The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-10-01 00:00:00

THE imitsET couNnr EXPRESS A.ND AGRICULTURAI, GAZETTE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1872.

land or abroad, quite sure of this that "the
labourer is worthy of his rewaid," and that by
six days' honest work a man ought to earm
enough to maintain himself and his family
decently, and to be enabled to make such provision
against the ills of life as to be independent of
the parish or the charity of anybody. This
might be effected by a moderate increase in the
present rate of wages, a generous system of piece
work, and the granting of an acre or so of laud
to the labourer which he might cultivate after
hours by the help of his &wily.
The home question with most of Us still' turns
upon the price of coals, of gas, of beef, of
potatoes, and now of the increased price of the
quartern loaf. The people of Leicester are
taking the business-like course of forming a co-
operative society to keep down the pries of coal
by purchasing Bat the pit's mouth, where it can
be had for 10s. a ton and selling it at the
wholesale price, that is, at about half the rate
now chargedjby the retail dealers. But even
the wholesale price it is now said is atan artificial
figure, and is kept there by "a ring" of coal
owners. The increase of the miners' wages Is,
It I. found, but a bagatelle In comparison with
the increase in the price of coal; and in South
Yorkshire, where the price has just been put up
tos. 10d. per ton, the men's waxes have only
been insreased 91. per ton in the course of the
year. Upon a plea of this sort, the Kingswood
colliers, to tbe number of seven hundred,hays
been on strike for an advance of 20 per cent. in
their wages. Where the price of coal has been
put up fis. 6d. per ton, these men said., their
wages had only been increased 21d. per ton; but
the strike has been compromised for the present
by an addition of 10 per cent., and probably
before another month is over our heads the coal
bubble will have burst.

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thr0i1i0.11....-lAtztrk ypi.pluun. t livedn:
needs,; when • large number of the scholars paid a
vial{ to Weymouth and Portland. A party of some 80
boys, headed by the 1t.,. M. F. Evans, estate; ler. J.
ois'utAlimual6a.th-t.r.d,eancodlw""apiaztooe:
woSailaywudilid,o2WW•otre.,lcl:holMid.riYyth"failerlea:7l,..hiljyt.iftt.huarelta.booQinautiasirtegybe.au:r. ,
rainy, and was NUR threatening; but this eutmed to no
wive to check the hopu and vides of the bright-
looking school-boys And their veutur• proved indeed
highly hapoy and suoicesaful ; the weather Improving
into a beautiful day, and the idmple programme of
pleasure being carried through without • eloud. The
s appeared to enjoy tho sands and the ars as boys
always do ; and some of the Dumber In the course Id
the morning bathed off idj• shoes towards Preston ; sun
of thom being (what all boys should bail Tory fair uric'.
niers After brisk work with tbi spade on the sands,
the little army marohed by the harbour-bridge to the
Kolbe, and toned mach enjoyment on the rooky shore
beyond it. Tle next stop was to embark for Portland,
the voyage including • aim& round the giant Ironclad
Hercules, which with several other chips of the fleet,
made a grand object of internat. The party returned
' to Weymouth without landing at Portland ; and • good
meal was enjoyed at the establishment of Mr. Clarke,
shortly before the start for Dorchester again. Arrived
at Dorchester station they marched to military style to
Fordington vicarage, where a hymn was sung on the
lawn, and a hearty cheer given for Mr. Moult. and for
the leaders of the happy and suocessfol exPedition
The expenses of the treat were defrayed by the liberal
special help of friends of the Wiwi I
WoheirMee Taivr. —The employe. of Muses.
Crocker Fenner, end Co., were entertained by them to
a substantial repast on Monday evening last, by way of
inaugurating the new firm. A warehouse at the pre-
mimes in High Weal Strut, was neared for the occasion,
and made to look gay by adornment with flags and
evergreens. A table extended the whole length of the
TOOO,llBl no ex Name ws+ spared in providing • throughly
rood and bountiful repast of the good old fez, of roast and
boiled beef, mutton, hams, Ito. The chair was
taken by Ns Crocker, and /dr. Fenner occupied the
vice-chair. After due judos had been done to the
Nut. and the table cleared, the usual loyal toasts
were glees, that of "The Quoit" being reosivel ,
with great applause. "The New Pim" wee proposed '
' by Mr. Oalpin, who in very kind words wished them
every soccees and prosperity. Mr. Crocker responding
I aid it was the goidanai of • good Gal that had placed
I him In the position be no. occupied, and he hoped that
Iby lite greet expo-Woos of the business he should be '
enabled to fulfil hie duty to the employed in the
same ratiabectory Lanny as had been done by their
late employer. Mr. Feuer responding said he thanked
lir. Gilpin for introducing him to Doroheeter, and
although he might appear a stranger to them, yet he
was not quite •atranger,as his previous ocioneoticia with
• large firm In the north of England, and at Reading.
made him sot:painted with the habits of men, Mr.
Oalpin proposed the health of Br. Croaker, sour.,
remarking on hie long samba, and his uprightness in
business, and said he had been his " right hand" for •
great somber of years, Mr. ()rocker thanked Mr.
Nilpin for the very kind manner in which he had spoken
cf bki. He oould only say that after 25 years' perdu
It abetted him the greatest pismire t• know that
he had dways endeavoured to promote the messes of
the buinees. " The employe." was next proposed by
Kr. Fenner, coupled with the names of Messrs Milling-
ton, Bolatt, Ilford, and Pike,who made suitable replies.
"The donor of the feast" was given by fillr. Voss ,uad
1
thus was brought to a alone one of those social gatherings
of employers and employed which largely promote the
interest+ of both.

