The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-11-20 00:00:00

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COASTGUARD TENDERS.7P.o4ihIy thile_nlay he some-

thing *pal in rote tor Commanders of the Co ,stoiliard
tenders of all el fo- I hear that an order has been
reeeired by one Cope-otard ship, at least, for :1 report to
mole of the work performed by her tenders luring the
pist t welve months especially noting the number of slays
and nights pent by them at sea. I Imlieve this order is
general, and may 1., anticipated to have some connection
with the que-tion of sea-time or monnyind money.—
ffampsh fro I tolep,
WESLF.YAN MISSIONARY '`ERVICES were hell on SIM lay,
when the It-v. Sa•eoel Wedey, of Paolo, aml the Rev.
W. ii. Leak of W, y nioath, preached, awl the R.,. T.
Brown mblresited the school, in tho often on. Tim
weather was in very Ind that the aVendance was =mall.
The poblic meeting was held on Monday, and syldree,es
were given by the Circuit ministers. On Tipoplay another
pithlic meeting was held at Easton.
Tile MURDERER, I turret-ship, Captain J. C. Wilson,
which has been for several weeks at Portland, where a
aeries of experiments have taken plasm with a view of
aatertaining the heave and angle of the ship while making
circlea, env.' at Piston .uth .in Sunday. She will be
t ikon into dock, have her I ottont cleanel, • Awls
internal reairrang.onenbi effected, and 000* set of Imo,
supplied, the present set being institli Mont for the com-
plement of the chiti. C wro-ion has also been discovered
in the hydraulic rammera of the foremost turret, and
probably the present steel ramrods will he supers pled, so
the vessel will most likely be at Portsmouth two or three
months.
QUEEN'S SCIMLARS. —ln the list just published, of
auccessful candidate, for admission into Training Colleges
at the Midsummer Scholarship Examination we find the
following from this district :
No,

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List. Clog+. Nana, Training College.
149 Lit. R. Jarman. Pytland Winchester.
449 2n I. C. L. Me'Klemm. Weymouth Raster.
727 2,11. W. G. Pearee, Portland Oldham.
:212. Lit. Maria Drayton. Weymouth Salisbury.
515 11. Mn :I.(lnv. f n'tjand Stiiekwell

812 find. Annie Itailey, Bridport 'Whttelands.
Marrone CONCFAT. —The gymnasium at the Verne
Citadel was the scene of a gay concert on Thursday even-
ing last, !miler the p arming° of Doyle. and the
officers of the 2-9lth Regiment. The whole of the officers
attended, and many of the tion-cort tttt isnioned officers, the
latter being indefatigable in their attention to visitors.
The following is the programme ;—Over tine, "Fm
Diavoln." hand ; glee, "11 di Smiling Morn," glee clam;
song, "Nancy Lee," Birlanshaw ; chirionet solo, "Concert
Aria," Caper; sang, "Death of Nelwrn," O'Brien ; selec-
tion, "Irinh Fantasia," hotel; overture, "Z:tiripb" band;
glee, "Cirretrades in Arms," glee clans; song, "
Dear," Turner ; cornet wile, "Lydia Polka," Monday;
glee, "The Red Cross-Knight," glee claw. : sang. "Simon
the Cellaw•r," Sergeant-Major Cutleinh Russian DAll..e.
" Pas den Patineurs," band ; "Gml Save the Queen."—
Sergeant. Major Crithush's song, without aceomponiment,
met with a rapturous encore, when he gave another song,
also unaccompanied : hut the first was 1004 effective, it
wan given with wonderful mimic power. The clarionet
solo, by Cooper, as also the cornet nob, by Monday, were
simply exquisite. The attendance woo goa.l. but our
correspondent complains of the unheard-of late hour for a
concert of thin description. Ile cannot imagine why such
an hour was chosen, and if it was for the convenience of
the regiment, he hopes that, for the beteflt of friends, it
will be fixed earlier in (Mere. For Sergeant-Major
Cuthush a word meat be cold: his agreeable demeanour
adds much to mere.% and he may tnily be described an
being "all there." Those deniring a musical treat mutt
not fail to hear this excellent hand, under the able man-
agement of its talented loader, Band-master Dimmer.
Time. LIFE SAVERS' LETTER. —P. wlland, Chesil, November
o,h, Pin.—" r.—lteing desiroes the public should know
in what way the persons who went to the rescue of those
poor shipwrecked mariners belonging to the Avalanche
and Forent have distributed the money Presented to them
by a nuinher of kind friend-,, we beg to say Id nhare.i have
been made—one for each bo it holonging to Mewing. Way
and Bunnell. Front then., if shares Li 15s. each has been
presented to the launchers, or henchmen, making -Clue
with the ZS presented to them at St. John's School. We
therefore leave the public to judge for themselves whether
the money presented to them Iry us is suffirient or not,
leaving pun with about Lli Ifin. each. But whole we inform
the public of our Proceedings, thinking it nothin4 hut
right to thank the Revs. T. A. Brum an-1 T. Ottley, not
forgetting the Mayor of Weymouth, with a number of
nther kind friends too numerous to mention, we mental.°
add it was not the prospect of haying a MOO of money that
actuated tin to launch our heat+ front the Chesil Beach,
neither was it given as a re•••tpiitron of bravery; but our
sole oldect was to save life. For in the distance we saw a
boat, and in that boat there were lives to be saved, or
very soon, to all appearance, they worild have met with a
watery grave. Therefore, with hurried step, we ran, and,
scarcely waiting fnr a tit time, our boat woo launched by
the men on the beach through the billowy an.. Being
anxirres to get to them, seeing their danger—the boat
ening as fast an wind and tide could r trey her tow trills the
R tee— we rowel with all our might until we hailed them,
aml ha I we not been presented with anything the joy we
felt within our hreanrs when reaching those poor fellows
would amply have row tried on for what we did. And we
venture to say shmild a similar event take place in future
we will do ner etreont, even if it is to the peril of our live.,
to reneue the twridling from a watery grave —Tug TWO
BOAT'S CREWS Willis wEvr TO TITO RKICI/T.."

