The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-06-06 00:00:00

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DORC H FSTER.
TUt Flier Eau or Wriaar.—An ear of silent
.fiem a field.inst owning into ear is the neighbourhood
of Charniinster, was brought to our office on Wednes-
.47,,,tkyo gentleman who happened to be cut sketching.
it isnot perfectly formed, bat gives promise neverthe•
less if a fine and early crop, fully three weeks in
&duces of any other.
330 D.R.V.—The weekly sweepstakes shooting took
;place on Monday and Tuesday, the weather on each
occasion being rough and unfavourable. Ranges, 200,
500, and 600 yards, seven shots at each distance. The
winners were as follows :—lit prise, Corporal Greening,
50 marks, leas handicap 1: 2nd, Private Parsons, 52,
less handicap 4; 3rd, Private I'. Homer, 56, lees
handicap 10; 4th, Private Warren, 46; sth, Oolor.-
Pergt. Gregory. 50, less handicap Ii; 6th, Sere. Cross,
46, less handicap, 2. The afternoon pewter has
been won by Piivate Thomas Homer, with a total
of 116 marks—being his two best scores out of
•the three last shootings, and the morning pewter by
Trieste Godwin, with a total of 140 marks in the
some way. Thia latter tankard having been won twice
by Private Godwin, remains his propeity in accordance
with the regulations. The ranges for the throe neat
'weekly shootings will be the same as for the 2nd class,
to olass *hooting, viz., 400, 500, 550, and 600 yards,
'with five shots at each distance, and one sighting shot.
Tat MILITIA, having no drill to claim their attention
.after the Review on Thursday, gave themselves up, for
the most part, unreservedly to revelry, to the great an-
merinos of the peaceably-dispel ii inhabitants. Samos
of the most disgraceful character were enacted in all
parts of the town, on Friday and Saturday. Drunken
men were reeling about in every street, cursing and
fabling. When the police attempted to quell a dis-
turbance. or protect a man or woman from insult, they
were beset by such a number, that they could not do
their duty. The arm of the civil law was powerless,
military law was inoperative, and ea a result, the town
wis in the hands of a drunken Mob. The man returned
to the stores aa Friday their arms sad aooontreinents,
and such of their clothing as had not become their own
by five years' service. From an early hour, in the
neighbourhood of the stores, men could be seen lying
about fiat on their faros, helplessly intosicated,--others
4. were fighting, or calling on their ssomrades with oaths
and oursen, to fight, while some were tottering about,
with newly all semblenoe of humanity absent from their
brc ken and bruised Noes, maundering to every puser-by.
On Thursday afternoon a number of sailors and marines
tame to the town, having been released for twenty-four
hours, from ships in Portland Ruda. Ere long, several
altercations oocurred between them and the militia men.
On Friday a melee took place, outside the Railway
Tavern. One man, after fighting four others for some
time, wu set upon by several more, and shamefully
beaten. His lips were severely cut, and be was taken
to the Dorset County Hospital, to have his wounds
dressed. One or two others have been te the Hospital,
for easistance, in consequence of wounds. The militia
-were paid off on Saturday, and new the town is well-
nigh rid of a body of men, who, for three days were a
great nuisanee. We much regret that the good con-
duct which distinguished the militia as a body, after the
day of their assembling, did not oontinne to the end.