The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-17 00:00:00

WIXI3OfINE.

TRAW'M or Idtusests.—The following lianas
were transferred last Friday : —The Smiths' Arms, East
Borough, from James Keeping to William Hollows, ;
the Griffin's Arms, Railway Hotel, from Charles Ellis,
to J. Buckingham.
DAMAGING A FOWL —PrOdeliCk 'deaden was
charged with wilfully damaging • fence, the property
of Sir H. Greathead, Bart. The offence was committed
in October last, when the Prisoner absoondod.—rused
50s. including costa.—Fine paid.
Tea Fren-Ktio is a curious as well as • dangerous
old fellow, and has a great meek of sweeping chimneys.
On Tuesday lent week be got into • great flue at Mr.
Vpsball's, in the Square, and burnt • large oross-beam
through. It is considered he must have been snoosling
in that chimney for some days to do all the work he
did, and was just meditating a grand flare-up. How-
ever, be was discovered in tine, and our natty little
town engine soon gave him • cooler and sent him about
his holiness. On Wednesday he bad • turn next door,
at the confectionary establishment, taking up his
quarters as before in • chimney, sad carefully sweeping
it clam. On Friday he made his appearance in Mr.
I Gosling(' stores, in the West Borough, the very plus
I where be kinked up such a shindy some two or three
months ago. But it was "no go" this tints, be very
soon felt the force of the extinguisher ; and where be
will turn up next goodness knows. The Wimborne
folk wish he would stick to the grates, for even at the
best of times he aosta them • deal of money in
huurante.

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BT WHOM WAS TEE CABBAGE DITRODUCID? --"A
Dorset man" writes to Note' and Queries :—Loeal
tradition has certainly pointed to Sir Anthony Ashley
as the first person who planted the cabbage in Demist-
shire ; and tradition *poems, in this inelanoe, to be
confirmed by probability. In the is... age in which
Sir Walter 'Raleigh, who wee member for Dar,stiblzs,
Introduced the potato from America, what more pro-
table than that there should have been ameinert distin-
guished members of the wart of Elsabeth & sort of
rivalry in the introduction of foreign roots and plants,
end that Sir Anthony Ashley, the Queen's Secretary, in
intimate oanneotion, as be mast have been, with the
ambusadors of the Low Countries, should have obtained
from them, aa tradition states, some shoot, or plants of
the milker, which be grew in his own garden? Itso,
what, again, more probable than that the circumstance
would be recorded on his tomb la the form in which the
Rector of Wimborne St. Giles states that it appears

Pownt, Ana-N.—This irrepressible " "pouter" made
his appearance in Wimbome again the other evening,
and got the use of the Oddfellow's Hall for his die.
gusting proem of "unmasking the Confessional" of
the Itomith Church. The doors of the Town-hall were
shut spinet him. AU hooour, we lay, to the Pro-
testant ministry of Wimborne, that they put forth their
utmost efforts to guard the youth under their "harp
from the tempting devilry of such " leeturea"
In that little room, half filled during the latter 1,2,n,
the performance with the filthy smoke from their pipes,
were lads (actually mere lads) and "sores of young men
just coming up into life, who had paid their sixpences
and were taking • deep long draught frets one of the
most poisonous cups that could possibly be offered them.
We blush for such shameless men as Powell, and bless
our stern that they are not Englishmen. But shall we
sit down with our hands in our pockets, and quietly
allow such men to deprave the minds of bright promising
young fellows, just shining in the great ram of life?
We ow only say that if our respectable and infinentani
townsmen had only heard what we did in that little hall,
Jobs Bull would assuredly unsrt his authority, and kick
the interloper out of the place. But John Bull proper
didn't hear it, bemuse his respectability wouldn't allow
of his being seen in such • place, and, unfortunately, be
Is very slow indeed to believe anything that he doesn't
actually see and hem and feel altogether. But for one"
we do hope Hutt he will stretch he • Isith's espacete
• little, and put his veto'npoe any mom of Mr. PoweWs
" lecturee—two of which he announces his intention al
giving co his return to the town at some early dote.
How is it, we should like to know, that the Oddellowe
granted the use of their hall for such a porno's? We
"tare to my it was not with the full consent of that
re:peetelde body of men in Wimborne ; and we hope
that before Mr. Powell's return they will have made op
their minds to shut their doors too. There IS not musk
fear of his going into the Square, as he threatens, for
two weighty reasess—be can't charge for admission 4
and he wool!, in all probability, be told to " move on.
Apropoe to this so set, read the amount going the
you of the paper% of the cue at Roehdalo, where one
George Mackay, an Anti-Popery Latium," was placed
In the dock, sharp& with shooting at two police-
oonstablee, with & az-barrel revolver, and caning other
disturbance', bemuse the doors of the public hall were
closed easiest him, and who has been rightly sentenced
to 16 months' had labour.
STEALING POTATOES AT LOWMAN. Frederick
Taylor Mediond (dia. Middleton) was on Wednesday,
March llth, brought up in custody before L. G. Part,
Req., charged with stealing two sacks of potatoes, the
property of William Whitfield, of Longham.—Pr
tutor said that on 4th Marsh he mimed "one
out of a pit in • piece of enclosed in his
occupation. Afterward, he went with • polliessan to
the pit, and tracked some footmerks across • field late
a meadow. He then obtained • search warrant and
marched the prisoner's house end toned two man ef
Believed that he had lest fi boasts
rortrbt pit. The .ditogg Need In "priLreeee hones
he brought to Wise police statics. Primer said
they were his potatoes. The potatoes Prams&
prosecutor believed to be the was se he lael.—ln num-
esmakietion prosecutor mid he would not swear be had
five or six boatels, but believed he bad. Ooeld net saY
; when he mimed them, it was after four o'clock. He
bid so smiles el the priseest. Prima mid be

bought the potatoes of Stsphisa Stay. Wises he saw
the potatoes be said "Bowe of those potatoes ere not
mine, some are ~t."—P.O. William Webb, stationed rh
Longhair, said that on Thursday menden. Sib Marsh,
prolocutor came to his house between sine and tea in
the morning, and said be had • large quantity of
potatoes stolen from a pit in his flald, sod toned
footmaiks of three different pereons, and traced them
from the .Id swags prosecnitor's field over iato a
field in the occupation of James Yrowde, and theses
over a green 6,14, where the Weeks were lost. We then
made inquiries, and on the following Saturday received
some froth information, which made him suspect th•
prisoner. He then obtained a searsh warrant, and
searched prisoner's house. Oa his asking him if im
bad any potetoes be beidteted, and then saW "Yes, do
you want to ma them," aad asked if whams had a
warrant. Witness forted • heap of potatoes is the left-
hand room; they were very wet. He then called
prosecutor to bee them, and prisoner said "Do you
think them be year potatoesr 'Whitfield replied, "Not
all of them riot; th• out ones don't blocs to me, but
the others do." Prismsr said he bought the cut ones,
about half-e.boabel, of • person named Jobs Sinnway,
and the others of Stephen Stay, but could not say when.
Witness inquired of Stay if be had sold the prisoner
any potatoes, and be said he had about four months
previously, and that some were eating potatoes, and
some small 0n.., and they were all dry ones. He also
said that those found in prisoner's house were not
these he had sold to him. Witham produced maniple
taken from prosicotor's house, and they corresponded
in every particular as to colour of the dirt, straw, and
other matter mixed with them—The prisoner in his
defame, said be was "not guilty," and warn committed
for trial.