects she had felt concerning the fate of
that distinguished traveller. There are few
men who can elicit such an expression of con-
cern from Royal lips, and very few deserve
such exceptional recognition, and while Dr.
Livingstone's friends must be gratified at the
tribute paid to him, the general public will
confess that the Queen has performed • very
graceful and appropriate act.
There was quite a gala day at Copenhagen on
Wednesday, when our Primer of Weise, with
her eaten, the Crown Princess of Prussia and
PliCloolll Thyra, aocompanied the rest of the
Royal family of Denmark to the Industrial Kx-
Whalen. The correspondent says, the Princess
of Wales seemed to be the great centre of
attraction, and appeared herself to be one el
the most interested of the visitors, and paid
special attention to the Fine Art department
where she made several purchases. General
enthusiasm was evinced when the Princess first
made her appearance on the lauding of the
main ataxia" and the large organ in the hall
played "God save the Queen."
While the Queen is in the Highlands, and
the Primes in Denmark, we have the Prince of
Wales and Prince Arthur, with the Duke and
Duchess of Tack visiting our county member
Mr. H. G. Sturt.

The New Lioeusing Act does not appear to be
working well in the provinces, altaough the
'restrictions of time together with the penalties
now imposed for drunkenness are perceptibly
lessening the offence and raising the character
of the London streets at night. Some are of
opinion that the quality of malt liquors and spirits
I. deoidediy improving in view of the penalties for
adulteration. But the elastio clauses giving
option to local magistrates with regard to the
closing hours are not working satisfactorily in
provincial towns. People will bow to parlia-
mentary authority when they resistloaal dicta-
tion. -

The Earl of Essex has done good service in
setting his facie against the testimonial nuisance,
which is not conacied, as everybody knows, to
any sect, party, or claw In what spirit them,
presentations are made the Dailif News informs
us:—

The schoolmaster whose eeholari have °lobbed their
poet motley to puroasse • mita she' lot•bettl• for him
I. &Soled to as • 111lraJi• 0. t •oloi Seat ey,
eanion, arid Dr. rooll wore igisorient boobies. Toe
iiifiros•ry dootor, on his appoints& oat se phygotati to the
f•otory or the nolon, I. approeithed in a style of ecom pig-
meat which John Hunter would have very muds
&Trieste& Should • minister leaving his perish be
the subject of • tiatimonial, the mere transmission of
• copy of the address to the Vationa ought to as... an
immediate investigation into his claims for annocusatiea
or for the minor apotheosis of beatificadoo at least.
The noble Earl is the owner of Classiobury-park,
In kiertfordshire, and he permits the inhabitants
of the surrounding parishes to frequent It.
This permission suggested the getting up a tes-
timonial " in oonsidoration of the kindness" dro. ;
but the whom has baen nipped in the bud by
Lord Essex, who '," ti in that the practice
of getting up a i. .. . anyone simply
because he has oonduntea “imself decently is a
positive nuisance, and is calculated to lead to
the inference that doing one's duty is of inch
rare occurrence that it requires a reward. The
Facto( Essex will not, we should say, be bothered
again in this direction.
. .

