The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-06 00:00:00

"flatus ant Pickers."

The I tempt show of meat ever seen at Swanage
greete.l U. on X.. as Eve onteide Mr. Vye'r, awl the
price, were ressmable in the evreine. The pez•
mato., rine of Ilrinter's celebrated II al:, not th.
imm .rtal b.ril'e„ but ho of Athelliamptni, we to .1
at 61.1. per lb.
fin Not.. Eve the Artillery fite.and..lrnms cams
out, hot "wins; t. lb. absence .4 a few 6fw, there we.
a little too much drum, yet on th. whole we ii us:
praise the popol:tr gichard Stickland for his alde
There is are.t cry wit ohm)t mud, hut on behalf of
the let us re 1 on.• Mend.. .11 •tjo.t as they
cannot keep their walls dry, now our foreca.t concern,
in:: the weather after Xmas has b.eoine a fact. so it is
all hut impos.ilde at once to rweremne the difficulties
of cleanine the Towle, the sorface cif which has been
wholly rottm by the frost. Next week the per twrs
and brooms will have mal.. t her mask. Meanwhile
iss the 111S4011111 follow the r mewe.l example nf • member
of the I, IL, and lay io a clock ~f the mortar grati..
Take it clean. Will the Medical Offimr kind y take
his nose toward Fern House?

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Bad times are tents:. One Purbeck fandowner,
Instead of patinas.: rent, is pr tyirr.i for his money in
advance. We woul.l adviee the owner of the Ca•tle
of Cork to get the ivy down and sell it for firewood,
so as to present the proceeds to the distreesed gentle-
man. Another Purbeckian, who Idi tors in a Hold,
which I. at present reernitgiv, in a fl oniehing con-
instead of an expected Ym ta Box had a att.'s
wages stopped, to recoup the company f sr the dee of
him cervices on the 25th ult.
The animal boxitaz nieht concert he the lier,ton
school girls met with setch samen, that th.t singing
will he repeated on Wednesday next
Two gentlemen cane M 14114 010,1 le the Bank. Their
wesknew toward " wetting " received an adequate
rewant—from the bedroom win low.

What • teetotal shout arose when, as my friend
Kiddle expressed it, " thik thers ja, o' chap° whisky
walled off the toss and got spilled ower
0 horrors! a new sect has irisen in Swanace, its
fundamental article of belief being. that labiee dying
unconverted, the offspring ~func nverted people, go to
"Ii ho" or wore The new church will meet under
the shinlow of the snout monument erectsil to the
m-rnory of Albeit the Good, who very mercifully was
spared to think for himself. Spare us from wishing
the DOW 'wheats success, 0 horror on horrors I it is
called "5 gospel PerviCe."
Mr. George Bort preached a better gospel on
December Nth, when he spared neither trouble nor
expense to make the b.eal Society church choir, and
other harmonious people, merry and satisfied at Put,
beck lions.. That's the way we like to see the money
go, and when we have male our fortune we hope we
shall have grace to go and do likewise.
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The choral sinpra— mt the Choral Society—heard
that at the br !wery was • silver cup, which one or two
people, who were mixed up in thl Gover case, had
clubbed together to preelit in the name of the
Bwanage people d li Tooleyatreet Tall re, to an
absent gentlemaa. whohel to pay the piper in that affair,
awl so the roreliate extorted tq drink to hie or any-
body else's health out 14 the silver breaker. They were
diaappointed and perhaps mistaken.
The Fancy Far a: the Congregational schoolroom,
on Boxing Night. was in aufaiessful that it was
repeated on the 27th. We failed to see all we went to
s'se, so many elbows were in our way. Our corns had
• merry time of it, and we caught suck • acid out of
the hot atmosphere.

Lucia.
WEST LIILWORT FL
CMILMTWAS DICCoIIiaTIONS.--The pretty little church
in this village was nicely decorat:d for the Christmas
festival with evergreen and holly-berries, and two
mottoes very neatly wrought in scarlet letters on white
ground besring respeetively the w,rds—" Praise and
Glory" and "Unto one Child is B ,rn." Toe whole bade
pretty appsararce, and did mu,ll credit to Mrs. and
the Misses Clarke for their handy work.

