The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-08-14 00:00:00

BWANAGB.

TIIE SWANAGE REGATTA.

'the Isle of Parbeek Yacht Club and Swanoge Town
t hird annual Begat to cause elf on Thursday, ',relay, and
Saturday, the 2nii, 3rd, and 4th inst. While your reverter
was Ab 0.11.11 the committee vessel noting the times of the
races an.) other ecientiiie iisfortimtion we noted the
movements and criticising slug shore. Everybody was
of eitineou that such a young institution awl ouch an out
of the wont place cool.) not have expected. A inure
suet:maul time than it realised. The wind blew, and the
titles ran, the rain kept olf, and the sun shone the old
weather-clerk's trot. Surely the committee Inuit have
bribed him or memorialised bins after he has) disposed of
a good dinner. A Regatta is a good study. So few
people seem to know anything that is doing afloat, and
yet all have !sufficient reasons for being there. " Buy a
programme, sir I" " A programme, Ni,. Got something
else to slo with toy sixpences. Bought one last year and
couldn't understand it, nor anybody elm I came across."
" Hullo, how came you here; "Came to see you :old
the rest, you know. My ! what a lot of yachts there are."
I say, look at Nti-s —. Thera what I call a pretty
got up!" An examination of the deportment of the
lady, to whom the speaker refers, would convince a sceptic
that "she kuows that better than you do." A gentleman
in the fereground is tugging along his young wife, and she
is here because he is interest. There are a group of
rt ollellat.OUS .1., bete dropped their mallets :mil lett the
batdcers a few iiiinutts to' me this race off." We meet
one or two intlividea!s who have been ' here an hour, and
had enough of it," and who call our attention to "an
interesting idiot' who took up his position this morning,
and who, with a telescope against his eye, will remain
with 'Thine-like gravity and patience until there remains
n' thing and noleely to see. Some carriages bring down
'the ladies," thankfill to hare a few lively sights to help
digestion, whilst a fuddled Scotchnian tries to grind a
sober squeal from his Itag of wind under the borsee nese.,
, One of those Italian slaves of free England, &Oen:led Its: a
' group of leiys gabliering Swanagiatt at his Savoyian
, scream and craziest fiddling, its watched (if we mist aka
I nut) by the learned and popular Canon Ferrer, who h&I
; left the din of Westminster and the restoration of his
; church for the rest and restoration our salubrious and
1 Alp-like bracing air can yield. Here is a handsome swell
, iu serge, with his cane and his cigar, and his curious stare
, through his hole of gold at the country clown in his best
clothes attending cavalierly to the girl he has beside hint,
i wondering, wondering—more then I can guess.
; In the Bay an enlivening scene presented itself. Many
of the numerous yachts display gay bunting, the most
conspicuous certainly being the Sea Nymph, Mr. E. B.
I Aldridge, Treasurer of the Club. Tim Criterion and
; Lothair are bringing many passengers front Pale and
; Bournemouth. The Premier en roots for Yarmouth lands
; a party from Weymouth. Such advents quite rouse the
; attention of the crowds from themselves to the scene of
the sports. During the afternoon the Rayonette, cutter,
' Mr. H. Little, lust her mast and was towed in. Three
Imatches met near the committee vessel in one of the
roun Is, and the confusion of ideas ashore was complete.
Some folk vented their displeasure on the size of the flags,
others on supposed errors of the programmes, one recogs
nised this veasel by her rig, and another asserted her name
I was not that but something else, yet all agreed that the
' arrangements by which no part of the course was more
than 14 of a mile front the committee most, was both wise
and kind, for if we were not quite sure who they were,
we at least could see what they did.
A stir and stare ! The Lady Evelyn yacht comes to an
anchor and the captain's gig with a coronet painted on her
Is put ashore. The 'noble lord' steps out. Where is he
going) Rumour says "to the club house to enrol his
muse." We hope so. There has been a race in which the
stonemasons, in a boat they bought (so gays report) of the
government for 16s. have ',utilise,' and beaten the coast'
gum.)', The Stuilland men In not like it, and one of them
, excitedly offers to stake half-a-sovereign they will beat
them in a pull "from here to the Bollard." NOW this
port of the sports is certainly interesting and it must be
at least consoling to the coastguards to learn that the
winning boat has been in "the service." Sensation ! A
