The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-10-16 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

THE Lo7la-OORTIRI' ANC P. of easterly .winds, if hollowed •
by a south.weot gale, will, it is n 31.1 by experienced 1
persons, result in an inunolation of the rower parts of •
Chesil from the West Bay.
CUARTTT NEVER Youi.trli.—On KIIVIAT last October
the 7th, two eloquent and impressive sermons were ,
Preached in the Wcslevan Chapel, Easton tiquare, in all .
of the funds of the Dorset Comity Hospital. That in
the morning, loy the Rev. J. P. Robinson, in the evening,
by the Rev. Hocking. The collections amounted to
1:5 15s. 5 1,
AERVIVIS OE :40N11..-011 the new harmonium, at the
Weslevim Chapel, Fortitne'o. Well, remain...l a debt of
some £l7 or PIS. The choir therefore tocule an effort
•on Thoinelty, to lessen thin debt, aml load a Service
of Song, from Runyan's " Holy War." They sang
nicely, and the collection at the time pneltieed
122 7,
THE stabbed convict, Hamilton, was SO much worse a
few days ago that his deposition was formally taken before
runty magistrates, who specially went in from Wey-
month to the prison. Of course, should Hamilton die, the
prisoner who stabbed him in the bakehotiai will stand in
danger of lois own life. But it is expected that the injured
convict will recover since his deposition was taken he
ham improved in health.
NAVAL BANDE.—A Hampshire contetmarary writes:—
" The Board of Admiralty does not appear to have a high
appreciation of the value of music Oa hoard ship, for it has
been notified to Sir Beauchamp Seymour that their Lord-
ships are not prepared to allow any further expense on
account of lands. An a rule the cost of tho maintenance
of a land falls tolerably heavy upon the offieers of a ship,
and no one ever thought the Admiralty had been
sufficiently lavish to have reached the very limit of
expenditure on that head. Yet the request of the
Admiral commanding the Channel Sotitadrou that bands.
men might be allowed .a better means of seeing what
they are playing, either bv providing a special pattern
lamp or giving them a lowl of can•lle superior to the
diminutive dip now supplied, has made their Lor•lships
put their foot down in this unriistakeable manner.
SOLDIER FALLOW OVER A CLIVE.—Mr. Otter, son of
Mr. Hiram Otter, of Weston, w. •on Saturday morning
out rather early looking for rabbits in the Westweir.
Not long after six he now sornethiug moving among the
large stones at the bottom of a pit, and, thinking it was
a rabbit, was abed to fire, when he saw the movement
repeated in the same plate, thee went up to it, ould found
a soldier of the 20th Regiment grievously hurt. !Icing
by himself Mr. Otter could 010 loot little till some quarry•
men who were going to work mine along. T•ife he
and they lifved the poor collier, and, after carrying
him a considerable dist:ince over the stones, brought him
at last to the t fp of the cliff and to the depot in the
Priory. Here some refreshment was obtained for the
soldier, including a clip of tea, lout the sutlers? was to
cramped that nothing could he got down his throat till
they opened his lips and poured it-through teeth. Ilia
head was covered with clotted blood, his eyes were dread-
fully blackened and o.o• swollen Was the face around that
he was quite blind, wloile the whic fellow, of reer,e, could
' not speak. A message was despatched to the Verne, and
' a party of men came, wlio took the sufferer to the
, military ho-pital. At first it was thought that the man's
' head WAS fatally injured, mitt on nomoving the clotted
o Mood it was found that the cuts allot bruises were less
! than emild have licen expected to lie fount' on a ~,an who
had fallen from stieh a height, fir the whole distanee was
o about 2INIft., the soldier falling first on an I'M rubble tip.
then rolling some distance, and finally falling to the
bottom of the cliff. Ile is suppo,ed to have turned the
o wrong way in attempting to go to harriveko. With skilful
! attention be is now progressing favourably.