The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-28 00:00:00

BItIDPORT.

Aactiroragrur. Vinrrulow. —The Fes. Arebderra
Sanctuary will hold his vialtatiou at Btidport, on
Friday, Ihy th, Is She att.rooon the clergy and
eburehwartlese ere Invited to dine together. Many of
the ehurchwardens, We understand, object to this
arrangerient, preferring to dine apart from the clergy,
and at the usual place, because it has been their
eustom to discuse church matters on those occasion.,
and they feel that if they dined with the clergy
they would ,be eclipsed by the oratory of thou
gentlemen.
Boeotian POLIO', Thursday.—BeforeJ. Templeman,
Foq.—Flinabeth Loveridge, of Beaminater, was charged
with obtaining goods by false pretence. from Mr. Hill,
pawnbroker. Oa Friday, 17th April, prisreer went to
his shop, and after looking at some black wearing
apparel, wee allowed to take sway with her two black
dresses, two black mantles, and two black
jackets, for the inspection, u sbe said, of her
sister—Mrs. Bert, In Allington. She promised
to bring them back in three.quarter of an hour,
but nothing more was seen of her till !friday, when
Sergeant Lavender apprehended her at Beaminater.
She said she knew nothing about Mr. Hill or his goods,
and didn't know where his *bop wan. The articles,
however, were found in as oct•bwiding attached to her
house. The only Uri time. Bumt. living in Allington
were called, and neither of them had seen the prisoner
before that day, and, of coarse, did not send her to Mr.
Hill's.—Prisoner now pleaded guilty, and she was rim.
mired for the Serious.

Cotton Pobice, Friday.--.l3efore J. 11. P. !forages
Seq.—Joseph Poedden, • labourer, was charged with.
siting Elisabeth Berry oa the 2lsl April, and
making use of violent longoage towards bar, whereupon
she prayed that he he required to fiad 'cretin to keep
the peeps. Complainant, who is the landlvly of a•
inn at Mosoonabe Lake, having deposed to the troth of
her information, the defendant was ordered to And one
surety in £lO cud be bound himself in LW for three
months. The magistrate told the defendant it was •
cowardly and disgraceful thin to strike • woman; •
men could always defend himself against • woman
without doing that, and if he had been brought there
to be punished for the &smelt he would have
been dealt with severely; he ooncluded defendant had
had too moth to drink, and that was the cease of
it. Defendant said he did not strike oomplain•nt until
after she bad struck him several times, and that he was
not drunk at the time. . _

