The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-09-10 00:00:00

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Nemec' 002171.4131? —Kr. Swam of Portland, mid
be wee directed by tbe Local Government Board, !Mat-
bad. to Mood to the maphtratee ender tbii Public Beelth
Act —lt appeared be weaned to complain of a nelsance,
and was ned he must take out a susamons Wass Its aotsll
be beard. _

SMUT lIIPSOTIKIRIL—Daring the peat few months
great alterations have been made In the Dorchester-road,
8"1"1 mew bullffinfe ham been greeted, and exempt
WOO WO melee the sew villa erected for the maidens of
Kr. J. Talbot It is inset and pretty ',Widths helm/
built principally of white bridge with Beth stone buena&
nicely relieved with carved bosses and capital% ohial er•
indeed rare specimens of artistic wortnianahip. The
architect Is Mr. B. C. Bennet, and the builder Mr. Thomas
Donne, whilst the carving wag dose by arm's from the
Zecieelastical Art Works, Dorchester, of which kir. T.
Wilma is the provender.
Hien CLASS INTItItTAINNIXT.—The Hemet writes
" We have go few competent entertainers that we may
heartily welcome to town the Ileum Bruce and Verne,
whole performances are Nut new Inghly popular at the
Wertbourne Hall, a . r entertainment is
hantourousd.cirver, aairreflrer Theid, and It is easy to see that
either of would have done well upon the regular
boards. Mr. Bruce I. an extremely clever delineator of
character, and he acts well. . His during is
artistic and &Venable. Mr. Verne Is an admirable
ventriloquist, and a clever character ecter. His face Is
mobile and intelligent, his manner gentleresnly and
natural. The sketch called " Apartments to Let." is very
bright and funny. In the Wrangles the two gentlemen
gave tia a really admirable piece of old comedy acting;
and the whole performance is arrked by a degree of care,
earnestness, sod natural capability that deserves cordial
remgnition at the hands co, the non.play-eoing public
150, IR The Corot Amens: is even mere elaborWe In its
compliment*, and the lensing Poet, Meant and the Wen
are among the papen which write most highly of Nem.
Brom and Verne, the first a remarkable Maw and actor,
the second • talented singer and wonderful ventrilo-
quist We are glad to see that Mr. Whee'er has completed
arrangements for then to appear at the Royal Hotel on
Wednesday and Thursday next
RameausLe Thercas.—"The Beationi Of Chrixt in
Jordan," a env lee Pieter. by Hr. K fiondwvas Lewis, is
new on exhibition at We Ikea Cox's rue Art Oallere
3, St. War,-street. The artist bag resireseated the
heaths= by immersion, eneerdine to Dean Stanley in his
"Oharacterioic of the Fewterrn Church." The counten-
ances of the Saviour and of John the Baptist are full of
well-eneelved exprenion, and exquisitely Deleted. while
• raft light &awed' from heaven on the Saviour's head.
more distinctly marking out the oriental Arum To say
that the water is truly liquid in appearance, that the
reeks are realistic In their peculiar forms and Mate copied
from nature, that than are beautiful atmospheric effect.,
sad charming distance, (formed by mountains in
Hennas), would only he to Indicate that the picture hag
been produced by a real painter. It is in the immense
variety, yet woederful indivldualty of the figures that a
powerful attraction lies. Besides the two so secretly
engaged, there are on either bank, somewhere about 300
waren figure., various as to see, sex, nationality.
retitle. and eect, and the leading type. of character and
the differing impreseions produced on them age displayed
in the countenances. The travellers, wiqs their camels. the
Roman soldier with his 4thdard, the Negro, the ruler. of
the Jews, disciples of John, awl of the Lord, worn..
children, and old men, all help to rive variety and life-
likings to the foreground. The painting will bear long
and critical examination, and cannot fail to Interest and
please
TIMATIC ROYAL —Quite • numerous audience were
attracted to the Theatre on Monday. by the rather rola-
time) announcement of the Criterion comely ,• ' Fink
Domino.," and they certainly had to admit the talent with
which the actors and actress** rendered the piece. what-
ever may be the opinion of its tendency. The following
WOO the caste Grenthorne of Manchester. •
qniet man of business) Mr. F. Charles; Sir Perry
.teff (a mm about town), Mr. John Brocklank Joikin
Told., (a de.e ott eentleman with a weakness). Mr. T. B.
Amnion ; 11..rry Greenleaf.* (a good young mutt Mr.
irry Ch-r!,.; Brirkott (bead waiter et Cremoroel. Mr.
Francis ; tort waiter, Mr. Fotherlairhata Lady
M.gfrio Warataff, Miss Rom Roberts; Wm firrithoro".
Min Alice (levy: ftehen-a fa timid nerving Wail. Mi..
Roleol ; tin,. Joakin Tubbs (Tubb', better half), Kiss
Bea& Harrison: Win Barron (adownright Mi...
Laura Vernon. To give the plot of this comedy would
...ne no rood purpoet—nallioe it that th• scene. are laid
among hyporriter, ladles who hare to " find out' their
hichanda men shoot town, and waiters who seen little
latter than chests and thieve,. The second act
i• "is the corridor, atCrorrorne," and we are intro-
duced to "young 11.11-5. whose conduct is at least as
suspicions as ti eir male sttendente are false. Hypocrisy,
Isle -hood, and deceit of varions kinds permeate the
piece, drunkonner Is nprownted In so amusing a way
that it could not but be lanchoi at will., as to another
vice, the t• aching of lady Warded, who bus man about
town for her husband, teemed to he that the wisest are
they who, to what are called "our social follies." shut
their eyee, and perceive as little as they ran. no leaving
evil-doers to do as they choose. There did not seem any
coarseness, except in the cambial we of the ward d—n
we did not perceive the least vulgarity, such as, for in-
stance, in Shakespeare, while the play was certainly most
laughter provoking, especially towards the end, where the
hypocrites exhort the married ladles to reformer reproach
them fnr atipplard We mans to irrepreseible
laughter, for the ono, is conceived with much cleverer..,
and we. most ably played, and we did not perceive in the
weeds the inuen.lose which have been charged easiest it
Rut unless it is tainted throughout. with falseho d, and
with toleration of what look. very Ithe vie.. weane totally
deceived. The nears of Lady WantaTs teaching woeld
he the end of etruggles—we were going to on. a. for
purity" certainly for '• ey ,idine the appearance of evil,"
and would lead rn results which brine rottennen Into •
nation. and moon.. its •honefol do..enftll. . . .