lady gets ducked ! There seems, however, no pity to spare
even for a visitor, in this laughing crowd.
Crushiug ! Footholds are very insecure along the bank.
Is the great race coming to a close? " Bah ! Don't you
see ! Look ! look ! ! Bob Harden, look !" "Well what
of him !" That is the chap who climbed the cliff and
, brought down the umbrella" "That is nothing, the
young man who lett it there was in the crowd a minute
ago" "Look, look ! Pah Harden, the duck, the duck." Mr.
Editor never puts it in the paper, and yet the 'dock hunt'
is Ow sight of sights. Who cares who wins the ten pound
; notes, the crowd wants to see the gig and punt win •
1 sovereign or something less. Well it is fun to see men
childish. We have not all grown too old to be ashamed
of laughing at nothing. Then there was some more
pulling, and yachts came in and we were glad to know
. that a Poole boat though third, had won £lO by time, and
. that a Weymouth Sylvia had won £5 by position and
; seamanship. But there is wime popular work on again,
, "they are gang to walk the greasy bowsprit." The first
mu on, cots to the end and pulls out the flag. But no
toms to-day. There is plenty of trying but no success.
At lost the notorious Harden gets a fall but clings and
WOrks Isis way with hands and knees, snatches the flag
off the staff and slips overboard. Mr. If. Filson shuts his
Itook with a laugh and they settle the matter somehow.
Well the yachts are in. We will go to tea. The evening
was chilly. A large number of spectators came to see the
fireworks. Outside the Victoria Hotel the brass hauds
. of Kingston and Langton were doing their "level best'
as Mark Twain asys to produce • din, and they succeeded
; admirably and to their own satisfaction. A street German
' set of artists, engaged by the projectors of the Regatta for
the next year, would petite an agreeable change —better
still nbne at all, for our ear's sake. These rancid strains
and the co d breeze, set many of the crowd • jigging until
an ascending rocket and coloured phenomena announce
the chief event of the night. The works were good of
their kind, lint it was kindly suggested that either Mr.
Brack was at some other seaside, or that the matches
were damp, or that the couunittee had not provided a pair
of bellows t t keep the pokers hot, or that the friends
were imitating a leisurely Turkish Commandment. Per-
haps it WW.I too dark, to see the chronometer. The final
illumination of the shore Was very pretty, and redeemed
the rest from the charge of intolerable dulness.
Two events of the second day caused a commotion
ashore. The first was a telegram to the effect that the
Whisper 17 tons, had been piloted by a Swansgian (who
had better be nameless) unto the Christchurch ledges.
Knitted frocks gathered into noisy groups, and condemned
unheard the absentee wateromn. Some of the profession
from Poole, leered " this will get the Swanage name up."
They had passed the wrecked craft and asserted she
wasn't "worth • bundle of matches." Their countenances
trete worth looking at, when a second telegram declared
the Whisper "off., One of them said with questionable
sincerity "Well I hope she is, that's &IL" The second
event was the finish of the race tor the "Alfred Prize."
The Bloodhound hart the lead by three or four minutes,
and she tore through the hay like a spirit of the storm.
The (ilance (an old favourite) and the Myceotis came in
abreast, but the former to the intense delight of the
fishermen, held on her tack lung enough to compel the
latter to lose acne premous seconds by rounding the craft
at anchor, and the cheer of praise was moot hearty and
prolonged, which greeted this exhibition of seamanship.
On Ssturday morning the Iseather had greatly changed,
The sea was as smooth as glees and there seemed no
breath of wind stirring. A gallant start, however, was
made for the channel matches from Swansea to SOnth-
ampten. For cutters not exceeding 20 tons, four started.
'flue Torch slowly dragged past the committee boat,
followed closely by the Enriqueta, Butterfly, and Vanessa,
in order. when they net every sail to woo the wind they
were not dimppeinted, though timidly she mid "I come,
enabling the next match, for cotters not exceeding 10
tons, logs off in better style. The Itayonette (with new
mmts) and Lilly led, whilst the Merle. Lizzie, Fiona and
Alunette, danced close attendance. With a freshening
breeze they cleared the bay, and as they forged their way
on different tacks, the ten yachts gave us • beautiful
finish to an excellent and well-arranged three dere
Regatta

