The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-20 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1880.

Hrierrrat Boariar.—The following collections were Hoping that this mod business we. about to Woolen end draper carpeted the approaches to the church, and
ma& in this toent on Sunday in aid of the British and i • thing of the past In • viry short time, I went • day the carriages were supplied by Mr. Years's,. of
Forage Bible Society and the Dorset County Hoe 1- or two ago to inspect ' the work." " The work " Wareham, and Mr. Charles Sommers, of Swann*.
tal :-Bt. James'. Church, £5 lb. sd. • St. Penis consisted of four men and two wheelbarrows, and I The happy couple left for their wedding tour at four
Church, £l5 Os. 2id. ; Coogragational 'Church, £9 hope to see the job oompleted before 1806 PM.
14..; Weeleysu Chapel, CJI 6s. 3d. ; Baptist Chafe], whiolt no doubt it caa be with the present stlingi
£3 was plowed, however, to see that more men were at
Paties CHURCH. The workers and bilge work this morning; some fresh news from " The
classes connected with St. Paul's Church and schools rCanton "I suppose.
sure entertatoed at supper in the schoolroom se
trueeday evening by the Vioar and Mrs. Pocock. Mr. I sin glad to find that only a very limited motion of
Norbury, of the Landon Hotel, provided an excellent the community attempt to call it presumptuous on the
repot, to which about 100 sat down. There Were part ef • Town Councillor to have the " audacity "to
some speeches and manic after supper, and an enjoy- ask at • public meeting to what extent our borough is
able evening WWI &Piot. bensfitted by this mud laad being filled in. Bouts people
Prrn Samosa, Tbursday.—Before C. J. Moak Lc., seem to think that we are bound to take all the state-
and the ex• Mas Or (W. N. Westing. Esq.) meats contained in letters to our Mayor as gospel,
Jarl4B DOM e, of Parkston was summand for trespass- even though they call six—sixteen. Ido not.
gig in search of amiss on land in the occupation el Sir
Jamas C ilquboun, Bart, at Parkstone.—Mt. Budge Pro. Does anyone want to write to the Mayor, and get
eecuted.—John Palmer. labourer to Sir James, Proved ag w
that _geAbeforethispublic y lixf antunes,yoa•
abut two o'clock on Sunday afternoon he found four ,
snares set in "The IC ins " park. About half put seven in U°4.41 "W hun ot hi. letter WOW' five or s
the evening • rabbit sot in one of the wires, and he and send by the same poet, one copy of it to the
watched and saw aefeindut come and take up the rabbit Mayor, and another to • tenant with instructions to
shout seven o'clock on Monday morning. Richard Wass. teed it amidst the bleat of trumpets on the Town Hall
ham, who was with the lad witeees, and William
1, steps. If that letter dome not get talked about, and
Mood
the balliff, also gave evidenos. and defendant wee fined the writer into the bargain, lam much deceived.
10r. and cuts. fb. 61: --
Henry thowas Oaten, landlord of the Poole Arms, on
the Quay. was charged under three informations with
having his house open for the ode of intoxicating liquors
during prohibited hour. on Saturday and tiunday.—Mr.
Budge defended.—John Lucas said he lisei next door to
Ellen in Rue-lene, over the defendant's home.
Os Saturday Watt after 11 o'clock, he beerd • sus scrip-
tion got up in Elliott's house to buy some beer and porter,
sod be saw Elliot go to the publichouse. Sis knocked,
and the door was opened and clued again. The woman
remained outside for • little while. and the doss'
was again opened, and she came away with
e mug in bee hand. A few minutes after
11 o'clock on Sunday morning be again beard them
talk about beer in Elliott's house, and Thomaa Deer went
to the publiohouee with a mug, which he handed through
the Cool and received again. Ann Baker was watching
at the corner at the time. He told Dear be should lay ats
Information against him, and he threatened to " punch "
him. About three o'clock in the afternoin be saw Elliott
go to the public-house with a mug and come away with it
under her apron. Dear was watching .t th.. corner at the
time—ln croessx.mination witness &omitted that be
did not see any money peas, and that be did ant see any
liquor in the mugs. Me further admitted that he
formerly lived with Ann Baker. but that they had •
row on Christmas Day about some soap token run defen-
dant's holm. He also admitted that he bad refused to
let El.lott get water from • well in his
which the keek•kitehen,
whi formerly asstd. as —The defence w a total deoial
of use first two visits to the publichouge. and as to tbe
third vhit Mr Budge rated that It wee Dour, not
Hfilett, who went to the publichouse in the afternoon,
and that be went for the purpose of getting tome water
to make tea.—T‘ is defence was sworn to by Elliott the
Isndlady. and Dees, and the uouliatrates deci ed to dis-
miss the emornomee, but cautioned defendant as to the
future, se he was before the Bench not long Silo, and if be
parse again it would he • had tidtig for him and the house.
THE BUD POND NUISANCE.
To the • &tor.
Ker,—mtbough the Liberals to many minds appear
to commit a heinous offence by questioning the actions
of their political opponents in Poole, or the sincerity of
their motives. I iuu glad to find from your report of the
lea'. Town Council Meeting, that Dr. Philpote—who I
understand, was the first person to call public attention
years ago to the mud nuisance, with its atteurlant
some years
the courage to place the recent proceedthp of
the Level of the Manor before the public from the point of
vi-w which I venture to say is the one from which it is
seen by the majority of the thinking inhabitants.
However much the Tory party may parade the tardy
performance of a legal and moral obligation, which it has
Laken years to bring about, as a piece of spontaneous
generosity so as to make as much political capital out of
It as possible, the fact remains that the Lord of the
Manors determination was not announced until after the
advent of his kinsman Mr. Schreiber, as the Tory Candi•
date for the Borough and just on the eve of • general
election which maim others as well as myself rather
Mel lithe Corporation been allowed to carry out their
own plan, there would have been no has of money to the
ratepayers. but on the contrary • gain of eight acres of
land for the public, and • handsome profit out of the
revenue derived from letting the baths.
With these facts before ua, what is more reasonable
than for us all to itek the question, with Dr. Philpots,
To what extent is the the town of Poole indebted to Sir
Ivor Guest "

