The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-08 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

" TUE DRINKING HABITS or Socim."—on Tiosr.lay
evening, Mr. W. Mathew, of the Western Teingieraiwei
League, delivered a lecture MI the alsive subject at the
Maiden Well chapel. Mr. Abel Attwooll Wok the chair.
A PENNI' BANK Was opened on Monday evening. at the
New School, hy the Rev. W. W. Sherren, and
there wer ..2.5 depositors on Tuesday night another was
enene4 at the Maiden Well school, superintended by Mr.
Abel Attwieill. . .

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ril LlNii IN 0! 5 STONE 1.1141
Fort one's Well sea+ oue roofed with heavy AA* of stone,
and to be I:.si years old. It 1,0011:44:11 1., the :Misses
S apdler ; but the g areas were unoccupied • this was
fortiinate, for on Thurielay morning the nisi( fefi in with •
tremendius crash, about five o'clock. The question is—
Were any heavy stone carts passing at the time!
SToiNE INCLINE.—Tero new signals have heen
crectea on the stone railway incline, 11111, at the top, ma
the other at the foot of the incline. working together, so
that the people at each emt may know when lieuls or
empties have startYl front the other ml. A new bridge
at the Isabon 1110 been sail to obstruct the view, and
reipier thee skin ils nece,ary.
11,101, TEllei. Oa V. —" Star of Portland" Lodge liadi meet-
on Tuesday evening last. The lodge met in their
room at six o'clock, when ROL T. W. Glover. I Deputy
for S Mit Ilouts, iostalled the new officers. At 7.311 a
plashe meeting was held miler the presplency of Mr. F.
Wyatt, seamen's missionary, in the Maiden Well school-
roost, and Mr. Glover aelivere I an address, in support of
the principles of the United Kingaom Alliance ; the room
woe tilled.
ROTTEN states that he has excel-
lent authority for making the following statement. "that
out of 79 detained for alleged nuseaworthiness in
the port of Sunderland alone under the Shipping Act of
every one on subsequent survey tea, found to he un-
seaworthy, not one mistake had been made, but Pi of
these vessels, the tonnage of winch ranges (non SO to 230
tons, have since been sold by auction. and that not nine of
them realise.' so much as .C 311. The significance of this
statement may be judged by the fast that the cost of a
go sl plain cargo-carrying vessel runs from XII to £2O
per ton!
CrixvlCT Tetnottt e. FREE WORK.—There has lately
been some owe feeling, which is likely to continne. soling
the stone-cutters in Portland. A heailstone erectml to the
memory of two boys of the II pcaieen is *6l to have been
furnished from the convict establishment, and as Portlana
monumental masons have previously hail the orders for
such stones, they are very much annoys:a that their
living shoutl thus be partly taken out of their hands.
This will Is, a line opportunity for the successful c mill-
date to air his eloquence in Parliament, and stand up for
the rights of free men as against the crituinal slaves for
wl free men are taxed.

SIMMER FALLING OVER TIIE RAMPARTI.-A young Irish
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Man named Road, who came from Naas with the last
detuchment of recruits fm. the Rend Regiment, had some
mom.y ,ent Lim from I e, and wanted to go out and
spend it.. Lin Thin stlay nicht he answered to his name at
tattoo; but it is thought he tined. her, broken out of
barracks afterwards. Next morning is party of cm:vial
goin.i to their work at halfspast seven, found the soldier
in the ditch, :Mout 12it. below the ramparts, and close to
the sallpport on the west site, lie hail fallen over, and
had it not been for the convicts, he might have lain there
a day or two before be waa f I, as the place is not
'bused now. He was carried by live convicts to the
sick quarters, and though he is slightly better his state is
douid:til ye!.