The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-01 00:00:00

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EXTRAORDINARY BILLIARD BREAKS. FAST LIFE IN BRISTOL
in the Probate, Divorce. mid Ad
Two exhibition in itches took place on Friday between
0 the High Court of Jus ' miralte
John Roberts, jun., champion, and w. Cook. at the . , tire. the
cue of Hill re Hilt and Downing, came before the 0....
latter's rosins, Regent-street, the interest being some- ~ . saselit Rm. the
President. Mr JAMES nannen. It war • netitt what heightened by the desire to see in what sort of form b
tan lg '''n brought
Mr. Robert Hill, • tailor's seats tin
Roberts is, a.. is instched t.lay a game of LIM with.. pnyi.4
Di°v ?id Fiindat7'
for the dissolution of his marriage with SLa.4l.
Tindirell of Liverpool, giving him :11111) points, for a stake . • Georgine
Hill on the ground of adultery, alleged to have been of no less than which match is arrange a to take
mated with Mr. Downing..o an auetio,neer, also itheo
match ir.rel this The respondent denied me of the allegation. in
place us the 2tolstb,o,f.n.° next
elwito
nt
rfita.veanai
Mr. Collins appeared for the petitioner, and Me C • tlaok stsitcil with a break of 74, including 17 spot
for the respnelent
hazards, and in his next break made :id ; failing to score
far 34 large lireiikr. are concerned. that was ever witninised. Petition. and recriminated the charge ot adultery.
Robert Hill. the petitioner, said he was a taitaria
off a Mi44l given by Roberts, he made amends iii his next
assistant at BristoL He married the respn.leut on
the
attempt by scoring 1162 in one break, :eel of which were
ettli of January, 1861. at St. Clement's, Bristol. lie lirst
Sand 4
made on the spot. Co ,k thus reached ppi to Roberta' 98,
the latter having just inwle a break of 80, Shortly alter met her in the street as he was walking out one
street, Bristol. The respondent carried on the business
Cook, by means of • break of 76, reaches! sbl to evening.. After the wedding they went to live in Milk.
of
• milliner and dressmaker. The marriage was not at brat
wiwtheizis the Idat7tezirsfpoolltowhed.urda brrbeakiswbirothugonhet
time quarrels arose between petitioner and his wife. Rs
known to his (petitioner's) father and mother, but
,te.:l:o4.'ial,rrtuli:nrscolc..4lurfiddrstot
brtktow.o7oB.k..
eventually they went to visit his parents. After some
spots. This brought the dame to—Hobert. 552 to Cook's , only knew reseondent four weeks before be married Mt
ultauditfteur the interval
32spot
hazards. Roberts having first made one of 92, including El
811. Roberts failing to score. Cook, by means of another It was certainly not three or four months, He lived with
good break of 91 (23 spots), readied 905. when Roberta his wife until 1871, when his brother made a statement to
delighted the audience with the break of the evening— him to the effect that he had seen her (respondent) mar
viz, one of 4.18, including 9. 16,2, (91, and 31 spot hazards, Horfield with • man. He remonstrated with her, but she
and thus won the game off the glls by 95 points, said there was no harm in the matter, as she was only
endeavouring to borrow money from him. He left reopen.
dent 110012 after that. She then took apartments ift
Jamaica-street, and he made her a weekly allowance, In
consequence of hearing that respondent was living with
Downing, he gave directions for that allowance to be
stopped. He had seen Downing and his wife sitting in a
room in Ashley-street. One was playing the plum and
the other singing. He never treated his wife with harsh.
nese or neglect.
Cross-examined: He played the double-bau, and he turd
sometimes to go to concerts. Sometimes he was paid, bet
more frequently he played "to oblige." lie never earned
as much as £2 per week by his fiddle—(laughter) He
denied stopping out Iste at night, or that he had ever
given way to drink. He never ill-treated his wife. lie
never illused his wife with his bass instrument--ffaughtea
He generally gave to her all the wages he received from
the tailoring business. He, on a quarrel with his wire,
drew out a deed of separation, giving the respondent all
the furniture on condition that she paid the debts she bad
contradicted. She refused to sign the agreement, and
then be (petitioner) and his brother went and took half
the furniture and left her the remainder. There was no
disturbance at that time: all was done in a quiet and
orderly manner. He had not presented that petition
before as he hail been without the necessary means. He
denied committing adultery with Miss Lee, at Ashley.
road, Bristol. or with a person named Harris at the
"Shepherd's Return."
Mrs. Charlotte Hill, mother of the petitioner, said
she thought after the wedding her son treatril his wife
better than she deserved—(lsughter). Mer son made •
weekly allowance to his wife, and it was only when she
was seen walking about with different men that it was
stopped.
Anna Attwood said in 187Zi she live .1 at 9. Polygon,
Clifton, is domestic bervant to respondent and Mr. Down.
lug. They lived together as man and wife during the
three months she was in their service.
Mr. Currie then called
Sarah Georgina Hill, the respondent° said that
petitioner treated her with great unkindness, and by his
harsh conduct he was the cause of her leaving borne. The
petitioner used to go out to play the fiddle at concerts, for
which he used to get seven and sixpence • night, hut for
playing at balls he used to get a sovereign. Most of thi
gum eels arose in oonsequence of petitioner refusing to give
her a portion of his musical carmen. Sometimes he used
to come home so drunk that he couldn't carry Lis fiddle—
(laughter). He used to taunt her about other women, and
said it was only "old B 0411" (his father) that prevented hu
having a finer woman that she (respondent) was. Mit
Davis told her certain facts, and she (respondent) his,
charged Miss Lee. When they had quarrels, petitioner
used to play the fiddle to drown the noise. She admitted
haring given birth to • child heifers marriage, but nett
tioner pail the nurse. She had lteen mixed up with see.
tam n unpleasant matters at Bristol while idle was keeping
a shop in the Arcade. She and another young lady, shoe
name she had forgotten, used to carry on the dressmaking
business there. The petitioner was not the father of the
child whose birth had been referred to. After she sepa-
rated from her husband she kept • cigar shop in Jemaiaa-
street. She was not living with Mr. Downing.
Tim petitioner was also recalled, and iesetively denied
that he knew anything about the birth of the child re-
ferred to, or that he had paid the expenisc. of the nurse On
the occasion, lie also positively denied the ill-treatment
complained of by the respondent.

