The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-03-13 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

THE Poi:name Hocere reel: will i.e xga.l to accept
challenee from any other club ; tie. 11. F. Parsons,
Atatiolllllft.Ncr, i.e the hon. secretary.
PRINCIPAL WAGILER lIIIERLA IN leer been pro-
hinted to Ise Chief IV:seder at Beretal Prison,
Chethatn, awl left Portland on IVselneseley morning.
W SCIIOOI.I ST t: A.:MIN, —Tend-re are invited
for bedding the new Wesleyan Dry an.l Sunday
se!: ...L. at Easton. It is believed they will Ikea great
inipmvement to the neighbourhood.
Rosin' FOR IVAR.—Mix or Keyes' respeetably droned
werknien; from H.M.S. Sniall Antis DeiMt, vielted
the Verne last night. They Were employed fer ;several
dere in making the newest iniprevement • in the
Martini-Henry rifles.
HARIER•. pack of hariere, kept by officers
of the 31.4 Regiment base hail ssite :peel runs on the
mai:demi lately. On Weilia.eilay merninet the Kismet
mei healthy I...king pack, left by train in charge of
!kr:q.t. Ilavley, and Lieut. Philip, and it being a line
day no ilOule the sport wee ple omits
jiassEe AND Pourtaxte —We hear that one of the
ilirecetlrs of the Weymouth awl Channel lel-mils
Steam Packet Company, with a a iptain of one of
the stesmene, was at the Breakwater last week,
examining, it is supposed, the capabilities of the
pleee.
Dearti or AN Eutenaare—Newe reached Portland
at the beginning of this week that young Mr. James
linseell, who went out to New Zealait I laet autism.,
died en January 3rd. It e -ems that he c inglit a cold
eeine out, and died of intlammeti et of the hinge
Another yeing man, who went out at the saute time,
retnrised in the same ship.
At Neu the ARTILI.F.IIT.—A notifiention Mot been
received in this continentl from the !horse Guards, to
the effect that Lieutenant-Colonel am' Brevet-I'olottel
N. O. S. Turner, c. n. is. A., has been app.intsel Inspector
..f Auxiliary Artillery in the Southern District, in the
piece of Brevet-Colonel J. K Thring, Royal Artiget7
whose tenure of appointment has expired. The thitiee
are to be taken us. immediately, and the appointment
is to has-i, effect from Thure.ley last.
SONG AND 'Wm:sone—On Thureday, a liervke of
song, entitled " the Life of David." was pgrfornie.l at
the Congreational tschool, (heed, the Rev. W. M.
FII presiding. The place was cratnmed hi over-
fiewine anti though there was nieltine to pay, yet
t'26s. 711, were prodnced by a collection for the fund
reni;vating the chapel organ.
THE Ilocmtrr APPARATeN. —'rho underbill coast-
guard practieed the life-eaving apparatus on Saturday
on the Beach. A party are tenanted at an upright
p at, and another perty fire the reeketwith-line from
new the Weymouth road. This line brought Ily the
rocket is made fast to the poet, which represemte the
etrimp of the mast ef a verseel in ilistreee, the cradle is.
lienlel up, and men drawn to and fro' to represent the
tn. 'he if saying life from a wreck. It is matter for
deep thankfuluess that, althowgh we have had so many
steinsb this winter, there has bemt no occasion for the
if the recketapparatus on our shores.
A SWAN AND me TELEGRAM —On Thur.:oBy a
ewan which hol come from Abbotebory flew against
the telegraph wires near Passage Bridge and wounded
itself. Some workmen on the railway seettred it, and
took it to the cea.stenarsl; but they would have
' nothing to .1.. it till the consent .1 the ledice was
obtained. Tide Twine given the royal bin( was hsleed
in an outhouse until lewd Ileheeter's stewanl was
I communicated with, and meantime was a source of
I treredation ti one of the coneternard who, rather than
go list. the shed where the bite! was " a trifle to
another man to frtch out what he wanted. At lint the
cometeetanin were relieved from their care by a waggon
arriving from the steward, also a request for the
bill for the mainteinnee of the bird.
AFSAULTINOa MOTIIER-IN-LAW. —At the County Petty
Sessions, Weymouth. on Wedne-iolay, Richard 1101.11
Ti:or rd was brought up for assaulting his moother-in.law.
—Mr. 11. C. floodolen presideol, accompanied by Mr. (1.
Eliot. The wife of defenolant saiol she had been married
to him twelve year:. Ile came home about half-past
seven on Monday night, very drunk and abusive, and
threw about the things in the house, his boots, the poker,
and the tire,rons. Ifer mother, Jane Faney, WWI by the
fireside, and tried to keep the poker away from hint, when
defendant dragged her down in trying to take it away; he
pulled her off her seat, and she fell on the ground atid
injured her leg, which was very 104 yesterday : het she
was out to.olihy. Defendant declared that he would put
them all out of doors, and clear the house ; but he did
I not do on because Mr, Coates (the policeman) came.
i Defendant oliol not ntrike witness, but pinched her arm.
I it,, treated lier well when he was sober :but had an-aulted
her before; and is now under recognisanees to keep the
I peace, and lie is very often druuk.—Cross-examintil :
When be laid hold ef her arse it was to keep her and her
mother lack front hits : they Were trying te take the
poker from his hand, and it wan in this seranalole that her
mother got knocked Coates said that on
Monday evening, at eight, prisoner's son eatne to him at
Elston, eryine and raying "hither is lsating mother
aexite and have broken granny's leg." lkfen.lant lives
at the !soften' of Waltebam, and went, and
found defendant one side of the deor, and Isis wife on the
other. Defendant oven, that he would clear the " house „"
Witiice went in, and defenolant left alleonveniation siilh
hi . wife, and swore dreaolfolly at wane...like am :Oman.
—Dere:Want : You dragged me out like a die% at ithout
e:ttier boots or hat; I was not going to walk two miles
without any loots.—Witness /*itt defendant had got his
boots and hat off, and he took him to the station on
account of his violent conduct. 'blend:lint was constantly
amnia, and though he had a good wife, and everything
c nufortable, lie did not know how to treat Iter. The
neighboers often complain of defenitant ; in Met there was
not another man like him on the island. When ha went
in, defendant KM In pursuit of his wife, and threatening
to clear the house.—ln answer to defendant the constable
reel : I should not hey., taken you for what your wife sel.l,
if I rasht have perm:W.l you to go home—Defendant
said flat his mallet-in-toe wart always vexing him, and
last time pulled the skin of Sy nds sail that
whets he was lost before the Bench on the Zird; tee
inotlier-in-law was not the coinplainant, but the wife.—
Defendant said be had tobl huts mother-indaw several
times to leave the house; but she would not go—Mr.
redden: I slimmer your mother-in-law stays there to
pron-et her own daughters—Defendant she hail no reason
to—Mr. Symonds did not know whether defendant
adopted Judge Bullen's definition of the law—that a man
is at liberty to beat his wife with a stick not bigger than
his thumb. Ile was liable to be imprisoned for six
calendar month* with hard labour, for assaulting a
women, or a child under 14 years of age—The Chairman
sentenced defendant to one month's hard labour.