The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-07 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

SANATORIUM —Th* 18th annual meeting of the
(rived' of the Weymouth Sanatorium was held at the
board room on Wednesday last. The Mayor presided,
and Dr. Smith read the report, from which it appeared
that there were five in-patients in the boom at the time
of the last annual meeting, and that sines thee, there
had been 50 others admitted. of tbeee, 35 had been
discharged cured, 5 were relieved. and 15 were in the
house at the present time. The time the patiente had
remained in the Sanatorium was from 2 to 20 weeks,
and the average 6 weeka, The total number of patients
admitted since the opening of the institution was 420.
The out-patients treated during the year had been 1,119
-823 from the country and 296 from Weymouth and
Meloombe RtgiA• The majority of these bad been
oared, the othen relieved. The total number of out-
patients treated up to the lit of Aortal wax 15,205,
comprising 5317 males and 9891 females. The financial
statement was gratifying. There wax now a deposit of
£l4OO and a balance in hand of £157 17s. 196. bald.'
£457 in the saving, bank, making a ea*tel of upwards
of £4OOO. The 'sesame of the year had been 2484 ss. 114,
Congratulatory votes of thanks were passed to Dr. Smith,
the principal to Dr. Moorhead, the Surgeon of the
Sanatorium, and to the Mayor for presiding, which were
severally acknowledged and the meeting was brought to
doe.

COUNTY Perry SERMONS, Friday. —Before R 11.
Swaffield and R. if. Mot, Elem.—Joseph Redder of
Portland, and John Creed, his servant were charged with
violating the tattle plague order, by renoviog • load of
hay from Chickerell, throegh Wyk. Regis, derJaouj infected district, without • license. The defame of 114nr.
Hodder was, that be thought the restriction had eared.
He had since obtained • license from Mr Swaffield, and
removed the remainder of the hay. The Bench said
that Sergeant Pitfield had acted quite right in summoning
' the party before them, but as the bay had been removed
through • miseoeception, there wield be bet • nominal
Penalty of Is. indicted, the costa being reedtted.—.
Riehard Taylor. West Chickerell, was mennoned by
P.C. Hunt, for allowing • hone to stray in Patten-lane.
Fined 21. 6d., including ensta.--John Tewkeebery, of
Portland, we. charged by P.C. Bow. with being drank
and disorderly on Sunday, the 13th July. Witnees mid
that between 10 and 11 on the evening in question he
saw the defendant lying in the road at Fortune's Well in
• 'Woof drunken... He waited tiamt somoisto till two

young mentions* airing and he got them to take his Lorne
Libor*ly afterwards be passed *bag the tray they bed goat'
when he *air the d, fendant strippe I and cliallenaiao
two y owng men to fight him. WllllOl4ll ennead hire touts
lii. clothes ea mud IVIli him forward in 45510, List st "
than two swinntrs he WA+ strip' ed again and w •14,n,
II hi. Defebilant was lined fie., and 7a. cows —IA a
Ward. of Portlani, and Francis Beason, were
mooed for • breach of the cattle plague order. gg,
Ward had loft go, Jersey when the summons was seresd.
and had not yet retuned. Tho case was consesisentl;
nursed snarl Franks, chief mate of the
well, &billy buoy of Poole, now lying ii, Portland
wsu charged with asaanlting John Allen, tie cook. Tie:
defendant admitted the summit, end spike ea though to
consadared himself justified in what he had done, as
rraaagabou,g wa. a lazy drunken fellow sad neslected h.,
hubbies. Through his carelessness in riot minding I.:.
cooking lire, he considered the galley took fire 7„
Bench told him be must not take the law into hu
hands by inflicting corners' punishment, whatever er,
the faults of couroleinaat. Fined IN. and lUs, i;j. e,„e;

nitirc.b.dairelud,uocurred told
IdaN-Or•W•as' Miff Ole 81101OL —On Friday bat
two sailors belonging to H.M.S. Caledonia, mufti
George Honeywell and Daniel Ifarriegton, wee,
charged before the Merle and W. byword., E.l
under the following circumstanoes r —The two tie:
fendanta went into the smoking room a the
80,aiaraat Hotel, kept by Mrs. Harriet Lake, ea
Thursday evening. Honeywell was reek and thn
servant told him to go into the tap room. H.
I
1 her he would give her a glass of port wine to elm
! op the mess, and because the landlady charged kin,
sixpence for it, he broke • looking glow by way .4
1 revenge. He called it a robbery to charge Id. for a
glass of wios, and said that the price was not more
than 34. in any other house in Great Britain. A
disturbance was, of course, the result, Harrington
' took his shipmate's part, and having an open knits.
' swore be would murder the servant. At this Jim:-
p..4.g down the *trait, was called in to the assub
lure, Mr. Rogers, driver of the Royal hotel cue .dIJ ll et i
,o.llt
ance of the inmates, and he trying to take Herring..
ton away from the girl had a very narrow escape of
being stabbed is the ear. Harrington made a thrust
at him with his knife, and had he not moved &marl
his bead in time, he no doubt would bare received a
fetal blow. As it was, the knife grased the hat sod.
knocked it off. The police, who all the day had
sight
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the prisoners they were liable to be taken into
' cultody. Honeywell said he would not pay for the
glass, sod immediately struck the sergeant with both
. time right and left, and Harrington served him in a
similar manner. Between the two they gut in,
down, ad while owe kept hint down the other
kicked him on the bead and various parts of the
body, giving him a black fry* and bruising him so
much that he was subsequently unable to perform
duty. Two other policemen, Mitchell and Short
came in and took off Honeywell, sod Harrington
tried to swaps by climbing the wall of the back yard,.
The sergeant however had him beck and he bolted
oat of the front door, but was soon captured. Sergi.
Brine then charged two of the parties presest—
Rogers and • man named Acourt, to aid and Lear
him in taking Harrington to the police station. 012
their way thither Harrington told Rogers that when
be struck at him with the knife he meant to kill
him, and he wished he bad; and Honeywell, who
Warn walking close behind, eve Acourt a severe kick
on the leg. Mr. Rogers did not appear against the
parties as he had received some threats from some of
the prisoners' shipmates. The Mayor told the de-
fendants that they were liable to be indicted for the
offence, and that, although be liked to see sailors
when they came ashore, yet, if these games were
carried on in future, very *ewers measurers would be
adopted to pat a stop to them. In the present case
they would be fined £5 each for amaulting sergeant
Brine, or in default, a month's imprisonment sat
hard labour. Honeywell would be further Iced le
and value of glass broken, 15,., or an additosal
week's hard labour, and for assaulting Acourt, a lice
of lOa, or a still further week's hard labour. The
defendants, having no money, were oommittred.- -
At the same sitting Bridget Roach, a nymph of the
pare, was ecmm toed for a month's hard labour fig
drunken and disorderly conduct in the public streets.