The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-10-06 00:00:00

LOCAL BOARD MEETING.

A meeting of this Board was held on Thursday morning
last, present Aldermen Milledge, deputy Mayor,
Aldermen W. Eliot. Arling. ronncillora Thomas
bury, T. B. Groves, Ayles, Roben., Lundie, J. H.
Devenish, Welsford. G. Eliot, Dr. Simpson, Vincent, with
Mr. i' r, Meagan, Town Clerk
The meeting was to consider • letter from Mr. Burdon's
solicitor, as to damage done to his client's property by the
erection of the slain: to affix the seal of the Board to a
General District rate; t., approve of plans of houses sub-
mitted to the Board; to take into consideration the state
of the roads in the park: to mushier a complaint from
the medical officer as to the scavenging of the lsorough ;
end to receive the Surveyor's and Inspector of NtIiMUCI.II
reports.
Touching the alleged damage to Mr. Burdon's property,
Mr. S. It. Hoyle, solicitor, for him, suggested arbitration.
The Board did not believe any damage had been done, and
the Town Clerk is to ask what it is and the property
affected.

—.l-17;i-ilans of new school at Chapelry were approved.
The owners and occupiers in Banelaghterram,
ilardwiekelitreet, and Lennox street, are to have notice
to pave, Hag, channel, Ste., the roads.
The Surveyor reported the high tides had damaged the
clay embankment The expenditure already made was
discussed, and full details are to be given at the next
Board.

The'. Medical Officer complained of the state of the
streets, but Mr. Thomas considered they had never been
more cleanly kept.
Mr THOILLS asked the expense of a stipendiary magis-
trate? A hot of names said to have been submitted for
Borough Ju.ticess he strongly disapproved of, especially
one name.

TWWII CLERK said a stipendiary magistrate would
cold, ialal or .C41•I• ysar.
. .

Tijoi.jp.-r-eLe'cl tie Town Clerk whether any names
had been eubn.ntteal by him.

Th-e-f;tin-iiLEnit said no, but he understood certain
names had been . submitted
. . . .

Mr. 1011 AS :By • private Individual! What were the
names

"li:re 'Tows Ct.vng declined to state anything about the
matter. Nothing had come through him.
Mr. T 11011.43 made some satirical remarkson thesupposed
proposal, and the matter dropped,

PORTLAND.

FUNIRAL OF TEI Rev. H.Jg'rouk—The reMitiell Of the
venerable vicar of St. John's were interred on Thursday
last, at the Cemetery, Castletown, in the vault where Mn.
Jenour, his wife, was buried in lfin. The shops were
kept partly closed, and at three o'clock the procession left
the Parsonage, headed by the Rev. J. Roberts (curate of
Si,. Jchn it) and the Rev. Arthur Hill (chaplain of the
Convict Establishment), who officiated. The order of
procession was as follows :
The Officiating Clergy
The Undertaker, Mr R. J. Andrews.
Pall Bearer,: Pall Bearers :
Mr°. AtelFere, BODY. Mr Christopher Mitchell,
Captain &riven, Mr Thomas Combs.
Bearers—Mr C. White, Mr W. Seaward, Mr J. Patten, and

'Sr J. Stone.

Chief Mourners—Miss le-no-M,-1-I;;Landers, Mr C. tandem,
Mr W. Landers ke.
Mourners and other Gentlemen—Mr aeorcafton (Governor
the of
e Convict Establishment), Hay J. A. r (rector of Port-
land, Dr Parsons (method attendant), Mr Christopher Gibbs
(scripture render), Mr Wyatt (Scripture reader), Mr Ziliwood
)(Pledge, Rev - Tidswell (amistant chaplain at the prison),
Mr if. Pearce, Mr R. Pearce, Mr Ash, Mr R. lano, Mr Stone,
Mr Kendall, Mr W. Striven, Mr Flew, Mr J. Comben, Mr
liodsdon, Mr Osborne, Mr Ellett, Mr H. Gibbs, Mr Samuel
Stone, and many others.
The hymn sung before the lesson was that commencing
" Lo! 'round the throne, a glorious band,"
the first verse of which is carved on Mrs. Jenour's tomb-
stone, and after the lesson " Days and moments quickly
flying" was sung. The cortege proceeded to the Cemetery,
where about MN persons had assembled ; but Sergk
Florence and some constables kept the entrance dear.
The rain descended in torrents, and after the Rev. A. Hill
hal finished the service, the crowd soon departed. Mr.
Andrews. of Fortune's-well, ably superintended the
funeral. fit. John's Church has been draped in black, 4111
a token of the esteem in which the deceased clergyman
was held-

With reference to the death of the Rev. 11. Jenour
announce.' last week • parishioner says :—The Rev. Henry
Jenour, sicar of St. John's, Portland, who died on Sunday,
September Vth, at five p.m., has been an inhabitant of the
ielaniPC yearn. Ile first held his service* in the British School-
room,lligitatreet, 3f; years ago, but he WU soon the rumps of
building bit. John s Church, 34 years ago. He also had the
ticarage built, collecting from his friends £1,500 and pay
leg from his own private funds £7OO, making a total of
i=.200. This shows how earnest he was in the work.
After the building was finished, he used to visit the sick
day and night. I have known him take his canteen and
go away front his house at eleven o'clitek at night, and
frequently ask if I thought such a person was gone to bed,
showing that if he thought they were not, be would go to
see them. Again, I have known him give people milk
daily and go without it Weisel( if he could not afford to
give it without doing so. First when he came to the
island he had at least LI,OOO per year as his income, and
at that time lie MBA most happy to do good; he never sent
any beggars away empty, and used to make soup twice or
three tiniee a week and distribute to the poor; he also
vieited the whole of hie piriell once or twice per year,
going to every house, boanning at one end and leasing
off at the other, and so on yearly. After about 25 years he
got reducol, or had but little income, and after that
became much power ; then he had the aims feeling as
before, and wiehol to help the poor if he thought they
needed help, or if they begged of him he would go to
some persons hollow and ask if they would be kind
enough to lend 1 • money sometimes is. or Si.; even
mechanics would come and beg of hint, and Ray if they
had ie. they could go to work ae that would buy their ham-
flier and trowel. Again, he never refused to do his best
to "Tut situations for anyone, no matter what it was, if
they wanted hint to get them a clerkship at any firm or
oilier, no matter what part of the country it was, he
would sorely write, and if one letter was not answered,
he would write again and again, until he received a satis-
factory answer: but be was sure to get that. Then he
would write and get some in as warders, tide waiters, or
on the railway: and many other places of the like. He
was always too free with his money, and I heard him say
about 20 years ago, it coot hint £4O in stamps for one year's
postage. Not many years ago be would think nothing of
walking 20 or 30 miles per day, or going and bathing in
the West Bay, and diving under water about 50 yards.
He has always enjoyed good health until lately, and was
never confined in the house • day. He has been the
Chaplain of the troops for the last 10 or 12 years, and
walked on the Verne three times a week to visit them and
do duty, he never wished for anyone to do duty for him
unless he was obliged to. When be first came to the
'eland, he kept five servants and a horse and carriage, and ,
then be never was too proud to give any person • lift,
especially old people. He had six children, three boys
and three girls, one at the Cape, an engineer under
Government, one a clergyman, and another who has been
ill for the last twelve years, bit is better now, and I hope
be will continue so. I have no doubt but be will find the
miss of his father, as well as some of the rest. There will
be hundreds that will lament his loss after being so many
years with them, and inch a great friend.