The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-07-06 00:00:00

gni( !Ira-. 'thus concluded a wet

PORTLAND.
Pitoncrriosis in 'mg 102:40.—From the London Goz,ne
we learn that Captsin Hornsby becomes major, ecLint
Grorme, retired ; Lieut. and Adjutant Vetch is protege,'
to be gentian. ries. Hornsby, promoted; and Lieut. 'Leer ti
be Musketry Instructor, eine Faber prtmote'L
Jack ASHORIL—Ahnut 31.10 of the Boseawan boYii under
command of Lieut. Brock, came ashore from the ship et,
Monday afternoon, headed by the briaqi band, awl c wry.
ing their swords and rifles, went through some manwuvres
in the Naval Cadets' ground. and marchei out on the
Weymouth Road, returning in the middle of the afta.
noon, with band playing.
An UNUsVAL "Tir."--Un Monday afternoon a horw of
Mr. Ilialder's ivas slrawing one of the tip waggons, flu the
tramway near the railway station. As they were running
it to tip, before doing which the herse is of nOUrte led away
from time waggon, they could not get the animal out
enough, and the laden waggon came on, driving the hone
before it over the bank, down which it fell, the load being
capsized over the poor animal. Fortunately the bores
remained perfectly quiet, and was disengaged almost sur

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ALARM OE FIRE.-011 Wednesday night. Mr. Scriven,
of Wakehani. fuel a narrow escape of his house being burnt.
They had the chimney swept on Wednesday, and the soot
Was put up oil the coal in an outhouse, and it seems the
soot must have been on fire, for the initiates of the house,
perceiving a smell of sno ace, went nut and found a qiumtity
of wood all in a I daze. This was about ten at night. They
threw on a It of water, and put the lire out; but the door
was scorched, and as the outhouse is a lean-to against the
dwelling-house, there was sufficient cause fur alarm. P.C.
Coates was called, and took charge of the place all night,
to fummi against the tire bunting out again.
TIIE ItOrat, GRANT FEND.- The trustees of this fund
have just issued their statement of accounts for the year
1871. From it we find that the lealance of dues uncollected
front the last account was £3l Is lid, that the amount
presented in May was Lied 15s thl, in November£l4ll9,,:kl,
making a total of £315 ltis lid. Messrs. Steward and
have paid Ltil Pis 3d. Mr. Weston LIT its, Mr. W.
Lowman CS ha lid, and Mr. 11. Flew Lii lb, leaving a
Instance of £l3O Is 21 still uncollected. The disbursements
include Xfill to the parish schools, £l9 to St. George's
Church, 1:21 for flinuers, -Unto St. Georges Coal doh
£l5 10s to St. John's Cent Club, £2 '2.s to Mr. Zilsosi
Milleilge for preparing accounts, .132 to the Comity
Hospital. and .1.17 3,1 t van.ius poor familiamu to assist thew
to emigrate, the total being £l5l Ifie 7.1. There ae,unt
with Messrs. Eliot, Pearce, and eu., shows the sow of
Al 13s 741 overdrawn.
Snirris, IS TIIIS PORT. —Thu Missions to &were
Society, which works amongst sailor...al shipboard. repirta
of Portland as follow,: -" leering the year is. this
magnificent roadstead was frequented by iiiereleed
vessels and Pe ship.-,,f•war. of these, I.olv Drindi
merchant vessels, manned by 5.512 anil 201 foreign
ships, carrying I,fitt4 men who spoke ten different
binguiige,,. were leaving &suit onedialf untouched;
and of the shipe-ofswar, ;fil vessels, laidined IT Sib, awn.
were visited, being about one.thiril oi the whole n 1111 l
•=it services and htl Scripture readings urre conducted is
the mercantile marine, II Seripture readings on hoard the
Queen's ships, and nu services were held in the
s.mmwn the leach; Idle II visitere paid tii the Sala'
. ... sw.

