The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-04-28 00:00:00

XILBORNE AT. ANDREW.

THE I.alfOrltelta' STlttlta.--nn ThurstLvy last two farm
labourers who had been in the employ of Mr. Fowler,
and who were occupying cottages belonging to him
for whielt they pail rent, were forcibly ejected. and
' their goods awl chattels put into the road. As there
is a general strike of labourers in the village there waa
good muster of men, women, and children, attract"
thither by the " 'el and interesting " spectacle-
Many were the exclamations of disapprobation at the way
in which the little property the poor ps.stple possessed was
d
were bein
applied to t thrown out, owl many tine ~,,, plimentary epithet
hose so employed. It insy lie inferred
that • ',reach of died...ace was expeeted as Superintendent
g
rinlerwoopl and the local pokey were pr....sent, but alere
s
ing strirtly to the instruetions r the I•ition
too 't
no breach of the peace, even though there
Wan no disturbance, the men who were looking on wilier-
, might he great provorat . The poor people.. goods
were packed up by the roadsida,. and two others retsined
notice that they null I.e evicted in a 'tar in. ....a
the following morning. lint, from , reason or other,
only ~ of those act. turned out, snaking Ore.. families
in all who have been arily ejected. One of
those who have been rivet.' is on Itis way to the north
of England, but another it is sail became 'penitent.
I we., forgiven, and would popliably retuni to his master tot
, ?Plumley morning. The third vtill remains by the road-
: silo, a warning to others of the su 1111 l tau punishment
they may expect from their employers if they demand
et, advance 1,1 wages. A rather lauglmble incident
(becalm.' to One of those employed in re itm the
funtiture (MlllOllO of the labourers eottages. It appears
that an article of pnwerty (it cannot, strictly speaking. be
calks! furniture). was in the room wnippol in a cloth.
, which a son of Mr. Fowler took in his hands to carry out,
when something dropood through a hole in the Isottom
and there itunualiately rose tonne hundreds of small
insects whirl, by their buzzing anti the poctiliar stinging
sensation they caused about the face awl lima, were soon
discovered to lie a swarm of bees !! Thinkimt diseretion
the better part of valour, the young fanner dropped the
hive and beat a hasty retreat from the room, the door of
which, fortunately for him. Was open. and through which
the bystander; observed Web.. pouring like smoke ! N
doubt removing labourers furniture at Millorne will long
be remembered by I • . It is utoler,tool pother farmers in
the neighheerheed are Paying their labourers as notch,
awl in Sonia cases more than the melt in 'hi. village are
asking.
A UNION SERMON.—On Standar evening last, about foe
o'clock. there were gathered together at the cross neuls in
this v illage, a considerable Innulrer .f people, chiefly of
the labouring chap,. of this and the adjoining torislies, to
hear Mr. E. Weilinure: one of the delegabut of the
Labourers' Union. lortnteb. as had been pre% booty
announced, a Union sermon. The proceedings nero of
the most onlerly character. The singing of a couple of
fa, ~,,rite hymns, aceolillallieil by an harm. ll ill and
Iliac, was heartily joined in bY y g and old. The
speaker then took for his text ii Kings, id, 11—" And he
took up the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote
the wster and wick where is the Lord Gut' of Elijah." lie
re, iewed the life of Elijah. hisi sufferings, his faith
and Ids ohedience to thsTs commands. I...jilting out that
he went about fearlessly d g his duty, making many
eneinies, lout pleasing God. Ged did nut call hint from
the great and mighty, but like many an other great and
good nun real of in history, he was of humble origin.
The speaker exhorted all present tub. their.ltity fearleody
to their neighbours and to their G.I; and said that if the
Ministers of the gospel had been As oet-Spokett to their
wealthier brethren an they hail been to Um poor, they
would not have wantoil a I.lli 11l to lay, Ile then adverted
to the early life of ineopli Arch as a dissenting preaeher
and spoke of his unitimearlialile character : allll lie Wive
it as his firm opinion that lie had hien called of (h.i to
the great work in which he is now engaged. 11e natl.!
ti-are the hand of Gel through it all. Hatt it not already
'son a great blessing to thousands ? and although some-
times they were called upon to sulfur, Oen as those poor
families were who., home is under the hedge toolay,
and their telly covering the broad Cc py of Ina, en, yet
let than. have iaith 1.. 1/.1, and victory should Is, theirs.
.‘s an instance of Chsfs care over Ili, loopitt. pc,lnted
Goon to how Elijah was fed by the ravens, and that when
the bnok had olried up the ',AA sent him, not to the
house of the wealthy, but to a poor widow, and there He
sustained him by lidt all-lotinteats hand. Tile people
who had been thnovit out of doors Were being blessed by
ti,, same hand, for I iosl !awl put it into ttie
heart, of kind friends to help them. That 1111 l ritinj( he
had reeeived front •gentletatan at Ihehlletown a little over
Ll'.; had culleeted over AA. s 'lila then., 54.1 l other
friends acre actively eneagf,l in miiii,terini; to their
Twl'l ":".colleelrbetion atru‘.w .i:trn4 the
to 1:1 I2s. ttl.