The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-01-17 00:00:00

POZTLAND.

Came fiurrea.-- On Thursday the choir of be Wee
I leyan Chapel, Fortune's Wall, had their animal to.
arid supper in the schoolroom, and after spenditig •
moat piewmat evening, separated at • late hour.
Navef..—On Wednesciar in -raise a draft of 21 Bit.
class buys, from H.M.S. Roicawen, loft for Porte.
mouth, where they will be distributed amongst asso
gulag vowel&
FOOTBALL Mann. —Lad Saturday an eleven of the
Portland Club played, on the Navel Ground, an eleven
of woo= Mr. I/river was aaptien. The club team woe
by seven go-la to Done.
PliMOTlOri.—Lieut. W. Colquhoun, of the 12th
Lancers, haa been promoted to osptain, vice Caplets
Mewed napkin to be major. TDO tO.Mer gentleman
I. well•knowo a:normal thii older officers of the prism,
with whom be was formerly connected.
VOLUOTWUJIO.—IIwa whole of the 14th Regiment
at toe Verne garrison was paraded on Tuseday mum-
' Mg, for the purpose of calling for volunteers, to
strengthen the regiments proceeding ab-aid. That
morning the ouperintendeet of volunteering came into
Portland wth euionel Barry Drew, C. it., and it
appears that officers woo have DO 10111160 g over the
wee have to sup wintead the Volunteering.
WATCH a.. .-4)o Mon-ley debt, shortly alter
nine, two soluiers went into Mr. RoyaTs shop, and
staked to be shown a cheep watch, orie about • guinea,
and one said he wanted to pay Mr. Royal 3s. or 4.. •
week, until enough wee paid to hare tn. watch. Mr.
Royal told them the cheapest wat.l was 225. 64. ; but
be showed them • Geneva at 30e. One of them took
the watch, looked at it, and handed it to his comrade,
who ran out of the shop, and the other was quickly at
his heels. A crowd of buys gathered, and stopped one
of the culprits, sod ?,tr. Bella caused hue shop and
went for the ponce. Meanwhile an "old soldier ' came
t, the boys, and to:d them his knew the prisoner and
mked if they would give him in custody at the Verne-
gate, and on this the boys let thar captive go on.
enquiry being afterwards made at the Verse, it was
found that uo information bad been given, so it
, appeared the "old soldier" had made himself an
, atherany alter the fact, by procuring the prisoner's
secape. The police on Tuesday arrested on suspicius
two men, one of whom is said to have hal seven days
for stealing an ounce of tobacco from Mr. Mann's, and
• mouth for stealing a Mull at Mrs. Rew'e The
watch tiad nit been found.
LADT'S VISIT TO ZiIICiLABL Darrn.—Tbe London
letter of the Heels Teiegropl say.:—" Sir William
Harcourt has capitulated to the ladies. 'I he man of
iron, whom tbe pie Mingo 01 .11 suits oi petitioners for
sin months pest failed to move in his theolutiou to
permit • visit of tritnds to Michael Devitt, has melted
before the persuasive eloquence of the ladies. IL id
only a mouth ago that the itsv. Harold Rylett com-
plained to all the world of the stern heastieosuess of
the Home Secretary in returning • Otirt•ridnan to
every application on this subject. As • last remort two
lady blends laid siege to WhitebalL I am toll that
it we. a touching sight to behold the graideful manner
lo which tlistusicui capitulated to their charming
eloquence, arid gave the reouirite tertuiseion to visit
the prisoner of Portlanl." It is itated that the visit
came off ua Tuesday last, and that the visitor was •
member of the Ladies' Land L ague.
Ala/Ha= ENTISTAIMMIST Or AGED POOL—Lail
week the Portland lodge of Proems...ins extended their
charity —we believe an annual one—to the aged poor
of the Island. About 30 or 40asee obled by invitation
at the ludgeroom, moue a capital Top .1t was provided,
and the Mayor of Weymouth acted as coal wan,
Brothers 6. A. Viultery, Charlie, Waters, Redrafts,
tr.c., carving and attending to toe court .rt of the old
La. Dinner. were ale sent out to stout 30 woo
were usable to coins to thereon but tem* eehu were
premut were kind.y and ovii•bly to by toe
deyor, who wumed them a bevy neer year. In Woe
tratiou of the Portlaud custom of nickoam.s, we may
menti in that some of the committee enquired at
Broody-row, for an old man, under the name of "Mr.
(kora° urcumi ;" bat coold sot Bud anyone of that
name. Atkrwaidi they met him in the street, and
found he lived at Brandy-new, true enough; but his
nickumne being "Preachy," no "Mi. °relied" wee
known.

YOBTLAIND BILL AND AACLNIIION ISLAND. - The
Santo 1 digraph • .y. :—" A very send billet for a
Paymaster aas beau eboashed ia Lee cluestablaahmeat
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of LH store aad victualliog—d-spot ai.ifokoh.in-Ta.-371-a-t;
were the applimmts for tide poet which was about to
fall vacant, but their Irtships hail an ecooottil. at fit
upon them, and were mo pleased with having wiped out
neoeriaiou_, that they deermused to apply the pruning
kuite to Yokohama. No Paymaster will be required
Mute any longer, na the plats) he to be retained uuly re
a *Ail depot. ei..kquar.ers are us . to be reduced,
I believe, and the Bradt navy will vary nearly die-
appear horn Japan, a. far aa lie qualt. • on snore are
..ouoerried. As regards the Oosstabtohrnent of
Asceosion, the limo ,er la to be sent out to bring home
the surplus comp.ement in March nun, having only a
doctor and one or two others to live a life of desolation
on • cinder. I would very nearly as soon eery* a term
on Portland Bill adi p to Ascension under the new
system. Al was bad enough before, but the uew idea
is dmeolation."—Whet dues our lively coutemootary
mean? We should have thought Portlsod, even at
nu Bill, a sortable port of Iris world, arid eaelly in
oommuuloation with ,he rest of the kingdom. Perhisre
our coutemporary thought ot " se. ring • term at the
Prison," but than that is not on Portland Hai.

