The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-03-19 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

A Panama broke his kg on Monday afternoon in the
Great Quarries, and was coaveyed to the hospital.
BAND OF Horg.—The first meeting for the enrolment of
children for the Band of Hope was held last week, when
46 joined- Mr. C. Mitckell. jun, is kind enough to
conduct the youthful hand. . .

HOOLM MDATIONS. —Mrs. Acott, assistant
schoolmistress at the Grove school, lise passed • successful
examination In the second division, and I. now qualified
to tab a school under the regulation, of the Education Act
The examination was held at South Kensington.
SWAT/MI DOTS TO BS "MOBILISED.'-106 boys of H.M.S.
Boscawen were allowed to go on leave, beginning on
Monday morning. although the main body will not have
holiday until Easter. The reason of the 106 taking leave
so early is that they are going to be drafted on board the
training brig Seafiower, and will be made practically
aequainted with " the dangers of lb* mac"
CILICRIT. —The Naval Ground is being rolled and partly
rolsad, in preparation for the comingericket season. The
Portland Cricket Club have already held • preliminary
meeting; we believe they intend to inaugurate play with
• good day's sport in Easter. So valuable has this club
proved itself in Portland, by providing opportunities for
sociability in • healthy manner, that its member. look
forward with much zest to • new campaign, for which the
winter's football has kept them in first-rate training.
Toorsau- —The Weymouth Collegiate School came
over on Saturday to play the Portland Football Club. The
match was bravely contested by the young collegians, who
prevented the Portlanders from gaining any decided
advantage up to within the last ten minutes. On the
other hand the Portlanders firmly resisted all the efforts
of the Collegians, who could not get the ball to the goal.
Ten minutes more, and the College, would have retired
with the honour of having drawn the game against the
Portlanders on their ground; but—whether it was that
their strength failed at the last, or that the Portlanders
made a determined to win, —the home team managed, in
the last ten minutes, to drive the hall twine last the gad,
and terminated the match with a couple of victories for
the island. _

—St-I;3W Durk. —Mr. Mellish. of the Grove, on Thaw
day morning found hia wife dead in bed. Mrs. Mellish
had been ill for some time past, and attended by several
doctors, so that an inquest was not necesaary.
CONCLITZ r PONSIAND STONL —A piece of COnallte has
been laid down experinentally in front of Mr. W.
A.ndrewes shop, Fortune's Well, and we understand that
Mr. Patten thinks it can be laid down more cheaply than
Portland stone can be prepared and laid.
ELKS. WAR/1101r —Captain Douglas. late of H.M.S.
Newcastle, will succeed Captain Whyte on board the
Warrior, and is expected to take over the command on
Tuesday next---The Deihl New of Tueaday stated that
the Warrior is to go to Portsmouth, to turn over her mew
to the Inconstant, which vessel is to be commissioned at
Portsmouth in a few days. It la suppoead the Inconstant
will 000111 to Portland; she is an iron wooden-corned
corvette.

—LICILIPIO UT SPIRITS PROM TUE ROAD. —A brewers'
waggon on Monday was standing near the Terminus
Hotel, where the driver had put down some jam of
spirit.. O
road . iteuto.f thelstocapsited..
waillu.ing contents, on
crutch.., threw his sticks aside, went downy go' head: er7i
knees, and sucked up the sowing spirits from the ground
So much was it to his taste, that after having one long
suck, he went down again, licked up all he could get,
then picked up all the sherds wet with the spirips and
licked the drops of, muttering amid his chuckles, "That's
good r
Hualr •PD HURT.- On Saturday Mrs. Suttee, who lives
in Spring Gardens, Portland, was in Weymouth, and
sought to come out by the last train. Not having given
herself time enough, she found the train had left the
station. Next she tried to repair her lose of time by
hurrying along the station-yard towards "Portland Junc-
tion. hoping to catch the train where it stops to anent
The yard is, of course, intersected with lines of rails, ase.,
in all direction*, and Km, Suttee, who was also in such a
state of heath as should hive prevented her attempting
so dangerous • walk,ali peed and fell. Symonds, • driver.
who was on his engine in the yard, heard grooms, and
found Mrs. Suttee, who bad fallen over some =iliyil:nl
on she ground, bruised, and her arm cut, and
he wrist. She was conveyed to Portland in a cab, arriv
lag between 11 and midnight, and is now suffering from
the shock and hurts
Tee Comma' op wig Soong= of the it/th continue,
to excite remarks among the orderly inhabitants, and
especially amen( old moldier,, the latter of whom recal
their experience of discipline under which they could
" hardly look away." Whether discipline is relaxed
among the 110 M, or whether they have some bad men
among the recruits, it is painful to note that on Saturday,
one gets three months for stealing walking stick,; on
Monday another three months for being in an outhouse
and polling of fowls' beads: on Tuesday another tried
by court-martial for deserting his poet; the same day a
lance-corpora and two privates arrested for breaking
leave. One of the later, we are told, had Zig to purchase
his discharge with, but went into a low woman s house,
and lost a lot of his gold, the result being that less than
half has been recovered. A good deal of breaking out of
barracks, we hear, is practised, and less notice taken of
It than would be expected. Two of these breakers-out
were in Chesil the other evening, shouting and making •
noise, when one of our constables, to whom Portland
owes • good deal for keeping order, asked what they
were "up to, The soldiers replied they were an escort
cense down to arrest • prisoner, who was supposed to be
In the home near. The guardian of the peace found they
had no waistbelts ; but they declared they didn't wear
waistbelta after tattoo. On his attempting to take them
to barracks, one bolted one way, and the other In •
different direction. Reports at the barrack, are said to
be received with much more indifference than should be
'spotted, and of course there is considerable anxiety
about the doings of disorderly men„ at large without
leave.