The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-03-06 00:00:00

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the severe xeetynt.l it hs4 t.. n4ain
_hist yeAr.

.11A i 'nee wita re-elected for the cleating ye tr, !
And a unanimous vote of thanks were ;given to the
Honorary membent and contributors to the deserving
tociet y.
),.WIN.. MC Mont NES. We with the Naval Cadets
joy .4 their boating a. the inland wain.. .4 the Dart
a dos. tort of fun compared to life on the telt tea wave
at Portland. The jolly tact do carry on, to.. when they
get into a tailing boat, and thi+ it pretty often between
the Warrior, the Rotmwen, and all parts of Rai 10.
Welt we were La+t in the limmwen dingy they
lobbed to much canvat that our gunwale wat C 1,..., to
the wateet rlce all the way; lint it was a merry time.
'rho Warrior'. 'pinanee on Tuemlay. Was taking if a
pony .4 marine+ who had been at ball practice, awl,
teutal, the tars gave the "Joe. a prAty wet
berth, for the lee gunwale took in the water finely.
They pretty nearly overolid it, for a Small fell upon
the sane, the logeled over to 11., and in mute the
given water, to that both tars and pat. had att much as
they could do to right her, and bole her out. A tignal
front the Warrior onlered them back to the "camber,"
where they had to take in a reef before they could
come out again. Them praetical experiences of the
sea what can the young gentlemen (whose nurses are
afraid of their getting wet) know anything about?
emlett at trained may he lit bu• Admiralty patmnage,
and n 1111 l ing down a yacht or biting an ; but
what Cu, they know about the life on the ocean wave,
where "the breeze follow.. fair and (ma!

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Mr. It. N. Howard, eoron,w. Ind.( an inquest on Saturday I
two, at the Breakwater Hotel, on the Icily ,d George 1
Stroud. mate of the James, of Goole. The vessel was on
her voya.m from I. ei.lon to Plyiumith, with the patent
guano. Anil the dereased shipped on the 3rd inst.. at
L nelen, as mete lie had been tinder the same captain,
Williaiu llord, before, and was 5t3 yearn of age. On the
11.11, when at anchor off I lungeness, deceased complained
of a swelling. The captain advised bathing the part, and
gave him smile h erkihorn and sweet oil. ,Neet day he
comp'. lof pain, and the captain gave him 2:3 drop, of
chlorodyne in water, about threni in the afternoon, at
eight another dose, and another next morning. neeeeeed
wanted in we but the captain was afraid to give it,
deomeed being troubled with asthma. On Thursday
evening. de ,easeel felt sleepy, and wanted to go to bed, and
two of the crew put him to lied. 5..; after he was in his
berth he went to sleep, awl at twelve n'el.wk, he seemed
to Is still sleepin4, the enptAin went and. An dee to him ;
but lie 'wide no reidy, at live the captain slit one of the
crow, and at sin went to see him ; but he inn.. dew!. The
captain then bore up for Portl end, and hr. irwies and
the serg ~ ant of police went olf, alien the body was as it
lay, the knee a little bent. There had been no disturlmnee
on Isserd between the captain awl mate. The printed
inetructions on the bottle of chlorshme stated that Pb:
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&gip: were to be given ass dose every three or Cow boom.
till relief is affonled.--`tentt Thum,. Steed flitch saw the
body lying in the berth on his facet with, the hands
clenched. There were no marks of bruises, and he had it
brought on shore, and Or. farmins examined it. —William
Joseph Janes corrolurated the captain's evidence. and said
deceased was coughing awl spittMg on G.
J. Paraons spike to the state of the body, be did not dis-
c iver any marks of extenial vi knee or injury, and hod
no reason t' I believe the death was caused-by other than
natural causes. As deceased was suffering from asthma,
ehlormlyn, W.os not a suitable medicine : a stimulating
exp•sitorant would have liven letter—All the crew
exioresse.l great regret at the iliitth of the WWl' fe11,.-.
lives at Itomsgate, an I the captain telegraphed
1.., her, lint she could not come—Verdiet—" Death front
Natural Causes."

bosineerlike home, the George, Reform. on Wedneeday ;
there wilt, sever al members of the Local Board, eminent
solicitors froin Weymouth, hankers, the railway station-
master, farmers, stone-workers, an I tradesnien All gathered
in the iiiiiita•r roo on, except thew wh were now and then
refredting themoilvei by a frien Sy glass with mine hook
Clerk Ilin-le, whose genial face IMK 11-et tO POE :Loin
after his warming to prepare for the tbilizs unseen. The
tinst airs rein, Ofa-i so crowded th at before I got to the
front it took ~orie pushin.t and a g deal of courteous
" making room" by the leeopirable Portlanders, who are
always kindly, and hardly look mi your humble servant as
• kimberlin. Thatexperienced •Aldernionof the Member,"
, Mr. Milhiole*., ca. recommending the property with the
fluency of his p-r-uadire his worthy eon,—
may it lie long before I write " lOlCAfelp,or "—was keenly
'detecting the fast-coming. lids. Either property must be
Roily. up in Portlonol. the COMO were lucky in getling
g od'auctionoisrs. or the SAO 114.1 'min well advertised, for
the prices fetched were something worth taking;
ill thr - r-vises were combined. A lot was run OP to ~.any
scores of p muds, which a Pont:ander at rip elbow ti I me
he bad known sold for fat and his grandfather had sold
it for £l2! I beard obit go for over a AIM, anti another
that hwl surprise I everybody by reec`iiiig rite, was still
going tip, the clever auctioneer calling attention to •
remark of the lit. owner's son—that this IVAn not ball the
value, when it gulch's, ran up to tIlf), 4:7115, and the
auctioneer exhorting bidders to make even money, some
gentleman sprung another "liver ;" but he was beaten,
for was named, and after deliberation, at that it was
knocked down. There was n-. pro.pcet .4 your go'siPing
man :voting a tot in Porttand until Mr. C ameillor Wallis
does Malice to the report r-. so I hat a hatl.e the splendid
tleet .of vessels passing time Bill, and then trieted to the
railway station, which has no much helped to increase
the value of the Isle of Stone.