The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-02 00:00:00

OHIO ZOOK._

NARROW EJCAPI —A rem nuued Shute. whilst bething
bete...en Clideock and Smite...it, ventured oat ton far. uul
the leach in that neighhourived being denurnes to
bathers. and not being an expert uriminer, he becameto
much exhausted that bet he n.t been timely 'wetted th
remit will have been fatti Shut. was removed to the
village, and Dr. Le Gros Noriol was lone on the .pot,
and found him In an exceedinely weak concbries. Hopei
ars oatorsolood of she poor follow's recovery.

IlriTllol7llr.
lives FOOT lazoina. —On Illondny Alfred Scholar, al
Glvernqr's 1,111.2, while unloading potatoes front the
had Hu. misfortune to crush his foot. ll• warn
•oODree,l t the Hirai Hospital, whore it was found that
he hul 'woken rue Ines. If. remains under the care of
niudi gentlumun and Hu. Hortim r. the matron.
14.11.055 LAMM° —A merry group of Noe jackets on
T uwisy ootr.led St Tr.0,,5,al othent. s.reets riming
rioilifo. and with a Sadie, e ,neertias. $O.. and
"ik.rin.r. the, tru.st...l the inhaNtants to •ariessa mous, as.
'T • 'nun of merry, merry Esels...d" We don't want
Iltht Out "?4 .ov L e.•th,11114 forth.
Rnt EWA tuoup-nol sad orderly, they c .otinsid their
fun "'Tooth the err-to ryntil they got to the goer tide.
carat PROPRITI SALI i-V•lntacti..o WS. Me.rws
Hill. .1 ze .01 Sul. had on.. l their largo sales of Promptly
in W.olt,.d.y(your•ni•sh when forte hreedthe
vrlbt*llle ent•ybeld aid freehold lati it W 1 he Regis sad
Wurroollth, with Purell Vdl.. and whirr dwelling-
' holm". were off. red. The rusiority of the lots hell at
poi,-. to 11, Lowman. end two lou trt,re purebseed
: by the Weymouth Laundry CaUWATIV. another lot betas
securrod_hr dlr. Snook. 'Urns of the land wu

