The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-03-23 00:00:00

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DOT.W being t. The interment took place in PORTLAND.
113 trod entudil exintoo. Smhorncliffe ::.re• at
nOUTnI g Lord- Ali three o'clock,
e. ilbe ;tell, COUNTY COURT ACTION BY. A PORT
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stun, Mr. Henry Foley, the Duke of Aberoarn, LAND DOCTOR-
DORCHESTER, MARCH 23ua, leee. LieutoCelooel Birch Reynardeon, representative of _ --
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.. the and Battalion of the Grenadier Guards (who took
a wreath from the deceased's °hi regiment), Lord At Weymouth County Court on Thursday, Dr.
Bingham, SirS•omonr Blane,Colonel the Hon. H. Bing Drake sued Thomas Elliott, muter mariner, for
Mr. F. V. Lloyd, Mr. Wyndham Payne, Colonel £l'J 17.. 61. for medical attendance and medicine.
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before
Wynne Finch, and Mr. ne°rlle Lewis. An Immense Both parties lie at l'ortland. The case war
There is no chance, it is now believed, if Me. number of persons, military and civilians, were the Court last mouth, but was adjourned in order
t m Head might give evidence am a medical
amomarmin
remaining in the Cabinet, any more than present, and many wreathe, including one lent by tbe hat Dr. 31ooth
Prince of Wale*, were placed in the grave. The Re V.
assessor. r. owa conducted the case on 'what
Ur, Trevelyan. It is limply mouth' t° Sod Mc. Barrington Mills officiated, and full mili honours of Dr. Drake, and Mr. Weston defended.—Defew
dant had paid 1:17, into 'Court in settlement of the
Gladstone in extreme old ag• more advanced than were accorded to the deceased.
KIEPINO • Doo WITHOUT A Lterose —At the claim but on behalf of the plaintiff it was contended
such Radicals 111 the Birmingham members. So liti. elorough Police-court on Monday, before the Mayor
,that the charge. made were both regular and usual.
The ',Wowing evidence was taken :
ea is known everyoDeof Me. Chamberlain'soolleaguee (Alderman (Iregoryl, kir. H. Durden, Mr. Posed Dr. Drake deposed that the debt was contracted
.a.. Jillard, and Mr. le Lock. Alfred Smith was MM.
in the reProondalien °I Dieetteelken; inciedink j'"° owned for keeping a dog without a license—He 311.,"LeUdan., t when he attended from May Itch to
Bright', concurs in stoodeMnine the Fierniee's Pco• pleaded guilty, and told the bench he had given the I "'"' ........, 1664. On the 10th of October he was
pmels. Forth. foo, sum io hie Ideur. chamberlain dog hi a friend, but it would not stay away.—Mr. eller:ont d. h. Called in. All visits paid by hiiitge'cre
Supt. Coward said if he had told him the name et his • elt ut il 's be suppti all t e tone
ispopular with the Coseervative party. His friendly f riimi I, would Dot have been ounonoond.._Doku
~in accordance with the particulars delivered. In
ghee with Lord Randolph Churchill was of evens dent said he did not wish to get his friend in trouble 1 December of the same year he saw defendant, who
to Gaye himself—Fined ee, and costa.--sTboinaa , asked him to be lenient, and he struck off a guinea
utterly devoid of ailfolficanon like other verl 'Unlock, of the Militia, was stinmoned for similar ! from his bill, thus reducing it to £l9 17s. 6d. The
Lund hitthrs "Joe" bears DO paraxial unfriendliness neglect—Defendaat said he had been out of work, and . account was sent in soon afterwards, and was never
could not afford hi take it out—The Mayor : If you ' sent back. He had a letter from defendant, dated the
towards his seta/mists. He was on eacellent terms
can't
afford .•loth December, Itele, stating that he was astounded
to pay the license you should not keep •
in private life with the We Colonel Burnaby with dug.—Mr. Supt. Coward explained defendant had at the amount of the bill, and that he thought twelve
would be ample. In January witness wrote
whom be had many a wordy contest at the last Sir • been fined tilinize bolsi:72,llm county iittagietrate: for iit!
