The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-09-04 00:00:00

them only to one day's imodenemeat —A el obtain- little while upon our Isplanade, and then the Milled
use up their slight stook at wisdom by retiring to a
inhmoney from Mr. Greamelasi Mt Seas
"IL —jai"' 855" Wal eheingsa an Tinniday with distance., under the idea that they have male an
being drank and riotona P.C. Opeper said whilst on impreanon, when they have only been laughed at.
duty on the Enplanwie • lady complaised to him of there --
Swing a drunken man. On going towards him he saw What queer things some people will hove of! An
him fall against several ladies. On taking him to the 01,1 farmer used to relate with pride 'hat he once had
station he resisted, kicking and striking him• eni the honour of being spoken to by Ring George 111.
amistanee had to he obtained to get him into the etation. But, one day, when the old gentleman was very corn-
Prisoner was lined 10s., or in default seven days' hard municative, a friend asked him—" And whet did His
latrine Majesty say to your Then did the garrulous veteran
THSTuRRINO THR THEATRE. —At the Pollee court . . .
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Hopkinn. and Mr. T. Abbott Charles Mall. env
wag charged with being drunk and riootis. Henry attendant*, and his majesty shouted to him—" You
Humphries said he was Mr. Meshes manaser at the stupid fellow, why don't you get out of the way?" A
theatre. Last night, as prisoner came there yen much prowler, who was rather dismal in Weymouth, once
intoxicated, be refused hiss admits/lon. He was !very
s took the trouble to proclaim to everybody who would
ehogiee• and he ref 'eelto wan given in niinnre n' read him—(for he actually put it into print)—that he
the entire. He interlined the audience. P.C. Cooper . .
.e Clp.ll WM given into his custody last night ter had been spoken to by a nursemaid! And when I
said
a disturbance at the theatre, he being drank. His examine as to what address the prowler was honoured
eonduet in the etreet was very violent; in fact, another with, I find, on the prowler's own authority, that it
policeman helped to bring him to the station—Fined 15s. wan—" Careless fellow, why don't you look where you
or la days' impriennment. are going to?" And the prowler adds that the rebuke
FOOLISH MEDDLING WITH • Dote—John Hanna wag wan " well-deserved," " for," continues he, with a
cenwane on Thursday with stealing a boot the property of I naivete worthy of Verdant Green—not to say Simple
Henry Carter, also with being drunk. Carter said he
kept bun on the beach. Last night at 9.30 they were ell Simon—" I had stumbled into a goat cart." At
safe, hut thin morning one of them named the Sea Flower Llentudno he may think himself "se" because his
was miming. He wax awoke by P.C. Carter. who told him few Weymouth acquaintances can't laugh at him to
his boat was towed into the harbour by the Lively, and hie face, as they might if he were here. He bungles
'aimed under the care of the Customs authorities. John worse this week, for he puts in a word of his own,
Hurrell said about three o'clock this monoina be was out joining two subjecte which I kept separate, these sub'
trawling. when he saw • boat drifting towards Oemington
Mills On coming nearer he noticed a man in it, and jects being —Firsts the needlertnese of himself
.pro-
thinking something must he amiss his huger bore down, tending to give himself authority' and, secondly,
On getting near he found the prisoner in the host, which peculiar stumbling at Weymouth. The word 'because,"
at the time was drifting toward, the rocks off Onmingten, on which he tries to found an argument. is not is
Three attempt. were made to secure the boat before she note at all, though he has it printed in the largest of
was caught The holt was drifting rapidly on shore, end the large letters with which he tries to fill his space.
one of the oars broken. On taking prenner int, the Yet, although prowler has not had the manliness to
Issuer he wanted him to cant the boat adrift. In cones- withdraw his imputation of want of candour, when I
quenee of the hearer having the boat in row she was • • • e , ' s
unable to do any more fishing. WilliernTisard said he was answered bun etraeintiorwaraiy, t don t wish to tnrow
in charge of the logger Lively. This morning Just as it such a charge on him; but, if he is not uncandidt he
was getting light he maw • man in a boat, and knowing he certainly is possesnetl with an eccentricity of mind,
was in a dangerous, position he bore down. Fie made three somewhat ximilar to that eccentricity of body which
attimpts before he could resell the boat. On taking the canned him to flounder on an old gentlemen • tors and
man on board he said he wished the boat had gone down. to "stumble into a goat cart." Until that stumbling
an then he would do away with himself. On bringing him prowler prowl less awkwardly, he had better be care-
ashore he tried to run away, hut he gave him i ate custody of ul at Llandudno, and by no means venture on Wey-
the entire. The only defence made by prisoner was that
he had ton much drink and did not know what he was mouth Esplanade.
