The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-10-12 00:00:00

WAYX 0 UTH.

Ms. WYLIE ill going out to India; but we hear he
has stated that all his creditors will be paid in full
some day.
lliric CORPS CAPTLINCT.—It in stated that Captain
Gluon Is about to retire, and In connection with the
rumour, It is noted that the captain did not fire at the
last competition.
Pzesionnas were paid at the Guildhall on Saturday
morning. It was lively In St. Edmund-street, for a
time; but one woman was so drunk when she came up
for her husband's money that the police put her in the
cells. _

A FALSI RIPOIrr.—We are asked to state that a
Wee repurt has been spread that Mr. 0. A. Colmar,
surgeon, A. 4., Is leaving Weymouth. Mr. Colmar
formally contradkea the report in our advertising
oolumns.

-IAIHOIIIIIOOB OT rue BRIDGE OPIUM. The
steamer Ran on trying to pug through the open.
log in the oot- about • quarter-pest ten on
Saturday morning, could not pees, and delayed the
foot traffic for about 20 minutes. P.C. Bead regulated
the traffic, and there was no accident; though some of
the people were impatient.
THAT LAIINDZYMAN narrowly escaped more than 004
awkward scrape on Saturday. He wee going rapidly
past Maws. Ralletha shop, when too sudden • turn
swung him against theplate-elan, and left a rough
outline of his figure in • large pane, which wee smashed
In very nearly It. whole height, and that wee 711. 6'n.
Bo thorough • destruction of • 'beet of plate-gleam is
seldom seen, for her, was no salvage at all.
Pool' Otb Booth.—On nudity, before Dr. Drew
B. Hopkins, Esq., J. Rtherteon, Esq., T. Abbott,
Req., J. Pa Rohm's, Esq., and J. Lundie, Req., several
poor widows, &v.., were excused their poor rates, 44
they had been, for years past, on the groom! LI
cay, the total amount being 132 76. 51. Mr.
, overseer, said they really could not afford to
paiedlie would not have brought them up, but was
0 to by law.
Ms. Tgonss's PIIPTUE —The oertificates gained at
recent examinations in music were presented to the
pupils of Mr. Thorne, organist of Holy Trinity Church,
on Saturday afternoon, when the Rev. J. D. Addison
very kindly presided, and addreeted some appropriate
remarks to the pupils on Church music. Avery agree-
able °moat wee also given by the pupils, reflecting
great credit on their talents and training. The certifi•
rates were given between the two halve§ of the musical
performance. _

'ThI
HilinOtra Berme has now been entirely
stripped of ito protecting walls and other fences, the
roadway partly bared of metal, and the whole
structure looks quite like the skeleton of Its former
self. bet us hope the, work of re-construction will
proceed se fast as that of stripping, and that the
present inconvenience will not last as many months as
some people fear. February will be quite long enough
to wait, without facing bolsterous March and rainy
April on the plank structure below
GOOD TIMPLARB AND CHURCH TEIRITI•NOL —A
member of the Church of England T(mperanoe Society,
having induced • fit subject to become • Good
Templar, has received the following letter :—"Dear
Mr. I beard with regret that has joined
the Good Templar". I feel strongly that their extreme
principles are Inconsistent with the more sober and
practical views of the Church of.Englaod Temperance
Society, and I now think it necessar, to decline the
help of Good Templar' in our own fittle Church of
England Branch." We understand that the person
newly brought in has already induced two or three
others to join the Templar lodge, so that the work pro-
ceeds on both sides of the water.
WOMEN DRUHL—Margarei M. Gary was !summoned
for being drunk on Saturday, when the pensioners
w. 4 coming to the Hall for their petudons. and P.C.
Delamont took her to the cells. She had been in the
Court once before, and been fined, and she asked the
Bench to fine her now.—Dr. Drew: The magiatrates
will oblige you this time.—Fined st, or se% on days'
Imprisonment, and allowed two !noire to got the 5..
—Beady Mende/445, • ymns,-i.h looking woman,
was summoned for being drunk in Governor',-lane.
where P.C. Riggs saw her.—Sergt. Away said she was
• married woman, and had been rammoned previously.
—Fined Is.. and in default, she was sent below.
Till STROGOLI roa a LIVING.— Waii•SS CagrOli, •
porter, was annum .ned by John Collins, soother porter,
for an assault. The came WM heard on Tuesday last,
before the Borough Bench.— John Collins: Last
Monday week, I was coming to my trucks, and
I saw that man hanging about them and trying
to take away a job. lie has no trucks of his own, and
wanted to take mine • I told him to leave go, and walk
away altogether. Then he Itt them go, but mine back,
and asid—" Yon swine. do for you," and
gave me • blow in the cheat, not a very hard one, and
then stayed still and blackguardd In, for nearly bar-
est-hour. I was sober at the thno.—Defendant said he
was a licensed porter, and a gentleman came to him
from the Augusta Place, and spoke to him about a job,
to take away the gentieman's luggage. They happened
to be standing near Collins's trucks, when Collins
came and called him a Irish mene. and said he
had no right to Uve in Weymouth at all. Defendant
*eked him "{lt abused bilk but cud not strike him.
—Dr. Drewdiguthireate to be a poliee's quarrel, awl
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