The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-04-06 00:00:00

PORTLAND

MR. TALIutT, painter, Eaton, obtained the MO
7mrotwisti..n at tin. drawing in connPetion with dm
I..itland Starr.Bowkett Building Society on March
24th.

A Humor belonging to Mr. Jonathan Lan., of
I Fortune'e•Well, died on the evening of March 21th.
It was attached to a trap in which .at • man when it
waa *rind with • ht, c..mhylleed to plunge, pitched
init the man, turned the trap over, and died almnit
immediately.
Nsroutt T LIIAGUIL—The usual Penny
routings in connectom with the above society were
held in the Moldier.' and Sailor.' Institute, Portland,
before a wooer'''. audience. Staff • Sergeant
Austin. ILE., prr.1.1.1. The 'nesting gee Teen
m with the hymn, "To To the Work," after which the
following pruArintine wan ably rendered and well
I.
pplauded. as an address the first chapter of
II
our National Nawneoni, and how they are
I Wasted," by William Hoyle; song, Ontraral Rate,
Royal Scot. Fueiliere ; song ; " Dream }so.," Mi.
M. Pearce ; recitation, "The little girl at Nice,"
Miss A. Peaty ; duet, "Silver moonlight winds are
blowing," Mimeo at. and K. Pearce ; (an analogy
was lwre taa4s for the unavoidable abeence of Mr.
F. Smith I reading, " Jieumy's Hatband," Corporal
Smith, Royal Maas Funnier.; long, " The man gbo
couldn't get cool," Private Prat, Royal Scot.
Fuoilirre ; (encored), " The wonderful crocodile
Mitotic Logic "(anonym...) Mr. Mack.
tin; song, " On the Slue Alsatian Mountain.,"
Corporal Royal Scot. Fusiliers; the last event
on the programme was a recitation by Miss A.
Peaty, who said—" Friend.,—Tb• pipe that I am

about to recite to you is very short, and it might
appear to you to be rather outt of plate in • 'tater•
ing of this sort, but as this may he the last time I
may ever have an opportunity of reciting in this
instituter I should like to talk a little of something
that by God's blessing might snake an impression on
our minds, that we may be awakened out of sleep to
work for Him who has done so much for us, and I
trust that the Master will strike tbe words down deep
into our hearts with the hammer of divine truth. I
think that you will agree with me when I ay it is not
enough to be a temperance 'anion unless we promote
the came, and it is also true that it s not
enough merely to be called by • Christian name
unless we take up the craw, and, if nerds be,
bear reproach for Christ, " Clcerinw rather
to be affliction with the people of bowl than
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season ;" for
God has commanded is that we love not the world
Isr the things of the world, Aid "if any man love the
world, the love of the Father is not in him.- Again,
we are told to come out front the world, and be
separated from it. Vii may say " Het do not
Christians want recreation !" I agree with you that
they do; and has iii t GO.I provided noble means for
His people! It is to be l'alms and bruins and
spiritnal songs, singing anil making inebsily in our
hearts to the lewd. The teat at the top of my
recitation has a searching queation, which needs an
answer to God at once, and if nos answered now the
time probably is very near when we should be glad
to feiVidid, but may not be permitted to do so. As
my piece will show it is • dream, but sinless we are
saved by sovereign grace it will prove an awful
reality. I will net say more open the piece now, lint
will hasten to begin it, leaving you to reflect on the
teat it is composed from —"Why st.and ye here all
the day idle —The —The Chairman, in a few remarks. said
he was sorry Miss I'esty saw • necessity for saying it
piece such as her recitation, as it might appear
out of taste in a temperance meeting. There was no
doubt but that it was jll4 the kind of piece suited to
such meetings, which were intended to b• Isith
pleasant and instructive. We may not, perhaie, see
the good results of I stir work now, but it might show
itself in our listeners in years to Cottle ; it might be
the seed scattered now might spring 015 in th"nt in
• their i'ld age. He felt sure they were all sorry to
has Miss Peaty speak .1 the probibilite of this
being her last appearaine atemg them, and he asked
the thanks of the mowing for her oast most valuable
services. Miss Peaty is mombong to ioak, a very
activo and insist useful Christian worker ; doubtless
, her remarks that her recitation might •in the present
occasion be out Oi place, were ',educed by the
excessive applause and giddy enthusiasm of the
legion who are living instances of the old stage—
" You cannot pot old heads on young shoulders," ,
We wish her • long d successful career.

