The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-05-26 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

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STONE TRADI is dull, OA fur apt general °Mei, are
concerned. Little or none has yet Wen sent out for the
new law Courts. _

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Perste Friends up country, whose early potables
hose been cut down, way be interested to hear that
in l'ortlanenew potatoea are fairly plentiful. At lil. per lb,
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)IACKEKEL —l.srge nuittistes of mackerel have lawn
caught in Portland Itt.l On Wednesday Messrs. Wills
and Houncelrx party caught about 24,00 e. and others pna
portionate nuntherti. The dab BODO to have entirely
d,eherted the West Bay.
THE NAVAL CADET'S Gnovxn.—The convicts have
partly cmgpietad the levelling of this ground, and have
been withdrawn 011 AeCtlllllt of the dry weather. limit
part of the ground has teen laid to • perfectly regular
elope, with the except' of a "level pitch" for wieketa.
.t match will he played in the around on Whit Monday,
Is tween eleYet. of the Portland Cricket (lab and eleven
of the Regimental 'hub.
MAN DISAIILED ON TIIE BEVIL SALUDIar A fisher-
man of Malhutts, nauml Henry Mitchell, was in the
shallow water near the Beach, dipping up fish from the
net. he 'wing knee-deep at the time. There we... .•
chop,"
and one of the seas htruck the pot he wah bolding with
great force on the knee rap, and the man fainted and fell
in the cater, Ile u.as reaved from i 11111 l inent droning,
and taken home, when it was found that his knee was
badly sprained.
Cormier local/I/EAU IN MED.—On Friday morning last
a convict was found deal. He had been a hanker'a clerk,
and *Vat in the Priam fur foraery. Warder Exalt on flaw..
ing his cell, alstut five ore quarter past, found that the
usual hign we. nut given by thy convict from his cell. Ile
called to the primmer, and there was no reply, when he
• liateb unlocked the door, and haw the prisoner's
tasty lying in death. The face ca., quite calm, as if he
hal loam :oleo!, .1n inquest was held the same afternoon
'adore Mr. It. N. Howard, coroner for the island. The
prisoner who occupiesl the next cell to that of the deceased
said that alsatt one o'clock in the morning he heard hint
1110.1 n. Medical es Wen.. ttc., was given, and the jury
returned • venlict of "Diet from serous apoplexy.
Deceased wag a line, tall, and intellent man.
TIIE LOCAL BOARD ELF:CTION.—Ue are informed !hat
this election is being made a thoroughly party matter,
church being warmly engaed against dihsent, and can-
vinn,!in; larickly on. Six cantlitlaWs on each hide are
nnnyed-sa being adopted be their party and the struggle is
sail to, he determined. The "I'lgilatiCe" hide are con-
fident of winning at lea•t four men. hut it is sail they
urn alarmed by hearing that about fifty of their vol., are
likely to hue &claretl void, on account of the wroutz quali-
fication being stated The other ktarty, thougli not "going
iii" cery heavily for printers ink, have gut omit a
ll or intinite4inal bill ~f a I, 1.1
at the saute time drainage and a careful study of the nit,.
payers' pocket*, and to ace that no lavish or wasteful
i Well
expenditure tak. pls.. More than this they bill for
colour !
support by pledging thellselvex dwell in their power to
bnug back to PorUand Loads I.l,.,sl6l.,:i..ngßoriantalydentri.viiarteh.
may
years were " one of those '
tosthuciisr,ortunetiliettiih:l".losittit,...titeikthe.tathafi:htolifcco}ar.:
things no feflak could make out " Certainly no "lavish
'
wasteful expenditure" has been lerPelented by them in
handbills ; but perhalst this IS only the thin edge of the
wedge.