The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-15 00:00:00

WEYXOIITH.

TUE GREAT EASTEILN fame between the Shambles and
Whitenoss on her ivay to the eastward about midnight of
Tueeday.
MOILZ GIJILSIOSITY Or Mx EDWARDS, M.P.—Our Liberal
member has kindly given a towards a fund for sending
to • hospital in London • little boy named Legg, who was
In April last attacked with inflammation of the brain which
left bin totally blind. The little boy is only six years old,
and his case is named to us as a very deserving one.
DEATH °FAN OLD AND RESPECTED I ri lIABITANT.-On Fri day
morning last, died at an age exceeding years, Capt. Peter
Swatridge. lie had devoted large sums to the benefit of
the Sanatorium, the Eye Infirmary, and the Weymouth
Royal Hospital; he was also very liberal to St. John's
Church and to Christ's Church. He was much respected
by all and deeply esteemed by very many friends. Another
oW inhabitantalmost contemporary with Capt. Swatridge,
wonders that the ships in Weymouth harbour did not, at
least all that belonged to Weymouth, half.inaat their flags
on Capt Swatridge a death. Probably it was because the
fact was nut generally known till too late to show this token
of respect.
Mr. AVANT'. CONCISRT. —A very charming and talented I
company of musicians were brought by Mr. T. Avant, to
perform at the Royal Assembly ROOMS on Tuesday I
evening. They consisted of—Vocalists : Madame Thaddeus
Wells, Miss Joyce Mass, and Mr. Orlando Christian, with
Mr. Henry Nicholson, Flautist, and Mr. T. Avant and
Miss Newman, pianists. The voices of the singers were
well blended in the trios and duets while each particular
pert was rendered with remarkable purity and clearness.
Mr. Christian sang his sentimental ballad "Farewell "
with the utmost distinctness of enunciation, and with all
the pathos it required ; and Molloy's fine song "The
Vagabond with immense spirit and excellent effect, not
without a tinge of the roughness a vino, which made the
song seem more natural than ever. In Mr. Shield's song
"On by the spur of valour goaded" his splendid bass was
displayed in all its excellence, end Um treat was very
great, his notes are almost like the pedal notes of an
°r with all the life and reality that marks the human
voice. Madame Wells, • very pleasing soprano, sang very
clearly in her first song "Golden Days ;" but it was lit
the Old English Maypole song "Conic, lames and lads '
that she achieved her greatest triumph; it was delivered
with au airiness and archness combined with the must
silvery singing, as completely to enchant the audience,
who encored,.. when the fair songstress gave "Gin • body
meet • body, with almost equal success. The contralto
'Mier, Miss Maas, had indeed • rare and most delightful
voice, it was well displayed in soup imbued with
melancholy or terror, as the Storm, where her " Miserere
DOMille." was very impressive,. "Don't be
sorrowful, darling, was a splendid specimen of the sad
style yet rising
We
calm mid qeiet MY at the thought of
better hopes We should like thet tamped insis, Protesser
Tyndall to have heard the last Yen% Sad if lie wain t
moved to confers the utter folly of his Pantheist or
I Atheist speculations, he must have been almost hopeless.
WM Maas was most deservedly encored, and she responded
with "The Three Fishers" Splendid as that song is, it
was almost too full of
.despairing
'grief, as rendered by
Mass Mass; but her singing. of 'The wrack it came
rolling up, ragged and brown, was really tremendous in
les espresso= of darkness and wreck. Her despair in
ila thighs I do not love him" was worthy of a tragedy
queen, and it was scarcely relieved by the gleam of light in
the last wens Altogether Miss Mae impressed us as being
a singer much out of the comoson ; bet whether a little
more brightness and joy may got add to the pleasure she
gives her audiences is a question she should solve. We
venture to commend to her such songs as "hoot be
sorrowful," rather than those which are altogether triste.
Of the trios and duets we must no fall to mention
especially Smarts duet, "When the wind," r distinctly
enunciated by Madame Wells and Mr. Christian, nor the
concluding trio, "Queen of the Night," • moat beautiful
piece. Of the instrumentalists, Mr. Avant displayed his
remarkable talents to the best effect; he had • splendid
Hagspiel strand pianoforte, and he certainly did full
justice to that fine instrument We hope always to bear
. Avant perform on air instrument %eh as his powers
deses've by was brilliant, tender, exact,Well, and rich, by
turns, as e an music required, d his success was very
great Of Nelyznan, it suffices to say that we know
why she is the favourite of Penland, and the good judg-
ment of the Portland gentry is fully Proved. for Miss
Newman would charm any audience of musical taste.
sr. Nicholson, the flautist, is an astonishing performer,
he held bis audience in raptures during the wbele time
hbvilmityesl Not only was his execution surpassingly
but he produced such tones from the flute iss
one could never hems expected. and when, on the same
instrument he *rid ad ust,. le wbich the notes of the
piccolo and clarionet were dlstaneffy beerd, yet beauti-
fully chordal, the delight of the audience coeld oil be
expressed by a determined encore. Every amps cials
within reach should hear Mr. Nicholson's magic flute.
AU the party seemed to be pianists, and sooonipanied
each at least ose piece with brilliancy and taste' but the
main portion of course was properly allotted to Mr. Avant,
who acquitted himself (selflessly, as he always does
The excellent and pure taste of tins concert, and the
musical delights afforded, would have justified an audience
is hundred times as large as that which assembled at the
N.wal Hotel on Tuesday night.

