The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-12-15 00:00:00


PORTLAND.

RECREITS.—TweIve mon: Irish recruits for the
Madras Fusiliers arrived on Tuesday to join the garrison !
at the Verne. Thay are of rather juvenile appmarance ; !
but no doubt they'll soon he drilled into good withers.
GAS ON TIIE pipes have noW been bMI all
through Easton, and continued back, so as to he on both
sides of the nal at the entrance. rh,., mains will be
extentiol as far as the Bible christian chapel, Wakeham,
and " " will p.m enjoy this latest benefit of
civilisation thoroughly.
CoNenotan.m.—On Sunday afternoon, the Bishop of
the Diocese naulucted a cantina:at* service at St. I.etey's
church. Ai.,et luys amid girls front St. Peter's and St.
George's parish, and 130 boys from the Itowawen, were
confirmed. The Res. A. llill and Iwo. S. Titiswell
assisted ; the Itoscawen hopl were attended by Captain
Oldham, Commander Markham, awl bent. Bruck.
Itaroarra Assava.v.—A warder truant Iluwanl, from
Portland Prison, reported that on Tuesday night, when
lie was passing near the Sawmill, two inon stopped
awl one struck him by the side of the heal. Ile says he
knocked the man down, but not liking to face two .D 1
them, he started off letek. awl ran t. Chesib There he
went to the Termini', and also to the Lord Clyde, in timed'
of Um police, 154 he says ! After this, tlw.: police are not
I. impre.ssed with the "Horrible tale of attempted
highway malltery.
THE GAEL or Tuesnar blew with mat force in
Porthindi, and as it was at first from that dangerous
quarter, the S.W., the coastguard Imi an anxious tipam
Ur. lime, ship-broker, with one of the Wey 1111 l uth steamers
and a Issly of men, tiled to raise the smack Sutton; but
the storm was so violent that they were foreed to give up
the attempt. In the West 14 the AC:k W 36 1,1•1,11.117
rough, and many were reatly, In ca,o a scud should set
walleyed, and come ashore, hut it was as thick nothing
could be men to seaward hut spray. A quantity of iron
from the wreck of the Royal Adelaide was washed ujm.
also a grindstone. No veswl, however, made her appear-
awe, and pmvitientially ilm wind went round to W.S.W.
and so to W., awl further, till about throe o'clock in the
'appealing it had gut to S.W., when danger was over in the
West Bay. When morning Caine, the only loss was found
to have occurred in the roads, whence a cat "hacker,"
with 70 tons of coal, was lost, site had been moored
between the Depth and the Castle, and it was thought
twist have gone out through the opening, as there was no
trace of her. On land there were some damages from stripping tiles, it,,, and Mrs. Johns, of I %mil, lost a patch
.of thing from her roof; Mr. W. W. Puntis ka.l a lot of
lead blown off lais house, and Mr. Frampton, of Maiden-
well, had a chimney blown down. There were damages to Mr. Russell's shutters, and other smaller tassel in the storm.

N.A.IDIN NEWTON.
SeRNE AT TII6 RAILWAY STATION. —On Tuesiday morn-
ing, an elderly man in charge of a police constable, }wing
conveyed train Dridiairt to I torehester hecame rather
01treperous, and chile the platform was thriseil with
passengers kept pacing to and fro uttering the most
as
sho ng eki impre-ations. It was relief when lie was
fastened in the liumage van of the Dridport train. On his
being relemed he resumed his blasphemous langoikge.
leieraxilininse'hug to a e
enleotrgYmallX on the platform that it w all
ed • Pleas of beer The man on
his arrival at Dorchester had to be strapped Up; and tiluj.
he was conducted to "durance vile."