-A
difficulty has arisen under the Elementary
Education Act which was clearly not foreseen by
the 1:101lee of Ominous. We mentioned last
week the case of • working man named Schofield,
who was summoned for not having sent his
child to school, and against whom the • °urge
was dismissed on its being shown that he
taught his child at home. We now hear that a
banker's clerk, named Ward, has been summoned
by the school board of Derby, for neglecting to
send to a public elementary school, one of his
children, aged between ö and 13 years. Ward
did not put in Schofield's plea that his child
was under instruction, but would not admit the
right to interfere in his case, has he held that
the Momentary Education Act was passed to
meet the neglect of parents of the " lower OWNS"
only. The defendant having stated in court
that his child was being properly educated at
home, the School Board withdrew from the
prosecution, and thus the case ended : but the
Mayor said that, until the magistrates were
corrected, they should hold that tue AM referred
to all children. It appears that the defendant's
alleged "neglect" had been urged by a poor
person living in the same neighbourhood who
had received a visit from • Sohool Board officer,
as an instance of there being "one law for the
rich and another for the poor."
The strike in the building trade is at an end.
According to the men it has been "settled", but
the fact is is has died out, the workmen having
been in the end very glad to come to terms.
The employers have made • few minor oonose-
Mons after • two day,' hard fight, which the men
accepted under protest Two OMNI 're men-
tioned in explanation of this change in the
situation. The employers had tided over the in-
convenient* which the strike inflicted upon
them; while on the men', side it was becoming
day after day more apparent that the large
number of desertions from the ninon would soon
redacts the movement to a very narrow limit.
Negotiations were therefore re-opened, and the
men advocated taeir programme in all ita rela-
tions to hours of work, amount of wages, and
payment for overtime. On the two first points
they could do nothing, but they brought the
masters first to admit the principle of extra pay-
ment for overtime, and then to concede rates
comparatively liberal, though much under those
asked by the men. This Is the scanty result Or
three mantas' strike, a good deal of priv
and a very heavy loss Tne men are nicstatli
liberty to return to work—lf they can get works
for their pieces have mostly been filled up.
Our coal supply ia still a promiment subject of
conversation and the "prospecting" for Ws*
diamonds at Btu:alma Riper', in our own
county, has the good wishes of everybody.
From Banffshire we hear that coal is being
Imported from Stettin, where it is said it
Can be purchased at Tyne prices, and to Veleele
returning in ballast much time is saved, as
Newcastle "turns" are from ten to twenty days.
This is not more surprising thee that Russian
Mashed iron is imported here at • profit' that
German cutlery, including razors which are
warranted to shave as well aa to sell, finds its
way to Sheffield; and that Belgian firms out
out lfaglish makers in tenders for rasly en-
gines. We /O&M also that new collieries UV
about to be opened near Dronfield, Derbyshire,
and at Royston, near Barnsley, and operations
have been bo isurkin'! coal in Sutherland.
It II - an extu....ve coal field exists
In the last-named county..

Touching the Geneva-Arbitration, the Doizy
Telegraph says we need not be surprised if Me
decision on the indirect claims should bectoole
known sooner than anticipated. Rumour puts
down the sward at £4,000,000, and to this 111,y
be added the interest and the cost of the Arbi-
tration. in their estimate, Mown Galion and
Young put down the direct claims at about a
million and three-quarters steriing—a further
sum of £150,000 entlieicg to dth*/ aUth. az-
Cishonestly insulted by the United Maks
oeumont in pursuing the arahligi• '
• DO/LOSUISIVIAL
Gina Woman liaLllaT.—Ther• Is ail, ow slams.
Ilse la Ma Swiss oa maws) let doetodatae, '44 to.
prism* time mill nada Is Nola 'Pie SO
Vt, Scala tn. Nunn* to Wigan* an, *its at
WA PAL •

