The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-08-29 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

MILITARY. -NiDetoo-H7l-unteersTrOm the 31st Regiment
proceeded to Dublin on the 17th to join the 3rd Buffs for
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service in China.
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Iscitgsse OF TIE BOOCASTIN &yrs.-AD extra sc a
master has Mum IPPoill4 on board the Boa°%Wen
lug shill in ronseVence of the large number of boys,
lately amounted to titie. There are also about 150 hoYll On
board H.M.S. Warrior.
MAJOR ELIOT AT CAMP.-In the Hants and Dorset
Artillery Volunteer Brigade orders, Lieut-Colonel Lanyon
Owen (commandant) says:-" In Major Eliot, my second
in command, I recognise an olfiecr of much rapacity, and
one who is at all times ready to give assistance to his
commanding officer. It is of great importance to the
brigade that the position of second in command is so ably
Sesoav SCHOOL TEACHE3S' Pie-ste.-On Wednesday
niornbig a party of the Fortanes'-well Wesleyan Sunday
School teachers and scholars, numbering about 00, had a
pic-nic at Upwey.
BIBLE CHRISTIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIvERSARY.-
Sermons in connection with this anniversary were preached
on Sunday last at the Maiden Well Chapel by the Rev.
R. Hawkey, the newly appointed minister. There were
good attendances, and the children took part by singing
and recitations.
PRINiTIVE METiIuDIST.-The anniversarr services of
the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Fortune s-well, were
preached on Sunday Mgt by the Rev. G. Windmns, of
London, ant the Rev. S. Dobson. On Monday Mr.
Windmill lectured on "The Monk who Shook the World :"
and it was arranged to have a tea and public meeting on
Wednesday evening, when the Rev. K Maden, Wealeyan
minister, should take the chair.
NAVAL Appourruracts. -Navigating Lieutenant Jack-
son, of the Warrior, has been promoted to b e Staff-com-
mander of Her Majesty's Fleet, by seniority, from the
9th inst. Staff-surgeon William Edney has been appointed
to the Bescawen rise Gabriel, whose time of service in
the ship. has expired. Lieut. A. Blennerhassett, of Her
Majesty s Ship Boscawen, has been appointed to the
Shah, which is going as fiaimhip to the Pacific.
110 USE STRUCK DT LIGHTNING. -10 the terrible thunder-
stoini of last week, a house near the Folly Pier road was
struck by the lightning, and much damage done. It is •
cottage, all the rooms being on the ground door, and is
Inhabited by Mr. Henry Fall, who attends to the gas
works, to which it is adjacent, Mr. Fall, with his family.
were in their beds, when above the other noise of the
awful storm they heard • terrible crash. No one was
hurt, hut it was found that the lightning had struck •
leaden-sashed window in the living room, and sillashed
iL Adjoining was a fireplace. and the shock carried away
the mantel-shelf and stone chimney-piece, a paraffin
lamp was demolished, and the pendulum of a clock
knocked down. The current seems thence to have passed
along the door, leaving a distinct mark through the
waincoting, and into the sleeping room adjoining. Here
• pair of boots were scorched and no shrivelled that next
morning Mr. Fall could not put thziu on, some bedroom
ware was also broken, and the current passed to earth
through a largo nail in the floor, around which it left •
distinct mark. There seems to have been a return stroke,
for in another corner of the house souse more windows
were broken, and the earth was torn up. About 20 panes
of glass altogether were broken. Mr. Fall and family
sustained no personal hurt, although they saw the light-
ning strike. The house has been visited by a good many
people, in order to observe Use effects.