The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-11-11 00:00:00

WITMOITTB.

Dims GASI.—TiN Gee Coolimey have &yea Betio*
of their latostios to apply to Lb. Board el Trade for •
Prowlslosal Order to rain the prise of au. or lower the
quality, or both. Objestioas shield be out to the
issistsot iliterotitry of tho Railway Depertsseat of the
Board of Trade, before the 27th loot.
4 Moorish 1110/1 THI Duar.—On Wodneeday attar-
woe oils of tho Cblokortill liaberrsea cruht • period
ateaster whilst !Whim. He folutd his Ilso dreg
heavily, sad with the assistraise of maw of his party ho
• [tin, sad, behold, Neely hooked, Wei • shale et
'hornbook, Tit Lana and 511. brood; It will/41144 six more
debt pounds (12Mb). It orno the largest Ash, ever 01111
on this tweet.

R 072 OP WAS POD NUT PAIILLLIEENTENT ELECTION.
indopendmt party ass delighted that •
hastily Isigesised emmeittee and • eomparelively
mimeos sum genii secure lip votes, aadi poster bas
been printed triumphing is that feet, and dmilarlog
"No Compromise." It threatens two Liberal Can-
didates In 1874, and amerb boldly "The Hadleals
will win," "No hewers, lanai. buckles, cloni-ola or
Tutors" are lob. .ssultodlll ROW will they get
cm without tise damn of war? "Lot not him that
&cloth oe his bermes boast as his that pattath it off,'
EILN NIEEILT DPOWNID —Ai onr o'oloek on Tuesday
naming. Borst. Homy was prolog over the Bridge,
ohm he hoard • splash is the water, m of mom ooe
falling overboard, 0. called to P.C. Her., who was
br Trinity Church, ad they ran down on the Quay,
where they saw • ma.'. arm corns above the water, and
ostoh bold of 'Upstater of b3at. The emetables threw
off their coats, and got down by the side of the wall,
where the mgt. held fest Horn, got hold of lb*
man, end got him ashore, with great difficulty. They
found biro to be an old man mood Whittle batmen
80 sad 70 years old, sad took hint to his brother-in-
law's at the Midge lon, where he said he was going to
get • boat to watch an oyster bed, but mimed his bold
and slipped overboard. He had • heavy pilot mat Oa,
and would have been drowned but for Um sanstables
Ls ii was he was mock exhausted, and it would
ham been impossible for him to get Into the boat.

PORTL tND.

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MAN'S Han Cinesnn.-41. very serious us:lido:it
000urred on Saturday afternoen, by •bloh a young man
named Jokia 0 mbea, bring la fortune's Well, hoe
bit Um use of his right hand. He was at work in a
quarry belonging to Mr. R. &mind., of Woymouth,
and the party were wagageri tutting a rough block of
atone about seven tocsin widen out of Mao hod. The
young man placed an iron bar undornortli to mate
room for the Ana to aling the stone, but the bar went
too far, and he put los hand nyder to tall it out again,
when the drlt hooks slipped, sad the nue fell on his
hand, crushing It in a most frightful moaner. The
stout wu hamodiately raised by moans of no men
but the men were or unbid by tbe eatestropbe that
the books slipped *gala trios is aisseemtoo, the whole
airtight of the lemurs it... gash Ulu settling is th•
poor fellow's head. So great oral his spay, that ono
of the men bad to hold his arm to protect tie palling
It away and leaving his hand wider the stone. The
third UM. no nose woo raised sageessfully, sod ths
band takes out—a mangled mese of Son and hum
Ths seiner was troveyed to hie home, where ho wag
attended by Dr. Melon, Dr. Bea, Dr. Labia, from
the Convict Establishment, and Dr. Longhorn, from
the Verse. The hand was empnated from between
the thumb and fore law Aaron be paha to the weld,
leaving thir thumb still Wined to the arm. Oa
Wednesday lie was still gettiog better, and It is hoped
that ha will preserve his thumb, and eltunately got
OTPr this taut painful widen( as for.. he mut.
Tan Pun.—Any off sot to diminish the fair bee
signally failed, for this year the fair yea larger than
ever. In the usual ground in Chesil were no Imre thee
sloven shooting galleries, and a number of merry
e.
rounds, travelling Eritrea, shows of various dS.silp.
lima, from the "Australian sad Californium digging,"
worked by waterpower, and en organ worked by a
pretty Utile @teem en,tlen to startling pinatas of tie
wrest of the Itertbilset and lie Atlastee. Ths sweet
sad Gals etelds, niers be. and glnireebreed, wore le
pest Maim& sad wield moire the upgredadro

spirit of • emuntrpmea, eorobined with the pea ef
ready writers molly to deeeMbe the fair. As Gee se tee
principal amu.sments of the year, the one grand wee.
at u on which the Portland "hover tee thousand"
tome out In their best to etj iy themselves, the fair Is
unrivalled. It was so this year, that ch nob trotam.dous
showers of rein fell as to send rivers rudling to err-,
street, and nib mud wee churned op in the owe
strent of the fair sa would 0011119 over-oboe with Its
earthy cream. For the fair was well sttendoi, soldier,
and sailors ovulated to gather there, the eountry
people from the sylghboorhooll pouroi in, and Wey.
mouth people wait over in the *mooing —of course not
to take aay part in the fun; but merely to have a look
at th• fair. 'The trains Were crammed, /sod Tortoni
maks of seciety that need sot be speeified jostled each
other In th•ir determination to see this bit of old.
faahloned life and stir that it Is relight to improve of
the face of the earth. It need not be said that Chesil
was all a-glare with light from the daring napthe
lamps that defied wind and rain to put them out.
So well-lighted was the fair that the ementy ponce,
under Superinheat Ilare and Sergeant lrloranee beim
with a very quiet time. One would have thought the
terrible rain—that at one time comedown as If It would
wish the fair down into the Mere—would have driven
the people into the public-trues. But 110 Temperanes
principles are spreading eves among fair-gorra, aid the
licensed victualling trade was slow. It was to this
decrease of drunkenness that some of the pollee attri-
buted the improved order of this mixed atarite=r;
but be that as It may, there was quite as good
quite as good manners were shown, in the ommlng, Ii
toe pleasure fair, aeon the railway platform. As to the
stook fair, it was • large one ; about 30 or more sheep
were penned, and though buyers were not very
numerous, yet they meant business and gave good
priest. Cows and calves were few, and fetched about
ELS, heifers aboot .£l2 10e. ; of sheep a good supply,
wethers fetched from 44.. to 465. coda few very prime
as high as We.; eight Portland rams went rather °beep
at 30e ; ewes to lamb, 28,. 61. to 40e. ; two-teeth 325.
to 33a Pigs were In fair supply sod good store pigs
fele. ed 20r. to We. The Weiner at the fair wee very
satisfactory, on the whole. Host Board as usual pro-
vided • °spited fair dinner at the Boyd Hotel, and
shout 20 sat down.