Svnitroto DlSTLY.—Atuanit the frequent present
prtimes which the Weymouth and Portland Steamer
Company (Corns and Co., limited) provide for Wey•
moothiane and their viaitory, must be reckoned the oppor-
tunity of witnessing exhibitiona of that moat useful art,
awl mmine Of course - everybody at the ses-Ude or nest
• river should leer, to nwim"—that ham been rid and
written often enough : hut bow frequently does it happen
that a swimmer of ordinary power finds himself unequal
to an emergency. Accidents happen to people witn their
clothes on, or hampered in some other way or • whole
crowd may, as in the awful came off Woolwich, he precipi-
tated into tie water, and the greatast lignite be required
even f r the swing of one's own life, still more for giving
any help. To lee • performer like Preform. Carrfll and
the intelligent boy and girl with him do ex many difficult
motions in theses, must give better ideas of what may be
attained, than can be learnt from the conventional strip-
and swim_ The Premier took her patsengero about &ix on
Wednesday evening alongside the Thunderer, whose
officers are always so kind in welcoming the public. Here
we found the ship had bees visited between four and fin
by • numerous party who had turned the time to good
account by inspecting this floating loft Little sdellne
Cumin was scampering all over the deck, the
pet of every one who could slop the lively child.
Fir seemed about eight years old, and wee dressed in a
pink bathing suit, sufficiently alight to show bow practice
I. the water must have inured the little form to coll.
Soon the Prier steamer lay to on the north, at right
riles to the Premier, and the Thunderer on the east. so
• space was partly sheltered, and In this 11(r. Cavill and
his family, attended by a bar flying their dm, and with
aversl crafts holding Bight-eters, performed their rela-
tions. Among them, • smart feat, was the erne
man's undressing in the water, dose so quickly
r to bring forth meek apple's's ; he also tamed
over and over, continuing lees after one would
have thought he was out of breath: his father swam after
him, and the youth dived completely under the man,
cleverly escaping him, and coming ups good distance off.
The little mita In pink warn then lowered over the boat-
ride, and swam vecr.c % ttlly and strongly, then turned
and floated on her folded srm held her feet, and
by-and-by threw hernia on her beck, and cried for help
so cunningly that some of the spectator's hearts were
touched, when her brother leapt from the boat
and in a few strokes was alongside, swam round
and showed the best way of taring life, by rising the
child from behind, so avoiding being dragged down by
any struggle% and finally towed her to the boat. The
Professor showed very powerful swimming by the side-
tqrnke, then swam backwards, feet foremost,— • very
useful nrcomplishment, when necessary to war some-
thing on which it is neoessary to keep the eyes fired. He
floated on his heck, mid on hie far, seem with one lee
and arm tied, and also with both arms and lees tied.
This last performance was rather prolonged. and showed
meat *odor mem. The Professor afterwards cam, on
board the Thundery, and we found he was throe-
quarters clothed in a snit apparently waterproof, keeping
his flannel suit quite dry beneath. Such clothier mos.
tend to retain the body's warmth much longer than usual.
Toe Premier's head was soon put towards the Break-
..ter, which we cent NI en the an I, giving • rod view,
of the little harbour and On, F rt. anti also oaring us
rum the roiling action of the wave.; thence we tnrned
anti bore straichtldown on Weymouth Harbour, convinced
that even tole'. thle swimmers have plenty to learn,