right; we bad no business Fere." The field is In the
ccoopation of Mr. James Sy CUM, Winterborne Abhas.
Rai iambi Mitchell gore stains:testimony.
The priaoarre, who had nothiug to say in answer to
the obarge, wero aeotoomd to two mouth.' impriaon-
rnent with bard labour, at the expiram.in of which
period they wore otd.ned to no.lauretlrs by recognimince
being bound theinselves lo 1:10 and produeing two MI,-
tie. of 1:5 each, or one in £lO, not to offend again for
the spoon of one year following.
Saturday.—Before R. 0. F. Steward, E. W. Williams
U. Wnsry, and Churehill Eno.
Aran,. Norman, an old cripple, who tau been fre-
quently in prison, was br ,ught up on remand for

vagrancy. .
Supwrinteadent Hare prolamsl a record of 17 previous
conviatioas against him.
P.C. Worsdell said GO Thursday, September 19th, he
sew Prisoner go to Mr. R. Chwid's, t itarapisham, and
ask /Ira Chedd for a jlh. Being refosed, he begged in
suoo-ssion for • aspic, half a plot of oiler, and a bit of
br•sd, bail begot neither. The oonstable found 24. 34. on
hlm,and subsequently toot sixpence from his mouth, and
lid wrapped in a bit of rag from one of his pockets.
Prisoner was • good deal of trouble, lying down on the
road, mud that they were three hours e..mung to
Dorchester.

Prisoner said be wu • cripple, and could not walk.
He was hunting for a bit of turnip hoeing or takir-dill•
glad, sod it was customary to got older given tliena
when searching for rant lobs. He did nobody any
hurt, and tried to keep oat of the union. Ile was a
poor old coon, with no friend but God. Since he was
last ''ont" (LI prism)), he had boon tuntip-hoein g White-
church way.
Superintendent Hare said it was not true; he had
been lodging at Weymouth, and was finquintl, out
beggiog.
Prisooer was &intuited to two months' hard labour.
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Pl.ilip Groat, a reap•otably-rirawad young man, was
charged with being drank sad rietaav, at Taller Par-
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P.C. Hatchings found him drunk in he street about
11 pm. Reptomber 7th, maktug work with a woman
and her brother, and using bad language. He ordered
him off, when ho oomutonoed abitalog him (witness).
Subsequently be went Into a field Liwards his house,
and challenged the constable to fight, promising to show
that be &oaths beet man. The policeman added its had
cautioned defendant two or three times before, and
%was no use.

The rate of interest was put up on Thursday
another half per cent. It now stands at th per
cent. The market is in a very sensitive state,
and people are apparently hoarding; for al-
though the amount of notes in the hands of the
public is £700,000 more than it was at this time
'last year, and £1.700,000 more than it was a
'couple of years ago, people are still takLug gold
out of the bank and keeping it in their own hands.
Over £400,000 have been taken out of the stook
this week, and yet only about £150,000 have
been sent out of the country. Is this premoni-
tory if another monetary or commercial panic 1
Paris is once more really, as it as been for the
past 12 montha nominally, the capital of France.
All the Ministers have returned from Versailles
to Paris, and M. fliers has at last taken up his
residence at the Itlysie. The difficulty about M.
About has been got over in a very simple way—
by discharging him from custody, and crediting
his arrest to the officiousness of a subordinate
The government has paid another instalment
of the indemnity, and the German soldiers quit
other two departments in a fortnight. The
negotiations for • new commercial treaty with
England are said to be satisfactorily progressing.

