The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-25 00:00:00

Pampshirt.

SOUTHAMPTON.-- The Free °minnow Schooi.
The municipal corporatinn has agreed to pay tho
sum of 4'.150 yoarly, a. WI endowment to this
school.

COUNTY B t Lb.—The third Southampton county
hall for the 'canon took place on Thursday evening,
at the Royal Victoria Rooms, when there was a very
brilliant aviieudily of the flit, of South Rant'. Tar.
getee full quadriltt band was in attendance.

PoLYTIA'HaIi. INNTITUTIoN.—The lecture session
of this institution was opened on Friday evening
with a lecture by Mr. O. P. Mita on "The Music
of Animated Nature," with musical illustrations.
The lecturer warn maisteil by Mr. Harvey and the
oombers of the Harmonic Union. The attendance
was very large.
Tue Towv Linitamv.--Tho honks bequeathed to
the inhabitants by the late Mr. Hartley have been
phicol iii the library at the Audit House. There
are several valuable and many interesting works
among them and each volume has an engraved in.
meriptien inside the cover, viz., " The bequoit of H.
H. Hartley, Esq., to the Corporation Of Southampton
for a public library." The inscription is surmounted
by Mr. Hartley'a anus ; at the base are those of the
Corporation ; and it is encircled by scrolls inscribed
" Science, antiquities, natural history, and Oriental
literature," the objects named in the will of the
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l'unrsilorrii.• -The giriny.' Mink. - -- The True.
tees of this bank have increase,' their rate of intend
to :I per cent., and opened the institution for the
receiving of deposits every Saturday evening. The
first evening about, s:160 were paid in, and the
following Saturday nearly 5'30,1 were deposited, and
the names of several new depositors added. It
appears • by the annual bahuice sheet, recently
published, that this institutimi is in a most healthy
condition.

WINCH ESTER. —The 2nd battalion of the 19th
Regiment was inspected on Tuesday morning by Um
General of the district, Sir James V. Searlett, who
was highly satisfied with their appearance and per.
feet discipline. It is understood that in the course
of a few months, the battalion will remove to a
foreign station.

Sr. CHO,OI Ifosrrr The trustees of this
hospital have decided on increasing the number
of poor recipients from 20 to 2.5, and to effect certain
improvements in the residences of the brethren.
DIATRIBUTION Or COAL.—The Mayor (W. Hutch.
imam, Esq.,) has distributed among the poor of this
city, during the last few days, 1,400 cwt., of coal,
which was purchased by voluntary subscription,.

TUE DIOCEAAN TRAININU SCHOOLS FUR MASTERS.
—The Lord Bishop of the diocese has promised the
sum of k5llll towards the cost of this building and the
Dean and Chapter • similar stun in addition to the
two acres of land abutting on the lloinsey road
which they have liberally given as a building site.
Rousay.—Yolitl Acci,kni. —On Friday week an
inquest was held at the Boot Inn. Houghton, before
J. 11. Todd, Esq., ikironer, on the body of Charles
Lawrence, aged 14 years, who was killed on the
highway at ICingsombonie on Monday week, under
the following eirmunstances:—The deceased was
under carter to Mr. Ehlertield, of Houghton Farm,
and on Monday week was returning from Rummy
with an empty waggon and four horses. The head
carter. William Andrews. was riding in the waggon
with four other persons, who all appeared to be the
worse for drink. The horses were driven at a trot
the greater part of the way, and the deceased was
obliged to take hold id' the traces to keep up ; and in
turning a corner called 1/evil's Pond the end f the
shaft struck him in the neck and killed bun instan-
taneously. Verdict, " Accidental Death."

—Off the Christ-
church ledge, you will catch skate (some of them
very large), fiddle or monkfish (I have caught them
from railbs. to tfillbis in weight, and a sort of spotted
shark, ei 1111 l wooly or locally called a " nurse-lish."
Busiiltw this, there at times comes up a huge conger
eel, that requites to be knocked on the head pretty
quickly in a small boat, or he will be sure to lay
hold of something. I saw one of the former tish
(l think it was a nurse•iish) lay hold i4th. rowlock
of my little boat, and break it off as if it had been
made of glass. We Emil, therefore, in the boat,
when we-IL:tided in a 1111 l miter, to sit fast, lot skip
about as to legs, to keep them out of teethe way,
and lively hiti it was. In hauling up the hue you
eamo,t ,oily feel when you have hold of " a big 'mi."
het a. lie e.ones up in a sort of wavy exhausted state
you eau see the flash of his white belly a long way
view; it is a rare 1111 l ent then, with your short
" gaff-hick " at hand, to wait for the monster upon
the surface of tlie water. Thew large fish, sulky
from exhaustion ;mil exertion to get away, will per-
mit themselves steadily to be hooded up ex if they
were dead, but when they tome face to face with the
human foe, who glare. on them fr the bow of his
boat, they at once comprehend that it is a brittle for
life awl death, and give such a dash with their
powerful tails to get down again as will fill their
captor's eyes and th ith salt-water, as well tus
every thread he has on him ; and he must recollect
that if he finds the fish too strong at that time to hold
and lets the hue go, for the life of him he must lilt
let it run through his fingers, nor even stay too Dear
it, or the first thing will be that he will discover that
the fish has hookoit him in return with some of the
open hooks on the line almuly hauled in, and the
neat thing he will have to do will be to cry for the
doctor. It is this that renders the hauling up of a

big 'on " exciting. The fisherman must sit
(never stand up in a small boat) prepared, at the in.
slant the fish comes within Mll4ll ef the iialf.hook, to
get it beneath him, and on the right point, and with
a neat turn of the wrist and powerful lift, cant him
over the boat's side and down MI her bottom, and
give him the hammer or dagger of mercy as sum as
ho can.—lfon. Graniley Beikely, in flue Field.

Benior:B anog.—FAidlourti.—thi Monday week, at
the instance of the underwriters in London and else-
where, Captain George Lang. of the bark Mary Wor-
rell, of and froiu Liverpool, with a general cargo, bound
for Belize, was charged by the crew, before the local
magistrates, with an attempt to induce them to scuttle
the rued during a heavy gale of wind on the Zird of
December last, in which she sustained damage, and WWI
obliged to bear up and put into Falmouth on the 29th
following. It appeared by the evidence of the mate
and seamen that the master was in • state of intoxica-
tion for several days, and while so inkmicated, had
offered one of the seamen two gold watches and a hand•
full of sovereigns to scuttle the bark with the cook's
axe, which WM of course rejected, and the master was
placed in irons by the own for two days. The evidence
was deemed by the bench sufficient to commit for trial
at the next county 'midges, with leave to bail—the in
sooner in his personal security for noo, and two others
in LIU each. The master had no evidence to rebut the
statement of the crew, who subacribed in the regular
way to the protest after arriving at Falmouth, saying
nothing of the eireinnstanms which have since come out
until they were discharged from the vessel, and no entry
whatever was made by the mate in the logbook of the
circumstances above described. On recovering from Ids
intoxication the master was permitted to resume the
command of the vessel.