The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-12-03 00:00:00

UMBRAS. LIVRS LOOT BY DIMMING
SPIRITS.

Perhaps•the most frightful part of Mem frightful
MIMS yet moutho A terr4b4 danger assailed the
,ereekere, tr-e vessel was knows to hove ooakained
large quantity of wipes and spirits, and the birrels and
oases were lying about on the Womb. Tbe poor women
of Portlitud oho knew their huabende and brothers had
gone to 13esob," were haunted with terrible fears,
knovicg that some of them could not withstand the
teruptamon to drink. Some of them came home half
rime ever, and happy were the womon who found that
their meu Lad ootuo woes nothing otronger than
champagne, sod many a poor fellow mune in drank so
• lord • ito tint •riatomatio drink. Good wives and
moList rs made ka and outlet and got then "lord. of
Lb. ortalLni" rotted ag do. Tim villages were fall of
tales of MA drunkara's narrow eetrapes—one Low Jobs
fiwtg wu lying op the redway wheo a train was aloes
ou hint, arid ilOl/ his friend Lano with wonderful quok•
nem and strength, threw tam off the metal., sod barely *soaped huneelf. But others fell woe the spisita, and
forthwith many firma to awful inassa._ yTwo
isnowv, who 'IVO the woes a TbeNA. mumble* aid

Ties Kale, both of Weymouth, were mamma be Peel-
gad
Wk. SWARM, la adiedinei OWN mad Mberided
by Dr. Carruthers. Others were takes home by thole
lamas, and still Wien to Weymouth polies Milieu. •
boy named Neale, of With Parade, appreaties al Yr.
IL Manley's; died ia Weymouth, from the Wage of
the deadly spirit. Oa the same sight Iwo ma were
to t Dibr.• oix:esyzisto hek."Ferberz, dcatuck smag ia
.ye ci
the people there, sad very deservedly so, was not for.
He owe promptly, and found two mu is the rocm.
lying on the time, while a strong smell of spirits tow
the tale, Orne died within three minute; aad the body
was moseyed to the oellar. The extremities of the
other were cold; and he meld not swallow ; but hot
water bottles were applied to hie hands and feet, and he
wee almost " roasted" in front ol a rousing fire. Heat
last
erstavierhury, and lodging with a an named John
Aid, a 11xz recovered so
,aaftoromkaal thplaossi hbeis Zen. Fa:v.lll4"Z
Ranh. In the middle of the night two others were
brourlit in, and Dr. Rhodes attended them kindly. Rag
mat them home. Our reporter wan proceeding Moog
the Reach shortly after sit, when he mole upon. party
of moo who were standing around a corpse, lying is
the middle of the bomb near the "black hut." the
main, about the middle age, was lying on his beek
stretched out, stark cold sod quite deed, with his glegsg
eyes apparently Razing at the sky. Hs was ism.
&lately removed by mune of the County Cmstrithlary,
:lumbers of whom were on duty all about the dirties..
Hill 1010211 was said to be Riles. A few steps farther
brcught one t 3 a plass bounded by three spirit barrels,
oee seemingly fall nearest Portland, mother high up
and towards the crest of the beach, and a third warms
the Ferry bridge They were within a few 'aria.(
each other, sod in the toms, was as objest on the
pebbles. 'Twat another mao,also stiff and cold. He we.
lying on his left side, his face partly hidden in the
pebble,. He was in shirt and trousers, and hallway
between him and the middle spirit barrel were 01/
6166•6 waistcoat and jacket; the southward spirit
barrel was open at the bang, a battered tin dish was by
the side with brandy in it. The man bad evideatly
drauk himself out of reason, and then taken off his
upper clothes, and fancied that he was Drawling late
bed, whim be crawled down the pebbles ; but was killed
by the ezposere to wet and sold. Net far on the road
was a woman anxiously enquiring the road to Ferry
bridge, and when she heard of the deaths, she et OWN
judged Watts to be her husband, of whom she was in
march, and her dist,tne was terrible. Strange, • man
of Park-street, was am nog the climes at Ferry bridge.
The sou of Mr. Riaßceth gar Weedon, of Tows
Lao., 60d Nom of High-street, were dangerously in.
sme of the spirit was said to be 38 degrees above
proof.