The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-03-15 00:00:00

BRIDPORT,

WRECK OF A BRIDPORT BRIG AND

SEVEN HA NDS.

Ihe old brig " Why Not" trading fee Ito mane
years between Bridpott and Newcastle in the coal
trade, has just foundered with the to crew seven
at Boddom, off Peterhead. Scotland. Considerable
alvim prevailed in the town when the rumour got
afloat en Tudday, 1111 the captain and crow hail from
this Man or partahes in the immediate locality. The
rerort VIM not without foundation, as Mr. John
Swailleld, coal merchant of North-street received the
following telegram on Tuesday morning. "Th. " Why
Not" brig, of Bridpott, wrecked at liocidom,
WWII lost." Mr. Swaffield was daily expeeling a
empignment of coals by the "Why Not." The brig
which appeared for a long time to be in a state of
anything but sea-worthiness, has net been er mged In
for3ign service for a long period, and being the property
of the Wallsend Coal Company, was used for the
trandui-sion of coals from Newcastle to this town. It
Ii believed, as far as can be yet ascertained that the
vessel went down on Monday night during the dorm
which prevailed along the east coeds of England and
Scotland. Captain Dimity is a native of West Minima ;
the mate, James Gerrard. of Burton Braddock, and
Willtant Tirtard, about 20 yews of age, of this town,
able seamen, was only married at Christmaa laiL
The rest of the crew belong to Burton Braddock.

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" Humble Pie is occasionally a " forced " dish among
the literary esteem /its, and whenever included *.n the hill
et fare is ever found difficult of digestion, to Gay nothing
of mastication. Timid young men who kr, ton young.
and far too inexperienced too catch the ruiessie spirit of
the age, preferring rather to pilfer the produce of other
people's hard-worked brains, and wigs aro insuffieently
wide-awake to discern the differeneshetvreen • Frratuitious
and wilful insult to an excellent awl law-dispensing bench
of magistrates, and a legitimate paragraa,h or advertise-
ment, must, at the cost tit digesttng a " forced dish" or
being" brought to elelh ,'' be taught to behave themselves
In the future.

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Thu details of the ease heard Were the Itorramb
Magistrates a fortnight sine., will not admit even of
brief notice in the pres. The decision of the bench was
surely the right one, and it is much to be regvittei that
ouch a diaision should ell forth an t.bjeetionable on-
from "A hearer," who was really no bearer
of the meeting at all; but the excuse is very
faint for the person who permitted the publication,
such an objectionable paragraph. MI doubt
the publisher, who has bees held up to public
ridicule, could not withatand the temptation of losing
paltry advertisement, in ignorance fearing, that if rejec-
ted, the few pence would flow into the hands el a con-
temporary—without speculating este whether the con•
temporary might have the common sense to refuse
admittance to nal despicable matter. However
the .• rubbing down " will pro. a *milkier! t
warning to the inexperienced, but even that does not
annul the unjustified aspersion east at the !wade of Is
no of magistrates nay the whole bench who.
iodinate far better and wiser than an imiipnglatua
litUu"loca"cual4 advise iliesa.