To Ow Editor.

Dear Mr.—Wady allow me to avail emelt 7and
001 medium in giving a word in season" to W 7 Ma"'
brethren in this neighbourhood. The word of God
declare." Whosoever will he a friend of the world la the
enemy of God," end Jesus himself warns bin dlicr of
It. hatred," Harrel net, my brethren, if the war hate
In_Jsc." This is a " cross" every child of God cheerfully
" th. world is crucified unto him and he unto the
w7O ;" but it certainly becomes a much heavies eras%
and one of a very different character, when a follower el
the Lord is striving in his humble way to lead burdened
souls into the liberty of God's love fee Inimiled in the 11.•
and full salvation of Christ Jesus), to be opposed in such
service by brethren in the Lord, because be adheres to
what is " written" and only what is written, and refuses
to teach and preach merely the opinions of man, which
are nothing more than speculative suppositions. Christ's
servants should never attempt "to he wise above what la
written.- and if they advertise their opinion in oonnection
therewith let them be honest and faithful enough to God
and man, to state it is but their opinion ; and let them be
very careful in using the word of God to suppO their
vI e ws. Aniniproper use hi too frequently made of Boni Ow*,
and its application lea, often wrong. I have never
publicly taught anything but what is uodeniably enW
Ported by the Werd of God. And because I refuse to
accept and adopt as part of my creed other men's notions,
which at best ere mere matters of inference, I un no
longer a brother and co-worker for the Lord with former
friends, and ens regarded as quit* to worthy their coun-
tenance. The trartut I have been subjected to affords
the "enemies of the erase no mean advantage, and has
given rise to much 'bridal I have the highest interests
of my fellow creatures at heart, and I am determined by
God's grace to persevere in the work He hu given me to
I do • and I trust for the truth's sake Christiana will help to
Banco the enemy, maintain the right, and aid me with
their sympathy and prayer..
HEM A. Devil. Missionary.
fiwanage, Jan. 12th, HMO.

No more this week about stinking mud. Don't
think me too hard, my dear friends, upon this nasty
subject; but ready I see and hear eo much both twistore
and behind the scenes that I cannot restrain my pen,
and there is no task I like so well as showing up Tory
blunders.

