The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-08-30 00:00:00

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PANS ITO OWN 421114TW -- Wednesday evening last 14,11.411 t
to Wey ..... nth two altocking reports front Liii. unlit - one that
a lady had !teen dashed to ;dee,t over the cliff. soul the other
tits, a cauttimardsman had drawn his cutlaw on his °Meer
cut at h.m —and the horrible remit was loft to he Imagined !
Oo tiring t nem! backward with no little tr. noble (the yeassengers
from the " Prince" and " Premier" steamers having disperacd),
the latter report took the form that the Mutinous coastguards-
man had it wounded hi. officer, but missed his blow, and
rut off the top of a piece of wooden paling b steal ! The
" thr, I,lack crows" had lessened in number and blackness ;
but further enquiry, while showing there was some foundation
for the rumour, still more diminished its imp trtaine. It
appears that the coastguard from Warlarrow, White Nose,
and Lultrorth, rnet at the Latter place on Wednesday
for their periodical drill. One or two .4 the men quarrelled
it is maid, about the war, and especially ab out the French,
and they were seen, rot exactly "di.hliulli.g Wid shticksh."
but flourishing their wtapons while arguing, no
ninth so that an officer of lI.M. Navy who WSW them
expressed an opinion that they ought to be disarmed. We
hare since ascertained that the turbulent coastguardsman was
an Irishman from Warbarrow, who sympathised strongly with
the French, and, hay in,r bad some drink, fell out with an
excitable commercisl traveller, who took the German's 'tart.
So hot 44,1 the gallant Mite-inn get over the in titer, that he
drew lois cutlass, and as if to cut down, lierhairs the CIN•WW
l'iance. aimed a fearful blow at, and cut in two, a wooden pale !
This violatimt of • neutral f I 1' WWI followetl, :twirling to
the law of neutrals, by dissxmament of the offender,
who was reported for being drunk. The prothonitait
stinuwthiser, srhapa exulting titer his I ict.iry, got
hit,, trouble in Bond-street. Weymouth, en the saute night.
Why he should have cho-en that part of the town is outl3' ex-
plained by the I set that some extraordinary pictures, purport-
on4 ,o be likenesses of eminent personages. were exhibited lot
a small window near, sind perhaps he bail too tnuch respect for
the great I:ennans t i admit the liken... were correct. How-
ever he had t • pay the eosin for his disorderly conduct,
ant would that ice had sonic efficient p dice to settle as
summarily the more terrible quarrel between the nations
whose tiAllte thorn two stuvller ili-durbers invoked. Tito
I ,titer rumour had a vavlder foundation. Two persons had taken
a lent •waWartl, and proccisicil to bathe. Some one front lite
cliff. i doer..ut the b. at flopty.andtWo forms in the water on ir,
and intionslately Jumped to the conclusion that the men were
l,i.tsiigrr of drowninz. The otlarm was tarried through the

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01It Mith hi.cr.,111...t., ran to the cliff, t•i we if it Wan her win
that to smut to be iln,abol. In her hurry *he fa over a
inrt of the cliff, and to., seri°. sly hart, h ,vine to be rein Ned
by kind of 1.1/I) PM.," litter no teen'. ann.. A sue•lical
111*11 i• ,alit for, and it Iran found the poor wawa.. hail Mb.
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