The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-06-29 00:00:00

FLOODS IN FRANCE.
TERRIBLE Lob:4 OF LIFE.

I'InItANI)NIENI'Ir THE TIMM Holtsn'y
A itTi I.I.ERY VOLUNTEERS.
Last Thursday evening there was to have been an 4
inspecti..ti id the numbers of this corps by Captain and .
Adjutant Najd.. when shot and shell practice was. also I
simiected ti bo, is been en,yaged in. On this occlaion the
weather lermitttsl the target to be taken out and placed,
but so uttforeseen difficulty arose. In the course of Wed-
jj....i .t. rvening it was rumoured that the Itridport
Artillery Volunteer Corps bad reared to exist, and this
r ttttt turned out to he correct, Major Swain (com-
...opting) having sent in hie resignation, which had been
neeepteil by the M sr Office. and the corps struck off the
b.d. It b., been apparent for write time that the corps '
Ijss teen Inguishing, and this haa been attributed in no
s us di degree to the lack of officers, Major Swain being the
one the corps has had for many years. We are sorry
flint thin., tjny, cause to such a pass, for there was a time
Oise Itretport bad reason to be prowl of its volunteer
artini•rr, winch were second to none in this part of the
county. We 'pipe, however, that this ie members who have
stui-k Si Lb, corps through thick awl thin will not allow
their ...limbs., spirit to die out, but that they will enrol
them...lyes as ride volunteers, and thus swell the ranks of
the si -ter branch of the service. Serdt•Nlaior Ilayworl
Otiortiet ill who returned from India only just before he
came to the town, ab.mt twelve iliontha a.c.). will be the
one must seriondy jnoetrenieneetl I.y the break up of the
corps. After having been engaged in active earful) for
ys;srs in almost all quarters of the globe he Caine to
WA. in., 3. we hare saist. as instructor of the corps, and
a house and fornishad It. no doub. with the inten-
t on of settling down a little comfortably after his active
This auilden break up of his home will, therefore.
lie to hum, a matter of pettous ttttt molt, ard much sympa-
thy is felt in the town for hint. m during his residence
bent he has been greatly respected.
LYME RIGIB.

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AWKIVANII PottnICAIIRNT. on Saturday afternoon
• nit„ h.' gone on the Iswb, when the tide
,:!:4'utnit. in.car.b of fossils or specimens of marine Isttanywrrr ,
~,, own...A in the pursuit that they did not notice
Ito advancing tide until they .I.TO almost surrounded
with water. They were seen by the roastguardsmen at
the
nh • hatch), launched • boat and pulled off
to tlw 21;ti, near Seven Kock. Point. to rescue them, hut
h..reee
int them the peel in danger bad escaped by
climbing np the cliff.
BEAXIN—EITILTL.
PIITTY 5t261074, Monday. —Before Lieut,Colonel Con
and I '3l.taln
Willie.. Elliott wan charged with I sring drunk aunt
riotous in the publi,. streets at Ileaminster on the evening
of Saturday, the Ilkh inst. Pt. Sharp found prisoner
creating a great disturbance, end usmg 11•014 threatening
:trot ,li-gracefut language to hie wife, after whom he was
throwing large stones. It was only by the help .1 Sopt.
klae.Hale he could get prisoner to the police stetioe, as ha
was s., tery violent. The magistrates fined him LI Ma.
and costa.

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At Westminster polies_coort
eh:tried with ofl6Lbe bodies of
burying grown.%) persona.

GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.

