The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-06-16 00:00:00

THE STRIKE AT
n$ the Mitt,

I much dislike rushing into taint, but im my coisluet
oellllllrlNllly a person WIN, sign* hinaelf ••.‘ Looker • III." I mind
erd. You to allow ine to dekod int self in 3011 r 114•Wrs7MIN, I
wish the " Looker tin" had signed htt tan. instead .4 attack-
ing me en‘mimoodi. Writing .4 the "trite at 311l1oroe he
says, " One .4 their adinieri J 1.001 to be a person whose
IMO° I have ...Mot as chairman at some .4
Dorchester, Blandforl, and elsewhere, who lives the parish
of Milton, and tiarre. owl at Kingston and
Whited b. Tliew are of a Vtrry loor desenision, with little
genlim 1111 l seistiori ; for these rent of from 70. 14- to
ii. 061. per loonth charged, quit • double that for rotts,oe
bebinging to landovniers and farmer proving tit., trit-nrr to he
'lUlteawake to commercial principle+ when his OMII pocket is
beg to my my .0tt.,4 on. let at ct Is per
y 0.,, which ani to to abut Is. tor week, aisl I rah
wail) and tenants ZS men know if they jay their rent they
are sure Jo home, and are not subject to he ejected if they
d„ not work fora particular fanner. or if they decline to to
('P'S wares. I ion not aware that lam the own...rot cottages nluteelaurcia vast Milton ; isnot." (hi" will
indly inform me where they are, as I should be glad to nal
for the rent. After saying I elan:, the poor ean.esive rent,
the" 'broker (to" says -' Thebwthngof ontlages does not lay
eacept IS an accommodation I.r labollrent required on the
rotates, nor will It with a ',intent .4 charging their bill valor IS
Lig.ablifthed ;uultwsoiot be lam than fa. tier week." /4.. Mr.
" looker .10," you tell isie If I clawrze my tenants Is. Tid per
weeks it is 4141MUdI :ao.J then iou say the full value .4
eaten,: is is • week. pray etpLon your inorniaisteney The
feat is the labourer will never have • Mewl and esitfoltabk, ortlege Until he is enabled to pis a higher rent. and to uIIAP. him to tray a higher milt. he inuSt have iliermised wagon Wit). should I let my cottages at le. than their value to citable •
fanner to pay low wages ...sided by relief !nos the por.rate..?
I tielieve the labourers' Union to be a necessity, and I will
advocate the rights .4 the labourer barle-..4 the Ins,,, .4 the
rich and powerful. I only ask that he oh' ohl he ;laid a corn'
dent sum to enalrle him to have some of the comforts able in
return for his labour; and I seek to injure no man ; but what
I sec fanners, whose immediate ancestors tee IwttY tra.lcanen,
now keeping their carriage and lair of her.. with a li. cry
sers-ant stuck up behind them, and when I kn., them luxuries
,Int`c been wrung from the poor by low wage, when I brow
.".. mean women and children with a..l,ing fessitess
It. , boOtll without soles, and that the labourer, hag
nothing to hok forward to but the Union worlds..., in hie old
age WWI to being burled ion parish coffin, I think it 14 time be
demanded the franchise and a !sufficient remuneration foe his
labour.
JAN Kann.
Whitechurch.

NARROW SCAPE OF A GLORIOUS DEATH.
A member of the Artillery Volunteer. at Rye seem*
according to the account given by the fiastoem awl filf.
Leonard. Chronicle, to have had the other day hot week
rather a narrow escape of a glorious death. Tir volunteers
had assembled on the beach at Rye for the purPove of ball
Practice from an Armstrong /1112. The range us. seaward.
a target haring been placed Wu yards distance a the fun
of the beech. A bombardier of the artillery, known as
"Rig Bob" (owing to his large size), WWI statioL.4l on the
full to warn the shrimpers from a too close pr ,ximity to
the range. Theoretically this aranfrement woo
but practically it nearly lel to the meet actions results,,
for the gunner, mistaking Big Bob for the target, laid the
gun directly on him, nor was the error discovered until the
gun was fired, when, to the relief of all present Rig nob
was seen to skip quickly on one side, and thus avoid the
tomb,. fise that would otherwiae have befallen hint.
The gunner, it is stated, woo quite overconse" by the
thought of what niight have been the result of this trilling
error. It might be as well in future to &martini before
practice with an Armstrong gun, by means, of a tel.,e
or otherwise, what L. and what is not the target, for oven
In war it is always advisable to know in what direction
the guns are pointed.—Poll Nail Gareth..

WHAT WE EAT AND bRINK.
IR. Bartlett. of London, stated before the „„mmittee ou
the Adulteration Act. that he finds lieer elultemtivl in ith
but eery little. an improvement having taken place
laface the remote of the Art of Iti72. Wine, however. is
much adulterated ;in,l. ed. he has KiVell up port wine long
nizo, an it was inipozoible to tell what it was composed of.
Whet wss sold an corn dower" he had found not pure ;
and children fed upon it alone 1111 l st die of starvation, for
to ito preparation the nutrition f the natural flour wall
destroyed. and the starch remain, I. Rutter he found
adulterated at pevaent, and he produced notices of
gru a
grunted—one for process of
ittwiitirt,b,rrtaiu thain
ingredhad been
iento with butter, these being milk
and the yolk of eag : and the other for the "mantas-tore
of ortifiotl butter." Both the articles supposed to be
manufartursd were styled " buttereen." ffe was quite
certain a large quantity of this stuff was mixed with butter in this country. Mr. Francis Hatton, chemist to the Norwich Chamber of Agriculture, said he found milk
considerably adultereted with water, and vinegar in •
great may came wade bow wood.