At the ilamphiro, Dorset. and Wilts Annisee, held at
Wino-W.oer, on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice femes.
Java flollyont. no occupation, well nelecated, wU
indicted tor telonionely killing awl slaying Arthur
11.theak, at Preston and Sutton Pointe, on the 11th
October lout—Mr. Lock prmecuted, and Mr. Clarke
defended the pridoner, who pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Lock said the prisoner was charged with the man-
daughter of bin infant child, aged only 15 months, the
grounds of that charge were that he was guilty of efinable
neglect in omitting to provide proper food and medical
assistance for his child. That child being dependent upon
him, and he being perfectly aide to provide much fond awl
medical ascintance. Hid lordship would tell them that
where a duty is clearly impeed upon any man, whether
by common law or by statute. and that WM dhould
wilfully and tleliberately and reckled-ly neglect to perform
that duty, end by his neglect, or in consequence of his
neglect, the death of any other person is camed, that man
wise guilty of manslaughter. It would lie for the Jury.
after they Inul heard the evidence, to my whether the
prisoner had been guilty of such deliberate and reckless
nettle.% of duty.
His Lordship: Reckless or wanton neglect would be
nutiicient, deliberate neglect would amount toe murder.
Mr. Lock replied that he meant deliberate neglect of
duty without any intention to muss the death. He wan
quoting the wordg of the tart c tee upon the subject.
His Lordship : Was that the quaker I
Mr. Lock mid no, one of the peculiar people. The facte
to be proved in evidence would, of comae, be directed to
these two pointd—firnt, whether or no the prisoner emelt'
a position in which there Woa 0 duty incumbent upon himt
to provide proper maintenance vii medical attendance •
neettolly, whether he negleeted th it itity, and thereby
whether the death of tho ebil.l was onmequent on ths
neglect of the prisoner. It app., ired lie WIPI thu father
of ox children, the eldest of when anahl let callei before
them, and who wan not more than eleven years 111. Ihe
mother lowl been dead a'ned 12 months, awl the norop.ner
therefore, was not in a position that fathers ~(ten were
who were charged with offences of fins kind—of being
old to say that the mother wan the proper 1.1,4,01 to look
after the child, he having left nufficient provinion for it.
From the time of the death of the moth, r the prisoner
himself undertook the re•ponsilelity of providing fur end
1,,. king after his childrcn, without the ',Admire of any
nervent or mum employed in the regular way. It seemed
tlmt about Mx 111011th• before th id occurrence the proioner
had • servant for about • month, and it wont! let Ammo
that he was in a p eition which rendered him perfectly
well able to keep a servant, he Mine a man of no °mune*
tion, awl of iudepentlent property—of small independent
property it was trite, but Ail sufficient to allow him to
keep
into own piny and cart, and to live where he
did without any occupation whatever. It was not tor thu
CA H G CASUALTIES IN TE ALE. orth
prosecution to my that it WM other then prai.new Y
Denides the cases of the Alma and the " T.G.v.,. elelse- act for a father to say he would look after bon
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where rep eel. the following idling have nut in with children in preference to handing them over to another
damagen:—The Britannia steamer (Harvey, manter), from poem ; lutit a parent, meet he sufficiently imprensed with
C nliz for Lan lon, With a cargo of wine, f canary the respomiloility he incure by no doing, "'I if he "c-
-rent, rte., woe on the 14.. h about 100 hill's nnutta-went of lecteil t,, set up t n that renpondibility negligently an
U divot when the eleoont:red a deem,: gale with tee. ',Alertly, the law held that h.' wad elle ible. In detailiel
nem-loos heavy sea. end the chip nettle a lurch and the facts that would he, provc.l it evideion., the learn"
suddenly nprang o leak, but owing to her watertight counsel mid it Wan no defence for the prisoner to nay that