SmaLPAICeLI —Numerously signed
petitions have been sent from Bridport, to both Houses
of Parliament, against • proposal in • railway bill, now
before the lemalature, to prevent the enoloeure of small
parcels in larger ones carried by railways. The proposal
if carried would cause very serious ineenvenience and
loss to trade, as it frequently would not pay to have
those parcels seat separately. It would also prevent
Means. Davis, Sutton, and other carriers, front emotion-
ing their system of making ape large number of small
parcels into one package and sending them by *rein, and
when arrived at their destination distributing them at a
low charge to their respective addresses, being consider•
ably less than that charged for carriage by the railway
people themselves. The people of Bridport have only
recently experienced the value of this plan, since an
agency of Davis's was established here, but in other
towns mash • gebeme has long been in operation, and has
proved very suceseidel and beneficial.
ONISTf COURT, Tueeday.—(Before T. E. P. Lary.
Judge.)—There were only about 40 sew
being the smallest number before the eourt for • very
long period, and they were all disposed of by the
Registry, except the following one t—fins e. 8.
Paliner.—Plaintiff, who is • farms-, living at Wed
Milton, claimed £33 9s. 10d, balance of rent, and the
defendant, a butcher, of the some parish, pleaded • set-
off of £l2 124.—E8 for • straw rick and £4 12s. for four
sacks of need barley. Ed 4s. was paid into court.—Mr.
F. W. laundry was for plaintiff, and Mr. Jolliffe for
defendant —lira Hine, wife of pleintiff, proved that de-
fendant rented the land at £3O per year, and lei t it after
receiving nein», in April, 1863 when the sum dais
wasdue for rent. Her son managed the farm, and in
February, 1883, ploughed up the dabble by defendant's
sonsena—Jsinee Budder% Hine, plaintiff's son, said
efendant gave him have to brmk up the stubble in
February, and it was • usual thing for the incoming
Yon to do so by unseat of the outgoing one, as the
arable land would he of no vane to the outgoing tenant
after February to Lady-day. Cress-examined: In ogie
of the fields there was about half-amuse of grass lend,
and a barley and oat straw mow. On the atomism that
be went to plough there defendont said be should have
fed the straw there had be not received notice to leave.
Defendant left the straw in the field two years. and did
not take it sway, although winsome frequently 'eked
him to do so, and at last told him be mast remove it,
when defendant said he (witneiss)emild do so if be liked.
After WS be used part of the straw and sold the rut.
He had firer sacks of seed barley from defendant,—
Mr. JAIN, Miring addressel the court for the defense,
celled the defendant, who said he did not give plaintiff's
pp kers to plough up the land he held from plaintiff
In February, 1863, and knew nothing about his doing It
till he saw him ploughing there. He went to the
plaintiff and milted to be allowed to keep ea the laud,
end be said be would speak to hie sea about it. He
meld have made use of the land for feedbag,
but after it was ploughed he did not do en. (His ,
Honour told Mr. Joni& that it was evident lave
had been given to plough, as defendant said he saw the
son ploagbing, aod afterwards he spoke to the father,
but made no complaint to either of them. He aaked
the wituess the question several times, and he admitted
that be made no complaint. Therefore, his Honour
said, his mind was made up as to leave bowie./ bens
given to plough the land, and he told Mr, Jolliffe his
Own withers but proved that, so it was unless to carry
that part of the eau any further.)—Egainineticia eon-
tinned He had about ten toss of straw in the Geld.
Plaintiff used some of It and sold the rest. Witness
did not ask for the straw, or say anything to plaintiff
about B. Plaintiff Yes isked to be allowed to cut part
of it, and he told him he mad do what be liked wills
It. Defendant never asked hint to move the
straw. Witness veined the straw at £B, whit* was
not a high valet. If be had sold it to different
persons it would have been worth 30a. per ton.
The barley be sold to plaintiff was charged at the
current veins at that tisom—Crom-examined: The
strove risk might not have been more than right teas.
Plaintiff had never spoken to him about the strew
eteept when ha asked him to let him have • owl of it.
No other conversation had ever yenned between the
plaintiff IRA himself about the riek.—(ThisJudge oinked
winsome why he did nos remove the straw, and he replied
he did set *eat it at the time, and, knurly he owed
plaintiff foe rent, be left it them Intending to things
him for it.)—Plaintiff had asked him for the rent from
time to time and he had not paid it u it was Oct am-
veiniest to hlin —By the Judge: Norge mentioned any-
thing to plaintiff about the strew rich and barley, or
charged him with them till summoned for the
rent. -Charles Witte, of Askerswell, spoke to
thrashing • barley risk for defendant, from which
ery made the straw now in question. He should
say it wadded of from eight to ten tonm—A
, man named Dubiety, &did to Arehdeneen
&actuary., was called to prove the value of seed barley
11 in the spring of 1863, but he said be did not remember;
and his Honour wondered at Mr. Jail& calling sash •
witness.—Mr. J. B. Hine, recalled by Mr. Gendry, in
straw
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of his
father's cattle ate easy of this straw they must have
broken into the AeU, through the hedge, without his
knowledge. He never knew of their doing so.—Mr.
Cialloott, a miller of Powerstook, said be bought i's
In 1863, at 26e. and 245. per quarter, mid=
barley might hay, been 30s. and 32a per quarter.
His Honour said he believed the defendant allowed the
plaintiff to enter andplongh up the lend. and Pinitstter
timeline was entitled to recover the whole amount of
the rent. Then Guy the set off ; he believed the defend-
ant abandoned the straw, but all the money the plaintiff
received for it he would allow defendant, which was
With regard to the barley there was some little dis-
crepancy in the evidence as to what was the value of it
at that tiros, but he would allow the defendant what
be had charged for it, His judgment therefore would
be for the whole amount, lees 1.11 12s. the set off sad
EG 4s. which had been paid into Court. Mr. Jolliffe
asked if the property tax which had been mkt by
defendant would not be allowed, and Mr. Eitinciry
said his silent would ace object to allow anything
that was just. After some argument on the
point his Honour struck off £2 for taxes, and gave
6meat for Plaintiff forthwith for the balsams £lB 13a
the course of the trial his Honour frequently ex-
postulated with Mr. Jolliffe for his mod* of condureing
the ease, telling him he must not put • leading question
Ins witness, and that be must not make • statement in
eves 7 question, but simply pet the viatica, and that
his proceeding was most irregular. When defendant
was being examined his Houser 'smelted that what
Mr. Jolliffe and his witness said was quite different.
Mr..Tolliffe said he was only stating aeoording to his
Instruction,, when his hollow replied that he IMO
evidently not able to got his Idioms up to Shoos to.
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