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

PORTLLICD.

PRIMITIVE METHODIST. —The Rev. W. L Taylor,
from Gloucester, has been appointed to the Portland
circuit, la the room of Mr. Kendall, resigned through
ill-health.

SWAN CLPTURID.—On Tuesday a live swan MIS
captured on our shuso, very weak and apparently
newly starved. On being weighed it was found to
weigh only about 10Ib.. though a full.grown bird, and
the poor thing was perfectly helpless.
MILITARY.- - Capt. G. Van Hey benign (14th Regi-
ment) to be major, vice W. W. Heywood. retired.
Lieut. F. 1). %Valuer, to be captain, vioe G. Grant
Dalton, seconded for service as an adjutant of
auxiliary forces.
CuLOlll.l. STUART, commanding Royal Engineer of
the Weymouth district, who has been residing at
Purtla..d Castle for 18 months past, is removed to
Chatham at the end of this niun.b, and will be
succeeded by Colonel Hyams.
ENTEITAINIIINT AT Tag VERNIL—Last Monday
there was a miscellaneoun entertainment at the Verne,
"in aid of a charity." Several ladies and gentlemen
kindly lent their aid, and the farce "No. 1, Hound the
C irner," was repeated by Lients. Walker and Critchley
Salm mann, who, as usual, were excruciatLgly funny.
MAGNIVICERT FLEET.— During the late gale an
immense aret of merchantmen assembled in the Roads
for shelter, including at least thigt,y very large
steamers. On Wednesday the weather being line and
wind fallen, many of them set sail, and their depar-
ture afforded a most beautiful sight.
MONET rag Tag HOCILIA-00 Friday a five-franc
French piece was found among the pebbles in the
Cove. Apparently it had hardly been sea-worn, for
it was in an excellent state of preservation, whereas
the money found among the pebbles is generally inuai
ground down.
NAVAL CHartage.—Psymaster R. F. Wily has
been appointed to the Hercules, for service in the
Coastguard, vice Lapidge, whose term of service has
expired. Lieut. E. H. Clark, who was honourably
acquitted by the Portsmouth Court-martial, goes to
the Achilles, and his post is filled by Lieut. Claude
H. Millett.

SODDIM DRAT& —On Friday morning Mr. John
Skinner, sen., an elderly man resiuing with his son
at Easton Straits, died suddenly. It appease that he
was not In the habit of rising till 8 or 9 o'clock, awl at
that time his daughter-in-law called him, and, receiv-
ing no ans wer, sent one of her children, but the child
being unable to get grandfather to answer, Mrs.
Pewee, of the Delhi, asked Mr. Willis, stationer, to
go and eye what was the matter. On entering the
bedroom, Mr. Wallis found the old maa lying dead
on the bed, and he appeared to have died in a fit. It
was not thought necessary to bold an inquait,
de-
cease I having been subject to heart disease. It. was
in his itith year.—A young man named Daniel New-
man White died sud lenly mn Frida3 evening. He
had entered the New Inn, aid had some drink in the
taproom, sad appeared to have fallen asleep. At
closing time, when they went to wake him up, he
was found to be deal. An inquest was held before
the coroner, It. N. Howard, Esq., on Saturday, and
a verdict of " Death from Apoplexy " we, returned.
Sloss Or CHIIIIMIAIL —The buoluellers, provision
dealers, and butchers, and per escelknes the grocers,
are making special exhibitions of their best goods,