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Defendant said he was not drunk, and he was hi
rood fellowship with the people be was palling about.
lie recollected the policemen coining to him.
Fined be. and 7s. coats, or 14 dais' hard labour—paid.

HAaVitat TitailUOMl(i Sainte& —At Holy Trinity
church pa Sunday last thanksgiving marriess were held
for the harvest, the offertory at each being for the
Dorset County Hospital. There was a little decoration
for the festival. In the vestibule was the text "Thou
visited the earth and blesseet it" niciely done in large
letters with wheat ears enclosed in two Oxford frames,
with a bordering of privet and At Haw marigolds.
Inside the adornmect was 000 fined to toe Communion
table, pulpit and reading desk, and the font. On the
Communion table the chief object was a miniature
sheaf of wheat; so puny +mit, ash, suggest northing
bat plenty, for, by comparison with it. surroundings,
it was • mere handful of core, However that was an
artistic defeat which probably arose from its being
prepared away from the place It was to 000mpy. It
was spirally wreathed with Rowers, and stood upon •
bed of moss studded with dahlias. Aloog the reredos
was • string oourae of dahlias, asters, and other autumn
blossoms, intermixed with wheat and bailey, while
pendent were two iarge bunches of grapes and at either
end pears. The pulpit and reading desk were festooned
with wreaths of flowers intermixed with own and •
few leaves, and at the points where the festoons were
looped up were bunohes of wheat. The candle
standards of the pulpit were ornamented with bouqueta
of roes., and geranium., intermised with wheat and
barley and a few leave.; and thee of the reading desk
with roses, gladioli, honeysuckle, wheat oars, and •
little greenery. The font was embedded with mom,
studded with roses, dahlia's, salaolarlas, geraniums,
fuchsias, An, with • pretty edging of sprays of the
coloured ash. From the centre roes • small sheaf of
barley. Toe shaft of the font was entwined with a
wreath of dahlias, wheat, and ivy leaves, and around
the bees ',wield mom, studded with dahlias. Altogether
the rieeoreti,m wee prettily The Misses Penton
(I), Bites Fearos, C,sper designed and parried
out the work. The sorrier.' were suitable for th, day
—epeetal hymns, prayers, arri items being selested,and
the sermons being appropri.to lo the ocemsioa. There
were large congregation; sod th• oolleotions amonntei
to Over }:l4. We have r oeirod the following letter
ou the subjs.,' :—Sir,—Tne festival of harvest has been
esiebrated at the church of oh Holy Trinity. Foliage
sod flowers, under ye fair bat perhapeiodavoreet hands
of mime of the youower parl-hioaers, eharoatogly eel off
the sacred edifies; and It in rs have beau • comfort to
1 the Rector, in the ministrativa a of the day, to have felt
' the sentiment of juvenile stlf•racrilice floating around
him. Displey if this kind is unwholesome, and is a part
of the system of stimuleting worship by sensuous
appeal encouraged by Rome an I by the reactionary
so:Ilion of the Church of England. Surely the simplicity
of bar Spiritist Worehlp is impairect, rather than aided,
by such varletiee—Yours, Ito., A PARISHIONER.

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130300n11 Pam SeialONS, Wedneeday.—Before the
Mayor (K. Damen, E.g.), and D. J. P. Aldridge.
Jews Norris, chimney sweep' of Yordingtoo, was
apprehended oo • warrant by P.S. Mitchell, charged
with threateriog the life of his mother and alto to burn
her hour* down. The pricoaer wee boned over to keep
the peace for sit mooting, himself in £2O and two sureties
of £2O each; in default to be iuprisoned six months.
The amebas were not forthcoming.
MONDtT.—BetOre the Mayor (Et. Dames, Hag.), G.
Came, hag., J. Halpin. Fag., and Dr. Aldridge.
Ann Bart, housekeeper to John William Davie,
Brines's-street, came ap on remand charged with being
drank and ousting a diaturoanoe.
Mr. Howard for defendant asked the magistrates to
defer tho caw for a fortnight, and in the meantime her
brother—Mr. Bart; • highly respectable man, for 14
year. gardener at Mr. Bridges, lrywey, bad oome up to
make arraugementa for his ei.ter to go to Cowls,. If
that were done, he sodeated the proceedings should
&DP.
In reply io the Town Clerk, Mr. Howard rid he did
not make this statement as a formal thing, and be had
the brother here to answer any question the Bench
liked to pet.
Mr. Symonds said nobody would inspect Mr.
Howard of making &Oaten:mat which it was not meant
to carry out; but he had heard ail aorta of promises
and rep:limitations made to the magistrates for the
abatement of this nalaanoe, none of which had been
performed.
Mr. Howard said he had told the defendant the posi-
tion in whieh she steed, and her brother wee here to
my be was willing to take her with him to Upwey and
make • permanent home shore for her, or in any other
neighbourhood than that of Dant:lister.

