The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1866.

single room, struggling for a plead and anxious main•
tenance, their state WM happy Dompared with what
was to come when the fell disease snatched away from
their midst the bead of the finely and laid low her
youegest child. It wee on • Saturday when the poor
widow was Bret visited, and on Laidig she was dead
and buried, while her youngest chid lay in the hospital.
Is the pursuit of his etaritatile duty, a member of the
Lord klayor's Committee, +to wrecoreismot of the mine,
mallet subsequently to inq lire alter the broken family.
One was still is the hospital ; it is thus that benevoleuce
makes good the defaults of our unitary system. Four
wore in the workhoune ; it is ties that raoliayers are
made to pay in times of epitomic, atid pay with interest,
for parsimonious neglect at other times. The other
tone were living ins " piggery"--so the good committee.
man called it, probably with reason—belonging to a
railway, and would not change their state; thus it is
that poverty plunges its 'brims or apathy nod fills
their minds with 'opinion, boding the hand of beneld
cense, and doubly mooring the depth and hopelessness
of the misery it inflict% What vlul therein this squalid
dwelling to tempt these four betrayed iniarraLles today
in it? Not even windowpanes to shelter them from the
elements. But weld they bane got out of it? Pro-
bability seeing to attach to the supposition that they
might. Three of them were girls tif eighteen, seventeen,
and 'lateen years of age ; their brother was • boy of
thinteeu. One the four lived by making braid; the
three others by making widish-boxes, for which they
received 2dol. per grow,. They were only able between
them to niake three gross per day. They were utterly
ignotant —unable even to read; and the fade had not
shifts to their backs. The gentleman offered them
something to do, iu return for which he would clothe
them decently and give them a dinner every day; they
might have done the work bad they chosen ; they did
not choose, but said they would rather remain as they
were

INCAUTIOUS RITLS PSACTICI DT VOLUNTKILL
A cane caruo on before the Torquay bench of magiet ates
on Monday week, which illustrates in a most forcible
manner the necessity of great caution on the part of
our volunteers in their ride and artillery practice. The
range used by the members of the Torquay Ride Corps
is an elevatsd piece of level moved immediately over-
looking a part of Torbay much visited by pie:issues
yacht& and other boats, the targets being no placed that
bullets fired at them very frequently drop into the sea,
often at • considerable distance, thus endangering the
safety of par.'s' who may Laymen to be cruising in the
neighbourhood. The range is in the parish of Rabbi.
combo, a picturesque fishing villsge a mile or two
distant (ruin Torquay, and where • large number of
boats for 1104 ig and for hire by visitors are kept.
Though at some little distance from Torquay, awl in
itself, as will be peen, • somewhat dangerous range, that
on Wall's Hill is the best that can be obtained any where
in the neighbourhood, and the volunteers must there-
fore either use it or go without practice almost altoge-
ther. The particulars of the case in question are as
follows :—A few days since Mr. Thomas Clark, who
resides at Portsmouth and lets out yaehta for hire, was
tailing the yacht Zingare near Ilabbicomhe. In the
yacht were three or four gentlemen who had hired it
for • short time, and the complainant Clark, who acted
as mailing master. When about three quarters of • mile
off the Wall's Hill Rifle Volunteer range • rifle bullet
struck the yacht and lodged in her side, tearing out • large
splinter. Fortunately those in her escaped unhurt, but
Mat was most likely owing ha the feet that they webs'
lying fiat in the bottom of the yacht in order to escape
the number of bullets that paused ahead and astern of
her previous to her being struck. The man steering
had to lay down fiat with the tiller over him head. At
the time of the accident they were trying very hard to
get in out of danger but up to • very few minutes pre-
viously they bad not the slightest idea that they were
within range as they saw no danger flag or anything
to earn them that they were too near. There was •
flag on a pole which was always there but they did
not interpret that as • danger flag. Immediately on
being struck they steered ioto Babbicombe to try and
find out who the firing party was. They discovered
that it wan under the command of Sergeant Toms, •
tailor, living at Torquay. The complainant summoned
him as the responsible person to pay for the damage
done to the yacht. The captain of the company, Mr.