ABBOTsBUILT.
ABBOTBBURY RAILWAY.
lAe Ittfor.
My attention has been called to your report of the recent
mestine of the shareholders of the Abbotsbory Railway
0 uneasy, and to the following passage in the directori
report which wag then presented and accepted :—" A.
possesaion of the land Is ohtained between Broadway and
Waddon, the line will be proceeded with on that section."
On behalf of certain Isndownere on the section refined
'ith I beg to o give the statement I have spots d the most
unotialified contradiction,and I have ev.-ry reason to believe
th 410 dole( this I have the concurrence o' the other land•
owner. in that I tonality. Rei far from posse•sn n of the land
bei ne obt ior Atha troth is that th e dlrec t ars have never been
.n • position to purchase or even treat for the purchase of
any lands. simply because the public cannot be induced
to subacribe the necessary share cipital, awl, if I may
judge torn what passed at the meeting (which I will not
,Imble by calling an influential one in any sense), people
seem to have become wiser as well smolder, and that there
is no prospect of their subscribing more money toward, such
an unpromieing echelon. It will, no doubt, he Interesting
In the abareholiders to see £3OO of their cash balance of
£46151. voted t the directors for peat servicre, and that
there is an outstanding but promised lawyer's bill still to
pay, and, judging from the account which has been made
noble property, engineers anti ofhlr official% who
seemingly have been well compensated already, will not
be forgotten in soy future distribution of balances, and
as Mr. Hanson, the new director, is a stranger in these
parts, many people would I ko to know who he is, and
whet is his interest in the company. Amongst those who
have been weak enough to take shares in this wild specu-
lation (and it. locsl character can be emiatated by the
printing in capital letters at the head of the report) are
I am sorry to find, some client/ of mine, and as they and
many other. now deplore their folly I have advised them
to resist any attempt to enforce payment of further calls,
and to twine the directors to amount or having expended
the moneys which have been called up and paid in lauds
and works outside their Parliamentary powere.
0, SYMONDS.

OICEHORD PITZPAINE.
"OUR 1100861110 LO 1.) *MOMS. Ott Ton CuP or COLD
Possost."—lt his ot,aouttalir been menti•med in the
papaw, but not of tees enough to warn peoultt of the tlang,r
they Incur by drinking hoesetmade wines. All th • country
people are very fond of usektne elderberry, parsnip, acd
rhubarb wines, to have a little something hot ldfore going
to bed on scold winter's night or to keep Christmas with
--and •very good this; too when well rood.; but the
mischief is, that they will persist in making it in their
bids glazed pans, and them p.n are alas -el on the
inside with • solution of Ittied. Now the eine is left in the
pan daring the procets of fermentation, and the suear
during this process becomes changed into an attiti which
freely dissolves the lead from Om glade end hold. in relit.
tiao the acetate of lead, or what is coninionly eallrd ups
suss, of lead. N-ow doctors tell ut that lead, being taken
into ties system in smell or large doses, aDettlottlalee, and
after a tune affects the musculer coats of the b.wels
.biet, contract end so canes ohetinete aanatiPati'm ,atta
•lot•nt pain. c tiled 'e .11 e. 41.• ; sod another very wontier-
flit thing which ladle to so easy disetto•ie II that a d.alts
blue lint: is f. land roon I the gums, which is an unnits-
(*keg* sten irt, lead twine Aorta no in the srstom. Now
I wish VI caution all who are in the habit of making h
imo-
wines to do 50,,, w olden !ill*, nut in ir1,.e.11 p•ns
&Ltd I cannot help thinking that this is • very sorb:rug
molter, and that Government ought Ii nd et mote heavy
penalty on this manufacturers if they still persist in clay
lag their pans with any poison that becomes absorbed, for
It,. really wonderful the numb ir of poop's who ignorantly
and Innocently poison thernisivet ant bring on serious
Illnesses, and even sometime, lose their lives, by drinking
thews hornsrmadu wined made in plasma pane. And now
a word or two on eider. This ought to be scrupulously
modeles wood. Some of the cider-presses I know have
lead about them, and the malls arid of the aopla quickly
.b.oth, the lead, anti renders the cider also poisonous, In
Devon It Is galled the Devonshire stomach-soh." And
thus is also anoiluir source of (linger : some of the
coopers, who put ths staves of the mike together, are in
the habit of putting a split rush trs!l smeerad with white.
had between each stays, to prevent a leakage. Of course
the malls acid of the cider quickly dissolves out this lead,
and the cool, clear,. refreshing beverage, which "cheers
but not inebriates, is min turned into a cup of cold
paison,_ which the unfortonote victim finds out too late.--
W. 7. RADCLITPII, lit Gsrdeners' Chronicle.

Dorchester, fhb December, 1879.

