The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-06 00:00:00

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ones came to the door, and the sergeant asked him If I
IA had been down town that night. He said he had
not been further than the Castle, and had had some
whiskey, and had given the landlady a sovereign, and i
asked if anything was wrong with it; if there was he
would make it right, and be (witness) said that he
wanted hismocliiancipa He handed him 15t. 63. • the
prisoner m frightened.—Mr. Scott, Jun, stated
that the produced was not a sovereign, and • very
poor imitation • it was not gold.--Sergt. Mitchell
stated that on imitation;
37th Mr. Hare cams to him
and told him that • soldier had been to his house and
phased a bad sovereign. He than west, in company
with Mr. Hare, to the Castle, and from there to
Prisoner's lodgings, in company with the ostler. The
prisoner oasis and opened the door. The ostler then
said, "That is the man that was at the Castle."
Armour said that he had been to the Castle, and had
champed a sovereign there. Mr. Hare said, "It was •
bad one, and here it Is." Armour said that he was
ma aware of that; If there was anything wrong about
it he would give back the cheesy and be the loser.
He knew where be got it from, it was from
one of the 39th ; but the worst of It is he went away
on Friday• he bought some thing' of him and the 39th
man gave it him in change. Prisoner" wife said that
be did not know what be was talking about •pprtsoner
then took 15a. 6d. out of his pocket and &eked his ells
for half.a.vovoreign. She gave it him, and prisoner
put the 15.. Gl. on the table. Mr. Hare took the
16y 13d and he took the bad sovereign. Armour then
said that he would pay r. Hera the remainder as
soon as he got it, Mr. Hare then went away.—Mr.
Lock said there was not one title of evidence against
the prisoner, he ha I been 16 year in the regiment and
there had never bad anything against his character.—
Prisoner was remanded until next Monday to await
Instructions from the Treasury, as regards prosecution.
CO ITAGE GARDENS.

Another of my autumn holidays was pawd in Don t.
shire. I etartnd one morning for • walk from Weymouth
to Maiden Castle, and thence ii I)achest-r. Daring my
ramble I passad through • village which has ever sinee
lived in my memory as an esp•cially bright spot. The
cottages avii re meetly low in height ant grey in colour;
the roofs were uniformly made f thatch, ant however
different in appearance, were all more or I. si p'oturesque
w. re train,' I oven the c .tta;e frows, or on the
riles wir.n thy chanced to have he eunnakt sapert.
Every cottage Lad its garden, anil all wer • bright with
11,w. ra, while in many, bsida the vegetables, which
were where in plenty, there were te telly laden fruit
trees, apple., In a-a, and plains, aiding to the value and
beauty of the gar-dank I have had the chance mince
of aacortainlud as a fact the moll for the uniform ex-
cellence and univirsality of gardening in that !albite ;
but doubtless it was due to the all-pervading Juliano* of
some good and wise Elan or woman, who by example and
precept bad set the villagers on a path of a useful and
refining tendency. Not improbably the Vicar of the
parish was the cause; for I have usually found that
wherever a villaga is famed for its gardens. the Parish
priest is also a garJener, and fosters the pursuit among
all within the range of his influanc —Z W., in °ardour.'
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