D),OUU PER.SONh DESTITUTE

Marshal MaeMahon. accompanied by IL Buffet and
General de Cissey. has proceeded with promptitude to visit
the scenes of the inundations in the south of France,
which, especially those in the upper valley of the Gar-
onne, prove to have been of a magnitude tor which the
earlier telegrams bad not prepared the public. Above
Toulouse the torrent has gathered rapidity and volume.
and the swelling river has carried away bridges and every
kind of building by the waterside, and completely covered
the southern auliurb or the city. The cause of this
disaster is the rain which fell &lomat continuously in the
south of France from Sunday to Wednesday last Toul-
ouse, standing in the midst of the great plain of Gascony
and Languedoc, is built on both sides of the Garonne,
which receives the drainage of a basin extending to the
l'yrenees, a perennial source of destructive torrents. The
waters hail risen considerably on Tuesday, but it was on
Wednesday that the dangerous character of the floods
lies mimic appareut In the morning of that day the quarter
of St. Cypnen, which lies in the bend of the river,
on its left bank, was suhmerged, and as the river
kept rising orders were given to stop all traffic
over the bridges. At six ci clock in the evening the
suspension bridge of St. Michael, the tirt which is
reached in de-rending the river, was earned away. House
after house fell before the flood, and it was thought
:ssivisable to remove the patients as quickly as possible
from the Hotel Dieu. The military of all anus were called
out, and all the general officers of the garrison were to be
seen directing the operations for rescuing the inhabitants,
who had been isolated by the sudden rising of the waters.
A great number of the tvalies were found of those who had
been surprised by the flood, and were unable to make their
escape, and in the work of saving the survivors, an officer
of Artillery and several of the I.iiCe Int6t their lives. On
Thursday the Pont Neuf, which connects St. Cypricn with
the centre of that part of Toulouse wich is built on the
right bank of the Garonne, was earned away ; but on the
same day the :Hoods began slightly to submile, and gradually
retiring. revealed the extent of the calamity. At Verdun,
on the Garonne. in the department of Ariege, fifty
' houses were carried away, and arable fields were swept
hare. In the valleys of the tributaries of the Garonne,
disasters if the same kind occurred, the damage ihue
being very considerable in those of the Tarn and ,
Gera. At Auch the lower part of the town was laid
entirely under water. Nor were the floods confined
to the twin of the Gamnne. At Tarbes. the Ailour,
which like the Garonne, lirui it origin in the Pyrenees. rose
:mil carried away the seven-arched bridge of that town.
The waters are now subsiding. owing to the cessation of
the rain. lent it is feared that the melting of the snow on
the mountains nosy cause the nver to rise higher than
before. The floods appear, however, to have done no
where so nowli destruction at at Toulouse, where for two
ti the inhabitants watched the correct as it bore down
trees, the timber of houses, she& and hovels which had
been swept away, together with implements of agrisulture,
hay, and the cattle of the farm. In the St. Cyprien
quarter abme two hundred and fifty dead bodies have been
found, and twenty thousand persons are said to have been
left destitute.

Tilt RIDAT.
Mr. Ifisnseet withdrew the motion that on Tuesday,
Government orders should have precedence. As the state
of the businees of the House hail excited considerable
Interest, lac would offer a few remarks on its progress awl
prospects. There were eleven measures referred to in the
queen s Hpeech. The first of these wait the Peace Preserve
-
thin (Ireland) OHL and that had become law. Three others
—the Artisans' Dwellings Bill, the Public Health Ifill, mid
the Friendly Societies Bill-had practically passed. The
lend Titles and Transfer Bill and the Supreme Court of
Judicature Bill had passed the House of Lords, and now
stood for committee in this House. The Merchant Shipp
ing Bill was in committee and far advanced: the Labour
Laws Bill was waiting for second reading ; the Agricultural
Holding% Bill had passed through the House of Lords, anti
he was &beet to tnove its second reading that evening.
Another inea•ure related to offences against the person.
That stood for second reading in the House : and the
eleventh measure, the Pollution of Rivers Bill, was in
c 1111 l mittee in the House of Lords. He thought, then, that
considering the position which these measures occupied in
the liminess of the session, there was no reason to assume
that they might not all be carried to • successful termina-
tion. It happened, however, that the Gevernment bad
tit'e year experienced a difficulty which Ind rarely occurred
of having to deal with expiring lees at AI early period,
instead of *huffing them through in a Con cinuance Bill at
the end of the weDioll, as hail lteen too much the practice.
