The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-06-22 00:00:00

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• RAILWAY T•Pnts, Sorre-tinturr.—'M Monday. en
/Jolliet exprtss. v).Phd-u-471.1,—dieorto.Gans. (fur tiFlVA:vned liticensej.
from tbeth ir.Amen to Geitor rg. draper's
• assistant —Granted.—Elkabeth oleo applied
DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, IMO. for traria, rto herself of • beerhouse license held by
her husband, Holloway-row. —Granted.
To KILL Gooacaaarr GOODS —Let a man have •
piece of brick and hammer the ground smooth and
taxa six inches round the foot of the tree, then take a
jug with a wont, filled with gag tar, and make • circle
four or five inches in diameter, then take • short,
stout stick, and give the tree several sharp raps;
most of the grubs will instantly fall off, and begin to
make for home—at the circle of the gas tar they meet
their death.
Somme nuoas TON Banal. -- At the Cl:3uar
hall, before Captain Mensal end G. a Ch
Req., William Fenian and Jab* Pen/on privates of the
6fith Legiment, were charged pith assaulting P.C.
Powell, at Portland. Mr. T. Coombs asked for an
adjournment till Friday next, at %Vermouth, Mr.
Marley. of Weymouth, giving bail .—This was acceded
to. —ptain bianeel : Take them out.—The Sergeant :
Right-about-turn ;quick march
COUNTY COURT.
TouIiADAY: BINS* T. B. P. Liam Eq., judge.
which
thlslacefenPit'aTtr'ilswrifel"°ailmbittedSpeake.; but salicr oh'? wlsL.psying
81. • month alreadv—Thi appeared to be by • voluntary
arrangetnett, with Mr. Lane, and the judge expressed an
opinion that Mr. Home ought to take 4s. • month, and
the order agirnst the poor woman shall be 31 a month,
his Honour SUR to try and induc Mr. Hanna to
accept 3.. • month al.o.
John llorteck delended an action by Br. J. Paroons for a
debt of At 1g.., he ought to have Inn.n cre4 let .Ith
a pound in his book, tastes 1 of 10s; but Atha, tied he
..we.l three weeks' I r‘nd, at (It. SI. or 7. • week, about
ftire.—Jaderr.nt was given for that emourit. Mr. Parsons
Wine willing to ag-re to ens thln4 at all reasonable.
Groves e. Lovotees.—Clahn of 5.. 10.1. by a tenant from
his landlede.—Mrs. Loveless, who protested loudly and
long ag.,inst Wing charged 5..10i. when 'lmbed all,welf.2,
had let plaintiff • house at Peddletrentbido, and the money
was an item of amount—for what—osie not Tay clear.—
Mrs. Locale's said Groves constantly charged her for
repairs.—Mr. Groves said the 5. 101. was for inhabited
he `.l. dots ;bn Mr. Byroondi vat ,1 in that cue it ..m
PA) ASI • by r ;hot on tic rec int te nal,iidured
It sA t primly tnx —Mr.. I 0.'41 she
ha i dowol Or w.-1 Ld to o,v t'.islL 10 I. A for
dcf edir!. alit ut code —Mrs Grove!, von are
,In111•T aIA 1:1111. SI: W also rather indignant at not
getiioir her WWI r the day.
PRaCIOVS CABBAGE PLANTS CID TIOORLISOIII PIGEON&
B .win F ,r,ey v. J Voss.—Claine for damage
doll' by ilebind meg rigeons.—Pirmtiff said thi pigeons
destroyed MO of cabbage plants in h:s garden.—Mr. V.es
said t'le airier' oral only Oft. wide apt 16f1. lon4 only
halba-perch of ground
_• but plaintiff said he hat them
pl int,cl in a nursery bed, and they were worth IL •
hundred ; but he had only charged 101 a huntreJ.—ln
cross-examination plaintiff said he hail caught • pigeon in
a trap. and this one fisw bock to Mr. Voss's promisee. lie
swore the whole of the plants ware dcstroyed.—lfordiet
for plaintiff.
Richard Cave Bennett a. E (win Pope—Claim for coals
soli to defendant, an engine-titter, and 50i. had been paid
on account. leaving 4.7 IL 73.. owing-10s. In • fertnight
and 10.. a month after wards.—Mr. Bennett said defendant
could h..ve work any time he liked, and earn .C 2 • week.
COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS.
SATURDAY: Before A. Stakes. Esq., Colonel Henning,
and G. Worry, Eel.
MAXIMS OF LICINSICS.
Mr. Weston applied for the transfer of the license of the
Compasses, Charminster, to John Mitcham. who has
been lately in the employ of Mr. Lambert, of Strepleton.
and producing good referent:ea—Granted.
The Grove lee, Portland. to Robert Smith, in sucosesbn
to Robert Conthen, who quitted on March W.—Supt. Bitty
said the applicant had conducted himself well during
his knowledge—foe els yeses—Granted
John Nixon, licensee, applied for permission to transfer
the license of the Mermtid, Portland, to Chivies Denham.
—Mr. Tom Cooper supported the application. whioh had
been adj :tuned from April 10 for further proof of character.
—Mr. Hodder, of Crown Farm, and others gave him • good
rharacter, as did the Hampshire Telegraph, the vicar of
Portsmouth not an ill one, and Mr. Supt Batty bed
written to the Chief Constable of Portsmouth, and
received a satisfactory answer—Granted.
Robert Smith, licensee of the Clifton. Portland, asked to
transfer his license to Fred. J. Hancock.— Mr. Batty knew
' but htffe of Mr. Ham ,ck, but solar balinyed him respect-
alila.-11r. Henry Russell considered him most upright
and steady, while the Roman Catholic priest was in his
favour, ranted.
Thomas Ashford. landlord of the King's Arnie Inn,
Porteshalo, applied to trwufer t Samuel Shortie, boot and
shoemaker.—Mr. Charles Bishop, for Mr. Grove', We),
month, provedlthe notices. (burl characters from Syditnat
were prodoemd for Mr. Shorto- -Granted.
E (ward Way, beerhouse•kesper. wished to trangfer his
certificate to •orge J. II t.worth, late a boatman to the
Warrior. —Orauted.—Hr. II .t •y was fsvourab:e.
Two Puncknowle fi.hernien admitted a first charge of
being drunk and dioorderly„ and were mulcted in 51. and
coats-11e. 61. each.