BRUTAL ATTACK ON A WOMAN BY A
CORPORAL OF THE SELFLOWER.

11710TID DNA= OW TEI WOMAN.

Percy Beaufort,otherviae William ficamp,lahip'e ampere]
serving on board the Beaßfwer bulldog t. attached to
ens Btterseren, was brought before the Pirtnooth
teatime on Wednesday charged with wounding B•asiill Hel-
lion, wife of a sailor. a it. intent to do her tremens bodill
harm. Prisoner had cohabited with Helton for • short
time. but a fortnight age the returned to her husband st
Plymouth, stating diet a relative warn very iIL Prisoner
supplied her ell money, and as she did not return he
went to Pormouth and found her living with her husband.
She refuted to return with prisoner. and he than promised
tr help total a legal separation from her husband and to
marry her. This eh* also refused, and he then took out
small bottle and mid he intended to poison her with the
contents. They further quarrelled. and be thencommerred
I, mal mat her by Immune on her stomsch and knocking
sone of her teeth out. sod trying to stab her is ith • pt n-
knife. Lash. weever:mita serieus results are apprehended.
Internal e•morrhage set in. and it was deemed advisable
on Wednesday afternoon to take the woman'. depositions.
The yrieotorr, was brought up at the Plymouth Borough
Pollc«-court on Wodneeday montane, and evidence warn
given that the proetcatrix was too ill to steed. The
',limner said ha +lobed to have the C4llO triad at once. It
, was a mere accident in a struggle he cut up a dress chick
I be had bought. —The Clerk (Mr. Phillips) said it was
imrosaible to tate the case that day, and the primmer was
tb• r upon remanded.

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--In the afternoon the woman's depoeitions were Wt., in
her lodroon. The aerated was present, having bees
conveyed from the prism in a eat.. The woman -se
' under examination two hours, and during that time
ealaug and vomited blood. Bbe stated that the pri-
soner gams her sister a el:tilling to show hint where
teed, and when he entered her room she WEI ill in bed.
' There was no other preen pretreat at the time. Hs
ssid " You have laughed at no. nicely, haves't you I I
have come to have a quiet revenge. have a rinse
30e. worth out of you; it hi, cost we 30s to come
d n." With that he took ou a,rnall,eiprd bottle trotn
Ms pocket and said, "Now, I will give you five minutes
to dress and warder if you will some away with me.
I will keep jun is a lady, and in titres wash, we wit
he married. I said "I can't he married, you know
t.b6t I am already misaried." He said 'We could Stye
• Iseal separation." I aaid " Ob, Percy, 16.11 (Do nttl
to•morrow." I eras afraid of him at the time. He yid
"No I shan't, ou shall not stop ben to be starved
with that fellow' (elleding to her husband). He alter-
wards openrd her p c se, and sid "The cad has left re
some mosey. thew" He dragged her around hy the
nightdress go as to face him, and said "Hereto,
I love you. and now you shall suffer fag it. You
mad. me solar' Meatiness:le added—" I will let tots
boo. that I am riot an goglishtean, I am a Seanierd,
and lam not to be trampled upon. I give you to woods
once more, and U you will come I will get you a cab and
take you away." I said, law too ill, and can't es'. Be
afterward, took a dress housing behind the door, end
saying "This ls the one I houghs, you at Portsmouth." emir
tuenced to tear it up. The woman then treat to the
window and celled for help, and on the landlady's little
gel coming Pent her for her mother. Tim Pfilloller thee
showed Iser the bottle agate, end said osis half the cow
tenta was for her and the other half for himself. He got
on the bed, and knelt on her stomech for about toe
minutes ; and then on the side of her face, knocking oirt
a tooth. He afterwards threw himself acme her chest.
She sked him to &Set, but he eel& "I have so pity lot
you." and took a bright new peulmife out of his Porkot
He went to stab her lit the chest, but she put up her head
to ward off the blow, and be ran the knife Into the bell
of her thumb. The witness said She nay thought the
Prironer tried to tun the knife into her brew. When
Scot be came Into the room be said he intended to Isfroe
her, hut he did not asy he wee going tt stab bor. St*
felt sure that if she had not tinsd off the blow be
...old have killed her. Stt• thou fainted, and whth she
came round the prisoner had bound op her hand with bb
wen pocket handkerchief, and afterwards left the room.
Priomer was quite sober. He did not drink mach, lea
she bad sever seen him drunk. The erbium, added that
sie e. the sesault site had vomited a quite Sty of blood. 084
Was suffering dreadful pain. Elbe bad not been Living ot_th
the accused, but had been keepiu compeer with bilm
Ile • ouid not let her Term: he hed wnrioa her out of bet'
life, slit tbresened to kilt bee if else did sell wine to n••
eith bin.. H. oontaaually most her bacon, and tried to
WS, Is her end he, husband, who hod bees away about
thr • months. She was sure the emits/ babe did 6°l
ttel no to the peiester. She would not allow hint to think
she had a child by him. She bad net lived with
bulb. had told maay people that she was his wife. She
bad bees to Portsmouth to gee his. He wrote I. her
with the , sad saying a week these emit do twe
good. Rot 4 MA- mil bow whoa she hati boo.