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• Um WIRD Citation —Sem of Rogen was summoned
for being drunk. lie did not appear. and the Mayor
stated the cue would be again tadjourned.-11r. Butt
explaioed that, it haring Mien onee before *Mourne& the
summona might imw to be dropped if it were not beard.
—The Mayor, however. thought it would be beat to
.4.),,,,y0 again —(We believe the man is an oer of
charitable society, who has been punished by his superiors
for the olft-hre.l
SeatilllAo POTATO TROCIIO—Os Mond'? WWwWel, the
10 40 S .tis. Western etsida train, instead of going on the
Prtl,nl branch, took the wrong line DOW to the Urea.
We.teru goals al • and when almost oponsim the
Somerset Coil Company's large stack of cosh ran into
moue empty putsto Wicks. smashing them in all direc-
tious; the tin stir and g mini th.' sood• train being severely
si.ocked. and the tenders of the engine dain•ged. It is
said the ecodent tees owing to the misplacing of the
poild• : but or give thi• renor under All reWTYS
A Ban tt irg —Jam (40lingAlni an old ...treader. whose
htidiand sets it, d.rwt ri •mp'tt. wes brought up on
aday before Mr B Mookin, cb•rieci with having been
drunk •nd Inripolile it, St. El,i• thistreet, on Sunday
night. PC. Gioper found her lying belplamly on the
roof, her bu•band would not take care of her, and Cooper
brought her to the polioeditation Jane tried to make
out that her trouhle was rained by her not living with
her hodsod ; but she WAS ton well known no. drunken
worn.in oh, toad.. her boatload nsiseraide till he got away
front her. and the magistrates ined her 15.. and coats
She could at pay, and was lent far remain day.' to
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A TairroTauca's FALL—Jim. Shepberd.s cab driver.
ants ing drunk while in charge it hi•
hnree eon eJ. on S int...law week. —A wee parter, named
P.rker. Vihi how 8b piwed dente hehind tvie with hia
rah. an.l kre.eked +anew .ed hit trnek &wen The dter
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Prowated with the detaile of his" miraculous eecaPe,'
showing how. if the wheals had ad coo where they d d.
something worse might have happened. A* ,t era..
1.1, ea the ground unable to move. and Shepherd
went* lons distance to lire be could rot up The p rite
thought his knee cape were broken (hut they weren't).
and he told P.C. Cedar,. who found defendant drunk.—
Shepherd said he had been out to Chickerel. where they
give him 31 worth of gin ; and he. having bees a
•eetotriller for a long time previously. was overoorne.—
Sopt. Vlckery believed what Shepherd had said. sad the
Bevel delend•nt 10t. _
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KILLP Oft SIM anus. —Penny Palmer, • young nurse-
mail. was aummoned by Scptimais Baker for trespassing
on grass land, occupied by him in the Barrack field.
Baker stated that ou the 19th Mat, ha found the girl lying
down in the long gras• with three children round her.
Ile tald her she ought to know better thou do so, when
she replied—" What odd r He replied that, being the
occupier, it made odds to him whether people ware on the
grass or not and she said she should stay as long as she
liked, and come again as often as she pleated. He then
asked her name, when she told him—' ' Find out r She
stayed there as long as eke liked, so plaintiff summoned
her in order to show her and others that they must not
trespass on the grass,—Defendant, • good specimen of a
"servant gal" free with her tonitie, said there was no
fence ar.und the field, or any notice there. Beakies that
all the servant girls went there with children. MN was
told there was no necessity to pot • fence round, or a
notice, the public must not go on the grass, and she ought
to have come away when told.—Fanny was let a on pay-
ment of one shilling fine and the costa.
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Hotar Wolian. —4d4oa Caddy, a married woman, big
enough to know better, was sumnioued before the Mayor
t(tr. Lindiek Mr. T. Abbott, Mr. B. Hopkins, and
Ur. W. Talbot. on Tuesday. for disturbing the
inh lb t .nts.-0a Wmday night P.C. Kdl wag on duty in
Trtnity ft 44, the other .Me .4th. water, and heard some
ono calling nut " Murder !" He went to see what waY tbe
matter, so.!, crossing to the Meloombe side, new defendant
1.. .king nt of. her window; which Toyer Mes.rs. I),,rere

.•115c... In order to in to her moistener, they lit kip open
the door beneath, hut found it was only th, door of thr
doISC, 13 •fendant solo/ gaently came nut, and threatened
the landlord or tbe George Inn.—Mr. Minot, the landlord,
heital • noise, anti west dos n, thinking souse one bad
lot, his hues, when be saw defendant, who
"1,1 ickettatard kiln. in the lowest degree." The ',rambles
which Mra Angelina orxiapien adjoin the °roue Inn: hut
her entrance is at the hark—Defendant maul the noise
was all owing to her husband, who wile Ivo', late, and
threatened to strike her, when she cried " Murder."—lt
WAS el i•i411,4 list defendant lives in Sorbs room. belong-
ing to the %heat Triteees, and near tbe Georg, and Mra,s.
I/ w•y'a but hair ng nothing ti to with either, entrance
hemg in another direction. Mr. Hines (said S.tta Vickery)
had ...im01ai...41 of this woman before.—She was fined ba
f.w being drunk, and bound over to keep the peace fur
months., three . . _