I TENANT FARMERS REPRESENTATION.
(From the Standard).
We should be sorry to LW the English counties • prey
to cliquism. We have no objection in the world to see
t !Tient farmers co Parliament ;only do not let them com-
bine exclusively for class objects. We all know what
capital fellows they are, and what excellent sense they
often show. Let them sit in the House of Commons by
all means ; but let them net come there as the representa-
tives of an oppressed class, with a comic expression of
long.suffering on their jolly faces. We must all remem-
ber in the stirring times of Protection and Free Trade
, the ordinary figure of the ruined fanner as drawn by the
' Liberal caricaturists. Bursting with rude health, his
hands placidly folded over his well-lined waistcoat, his
head thrown comfortably back, he sat listening with com-
placency to the adroit orators who informed him that he
was betrayed awl trodden clown. But times are changed.
It is now the Liberals who tell this bluff and comely
parsonage that he is a serf thd • parer, and it sometimes
seems as if he heard it with satisfaction. Ili, new friend,
Mr. Bright now tells this unfortunate creature that a
• better political future" is, he hopes, in store for him.
Chic would not suppose merely to look at him that he had
had smieli a very evil past. Nor do we believe that he
hinewlf sincerely supposes so. But we all know his
honest propensity in acthm, roused up for the moment by
the taunts of interested demagogues, who. having
" cleaned out " the working man, are driven to try their
bands upon the farmer. !laving got out of the first-men-
tioned dupe all the politieal capital he was worth, they
begin to cast a lonaing eye on the agricultural interest.
, But if the farmers were so weak as to listen to them and
help them to recover power, what do they suppose they
would get? Stringent measures awainst the importation
of foreign cattle? Large contributions from the Imperial
revenue to local purposes? An act for the better preven.
of agricultural strikes ! Why, a Liberal Government
would laugh in their faces if they asked for such things.
County boards would do them no good without other con-
cessions which such • Government would certainly
refuse. Nor can we think of any one practical benefit
which this "better political future can possibly bring
to them, unless "fr. Bright intends to try to give them
the fee simple of their (anus That, of course, is • very
easy and obvious way of improving any man's condition—
to make him • present, namely, of your neighbour's pro-
perty. But we du not believe that one farmer in lU,OOO
cherishes any such insane idea for a single moment ; and if
he did he would recognise its insanity the next. The
country would hot hear of such a thing, and nobody
knows that better than Mr. Bright himself.

A fishing boat was swamped Thursday on the east coast
of Caithness, and all her crew—six in nnuiber—wers
drowned.

Professor Tyndall is goinF to make a good match. He
is to take for wife a duke s nicer, the daughter of
Claud Hamilton. The Professor is iwunewliat advaiicol in
yeani to be thinking of matrimony, for he is :o; Like Ls
,itaise,,e, he is of Irish birth, lie was educated in Genially.