The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-03-02 00:00:00

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ROLIG101:111 num' Socierr.—The annual meeting
was held at the Guildhall, on Tuesday evsning,the
Rev. C. W. Bingham presiding. The Rev. J. Miller
opened the meeting with prayer, The Rev. W. C.
Templer, of Burton Bredstenik, spoke of the importance
of sopporting every society which propoutea the true
Gospel. The Rev. K. W. Pears bore testimony to the
mine and unifuloess of the society's publication.. The
Heir. P. J. &grey, the depatation. in an interesting
speeolt, gave details of We work of the society. He
mentiooed the extraordinary sale of "Jeesioa's First
Prayer ;" already more than 100,000 copies had been
.old, o whiett number 800 were disposed of on one
day last week, and more were asked for but the store
was empty. He described the extraordinary affect of
the reading of this publication by a gentleman to the
radian, in one of the wont parte of Liverpool. They
were wonderfully touched by the plaintive story, end
were led to attend *harsh by dosana He also gave
evidente of the truth of this droning narrative. No
less than 150,000 of the soeiety's tract, and other pub-
lications si• circulated daily. In consequence of the
religious freedom now existiog in Spain, the society
meetly determined to expend OW in the issue of
treats in the Spanish landusde, for oirculetion in that
eountry. The collection at the aloes amounted to about
14.

Hewitt'. atm Corrtigirrat, Camera floctorr.—
The anneal meeting wee held on Monday evening at
the Guildhall, the Rae. J. Miller presiding, in the
gamee of the Rev. J. Fisher, who had been called to
Leaden. The meeting opeoed with prayer by the Rev.
H. Moule.—The Chairman spoke in high terms of the
moiety, and expressed the pleasure it afforlerd Mei to
identify himself with the Dorthether auxiliary. —The
Rev. E. W. Pears, M.A., the secretary, road the
report for the past year, which showed that £6l had
been contributed tiering that period. Ha spoke of the
importanas of the society's work especially on the
contimese, in settles forth the Protestantism of our
thrush, sad mentioned the cam of a chaplet' at Venice,
supported by another society, Who practised extreme
ritualism, and hid published • book to show that there
was very little differsnos between the Church of
linglead soil the Church of Rome ! He also quoted the
testimony of an Lutetium gentleman to the immense
indium°e for good whist' the eosety has exercised on the
on tiaen t. —The Rev. W. T. Hobson, the de putatlon, gave
an socennt of the society's operations In the colonise and
on the continent.— The Rev. C. W. Bingham also
spoke in advocacy of the claims of the society. The
eollection amounted to upwards of ESL
TKO Roo. R. llldoln It! ON Teatoitllgn.--On Friday
evening • .spesial biters wee given at the Goillhall,
ender the soapiest of the National Temperanes League,
by the Ray. Rev. B. Maguire, Vicar of Clerkenwell,
Iken
. rabieth of teetotalism. The Rev. H. R. Miles. of
Rarlestoth, presided, supported by the Rey.
H. Movie, of ',ordinate°, who has beep •
teelot•ller for 30 years, and there was •
large aedithoe, consisting of young and old toweefolk,
with many from all the neighbourhood round, and Mr.
Stout, the muter al the Dorset Reformatory, had come
all the way from tinhorns St. Andrew, to be present.
