The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. - A mimic-Mr.
and Mrs. Cull and family. I, Waterloo-place; Mrs.
Okeden and family 6, Waterloo-place; Mrs. Mar-
shall and family, Mrs. Reeves, and Mrs. Burt. 7,
Waterloo-place; Mr. and Mrs. Sturt Brownrigg,
Miss Brownrigg, and Mrs. J. Ralph Holmes, 11,
Waterloo-place ; Mrs. Bacheton and family, 3,
Brunswick.buililings ; Mr. and Mrs. Gurney, 8,
Brunswick-building.; Mrs. Watson, IS, Brunswick-
buildings ; Mrs. Parker and Muss Goodall, 16,
Brunswick-building.; Mr. and Mrs. Perrett and
family, I. Brunswick-buildings ; His Grace the
Duke of Beaufort, and Lords Arthur and Edward
Fitzroy, and Lady Blanche Somerset. 3, Victoria-
terrace ; Mrs. Stuckey, the Rev. J. S. Coles, and
Mr. V. S. Wood, 7. Victoria-terrace; Mr. and Mrs.
Kindersley and family, 8, Victoria-terrace; Mr. and
Mrs. T. D. Dan.els and family, 9, Victoria-terrace;
Dr. Coates and family, 7. Belvidere; Mr. and Mrs.
Sheffield and family, 15, Belvidere; Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Nobles, 16, Belvidere ; Mr: and Mrs.
Maples and Mr. A. Maples, 9, Royal-crescent; Mrs.
Stone and Mrs. Barry, 11, Royal-crescent • Mr.
Mrs., and Miss Bushell, and Mr. Dow Bushell, and
Miss Style, IS, Royal-crescent; Major Cumberland,
Richmond-terrace; Rev. C. J. Nichol, 5, Royal-ter-
race; Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson and family, 14, Royal-
terrace; Mrs. Cockane, 3, Frederick-place; Mrs.
Lacey, 2, Coburg-place; Mr. and Mrs. Ffookes and
family, I, Johnstone'srow ; Rev. H. L Mrs. .ind
Miss Salmon, 3, Chestertield-place ; Col. and Miss
Hodson, 2, York-buildings; Mrs. Peters, Mrs.
Moody, and Mr. and Mrs. Andrews and family, 6,
Charlotte-row; Mrs. Rittman, 5, Augusta-pm ;
Mrs. Clark, 12, Augusta-place; the Misses Gumm,
and Mr., Mrs., and Miss Osborne, 2, Grosvenor-
place; Mr. and Mrs. Vickem, 2, Clarence-buildings;
Mrs. Falle and Miss Miller, 4. Clarence-buildings;
Miss Burney, t, Clarence-buildings; Mr. and Din.
Badeock, and Mrs. Budeigh and family, 10, Clarence-
buildings; Mrs. Phipps and Mr. Lyon Phipps, 5,
Belvidere; Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Ring, 3, Puke-
ney-buildines ; Mrs. Wilcox and family, 4, Pulteney-
buildings ; Lieutenant and Mrs. Williamson, 5,
Pulteney-buildings ; Mrs. Evans and family, 9,
Pulteney-buildings ; Mrs. Randall, 9, Devonshire-
buildings ; Mr. and Mrs Horne, and Miss LUCAS, 4,
Devonshire-buildings ; Miss Higgins and Mrs. Kella-
way, 5, Devonshire-buildings.
CoWAILDLY AND GHoss Aseari.r. - William
Merck was on Friday charged before the Mayor and
J. Ayling, Esq., with committing a most gross
assault upon a buy, 13 years of age, natued George
Collins. The boy's eyes were So swollen that he
could but slightly distinguish the light, and his nose
was very much cut and bruised. He said that be
was errand boy to Mr. Fox, and on the previous
night as he was coining over the bridge towards Mr.
t'oz's house, he met Meech's little boy who com-
menced cursing and swearing, and wanted to fight.
He did not strike hint. Meech, who was working
on the quay, then ran after him and struck him in
the face and knocked hint down, and struck him
several times.-Philip Roberts, butcher, said that be
was on the balcony in front of his house, when he
• saw Meech run after the boy. Ho first caught him
by the collar at the back of his neck, and shook him
violently, and struck him a violent cuff under the
' ear. He next struck him a blow with his clenched

fist in the face. He struck him as violently as he
could—in abort, he never saw so violent a blow
given in all his life before. Mrs. Roberta, who was
at tea in the drawing room, asked him what crash
it was, and he told her " It is that pretty fellow out
here, who has just struck a lad in the face." The blow
could be beard a long distance off. Meech then
struck the boy in the back of the neck, and knocked
him down, and then went away and left him. He
(Mr. Roberta) did not expect to see the boy rise—it
appeared to him one of the greatest wonders in the
world that he had not killed him. He told Meech
be ought to be ashamed of himself to strike the boy
in the way he had done, and Meech blackguarded
him, and wanted him to fight.—The defendant said
that he should not have struck the complainant if he
had not hit his boy ; but from some further evidence
1 that was called it appeared that no blow was struck
by him.—The Bench told the defendant he had been
guilty of a most brutal, unprovoked, cruel, and cow-
ardly assault, and that he had rendered himself lia-
ble to six months imprisonment, but they inflicted a
penalty of only 405., including costs.
TEETOTALISM. - Mr. Gough, the celebrated
tempeiance orator, addressed an overflowing con-
gregation at the National Schools, on Wednesday
evening, on the subject of total abstinence from
all intoxicating beverages. The Rev. Talbot
Greaves, the rector, presided, and, in introducing
the lecturer to the meeting, said that he was fully
prepared to admit that in the cold abstract of the
thing temperance stood in the scale of virtues higher
than total abstinence, but that the latter was more
influential as an example to the tempted class. Since
Mr. Gough was here last lie had tried the experi-
ment of total abstinence, and personally he felt no
inconvenience from it, while he was led more and
more to realize the deplorable vice of drunkmness
in the land by which thousands and tens of tin-0-
sands were passing on in the path of destruction.