Five weeks of the time at the disponi] of the i ;overrule:ln '
were spent in discuiping a measure of that kind, the Peace ,
Preservation Bill which under other circumstances would I
have been paowel without trouble Ili • Conti 111 l *nee Bill.
There was also Another bill which dealt with an expiring ,
act relating to the low of master and servant ; and the I
difficulties of the Government would have been so great in 1
dealing with thaw expiring laws that it would have been ,
impoesittle to counteract them if they had nut appealed to 1
the generous feeling of the House to allow them to hold ;
ruing sittings at an earlier period than usual. Ili* .
reason for asking the (louse to surrender Tuesdays to the
Government was that the gentlemen of the long robe were
anxious In have a dineassion on that particular do) on the
Judicature Bill; it was felt therefore that if that Tuesday
were conceded the Government might ask for the few-
Tn.-Adige yet remaining of the session.
In the course of the short discussion which ensued,
Mr. DlLLwex claimed for the Liberal party the credit of
not having "dental anything like a vexatious opposition to
the measures of the Government, and
Mr. HUNT reminded the House that independent
memben hail enjoyed more than the ordinary opium-
tunities of bringing forward their motions on supply
nighte.
. The Marquis of lIIRTINOTON (Averred that besides the
1 bills enumerated by the Prime Minister, there were several
other Government measures before the House, and he
' thought the right hon, gentleman lutist lie sanguine
; indeed if be believed all of them could be considered this
I WatioD. Time hail been wasted on the Regimental
, Exchange. Bill, and the visionary 'wheelie of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer fun. reduction of the National Debt, and
II lie recommended Mr. Disraeli to harden his heart, aud at
once begin with a "slaughter of the innocents.
Mr. Bterisce congratulated independent members on
Use successful *tend that they had made against the en-
croachment which was rapidly gaining oil their privilegee,
and coutendiel that the cause of the difficult'es expert•
enced in the conduct of the public liminese in the pest
and present session hail been the bed practice of over-
beefing the order book with an amount id business which
I no rational man could expect to see carried.
I Eventually the order was discharged.
I-INWARD AND TENANT.
I Mr. DISRARI.I. who was received with cheers, resit to
I move the second reading of the Agricultural Holdings Btll.
1 He said the question was one which hail long been before
, thevountry, although it had passed through several phases.
1, Originally there was • general impreesion in favour id
I leases. and after that the views of the late Mr. Pusey
attracted considerable support, although that gentleman
towards the end of his life either gave up or modified his
opinietui Still the views of Mr. Puny, who hail •
thorough knowledge of the question, del not meet with
much support antinit the agricultural tenants, especially
amongst those who might be celled hereditary occupiers.
Since Mr. Pusey, matters for some time did not ad, wee
-h. The cry for leases was 'neatly moderated, until if
late ',warn the philosophers and political economists hail
not failed to hit what Mr. Pusey termed the only blot in
the landed hierarchy, and the recent legislation for
Ireland had Riven great stimulus to their efforts. But the
grievance complained of in Ireland haul no parallel in
England. Though no doubt theoretically the position of
the tenant at will was to be greatly deprecated, any evils
that might have arisen from it had been obviated hy the
excellent relations which had prevailtel between landlord
and tenant, upon which the good order and stability of
. the country so greatly depended. Under these circus',
stem., the Government had consiilenel the question,
anti submitted • measure to the House which heal already
pissed the House of Lords, and which they recommended
to it mu • fair aettleinent of the question, securing to the
tenant an adequate compeniuttion for his outlay without
interfering with the due rights of the landlord. In this
Hill it was prop-wed to wellre competent. to the tenant
fir what was canes', in the modern phraee, "unexhausted
Improvements," and also for the breaking of contraetc.