FATAL OVERSET BY A ittiC.

A strange accident happened on Sunday roorning,reatilt-
ins in the death of Mrs Stone, wife of the foreman of
Mr T. Snooks candle factory. We bred en the Chickerel
Road, and about eleven o'clock was returning from High
street towards her home, carrying • loaf of bread. At
the same time, Mr. Sup? Vickery, with his doe Nero, fa
line black Newfoundland retriever,) and Mr. Cotterell, of
H. M. Customs, London, were coming from Rodwell down
the road (for meriy called Root-lane), and just before
they came to Pastoral Place, an Irish watersysaniel, almost
os large as Mr. Vickery •. and belonging to Colonel Akers,
ft E., cameo and joined the Newfoundland dog. They
jumped and played, and attain started off running, another
dog of Colonel Aker's joined them, and the dors galloped
off full swine as if ing down Filithoteret, but soddenlyturned towards Colonel Aker's house, and met Mra Mons,
full tilt, She turned as if to aso what woo moos., the do"
Nero rolled against her, and she tell, throwing out her
arm tomareberself. Mr. Vickery and Mr. Cotterellatence
ran and Wed her up got her into • choir, and took her
Into she had fainted, sad Dr.
Simpson wa...ot for, by tir. Vkkery, and in the snearitime
some broody was given her, and by me of mama, eho
recovered Dv_ Simpson sot Ming found, a
was despatched to St Mory's church, to fotehtla the Tyne
doctor wbo could be melted, and Dr. Nathan coma Mes.
Stone did net Mob to be removed; but her husband was
sent for, and eventually she consented, and was taken
borne Mr. and Mrs Vickery waited on her, and Dr.
Rhodes and Dr. Wood as well ae Dr. Nathan attended,
Mr. and Mrs. RI. Brown, @lSt Thomas-street, also did for
the pour worn= what they could ; het she died about eight
o'clock the same menhir She wee about 46 or 47 years of
Igo
An Inquest was held on Monday. at the Guildhall,
before Mr RN Howard. for Mr Symonds ; and Mr.
R Shinser, IL Martin, W. Hunt, G. Seickiond, Samuel
Webb, John Gibson, Charles Brinell, John Tompkins,
Alfred nay, William Meech, Thomas Burge Medway,
Henri Worland, on the body of Mrs Kate Stone, who
died on Sunday night, from being tripped up by is.
Vkkwg's dot K Martin was chosen foreman
Mrj vickery : Yesterday, about eleven o.clock in
the lowslooei. I was coming from !Indwell with Me.
Welter Cotemell, °Goer of HAL Customs, end we. Maid
Itodwell Tamen reword, Rodwell Road My den was
widish sins bre orelorr Ned as we rue arm dr