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

WIRKOI7TII.

Rroron or Br. Meav'n.—The new Rector of Mel.
cm,h° R•ifiej_ Rev. Hubert Sc At, read himself in at
St. Mary'a Uhurch on Sunday morning, and preached
in Omani:6g, to larg• coneszaio u.
PHI 1440,1Ne-Ditv. an' CHBIISIIIIOI. A plessinj
above little tale under the name haa been publish
by Mr. Whitant. of St. Mary-steet. It is a.eu,ational
"tory, bailed on the suppoael determination of the
(*evicts in Portlani to get free, and among the sc•nes
a warder'.
.10/ft-nuking, a gr,at convict rebellion,
an" " 0 .1".7 the self- ievotion of one brave men.
Decidedly it is a contribution t or Christmsa litera-
ture that will be read with breathlesa interest to the
end. _

A Purrr's PLUM—During the gale on Sunday
morning Captain Grant, one of our oldest p 1 ta,
bravely put off in hie cleric to render help t the
schooner Marie Joseph, and went down to the north
shore before giving up the possibility of I eing of use.
The° the ic°°°°er had struck, and the men were got
out by the eoastguard. The gallant Fanny followed
the Plucky Pilot, who thou,th in his open canoe, only
it blew
ilrbrct, sat herd' and they gut wet. Hurry up,
A Few Timms Worm K:rowtgo.—(l) Penrod
desirous of Purchasing Shares or Bonds in C 'seas and
Co. (litaited). should leave their names at the offic ,
when they will receive the earliest intimation of any
for sale. (2). Passage tickete to the Mediterrinean,
of a°°d Hof*, adeira, Australia, New Ze .lan 1,
aCsisir all M
ports of America by the orient an I Cunard
(Mears. Donald Curries) 'tanners to be °trained
M their CeelPsues Iteprelentative, Mr. S. J. F. a ler,
4. Trinity.rosd, Weymouth. Agent f r the General
Fire and Life Indigence Company.
ACCIDINT la TH Gats.—On Satnrdev afternoon,
when the gale wit. increasing, Sergeant Harvey, of :be
borough p lice, was nearly kill, d. A ,te met
him when near Mr. Hurdle atoreg, Maiden-str,et, and
struck him on the rnetal snrr oindiliz the helmet
cut rmgh the cloth and c irk of ,
tka sad, glancing,
th
aelniet, partly staggering the sergeant by the
terrible blow. Mr. linrvey, h ,wever. 1.000 reco,ered
himself, and resumed !u'y imm, dm 1.17 on hi. escape,
which was certainly most flair ,w. for ha I it sum* the
helmet • few incites off, the slats would have cloven his
EIIIIITINO Nitwit-Arrivals: Cruet Weetern,Biamoled,
Oberbourg, general; Annie Modce, Attweill, Hartle-
coal Lymington, elswoastl., cal;
of Ireland, Yearn, Cherb.turg, general; Polka,
NOM% RarDtl4ool. ooal ; ltderahull, Solace, Hartle.
riali :or al ; bt. Bond, Pewees, potato.,; Cygnus,
, general; Harlequin, C de, Sala flab;
Hubbard. Nakskov, barley; Ahondance,
Le (Noire, Roams, Newcastle, coal.—Sailing,: Great
Western, Blampied, Cherbourg, general • Cygnus,
FBAs,. 'moral kdouth of Ireland, Yearn. eldrbourg,
teteerge May, Vivian, Seeking, ballast; Eliza
rail:4 Tingly, Hartlepool, ballast.
LoVlin On LODOIS 7—On Friday last, • man named
13pratt applied to the Bench again, respecting some
furniture which he wished to reclaun.—infr. Talbot,
Chairman I Weil, Mr. Spratt, what is this all about?
—Applicant: I wish to reclaim my furniture from
the house, West Parade.—Mr. Talbot: But we have
a bill here, seat in against you, about that.—Spratt
That must be hoard in another Court. I went to live
In that house in March lad, mai paid for everything in
the house; I brought furniture into the house to the
extent of £7 or 1196-; I threw my money into the house,
and I bought for it and kept &t.—Supt. Vickery said
the woman who lived at the house stated that if Spratt
would pay 20 weeks' board and lodgings, he might
take his furniture, and she would be glad to get rid of
Drew: She prefers a charge against you for
26 weeks' board and lodging.--Spratt: Why did nut
she prefer this charge before I came t this conclusion?
—IL!.
_Talbot: Because you bat not quarrelled then;
you bad better go to the County Court.
Sioesirusowiso. Joseph clerk and Walter
Brown, two boys, were summoned by William Hunt,
of Chapeiry-street, for throwing stones and clamoring
a door on the evening of the 13:h.—Complainant cii I
they mime and threw stones and broke the panel of his
door. He produced three donee, each abut half as
big as • male* fez—Robert Force, a bigger boy, saw
the bocimithrowing the atone-; Walter Brown
up for himself and Clark.—William
R.N.R., who announc d himself as • Wey-
mouth man come to speak of Hun 'a character, and
who took lb. oath in an excit.d mariner, said he had
seen Hunt's wife turn out a hot allot from the fire for
the little children to pick up, an I that made them
make • noise; she also wool 1 sweep them away, and
throw muck over them. Witness thought the stones
were Siang In retaliation—The Chaii man cud the
Bench wer* determined to ion down at me-throwing.
and they fined the boys Ls. 6 I. each, saying if they did
lOsigsin. they should have the birch. The Bench did
not think they could have dune no much damage to the
door. . _ . . _

