The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-01-03 00:00:00

PORTL A ND.

MILNER 03111LAL Posv-Oirlon, L3Nt)l/I.—The
building will be one of four stories, sad it will have a
frontage of 256 feet in fit. Martin's-le-Grand, and
another of 144 feet in Newgato-street. It will he oon•
strutted of Portlaad stone throughout.
CAMAL HINT TO BLATIII.II.—n. officers of the 7th
Fughers have endeavourod to make up for the absence of
any large Meet of Water on the Verne. They had a quantity
of water poured from the Ore engine over • level apace
formerly mud um the croquet ground. The eater rapidly
freeme In the Interim cold, and thus • elect of foci. formlttl
to be wed as • alsating rink. This in a contrivance thoy tarot
at Quebec.

TH3 CAD•DIIVES AID THI CHRISTMAS GOOSH—On
Christmas Eve, Mr. W. Cox, of the Clifton Hotel .
when he got up in the morning. discovered that his
stable had been broken open, and he missed a goose
therefrom. He gave information to the police,..nd
enquiries being made. P.C. Cooper found that • goose,
answering the description of the one lost, bled been sold
to Mr Moors, of the Castle lan. P.S. Florence act
P.C. Cooper went to the heave of a cab-driver named
Harvey, an rcosived from Harvey's mother two begs
of feathers, amongst which were toned four wing
feathers of a goose, with marks on them which Mr.
Cox said he had himself cut with a pair of ecissors.
{Ur..., WWI appr.hinn4.4. •nri in tilt, Ft 0•01... L, &WU t
150 or 200 people, taken to Weymoutg, and charged on
Monday before Dr. Smith, at his private residence on
the Greenhill, with breaking and entering Mr. Con's
stable and steeling the goose, on the night of the 23rd
or morning of the 24th. On the application of the
police, he was remanded.

"FORBIDDING TDB BARIDe ON Callliiinta Day.—
The young daughter of a widow lady raiding ill (he-41, had
fallen In love with a handaman on board one of the unn-of-war,
lately l)ing in Portland Roads. The removal of the Plect froui
the Roads we. a nevem trial for the lovers, and their satura-
tion maks., much to endure, no they resolved to get -,iplicod."
'Twouldn't do to "put in the banns" at St. John's, 'oat the
mother should hoar of it, and no the, were publiMed at the
lone church on the hill, St. thourgu'a, Holum°. Tarim had
Mie been done, and Immo one must have mrriod U.. news
below hill, for on Christmas Day the "cruel parimit" made the
Journey to the top in spite of the cold, and, aloe for the
expectant lover., when the "third time of asking" we. emu),
the oMciating minister arm startled by seeing the old lady mei,
boldly out into the Mak, when abe ruthlessly lifted up her
voice in oppoltion to the union of youth and bravery, in
Mort, forbad the henna The young lady and would-he bride
not having come to year. of independence, It secmod that Me
lovers haif nothing to do but curb their ardour, and Wait for
the happy time eb.n they would be under no nomeity to
"ask maunnia r but it I. whiapered that that they have i.ince
bees married by UPON, elsewhere. It is said there has been
no instance of forbidding the banes in Portland within the
memory of living man.

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deoornted with evergreens, eolonn. Sage of all nations,
As., and the trophies of the regiment were dieplayed
on the walla. About 120 were present, the Beres being
in about equal proportion. The evening commenced
with . supper at eight o'clock, followed by the usual toesta and then the tenet of the evening, " The health
of the Sergeanta of the First battalion,' was even by
Quartermaster Sergeant Cloves, who presented frame
eentaining the eartesdevvisite of every sergeant at pre.
sent serving in the 2nd battalion, to &mt.-Instructor
Emery, the representative of the Ist battalion, The
present was of handsome workmanship, and is intended
tor their sergesitts' mem-room. Sergeant Emery ably
returned thanks. Alter sapper, the ladies adjourned to the Sergeants meas-room, where they were enter-
Mined for an hour by the regimental glee clam, after
which dancing c...iminencal, to the strains of the bugle
band, and was kept up with epirittill the small hours,
"d everi. rem", enjoyed akaaradvaa ao the
almost. me usau-parters of the lit bstaalion arrived
Pollemonth lataisi.