The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

BRIDPORT.

" A Loves or Coretwrarcy" writes: At the
rendezvous that daily take place at our poet-nee.
while the letters are being aortal, one shamans last
week the rector of a ocighbaluirie parish, might have
been wen sorely besetting • &neuter of OUT town, and
in the moat persuasive and energetic meaner endeavoard
Jog to bring him ov. rto our Church. I regret to •
that I fear the re.otreed gentlemen was unsuccessful,
for I see this creek • paper trued from Ur. Frost's
printing pram, wherein the clergyman, once so energeis
in our emus hen turned round and joined himwlf to the
I/hunter& His name eriwnin in • prayer muting
with thou of the Independents. the Weileyane, and
the Baptist ministers. "es prima itas r
AN lourrorr was held at the Bridpart Union on
Friday, before N. M. Leggin Esq., on the hody of a
young girl, aged nine years named Anne Roberta, an
inmate of the union, who woe so eerionsly burnt on
Wednesday evening that she died on Thursday even.
ing after lingering in pain until then. It appear 'd
that no blame attacked to any one, the deceased
having been left in tbe school room to take charge of
four young children weile the other children had
their tea in the hall, sod no one elm being present.
The socident happened Awash her drying her
pinafore at the lire, in consequence of which her
clothe. caught 6rii. The jury found • verdict in
&warden°e with the facts.

OUR Meta Cones attended divine service at
Bridpnrt Church on Sunday morning, a. usual on
the first Sunday in the year. about 70 men had
pat down their names aa intending to be present,
hut the weather was so very wet and disagreeable
that several were prevented from attending. How.
ever, street 50 members assembled and marched to
the church, under the canonised of Lieut. Loging.
Quarter-maater Sergeant Tucker, and Sergeant.
Instructor amid were aho present. Tbe Rev. H.
L Lee, hon. chaplain of the tarps, preached an
appropriate sermon on the smossion. On returning
from church. they were dimmed in front of the
Greyhound 11°44
Cowin POLICE, Tuesday.—Before Joseph P. F.
Oundry, Esq.--Jassie Staples, was °barged with
stealing a brash from Henry Eveleigli at Whiteherch.
Prosecutor said: Lest week I missed • brush from
my promisee at Wllitehursh. In sonsequence of
stuipiei.in I obtained a search warrant and aecom•
passed P.O. Abram to prisoner James Staples'
house, about • railer of a stile from my house,
and we found my brush in prisoner', back room.
Before we found it the prisoner said be had no such
thiu, there. I value the brush • Is. The one produced,
a whitewashing brush, is my property. When the
brush was found prisoner said be had borrowed it.
P.C. Abrams said be marched the prisoner's house the
previous day with a search warrant, and found the brush
which the prosecutor indisistilled. He then took tie
prisoner into oustody.—The prisoner was remanniled to
the County Petty Sessions at Besaiinster on Monday
next.

En tenger AT THR DRILL HALL. —After •
lapse of some works another entertainment took plant
it this hall on Tuesday last, which was very well
attended, their being a large marcher of people present,
though not quite so assay as before, which is attribu-
table doubiloss to the shortness of the notice given, the
progetente having been issued only on Saturday leer.
The drop scene we noticed had been very neatly
painted to represent curtains, and the side wings had
been altered and improved, since the last performance.
The first part on this occasion consisted of a mi..
eellaneous entertainment, after which came the
burlesque tragic opera of Bombestes Purina. The
Bridport Amateur Band &immerse-4 the proceeding.
with a well ezerated overture, and also played at
intervals through the even ng mach to the satisfaction of
the audience. Kr. Holm. ood sang in • very pitted:tic
style the ballad "Come sing to 11211 again." the
shorn being taken up by Messrs. Hodges, Parnell.
and Belson. Then followed On ghost none. from
Hamlet, very well and effectively given by Megan.
Lewin and H. IL Renown; Mr. Lenin represented
the ghoet, his getup being perfect, and both gentleinen
rendered their pane with great ability and meows—
they were much applauded. Mr. Williams then sane
"Jog along Boys," and being warmly encored gave
" A motto for every man." Mr. H. A. Collins n.,st
gave awe of bin admirable recitations from Benne'.
Poems, in the Dorset Dialect, "The Girt Oak Tree
that's in the dell," which being, as usual, encored, he
gave "Praise of Donet " Both pieees were very well
rendered. Ble A. H. Good then sang, without any
Innen] accompaniment, "Simeon the Cellarer," and
being deservedly encored, gen "Let us speak of a
man as we find hint" which was also applauded.
Mr. F. W. Good then gave • reading from
Lever's Charles OMslley of Mickey Free's der-
deeeription of his (ether's soldiering, which was most
capitally given, and nosed great laughter; his imitation
of the Irish brogue was very good, and we hope we shall
have the pleasure non of baring him give another
reading from some Irish author. This ended the first
pert, and alter a short interval the Burlesque Tragic
'spin of "Bombast's Parton" was performed with the
following cant :
Artauneinous (King of Utopia), W. C. Holatwond
Famine (Minister of Male), 0.0. WiLiams.
General Bombast.; C. Tucker,
Dietitians, 2. Hodges*
The charasters were all well represented. Mr. Holm•
wood, who made bin (rot appearance on this occasion in
any public Amatenre in Bridport. most amusingly
represented the King. and with great spirit. Ile
who is well knows I. having performed with
the Weymouth Amateur Theatrical Company with
great success, hut who ha, not previously acted in
Benison, welt sustained the reputation he acquired
there as a good comie actor. Mr. Hodges also made his
first appeerance before a Bridport audience. and
well rendered the female char-octet of lintaffina,
his get-up being very good and most laughable,
and his repreweutatioo throughout ern marked by great
animation. Mr. Charles Tacker, who has severs, times
previously appeared at the Am.teur Theatricals, wee
very good and most amusing as General Boneestee, and I
well depend the part, his first entrance on the stage at I
the heed of his very large and equally matched army
being most laughable. The piece ceased great laughter I
aud the " terrille combats" towards the end were I
especially amusing. There were several
songs sung in the nurse of His opera, and at the cm:,
, the curtain had to be again drawn up to receive the
applause of the audience. This concluded the perfor-
mances, after which the large assembly gradually dis-
pensed.