The meetioi was opened by tinging a temperauee hymn,
which appeared to be very laminar to the Rand of
Hope children present. There was • musical aocom-
Pediment of • olarionet, auto, and violoncello. The
Rev. H. Morns then prayed that the Dive. bleising
might rest on the meeting, and that our legislators and
the theft 'sten* might be led to me the Mint
am oolated with the drinking customs M the country.—
The Chairman said that two months aro at the requite
of the escretary of the National Temparthoe League, be
sonsented to preside at that meeting. But it was at
eonsidertble inocavenience, in tionsequaime of a severe
domestic afhietion, his only survival's parent, • mush
revered father, being aerioaly ill • bet he felt hound to
fond his engagement, first, bocarlas he moth disliked
breaking any engagement made, and, second, bemuse of
his very great interest is, sad appreciation of, the cease
they had met to peosnote—(hear, bear). Be was one of
those who believed the thatherariee movement to be
en
ebsobete nesserney laths promos state of things in the
oar thaatry. Innanteralge remedies had bees tried to
meet the peat natioaLl vies intemperate.. At this time
men hith la station aid of noble inlitheet weredoiog their
etunost to stem the torrent of evil—sense In one way
and SON is another. There was the Ithaday Closing
Movement, efforts for ao themeinicat et the lieershop
system, Um Veiled Kingdom •Itianee agitation, the
Permissive Bill projeet—all wen ambiag to stop intem-
perate*. Bat of all the pleas devised for effecting that
grand object, he 'militated that none wee so simple or
•theacious as the one the, proposed to-night— personal
total thetiamete—(applawas). Mr. °leeriest. speed. the of Peabiaiera, *Mg "It ma fitly be reetheimi by
thrthirag st its very roat• While realsalem bad dais
Its tens, the evil they (teetotaller.) had to °attend
'palest had skin it. theassade—mtght be Dot my its
nether Yet they found that Mr. Gladstone, instead
of nether at the root cif the evil of erring drink, had
promote' its volrm—amar hier)—he had increased
the facilities for abtelelsg iatoxiestiag liquors—
(apothem). Rat he hoped hat all who deplored the
eves of drashisearise 11011 wished to avoid them, would
be led to use the simplistic and effectiveness of the
teetotal esthase. The farmers bad formed Chambers of
Agrieultant—ho believed they were right in doing it,
and hoped shoot") to jets the himself- -anxious to lower
the rates aid Mum Bat he thought they were begin-
ning at the wrong mid—dealing with effects, instead of
paths( allay the cathe—(applasse). If they jolted in
the teetotal movement, they would be getting rid of
the care for gush 1.--- police estebliebniente,
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houses, and lanatio asylums, paying for which waa such
a heavy tas at the present day. Ho UNIII 1044 of the
prejudicial inflamee of the drinking halite of the
country amongst our own people, Lod gave an instanos
how Hwy hin&te the spewed of tin gospel among the
heathen. He mentiorned slid bottom* of the return to
drooling, eoupled with ridicule of the temperance
niommoomt, of • Coogregational minister, who wind all
his susems is Lilo to the foot of his lather being rescued
from drnakee habits by a tamparsoce WOOL Hs felt
mane degree of pity for those who "could ootpt through
daily work without two or throe glames of beer, or of
wine." They were to Li. pitied bemuse they had to
me the spur mid the whip, but he noticed that those'
ireotdo did not usually reprd it a.. hal Obip, indoed,
they mewed rattier to like it l—(langbloul. But ha
always faocied it was rasa pleasanter to drive • horse on
• joarsey without beteg obliged to no. the whip, or to
nde ono without reopen' to lb* spur, and be conceived
It was • far greater pleasant to. man, and the results
were meek more advmdageous to society, who. he
went throash hls daily duties, whatever they were,
without the one of the whips and spurs of intoxicating
ligeore--(applause). From his own experienee he
warmly reaaamoodad total abotineose to AL—The Rev.
It Maguire expressed his gratiiiattion to lad that there
was la the immediate neighbourhood of Doraheater
so atacooh am advocate of Um tamperanes movement as
Hu chair akaa6 aid said he thought they might to avail
tiammieleas of his preemies ea Beene other rarities to
hoer more free him—(haas, larar). For hie purpose 041
that ossesion theft wen two great slams of Palm —those who VINO toollotailus and those who ought to

BottOEMS PMT Sminogs, Monday-Before M.
Decennia, Esq., (chairman), H. Davrs, slid J. Bishop,
Ea."