Everything our opponents 'o is beset with blunders
Innumerable. They never hold trumps unless they
show their hands, and to play • good game at political
whist they ought to hold their naughty political
tongues ; but Tories will talk, and when they don't
talk they groan, and when they groan, what a power of
beer is there.

What is land worth in and around Poole just now?
I don't mean Ladies' Walking Field land. I hear of
ism than an acre at Parkstone being sold for £740, and
Dr. Salter's house [etched £l,4oo—to be pulled down.
Was that. good speoulaUon? Opinions are divided.
The ?OMAN% Mint to build a hall. Splendid (des;
we want one. want it badly, too. Only fancy, over
five hundred people were turned away from the
Isigest room in the town, the next largest being also
full at the same time, when Hr. Waring held his last
meeting in Poole. Yee, but some Tory replies that
meeting woe one of the electors, not of the Liberals.
Exactly, my friend, that's how we do thing.; we
don't like hole and oorber business, where "big wWcan
get applauded for telling "creamers" to ignoramuses,
with no one to contra lict them We like to have
everything above board, we want the liberkm, and we
leave the lay:tering' to your (11s)honourable selves.

There is some hops of the railway acoommodation
receiving attention at head-quarters. Mr. Waring he.
now taken the matter up, and promisee to give it his
attention.

I see that a new quay ia commenced upon the Weld
Shore.

The question of public baths is, I am pleased to say,
to be settled in a very short time. These baths will
be built upon ground belonging to the borough of
Poole, unless I am much mistaken.

I hear of a series of political dinaers which were
given in the banqueting room of —. Well, I won't
say where, loming events cad their shadows before, and
I shall not be surprised at any time to hear that what
I heard two years ago is quite true, namely, that one of
the young men who live across the water writes
" M.P. for Poole" after his name. That is to say if
his Liberal opponent does not beat him.

Have you seen the new penny stamps, with gain
upon their backs like that used for receipt stamps? I
wonder how it was that receipt stamps came into my
head so readily just after writing the last paragraph.

Yours respectfully,
A RATEPATLIL

A waggish correspondent telh me of an individual
who comes into Poole every night for the purposes of
courting, and asked me to guess who it was. Now the
only person I know who comes into Poole every night
is But I quibe forgot he is married—very much
mraried--eo it would be wicked of me to say that
there was a lady in his C 4114, bat nothing short of a
liaison can bring him in as rcralarly as I see him.
However, I will enquire into matters.

TORY MISREPRESENTATION.

That prin ers' ink and Conservatism in Poole ought
never to come in contact, is a fact which has yet to
dawn upon our opponen's if they intend to hold the
little ground they boast so much about. By rushing
Into print they only entangle themselves still more
In the meshes of unpopularity, and the less thex
appsar before the public, the more do they show their
woe. We hat thought that they had seen the
follies connected with wilful misrepreeenr•tions by
Ibis time, but a leader in a recent edition in the
a Tory paper (reprinted by the local Tory organ)
tells us that such is not the case, and it becomes our
duty once again to point out to them how foreign it
Is to their nature not only to argue upon genuine facts,
but simply to a lhere to the truth. Again we have to
deal with fi,rures which have been cooked, again we
have to repeat • series of statements utterly beyond the
mark, tort only of veracity, hut common sense, id
which latter commodity we shall soon begin to think
our opponents coned ler we have none left. They
tax us with not haring cut our wisdom teeth,
and not knowing on which eide our bread is but-
tered. l'erhaps not; our dental apparatus Is not
fit, we know, to masticate, nor is our throat
fit to swallow, nor our stomach to digest, the
cowardly petition of a few years back, and so long j
as we can place the sweet sugar of revenge upon our
breed and butter, we c .re not which side the butter is j
on, It is characteristic of all Englishmen to meant
coercion. and " ltritons never, never shall be slave."
even in Bs:ilia—lt is not • questi in of "the greatest
benefactor" to the town which decides, so far as Poole
is cco.cerned, its representation in Parliament, it is
rather • question of being represented by a man who
will reduce the taxation of the nation, and whose motto
will be "Peace retrenchment, and reform." The
present state of Poole tells us what state the country is
In. If it was properly governed, the distress we see
around us w ulii be reduced, and the greeted bens-
facto. to Poole is the m rim who will reduce it. The
spending of a few hundreds of pounds in our town
becomes a mere bagatelle towards its prosperity, when
the psople generally, and employers of labour
especially, are taxed to the tango( thousands of pounds
more than they should be. What makes work scarce
now? What makes employers hesitate to employ?
What makes ino, ev so ac tree? What brings distress
Into our town? The answer is misgovernment, and
yet because an individual is rolled a benefactor
to Poole, he and his relatives, who support a
ministry which is the author of all these ills. are
to represent the borough in Parliament. If they
do not do ibis, we have not "cut our wisdom
teeth" and so forth. Where is the common ranee of
such bigoted reasoning ? Suppose Pools had been