PARIS. Thursday night.
The Estafette publishes the following telegram from
St. Petersburg, Ilated August 7 :
" The Exaspmation felt against the Government is the
moro violent because it has tried to conceal trot notes.
The loss of twat limn of the effective army at Plevna, the
uselois butchery of the troops in Aaa and in Europe, and
the &Mow incapacity of the COUIIII4IIIIerS have produced
great agitation, especially in the provinces. Competent
witnesses coining from the army affirm that the anger of
the soldiers at time useless sacrifice of men is so great that
if it had not been for the excesses of the Turks more than
a fourth part id tie linsaiati soldiers would have already
rfaseed over to the enemy."
RUssIAX CRUELTIES.

r*e.vicraNTINOPLE, August g (9.45
The Minister for Foreign Affairs bait sent a ilespatch
to the representatives of the Porte abroad, in which he
says :
" I transmit to you the following telegrams relating to
the acts of barbarity committed by the Russian troops
during their sojourn on Ottoman territory in Asia and
Europe, which have teen reported to us quite recently. A
telegram from Ismail Paha, the commandant of Van and
Bayagid, states that the Russians have carried off all the
property of Sheikh Balla Youssouf, of the village of
lchabil, and made all his busily prisoners. Five or nix
Kurli-luehiefo of Tally II uedik. al Cie enemy had
canned to Is• summoned to his camp, as well as file
fltalllo Rehr Aglaia, and 57 ether persons in bus suite,
belonging to the trite of Yachini, were seiz•sl, MIA con-
vi yml to the lialaeo of an Armenian Bishop in the neigh-
bourhood of Kilissa, where they were massacred.
Toprak Kale, as well as the neighbouring villages of
itantchak and thiedik, near Mona:sown fineilik, and, in
fact, all the villages through whirl. the Rossimis passed
in their retreat, have been ilestreyed. Two notables of
, the tribes of Kara KtLissa, and SO old men, with women
and children, who hail t iken refuge in the niountains
fell into the han-ls of the ituasians, who, during their
march towards Reran, put them to death one after the
ether, together with a number of other inoffensive lemons.
A Mussulinan who WWI travelling in a carriage with his
was attackwl by the enemy, who bayonetted the
child. The Bulgarians fastened Hadji Mustaphs Effendi.
Secretary to the Government at l'irva, to s tree, leaving
him exposed for three days t the son, after chili they
conveyed him to Ellena, where he is detained a prisoner
with his beautiful wife, who has been forced to adopt the
Christian dress. The Bulgarian., have burned the
Mussulinan village of Cara Atli, a village in the district
of Tchippan. Some Mussulman men and women who
fell into their hands were put to death in the nest cruel
manner. A telegram from his Excellency Metieolmt All
! Pasha says that HI inhabitants of the village of 'Miens,
I three of whom were men and the remainder women and
I children, fled before the Russians, and took refuge in
Mount Kodja Bkiar. They were captured by the Russians,
eight of them were killed, and four children were aban-
doned by the side of their mothers' bailie. One Mussel-
man woman escaped after having lost her husband and one
of her children, and los arrived at Ouniin Raw, bearing
in her arms the last of her children. She hail received
five wounds, caused by tire-arins and thrusts from lances.
We anxiously ask ourselves whether Bony° will continue
-to remain an impassive spectator of these premeilitated
violations of the laws id war and humanity, and whether
we are condemned to see the list of many.; among the
Ottoman population augment indefinitely. It is necessary
that you give the widest publicity to these facts, in order
to inform public opinion of the barbarous vonduct of
Media in such • manner that, in default of other means
of repression, the civilised world may I wand her with its
unanimous reprobation."

TERRIBLE OUTBAGEs BT THE RUSSIANS.
(Doily TvayrajJi Despatch.)
YEN I SAG II RA, Wednesday.
The barbarous enemy is in full retreat from these
districts, leaving behind Lim inch ',roofs i,f cruelty and
inhuman wrong as no description can convey. It is
Comparatively a venial evidence of the exterminating
policy lif the Russians that they have burned ilawn
this town and all the priisliemits villages in its vicinity.
The moat terrible spectacle is to be seen in the hells
immediately surrounding the ruins of theme destroyed
places. Hundreds of unburied bodies of the Mussul-
man peasants lie scattered far and near, strewing the
ground which they lately tilled. Troops of dogs and
pigs wander among the corpses, gorging themselves
upon the decaying remains, while birds of prey are
seen everywhere sharing this hideous feast. It is
quite impossible, in truth, to depict the horrible
spectacle which the country hereabouts presents after
the Musaivite occupation. The whole region is at
once a charnel-house, and a desert. The cattle roam
about untended in what remains of the not yet burned
crops and grass, amid the dead bodies of their owners.
One glance at the environs of Yeni Savhra would
certainly make your most enthusiastic agitators sick
of "Christian reformation," but there is far worse
than this to communicate. The outrages committed
all round by the Ituesian troops upon such as they
spared alive have been inconceivably shocking and
atrocious. I have seen and talked with hundreds of
refugees, and especially with some of the many Jewish
families who have escaped from the hands of the
invaders. Those who have c irne in from Eski Saghra
declare that in that dbdrict every woman and girl,
without exception, has been brutally outraged by the
Cossacks of Gourko or by the Bulgarian Christiana
One exceedingly pretty young woman of 11; years has
been violated by 18 fluseian troopers. She is dying.
Doctor Ilenidie, of the Red Crow. Association, and I
visited her together, and heard the shameful story
from her agonised friends. Horribly heartrending as
that story was, I can assure you, it in hut a sample of
' what these suffering people have to narrate.
HI:Lc:ARUN WOMEN.

