The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-07-20 00:00:00

This is what is ;ailed a Cioaiata.—Osix a Week.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN SOUTHAMPTON DOM.—A fatal
amident happened in Southampton Dock ou Returday
night. Mr. Melwood, a mate of the Havre steamer
Normandy. as. going ashore, when be slipped of the
gangway. and 101 l between the steamer and the dock
wall. He was almost immediately picked up, but he
had received such severe injury in falling that be died
before he could be conveyed to the infirmary.

MlXDlCANCY.—Mendicancy admits of very simple
treatment; bat we want a dictator, or something
worse, to carry it out. We punish the mendicant
sometimes. That is to say, in about ono case of
begging in every avenge million the beggar is taken
before a magistrate, and either relieved because
deserving or dm lent to prison, also brcause deserv-
ing. dustiest rarely fails when invoked ; but the easy-
minded English people would, as • rule, pauperise the
planet sooner than but into the hands of the polies
sturdy beiscars whose hands are soft with idleness, and
whose tongues should be blistered with lying. We
punish beggars sometimes : why not punish those who
give to them? We would not look to the treadmill as
the cure for maiden ladies who carry cropper. I. their
basketa to give to the beggars they meet; but a mild
fine might be useful, and the fund resulting from fines—
if any were over paid—might be dovetail to purposes of
charity of the most charitable kind. We have to deal
with the dreadful fact that the English people are
oponteneoualy generous; they will rive. When-
ever they go on their autumnal tours they are
followed by beggars, and the only panes:in they are at
present familiar with for this nuisance is universal and
Inconsiderate lugene.-77st City Press.

MTOTIMOOII AFFAIR AT HINDON.—The father of
the girl, Warburton, found insensible OD the railway,
near Hendon, more than a week ago, and still remain-
ing in that condition at the hospital, writes " the real
facts of this sad affair." He rye that his daughter
went to Hall bodge, Hendon, as nurser)' governess,
about four months ago, having an excellent character,
and being highly recommended. tilie waa not a
•• servant out for a holiday," but had been a professed
sister of mercy, and the ladies now attending her at the
hospital could speak in the hiller terms of her. Ho
complains that on the occasion of her being found lying
agrees the rails at ten o'clock at night, no June it, she
was 'Bowed to remain without medical attendance until
six o'clock in the morning. As to the occurrence keel',
he elleges that the torn Donation of her clothes and the
marks of violence on her body clearly show she nail
been reaulted by some ruffian. and had probably
inured from the train at last to escape from him.
TIICD, he asks, who woe the ruffian, for her sister saw
her into on catig y oompartment close to the broak•van
of the train, which went oa its way at • speed of 25
mass an hour. His insinuation is that scene one must
have pared into her compartment from another part of
the war. He complains further that so little notice
wag taken at the Hendon Station of the door of beg
computwoot being open and the compartment itself
empty, especially am the guard examined her ticket as
the entered the comPertmant at Kentish Town, and,
therefoge. ought to have missed her. Her master,
who happened to be returning from town in the same
train, did not bear • word about the compartment and
name doer as he alighted. Mr. Warburton (wheals feel.
heforaly excited OD the miler) makes further
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