Thou thrice rejected one shalt me
We will not have thy nominee,
The man who comes from Germany.
flowerer clever he may be.
Nor anyone that's sent by thee,
The men of Poole must eye be free.

If all I bear is true. the Tories hay. mixed up a
great deal of political leaven with this relief rcheme,
and the whole afiair only wanted a Tory Chairman
and Secretary for it to be trumpeted about the town
a. a grand Tay scheme.

Let every subscriber to that fund consider his money
as partly paid as a tribute to Tory misrule, and let the
poor as they receive the relief, remember to which of
the two political parties they can trace their preeent
position.
Who ia the Hiumworthr poet! A week or two back
the songs snag at the Liberal meeting were denounced
by the Tory organ, as being bad metre. It is interest-
ing to know that a most unique specimen of both bad
metes and bad syntax occurs in the Guestophils Bong
sung at this Hamwortity toe. Never mind, it wan
quite trod enou4h for Ham where "Manor on the
brain" appears as an epidemic just before a mend
election.

benefitted to the extent ,4 £1,600 (to quote from our
contemporary) and it has not i,,fitted to the extent
of as many penni.s, so for aa the filling in of the mud
land is concerned—would that fact be sufficient, after
the lesson we have learnt of what Canford rule means,
coupled with ,he present state of the country, to
persuade us to return a Tory to Parliament? No; the
majority of us are not Toilet; on the contrary, we are
Liberals—Liberals dissatisfied with Tory rule' Tory
wars, and Tory taxation, and last, though not least,
smarting yet under a Tory petition; and if the lord of
tha manor likes to do what, from a moral point of
view at least, be was bound to have done years •-o,
In. only does his duty. Had he not done it the
C,orporati b would have done it for him, or com-
pelled him by law to do It; therefore, we have
nothing but our bare rights to congratulate ourselves
about, whilst ten acre, of valuable land are added, at
a nominal cost to the already large estate of Sir Ivor.
These are bare. crude, and perhaps the Tories will say
" heartless" facts, bid facts they are—twist them
about as you will, sift them as you like, nothing but
bard facts remain. To bring forward act, of kindness
as mesons for voting at • general election against our
consciences is to make aa candid al admission as to
the legitimacy of bribery as it is possible to conceive;
and it is a noteworthy tact that the Tories who once
aimed to be he political policemen of Poole are at
this present moment relying wholly and •olely for
mucous at the next general election upon "what they
can do" for Poole. No ooner is anything "done
than we have it forced down our throats, proclaimed
from every house-top, and blazed forth in every paper,
and people are sent down their favourite haunts—the
back alleys—to Proclaim the mighty deed to everyone.
No secret Is made of the cause will& brought it about,
for it is made an electioneering cry. The 'sift horse
is looked in the mouth," and being • Pool• "horse,'
like other living things In Poole, be has not cut his
wisdom teeth- Moreover, the gift bores is but at best
"a screw," and everybody in Poole knows what the
Tories mean when they say they are going to "put on
the screw."—Pools Telegram.