Cootie's 10 Boys.- Three boys named William
Stir-Mold, John Marla. and Alfred Wrobin, were ,
summoned for making a disturbame in the streets, It
Deems that the lads of the town are in the habit of '
assembling together in bands of 20 or 30 of an evening.
when they indulge in all sorted pranks, and go shouting
and yelling about to the utter discomfiture of the
quietly-disposed inhabitanta Oa the night of Feb. 18, I
P.S. Cousins, after following a party of lads about for
half-an-hour, managed to identify the three defendants
amongst theta, consequently they were summoned. The
Bench were aware of the annoyance caused by the boys,
and remarked that they were bound to adopt measures
for preserving the ;senor of the town. After this
warning, any boys creating • disturbance would be
severely punished. In the present instance, the defend.
Lute would be discharged on paying the costa and pro.
maim good behavirrir for toe future. The lad. tear-
fully mods the required promise, and their fathers paid
ho nervise of the summons, the Town Clerk con.
siderstely relinquishing the fess dm to him.
Attempting to Coma Fiat -Mark Crate, of Sabi
poaching notoriety, and Wove Emus, who has bees
emvisted for felony and otherwise bears about as bad a
character as any of his age in Fordingtoo, were summand
for attempting to catch ash in Mr. Mayo's meadows, at ,
Proem., on the 22nd February. P.C. Hissob saw them I
from his garden in Friary-la.. in Mt. Mayo's " ten-
sores," Bran. carrying a long withy with a etre on the I
end, and deftly dangling it over the main carrier, He
saw the wire glitter in the sunlight. Submequeotly, I
with P.C. Vatcher, he Law them come from the
meadows near the Old Compares. Evans dropped his
stick, lout there was no wire upon it then, and it seemed
they had not caught any Ilsb.-.Dsfisndants said they
had been to get some 'stemma, and Crate thought he
was badly used. Bemuse he was known to take a lab
whenever he had a ahance-sad he ,••• free to admit
this-he was amused when be had no thought of Poach-
ing. The Mick was produeed, and Crate said there had
been no wire on it, and he showed the Bench, amid much
laughter, how it would have been bent in order to affix
a wire for catching gab. Evans, Supt. Pountyllsaid, had
been a wildier, but be warn discharged beosuas of his bad
ohamoter. This Evans cm quits hurt about, and
both he and his mother denied that there was
any truth in the imputatioa. They said be
was diacharged became he irlia consumptive, but
as the Tows Clerk expressed strong doubts about it,
Enna mad* • dean breast of it, saying it was bemuse
be sold Las regimental neetaaarion. but he hadn't • bad
character (Patting on as gar of injured innocence), for,
if they mast know, on his discharge his character wail
stated to be "Indifferent" i-(laaghtcri-no Bench
fined them each 405., and, la default, they were
committed for a month's hard labour.
Bofors the Mayor (.1. F. Hedges, Esq).
A Amenilit Thief.- A little -girl of 10, nomad Wary
Jane Outliner, daughter of one of the sergeants of the
militia barracks, was brought up foe Moans{ sad. from
the scargnuile mm., it the E.H.A. harradta. Os
Saturday morning the And was snot to the au on an
errand, when she took the opportunity of Picking up
bid. and earring it of. She disposed of It shortly after
by purchasing two tarts, lid. worth of sweet,, and two
peanyworth of cakes. Her mother and grandfatheristy
the is an incorrigible thief. She was remanded till next
Monday, and har grandfather Q.M.S. Bow was bound
for bar appeargose,

be suoh—autghter)—end his desire in sp sting to them A Shot:lait OF DICIPOiID. Oar attention hes been
was to mum prejudice. Lauer a•eornent, astritit to the wretetted state of the hij wly et a bput
oat why they should all sestet In the temporaries ortn. Dieu the gee-home. Tbe road round the west of the
ntion. They all desired Hutt there shoold be no Beektrater, passing the " Marsh," goys under an arch of
drunkenness in this balite, I bet, probably they would the Portl&nd Railway, and near here is deposited •
set al to another way at petting that orthespie quantity dl the rabluah of the eowtt. Choosing • doe
••-thet they *Whet all the bletwerlei wife shit nel, dad afternrions Flaturdlty last, foe out exploration, We wCre
that if they wanted a "little drop" they meat go to Id.tounded on pedalos throrigh the aftb to find that Irma
the ahroeset for it, bad. pton tbay were ea were they side to side of the road attended a mem of mud over.