SAD AOCTDWrr. —A painfal meideat happened at the
! South-Western htatioo on Thuredayevening. A South-
alarm bresksman named Thomas Prowling, had placed
a bar berme% the Bookers of • wheel to grad, It do ea
when It suddenly sprang out and struck him so violently
in the reek am to shatter Wife.. Hs was laturliately
take' to the County Hogittai, where tie is programing
M favourably as /an be snorted.
AT an odjouroed ileadone, held at the County Hall,
ea Saturday last, before Herbert Williams, Eq. (chair.
nazi
pi dimrd Peery'. Fr., GPMe gag., and
Barra Middielioa,lim., Kr. &haw., ...ea,
teat clerk of to. peer, being also present, the Eon.
Gorge Greaten Glya, /LP., clarified and took the
oars m • jure., of the pear for the cant. The
seeder were afterwards formally adjourned to the
Tows-bail, Bradford, to Saturday, 71a September. at
11.30, for the purposes al "Ilt• Lieering Let, 1872"
&input DlsTll.—Mr. Allen Day, 25 years of se, a
Dative at Ibeley, near Ringwood, who has dories the
lad four yews filled the post of booking clerk at the
Beath-Western Railway ration, left his Aloe at two
o'clock on Friday a/terra last, and rode on the step
at to. King's Arson 'bes to the both= of houthrrert,
where he alighted, as wee his sustom, and proceeded
through the renege near the ladepondri Chapel, to
ids lodgings at Kra Garrett's, In Charleerreet. It
eras that In slighting from the step of the 'hus, he wso
MAW with a It of °Gushing, whir oontinued after he
had reared the houee, he being unable apparently to
&Mr kis throat of some obstruotioa. The rug!' getting
no better, be went her the rot yard, and tare throw
up a quantity of blood. Kr. Raison, surgeon, who was
in the neighbourhood, Irving been sent for, was amine- '
direly La ettendeass, but aerial skill was of no avail,
and In about tea miners the poor young fellow had
Named to breathe. The dressed had been ailing for
some mouths past, end so fer beak as ler Aril, Mr.
Emma. his Olediehl adviser, reorantended emeation of
work, mad range of sir. In May he went sway foe
three or four weeks, returned during the show week of
the Bath and Won of England lioesety, and seem left
for anerer three weeks, and on returning to resume his
dries leered much bmeatted by toe orris sad
ralmatiost. Only the day before his untimely dessert
he Tiered Weymouth in °employ with hi. friend .
Yr. Dart, and pealed (jolts • pleasant tame. Mr.
fungeo, who re him slight from the rep of the
'ho., is rid to have expressed the opinion the; he ma. 4
'ha,. in Mirth, so alarm was his step and
his ditairoonr. It is thought that the slight
mortar orepaent on the alighting must here raptorial
• vessel eonnered with the lungs, and the tlow of
bleed wee SO reel SW to tsar siffoorton. We cannot
rise without saying the deceased bore • most exoellent
oharastsr • he was greatly beloved by as hoods of tile
itoespeayhid by his fellow-servant.; he was always will-
ing and ready to be of use to those with whom berme in
carer end his unidnary end will be long mourned by
a large rola of acqualarare rid friends.
Boaxion Pierre glawerork Monday. Before M.
Dever& sad J. GeLpin. &qrs.
Theory Proem, of Fordeaglion, wee ruled with
reratiag and assaulting P.C. Day, whilst In the menu-
Use of his duty on the 16th inst.
P.O. Day, said that on the eight of the 24:h An nit
as gamier-paid twelve he was engaged In appietsendsog
Alfred Meader, wises Hoary Promo erne and tied to
resew Meader from his custody. He found be °mild I
sot do so, and sodirovoured to strike him, but oortid
sot reek him in °marmoset of the crowd. He Oben
took !sold of Ma Inc by the err and again tried to putt
Itim away, and sooreded in so doing, when be palled
butt towards be (Prowess) bonen As Prewm was
saterlag the door of the house, witness aright Meader
aria, but oould not get him out, se Proeres and others
pried Meader lii, and shut re door agars him.
lie afterwards apprehended Meador with toe WY'
tree of Seep. Mitchell, bet Prone did not theft Inser-
ts'. .

-icloonor rid ha was tory sorry for it ; he wai in
liquor at the time, and did not know what he was
ationt _ .

Mr. Symonds said that was no axons.; he hopiad he
should 00•01' UV* 10 ON the day whoa a man 1111/ 10 be
aniseed of is off•noe became ha well drank; to hls
mind it only added to the gaill of the man.
Sept. Coward said this was not too drat time the
prisoner had bola guilty of isterforing w ta the polo.,
lined 10i., and oasis 9.. 61., or to defrialt 7 days'
1 ent.—Ailoared • weak to pay.
Vc.rtrmillartra °ruder, Landlord of toe Dalphia lan,
()Quechua/feet, was oaargod by Supt. ()award, with
unlawfully keeping Ws bou,e sites so Itasasy, tie 26 .0
last, Watt asssa o'olosk at night, for thaw sale of •
aatiag liquors.
Mr. Croaker said he was not aware that the law was
Is operatloo, and It was dose gait, by mistake.
Mr. Symonds said he was care enough t•me had bean
spent lest Monday in explaining the law and was. it
aurae Into operation.
Mr. Crocker saki he did not hear anything of it.
Kr. Symonds said landlords mast bear 10 mind that
three oonvietions woald dialaailly them from holding •
Wean again.
The magistrates saki, under the eiroumatanoes they
would dhuaise the oharga, as it was 100 firill time ander
the new Let, and it a pitestsl that dr. Or.roter was
ignorant of the law. However, farther *Miaow watt
sot be treated •ith maul leniouoy, sad oloadius would
be toad the full paosaity.
Wafer Perry Simsiosa, daturday.—lliforo
Williams, Esq. (ottatrass), G. Worry, SKI., H. B.
Middleton, RN., and C. L. Mindanao', Sq.