ay a lieneas
tter iwZrueply, stating that he had made his usual
mingle= election but on.. Lind Randolph Churchill rr...uhg I a r . ) —Fined ea, and coats, en ' y n— charges, and be did not me why he should make any
is in many respects • MASI alter Mr. Chamberlain's ' Invoice Casa—ln the Probate and Divorce difference in defendant', cam.
;_ Division on Thursday, before Mr. Justice Butt., Replying to questions from Mr. Weston, be said he
own heart, Thom atoms to be • teed understanding Clarkson v. Clarkson was heard. In this cam the lived close to the defendant. Dr. Parsons formerly
between the two, to hold each other up to public wife sued fur a divorce on the ground of her husband's attended defendant's family. Witness had attended
sesecratiou, and to be very good friends in private. „,„ clr
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aonduelVrintxmoandinit was a noi‘:i case
nel in was undefended.
irnid.efendleidr.. Mrs. Elliott, and he might have said to ber that he
should be happy to attend her en the saMn terms as
Even the Aston riots and the epieede of the affidavits Ltargeaves Deane was counsel for the petitionYs:r, who them charges.' by Dr. Person.. He 'night have
was warned to the respondent in India in 1e75. asked Mrs. Elliott, when vaccinating her children,
did not permanently embitter these rivet politicians,
, They lived together in India, awl afterwards in Eng. what Dr. Parsons eherged her. It Was 111Ual in
They have perhaps as long as thirty years yet Pt hind, but the respondent was stated to have given Por.land to charge 2s. ed. a visit, in mblition to the
political conflict in store. Each is likely to lead his way to drink, and while in that state he week and charge for mediOne. lie believed that was the
Mused his wife. Ho did so while they lived in lodg. lowest charge node by 111,liCal Mell ill tilii island.
Party in the 11"0" 111 Commits. Is is well, there' jugs at Brighton, and in consequence of his violence, If he saw two children of the -awe bendy in tbe
fore, that they should follow the best tradition of shit was compelled to leave hen. It was alleged that same house at the same toile, he charged for two full
after she did so, the respondent committed adultery visits.
English politics in maintaining& certaindegree of per . with various women.—Nfaude Penny said she was the Ito Honour (Judge Tindal Atkinson) considered
sonal intimacy. But to return to the burning '1 daughter el the propnator of the Bull Hotel, Scar. the pith of the case was whether plaintiff wao entitled
question of the hour, Mr. Gladstone retains an borough. In October of that year Colonel Clarkson to £l4 lite. spare from the £7 7s. 64. for medicine.
came to the hotel, and stayed with • lady who was Mr. Wagon, in defence, contended that the charge
Opinion that the Rouse of Commons will accept his not his wife.—After hearing she evidence Mr. Justice for the visit, should include the medicine, that plain.
Irish propesals. Ile goes forth.,; he believe. that Butt primouoced • decree nisi with costs. The wife tiff had no right to. charge double for seeing two
was ordered to have the custody of the two children persons at the mine visit, and that the amount paid
the Hume of Lords will not dare to throw out hie of .t,be marriage, into Court was suthcient.
