The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-01-03 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

RUINOUA BUlMlNG—Nlessre. John Northover Read
and Joseph ltvai have been served with a notice to
repair or take down the rumous building at the corner
of Walston and East n Straits- . .

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Tue UP lONHOUSI AT CHAISTMAS. —173 sat down To
the i'hristuiat dinner at the Union this year, Win; an
biomass of three a lulta an eight children over last
year, when the tot id number was 162.
UKRISTXAI FAAATING . —We be sr a tale of • congre-
gation who had no sermon on Sunday in 'mint, but
who were dismiss. I after worship. Well that is
probably bettor thou having such a loag disc mr.e that
the dinner we. spoiled. and the c ingregation slept
before inst.+) id of after leaving church.. .

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WT. rua THZ P•CLVIO OCZAH.—A draft of 3l boys
left on Monday for Portsmouth to join H.M.S. Wye.
They will take passage in the Wye to the Pacific
station, and there he distributed among the ships.
H.M.S. HIHCOLZa—io honour of the joyous
season a party was held on board the ironclad on
Christmas Eve, when the men's wives and (smith,/
were invited on board and joined In the merry-making.
Wtnow hilesura.—A buxom widow Is amid to have
flown Irons Portion I, te keep Christmas with • new
love, leaving a family of four children behind, who
she was tired of having dependent on her.
Gas Oa Co Gas? -Monday's was a very dark
evening, and when the shops were closed it added to
the darkness, while the non-lighting of the lamps
called for general remark as to whether it was the
moon's turn to shins, or they bad gone" Cluistmasslag"
from the gathouse.
A Saas•Tloll.—Liat Monday a body was espied
floating io the Bay, sad there was an immense rush
from Cheril to the beach, reminding one of the great
sensations observed when a shoal if mackerel •r
Most of the folks jumped to the coucluaion thatitlrots
the corpse of the lamented Mr. Powell; and a number
of boats pat off; but on reaching the body, it Ida'
found to He that it a sheep.
Insurreortita vu. Bow) twia.—A case or two of
scarlet fever having occurred on board H.V..
Bove men. it was thought advisable during the hold
to disinfect her, and on Tuesday morning the men jnd
boys remaMing on board—lees thus 100—were
(erred he the Naval Hospital, and the proem of
Infer log was carried on.
Petcimivi MITHODLIT CHOIR. —On Wednesday
evening an entertainment was given In the schoolrapm
by the choir and friends of the Primitive MethoSist
Chapel, consisting of solos, choruses, readings, nod
recitations. The programme was as follows :—Chorna,
"Unto the ." choir; pianoforte duet. "Fairy
Dewdrop.," Mies Waugh and Miss M. Mitchel'
, solo,
"Says the Boy," Miss Comben ; recitation, " Under
the Snow," Miss S. Mitchell; chorus, "Jesus is
Born," choir; reading Mr. Samson; solo, " Chrlat4tas
Bella," Mrs. Stone ; duet, "Gather and Reek" isa
and Master Hansford ; recitation, Kr. Stone; solo,
I "Child's dream of Paradise," Miss A. Wan chorus.
Rin.g the Merry Bells," choir; chorus, 'Clap
_ram
Hands," °hole; reading, Mr. Flew; solo, Kind
Hearts Everywhere," Miss Haostord ; pianoforte solo,
Miss B. Mitchell; duet, 'What are the Wild Wives
Saying r Mies Way and Master E. Flew; solo, "The
Pilot," Kr. Samna ;chorus, " Sweet Peace on Earth,"
choir ; reading, Mr. Way; solo, Room among the
Angels," Miss Comben; pianoforte duet. 'Alves
Sorel," WM Waugh and Mime M. Mitchell; chorus,
"Hour by Hour," choir.
811•11011 ?Oft • 00Jaa AND VINDizo THIS ELICIIIIC
Tatum—On Christmas Eve • man who comes to
Portland to work, having dr hen his wages, invested
wt in a raffle, and won a goose. A cargo at home.
brewed was taken in, and the goose-and-beer-laden
eccentric illy took a winding pith to the railway
stat,on. Arriving there the weight of the bird wastoo
much, or the unfeathered biped declined to be muse •
cannibal, for he parted with the feathered itom,for
six *hi Bogs. Having made sure of the money his
affection returned for the dear departed, and he rushed
about in ~oh. Meeting one of the po.ta on the
platform, apparently going In an opposite direc-
tion, • bright light, miaowed to be the electric,
was produced by percomion and friction, apparently
on the Smelt system, and having seen a whole oon-
stellation of stare, the Christmiwier landed on his
beck. When helped to recover from the shock, the
ligh•-finder was interviewed by the lance crowd of
passengers, who, finding the train lats, were glad of
some amusement to pass the time. The principal
performer may be recognised by the skin being alleging
from his face in a t line allowing for the noes,
supposed to be the result of the shock. On Christmas
Day he was seen still looking nine ways for Sunday
and the goose.