...I:MX—li'lte—et nein' WORST.—liitabeth La!arty, •
young woman who sell. pa iteel. .•4 .o,ooloord for
h.te k Mr without a market ticket in St. Thonass-Arect
PC Bartlett maw h•ii• with two baskets of p and
admit h-r lw her ticket, when ehe replied the hadn't one,
snit as her brother took out tieket• for the waggon, she
debit want one.— Defend 'at'. brother produced the ticket
he had taken out for bi• gramma an.l Miss Kellaway
explained—" Tis both alone; what'sinlay's my brother's,
Ind what'. ruy two•lier • is mine.--The Mayor made
enquiries, and it aptreared the defendant wan in the
haiii• of taking hult-t• front the wegzon to tome distance
to hawk.— This 111. Worship extd%llle4. r.quired • ticket
for each permit win hawked Mu IC-Ilearal persisted
that teitleiboile had ordered 12Ib of p atom of her, and
.he too: them on this one olio's. She entered MO a long
aratement while the Mayor wan 'peaking, and repeatedly
p.m.date-1 in interrupting, till at but the Mayne threatened
t • ....omit her if she wee no, silent He eimtinued there
in much rohhery of the Market-house food by hawking
ithmat tick..., and If defendant left the asugon with •
I. , k t hawking, she mut take • ticket, while if she
Pie carried it (Pon the waggon into the hnou, the
ticket for the waggon would be elaMcient —The ticket
for the ha.k.t must lie taken out in the name of the
per. a who hawk• w:th it. and it cannot peel front one
nermn to another. —Soot. Vickery said thi• wan not the
fl-.• time this fatuity hail been before the Court for this
off.ince. —I) ant was ordered to pay the coats of the
C init. Sim hal several time. tried to intenupt the
hi arm, elm leugth for • "on-table to silence her,
sal *he revenged hero-If at the end by • voltilde toots.%
iif which the principal words heard were—" 'Ti. very hard
•4 • re h laws "
TUB REOaTTI FOR THE PLIZT.—A meatiest wan held at
the Council Chamber on Moseley evening, when sm.., r
the..- ureeent were: The May." (M, L untie). Mr. ft N.
Housed, Mr. N incl. CietiOn Lat. . I R diertuo,
Mr. Wel.ford, Mr W. J. Hark e. Mr. J. a M-urs.
Arta.. 3. Limb-, bin., Dunn, 1'.13 Welk Wheeler, Drina,
aem.4l mot .1. A &memo, Frairey. A-la', IL intion H de,/
: R deo, T. I. amine. J. .1. If. Lineman.
! Pius/nem, I. mitten et! —The Mayor reported the mutt
of the ilepu'ation's visit 'oth. • Matelot the Fleet, than
were .t eon!u illy received, in fact with more thee
nwilielity, A tiniest.. Contains, not Aar-Lieutenant. were
and frit that the pr mired Regatta would offer •
very favo,,'shle oppostitnity for the loons to enj p them'
mires, and have elm some tearful pregoice with the boar..
Withim• any ceremony the deputation were told the offer
ge pted. and if they would •pooint some sentient in
on shore, the A bullet bail uked Captain Wilson, of tie
Thomism., to arrant. with him. A meeting took place at
the C 1..", where Mr. CM mu, &comp anied by Dr. Simpson,
gave him this programme of the It igetts which t ok plug
cal point ago, which might form the buil of the
intended Regatta. Mr. Groves hying eery much engaged,
he Idle II ape) fell back on Mr. Howard, el...lroise of the
committee ; Mr. Howard bad kindly accepted, and would
throw all his 00•MV IMO It, .0 .n to make it a very
sucemsful 'lay on Saturday next. Ti do thi• shout ClOO
woutil be required, and the result of einviusing among a
few friends 1.1 him to believe the difficulty wee not very
tior.eidable. Mr. Harker had been uking for tome subscrip-
tion*. and the lint was • very favourable one. —Mr. Robert-
son remarked nothing month, done t Interfere with our
o.lllr-gatta--The Mayor said the prowls...oven were en.
tirely distinct from the subscriptions to the Wetnouth town
regatta —Mr. Groves sugueted the intended on. be called
"Complimentary Regatta for the Channel Flset."—Mr.
Harker was called on, and stated some subscriptions which
lath. en promised :—Sir Frederic Johnetone £5 Se.; Mr.
tweeds, CS St ; The Mayor, £5 Sa. • lbws. Devenish,
• ; Steno., Cottons and Co., Li ii,; Mr. 3, Groves,
ES 2',: Rowe (Royal). ts 2, . • Mr. Davis (Golden
Lion). ES 2..: Mr. Dunn (Victoria) £3 ; The Burdon
. Hotel. El Is : Mr. Luce, £3 3.. • Mr. Howard, ts ; the
fidlowing one guinea each—Messrs. Graham, Wheeler,
R ill-erten, C. Jetty, J. Talbot, T. B. Groves, Drina, Wood-
land. Lowman, Abbey, Weisford, J. A. Sherren, usd J. J.
H. Inognann • the following half • guinea—Mew. Smolt,
flitansen, J. iesty, Hallett. Rev J. Elba 3.0. Rowe, Rev,
J. Miller, Brown, J. B. Cole, Captain 14•S_ Alles,
Mangle, T. Lupine, R. Rolls, jun., Farey, Plowman, Ike
—The Mayor remarked there is much readies.. in the
town to contri tote, it being felt this Is • good opportunity
to give the Fleet • welcome. —Mr. Groves stated that
Captain Wilson and Captain Strange would draw • pro-
gramme, and the total of the Mite', including an AR
..on -
C ~' Prim, wool-i he about DM or 1:85; but they also
wi.bed to give awe for the officer'. The loan of the
barge was pronliSetl. Captain Wilson would lend • cable,
on horn, starting gun. cartridges of pow& r, and steam
launch to keep the c nine. ant the Admiral hat promised
to bring round ell the small craft of the Fleet to Wey.
mouth Bay. which will hare an exceedingly pretty effect.
The meeting agreed that the X aloe should wit, accepting
curb programme as Captains "slime and Strange naleht
draw up, and it wan under...mod there will he more than
▪ 402.11 races, and pribably more than that number of
boat. to poll in each.—Mr. Howard cominginud work
tied!, at the muting.—Captaln East, Re kindly
cone-Med to set at timpire, and Mr. Harker stated imbed
wtitt.'D to the Greet awl South.Weetern Railways'
=WWII% asking them to put on excursion trains—lt Is
fully esiec•el that mtue of the most genuine and hardest
pilling will he witnessed on Saturday. and that the noes
will he, perhaps, the most warmly contested ewer seen in
the Ray.

