The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-08-16 00:00:00

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GAS.—The reduction in the price of gas, from 4s. Gd.
to 4e. 21, per thousand ft., will be welcomed as • step
in the right direction.
CURATI IN CHARG6 Or CHRIST CHURCH.—The Rev.
C. B. Radcliffe has been presented with the rectory of
Woodbridge, Suffolk, value, as stated in the Clery
Directory, £329 a year and • parsonage.
ST. JOHN'S SCHOOLS —Th• day and Sunday scholars
and teachein of St. John's, with friends, were fortunate
enough to have a fine day on Thursday for their treat,
which was given in a field near Two-mile Copse. In
thi, charmingly rural spot the delights of country are
combined with convenient nearness to town, a railway
runs close by, but at a cafe height above the little
ones, and the core e and stream-hankn can be searched
fr flowers, while in the treat-field /Well were run for
pris a.
YOUNG Maer's Deers —On Thursday last, before
Mr. Serjeant Tindal Atkinson, a young man named
Percy Hid was summoned for • debt of £l4 for
jewellery. It will be remembeeed tba at a previous
Court Mr. Hanne appeared for Eld, and stated, on his
behalf, that he had no money in the world; but the
Judge refused to ago+, the case to be thus disposed of
without the defendant's appearance in person.—Eld
now presented himself at the Court, and declared he
had no money, no situation, and could not promise to
pay.—The Judge tried to show defendant it was very
unfair to obtain jewellery not intending to pay for it.
and asked defendant if be would return it &hi
replied that he coul I not, an he had given it away.—
Mr. Read said defendant bad eunuch money t go
about with, making a show, and yet would not pay
his debta—The Judge made an order for payment of
101. • month, or 40 day.' imprisonment in default, but
allowed it to be suspended for the longest time poesible,
in order to give him a chance of paying.—The same
person was then called on to answer • judgment
glamor na by Messrs. Reynolds Brothers, and the
Judge made another order of 10.. a month against
Eld.—Mr. Reynolds call it was very ha-d for trades-
men to be robbed in this way. It was only the other
day Eld had to pay £5 for breaking a wheelchair.
BoaouoB PsYrr Simmons, Saturday.—Before Dr.
Drew and J. Milledge, E.g., Ann Beer, needlewoman,
was brought up for cruelly ill-treating 15 fowls, during
June. July, and August.—P.C. Henefi rd on yesterday
afternoon went to the back of Hardwick-street, and
found 15 fowls in six different boxes, "smelling very
high," he overhauled them, and found them sore on
the backs, where they had picked each other; and iu
some of the boxes there was not room for the fowls to
stand up in. In one box were five large chicken and a
hen, confined so that they te mid not stand upright, and
another box was only ten inches high. The fowls were
Ina filthy state from being so crowded, and one or two
dead ones had been turned out. When taken out, the
birds were found very unhealthy, they staggered and
some could scarcely stand in the yard ; they seemed to
have no power in their legs.—Prisoner said the fowls
were not kept in the boxes, but were let out in a yard
when she could.—Superintendent Vickery said defend-
ant, through not paying a quarter's rent, was put out
of her house, and she was now in lodging., when the
stat• of the fowls was discovered.—Defendant said she
e mall not get • yard.but the fowls wail n it cruelly treated.
—Dr. Drew had seen the fowls, and they speared to
be very cruelly treateci.—P.S. Delamont corroborated.
_superintendent Vickery had seen the fowls in the
boxes, when they smel t very badly indeed, they were very
much crowded, and could not s tan d upright. The fret box
measured was 1 ft. 10in long by lft Tin, wide, and c0n-
t,;1,,,,d two birds; the next we. lit., 101 in. wide by lft. Gin.,
and contained three large bipda, the third was 2ft. 2in,
long by lit. Sin. br ad, and contained a hen and five
large chicken; the fourth box was lit. Tin, by lit, iin.,
sod contained two large birds, and there wag one bird
g lgin, round cheese box; the sixth box was 18in.
Tiff bsog by lulL wide sod 101 n, deep, and contained ono