The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-28 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH

Ct.l.l.lAioN IN Till CHANNEL. —The brigantine
Encray. of Whitstable, from Southampton to Swan.
sea, CAIIII. into collision with H.M. crosier, Mermaid,
an the Channel. Both ships were much injured,
the Energy came into oar harbour in a very dia.
shied state on Wednesday week. The cause of the
accabot is at present unknown.

Toe railings round the King's statue were pulled
Joan on Wednesday, and the marigolds and other
rulde.h cleared away. It is admitted by all parties
that this is • great improvement, and that the pro-
portions of the base, aa now seen, are exceedingly
goo.l. When the statue has been repainted and the
horn supplied to the unicorn, the work of James
Hamilton will no longer form • laughing-stock for
the gall; multitude. To Mr. Rowland Thome is
due the honour of discovering, after a period of over
hall a ,ntury, in what the deformity of the states
lay.

A iircid rcriTioN.—List Tuesday. bef.re the
Salisbury .o.ntv Bench. Henry Mansfield,an elderly man.
was' bron.dit up in the custodial Inspector Obey, oharged
with going alesut with • fraudulent begging petition, at
Downten. When apprehended, he had 1.1 17a. 24.1. in
bin pooession. The names of Lord Nornsanton, Sir R.
Hal., Mot., Mr. J. Coventry. and others were liaised
to the petition, and the prisoner admitted that the signa-
tures were not genuine. A Weymouth Arrival List was
found OPMI him, from which it would appear that In. had
obtained the Dent... of noblemen and gentlemen in this
district. The ;retiaion represented that the bearer and
others had bren wrecked in the ship Antelope, but
that by taking the long boat they were, after 16 hours'
suffering. rescued from • watery grave by the brig
" Fanny " and landed at Weymouth. —The prisoner
were sentenced to three montb's band labour.—Mneh
credit is due to Inspector Obey foe the manner ia
which he a treated the prieoner's apprehensitn.

Boynton Perri Seamone,Tneeday.—Before J. Ayling
Esq. (Mayor), and W. Sysnonde, —George Dominy,
butcher, of St. Mary-street, was summoned by Merits
Phillips, bin near neighbour, for having on the 17th
inst. placed • flower pot in an upper window without
having sufficiently guarded against its being blown down,
"to the annoyance of the said Marks Phillips, and
against the statute in that cue made and provided."
The complainant said he lived nest door to Mr. Dolniny,
and that the defendant was in the habit of putting
tower pots out of his window over his (complainant's)
skylight, to the imminent danger of breaking the
gluts and endangering the lives of himself and family.
On the evening of the 17th inst, one of these pots blew
down upon the angle War of the light, and was smashed
in shove • dozen piece.; had it fallen two inches on
either side it must have come through the glass, and as
complainant's wife and children were In the parlour
beneath, no one could tell what the consequence would
have been. Defendant said that the ledge was about a
yard long, and 14 or 18 inches wide. There was, besides,
a board fined there, but who took it away or how it
went away, he could not telL —The Mayor said ha
summed that Mr. Phillips would be satisfied if Mr.
Doininy would melba that the same thing should
not occur again.—Complainant said that he wished to
claim the protection of the Bench—The Mayor:
What protection do you want. more than a guarantee
that it shall not occur spin I—Complainant said the
defendant would do no more than the law compelled
him.—The Mayor Paid he did not for • moment sup-
pose that Mr. Dominy plated them pots out for the
purpose of falling down on the skylight. Complai-
BAnt {Aid it looked very bed ; neither Mr. Donainy
nor his wife had been in to apologise for what had
occurred.—The Mayor Paid Mr. Phillips bad sustained
no damage, and as Mr. Dornicy promised that no
Bowen should be placed there again without proper pro-
tection, the ease would be dismissed on payment of costa
—James Gregory was charged with assaulting the child of
Wm. Lillington on the 20th inst. Chsrlotte
the complainant, a little girl, said that on the previous
evening her brother was playing on the North Quay,
and she went nut to speak to him, when defendant came
and without Raying a word, gave her a severe kick
tit e leg. She neither spoke to him nor be to her.
Her brother spose to defendant shout his kicking her
und he then heat her brother about the shoulders with
his bucket. Defendant slid be was boiling lime, and the
complainant put her feet in the sand boy and lot, the
water out. The girl denied this—she had but just come
there.—Mary Watts said she was on the North Quay
opposite Mr. Bartlett's yard. The complainant, another
girl and herself, were standing near to where defendant
was boiling lime for mortar. Th..y were not standing
on the hay, but on defendant coming up he kicked the
complainant very severely oo the leg. She walked two
steps and then fell down. This evidence was
corroborated by another vitiates, and the Bench
fined the defendant Is. and is. costa—De-
fendant said he would not pay one half-penny. The
Bench told him that be would then have to go
to gaol for seven dap, with hard labour.
Thomas Vallence, Shipwrights' Arms, was summoned
with keeping his house open for the sale of beer be-
tween three and four o'clock on Sunday morning last.
The C., was proved by P.C. Mitchell, who was on duty
on the chain-Icy at the time, and heard some one in4de
defendant's Louie offer to play some one elite • game of
cards for half a sovereign. Mrs. Valiance immediately
told him that he should not play any 'more, for that i.
be did he had not any money to pay if he lost. di
quarrel ensued. Witness then kno•ked at the door and
had to knock three times before he was admitted.
While he was standing at the door some one said "be
'met; here's the police coming." When admitted be
saw four men tatting there, end there were marks of wipe
on the table and oce glees containing liquor. Wm
Vnilenee told him that all the men in the house
were lodger.. Witnens then went out and afterwards
saw two of the teen emitc out and go to their homer.
He alao knew that two of the men whom h• saw is the
house between three and frier o'clock were not there till
alter 12. Men. Vallenee was very abusive to hint taint •
wax& —l)46Bdluit mid cuere was not a Beeman in
the town could Pee his house a bad name (LIAO
1111teheit and be lind been "down upon him" ever since
the house had been opened. On Sunday noweinit two
of the men in his hones were his nephews and the other
two ISOM lodgere—Tba police constable on Ite' re-
called, said that he knew um,. of the I:.
htehl.°A.
he saw in the house. The ~hole
of the three
bed
homes in the town. The defendant was fined 10s. and
costs, together 19a. 10d.