Hospital, where I scrwice and it rscripturc readings %We
conducted. In only one vessel were the Ite.ulee.
gWelined during the year. Thirteen Ili ant Tisaas
!tiento were sold awl given away. No information was
sought se to public worship being con.huteil ly thcoMsers
when at ins, or as to smitten who kneel in priest, 'rapt
in the foreastle, or who may he &slums id receiving the
1144 Con ttttt union, or to attend on Divine ordinanres a hen
on shore. The number of seamen attending the denims
at the mission room ashore averaged about 12."

FATAL ACCIDENT AT PORTLAND.
About 7 o'clock on Wednesday morning. a fatal areidvnt
occurred to a young tuan at eston. Caleb Peame was
was going to his work, awl was walking along the .1g...4
"Sucktlautub quarrY, to the holder, when his hod slipped,
and he fell into the unitary, a depth of loft. or 5111 It. Ile
Was taken to his bvtue at Weston, and attended by
Dr. Rae; but his injuries were st. severe that the was
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hopeless
from the fi Th rst. e prior fellee"s thigh was broken,
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and dislocateidi at the I.in, and there was a horrible hole in
his bead, which looked, as a spectator says, " all
to pitaymp.“ Pearce lingered utterly insensible, for twe
hours, and died about If o'clock he was about 17 year- el
age.
The young man very steady ansl well-behaved, bad
been apprenticed to Mr. Iteynolds, stone inerelnurte Wey.
mouth, lot on Mr. [(cystoids resigning busbies., inshard
being tented over to Mr. Greenwood, he returned to work
with his father to the quarry. The quarry belonged to his
father, but ti let on lease to Messrs. (tiles and CO. 'lle
dece.ased went there on Wednesday ttttt rning with his
uncle (Robert Pearce) early—in fact, earlier than the fore-
man, intending to tress some stone which he liad
nearly " made," and get it finished iii time for
the approaching quarterly settlement, list the merning
was rainy, and he, with hi, uncle, stepped into a leni-e
cave made I.f great blocks of stone, at the top ot the
quarry. %%lib, there his father (John Pearce) came with
the breakfast, and went dewn towards the ladder. In
doing this, the men can either 143,8 round the crane, by a
:.roper road on the landward si.b., or, as it is more usual,
they for the sake Iti saving alseit :71 ISOM go down •
rough place, with us kind of stone steps, only about nine
inches wide, and shelving outwards. Just below this
corner place, whieli cannot, be called a staircase, (for it is
only of rubble stone of rough description) is a sheer
deseent of &limit 40 feet to the bottom of the
quarry, which is here worked into the bed, of which
i's over c„ about e'
ttnhstai'kililr torn,A it it ;h this
neces. is.l"try
to delay amt describe it, as no one woulet stmts.e it was a
place of passage unless they were told, The father wort
over this place and then was en a path surrounding the
crane, and passing this lie went to the ladder, and .wlled
out "Caleb
." The deceased answered " Yes," followed.
going as UMW down the rough " s p late- step., when the
father, who had supposed liiiii to Ise in the quarry linked
hack, and, SAW hint slip, his foot sentinel!: 011 C Of the stele:
the father cried "Dli ! my poor boy ! • for the on eild net
recover his footing, lint fell sheer down hito the quarry.
His father humediately went retied to him, and held up
his head, and the uncle, tollowing peer the same
dangerous place, went down also, bet safely, into the
quarry. The poor hely was already almost insensible,
he only groaned once. They lilted hint to the top
with the crane, put hini on a hurdle, and eoevered hini to
his home in Wes•un, when Dr. liar attended hit,,. Poit
he had sustained a broken and dieliswted thigh and
fractured akull, both arms were hroken, she the cellar'
bone, and there were many bruises and much bloial toff.
Ile hied only about two hours, aiel died about nine
o'clock. The cause of the accident is suppeeed to have
been that from the morning being wet suttee clay had
gathered on his boots and caused hint to slip, and it has
leen suggested that a few minutes' work would much
improve the steps, by making them so as to give a firmer
foothold. The better way, one would think. would
Its to knock the pieces of shelf altogether away, that
they may not he used at all, for it seems pre-
posterous to walk over the eery edge if a precipice,
where a slip is certain death, when fifteen or twenty
paces more would take IMO into a west road, made
exprontly, and perfectly safe. The young WWI'S thee
died exactly three months before the aixident, to the very
.lay, and the father MAW, weeks ago, married a compara-
tively young woman. There are two sons and teo
daughters left, besides .two young hien who are attlicted,
being of weak intellect and unable to walk • these were
gent to the Ullitni•hOUlS, Oil their ttttt titer's Pour
Caleb attended the Wealeyan Sunday school, and wa.. a
member of the society. He attended elaasemeeting onlY
the night before, and engaged in prayer, and it is curiously
remembered that he quoted in his yineyer the lima.—
" Dangers stand thick e'er all the ground
To push on to the tomb,
And fierce dismal wait around,
To hurry mortals home r•
ilk it appears, is a eon hylllllllollollg the Wesle) 'tie
but the coiueldence in striking. Ilia father and fronds
have the best hope that he was quite prepared for death,
and they believe that he scarcely suffered, pain 1.1, we he
died. the sail event has cast quite a gloom ie. r .Piehill.
The Coroner, Mr. Howard, appointed the in., for II
o'clock on Thursday, at the Prince Alfre..l. I: to le
hoped that that use of the dangerous and alto
steps will be discontinued, for any person not acemtotie'l
to walk over them must feel that it is tempting Pr...,
dence to go that way, and if there he any future
there, as may well be the case if they are used, it
scarcely be called an accident.

