The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-03-02 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

NAVAL-Mr. Herbert A. Co, eland (clerk) to the
Warrior.

NAVAL CHAPLAIBL--Tbo Nev. J. G. Williams has
been applinted first chaplain to the shipping in the
Portland Roadstead. The rev, gentleman has served
In the mercantile marine for 15 years.

FOOTBALL—The Portland Club played the second
match this year with the Doreet County :id:lo°' on
Saturday last. A most exciting game was played, i
resulting n a victory for the Portland Club by one
god. .

WienrrAN ANNtv MART. annivenary sermons
in connection with the Fortune's-well Wesleyan
Chapel were preached on Sunday last, in the morning
by the Rev. H. Padgbam, and in the eveuing by the
Rev. W. It. Waugh (Congregational).

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Lneffuts.—An admirable lAvtitie was delivered on
Wednesday in the %Vesleyan ewe], Fortune's Wvll,
by the Rev. 'V. Brice, of Weymouth, entitled An
evening with the Poets." Some nice pieces were sung
during the evening. A collectioa was made on behalf
of the Trust Fund.

CAPOILIB or • LOAD Or HAT. —Mr. B. &riven writes:
—"I have pleasure in stating that I have never had •
mishap of the least kind, and • ith the exception of
Mr. Hodder, I have brought home more los& of the
kind than any other person dining the last four years,
and most of them from beyond Dorchester."
SHIPPING CASUALTT.—The Trimountain, from New
York to Bremen, with oil, was fallen in with on the
13th inst. in lat. 4340 N, 3620 W., by the Othello in
a sinking state. The latter took of all the crew, 18
In number. The Othello reported during the passage
from New York to Portland very bad weather, and
on the 12th a terrific hurricuie from :4.W. to W.
THI Ray. J. B. Wursuza, the Assistant Chaplain
at the Portland Convict letablishment, is about to be
removed to Woking. We regret to state that the rev.
gentleman buried his only child on Tuesday, which
will doubtless have the effect of throwing a saddening
influence over what would otherwise have been
recollections of a thoroughly happy stay, for the rev.
gentleman is much liked and highly esteemed, and his
departure will be much regreted.

" MANI a SLIP 'TWIIT TSB COP LIM INS
LIP."—A sailor belonging to the Warrior hart been
ashore for a week, and at the end of his leave he took
it into his head to get married, which " happy "
ceremony was performed in Weymouth last Tuesday
morning. Returning with his bride to Po:timid almost
directly after the wedding, to his great dismay he
found a policeman waiting for him, who in romantic
pedants, 'with cruel bands tore him from his lovely
bride," and marched him off to the lock-up and from
thence to his ship. But the "cruel parting "was
borne with stoical fortitude, and we hope Jack will
soon get another leave to go on shore and join his wife
without let or hindrance.
Da. PARS Ml' PIIIIIINTATION.—We have had an
opportunity of inspecting the clock which was last
week presented to Dr. J. F. Parsons. It is an exceed-
ingly handsome one, in the Louis XVI. style, with
beautifully enamelled dial. On a silver plate at the
base is the folbwing inscription :—" Presented to Dr.
J. F. Parsons by a few of hi, patients and friends, in
token of their kind remembrance and grateful esteem
upon his le ,vin { P.trtla,nl. February 18th, 1880."
Th nods 0 ,rnben, we bolieve, was mainly instru-
mental in c tliecting suhs,riptions, and the list of those
who Nut-scribed comprises the Rev. J. A. Boazor, and
several of the leading inhabitants.
Tex FAIIISI lie IltsAairrt.—A subscription has been
opened nt the banks of Messrs. Eliot and Co. and
Meters. Williams and Co., in the names of Mr. Richard
Pearce (chairman of the Local Board), and Messrs.
Richard Law, J. C. Lano, C. Mitchell, B. Scriven,
June., and J. P. Scriren, merchants and stone agents,
of Portia-A, in aid of the Duchess of Marlborough's
relief fund. Sums of the smallest amount may be
paid in Of will be received by thew gentlemen, and we
trust there will be a liberal response, for funds are
urgently needed. In the notice issued the inhabitants
are reminded that they have been exceptionally
favoured with good trade and plenty of work, while
great depression has been felt in almost all other
parts of the country. Shall we," it is asked, "in
our j rwoority and plen .ty allow our fellow subjects
and berth-en in Ireland to endure the miseries of
starvation and stretch out no hand to help them?"

lIIIMOULAILITIM AT rii• POIITSZACoamcr Esr•ausii-
marit.—Thom we Knapp, assistant warder in the con.
vice establishment a. Portsea, has been sentenced to
sir months' impasonment for having =lawfully
attempted to obtain the Bum of 25 from • Mr. Sheldon,
living near Manchester, who had a son undergoing •
term of penal servitude in the prison. The prisoner
had written Mr. Sheldon a letter, enclosing • note
purporting to coins frun his son, asking him to send
him £5, which Knapp promised to give him in secret.
Instead of doing so, Mx. Sheldon sent both letters to
the governor.—Thomas Murdock, alsos warder at the
same prison has been committed for trial at the
Quarter Sessions for receiving 20s. from Emma Levy,
of London, in the IMMO of Thomas Johnson, and
converting the sarae to his own use. From the
evidence, it appeared • convict named Levy wrote to
his wife upon • leaf torn from a Bible, which being
'given to the prisoner was f ,rwarcled, and • poet-office
order received in return, which he cashed and converted
to his own use.