The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-06-28 00:00:00

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WITXOI7TH.

Paciurio GOOIL—Mr. A. Bolt, of St. Mary-street,
has a white Chinas goose, which has laid 53 eggs since
March.
Curt HO6PTTLL—The collections in aid of this
invaluable institution will be male at some of the
dimenting chapels on Sunday next.
PUBLIOIIOI7B3IL—Mr. H. Edwards, M.P., has pre-
sented the petition to Parliament adopted by the Town
Council, and also the one adopted at the lavers rmblk
meeting, in favour of claming pablichourses on Sundays.
Our Liberal member also voted in It. majority for Bir
Wilfrid Lawson's local option resolution.
SOPISLNIIOATION or ax-P.C. MaoManos. —At a
meeting of the Watch Committee on Wednesday
(yesterday), it was decided to grant ex.P.O. Mac Mahon
an allowance of 15s. a week. Ex-Sergeant Brine has
• superannuation of Be. • week, and the fund applicable
for this purpose brings in about £4O • year, so that,
anima the Superannuation Fend is more profitably
Invested, a small sum will have to be pad out of the
rataa
Ourrioon Ludinte.—An was made on
Tuesday before B. Herpidns, ~ J. Landis, Seq.,
J. E. Robins, Esq./ and J. Robertson. Req., fir an
outdoor license at the Cricket , on occasion of •
match. Mr. Robins spoke very plainly as to the evils
of such licenses in 'paling outdoor gatherings, and
instanced a recent fête; but Mr. Arden stated it was
very different at the cricket field, and the license was
ultimately granted.
CHILD'S BODY.—About the middle of Friday, one of
the workmen at the Pottery noticed something in the
Backwater, examined it, and found it to be the body
of a prematurely born child. Tbs finding wee reported
at the poline-station, and Dr. 'Board found it we. very
premature—about • three or four months child. It is
supposed that some mercenary wretch had to take the
little relic of humanity to the Cemetery, but, for the
sake of the small fee being saved, dropped loin the
water instead.
Sieueouso.—On Thursday, before the Mayor (R.
N. Howard, Req.), J. bundle, Esq., and Dr. Drew,
Frank Very, captain's steward of the Cygnus, was
charged with smuggling a pound and half of cadalish
tobacco, the single value and duty of which wee
10e. 3d —Theistis,ner being of very good character.
the Bench fir him El OA. 51. In all, and expressed •
hope that be would not be deprived of his situation,
now that he had learnt his lesson, he being but • young
man.
Maseru AND Wollitill.—John Bolton,
_of Rocks.
terrsoe, wee summoned last Friday by Mr. Jolty,
painter, for sbeenting himself from his work.—Mr.
Jody appeared, and said he wished to withdraw the
des.—Dr. Drew: This is a man who has taken away
his tool* and loft his work and you wish to withdraw?
—Mr. Jetty: Yee.—Dr. brew: You must be • very
kind mister; have you any reason f,r withdrawing?
—Mr. Testy: He came to me and apologised.-111r.
bundle: Did he come back to work for you 7—No, sir.
Dr. Drew: You can withdraw now; but you ought
to let him know that if you like to bring forward the
cad again, be will be punished.
HORT IN TI! STSAKEII'S PADDLISOIL —Early on
Monday afternoon, when the steamer we. preparing
for her night voyage to the Channel Islands, • young
man named Ching was in one of the paddliseboxes with
a number of others, when they turned the paddle-
wheel in order to get the machinery in a certain
position. Ching was helping to turn the wheel, when
be fell off the bad, owing to its moving more quickly
than he expected, and he sustained a severe bruise of
the thigh by being squeezed between the wheel and the
paddle-box. It was leered his thigh was broken, and
he wee removed to the Royal Hospital; but there it
was found that he was not so much hurt as had been
expected, and, as he wished to return to his wife at
Jersey he was sent by steamer home.
AJOLLY EICOROSION. Although the rain fell
heavily in the small hours of Tuesday, when the
anxious watehers in Oxfordshire and neighbouring
counties ti Witney, yet the pleasure seekers of the
blanket-making place and Its vicinity did not wrap
themselves in awet blanket and give it eprhut deter.
mined, to the number of about SOO, logo to Wornideth,
wet or dry, and fortunate it was for them. sines
hat on the whole, one of the finest days lately en
and got into the atmosphere of Royalty. seeing •
royal
yacht and a royal launch, also some ladies and gentle.
men, who were all as good to them as if they had the
Royal Family out lotion, as some supposed. In fad.
as Mullions are so great part of our happiness, let ne
understand that the little lady with the coquettish bet
in the stern of the Osborne's launch at Portland pier
was the Duchess at Connaught waiting for her husband
—and our pleasure is complete. But we too rapidle
hasten to the gunny brightness of the day; let us recall
how away in Oxfordshire, as it did In Dorset, the rain
came down "about 1.40 a.m.," then held up till the
Witney excursionists were ready t dart, being joined
by the contingents from Fairford, Lechlade, Alvesoott,
and Hampton, where you can get good fertile land for
£6O an acre, freehold. Even the pleasures of the
country and the blanket making aren't enough to
keep English people from the sea, and so, when
the blanket makers resolved to go. the Witney
folks generally bad wanted to go with them,
an excursion committee had bearercr up, and the
soling districts from to Abingdon,
Including classic Oxford, sent more. One year they
west to the Lie of Wight, another year to ;