The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-19 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

Ws understand that thrall nr four men-of war are
shortly expected in the Portland Roads. It is said that
this will be the rendezvous for some of the English
vessels, in the event of war breaking out netween
Prussia and Austria.

ACCIDINT TO • COFIVICT.-00 Wooinesday wbilM
s convict was at work in one of the Government
quarries, • stone fell upon one of his lop and broke it.
Ile gram immediately conveyed to the infirmay, and the
fracture was reduced by the surgeons ounneded with
the establishment.

A Venn. LOST IN TUB RAMC —A cosetguarde-
man at the Hill Station reports that about six redo*
on Thur•day morning, • brigantine, name unknown,
bet from her rig supposed to have been a foreign vessel,
while attempting to cross the Race, atter leering her
anchorage In the roadstead, suddenly went down, and
that all bends on board perished. Some quarrymen
who had noticed the vessel just before, end who had
remarked on her perilous position, on spin looking esw
no more of her. Some small portions of wreck have
since been picked op, we undermined, but nothing to
wad to the idoOtifillatiOa Of se. al-ta44 vessel.
Samoan Anarigirr. —On Thursday, ag Was.
Pearee. a quarryman, was wheeling a barrow lades with
stones along • plank, his feet slipped and be fell Irma •
eonsiderable height, dragging the harrow sad its
eon-
tent. after him. He sostalued compound fractures of
both legs—one of theta being broken is three places.
He was also severely bruised about the body. Yr.
Carruthers, who wee oust for, wag promptly in attend-
ee**, and did everything in his power for the un-
fortunate man, but it was feared that even if the poor
fellow recovered, *DS of his legs would have to be
ampetsted. The poor fellow is not, we regret to .•I,
expexted to lies. He has • wife and several shildren.

•
Barran. —On Tuesday, a bazaar, in aid of the
Trust Fund of the Bible Christian Chapel. Maidenwell,
w.s held in the school-room ot the above chapel, when
there was a large display of goods that were both
ornamental and useful. Refreshments were supplied,
and every moommodation rem afforded to vi-iton—
that is, on their produaing the "needful." Loa.:l4che
Wet of it, however, the bazaar was y
attractive, Dor were the prices asked for the goods y
any means exorbitant We make this remark bemuse
it is a striking feature ill affairs of this kind. The
parties who presided at the stalls, were :—Books and
stationery. Mrs. Jolliffe ; foreign !Melia and fancy
baskets, Mrs. Thresher; boots and shoes, Mrs. Flew;
children's and adults' wearing apparel, Miss Potter,
Mrs. Deoning, Mrs. Pomona, and others; toyeand fancy
goods, Mr. B. Comb= ; refreshments, Mrs. Bunion; fruit
ml ooefectioaery, Mr. J. Thresher; chips, he., Vim V.
Combos. The poet offloe—not connected with Fier
Majessy'sGovernment, weakepthy the Bee. Mr. Denning,
the circuit minister. and Mr. Yonne had a museum. con-
taining about a dosen or fourteen of very fine specimens
in natural history, science, and art. We must accord
all due praise to the ladies and gentlemen who took part
in getting up and carrying out the affair, for the thing
was done thoroughly well. We trust the proceeds will
be found commensurate with the anxiety and trouble
bestowed upon the scheme adopted for so laudable a
PurPo•••