Toe Town Clerk remarkod that the brother could
not control her soy mote than Mr. Howard or himaelf.
Mr. Howard said he understood that if the same
Mood over a fortnight, sod she was not gone, it would
be board. He haltered some thlogs were rsmoved
already. He asked that this coarse be token in con-
mimeo' of suggestions thrown ont to him.
The Mayor: Your offer, of sours*, includes Danis as
well as Bart. . .

d said yes, ant the parties ware there to
promise themselves.
Mr. Symoode said he was rather weeptleal after what
hal taken place. What Mr. !toward said he had per-
fect sonlideues ; bet he might be instruogod to
speak of what ha amid no more oontrol then the wind.
Defendant's brother stld he would take hts water
to Upwey, and make her a comfortable home am long
a 4 she liked. _ .

Davi.: She won't come back to Dorchester again.
Mr. Symons odd Its had heard that over sad over
M'°• lie should advise the neighbours thst they
alight te LIM toasted them both i.e oomroon noir
saes at the Eleseloae—tban they would have been
eontroliedl.

--bark : What about their breaking my windows?
Mr. Symoods: Never mind yoar windows —people
who It,. in gime houses 'Medd uot throw stones. Your
house has been • medal to the erkola eommunity for
years —• perpetaal nuisance. It is pretty neszly time
an 'sample woo Mai of you. If the ow oomes before
the magistrates I shall advive loam to send to prison
without the option of • Bo*: a Ilse is no use. If my
opinion Itas any weight, that io the prospect you have
both got before you. It is Unto your conduct wag put
• stop to.
Reforest:le was nada to • disturbances at the house
last Thursday night, mid Mr. Symouda said coming
from the Mayor's be heard the home in High-street.
Darts said It was oaly • 'little talking in the
house." . . .

Tbe magistrates retired to con oder what thoy should
do, and on returning the blevor mid the Bench had
to vbe osscl4os to sljuoru th• cam for the
present; but they did it with great reluotanew feeling
that defendant W.• liable to and ought to be punished
very severely. Their tootpluot hed bees bed for many
yeses past. it wits a sue is it ulob the penalty might
be imprisonment, and il mho wet., brought bete again,
it. woald get ad the pusnehmeat the law allowed. He
had knows of bar conduit for a long time peat, and it
wee meet disgusting. He trusted her brother would
take her under his owe, and that she would not be
WU again in Dorchester.
Davie and the woman expressed their thanks, and
lids the emu* after being told that she would have to
answer to the summon. wb called upon.

A large number of the neishboars were present during
In. hearing.
Joan Wi/liass Davis bed alio been summoned for
asing abusive language last Thursday night, likviy to
provoke a breach of the peace, bat that shoo We.
allowed to stand ant.

COMM PEITZ 8101101111, Thutaday.—befort R.
Thornton req., and Major Own Sykes.
William Morey and John Laver were charged with
night poaching on the lauda of Mr. Robert Williams, of
Bridebead.
W. Hull. gamekeeper to the prosecutor, deposed that
the preview, night, about bail-past tee o'oloch, he au
watohiag his master's property, in the oompeoy of Bell.
PIOII2 bittenll. Is ben user ' three-barrow field' he
beard • dog bowl, and OP proceeding to the spot bossy
the prisoners nod others (labeling up • net 48 yards to
length. Ha and Mitchell took the men into custody,
sod found on them 17 rabbit* in bilge. A dog which
came up at the thae waa claimed by Thoracic. The
primmari draggled a little, nod sad, "it Mica WI

summoned by Mr. W. Wake, with stooling apples
groeing in las orchard sit Chaidon.
Defendants both plealea guilty. The foots of tbo
case ail...wail to hi, thst 4r. Make him lately lost
e iiisiderable quantity iif fruit mina gave informsion to
the patine, and P C U. Pumali, of Wiiarith, we. set
to sraich, and ciinglit the i'ofendants. The parents of
the children having stared to the Beisoh that they bad
given them • "good hiding," they wore fine i si. each
including costs, which we. very remilly paid, the
delliapients promising never to ao it again.
Mr. Marks stated he brought the ease forward against
the de(eidante In hopes it may deter others.