OSMINGTOIII.
Stegoseut °int.—Through the kindness and
liberality a K. A. Wood, Karl , the poor inhabitants
received on Christmas Eve their annual piece of beef,
each according td their family, and soros coal.; also
soma tea to the old women.
"
TIC,. ON BOXLIIO DAL—The v. Mr. and =TS.
VaUdrey kindly treated the old men and women to a
tea on Friday, th. 9Sth tilt., and on Monday the nth
the pollute and friends of the school children were
Invited Op to the vicarage. when a very nice tea was
provided for them. Mies Watheraton kindly presided
M the harmonium, when the chapel choir mint some
very nioeylems, and we believe erreryewe thoroughly I
enjoyed shisoselva.

omits ABBAS. WITEAM-PRIARY.
Miontitaut, Wedotteday.—BeforeGilonell. A. Digbv, 1 SUDDEN MUTH WIIIIAT Snoonno.—An inquest
Captain Carr Olga, Captain Batten, and J. P. 1. I was held on Saturday last, by Dr. Wybrants, coroner,
Gundry, Bei, on the body of • coal dealer named .ward Stickler,
William Previa. of Piddistrenthide, labourer. Waa of Moreton Bigott, who eiPfred suddenly whilst out
charged under the Poaching Prevention Act with having . .
unlawfully been on land at Piddletrenthlde, in the men- ~ anooting in one of the woods belonging to the Duke a
nation of Mr. Joseph Loveless, in search and pursuit of Somerset. Mary Ann Stickler, the wife of the
nms.—P.C. Hill prayed the cam, and a fine of 10i. and deceased, who was aged 62 said he dad not been well
Be. costa was inflicted. lately,. Bhe saw him alive on Wednesday morning, at
Charts, Spars, of Ptddletrenthide, grocer, WA chanted 10 30, and he was then well, but at one o'clock he was
tsy Supt. F,ein to, with baying in his possession on the brought home dead. Charles Doman saw the deceased,
s'b Member, two unjust weights.—Ddfendant was also
charged under the Weights and Illissou found that he could uot apes
rs Act, 1878, with who was beaPing the woods drop, and on going to him
haring m his possession, on the shove data, seven weights ' k.
_No. one was near him,
which were unstrunped.—D .lendatit did not appear.— and no one shot him. He was dead In five minutes.—
Proof of the service of the summonses were rirec.--BuPt- Verdict "That the deceased dropped dead from disease
Freeman Droved both case..-01 it e second charge detect. of the heart."
dent was fined .C 2 and St costa, and • warrant was issued'
—The first charge was withdrawn.
Samuel Kinsman, of Giant's Head, Corn*, an old
offense, was charged with allowing three cows to stray on
the highway in the parish of Cann Abbas, on the illith
November last —Defendant did not appear.-. Proof of
the *orrice of the summons was given, and • warrant
issued for the apprehension of the defendant.

CHAULTON ADAM.
THE SAD SUICIDE OF A FARMER.
An locraent was held on Frlday last, before Dr. Wy-
branta, coroner, on the body of George Jarvis, a farmer,
aged 65 years, living at Charlton Adam. The following
evidence.vHke taken :
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Hockey said: The deceit's& was my uncle, and
I saw him shout four months ago. He fell on my neck
and kissed me, and said he would never come to Exeter
again. Ho was not fit to be left, and I did not consider
him right In his mind the last 12 months. The times
were against him, and he could not pay his rent out of
the crops. He said he would have to go to church for
1.. &I and • loaf. _

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Lucy Pitman said : I live at Charlton Adam, and
knew the deceased, for whom I have worked. !saw him
alive on last Tutted', evening, going into his house about
four o'clock. On Wednesday, about 10 o'clock, I was
fetched, and found bins in the chair with his throat cut.
I saw him two or three times a day, and all hat summer
he was very strange. He did not drink, and could not
best the sight of It, and would never allow any on his
Premises. Ho was low and melancholy. He was bad,
frit not had enough to be placed in An asylum.
Philip Bright said ha wag told by noel iy that the
dec.ased had cut his thruit. H breathed several timer
He saw bini on We !nudity Toombs, and he died about
nine o'clock. lie wia not able to speak. The last month
he bad.been low cad strange. .

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The Jury returned a verdict "That the deceased coal
mitled suicide by cutting his throat whilst in no umound
state of mind."

-15-ace—aaW ;as a member of the Western Temperance
Lessoc.
BRISTOL.
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A BRISTOL LICITIM.CARRI6II named Brooks WSJ On
Mon.t.y charged before the masistretes with stesliog four
let,ers and their contents. On Christmas Day the accused
was sent out eith loiters, and between 300 and 400 had not
resch.rd their cb.stinatica. Brooks was apprehended at a
disorderly bourns. and • woman named Bliss Fisher, who
was in his company and on whom were found the contents
of the four letters which he was charged with stealing,
was also taken into custody. and remanded.