sheet. In reply to the Bench prisoner said he wag a
inflow's assistant from London, and was at Weymouth for Passing from the very little to what is of great
the ptirpnee of recruiting his health, and he had been here consequence, I note that the same principle holds
for the last three m ethos Mr. Airline told him the good—it requires considerable experience and care to
Court would selouno the case for half-an-hour in order to decide what is fitting in and for Weymouth. lam
see if he could make some arrangements with the crew of not sure that eufficient experience and care were used
the logger. It was very clear he had put them to cam-
Itlgs the Yacht Club, at least as regards the interests of
siderable expense, but the cane against him did not e town when that wealthy and influential body
amount to felonious stealing, although it was a wanton
act on his part. Had the weather been very rough he decided on so very late a fixture for the Channel
would in all probability have sacrificed his own life and Yacht Race. The bad policy of allowing oar Regatta
also caused the loss of the boat. Later in the noornine the and Races to be held no near together that they were
parties interested in the matter came before the Court only separated by the day of rent, was abundantly
again saying prisoner had consented to give the crew of proved this year. In spits of the energetic labours of
the Lively £1 and Carter el. on which the cane was Mg. Pally Hooper, who so spiritedly accepted, and so
die-missed. The charge nf drunkenness wee not gone into. admirably carried out, the duties of hon. secretary,
BRASS MRDAL P ASSED FOR A SORRRION. —George Starkey.
labourer, woe brought up on Thursday for obtaining 41 by the success of the Regatta has not been quite complete.
false pretences from Jane Chantsof Trinity•road. —Prisoner The delightful weather which accompanied the
slept at the house, wee charged 61., and being seism to adrentof theyachts--thoseengagedintheChannel Race
pay gave a coin saying he only had a sovereign, and the more numerous ones who simply took
prosecutrix found was bat —George Thorn said h advantage of the opportunity to put into Weymouth
prisoner were on the va,e course on Monday, where may Bay—that delightful weather which made the fair
met • man selling nem and watch guards at 31 each. scene still more picturesque, only continued one day
They each bought • ring, and in addition to that the
person Benin& gave an imitation sovereign like thou pro-
be beyond the day of the Channel Race, and on Saturday
duce& He (witnem) threw his away, but prisonet kept every yacht had fled from the Bay, across the bosom
his.—Superintendent Vickery asked for a remand for of which swept the white-crested waves in angry
seven days to enable him to communicate with the grandeur. So the regatta wan broken off near the
treasury, which was granted.—These coins are eery light, middle, and adjourned until it was driven down on the
and on the reverse, over a there of St. George and the Races, and thus there was danger of the two coming
Dragon, they bur the words "To Hanover ;their worth. into collisi m with the certainty of damage to both,
leesnem in easily detected by ordinary care. Next year the Royal Dorset must give the Races a
CHRATINO • MAN ore OF • PAR or BOOTH—At the wide berth, or it and the Town Regatta will have to
notice court on Friday bet Dr. Drew and Mr. H.
R.aggett Charlet Greening was charged with obtaining a part company.
pair of boots under false pretences.—Samuel Stoodley, a
shoemaker, reeiding in Rent-street, said he bought the Already there are murmurs that the yachting ins
boots produced from • mailer, who raid he had no use for terest may be left to the Yacht Club, and that the
them, riving .is. 64. Yesterday prisoner came to his town money would far more profitably be spent upon
house and asked for the boom, saying they were stolen rowing matches and other shore sports. I don't
from the captain, and if he returned them the money he believe that implicitly, for, although no doubt yacht-
paid should he refunded to him engin. He gave him the •
racing VI caviare it the general, and great crowds are
boots, but finding he did not return with the money went
after him. Prisoner then told him he knew where the delighted with the slippery and rather dirty fun of the
boots were, but would not say. If it had not been for the greasy bowsprit, yet the yachts and their people bring
repreeentatione made by the prisoner he should not have Weymouth more into notice among the families whom
entrusted him with the hoots—Henry Butt, master of we delight to honour, and who, in return, leave
the Crystal, of Jersey, said he had two epprentices on amongst us some of that needful store against the
hoard his vessel, one of whom, Thomas Merton, abecondeda winters rent and the winter's rates.
stealing the boots prnduced, two shirts, a waistcoat, an
a knitted jacket. Did not know prisoner, and never
authorised him to fetch the bores ; in fact, he had never
seen him before.—Supt Vickery asked for • remand in
this case in order to Apprehend the apprentice, who was
on his way to Poole, which was granted. —Thomas
Yerten and Charles Greening were brought upon Saturday
before Dr. Drew and Mr. J. Robertson, charged with
steeling a pair of boots and other articles. Samuel
Stsondley, a shoemaker, of East-street, said Greening came
into his house fleet with the boots, and said the young
man to whom they belonged was outside, and wanted Is.
for the boots, hut witness told him he could only give
3s. 6.1., and they agreed, the witness's wife giving prisoner
64. On Thursday Greening came to him Again for the
boots, saying they were stolen from the captain of one of
the ships in the harbour, and he promised to bring hack
the 3s. fit or the boot,: but witness found he did not
come back, and went after hint when Greening refined
to let him have the hoots, or to nay where they were, nor
did he return the money. Witness afterwards found the
captain, who sail the boots were his.—Dr. Drew remarked
the prisoner Merton was only hound apprentice in June,
and therefore had only been with the captain two months.