TOAPACE OF COBITILGP.

Mr. W. B. Datotios, tannic, of Wraford gigle, was
inuantesied by illward Cox, • labourer, In him employ,
for Werth of ooatraot.
The prosasutor said he wee employed by Kr. Dawkins.
Lea tnday sreek he with others was sons Into the
harvest fi•id to tie wheal He went there about 10
o'eloek to tbe morningorid stayed there tal 8 o'ol not at
night. On Saarday cunning be, with ashore, went ii
his roaster's oa/lar for eider, whim his iimployer abased
Meg, saying he and the others hid ant done half enough
work the day before. lie (peashoutee) asked his muter
why ha did not lot them have the wart on pleo•' and
per the seine as other mailers, did, and he ropiiiirl %mat
he would dive ii. or in. Si. pee sore tor triad; he
(promiento.o replied that MMus gave 7.. per ante for
611 tyln&lca; Ms matter eaksd who got that, sad
he rsplsed hie father did; on this Kr. Dawkins said
the proesoutor's lathoe was nothing to him, and ha
replied thoi his fattier was a better mita than he was ,
any day. On this his meter said he should discharge
him, tad offered him his wedge, deducting to. amount
dna for rest, 'Mob he deolined to swept.
IL,. Dewkias said the mita CJZ had Wen very abusive
to him for • lead time, and Ms Milli/ tad had more
Moulds with him than alt this others la his employ. 04
one ...Woo Cos boi offers I to fight toe built. tie
had not entered into any Nimmons with Cos eine*
lag Hey twelveinostits, a id his agretwaset than Wm so
give him Jib pot wept and all perquisites. On Setarday '
moraiag, In oonsegmenos of his 11141461•14 labgeogo, whoa
Coo maid his fattier was a --- sight bettor man thwil
he way or ever would be, he offered him three weeks' '
=nu 81-, deduoting the wages for Satardsy, and
Ls I. shoold not employ him again. Coo named
to Mks la and on Koadey morning he again carrel
Whittle money, and gay* him • wadi' notioe so leans the
eottade. Waite he egros4 wait Cos, he also agreed with
his wife, at da. • west, bat she had left his employ, and
he therefore thought she original oostrao call aril raid.
Oes had previoeuy gino him a wish's notice to leery
whisks he refuel so aseept. On the Friday in question
awe men, Cos among the number, yore sent
into • fleld of about 5i awes to tie wheat;
they treat to work at eight o'oliok in Ms morning,
and ought to have finished it that night, whoesee
they did not half flash. On Militia,' the Asia
&mai the day he fattod ths MOM n aranitud together;
sad the next caoraiag diseharged Cis in itoasoi mice of
the sitautive language as nieeitel from hint. He Wowed
Isiah el the men a g•lioa of widest per day.
Tha Chain:ash W.l there vas no doubt C4I hat used
very uneemely language towards his master, whioh he
sought not to have doe*, and he advised him to believe
beater ter the future. The 11.0wav•r, btii
no power to 01410411 the ooatreat, and both master and
nue mast abide by its aromas If they °mild not
eatiteutay agree to separate. Au It 1•411.: Yr. Dawkins
mast pay the owns ot tue keened, and it:es:4lo'4 wsgee
up to the present time.