The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-12-27 00:00:00

RELIC OP THS BALLOON.

BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONs.
MON DAT.
Belore the Mayor (A. Ems" Esq.), and Alder-
WWI Gasiory wad Davis.

TWA ***** or LICESPNIS.
lie Hodes of the tteeete. Heel, Fordington. wee
tremaereed from Wdbate Pleyvr to Henry Dewier,
era the leer* of the Old Howe et Home. Dun get.-
enet, from Caroline Halpin to David Merj.,rem. An
owe-door beer lissom wee transferred from Elizabeth
Mime, mew_Hmenlard of Holloway-row, Fordington,
to Thaw isaadoed.

About five or Monday evening, there was washed
ashore at high water mark in Chesil Cove, a piece of
polished mahogany 16i inches hag, and ab rut an inch
broad, apparently pare of the frame of a Centigrade
thermometer. The bulb and the lower part of the
stem had been broken off, leaving only a few digress
of the top stem which is insrked to ICO degrees, and
serried for about bye more. On the mahogany was
stamped—" L. Casella, London." It was toned by W.
Peters and W. Hutchings, b ,ys, and was fowar led to
the Receiver of Wreck at Weymouth. Captain
Templer was communicated with, in order that he
might come to Weymouth, and give his opinion aa to
whether ths instrurneot had been in the lost balloon.
On We inesdny_ afternoon Mr. Powell' s brother and
sinter CUM to Weymouth, and identified the piece of
the instrument as belonging to Osptain Templer,
Cseella, London, is said to make thesa instrument"
only for the Metemologicel Department. This was
enclosed in a hog, and it ir not yet known whether it
was thrown ont to lighten the balloon. The CJILIIIIO-
- will scour the Went Ray again to-morrow.
Herne my, Wed,esrlay Night.
A telegram warn received here this afternoon, stating
that a thermometer bad just been picked up on the
Chesil Bieck. S one sensation was naturally created,
an I Mr. H. Powell at once pr "needed to Weymmth
to make enquiries. It is, however, quite expected that
the therm 'meter was sent on from the Chesil (soon
after the tileyram was dispatched) to Rridprt, and
that when Mr. if Powell reached Weymouth, he
would find the therrnom-ter had been sent on to Brid-
port by the coantoard stations al-ng the coant.
Anticipating thin, (ilDtaln Templer awaits the arrival
of the thermornetsr for identifieation. Certain rt, is
that the maker of the instrument just found mann-
lectured a thermometer expreisly for the Sala lin •
short time niece. The result of the investigation is
being anxiously waited for.

THURSDAY.
In censer-penes of the thermometer being washed
ashore at Portland, Mr. Fowler, on the arrival of the
Powell family at Weymouth, at ones proceeded to
Portl mil, and engaged • series of lerrets, to search the
ro:k-hound coast of Portland, from Chesil to Cattle-
sown, and in addition hired watchmen to guard the
Beach, from Ahbotsbury to Portland, so that at the
present time, from Ityps's Month, whore the balloon
was last seen, the entire Chesil Beach and Portland
coast to Ositletown Is being thoroughly WARChed.
SATURDAY.
Yesterday a numher:of lerrets were at work search
ing every inlet, and it possible every rock, around the
coast of Portland for traces of the missing balloon;
but the cape ition returned unsuccessful. Mr. Fowler,
wh o organised this search, ham also started another
plan, which seems very likely to succeed in fishing
mine of the jballoon (or the body) from the Wert
Bay, if they are a:Au slly there. This is to have
• number of lerrets "sweeping " the West 13tv, as it
is called. A long rope is fitted all its length with
great conger hooks set at short distances, and two
bats take each an end, and hanging the rope so SS to
drag act es the bottom, sl owly pull in a parallel line,
thus sweepiog ab n 200 yards of the NM bottom.
They start a little inside where the balloon wai seen
to go down, and proceed towards Portland, the if
this is repeated in various limn clogs together, it can
hardly fail to catch so large an objeet as the balloon
which Capt. T./rapier calcalates haw now 1.21 b. floating

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