These unexhatisted improvemento were now for the first
time divided into three class.. in the first class, -
paneation would lie given for drainage of lands, erection or
enlargeuient of buildings, laying down of permanent pas-
ture. making or planting of miler 'merle making of water
nicsilows or irriireting works, garden improvemente, roads
or bridgee, making or improvement of water courses.
ponds, wells, or nwervoirs, or works for the supply of
water for agricultural or donnutie purposes, making of
fences, planting of bops, planting of orchards, the
reclamation of waste lands, and warping of land. The
second class would give :compeneation for boning of pas-
ture land with undiseolvoil brines, chalking of Land, clay-
burning, daring, liming, and marling of land. The third
clam would give compeneation for the application of per
-
chased artificial and other manures, and the consumption
lln the holding by cattle, sheep, and pig* of eakeand other
fools not prOduced upon it. It would, however, be pro-
vided that improvements in the first class must have the
consent of the owner in writing; in the second chow thiu
change could be mule without his consent, upon giving
him notice; and in the thin' class they could be made by
the occupier, without consulting anyone. After describing
the machinery provided by the 'till for securing the pig-
ment of the cotupensation, and the deductions which
e °eh' be allowed in it for counter-claims on the part of
the landlord, he explained that originally it was proposed
to make the letting value • ,basis of the conipen.ation,
from the belief that it was necessary to protect the rights
of the parties in remainder; but it was thought that this
would in many cares be a fallacious test, and it hail been
decided to malify the Bill in this respect, so that the
amount of compensation should be the sum expended by
the tenant In improvement, subject to a deduction of one-
twentieth in the first class, and owe-seventh in the second,
for each year for which the tenancy hail continued subse-
quently to the outlay. With reelect to freetlon of contract,
which would be preservetl in the Bill, he showed that it
was the unanimous recommendation of Mr. Pusey's coin-
mittee, after examining witnesses from all parts of the
country, representing every interest and phase of agricul-
titre' life, and in that view Mr. Pusey himself coincided.
Ile believed that it would be impossible to pase a Bill that
would take away this freedom of contract. These were
briefly the provisions of the Bill, and if passed he believed
that it would be acceptable both to landlords and tenants,
and generally beneficial to the country.
Mr. MADMEN said that if legislation was necessary, it
must be compulsory. Ile taanted the Government with
not having the courage of its opinions, and, declared that
I peunieeive legislation upon the subject was calculated to
I unsettle the relations between landlerd and tenant with-
, out securing equit slant advantage.
Mr. Lowe said that if it had any effect at all it would be
to make the landlords, much against their will grant leases,
and, . the lend was generally underlet, to raise their
rents. It would be far better to let the.,e thing', work
their own way, as they usually did in England, without
interfering with the parties, who knew their own affairs
far better than Parliament could teach them: for it was
then meddling measures, conceived in a mischievous and
peddling spirit, which tended to bring Acts of Parliament
and Governments into contempt.
The Marquis of IiARTINGTON twitted the Premier with
having altered the principle of the Bill in deference to the
views of a "secret convention."
Mr. DISRAZLI justified his consulting his supporter*, and
trusted that the Howe would not hesitate as to its course.
They were embarking on • course which was dear to •
large portion of the people, and if carried into effect
would remove many call/Rs of discontent and inisuntier• -
'Lading. which would improve and increase those rela-
tions, the confidence and amity which had so long, andee so The Menlo' estate,
fDorset, comprising mansion and 2.019
greatly to the advantage of the country existed betwn hais been sold ee LTheeet -
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the owner and the creepier of the soil—B,oud cheers) Baton Grant (Ton) has bought the Liberal &Av. What
The Bill w. read • second time with a division. will he do with it 1
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in undertakcer has been lIIIRSOLT SOCISTIRS SILL Fc.i. &Atka IWO occurred from exc.:save drinking atpillow, «hi The Friendly tiocieties Bill was Paned bia final *Wee the great fire at •Duhlin whWhT •tac-
amid cheers.

