The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-02-04 00:00:00

BLANDFOr.D.

ON Sunday, after each of ea. aerators at Blandford
church, collections tatre made towards defrayinj the
expenme" of the evening sere The Rev. J. M. Quirk
Preached rOPTlling and •. end tre Rev. Mr.
Nichols, in the after oral of the collection'
amounted t., £l6 96. 3
BLAtIDFORO Tamp Rae v. - On Tueerlay
evening the Town•ball we by an attentive

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and enthusiastic andienoe, sn being tome
exmlient Temperanoe Maeda. . the members
of the society, and mnaia lir ft. s brass band.
The chair was taken by Mr. Li resident of
the society.
C•TrLi MARXISTS.— At the Blat. stsaione,
on the application of Mr. H. Fmk, • Ford,
repreventieg the egri olturists of the
magistrates affixed their signature to tie
Lords of the Ptivy s'ouncii for a license Is
market in Blandforl on the ant Sato. •
month. We understand that the market .
free, and the tumt sanguine expectationa
tamed of its success.

CHARON AGAINST A POLICZNAN.—At the Mac
Clerk'. (Ace. befote J. .1. F.rquharson, Esq., .
P. MIO.I. Eul•—Gewg, Moroni, one 0 the
Con.tabulary, who has been stationed •t Whitcc'
woo charged with haring on the 6,11 J•na.ry nes
hia duty. It appeared that several odmplainta ha
mode against M ,Sorn ml he se.a muspenoed, ends
to I resent himself on the any above•nan.e4 at
qnarters. He negl feted to amply swab the ordt
coneeptently .111111,.110.1 I. r the offence.—
mole no defence, and wan committed for one t
itapre•Onoalonli.

BOR,KIGH POLICI, Toesehy. —Before J. S.
F+.4 A respecisbly drested young into, who t
name of Philip Docent, an •nil he eras a Frei
was brought up in custody by the borough iroti
charge of vatrancy. It •ppe.red that the prism
huts been going shout from pisce to place, in
with another man not no sell att rot, oliti
various devices an entrance into the bonses
of the principal gentlemen. To one be state.
WM the brother of Lord P rtm.n, to anothe
was intimately acqusinted •ith their friend,
for poor Moniker his ' little game" did not
sacsseed, and he wee arrested on blondes,
put In durance vile on a chsoge of
balkehl proved the case against b'
committed to prison for one month

BRI PO*
Seownwe were preaahed L Lee, at
Widpqrt church, on Su. id evening, in
aid ef the Brir'port Co' .ning Club, and
codectinns were math cm, amounting to
nearly LE.
WI are much pleased to hear that Sir M. H. Nepeao
Bart, of Loden Court, has kindly consented to be
President of the Pridpeet Horticultural and Cut Mao
Garden Improvement Snoietv for the current year, and
has offered £5 to be &will:nit 4 in prizes, open to all
*lasses, at the next ennual show of the society. The
mayor of Briripoit (E. Con, E.g.) has kindly offered .1:2
an prise., to be open to all &asses.

A YOUT singulsr clrcematanee happened at Bridpurt
Harbour on Tueaday. A large shoal of grey mullet,
moat of them large ones. in number .6 nit 5000 or more,
entered the bubo'', when the lisherman quickly pat
seine arrow, the °einem, sad aueeseled .0 capturing
4000 of ahem, which sold at 15.. 31. per 100,
realising altogether shoot £33, • most fortunate wind-
fall for the fishermen there at tido dull time of the
year. Besides those caught ha the ealeit a large
number were taken in the basin at the harbour, great
quantities of them being viaible fleundering in the mud
at the bottom of the beedu at low water. Sash a thing
hu rarely, if ever, happened before at the harbour.

'fen Choral Society, numbering about 50 me mbersorb ieb
WM formed laid year by Mr. Champ. p.a. • performance
of selections from Handel'. ileastah," Rod "Judea
liamittates." in the fii lepandent sehooloroom, on
Tu vday evening, before a crowded audience. The
chemitees were very creditably rendered, especially the
" Hallelujah" and " Woithy is the Lamb," from the
" and "0 Father. by who's mighty power,"
end "Disdainful of danger." from the other oratorio;
while membe,s to whom solo. were entreated achieved
fir greater sucoes. than could have been expected. The
harmonium accompaniments were judiaimply played,
bet the eborietere require the support of a band uf
Instrumentalists.
ISITRAOIDWART FATAL ACCIDENT.- -A ead and fetal
accident occurred at the harbour on Friday night, the
24th January. It appear. that • man named Frederick
Tett, about $6 yearsold, who lived at Eyrm, bet worked
at the Rohner, ws• at the George Inn. Bridport
harbour, that eight, and left it about ten o'clock. with
the intention of going home. To do so he would have
to cross • bridge over the ileieer, near the shipyard, ad.
joining the bade of the harbour. It was an extremely
dark night, and raining hard—so dark. It is stated, that
if • person liad put out Hs band before him he meld
not have been it, and in front of the George Inn,
between that house end the bridge, is c quantity of
timber lyinß on the groond ; so it is suentatist. that "
there was no light at all near the spot, the poor man tried
to keep eve! front this wood, and jetties,' of turning at
the right point to go over the bridge, he went on and
walked right into the basin, the weather being so wet
alto at the time, that it is thought he must
have been obliged to hold down bin heed for
shelter Icom the rain. Ndtbing more was heard of
hint till Sunday, when he WU Peen by • man named
Edward &meter in the water in his working clothes,
one hand biiing jest out of the water. When bind,
his h•sdt nil kg• were inc contracted nuts, as if he
had been clinging toe
pile. On Henley afternoon an
inquest win held on the body at the Bidport Arnie Inn,
lAndport Harbour, where it had been removed, before
N. U. Locrin, earomer; and two witnesses. lIRMO I
JOl5 M.'s's"' end leawil Greening, hewing given evidence
ac to their seeing deceased at the George Inn that night,
and am to Ha being perfectly a her when be left.
Greening adding that he advised him not to go home
that night in such weather, and dward Bouchier
having spoken to Seiler the body In the water, the
jnry returned a verdict of " AocidentAlly Drowned."
The jury wished to add to their verdict that they
thought there ought to boa light pissed, en each side
of the sides.. The (Intoner teri ism te4 the
representative* of the pros to mention it. It eertainly
is very daniterous there, particularly of a ditto night.
And we only wonder there have been no moan mmidents
in consequence of the abeam,* of light. Several of the
jury spoke of the deceived as being • remarkably .toady,
quiet, sober 111114. He layette wife end etyma' grown
up daughter..