The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-08-11 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

)las's Lau BROKEN.—Shadrach Stone wax turning the
crane handle in Mexers. Holland's quarries on Thursday
Lisa when the handle came off, end Stone fell into the
quarry. When he wax taken up, it was found his left leg
wax broken. Ile was attended by Dr. McLean and Dr.
Rea.
Tits Nsw Scitooi. IS Ciwas.—On Thursday It, Mr.
Chambers, from the committee of the Sunday School
Union, laid the memorial of the new schoolhouse in Chesil,
which has been providixl mainly through the efforts of
the Rev. W. W. Sherren. The schoolhouse will cost about
.000, and elnii ha, teen raised.
EXTRAORDINARY BATTING.-At a recent match between
the Portland C.C. and the Mom don Club, the Portlanders
beat the Moreton men in one innings. Nut only in, Mr.
liobslon, the bwal champion, made 11l runs off his own
hat, and heat the whole of the Moreton club himself.
Hermon ecereil 39 first innings, and 32 second, while the
total of Portland tirst.ianings was 135.

Stunt- CON% if-r AT .11 eittli. —One of the roughs among
the convicts on Sunday morning last interrupted the
Minister just before the sermon. The fellow shouted out,
and 'much abused the rev, gentleman, calling him an
impostor and other offensive names. In the cell his noise
caused no interruption, and he has found h this time that
" though speech is silver, silence is golden.
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'oxviclN: PANGaas AND lit ITS—On Saturday at the
Government quarries a convict was working a stone with
a kibble, awl as he lifted it over his shoulder to give •
llow with proper force, another convict passed at the
nine, anal the back point of the kilible met him in the
forehead, and felled him, unconscious, to the ground, lie
was taken to the Infirmary at once.—ln the Verne Ditch
F0111(1 convicts were stacking stone, when a large block,
unsafely placed, fell on the legs of an unfortunate fellow,
and crushed them badly. Ile was also conveyed to the
infirmary.

SUPPOSED DROWNING OF A YOUNG SF. AN—On Friday
evening la 4, a signalman on board H.M.S. Resinew,
mulled Bolt, was engaged washing his clothes. He
dowended the accoinniodation ladder for the purpose of
rinsing a pair of trousers ; but he has not been seen since,
and it loot course believed that he fell into the sea and
was drowned. The grapnels of the ship were used within
Circe minutes after he was missed ; hut nothing was
finind but hix troui:ers and his cep. Bolt had been lent to
the Seainew from the Royal Alfred, and had only been on
Isiaril three flays.
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-11-itiiiiir--41:11 PROM DROIIIII,IO.—A pupil teacher of
St John's school named liorswell, though he is subject to
tits, goes out lathing. This nearly cost his life on Friday
last, and might have been the destruction of another
young man. Hornell was bathing with two others, and
was foolish enough to swim off with them to some dig
tame. One of Horswell's fita came on, and, as he is •
Powerful man. it was dangerous to get within his grasp,
and one of his companions swam ashore for help. The
other. named Johnson, was brave and cool enough to wait
for • good chance, when he caught Horacwell, and swain
ashore with him. The half-drowned lad was insensible -
but with Dr. Parson'? skilful treatment, lie was at length'
recovereiL Johnson brave conduct deserves a medal
and a conaiderablo reward from Iloniwell, who will
probably have learnt better than to endanger his own and
Iris rompanion's lives again while he remains in a state
untit to be trusted to lathe.

LITTLE BOY KILLED BY A WATER CART.—Williani
Thomas Wilson, 41 yearn old, son of Gunner Wilson of
the l'oast Brigade of Artillery, wan playing with anothe
little boy, at a water-cart in a shed on the Verne. They
tipped up the cart, ruul it struck little WiLion crunhing the
life out of I againnt two stout,. The other lad gave
the alann, and thinner Wilson ran to we what wen the
matter; hut the little fellow wax dead. Ile wan taken
into the barrack hoopital, and an inquest was held at the ,
Verne itodel on Monday afternoon, before Mr. It. N.
Bowan!. Itched Wilson. Iniinhuilier of the Coast Brigade
of Artillery, raid deneaned, his son, was four yearn of age
last birthday. About half-peat four he wee having his tea
with bin father and mother in the engineers' quarters, and
wa. in goal health. Between six and seven witness's
liitk.laughtrr called out that the little boy wax killed.
The father ran to the Verne ditch, and found hint with
his lack premised against a stone, and the hack of the
water-cart againat his chest. The father lifted the cart,
which hail water in it, took deecalled out, and carried him
I, the 11..041. lie only breathed twice, and wax dead.
I Incter Burtonl came almost directly: hut the child was
heal. The water-cart had water in it: it belonged to the
War Department and the Convict Establiehment, and
WA., in a little shed erected for it on land where the
convicts are at work. Joseph J. li. Frogley, son of a
gunner in the same brigade, maid he went out to play with
iteckmAell in the shed. lie was playing on the lock of the
lain, and deceived wan trying to bear down the hinder
part of the cart, and for thin he stood upon a stone. and
tent over the cart. Ile was but a minute, and did not
movc any stone ; but the cart came over on him, and the
tap broke out of the cart between his lw,s. Deceased did
not cry or speak, and witnev tried to lift the cart, but
could not, and then called deceased's meter—Dr.
Burton!, surgeon to the 10-2nd regiment, said he found
de-eased dead. The caiuse of death was suffocation from
preistire of a heavy weight, which prevented expansion
of the rhest—The jury returned a verdict of" Accidental
Death.'