CHARGE AGAINST COLONEL BAKER.
At Guild( ir.l on Moakley. the charge against Colonel
Valentine Baker, 10th Hussars, of assaulting Mei, Itefeces
Kate Dickinson. of Midhursts daughter 01 the late Mr.
liickinson, of New Park, Lymington, in a railway carriage,
on the 17th inst, was again investigated by the magistrates.
Mr. Poland appeared for the prosestution, and Mr.
Hawkins, fi.C., and Mr. I.illey for the ilefendsuit. The
ease created great excitement
'miss Inckinson,the complatnantosaial she was on her way
to London from Midliurot, and orcupied a first.class
carriage, in which there were no other paesengers. At
Unhook the defendant got in, and sat opposite her. After
the train went on he spoke to her, lint nothing particular
happened until the train had remised Woking station. The
defendant asked me if I could fix a time hi he on the line
main. I sail "No." Ile sail. "You won't" then
out the window its,, and asked me to tell hint my name,
I said. "I shan't," He said " You give tile your name.
I said, "I shan't." Ile again said, "You will give me your
name," and I said "I shan't. Ile said, "Why not r'
Because I do net elioniie, I do not see any reielell
why I should." Ile said, "Will you tell me your Christian
'mine r I made no reply. Ile changed his seat and cattle
beside me and Wok hold of my hand. I said " Get away;
I wont have you so near," and pushed hint off. Ile put
his arm round toy waists and held me iii front with the
other arm and kissed me, lie said, "You must kiss me,
darling." I got up, and after great trouble reached the
bull, the dial in the railway carriage. The Kiels was
broken. Ile sail " Don't ring, don't ring." I lint out toy
hand, and tried the bell both ways ; but i: would not
move. Then lie forced me lack in the corner, the eallie
corner I wes in before. sod pressed me back against the
carriage, himself being in front, and placed his face on
mine and kisied me on the lips. I said "If I tell you
my name, will you get off r I don't think he made any
reply. Then he sank down close in front of me, and I felt
his hand underneath my dress, on my stocking, alcove my
hoot. I struck the window with my elbow, to see if I
could linrek the glass: but did not break it, and I got up
• instantly. I got the window down and put my head out,
, working by the elbows, and I screamed. Nobody heard.
- I felt quite strangled with something pulling Ille behind.
Ile was pulling me hack. I seri-mined once, feeling it was
all I was tilde to do, and at the same time twiated round
the handle of the door, and steppini out backwards on the
footboard, and held with my left hand on the handle, lie
had hold of my ann. I kept firm hold a his arm with my
right hand, and said, "If you Imre go I shall fall." lie
said, "Get in, dear ; get in, dear t you get in. and I will
get out at the other door," and he prepared to move off.
I had seen the other door locked at Guildford. I said
again, "If you leave go I shall fall." I said nothing more.
Nothing further happened until the train stopped, when
she complained to the otticials. Just before the train
stopped the defendant said, "Don't say anything ; you
don't know what trouble it would get me in. I'll give
you lily name, or anything else."
Several witnesses spoke to teeing the young lady outside
the carriage, and her excitement when lifted down. P.S.
Atter, at Waterloo, when the charge was suede, said—l
askixl for his card, and he gave it rue, "Colonel Valentine
Baker." 1 sail it wee a great misfortune. lie said, "Yea,
it is, I tun sorry I did it. Ido not know what iioseas
it, I being a married nian."
The def endant said- I am placed here in a most delicate
and difficult position. If any act of mine on the OCCeßieel
referred to retail have given any annoyance to Miss
Dickinson, I beg to express to her my most unqualified
regret At the same time I declare upon my honour that
the case was not as it has been presented here to-day by
her under the influence of exaggerated fear and unneces-
sary alarm. I ilo not in the least say that she wilfully
iniarepresented. but I say that it IN as represented, most
incorrect. In this statement Ido not intend to cast the
slightest reflection on Miss Dickinson. To the evidence of
, the police-constable Atter I give the moat unqualified
i
He wee committed for trial, and bail accepte•l, himself
cut .1.1,01.10 and two in £l.OOll each. The sureties were
Viscount Valentia and Sir Samuel Baker.