measures wimp they have pawed the Commons. bairn es. lit. THOMAS 1101161SAI:N1,ine.—.)ne of Defendant said that on October 10th plaintiff made
the oldest and most highly respected farmer, in the a double charge for visiting two of the children on
county if Dorset hae pot lamed away in his eTtli the same ',evasion in the 'tame room ; whilst the
year, namely, Mr. Thomas 'tomer Saunders, late if evidence of the wife was to the effect that Dr. Bower
Watercombe Farm. Asa practical agriculturiet, and introduced Dr. Drake to her. When she first had
for hie thorough knowledge of sheep breeding. Mr. occasion to *end for Dr. Drake, she asked him what
Saunders was known throughout the whole of the his charge was, and told him she had been accustomed
South of England. He first entered farming in to pay • guinea. She afterwards sent for him to
1836, when he took the Watercombe Farm, where he attend the children, and he said he li/wild charge
founded the famous Wick of Watercombe rams. He what she had paid her doctors before. but no name
carried on the farm successfully for many years' and was mentioned. Dr. Parsons and Dr. Bower had
in 1832 hok the prim for the beet cultivated farm, attended her before.
given by the late Mr. Herbert Williams in connection His Honour : The question emmed to be what Dr.
with the Dorchester Agricultural Society. He was Bower, Dr. Drake's immediate predeceases-. charged
suemerhoi at Watercombo, . aaaa il years ago, by his Mrs. Elliott.
son, Mr. T. Chapman Samadere, Whil still main Dr. Maclean of Portland, was called by Mr.
tains the high character of the flock as well as the Weston. Ile deposed that certain general cberges
farm. The late Mr. Saunders was the oldest member were made by medical men, according to the different
of the Winfrith Farmers' Club, having been vice- circumstances of social pesition.—By Mr. Howard :
chairman for a great many years. It was with deep The chargeswere not graduated according to the
breeding that Mr. Sa•anders name will lie varying income id the patients, but • reduced charge
principally oinnotol, his tact and diecrimina• might be made in the cam of poor pereons.
tion in the selection of stock being remarkable. Ilia Honour subsequently called Dr. Moorhead, the
For II conocutive years he attended Appleehaw Fair, aesso..r.
and during his long career as a breeder he gainol Its'. Moorhead alluded to the reeogn lied diatoms in the
many prices. Mr. Saiindens Was a genial, kind • erofeseion, and said a medical man was entitled to
hearted 111,11, and hie death, even at such a ripe age, charge from do aid to 7o tier visit, including medicine.
will be regretted by all with whom he was connected. Plaintiff, in thin case, had charged Is ed the mean
between thwo charges. Ile (Dr. Nloothead) did not
think EIS was a proper remuneration for a doctor
under the circumstances,. bus decided that a charge of
to rsd per visit, including medicine, amounting to
els leis. would eittfice.
A verdict was given for the latter amount.
..ALlt V. TIOI sIIMER %MING MAMONC COMPANY.
Pleintiff live,. at Weymouth, and had 110P0 in the
employ of the defendants as a collector and ealeenian
from November to le•cember lase He claimed
te. 30. 34. as commiesien 4/11 two niachineo—The
plaintiff). Cai.o lifail omducted by Mr. Bowen, whilst
Nlr. H. It. Waneleoniugh, of Bristol, defendiel. —The
defence was that, according to agreement, plaintiff
war only entitled to commission mein palm effected by
him when he collected the money arieing from ouch
vales, an 1 that when his uteri ices terminated with the
company his right to comisimion, as alai his claims to
salary, ceamd.—According to an age...mime which the
plaintiff had 'deo', it appeared lie wolud have no
success if the act 1111 l were trioll, awl an arrangement
wai therefore mole for the withdrawal of the CalSll, the
other nide not clainnnw experem.. and not defending
the action from pecuniary motives, but on principle.
—his Honour, Ilion neoiving the latter intimation,
oloerved that the company wash very respectable ime,
and that it was most generous of them to forego the
Costs of the case.—Mr. Wansborough replied he was
very plemed to hear his Howell- say so. He might
state the company had upwarde me 3,000 persons in
their 'Tapley as canvassers awl collectors in this
o matey under siniilar agreement. h. that which plaintiff
was bound. He wse only too pleaeed hi bear the mia
guided plaintiff had taken advantage of hie friend's
advice, and now Kan the error of his ways. The
company did wit desire vote, being entirely satisfied
with plaintiff having a buitted he was entirely in the
wrong.

