The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-19 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

Naval. APPOINTIAINT.—Lieut. Andrew K. Biafora,
has been appointed to H.M.S. Achilles.
H.M.S. Vehaot has left l'ortland Roads for Cowes
to meet Her Majesty for the Faster holidays.
G 4,111111101 To THE POOL no Saturday week the
distribution of soup to the poor ceased with the re-
epnearance of warm weather. About 2.000 quarts
having been given awey, end a great deal of distress
relieved. The liberalitv of those who support the insti-
tution as well as tne (merit,-of those who supe ed ttiteod
giuni i.. t..wceboyr.t.hbate ho ,
contributions
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the poor have double
reason to be grateful is those who cared for them in the
hour of their need. 'rho trustees of Her Majesty's
Great also last week distributed 200 bushels of coal to
the poor above hill, and • similar quantity to those
below hill. We earnestly wish that a revival of trade
may come with the re-adulation if nature.
LOCAL BOAltli lielTion.—Tacaday evening—Present:
Mr. B. &riven chairman, Mr. B. C dins, Mr. W.
While. Mr. IC B. &Nivea, Mr. B. Samson, Mr. K.
Lano, Mr. A. &riven. Mr. .1. C. Lano, Mr. C. Hinds,
Mr. It. Flew. and Mr. T. Gibbs. The principal business
of the Board was to declare the vacancies of the
retiring boardstnen. The following go out by rotation:—
Hours. J. 0. Lane W. Cuinben. J. Hodder, B. Pearce,
C. Hine, and 8.. Stone. The Board also took the
Surveyor's and Inspector of Nuisances' reports. and
made elicit orders a• were r‘quired in each complaint.
It must be remembered that this ordinary business,
though it will riot fureish matter for publication, m
the most useful to the inhabitants, and the service of
retiring members and the Board generally should be
acknowledged on the eve of • fresh election. The
vacancies at the Board having been declared, it wan
resolved that the seventh boardsman in rotation should
take the place of Mr. M. Glib, decea ed. The Chatr-
man having vacate] the chair, it WM filled by Mr. A.
&riven, and Mr. it. B. &riven proposed, Mr. B. Collins
seconded, a nd it was agreed to that the Chairman (Mr.
11. &riven), be reeelected Chairman for the ensiling
year.
Rooritu. AT THE juryman describes the
former M.P. for Lamoeth as appearing to be a most
Intelligent man with a very high forehead. He had a
light•eoloured beard rind whiskers, and &small moustache,
and looked very well. The Governor said that Roupell
was a very good man and worth a thousand of the others
for the position he held in the prison as orderly and
nurse. He was attentive to the primmer, that came
into the infirmary, and had of his own free will eat up
night after night with • young man who had been ill,
and though the young man's death had been daily
expected—it was very likely partly owing to Rotipell's
cue, that be etentually reeoured. Not oily in
temporal matters had the ex•M P. been careful of the
prisoner's welfare, but he bad also taken the greatest
rains to instruct them in matters relating to the better
life, and urged upon them the importance of preparing
for death, giving them the soundest instruction in
religion. The letters that Koupell wrote to his friends
were worthy of being published in any book, they were
to fall of true religious feeling.—The Coroner said he
had an impolse that prompted him to say he should like
to see the prisoner release 1. He sup, osed convict
prisons were intended to reform their inmates, and the
Governor added that if ever one had been reformed, it
was Iteupell, but he weld not be liberated. unless •
special reprieve were granted, until he had served 21
years. The prisoner had 'erred in Portsmouth about
two years, and bed been at Portland six years,yet he was
only prat beginning his career us prisoner.—The whole
of the jory comp.ssionated Boupell. and wished that it
lay in their power to assist in his release.
• DISPZILATII COIVICT.—• wretch named Hall, who
attacked Dr. Nicholson with an iron belt, and struck
him on the heed, was sentenced to 36 lashes.
He is described as having taken his punishment in the
most hardened manner, but Dr. Maker, from motives
of humanity, and remembering that Hall had suffered
• recent punishment, remitted the last sic lashes On
tile same cxxiesiort two other fellows were flogged, one
for threatening the doctor, and another 'for tbrealt oing
on' of the superior °Slurs. On one of them was f..unil
• deadly weapon, consisting of a knife sharpened on
both sides and pointed. This had been done in a
!nptarious manner, as the convicts are closely watched.
With this be had threatened to " rip the Governor's
nut," and when tried for the offence, he repeated his
threat, and swore that the Governor's wife should be •
widow by the next day.. The Governor, however. seems
to have been very calm in the matter, and this wretch
only received 24 lashes, the same as the fellow who
threatened the other officer. They seem to have been
si.ven years' trIPO, and were all flogged on the same day.
Beteeartoe EgoW Till IBLAND.—Some of the poor
people who have been thrown into such distress by the
shortness of work, are beginning to adopt the only
practicable means of helping themselves out of their
difficulty, before their small stock of savings is ex-
haunted. Seine time ago, tbe Bev. Arthur Hill,
chaplain of the Prison, who has formerly been
labouring in Canada, delivered a lecture in lteforne
schoolroom, on the advantages of the colony, which
+urns to have favourably impressed some of his
hearers. Mr. Hill had also written • work giving is.
formation to intending emigrant., nod has Aways
been willing to assist them with the benefit of his
experience. Lost year two poor men, named Hansford,
one • mason, of Weston, and the other • labourer
of Wakeham, embraced Mr. Hill's advice, and left her,
for Canada. The fare is Di fie. from Liverpool to
Quebec, anti part of the fare is paid for those really in
need. So well did the H•nsfords prosper that they
have sent home for their wives and families, and on
Tuesday morning a party left Portland in one of Mr.
Thieaher's vans to catch the six o'clock O. W. fur
Liverpool. The man who left Portland as • labourer
had been able to send home 1:10 for his wife and
family. The other Mrs. Hen.ford accompanied them,
and two young men named Benson], who had been for
many years in the employ of Mr. Weston. but who
lately only worked four days • week, were in the party.
A labourer named Phalli*. and • whole family named
Mayer., the latter of wh, in have lately been working
at Portsmouth, for Mr. Leather, were to leave cid
Condon on the same day.