A special correspondent of -the Tuacr, writing of the
social position of Bulgarian women, says :—My hoist
povesses a good house, a grown-up son who is a wit,
and married to a good-looking, hard-working woman,
whom he treats in public as a servant, who cooks and
waits at table, though there are other 'servants, and
though she has a baby at the breast The other day
at Tirnova a well-educated Bulgarian, who speaks
French fluently, was answering some questions as to
the status of women in his country, and after a flow of
chivalrous language expressing his view of man's
obligation to pro
tect,and what we express in English
by the word " worship," the gentler half of mankind,
wound up by saying, "Of course it is well knowixthat
woman is mentally, physically and morally inferior to
man." So, an far as I have hitherto seen, is she con-
sidered and treated in this country. She is a man's
help, but not his helpmate. Ile guards and protects
a valuable horse or dog, getting all the service
he can out of her, and rendering her in return
his half-contemptuous protection. He uncovers
her face and lot her chat with her fellows in the court-
yard, the street, or the market; but he watches over
her conduct with a jealous conviction that she is un-
able to guard herself. It is a modification, yet a
developement of the Mussulman idea, and he seems to
think if she has a soul to be saved be must manage to
save it for her. On talking over the subject with
intelligent foreigners aho live in the country, I am
told that the Bulgarian girl, as a rule, is virtuous,
and the custom prevails that if after marriage the
husband finds reason to suspect precious faults in his
newly-married wife, he acts as was labl down in the
old Jewish law, given in the Bible, brings what he
considers the proofs to old people who wait in readi-
ness, and may return the bride to her parents, who
have already furnished her with an outfit.
The idea prevailed on Friday in some parts that
fighting was going on at Plevna, but the fact that no
intimation on the "object had reached the British
Embassy at Constantinople led to the belief that the
report was premature. The Russians are credited with
having a force numbering eighty thousand men on the
scene of their former deafest ; and Osman Pacha's
position is thought to compensate for numerical
Inferiority of the army at his disposal. An affair in
which ten companies of infantry and six squadrons of
cavalry were engaged in an attack upon the Turks
near Osman Bazaar, ended in the repulse of the
Russians. The Roumanian contingent to the invading
army will, it is thought, number thirty thourand.
The Premier of Roumania is at present with the Czar.
The Turks have ascertained by a reconnaissance that
there are no RUISSiSELS in one of the principal Balkan
poem, and Bulgarian prisoners report that the
Russia' no have fallen back on Tirnova.
The Hungarian authorities have issued strict orders
with a visw to peanut the Russian commissariat
reedy* supplies from Transylvania.

Edwin' Poll T, a clerk, aged 19, living at Wendt, rd, is
in custody at Epping on the charge of causing the death
him
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physically weak, was walking along the road when the
prisoner and a companion approached on bicycles down
bill, at the rate according to two witnesses, of about 13
miles an hour. They shouted out, and the deceased tried
to get out of the way, but he was knocked down by thc
prisoner's bicycle, and run over by both, such injuries
being caused to the head and brain that he was picked up
speech!eiet and died in about ten minutes.
The Court of Appeal hae confirmed the judgment of
VieeChancellor Boron, who ordered the money received
by Mr. Albert Grant, Mr. James Carlton, and other.,
amounting to £83,0151, for promoting the formation ot
the colliery company of Bagnall and Sons (Limited) to be
returned to the company. The Court assessed the reason-
able commission on the purchase of the works to he paid
to the defendants at £9,105. N;ti oe of appeal to the
House of Lords was given.
For several days the house of an old man, named
William Harvey, living at Brailford-on•A von, was
not cud to be shut, and on Toesday the police got a
ladder, effected an entrance, and beam) the old titan dead
in bed, in an emaciated state, and a little dog nestled up
at the side of the cerpse. The inspector had great
iliflletilty in beating the animal ref to get at the dead man.
Everything was in a mold filthy state, and there was
about .C. 5 in cash in the room. Several title deeds, show-
ing the man to be possesses' of house property in various
parts, were discovered by the police. Death is said to
have been accelerated by the want of nourishment.
At an inquest held at New Swindon, Wilts, a very
paiefid ;dory was told. Two children named Davies, aged
ten and seven yeans, were walking along the banks of a
canal from tele.' to dinner, and, as it was raining hard,
the younger one put up her handkerchief to keep her head
and farm dry. Unable to se, the path she walked into the
canal lice elder sister at ;ince went in to rescue her, but
the water beinz deep both were drowned.
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