The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-12 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

thatrrourrsto OF HI Sir.—On Tuesday, before the
borough magistrates, Charles Grant, • seaman,
claimed £4.. Los. from Captain Ilayuoids as wages ilue
on board the yacht Gitauis for which he had been
engaged for the run from Portland to Swanage. It
Weald the captain had had a sailor leave him, and
bail telegrapiied to his owners, who replie I " Engage
another man if towable." The captain eogaged this
man, but another came down, sent by the owners.
tirsnt had been kept in town ,inno Thursday, paying
, for his own bard and lodging. Ile summoued the
captain for • month's waes in ben of notice; but LI
had Wen offered as cc ,inpromise, and the yacht had
now sailed. 116 suinm net the captain against his
will, believing the genLemeo were the ones who ought
to piy. The inaiistrates worse rry for complaioant ;
but as the yacht was out f their jurisdictioo, they
could only remit coats, and advise Great to summon
the def sultan. in the County Court.

THAN? SHAMMING DIMPHMATION. Last We I-
ne.d.ty a tramp wede people think he was going to
jump off the bridge. He hal 4,01 e here. no doubt, for
the rac-nt, and hid been staying in Weymouth ever
Pince, living in a hduse on the other side of the wattr.
With another man he got into • wrangle, and the other
t hind be hat n heeit to jump over the bridge.
This aggravated hint, an I b,ing at the time in liquor,
he adj eorn di to the middle of toe bridge to see if he'd
do it. Off came C let ant trousers, and at last be stood
hi his drawees alone, striking an attitu to of awful
desperation, but he couldn't 'clew coura4e up for the
jump. Up on the parapet he mounted ; but, u4ll I
the water lo elt,d ugly, for the tide was between high
and Low, and he might get a ku.ck if over he went.
:Soma of the people thought he might Like the
terrib'.e" plunge, and P.O. Kaile warn sent for. This
didn't bring matters to a crisis, for it vas no go with
the chant self elrowner, but • thoruugh " sell" for the
expectsut plungeeeeers. The people having had their
sal, Constable Kaile introduce! the drawers-dreseed
vagrant be an ether cell, at the station, and the supp esod
ezhibiti di of pub ic diving Celllo to a ei liculous end.
—Michael Shed l bremght up on Theirs lay morn-
ing before Dr. Drew, J. Lundie, and B. Hopkins,
chaegal wdh attempting to commit so f cite, by
jumpiug edff the Bridge. He said that some people
were talking in a publechouse about swimming and
diving, and as he had jumped off higher places than
the Bridge, and they promised to tnak3 up a few
ha'pmce for him if he jumped off the Bridge, he being
in liquor, said he'd do it. —Seven days hard labour.

FORD AND HUI WlNlL—Maliter Fara wag summoned
for assaulting his wife Ann. The cue we. heard on
Tuesday, before the Mayor (K. N. Howard, Esq.), Dr.
Drew, W. Talbot, Esq., and J. Milledge, Esq. l'he
woman works hard at manglinz, &c, and the man is
a moderately endurable hu.band when he's out of work,
because then he geta no mon-y to spend in drink. As
sxni as he's in work, lie's on the road to be in drink,
and •an gets there, when he ilktreats his wife. On
this occasion, he any., the wife had not got any victuals
for him, and did not wash his shirt. "Why," uy, she
woman, "You didn't all ,w but 9s. 6.1. for six ws.eks ;
bow could I get any victuals?" For this awful
rebell.on against c instituted authority, M. Ford
attempted to chastise Mr.. Ford; but the lady—(iwns.
" lady " means • " bread-giver")—streogtheried by
her encounters at the mangle and washtub, was not to
be dealt with summarily. However, she c Juldn't
afford to be thus I wiled over in such a shallow fashion,
and brought him up for peace and quietness. Some
nasgistrate--(was he • bachelor 3; -expressed an
opinion it was six of one an I halfsudoran a the
other, and the would-be wife-beater got off on tuying
the costs, 3s. 61. Mrs. Ford had the consolation a
being tAd to come there again for redress if he beat
her; but she, with independence worthy of the
Married Woman's Property Act, emoted them she
woubin t trouble them, for she wouldn't live with him;
he might go and live with his fish-fags.