SOWN people are timidly afraid of entrusting high
Micas to Romaniats, and in Dorchester especially we
bays had the Mayor protesting. Radically oppoeed aa
we are to the claims of the Bishop of Rome, justice
prevents us from ignoring the instances where the
titian has risen above his religious system, and done
good mirk". to the State, and it is with pleasure we
arum that in Belgium, which is as full of Roma:lista
as any other country of equal size and prosperity, the
Roman Bishop have resolved to take part in the
=eirce,faew celebrating the jubilee of the
and more,—they will acquiesce in the
new education law. Martyrdom is not much in
harmony with the Romanist spirit when al.plied to the
clericals themselves.
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Convocation has effected something surpri.ing ; it
has contrived to frame a resolution against the drink-
ing traffic which has been adopted by Sir Wilfrid
Lawson, and has entered the If ouse of C munons by a
substantial majority, against the coolness of one of
the most powerful statesmen ~f the day. Mr.
Gladstone, supported by an unexpectedly larce
majority, waa not the Mr. Gladstone in effect although
it WM he in person, who walked into the House of
Commons lobby against Convocation and Sir Wilfrid
combined, for even the great statesman whose Supple-
mentary Budget was so founded ~n the drink traffic
that he gave all the relief to it, and all the burdens to
non-driWters, was unable to call his majority after
him. He left them to please themselve., and eN en
should he call them in future, we may ask with
Hotspur—" But tell me, will they come when you do
call for them ?" 'The clergy in their notion againat the
opium trade, • principal leader of which action we are
rejoiced to acknowledge in a Dorchester wan, show
of practically believing in the value of the prayer
"Iwsd us not into temptation," and with a Convoca-
tion-born resolution actually attaining power, though
it be yet only the incipient power of childhood trying
tow alk under a nurse, we see the promise of hope that
the clergy are breaking away from the alliance of B.
and B. The reverend order have often been in their
generation the wisest of the children of NIA, and we
shall see if their wisdom is enough to bring the
toddling babe of Convocation to full strength.
We suppose it must be that dislike of anything like
over-demonstrativeness which inspires Englishinen,
that leaves our volunteers with so few spectators at
their annual shooting. The volunteers themselves
show • conquest over selfishness and sloth that may
well be imitated by • good =My of those whom they
labour, and drill, and spend both money And time for.
In the noble object of making our five country
respected by foreign nations for there artiness of her men
'far eslidefessoe, am well as for otherad vantages, of which
Mod= is one of the chief, the volunteers have
rregvered for years, although mere spectators have
lng vend
fewer by degrees and beautifully less, and
although to the working man, even the attendance at
so pleasurable a gathering as that of the county shoot-
ing, represents a considerable loss. We have heard
that lads estimated at not less than LI per man per
diem on the average, reckoning entries, low of time,
and expenses, that the fortunate shots who won a
sovereign ht be supposed just to balance their
expellees, wh e the loser at the butts had his labour
for his cost. But is it not quite so, for patriotic feel-
v. as truly gratified by making oneself an &Mem-
ed shot ancl good soldier as by engaging the enemy
the actual field. Yet we should have liked to see a
larger gathering of the defended, of those ladies and
gentlemen of Englsad who sit at home at ease, or
gratify their tastes at cricket, lawn tennis, or more
childish occupations, for our volunteers who each help
to make up that great civilian army of 200,000 deserve
at least the countenance of those for whom they under-
take so much. Time was when all the rank and
beauty of the towns gathered at the jousts or at the
bou-wwdem• where knights tilted with the lance, sr
jjkW eaddlews men of England drew the olothyard
shaft, and now that English marksmen have a weapon
a hundred times more efficient, the competitions are
well worth taking interest in.
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Proxies under pretence of beings convenience,
are often turned to each abuse as to be a nuisance. If
we had a claim upon a debtor, and wanted to know the
reasonwhy we were condemned to a small bit of
silver for every golden sovereirn we ought to receive,
'twould be no comfort to find the proxies strong enough
to carry any resolution proposed by the debtor's friends.
Under the present insolvency laws are concealed I
many things a which it is not easy to nee the right
and justice, and it is time that not only proxies, but
meetings which may or may not be practically secret
at the will of the majority, diould be forbidden, and
the defaulter's affairs sifted by an enquiry in the
Lace of public observation. It may be objected that
many an honest debtor would be exposed to remark,
and perhaps hhi credit damaged more than he
deserves ; but the frequent instances of petty dividends
and repeated failures should bring about some
alteration in the law so that the saN and careful
trader be favoured. instead of the careless speculator
or unbusiness tradesman who reckons on a private
meeting at which his affairs may be hushed up, and
friendly debtors be found in majority sufficient to
carry him through with little annoyance, perhaps to
begin the same course again.