--itriNEIT•III WIVE. —At the Boroug's Petty Ressione,
On Tuesday, before W. Talbot, Esq., lir. Drew, B.
Hopkins, Earl , J. E. Robena, E-q.. :red J. Robertson.
Esq., Albert Coleman was minim user, by his wife,
Mary Ann. for assaulting her on December
appearing in toe box, c mplainant soul she did not
wish to press the charge.—Mr. Anleu : Do you re-
member coming to sae, and whet I sat i to you?—
Wife: Yes, sir.—Mr. Arden : It is no nee for you ti
come to me for • summ .ns again, and tell roe that
your husband was murdering you. —'The had been up
before, and told a tale about her hel4aan I '
her, saying also that she could no pry for th, sum.
mons. Mr. Arden told her the last time that ehe
would not press the case when it c one to be heard,
but she persisted that she would, and he let her have
• summon.. They had only been marriol two
months.--Coleman now Paid he never struck his wife
In his life.—The Bench dismiased the Mgt' ; but Mr.
Talbot told Coleman not to assault his wife again, for
II another summons were taken out. the case must he
beard.—They had to pay for the coat of the summons.
QOALIPAL IN • BLOCK ON THE BRIDGE.—Ga.rge
Honeybun was summoned on Tuesday las. by George
Betook, • drayman in Mr. Devenish's brewery. for
assault.—Mr. Hanna appeared for defenclant—C
plainant wee yesterday in charge of a horse and dray
in the afternoon, panting over the bridge, which had
been open. When about half-way over the bridge, he
nest Honeybun with a pair of truck,, and asked him
to move out of the way, but Honeybun replied with
an insolent remark. Complainant was on the left, his
proper
side, and, saying he should not be answerable
the trucks were broken, he moved on the horse,
when defendant took it by the head. Complainant
declared that if he didn't let go he should put the whip
across him, and, as be didn't let go, he struck him
with the whip. Honeybun then tried to get up in the
dray, but complainant pushed him back ; he got up
again, and, as complainant had only one hand to use,
he could not keep him down, and, said he, "he began
to put his lists into me. ant stayed beating me as long
as he lilted, about the head, till begot out." Com-
plainant felt the beating for some hours afterwards
Mr. flame croeso :swiped complainant, who said he
eonld not show the mark now, but it could he seen lest
nit.—M'. Hanne : An I you assaulted him yourself?
—Yes.—lir. Hain.: And because you got too worst
of it you come here, like a big baby, ti c
Before be bad time te get out of the road, didn t you
threaten to drive over him?—A.: I said I should drive
on, sad I did so.—ln answer to further questions,
emnplainant said the horoe's head was a short distance
trona the trucks when he to ,k bold of it, and the horse
dad dreg were In motion. There +es a great block of
owing to the bridge having been open, sod
there we. no room for either to get out of the way,
except that there warn room for defendant to go back.
The affair lasted about five minutes, and there were
two complete rows of carriages on the bridge.—Mr.
Saone said here was a man hemmed in on the bridge,
be could not get away; complainant threatened to
drive over him, and began to do se, when, to save his
mister's propedy. def.m4ant took the horse by the
heed, an eomplainent etruek him with the whip. If
defendant bad come to him earlier, he should have
advised Mtn to take out a summons for assault against
complainant. —The Chairman raid the ewe ought not
to have been brourtat there; complainant had no right
to strike defendant, ant defen lent had no right to hit
him slain ; one •• AS as bad as the other, and the ease
was dismissed.

oomislON AND RESCUE OF A SCHOONSII.
On Tuesday afternoon the Commodore was called to
nadir asekstance to a schooner, which wan ly log not
well berthed at the entrance of the Rotds. The
egsegoor went out, and towed her into Weymouth
Harbour, in sight of bun trod.. It seems that she warn
the ht.enoe, of Blsokenese, and had carried away her
ion,topamat it is said before going through Portend
Rem After this she came on to the Roods, and
etichor.d to windward of a barque, on which she
drove down, and vosiderable damage would have been
dose, had sot the Commodore been in the neighbour-
hood. Her services were now accepted, and the towed
the esesel with some difficulty, the weather being
very boisterous at the time,