Adams, to which the squad commanded by Sergeant Toots
belonged, attended and admitted there was carelessness
on the occasion in question by the marker employed,
whose duty It Mal to signal the firing party to stop
firing instantly on perceiving • reseal within range. lie
woe able to see from lit butt if anything was endangerel
by the ride practice, as he could See tile bullet drop into
the water. Therefore, the accident was clearly owing to
the marker's carelessness, and not to any fault on the
part of Sergeant Tonic, but the corps considered them-
selves bound in honour to pay for any damage that bad
been done, whether they were considered to he legally
liable or not —The Bench then said they should dis-
miss the ease on the uederstanding that £3 dainage and
15e. 6d. costa wee to be paid by Captain Mains. They
urged defendant to consider the great necessity there
was for exercising the utmost caution at uture
practices, as had the bullet struck • man instead of
merely lodging in the yacht, the result must have been
most painful to all concerned.—Captain Adams stated
that in future it was his intention to have an extra look-
out man placed on the cliff so that the marker would
not ho alone responsible, as cirouumtaneet had proved
such • precaution necessary, although the marker was
• man who thoroughly understood his datiea—The
amount of damage and costa was then paid, and the
parties left the court.

THE FISHERY EXHIBITION AT BOULOGNE
The greatest thing in Bulling at the present time is
the Exhibition of Peck ; and thinkin' it meant suiuthing
in the way of pastry, for wieh these people is very
famous, we went to see it. It turned out, however,
that "beck" means fishery, which is another instance
of the tumble-down, careless way in wioh their Imp
widge is constructed. On enterin' the hall the fast thing
we run up aginst was • matheen for within' nets ; one
of the simplest and moat blade, oontrivances I ever
with my i beheld. Fruit, there's • set o' wheele with
string on 'ens, and then there's • set of hooks. Fix yet
gaze upon them books, for everything depends on 'em.
Then there's a double row o' bodkins, closely followed
by a net o' reels, and another regiment of hooks and
wheels, All bein' reddy, a feller flies to the side and
begins turnin' a handle like • orgia, and instantly the
bodkins begin • darnein', the wheels flies round till
they're stopped in their mad earreer by the fuel set of
hooks, which carried the thread over the fast bodkin,
where it's caught by the seemed hook, which winds it
round the third reel, who hands it to every one of the
bodkins as feels strong enough on his legs to take it.
This constitoots the rust stitch. The feller then I
off, and wipes biz torrid, arter which he remains his
manglin', and the net is made. On readin' this de-
scripshun to Elizurbeth I found her untootered mind
refused to grasp it, and she pernouneed it foga, where-
as to me it seems the simplest alkount in the world of
the way of tyin' o bit of string in • knot. This is only
one speeiment of the difficulties I'm continually !nein'
with my wife. She is not fit to travel, for the horizon'
of her hien is naive?, owin' to old Chigley, her father,
havin' mewed her up in hie natif coal shed inlaid of
makin' her an akkomplished woman of the world. She
thinks brandy in kauphy is sinful, but she does'nt
°Meek to Mkyol in her tea ; and she can never be got to
rthognise the subdued holy of tears in the male 907,
bikes in her own country them amusements is strictly
reserved for imams of the femail persuasion. I am
dein' the best I can with her, but iii, x hard file. The
next thing we we at the Exhibition was some amiable
indoomments in the way of hooks for persuadin' sharks
to come on board and have a Interview with the canting.