divisimm the water wen confined to the engine-rnonni, if he had fed the child oftener it was probable that it
where it put the fires out, and the inmates were obliged would have died all the game.
to leave. They set two pumps to work, but the 'eh. and The Judge: If he accelerated the death that would he
manall coal washed in and choked the pump, The main sufficient
pumps were then net going, but the chap made very had After some further remarks, Mr. Lock called thee on of
weather. Owing, however, to the nature of the cargo she prisoner, who gave evidence *Moiler to that given at the
remained very buoyant, and they were able to continue coroner's enquiry, and which appeared fully in thole
their exertions with the main pump., but could not get columns.
the water under. On Saturday, about nine, when Mr. Clarke erode-examined the witness at some length.
711 miles nouth.west of Unbent, they spoke the steamship but elicited nothing material.
Clytne, the ma.nter of which lay by them for 24 bourn, for Emma Guppy, residing at the Ship inn, kept by her
which he deserven credit, mince he only left the mother, also repeated ber evidence.
Britannia until the of the latter signalled " Leak By Mr. Clarke t Prisoner had been drinking, let was
getting under" The Britannia dinconnected screw, set not drunk when he went home in the evening. She had
her canna., and put her before the wind, to run up not seen the child.
Channel. She came unto Portland roada at noon, the crew To the Judge Never went to the house hut once when
much exhaunte.i. By the mainpumm they had got the his wife was ill, and then he was brought home drunk.
water under; hut the eargo was shifted. They were at He freqiiently left his children four hours together.
work till Wedneelav ronrning, when they cleared the Hid Lordnhip : I did not auk you for that.
enzineroom, rot up and went off for London, the Dr. Pridham, of Browiwey, proved the (finned of •
meet mill having a strong lint, with.' in the rade, Elia sbeth Miller, and said she could
The R malie brig. Raymond meter, from Cana Blanca, not be present.
went into Portland Rowid onMond,y, having experienced Mr. Clarke/ Is ohs attending to her busloads in the
severe weather off the E Idystnue, when ehn carried away ban?
part tot her bulwarks on the port side, had her meinsail Pridham : She is in bed unable to come.
split, otc.—The liauntlett, an emigrant barque with MO The depositions were then proved by Mr. Bralthwait,
souls all told, front Lnntlon to Bridhane, left London a clerk to the comity coroner,
month sineo, and got as fisr as Plymouth, where, owing to Mon. Miller'n evidence was simply corroborative of that
an outbreak of ocarlatine, the pansengern were transferred given by the last wanes',
to a hulk. an.l the vemel was dininfected. She left l'ly- Dr. Coliner. t.f Weymouth, proved having been called
mouth last Monday, bot was blown back, and on Sunday to see the deceased child, awl the condition in which he
night, whilst between Portland and the Caskets, and found him on making • put money* examination.
when in the act of wearing, her main rigging gave way Dr. Pridham said he agreed generally with Dr. Colmer,
owing to the gal, and the heavy see. Mondry sails ware but from what he had heard and men be WU inclined to
split, and she ran for Portland. New rigging has been believe the child had measles
obtained from Londnna the newel is re-fitting, and they Sept. Batty said prisoner lived on his private income,
hope to get away on Friday. —The Colette dtearuship came which he had told witness was about £lOO myear.
ins on Tuesday to report. She was from Hartlepool to This being the case for the prosecution, Mr, Clarke
Gibraltar, and states that when lying at anchor off flu a- asked the opinion of the Court as to whether there was
DM On Saturday, owing to the heavy weather the ease to go to the Jury.
schooner. Sussex Maid, fouled her, and carried away her Ms Lordship sold thus wee.

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