THE GREAT FLEET.
" Like leviathans afloat.
Lao teelr Nib arks on the hens"
Black Ity the broadside fleet upon the sapphire lake
of Portland Roads, when the black and yellow
Thundeer. like • symbol of death to our foes, led in,
one sunshine afternoon, • vela of six ghost-like
monger. to their silent station+ on each dile of the
beirizkeit and bonneted ironclad& Seldom surely
has such a train id pale death-bearing fire-balchere
gathered in (-or sonar* miles of water In time of
peer, as the Gore ~,,, Hyd,a, Hecate, Cyclops, °lat.
i too, ant Prince Abort, •tch of whom, compared with
, the splendid Hercules or Warriiir, or their leader the
hooter.,,uder, look* like a mere spectre on the sea.
I So
intangible did they an from the heights of ch.
Nothe that my fancy could not believe them to be
real strong bulwarks of old England, worthy sucoessore
I of that terrible Yankee Monitor, which, when Use
Cumberland frigate lay deathstruck by the Cenfeder.
ate ram, and all seemed lost for the Union, steamed
to the rescue, fought and beat the Merrimac, and
saved the United State& Fleet. All the hideously
named four ware strangers to on the Prince Albert
looked like an exaggerated Indian or new potato
I steamer, and our old friend Glatton seemed to have
, become the very ghost of that stout turret.ship which,
off that very Breakwater, bore with scarcely a hurt
the point blank cannon.b)lte of her rival Hotsphur.
When turret ships are painted a spectral 4rey, and
almost sunk to the water'. edge, we have scarcely
faith in their strength, and fancy that they

"Come like shadows, so depart."
Near acquaintance is necessary to convince ne of the
power of the seat fleet Fathered waiting for peace or
for war, and lucky it is for Weymouth people and
their visitors that the steamers o.f Crew and Co.
V'im:kite I) are so regularly lingered in takine off the
114trt7 men" to the ship. theme-Ives. The attraction
of rime moms of bluis•jacketa fi eking to the steamer,
aft i the might of Warty, over courteous, always chatty,
Capt. Ayles, eompleted tog essolv• to have • Doom
leak at the oda lest lisppily Wood Wet.