Then there was a 24-inch winged harpoon with a ketch
In it. sumthing between a molderin tool and a rat-trap,
which is used for whales. Then there yea some little
salmon in • battle who was hatched from eggs kept 60
day. In ice, their brother, being now in Australy ; enter
which came an ingenious Scotch macheim for ketchin'
fish by 'rattan' 'em to walk Into • little galvanised trap
with the door open, which shuts directly they get inside,
whereupon Mr. Savory, who', bin a whistlin' on the
bank, lugs it up, and pretends he's quitesurprised to see
'em, and takes 'em house to be fried. I tell yer, when I
think of the yarns dodges played with fishes I feel
ashamed to look a herrn' in the (see, and especially
when yew consider the innocent, foolish way in which
they all trot in thousands round the world, jest calling
at the very places where the people are ennui' to catch
'ern. "What's 'Hammocks for the poisons of the
Mare, Josef?" sap Elieurbetb, Wapping before a plak-
hard. "Fish-hooks, my love," Des I—" fish-hooka"
"It's • terrible roundabout way of ptting at It," 90Z
she, pore soul. Another of her Ignorant remarks um
when we stopped in front of • busty of fithage„, who
fast invented the shrew for navigation. " 'nra
she, "I suppose that's the portrit of the feller
as purvides the cold lunches on board the Margit
bate; and a pretty shrew it Is—one and sixpence—and
the see • rollin' to that degree that the ham and chik.
king goes • walla' over the label, and before you've got
• fair out at anythink, it's 'All hands on deck.'" I
"lb. serew, my dear," nays I, "is a selentifith Maple-
ment, by means of whisk we wanks through the
water." "It may wriggle for ever- before it wriggles
any more money out of my portfolio, Sprouta," *es she.
I end no more, but stopped in front of a Greenlander
little' in fell fishin' *esteem in his canoe. He was
clothed in skins, and wore kid gloves; also he carried •
spear ands toothpick. Teeth must grow rapid in them
regions, for be had loth snuff 011 'ent to make • belt of,
that went right round his waist. His soup-ladle wee
the biggest I ever sere—it beat Elko'a entiff-spoon—(Bow
the knee, proud Scot; thou art defrosted I) and he bad •
Irish dannel-weskit made out of tin skins of birds.
Do you know Monsieur Adonis Tether Gournay
Maitre Bottler de Is Marine' He's • bootmaker, but
there must be • heavy responsibility resin' on
his god-father, and godmothers. But the skeet
part of the Exhibition is the aquarium, which
is in another part of the town up by the pier. A
aquarium M • plate for heepie fishes before they're
"hod, and this j° owiddered to be one of the best in
France. It is built up like a reek outside, and ieside
the idee is that you've stepped down into one of the
caverns of the sea, and are lookin' at the fishes without
gettire drownled, which you can mannij to do through
the water bein' kap' away from yer by thick plate-glass
all round. The light falls so peculiar that though yoa
e the fishes they can't twig yew, and so yew quite
re"; em by surprise. The lust thing I see was
four wrinkles at tea with • crawfish, and from the man-
ner in which they wagged their heeds darice 049•111919.
than it was quite clear that their habit of ethyl's' inside
their house, when you purchase them at Gravesend is
mere obstinancy. I had warmly turned from this
pleasin' scene when I beheld a big gadjin lying in wait
for a little 'on behind a sponge. The ezpressiee of his
fitters wari trooly diabolikal as his guileless widowapr
preached singin' sum simple melody of the deep. With
that keen mime of perplety which belongs to her sect,
Betsy next hailed my attention to the behaviour of •
wild young web, who was winkle' wickedly at a crab-
bers, without peresivis' that the old mother, who was
takin' • mosiel of ma.wered in • comer, was ithithlf
lookin' aster her daughter. The thing as MOWS most
remarkable tom. is the stesdinees of gab. They never
lan- you ass 'eat goia' along °penile of their mouths,
but ry. been given to understand as that's svrearie.
see • little sprat feller doin' tele at a krab for full ten
minnits, till the krab got in • passion and annexed him.
It was a affectle site, but there couldn't be no other
verdict than "Sarre him rite." The remainiu' tabloos
consisted of the folleria' :—Sum winkles out cibarricks, •
eel drunk and disorderly, • star-fish goin' to bed, a
quart of :newels meetin' to overthrow their constiter
Boa Other clemmyeratth the largestjelly fish in the
world throwin'slime upon 'ma, and cam labelers refugia'
to lize.—" The Coetermonser" in the &or.