JVCOI,I VIM Sinaowls, 11110NDAT.-13elora Mr. J. Ay
ling,
. Reynolds, and Dr. H. Tisard.
Is'ainsd, private id the 79th regt., was dimed with
eidimimg under faisc previa-es -Tbe Islamist had sen in the
G. company, ol the Ind bait zi regt., at Ouvcr, In 187/, and
had been discharged for felony But be enlisted In the 75th,
and from the attestation papers prulnenl by Capt. thvanagb,
It was shoe-n that he said he had never served In the army or
navy before. —Prisoner pleaded guilty, and threw himself upon
the merry of the Bench, saying that he had been in the nosed-
rose It days already. The Chairman mid he sin.ld treat
prisoner ail a rogue and a vagabond and onlimittoil him for
three mouths' hard labour,

AOTIIPII •WI!DUXO CIIAUL

Smith was charged with obtaining money by false
sciences, from Hannah Weetorpuor widow; also from Mrs.
Bleathmati a landlady. —Hrtaall West mid primeer ono to
her on yeidey tame; tg, the tit, at the Belvidere Inn, called her
out to speak to her ; he rkol her to sell a coat and lair
of voters. He said he had left • heautirul coat and trowere
at Mrs. Bleathmen's. She was to ask LI for the mat and lot.
for the treeere ; he WM going to Portland, and should not he
out till hall-pat wren, and would meet her there and what
re get for the thingsshe wan to give him. He Continued that he
was short of money, would she let him have We-crown, ehe
mired that if At would wait at lin Mari, she would let him
bare Doane ; but be refused, and rid he "could go with her.
libe let lalor have le. Ild , all the money she had ni the house.
He promised to meet ber at half-per net on in the evening,
at Mr. ; but she bed not seen him till the present
time. She wt to Yrs illerhmaris for the coat and trouser;
but Mn. Bice said there was pouting left for her; am.n
came and left a bundle, and borrowed hely.e„,„ ehe
sahed to look at the bundle, which contained and old cost and
brooms. The mot and trousers were produced, and found to
be t cry old, in Wit, mere rags, and the sight of them caused
much laughter.- Mrs. Elisabeth Mins, of the Belvidere
eedirrutal the evidence of Hannah Welt, that it was arrangol
the hatter labour sell the clothes, and peewee was to meet Ire
• hadtpast sever. She did nit see eny motley par- -Henrietta
Bleathieur said pilaw err to her brie on Wedneeday,
and in reply to • quartet rid he arks iitiite with the bore
on the beach : he had a little money wb.q beatme from see,
and he thought It was a good way of laying It or Me erd
be had earned over Lb a day ; but eorre. he let boar tort
end they were not brought hack again. The night before, he
hint &lady and gentleman a host; but it was left at the 4 ;Wl-
hoer—not brought back again. Be rid he was purer with
eetea herr Wrier, down in Hope. On Murray morning he
err end eaked tokens bundle ; he left the bundle produced
toga aujy centered a very ragged coat and trouser. About
ten minutes after be came back and ereg if ehe wohtdi lend
him half-servant, as he wanted men fitls'ar and liwt thew beta
hack, and he promised to let her have it again In ten minutes.
She gave him Ye tal , believing hie steement about the bore,
but she had not seen him roc, and he had never &Wirier
her to hand the bundle over to lire. Wee —Barri Baker,
ottller of boats kept foe hire on the beach, said prisoner had
ever been In partnership with him, worked for him. he bed no
connectionliandeford apprehended prisoner
under a warrant ler Sunday morning. He haerhod Le the
door, and his mother denied he weer b 00,.; but with,. h,heti
him upstairs. When told the therm he mid be
NM pretence to amnia Wast.—Pra... . plehded"'""gurilly' to
the maw by false pretences, from My Bisatatnen,
but eat fras 'banal Wag. COMMinfid tO the Quarter
ilademe ter Ida

TroutAr —Before Mr. W. Symonds and Mr. 0.
Mr. F. V. J. Hann was summoned for amatillaCtigiltlis
boy. —Complainant saki that yeetenlay afternoon her little boy
came home, screaming and crying ••broketeleatrted," with marks
of alms on him. She was told that Mr. Hann had beaten hint,
and ate went to his house., and asked what her boy had done.
Defendant replied " lie Las cut opt, to, lath itoV 'a Mal r
She replied "Why didn't y an. ael I .i•••I' I have
corrected him? He anse tvel " I Mini leave that t el. I did
it myself." She returned "Itis a very tering thing," wheat he
put the door nut against her, and the dirt of the mat at it ser
her head anti face. She • ent off e " make you pay
, for this " She thought it vury dvar.:ly that defendant had
' taken the little Loy into his tos7n house, sod slapped him on as
to leave marks, which site" tao terry were not there now, but
she showed them to all the neigh 11.41r.."—Defendault produced:
a still smaller boy, with a out near his eye, and he mitt the c tm-
plainant's boy had cut It with a stone. lie took the chill in.
and scolded him for doing it, and gave him a slap, anti oon-
plainant CIIThe to his house eery abusive: she culled him &cant, a
methodist, &c, and he shut the door at her : but lie denied
putting the doordnat against her. This was not the first titne
complainant's children ha:l attaeittal and annoyed Ida—The
Chairman saki an aostal t had been e.dititted,which defendant hail
no right to to. There might have been pros:ovation, but lie
would have done n Itch better to have gone to the child's mother,
Instead id correetier.: It biliplelf. lie aes to pay the coast of the
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