The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-02-16 00:00:00

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I have received the prnelctu n the Farmers
C.o.operative Cake and Meet Company; capital
1300.00 n, in 20,n00 !shares. One .if its ohjecta I.
to break up the butchersring of which we have lately
heard so much, by buying up the fat cattle, sheep,
pigs, poultry, kc., from country gentlemen and fam.
men., and supplying families and hotel. keepers. I
fail to nee the project would I* of any very material
advantage either to the producer, r the buyer. The
o,,Leeholdoes woul.l aspect ita big a dividend as
possible ; and, judging by other companien, that and
the working expenses would quite eat up the alarming
profits the butchers are said to be making.

Bed words, if not loud, at all events deep,
applied without stint to the abominable liquid auppb,..4
by the Water Company to the greater part of I'vrk.
stone for drinking purposes ; but still no one irith
little leisure and a few pound% to spare teem,
to come to the front to endeavour to get what ',real y
iliagra>afial state of things altered. lam toil k. a
lieltrinpbouse keeper that only tart week
took hie rooms intending to stay for a lengthy
but by some miehap some unfiltered water living
up to them, the truth hail to he revealed, and tloy,
once took flight.. The popular remedy "a •111. ill
of soda in the kettle. but owe hardly :area to
it, when but s abort time ego we read in the
! papsrs the emertion that the cook'. employment „( a
similar method to keep her greens of a good c,l„
ur
! during the process of boiling wits extouncly
to the coata of the stomach. Our Town CouneoiT
are very fond of talking +thou: till, and that which
ought to be done to encourage thin 41,1ighttn1
Ant they shut their earn to this crying evil. I
afraid the share-bidding interest is too strong t.,
for much relief in that direction. The only hop,
that a director may shortly he half •poisoiml with th.
stuff.

With regard to the level.croming at the Parloton,
Station, after reading the "note" in the
Saturday last, I feel very much in the position
Irishman who objected to being found guilty a
theft upon the evidence of only one witness wli
him commit it, when he could bring a hundred *b.,
did not. General belief as to the train. invm.ari,
pulling up to a standstill before they go i th,
crossing of course counts for nothing, as acalmt th.
editorial *ye of the Rinsind,r, which has actually
witnessed the contrary. And on enquiry I find "th.
eye" has not played its reverted ,:witer any prank,
—when the rails Rio very " greasy a .mall potion
of a train may run over the cnrming, but thin i.vny
rare ; and I presume no one would think of 'binding
in the middle of it to allow a train to knock In
down, in order to show the necemity for a bridge.
Rot there really is no Pitch necemity, foe the vet,
careful individual who does not care to fa,e
unknown damper if the level crow•ing can easily
betake themselves to the other end of the I,javonn.
where • sidnuantial stone e,m,ibm may be safely
for a passage over the rails .my evm the most timid.

I am somewhat surprised that the learned Ingal
gentleman who defended the I I Frick,r, recently
committed for trial liy Mr. It. Thorn for unhiw.
fully w ding, did not ailminintet a reliuke to the
magistrate, or at least lii "at againid his going i.ut
of his way to de^lare the chargo cloarly proved, and,
moreover, that it had amen from drink. The Punic..s
simple and sole duty was, if he had thought it necos•
'sty to give a reason for the committal, to have con.
tended himself with stating he thirtght there wu
sufficient evidence to warrant it, not to have us,
upcn himself an office for the discharge of rrh,.ll
a jury is specially sworn. A Judge, in charging rh..
Grand Jury in such a case, would not attempt t give
further expression to his ipinion than that -if
such it was—it was a cane that should
left to be dealt with by the court below;
further than that the judge, while laying
the chief facts pin and rms. before the petty jury,
would carefully tbstain from giving utterance to any.
thing that might exhibit a leaning on one side or ts,,
other, until rater the 12 gim 1 men and trio. have
" well and truly tried, and true deliverance nix,l.."
Frickrr, an far as the local magistrate is concerned,
takes his trial already found guilty of the offence
with which he is charged. Ifa newmpaper writer were
to so freely exprews nil sentiment. concerning a ca..
subj.:dire, he would inobably have to pay pretty freely
fat what the law rightly interpret. an A contempt of
court.

Of course, even Homer occanionally nod., but I
don't think the administration of justice wind be
materially improvol liyap.id magistracy. A temple
of cane. very eimilar in eircumetances have just lion
decidol, the one by a Metropolitan atipendtary, and
the other by the Bournemouth nuegintraren. Ae the
Marlboroinrhoitreet Police-court Lord Savernalen. who
tried te Innen. a drunken " pal " from tn. p .I.ro
striking the countable a violent blow in the Lice. Af,ll
generally behaving like a blackguard, wan fund t 2.
A few dap; ago • couple of the Itoitrneinoolle
Menich had before them • young fellow for a ....-
what ',Under offence. The defendant in this
ClSne put, his hand on the comitable's shoulder an I
asked him where he wan going to take his iriori.
The officer told him to mind his businene And go on.
As he did not do this he handcuffed him, and in the
straggle they both rolled to the ground. So trivial
wee the affair, that a witness called by thn police did
. not think it necessary to interfere, lie was find
lie, and vet+ i . It s evidence the punishment in
the once case Iran as monstrously severe as it was
. lenient in the other. So perhaps alter all in this 14r.
tinder the beat thing we can do is to make up out
minds contentedly to bear the ills we have.

When I get my three acres and a row I shall
stipulate, for a similarly useful animal to one belong.
ing to Mr. H. !Lao:, of Whitoway Farm, Kist
Lulworth. A cow belonging to that prontleman
recently
_presented hitu with three loillealrei at a
birth. This is something like a LON. nil cow. Sito.ly
the Queen's bounty ought In be awsralrd here, hr mm
these times of over•population, and dear nisat
mg three of the bovine tribe into the world is ler
more meritorious than adding the same number
squally youngsters to the population.