THE I,II4VIST
Took place at 11 on Thursday, at the Prince Ailed.
Weston, before Mr. 14 N. Howard, coroner, and the 44"
lowing jurymen :—/iliestrs. Charles !Untie, I:en:awls
Stone, William At:Diboll, Joseph Beer, William Elliott.
Henry Elliott, Willi:on Stone, %braliatn Pearce,
Stone, John Hind; William Singleton, and henry Stren
The following evidence was adduced :
Robert l'earce :said he was a quarryman retiibus
Weston, and the deceased was his son. Ile workisi I*
quarry with his son, situate near the Alfred Inn, Weston.
known by the name of the "Suckthonie quarry:
the 311th of June decennial went to hit work in good health
and spirits. Whilst at work it came in to rain-
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Pearce, Edward White, sen., and Eila aril White. inn.
also worked there, Ile went to work at a quarter to toes
o'clock. lie told hum, (witmiess) to linng him oiiie tea'
When he went to the quarry he could not see him or of
one else. He called out ' ('aid," sal his sen
Yes," lie (witness) pai,t "here you are." 11eC'°!
then went out of the hut toward, him omi 551 d "E,les
White ban gone home ;" cml he (witness) said "All 01bt
I suppose he has gone to breakisot,' With
stepped on • stone round the corner to me, w.-ihn etAstio•h:
slipped, and he fell head foremost into the quaff)" "n
stone, • distance of nearly 40 feet. 1 thought I heard him
say "Oh," as he was falling. He and his uncle Pearce
once went to him, and found his body lying on a
the bottom of the quarry--his face and belly hanging "i.d'
the stone slownwards. They picked him up and sat b.,nn
upright, and John Pearce went to fetch more help. n*,
breathed, but remained unconscious until his death, al""n
three hours after the accident. Dr. Rae watat the hood
almost as soon as they reached it; witness accounted 40
deceased slipping by his having mud about his boots ir°
its
haring rained in the morning he was about tin yard*
from him when he slipped; he had not taken the tension
he fell.
George Alfred Rae, general practitioner, assistant to.ln
, McLean, said he was called to see the deceased at den`
o'clock. He went immediately and found he hail mi"
tamed severe injuries. His wrists and his collar be,"
; were broken, there was a wound over the right eye. on 6
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r ' John Pearce, uncle of the deceased, proved when dm,
deceased fell he went with the father and did all they
possibly could for him and carried him to him hothe.
said there was a slight rain falling when the accident
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harereect, " Accidental death."