fieoNg Nagasaki (CornAustq.—These implements
are closely allied to those ot the hatchets, no chwely
indeed that in many instances their forms merge into
one another. They are made of many different kinds
of stones and shapes, from the elegant and highly
-
finished hatchet-hammers to mere oval pebbles, which
have been picked up from off the Chesil beach and
used without any, or hardly any, previous preparation.
Such simple and unostentatious forms I have tiften
Ines with at Portland. From their bruised and
battered extremities, And also from the fact of their
having been found associated with other stone
antiquities, we may regard them as having. been in
actual use, either for -hammering or bruising row.
MTIt also appears they were either held an the
without being mounted, or, AA in one specimen,
A ahanow groove has been worked at the edge, which
does not extend all round its face.. Doubtless, in
this instance it was for the purpose iif admitting its
being secure:l towome 0... rt, of handle, oich a.. a fork4.l
branch or splitstick —perhaps even arl the blacksmiths
do their chisels. There i• a very interesting Account
given by a Captain Mudge, R.N., of one of these
pebble hammers having been found hy him in a
curious log cabin which lie discovered in 13.33, in
limmkellin bog. Donegal, at a depth of lift. from
the surface, Ti,, hat was 12f t. square and oft. high,
being divided int. two storey., each lit. high. 'lii,'
planking was of oak, split with wishes of stone, one
41 which was found tit the building ; also a a.m.
hatchet, an arrowhead of flint, a slab of freest
(3(t. long awl I inches thick, in Ow centre of which
was a small pit three quarters .4 3n inch deep),
and one id the round shingle stones, Alm. f 4.11111 there,
which had I.4•l'Ved sac hammer ; the whole structure
was wrought with the rudest kind of implenomts. By
comptring the marks of the tool used in forming the
mortices they wen fund to correspond exactly, even
to the slight curvrd exteri.or 41 the Stolle hAtehet
which was found there ; but the I. had been hewn
with A larger instrument, on the bog at halt I; a
swiiril gave eVilleller ef the remote antiqiiity
44 chi. 11th,., forms base ham met with
from the locality of Portland ; many eireularwhaped
I,nem, made of dark brown flint generally. In one or
twi etatllllloll I ii. 'tic.', how.-..'r, the have lawn
ground, apparently ti a ri lge all round. These
belong probably to a different class, which I hots.
4.llllsefllleilltly to &smile. They, nevertheless,
remould.. .me of the hammers whirl, I have discover-131
in the ancient pile dwelling. of Switzerland ; these
have often A alight depression at their I.4ft side,
in which one's thumb can be comfortably 145" ed
while the forefinger lies in s groove at the tip ; tho
Isgtotii, Iwing flat, is Alalitel (4.1.1101111.1i110
nese are for the most fart made of granite, and
finished by having its piekol rill over. I am
not aware if this tail, a pick which was used for this
111111.1se, has ever lain actually diwovered, I tarty
here Kay I have one from the neiglilsiiirlesal -4
Zvenhai ; it is hardly tlktingitishalile froin A laqe
heleinnite. There bit siiinewhat similar hammer to
thaw demerit oil in the Dorcherger Museum, which was
found filolt hoIOW the village of irandson. Switzerland.
Many of the perforated hatcherrhansiners fent' this
locality have had an enormous amount of lahour
best...Weil Main them. I have ime before me in an
unfinished condition, which is highly interesting
.in seatunt of its •howing him, the proems
of making the shaft hole was perheinal.
Do the oppeate sides of this serpentine liatelwt
hammer recesses were picked or chaellel in, so set,,
born a guide for the I..rfilltr tfloil. Alll It AIM. 1114.W.1
hilW it has been siihjected to a rotatory motion from
the marks are in the shaft hole inside and round the
twntrel core, which Sr.' very distinet. It is that
the North American In.lans sometimes spend their
whole life making a stone tomahawk. without entirely
finishing it. I may Add that I have i1ia...v.4ml stag
horn handles which have been lio.l for the handl...of
these stone hammers. A, small lint interesting
hammer inale of trowa flint was ohtainal at Portland
the other day. It has been skilffilly worked in a
perfect *Time : the soda'.. is rather &romp...ell, :slid
at first sight appears to he. PortlitiVl stS.ti... It is
almost Westin. shin sit. awl character with one 111A410
11 fade 4W ii6ll.lk I (MINI at Gliteise, which. ..11Vilig
11f4.1.111111, t.. its war...sive hardness, has Itel less wok
bestowal 1111..11 it: it nevertheless his. .light
depression on the to.p. Whish Was ittletaied to as.ist in
holding it in tie- land. Tier.' is 4 thin coding .of
patina upoti it. Thew iv-date-44r find, may lie eon.
siderwl another link in the chain of •iiiidarity exia•
ing Indween many of the stone imitruin otts (wind in
this neighlonirhoi I and those belonging to the
ancient inlialniatits of 'satirist'''. dwellings of
Switzerland —II.W.F.

FA 111 Pl. V. —Sir, --To flit justice Anil lime mercy ev
"finely is not the nottmil tbe Portland 1, ,cal Mr Aal
'harvest by your Imlay bed week, ten 11001. paripme
wen, iumm.op.l by them for not fairing their rates.
while one .1 the atone compamea .4 the island is
allowed to remain in arrests to the summit of Cll. I
hope the ratepayera will rementlier this at the prevent
election. —Your,' truly, Jusrea.