EXTRAOIII)INAILY EVIDENCE BY A "LICENSED
BOTANIST," OF wiurtaintE.
A entiot4l case of popular superstition came before Dr.
E. 31. Grace a day or too uo at Marshfield, in his capacity
of coroner. It appvoirs that a man of the name of Wood-
ham had been ill for nearly • twelvetuonth, and that he
distrusted the judgment of the qualified medical man who
attended him. Ile therefore, as is it is expressed in
Biblical language, "sought to a wizard," or at all events,
to a "licensed botanist, named Bigwoodt who worked on
the botanist scale through astrology. I. nder the treat-
ment of this curiously-Mfted person. Mr. Woodhant unfor-
tunately died. Mr. Iligwood urged that he had from the
first told his patient that he had little chance, for he was
born "when the sun stood in afflicting sent to the
stomach." The fact is that the man died of tubercle of the
lung, and one cannot blame the astrologer for not healing.
Bigwood gave evidence as follows :—I atu • "Iteensed
lutanist," residing at l'undiant. I was first requested to
visit the deceased on May 11th. He was then down stairs
sitting in a chair. Ile asked me if I thought I could do
him any good. I told him I thought I may, but it would
be like raising the dead from the grave; hut the decea-
sed which tue to give him a triaL I then asked him if he
was ler is doctor. Ile said 'e, : but the doctor says
that he can do no more for me." I told hint I would dive him
a trial, but I did not think that I should raise him, for he
had no blooil in hint. I told him his liver did not throw
any blood, and that it was very dry. I thought be his
countenance that his liver did not throw any blood, is he
honk.' ...snow as death. I sent him • bottle of medicine
1 next day. which contained seven aorta of herbs. They
were herb+ governed by the sun. These herbs strengthen
the heart, which I wished to do. I work on a botanist
wale of astrology. I send medicine all over the country.
I consider that my license allows um to do 60. When '
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wlverti. I advertise for Site. I do not advertise for con-
sumption, for I know it is no good. I use lOU different
sorts of herbs. I give medicine (Jr every ;Nut of the body
where it is afflicted. Iwe the Gevernment stamp on all
bottles of medicine sent out, no matter what are the
contents. The medicine I gave him was for the chests
heart, lungs, and liver. I sent his four bottles of medicine
and • box of twenty pills, the pills to, be taken with the
medicine. The pills are made with the same herbs as the
mixture, ground into powder with cayenne. hickory.pickry,
and rhubarb, which I buy of a chemist in Conhani. I ask
for hickory.pickry, for I know no other name for it. I
have raised men very near from the grave with that
medicine and pills. I have been practising twelve years.
I judge all complaints by astronomy. 11l have the date
of a man's birth, if be lived in London and sent to Cora-
ham to tell me he was bad, I could toll what his complaint
was and • hat to prescribe for him. This I have done
'Hairy ,times, and made many cures. The deceased was
born January 6, Psrd (I do not know the hour and minute).
The sun was in opposition t•ign with the stomach when he
was horn—that showc,l that the sun stood in affected sign
to the dosly. The moon rules the liver, and that is where
his disease was, and that is what he died from. I
never had a patient die that had been taking my medicine
since I have been in practice. If they fall worse I tell
them they must get • doctor. Ily watching the movement
of the heavens I can tell when to see the danger, and I
will not be responsible for the lives without seeking
further council. I consult aloore's almanac very often and
other almanacs. The jury gave as their verdict We
' find that the deceasesl died of natural causes, and the jury
wish to give an expression of their feelings as regards the
deceaswl being attenacil by an unqualitied.yractitioner,
' A course which they strongly disapprove of. '