The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-07-13 00:00:00

PIDDLZTRINTNIDI.

FITZ win GALA.--Some temperance
societies of this district seem to have united for the
of haring • first class bonds, on the 20. h.
purpose
Park is to be the sc ne of the amniements,
and there the Piddietown brass band will perform.
At one o'clock there is to be • public luncheon, when
Lb. District Chief Templer will preside,. and • public
tea at fire o'clock; but no intarioating liquors will be
allowed on the ground, so kradly lest by MO=
One of the essisations will be the drawing for a
of mutton, for which all who eater the field before fire
o'clock are to receive • free ticket. Th. secretary Is
Mr. J. Standfield.

1111ETKOLYTIL.
LOCAL DIVORCE CASE
Is the Divorce Division on Saturday Sir Janus Haarlem
had before hint the local divorce suit of Dmvfae D
which wee the wills paint* for • divorce on the pound
of adultery sad cruelty.
Kr. lade:wick. Q M.P., and Yr. Lord were comma
foe Lk. p.tltloo4r;Mr. Bayfard restrieented the respond.

ent.
11n. Harriet Davis, the petitioner. staled that she wee
married to William Charles Davie on the 7th July, 187&
They afterwards kept the Speed Heels hotel, at
Gloucester. She had one child by the marring& In the
following year, about September., she WU unwell, and
west away for • short time with her hustmad's sanction,
to stay at • place called Cleve, noir Gloucester. Her
hudond Melted her there from time to tlose, bat one
night he did not arrive when else expected kiln to do
and she want by an early trigs next morning to
oiiositiT sad proceeded to the Spread Haile. SU was
very wet on her arrival, and was asked by one of the
servants to go into the idtoben, whew theirs was • Its,
and take 01l some of hat wet things. Mak bows's',
declined to do so, and went up to her bedroom. where
she found respondent in bed with • barmaid named Was
Henley. She at once ordered her out of the room, and
her husband asked her to take no notice of the matter.
She forgave him. They then drove back to Olivs, where
he oontlausd to flared her. On cos mouton he arrived
home at about 12 o'clock at night In • oak and made her
cook so for them, and after the cabman had departed
h• knocked bar down and otherwise treated her with great
violence. They shortly aftonvards returned to the Spread
Earle, end in the November of that year she came down.
stairs and caught respondeat kissing another barmaid.
Hs then knocked her clown. In Amstrad. ISTI. oho tried to
rouse him from alma to Set hint tog. to bed, when he
knocked her down two cr dues times with great violates,
on which occasion he deo behaved la • brutal manner to
rtitionsis aunt who was peasant at the time. in January,
they went live at Weymouth at the Golden Lion
hBol to ,
before they owed the Marine hotel In the same
plops Her husband kept the two. In August of last year. at
that piece, jtseir.dated hie with great brutality, on one
to kill her, when she was rescued by
the boots and a gentleman who was staying at the beta
On soother oocadon she was very ill and had • hot bath,
when just.e she had been lifted Into bed ompasdant Dame
upstairs, and, after observing that eke was shamming
Illness, ordered her &midair* to maks up some accounts.
She was too unwell Wm to moot but managed later in
the day to get up and do as he directed. On another occasion
be came home Isto and ordered her to get up and unlace
his boots, and upon bar refusing to do so he pulled her
out of bed, and became very violent towards hex A
favourite habit of his. when he become very exasperated,
woe to catch hold if her two wrists and twist her mem&
William Cos, boots at the Spread Toes hal at
Gloucester. in 18f6, orsembered petitioner arriving rasa
Cleve early one moraiag. The harem:gag Henley, did
notsleep in her own bed the previous night The respon-
dent "generally kept a good face to Kiss Henley."
(Laughter.)
Hrs. Lswton, aunt of the petitioner, corroborated the
statement as to respondent's vWlemoe towards handl and

dem
Mrs. Gilbert, beat chsnibtrutald at the Golden Lion,
Weymouth. in October, IR/9, deposed to putting petitioner
Into • botwater bath, aad sedating her into bed after-
wards. Petitioner war very 11l on this cadation, and
fainted twice. Witmer end downstairs to tell respondent
of this, who came costar% was very violist, and ordered
witness out of the room She afterwards from the outside
beard her mistress sobbing.
Richard Dyke, boots at Me Golden Lion Hotel, add that
on one occasion, on the 7th October last year, ke heard Ida
abbe= call for help, and upon going to her found his
master holding hoc by the throat. He believed she would
have bees choked but for the amistana maimed by him-
self and • Mr. Dianna&
Mr. Diaisock said he was at the hotel on the 7th
October last year, sad with last witness mooed petitioner
I roam her huebsad. who was holding her
herfkrittlr by the
throat Re noticed that she had • d
Mr. Hayford mid as kb aloud wee sot preem4ire. should
leave the cam to his lordship e Ueda
Sir Jamas HMS'S thereupon pronounced • decree
with meta, the petitioner to have custody of the child.

