The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-10 00:00:00

DORCFIESTER.

COM Namur, Saturday. Inspector's return:
Wheat, 613 e. to 85e. per cr. • barter, 40'. to 41. a. ad.—
Average.: Wheat, 71.. laid.% barley, 40a. 71d.
Nannow EWA PL —On Friday last Miss Jane Leg,
of Fordington•hill, bad • very narrow escape. In in-
cautiously attempting to step over the spindle of a
corn thrashing machine whilst in motion, her drew
became swiveled, but she was fort..nately released
from her peillous position by one of the labourers
tending the machine, end escaped with • tattered dress
on:y, though she was very much frigh.ened.
PII*OII AL PAYMIsT Or RATS& —On Monday a
dosen of the moulders of houses in Fordington, whose
rates were formers', isom pounded for by the I andlorda,and
paid by the tenant' in their rent, but who are now
personally liable, were summoned before the borough
magistrates for noc.payineot of the poor'srste of lc sd.
I. the posed, made Nov. 15th Mat. The maonrates
pri,..4 sere the Mayor (G. Corms, Req.), J. F. Hodges,
Seq., and B. Davis, Seq. The clam. ranged front
4a. 41., to dis. &Id.. with, in each ease 1.. added for
tie experts" of the 'ammonia'. The repine
1i,.. to the quastioc. Why have you not paid
the rata I were various. The Irat Joe Seel
—"didn't know," and forthwith marched off and
returned in • few minut •• with the money. A wood.
"tiouldn't very well al-rd it" —this was • woman, and
',bee sald elie must no,, with so eye to economy said,
" she could not pay for the summon..." but being
hid that also was inevitable, and, that it the money was
not p,rthemnins at ones, 4a. more would be incurred
• distress warrant, besides constable.' fees, she produeed
the mut eiaiwei, an d relieved ber injured feelings by saying
tbere were those who had been maned who could pay
as well as her husband, and that some receiving," perish
pa," went to work. The third was a man ow the militia
staff, L.,4 he was backed up by his wife, who has •
reputation for possessing a tongue. She exhorted
her spoon take and go to gaol," for they
ileald not pay and had got no goods to tea..
Bet the soldier didi't exactly fall in with that
motion, and *mkt, urged this rat* was for • house be
left woo Ni°l bat aPCM being told he meat pay,
1,. pre the 'tench a military mints, and went with his
wife to "look for the montle." She returned in • few
mieeesil, and paid it as quietly as though she wee
ashamed of herself. Two dirk of ill-fame nest appeared,
and OD* of them the Mayor Innoesutil addressed se
"Kw. They " amildiet afford to pay, buttameijt
will., and their dirty
The neat aim" In "bold In henen'ra'abegi vhad"
nothing to per niter" het llodillg,ftespe irepeogE,
mid they must dive his. limo to got. uncle's to
SPOlli hill witch." He moaned and paid the
Rb
"Worse than daylight robbery" wes the opiske,r
next es to raise. He evidently don't ap.
preeiste haviinliegnanalote. Hat be was soon minted dew.,
and paid hie rate with 2s. apnea. A women fellowiii,
and sbe said it wee quite impossible for her to pay, but
when the proems of distress and Its expenses, and an
alternative of imprisonment, was cheerily detailed by
the foams teens, of the magistrate's clerk, she altered
her tone, made her exit for • short time and game beak
voila the mosey. Ho the twelve MUM were gone through,
11414 all eventually saw the folly of resistance, and paid
their rates with the extra two shillings for
mete. They were all
.angry, and the la
an 41111Orting of all prams for the forbearance they
manifested although subjected to mush rudeness
They Wormed those summoned that It was their duty
to administer the law se they found it, and that they
bed no power to exams one of them, exempt Epos toa.
rooosoneadation of the perish vestry; so that tko only
"Wag them who feel amdo I. to *Moil to
the vestry to he and, if they refuge them, the
robe mast be Mid, end, deferring it till they are
siimaged, only lnereee.etkesasgat,
?owl! COOPCIIO—A tartetieg of thei
held on Wednesday. nailer the °wrier/we.
A "pestof the Omega Putnam wee

read in refiresse to the be 10 be igliged spelt
Morro Begattoe, for the nonooregstion of their
maraca at the Waterworks in the stipulated thee.
The °rigging] contrast yes £l2BO, but auras made the
n 41347 15. ld. ; they bad been paid £1,230
leaving du* £127 its. ld. The estimated loss mstainad
by the aeareoispletioe of the contract was MO, but,
" the °Anhui contract was £6lOO below any other ,
tender, sod they lead serried out the work well and done
more than the Isms ogled for, the committee thought
a fine of £5O would meet the ogee. A letter from
Mews Bwrington was reed, in which they considered
they had been "harshly dealt with" in this matter.
Hr. Bishop intimated that he agreed with them. The
One am adopted, and Haan Bevington's tender to
provide two new slide valves °gradated to increase the
saineoming working of the machinery, for £lB ss. WU
, accepted. A letter was read from the manager of the
pa weeks, calling the Council's attention to the wilful
and malicious breaking of two of the Public Ica pe—
ace in Grove-buildinp, and the ogler in High Bast-
street. They were ordered to be repaired. Oa the
motion of Mr. Bishop. seconded by Mr. Slade, the mayor
wee authorieed to offer a reward of £5 for the Gouge-
MOO of the perpetrators of these malicious tricks. There
wee no other business of impcetaaec