LIPLOIITLS ACT.
Mr. Richard Samson, manasor of quiarriss. Portland,
applied for a license to keep mixed explosives, under cts..s
B —Mr. BAty renert.-1 the site is in aecerdsoce with the
Act. and permission w a granted aPpliaint to erect the
bundles there.
Robert Naomi. f Marriott, st las did not appear. wta
samiumpel tor all .win.t his hone to .try at Elwyn.
People of ite'endents cl ac CIIIIO up from Swunreet to hey
fi,h, let thd- Ion: stray, an 1 were abusive.
Fined the full ammnt, 51. and COMM.
AN IGNORANT ROT.
Neksiniints Krletunds, of Martinstown, was summoned
fr n..! F..nting Iva son to school, rathon.th tho Z lustVion
C .m, cciiad directed him to do el.
r. A. L .ck CU tutted th.: cam and Mr. 11 titer lore
e.. e thet to 1»y had no: pasted the amend stand trd,
It u.'. he was nosily 13.
I Tilt ~.giattataa now mote an ader.

A tradesman who purchases a heavy stock on
credit, liquidates for say 7s. (ki. or lA. in the r, is
allowed to go into lousiness again and with the same
stook, can evidently afford to undersell tlo. 11.1104
tradesman who strives to pay 20s. in the and the
liquidator can eventually beat him out f the market.

Self-interest of creditors, who often are tempted in-
to quiescence, lest they s
the
lose something . 41 their
div is ready for e dishonest debtor to work
upon. e creditors perhaps only wish to ...;et out of
the estate just as much as they can, and not to
Increase costs. But full publicity, without the power
el interference by the creditors or the debtors friends,
would serve to expose, and in time to cheew many
abuses, which at present threaten t sap the founda-
tions of fair trade, by men who desire to live, not out
of their capital still less their creditors, but from their
gains.