BOfell Mr. Graham; song, "Derby and Joan,"
Mrs. Wfillama-Freeman ; • ng, "Th. Old Sweet
Story," Mrs. Jenkins; vocal duet, "Army snd
Na•y" fenoored), Maws. Jenkins and L .ghorn ;
• "See out Oafs" ieacored) ; pianoforte duet. Mrs.
ill riame-Preemaban Miss Broughton ;song, "I am
so Volatile" (moored), Mr. Leghorn' v0c..1 duet.
In character, "Pretty Polly Hopkins" (vociferously
encored), Mr. and Miss Rowland; song, "Once
Miss Drummoad ; glee, "Hardy Norseman;"
eon. Sweet Bale Mahone," the Vicar; pianoforte
Mies Drummond and Mr. Graham; soar,
"Death of Nelson" (encored, but n3t responded to,
time being limited), Mr. Rowland ; song, with chorus,
" Ruler of the Queen's Navy" (from" Pins-
fore"--ionoored), the Vicar • finale, " God Save the
QUaill." The room way tastefully decorated for the
occasion with banners, mottoes, and wreaths of ever-
greens, whilst a row of evergreens in pots ornamented
the front of the stage, which was oovered with a
crimson carpet. The pianoforte, lent for the evening,
was a semi-grand, by Rosenkranz Dresden. Many
ladies and gentlemen from the neighbouring yfilagse
were preseat. The Vicar, Hey. igal W. Greasy,
,m•d the proceedings by explaining to the audience
the object for which the concert was given, and stxted
that • sum of £35 was already in hand toward' an
estimate of £l4O, which would be the probable cost of
• suitable ow:, to be supplied by Messrs. Walker, of
London. me was carried out to 'the
entire satiodantlonPrOliTtrel audience; but where all the
performers executed their parts so well it would be
Invidious to Biagio out any individuals for especial
praise. It is intended to give another concert on or
about January 30th for the same object, and it is
hoped that the same success may attend it.

Too Wutidus, elect at Mum. Wollecus bank ut
Sturminster Newton, sold that on Tomas, lost, the 16th
of January, Kr. James Strange. the younger, brought in
the cheque produo, d and placed it to the credit of his
amount. It one for SA, anel dated the 30th of December,
1679, purport•ng to be signed by Joseph Harris and payable
tu James Hunt. It wee payable to bearer; it was endotsed
"Jurors Bunt." Ile produced the cheque.

Lie•
Wflhami-

Jame. Strang*, the younger, maid be lived in Warmin-
ster Newton and assisted his father in the grocery busi-
ness. Prisoner brought a cheque. to their thop just sib.
wee closing on the Nth of December. He bought a few
things, and presented the cheque in payment. Witness
described the eignatures on the cheque, and said as be
knew Mr. Harris s handwriting he cashed it immediately.
—ln reply to the Bench, the witness said that when
pthoner came into his shop be asked for a pen and ink, but
he did not see what be did with it. He did not knew
whether he signed the cheque with Mr. Hunt'. name. He
did not know Mr. Hunt's handwriting. He did not know
the prisoner. He paid in the cheque, with other amounts,
on the 6th of January.

Elisabeth Harris. wife of Mr. Joseph Harris, the first
witness. stated that the prisoner brought a note to her
house on the evening of the 90th of D member, and said it
was from Mr. Hunt. of Yargrove Farm, llarnhulL She
took it to her husband. She did not kit ,w the prisoner.
Polioe-noustable Poems said that on the Bth of January
he apprehended the orisoser at Southampton. and charged
him with forgery. In answer prisoner said he we, mis-
taken. but shortly afterwards be sell "It's no use telliog
li.. about it I did it to get my wife and family with roe
to Southampton"

Superintendent Grant prodooed the letter, which he
received from Mr. Jegeph Harris, the prosecutor, on the
7th of January :

" Marn!gt!ll.

" From Mr. IMMO Hunt to ID. Harria-Brt-:1-1;ve
rite this few lines to basked you to lend Ina four pouunda
We have some call to settle a bill and we are and
• Innen' will call when eke do come back from her dough.
tor to-morrow night. Put it In paroor pleas) sir.
" Frorig.7rur
JAMES HUNT.
" MarntsnlL"
ocsatintiod that he saw the prisoner drive by in
a fly on the Rat of December. accompanied by his wife,
sad go to the railway station.

On being told that he would be committal tor trial,
prisoner seeming greatly affected. wept very muck.
said: " I admit I did it. I wee short of money. and did
not like to ask my parsnta foe any. I was very hard
drove.l. . . . . .

—fit; Obelrraan : You stud go to Dorchester, sad await
the Ameba fro your trial.