The Irish scheme is (writes Dagonet) at present
known oaly to some of Mr. Gladistone's political
fries& and to the London correspondent that
emederful being who, like Asmolcus, flies through the
air, with the reader hanging on hir coat-tail, ani
unroof@ the hones. of Cabinet Ministers an that we
look therein and know what is going on. The modern
&modem has certainly lifted the roof of Mr. Glad.
stow's official residence, but as the servants' attics are
immedietely under the roof, and no London corres,
poodent who reepecta himself holds converse with or
derives information from a gentleman's servants, he
hu dose more—he has lifted up floor by floor until he
has come to the ceiling of Mr. Gladston.'s study, and,
having rolled that back, he has shown us Mr. Glad.
stone's writing-table, and on it, the Ink scarcely dry,
the famous scheme of Rome Rule fee Ireland, which at
premed divides public attention with the !Nellie.,
poisoning ease, the Belt-Abdy mystery, and the Son'
day Schad kissing garnet,

Mr. E. R.. Russell, the member for I ilinwrow, who is
Parliamentary correspondent for the L. epoof
ie credited, on what authority we know not, with an
intimate knowledge of Mr. tilailstiinst'rl icheme iif
Home Rule. In any cas, hi,, forri.ast of the coining
Bi I l ham been much commented im by the pm..., and
on the whole we incline to think it i. fairly accurate.
'The measure, such it i., will Is. prolmbly cut int..
two, and the Land Question dealt a separately
and on its merita this erasion, leaving the more iwriltium
portion of Repealing the Union till neat year, when,
if Mr. Gladstone meets with oppoiiiition from the
Lads, he will dissolve and appeal to the country.

Amongst the new manlier. if Parliament a very
large proportion bars already undergone the ontea/
ef addressing the House. Taking all the maiden
speeches together, it cannot be imid that there has
been any overwhelming accedsion to the oratorical or
intellectual strength ol the House. But there are
certainly some sew senators who have load, an
exceedingly honourable display Amongst the
lawyers, Mr. Finley, tC., and Mr. Moulton, tt.C.,
Ikea perhaps dune best. Both are manly, lucid, and
forcible speakers', and they are without that fussy,
florid Old Bailey style with which, in the persons of such
ex.mealters as Mr. Waddy and Mr. Willis, the Howie
was unpleasantly familiar. Amongst the new military
members, we thiak Colonel Duncan is forilr prineeia.
He is a big, heavy man, with the voice of an adjiitant
an admirable choice of words, and • rich fund of quiet
humour. But taking everything together, Mr. If. mr.
Lawson is perhopa the most wonderful 4 the de bil tants.
Thia eldest SOO of the manager of the Doti!. Filigropt,
whom father changed both his name and his faith for
him, hat still the intellectual keenness of the Hebrew,
and that snrpriaing precocity which is a common
characteristic of the race. Ile is only 21 years .if age,
and, indeed, looks no older, but he speak. with the
thoughtful gravity of a middle aged.statesmati. Not.
withstanding his juvenility, he is not conceited it
priggish in hi. manners.
The prolonged wintry weather has proved terribly
fatal to old people. The death rate had gone up
immensely during the last month or six weeks. The
Inaurance Companies say that it is many years Once
they have had to pay upon so many ;obeli" iii so
short • period. The sudden change of warmer
weather hae also had the effect of intensifying many
forms of climate.

A MILITIA wriioc--Can anything be co
=Zak as the present rule ite to retirement of Militia
*Sows? All majors and captains must retire at 30,
but the *bawls can nrmain in command until they
are $7. At the precent moment there are colonels
who hays bald the command 32 years, 31 gear*, 37
yam and DO fewer than sixteen varying from 21 to 13
years. Surely' if an officer it unfit to remain a+ major
or captain elWir 50, reloads oath* be Os to remain
until 57 yews. _