Obeid ire it—(appluse). But, deploring, as ill did, shoe in depth. There was positively no room to put,
the evils of drenkenneee, he wished the,, to address and DO tett for the sole of Ones foot. Such en 014-Of. -
th0m.812., to E.e peewee' restos of thated,thir these way place might not be of inlet. coos...queues ; but it is
lasthetehjs thesequensea Es westh,d to imp,. their by this road that feuerals from the Weymouth side
oonscienoes, for there wee a greet loollostade to trifle menetrus bolo the Cemetery,ftad our informant told us
with this Subjeel. Kt wee told by the Rev. T•lbot that he had sees 50 or 60 soldiers paw that way, with
womeu Led officers, looking all am bright and clean u
Orwalrel, of Weymouth. that the only cross he hid now
to bear in society was this wow, of teetotalism. It was those untainted with 'striae eon, and on their
true that thae, men when they heesese seetetetere ton return their dirty conditon was pitiable to behold.
fell tilt against almost every friend they had. The "0." says "that the fearful state of this piece of
erethjad Ames espeohdiy suffered from uthoynn, end road it owing to a dispute with the railway company
or their contrsetor, and the pariah of Wylie, and that
ridicule in their workshops for teetotalism. Bat he
insisted that the Um who put forth efforts to rid sorely when £3 or £4 properly laid out would put ,it to
himself, his family, end big eoubtry Of the curve of
strong drink wu not the sort of man who ought to be main at all
laughed at— (applau
rights., such • disgusting spit ought not to be allowed to
se). Neither ought the annoy our brave defenders, or Indeed; re
person to I within a few minutes' wells of the tawn.
be subject to ridicule, who, though himself nuer
enslaved by drink, bed become • teetotaller for the
support and encouragement of those who had released
themselves from its snares (applause). On the
question of teetotalism the people were divided, arld he
represented them as studies on two sides of a stream,
on one side were teetotallers, and on the other all the
rest of society. He mous no offense In glassing all the
rest with the drunkards -he did not mean to my all
were as had., the drunkards, nor would he tolerate
marsh • Raying; than *ere a great many moderate
trinkets, persons who bad great eommend over them-
film, of stroll oonstitution, with great power of
moral and religions principle to restrain them from
extrauguice. finch be would sty were studied on the
beak, and perhaps there was no fear of them, but
then was & sloping strand, all the specie of which was
IBA with people, and they did not end there, for some
were in the water. When he stood on that side of the
streem he remained firmly on the bank. Many who
were then behind him on the bank had sines toaehed
the great red waters of the dream, some were
anele deep, others knee deep, some again were
up to the shoulders in it, and others seemed almost
irrevocable tommitted to it. It is a matter of degree :
all are not equally emonsitted to the great stream of
strong drink, but, insamull as they could not show
him any line of demarcation, he was obliged to dui all
the drinkers together, and they have to answer for all
the suicides, pauperism, loamy, crime., woes, sorrows)
sad minutes *hies are produced direst-1y or indirectly
by Muth drinks, end are its direst and necemary con-
'equalise. He had totted both sides of the stream,
and he invited than, to rune over with him. With that
view, he would pot a few steppingstones on sound
pound, and give them hie hand to help them over.
