The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-07-03 00:00:00

POOl.l.

A Correifroaaay states that a " shoal" of
porpoises were to be wen in Poole harbour the other
evening. The" shoal" consisted of a couple of these
plaint ii' tie denizens of the deep.
Duni or az Ott) Aoroa.—Old " Jimmy " Davis,
well-known ill Poole and other parts of the county,
as the proprietor of • traveling theatrical company,
died last week, aged 00. It had been rather " low
water" with " Jimmy "of late years.
MeCirtam...—P,,ole has been pretty plentifully
supplied with mackerel during the past week. They
are not large ia size, but of very delicate flavour. On
Thursday Mr. James Brown and Mr. John Hayes
netted, the former ab 'tit 100,000 and the latter about
half as many again. They very quickly disposed of
them. The fish have been selling at rates ranging
from 21. toile. the long hundred, or 129.
THE tameness to which sparrows may be brought
may be seen any day at the railway station. A porter
' has only to whistle and throw • few crumbs of bread
on the platform, and about • score of these saucy little
bipeds will flock down from the adjscent trees and
eat and hop about in the coolest of fashion. They were
first tamed by a poor fellow, a porter, wh 3 died some
two years ago of consumption. Every season the old
birds bring fresh ones with them.
Miss Manor, grocer, living in the Railway-square,
possesses a tom cat which is a model of its kind.
Recently a brood of chicken was hatched in the
yard adjoining the house, and, whether one of the
number was regarded by the rest as the counterpart
of the ugly chick that we read of in Grimmar's fairy
tales, or whether • hitherto undeveloped tendency
to chicken-el le had manifested Itself, she does not
know, bit this unfortunate bird bad • very bad time
of it with the re 4, getting more pecks from the others
than pecks if its own at meal times. To protect It
Nli.e Bishop took it into her kitchen, where. instead
of its falling a victim to the talons of Master Tom, •
dome friendship sprung up between the two. The cat
watched over it like • father, and many persons were
amused by seeing young Torn, sitting in front of the
fire, his fore paws on the fender, and the head of the
little chicken just peeping out from between bis front
lege, while he purred it a lullaby. Unfortunately the
chick after some days strayed into the yard, and its
old companions very soon put an end to it.
A earsiza sal cam of elopement hoe occurred here.
A few months ago • young farmer's sin from the
neighbourho of Farnborough came into the
town, and, having a taste for a publican's life,
entered upon one of the oldest-rstablished inns
in the place. He brought with him his young wife
—a girl of rib ut twenty—to whom he was only
married last January. A fortnight ago he took •
violent chill, and, as the symptoms began to be rather
serious, he went to a hospital in London. In the
meanwhile he had asked a frknci—a. horse-dealer, •
married man, and aged about 30 —to ettneris*
tend his business while he was away. Last
week he came home, one night, unexpectedly,
by the mall train, and, making his way shout three tn
the morning iuto his premises by the hack door, found
his young wife asleep in bed, and his supposed friend
occupying • position which should have been reserved
for the husband. Of course there was a great row,
and the morning after both wife and friend disappeared
together with the contents of the csah.box—no odd.
Tile inn is now to let, and the unfortunate husband (e
young fellow of about 25) is engaged in • search for
his erring spouse.