—Superintendent Vickery said that yesterday morning
Captain Burt, of the Crystal, of Jersey, gave information
that he had lost a pair oi boots, and he afterwards iden-
tified the hoot. as his property; they were found at the
Turk's Head. This morning prisoner wan brought by
Sergeant Luscombe, of the 20th Regiment, tube sworn in
under the name of Thoman lioskins.—Coptain Burt is
gone to sea. 1.-it yesterday he Identified the waistcoat
which prisoner now has on.—Prisoner was apprehended,
and said he went with an old man to sell the boots, and
gave him 6.1. and spent some money in beer.—The hoots
were given up to P.C. MacMahon.—The prisoners both
enkesl to he tried before the tourer:it" fuel pleaded not
guilty.— Greening said Diet Merton met hiln and :inked
him if there were any peopl, ab pit who bought boots,
and he tip& him to Stmelley, and the boon ; but lie
afterwards heard something which made him doubt
whether the linote were stolen or not anti went and got
the hoots from Stoidley, went to find the captain, and
left them at the Turk's Head, while he went to speak to
some one whom he knew.—Superintendent Vickery, in
answer to the Bench, said Greening had been convicted
three times before, and, as to Merton, the Captain said he
had forgiven him once before in Swansea—Greening was
sentenced to Ii days, and Merton to 28 day's hard
labour.

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How wondrous in its calm above and joyfulness
below, was that scene on Thursday night, when a little
forest of slender masts, with cordage that looked
spider-web-like in the moonlight, stretched between
Weymouth's brightly lamp-lighted curve, and the dark
hills rising one past another, from Jordan's to St.
Alban's Head, when thousands of people were out on
the Bincleaves, the Nothe, the Esplanade' or gazing
from hundreds of windows at the silently advancing
shadow of the Earth over the silver surface of the
moon! Weymouth was in the height of y, even
greater than f full fruition of the " season's harvest,
—the joy of anticipation of many kinds of good things
from the week of pleasure so brightly begun. How
little thought we all, as the fair white disc became
more blood-coloured, of the awful contrast upon which
that same darkening moon looked in the Schipka
Pass. At that very time when we rejoiced with pre- ,
sent happiness and expectation of more, did the in.
vading Russians feel the terrible responsibility of
" those who take up the sword," and of whom the
Gentle Man himself declared "they shall perish by
the sword." Against them were swarming the in-
furiated train of the Moslem host, who are at least
consistent in their creed of blood and of worse. And
behind the sadly-loaded Russians cowered that herd of
half-starving and homeless boys, et girls and of
women with a more ghastly horror threatening, of old
men with barely life enough to flee. And while the
Bulgarian men, who had proved the truth of the pro-
verb—' Oppression will drive a wise man mad," able.'
the invaders who were their only protection against
the devilish Kurds, and the Cire.iswans who, used to
sell their own daughters, thought iif other people's
but as prey, --still the Moslems, fighting for ground
that their ancestors had covered with carnage many a
year before, dashed at the Russian fire-and.ohot.
belching entrenchments, and as they began to carry
them, the others blew up the mines, and then, alas!
for the people!
"Christian or Moslem, which be they
Let their mothers see and say !
When in cradled rest they lay.
And each nursing mother smiled
On the sweet sleep of her child,
Little deemed she such a day
Would rend those tender limbs away."

CRUZLTY TO A DONKET.—Willtam Cook wan sumnioned
before the county magistrates on Friday for ill treating a
donkey at Radipole.—Mr. Howard defended.—Sergeant
Hitch mid on the 17th inst., while in the pariah of
Radipole, he saw defendant in • field with • lot of
anlceays,nn there beingw: ea
stick
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ced rsatsirindefendNet ,
right leg and three on the left. No ~ne wee riding the
animal. On examining the donkey afterwards he found
blood and matter issuing from an old wound, and it
e-etned as if defendant struck this. The animal went
quite limping, and he (witness) would not allow him to
work it afterwards. . Defendant admitted the donkey was
old, over 20 tears of age, and had had a wound for some
time. The animal was doing its best to get along before
defendant heat it ; it ems nothing else but a gross act of
cruelty. The animal was in a very poor condition and
not fit for work—Cross-examined: No else went on the
donkey's bark after he remonstrated with defendant He
did not my the animal had a particular gait in walking.
—Mr. Howard gave defendant's explanation of the
circumstances, which Mr. Goodden remarked he had
explained very well.—Superintendent Batty said this was
the second time defendant had been brought before the
magistrate, for ill treating • donkey, and asked for a
heavy penalty to be imposed. Fined £1 including costs.

It wan thin torturing cutting and rending and
piercing, and all-varied murder in front, this shrinking,
cowering, nameless, dumb-struck terror behind, that
reigned around and in the Schipka Pass, while in
Weymouth the wives and mothers and daughters
calmly watched the eclitsve of the moon. Shall we
not, even in the money-gathering "height of the
season"—