The seat of Lord illision, in the county of Dorset,
is pleasantly situated in a park rich la stately trees,
and commanding views of a large tract of picturesque
oountry, which at this season of the year, when trees
of all -kinds are in full leaf, and the hill sides are
d in deep green, sod the cuckoo's notes fall
erOupon the ear, le indeed on. of the most obarmitz
ei ill soot. that say ass could chose,
six miles diets= from the the old-fashioned
sown of Wiaba orne,ll in which the Minster—a cathedral-
like edifice of unwed proportions for a small town—
ie the principal attendee for AMAX% The road from
Winaborne is cheering,' teliemd by the memos of
several quaint old villages, estably tha of
llirsisam
ton—• Alen whin by the way, le to
English in all in outward own= and traditions.
There is the old4addomed /Wish church on the
elope of • steep hill in the midst almost of • grey of
=it and well-kept ootildol and gardens, sari as
reminded the writer of his youthful days, and the
pleasant conversation of the dingo parson.
AN I meditate upon the ainsplioity and natural
beauty of what I see monad me, my attention is
attracted by • wet but tropeelmetione piece of
'retinal:ars, which I recognise al the locrialading to
the mansion' end am a ester the drive I
to note the beauties of the landscape. On ocy der it
• lake which sweeps gracefully between the home and
a thin belt of trim as the opposite Mc There is •
gentle mole on the surface of the water which gives
one tie Mee of a running abeam and the eahlky of
the sane at once excitesmy admiration and curiosity
to the origin of this clear-runaing sheet of sperlir
water and one of my lira 'equities on reaching
the garden Is about this lake, which I discover
Is fed from one or more tributaries of the Stour. Upon
the opposite side of this lake the belt of trees referred
to, which is now • seam of the reboot green. Is one Of
the chief eights that Odd= can boast of, although the
trees do not put on their gayest attire before the
autumn, when the different shades and tints of the
haves are very handsome and effective. The trees
have been very skilfully selected, and most of their
number are over 20 feet in height. The admiration of
the visitor is further enhanced by the debt of several
small islands and large numbers of beautiful birds, the
latter dotted about, as if by mechanical ar
on all parts of the lake. At the further sod
lake Is the =rinks erected prior to the Prince of
Wales' visit in February,
The mansion itself is a substantial square block of
the baronial type, ornamented and strengthened by
massive round *are at three sides of the building.
There are three hone to the mansdon—nemely, the
west or carriage feet, the south front (the view from
which follows the sweep of the lake), and the east
Front, the view from which carries the eye directly
across
ptheelak and after • steep declivity
upon. the to aide, and tirs nrooo one or
two ' upon the bffleide, In hag into
space. church is only fifty yards distant from the
house, opposite the bonds-met angle. Facing north-
wards from the flower garden there are some handeoese
cedars of Lebanon left upon the lawn upon the right,
and a projecting addition to the house upon this side
leaves =lttle gram plot, with • eintisea.speohnon
holly in the centre. This, I wan
covered in with canoe= the tree Included, hetes the
Prince's visit, and converted Into a refreshment tent.
Proceeding from here northward the dower garden is
seared. It is laid ant in the amen or promiscuous
style. sad Is planted a harmony with Its ehereeter sod
sh union. many people might sups= this m =favour-
able situation for • flower ia,dea, on acenent of this north
dtuatiou ; but, the garden being laid out on the bosom of
a slops, and the grade= being stem enough to mown
natural &amain the soil is warm and du, and
out and ether Manta succeed admirably. The planting
aidgo
the garden is aloe varied in stile, end nothing Is more
milting or effective than the beautiful irregular Ale=
beds, carpeted in M. Beck's best style. Rarremes
mask es non here is • =Med madeitioe to the flower
pad=
gasket beds serelesely dotted nen and • stray
"raised ` bed edged with ivy, am alat intend= njece.
and very the character of the genes to • degree tam
leaves nothing to be desired. This style of lower
Is readily accomplished, in feet eoggeoted, by
the very yeature of the situation, broken up as it is Into
• varieW of forme by dumps of trees sad single speeteso
prownn
Om West worthy at maid nodes is • himisseeely
specimen of thedseideme Mem: and frees
r°lllrill a damp =noon to M is a am beds of aom
with brassy dark hada mellinit.o.",..fied lea
gYfor mu' awik:lym.perpsees of decZei A. mem
iiehated out es having bean by no Pdaais of
Wales during her to end also a
wee planted at the same time by hill=ylM
Taws trees are, es may be imagined,
end the Interest whin Wanes to sm In emelesente
of the royal heeds that pleated them, almost
cow an= of their fair dere at attention.
Indigo masheeded amolea, and rateseps of cedar Ii t.st
Xithlidh. ndli ivy, homweeekles, rOaa
madam.
• NM, avers as ens of yerds
and le not less than 0 feet high. • short
deters hese Upon apemen the extreme northern
balsam of the gen= le • v 5 osk
4 seesawed
In a MINN by It, a= seder the —i... t.a E
thin gnat are traddoe brenSht Trinnre
Stoat These eannies sheik, Mem and N °amok