The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-23 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1878.

Not far a woman do I forget tltwhers of bar muds( *rase' Douai' Noadaw sad at to St Immarfe
and braudv drinking. In fact 'tie that • very Form slid foogid that It badly required draw sat lir.
Manua bad altered to beer belt Ma
ina aowurall, which boo oloood tho Uhl ma Laiin rat through the cumb.-413 —adiagasiskaltatmit
ladigpiadoe, was preceded by " nips of brandy. to the liability of the Board but ultimately, upon the
a itr s M
Of carolers or loose-fingered people •
_good many s=alto await YPark ikoodai by r. Nu& it wae
r. l'arquharfte. olfer.—The Nabonot
nu* it.yo favoured our town WAIT. The potion Guanines reported • number Oir litliall-001111•Iii=the
itS&1011 is quite • lost property office, -hate, overcoats, town, and the Board adopted the report, and as
keys, rardrows, do., having contributed aa of take immodsate amino epee it —Yr. Pond salted VMS
a
wirma., to vitae to the can ItteTollos, "P' 11 taloa to Mann the frequent flooding .
wha. waiting ..". ,nw.s pwr..., a toad.
Hie
„vow
0v,,....imi50f the town, and at. LuLaurean maxi the
had decided to have • second drain
di from their OWD/111, one with notes end gold; I put ht m mes.
but money le not so Nay let go as money's worth, and I _ _
on • air being wade, the police hers fortunately been I
able to restore all three purses to the owners, o, ci
mune, receive with thank". One tug at a lady's
f=lhas been reported to me; but the puree was
eatel y inside, and, nothing being lost, the lady
=bare been too quick to suspect. Still con-
the number and variety of the excuriionleta
who dropon_us for e day or two, lt soay be well to
hint—" Mud your mum."

Wimbledon has sent beck our rifle champions, but
without any 'pedal honours. Their shooting was as
good am previously, if not better ; but the average of
all Britain hoe considerably improved. Whams% at •
certain competition, 27 points etood well to win two
yews ago, and 28 were well last year—ln 1878, at the
same competition, even 30 were counted out. The
nonencoms of our crack shots is therefore satisfactory,
for it shows that England hoe plenty of better men,
good am they era This vest advanoe in power with
the rills may show that England is again on the road
to be a nadon of marksmen—• fact to be noted by
despots and their serfs.

Disams.

Poiroeffs Wat.t. WI:META/4 &moots. —Mr. H. Kindel
who ham been master of the Wesleyan Schools for sixteen
year. and a half, Is leaving Portland almost immediately
for Burslam, Stadordthire.
Opt OF Tlll EAT= CAME FORTH MIKAT.—Io a haul of
mackerel an Chesil Beach last Monday was taken • shark
three feet long. Men don't like shark's dash, but crabs
don't =hid it, Do his tharkshie was quickly cut to pieces
and devoted as bait for crab pots.
Baits SOCIETY—The annual sermons were preached in
behalf of the British and Ponta Bible Society on Sunder,
at fit loba's Chumh, by the Rev. R. Perkins, dletrict
isecretary, and oa Monday evening • public meeting was
held, presided over by the vicar, Rev. T. A. Ottley, 8.0.
The deputation was the Rev. K S. Ba_yliffe.
Own Wei rata. INTO TOE DITCll.—Some convicts were
et
work ris the great Verse Ditch ors Tbureday Mimeo=
last when use fell cif • ladder on the bard ground of the
ditch and entethed hts right knee-cap all to pieces. sus-
taining at the same time wryer* wounds on the loft arm
and right wrist He was removed en • stretcher to the
Infirmary and had excellent medical attendance.
Butanes or THE Tcnadr Smelt —About one o'clock
on Sondes. H.M.S. Thundever left Portland Harbour for
Sandmen Bay. Isle of Wight, in order to take part in the
attempt to raise the Eurydice—At daybreak on Wednes-
day the other turret-ships, Gleam, Gorgon, Hydra,
the Lively, rr d Prier. tear‘ 1.4 biTs tier- Aelmtllay. in 17;
wi there remain" Thursday, then mulled they
Plymouth to be provisioned, and return to Portland on
Seturdey. Only Wednesdays and Thursday's mails were,
we believe, to be lent to Plymouth.
Oxe Hoses num/Tonna Ammo:at—Mr. Thomas
flamom, Jun., of the Breakwater Hotel, was driving a
goat/imam towards Weymouth on Thursday last, and as
they approached the Ferry-brides a bone, which was
erasing outside the Nose, suddenly popped his head over.
This caused Mr. &Lamm's hoarse to shy, and he ran into
the fence on the opposite side, capeising the carriage, and
throwing both the occupants out. Kr. Sandom was
'evenly bruised on one mai, and La or worth of
damage was done to the carriage ; the gentlemen was not
Tel hurt.
Itath-AoktaaLl Fuo.—The flaespabire Telegraph
says:—"There is some difficulty in ending • rafting elms
for the dm of the second in command of the Particular
Somice Squadron, and now Rear-Admiral Boys is
quertseed on board the Lively, became his former Seg-
al*, the Warrior, was wanted to give Admiral Sir A. C.
Key • optima (*edible to evolutioniwy cruising. It was
net thought advisable to take the turret aisles to Bantry,
as the squadron was divided. Putting the Wamioe In ea
etheient state for active service the other day at Porte.
mouth cost KOK
UNIXIIIIOfID DLitt OF A CHILD. —Mr. and Mrs
Herneyrnen, of Artist's Row, the former a burnboat man,
found their child shout three months old, dead on Wed-
nesday morning. Nothing seems to have been the matter
with the child previously, the father went on to bed with
it between ten and eleven Tuesday night, and the mother
followed in about half-an-hour. About three or four on
Wednesday morning the father found the child dead, and
went for Dr. McLean, who said the child hod been dead
some hours, and an impart was necessary—The inquiet
was bald on Thursday, at the Prince of Wales Inn, by Mr.
R. N. Howard, °armor. The father, Charles H. Honey-
man, is a naval pensioner, residing in Artist's Row, and
the child was three months old and healthy. A little
beton IS the father took it to bed, and about an hour and
• quarter alter, the mother came to bed, and said she had
been waiting for her daughter Emma, who was in service,
and slept at her mother's. The wife went to suckle the
child, and laid it on her left ana. A little after four, the
mother called to her husband—" What is the matter with
my child f Wake up, Charley r Ile took the baby, and
found it deed but warm, roused the neighbour*, and went
for the doctor. The hothead did not believe his wife had
been drinking—Dr. McLean found the child had died of
suffocation, and thought the mother might thee tamed her
arms about, the ereathth being hot, and the child's head
slipped between her arm and body, so that it was
aufloasted in a minute or two. The parents were vesy
good to the children•nd einem:ally proud of
Meng the youngest —Verdict " Accidental Death."