The first of these was of this charuter—he protested
against the common and promiscaous are of intoxicat-
ing drinks In this country because they are not • good
thine. He pointed out that strong drink is exception.]
in its cher-atter, and Is not to be placed in the same
category as brearL meat, krt. The legislature had
always dealt with it ea exeeptionsl in its nature. No
fewer then 400 Acts of Parliantent bed been pared to
restrict it, the last of which was an Act to render
" mores" for drink consumed in 5 public-house irmoover-
able. There seemed to be • kind of instinct through'
out the popular mind approving that Menu, but had
such • law been applied to bread or meat there would
have been • general outnry against such en interference
with the laws of trade. Further, they could
not open a public-house, as they might any other
shop. A men of no character at all might
sell good bread, or most, or Sea, but to keep a public-
house • man ZOMBI commence with en uncommonly good
chereeter—thseghter). Second, he protested ageinst
the common and promiscuous use of intoxicating
[kitten because of their intrinsic nature. He showed
that the term "strong drink" whisk is ordinarily
Interpreted drink ululated tem.kestrolig the drinker,
I. only rightly retuned "strong" bemuse it is struger
than the strength of the strongest drinker. He con-
demned the practice of some parents giving the drink
to young children, expressed his regret that drinking is
the bond and basis of hospitality in this errantry, and
gave illustrations of the truth of his definition of strong
drink. Third, he objected to the common and pro-
miscuous nee of intoxicating liquors bemuse of their
natural tendeociu Medical testimony made known
to them it eas the neeessary, nature', and immediate
tendency of strong drink unduly to effete the
brain power. This being no, be argued on the
futility of moral suasion upon the drinker. He referred
to the frequent plea of the criminal, "It was not I, it
was the drink that did it,'' and because drink has such
exceptional poem, he demanded for it exceptional
treatment. The TIM* said there were other tins
besides drunkenneu, and instanced gluttony end
vanity, but the lecturer pointed out that thee, were
only waive instruments of evil, whereas strati drink
is • spirit end • life, active in its operation. This he
illustrated by an &stens fable. A dervish on his
travels we. stopped by "the genus of the plice," and
told that it was made known to him that the dervish
wee to commit one of three sins, merrier, adultery, or
drunkenness : but, by • special favour, he was per.
mitted to choose which of them he would commit.
After much consideratioe, he chose the latter as the
least heinous, but—and here was the mend—while
drunk ha ecialmitted the loiter two sins.
Fourthly, he urged them to erose the stream, on
sooonnt of the terrible frult-bearings and emu-
quenose of strong drink. "By tdeir fruits ye
shall know them. He was informed that one
half of the hospitsl accommodation mieht be
dispensed with if we oonld only get rid of nook; and
he had it on Lord Shaftesbury's authority that sic-
tenths of tho loosely in this country wu caused by
drink. In easelosion he pointed sat that all the evils
04620 by drink might have been prevented and were
now removable, and that while legislation was in,-
portent personal teetotalist& wee the chief concern.—
After • few words from the Chairman, another tem-
poraries melody wag wine, with • verse of the National
Anthem, and the proceedings aloud with the
benediatiort,

WA REFIAIL
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ODDFILLOWSBIP. -On Thursday the 14th anniversary of
the Royel Victoria Lodp of Oddfellows wee celebrated,
when se excellent supper waa provided at the Antelope
by Host Shepherd, to which about 50 members and
!rise& eat down. The *hair was ably filled by Mr. .1.
H. Beggs, whilst P.P.O.M. W. Spicer occupied the
viseabalr. After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts
bad been duly given, the tout at "Th. Manebester
Unity, and the odious of the Poole district" was pro.
posse, and !ppropriately responded to by the vice.
chairman.•' Somme to the Victoria Lodge" Wan then
given, end responded to by Mr. W. Harris, the
secretary, who reed a utisfactory report of the financial
position of the Lodge, from which it appecred that the
eapitel of the Lodge is £l3lB 16e. Id., against
£1.193 17a. 3d. lint per, being a gain of £124 18i. 61.
Tie number of members is 237, soul, one of the largest
lodges in the Poole district The toast of "The
Ils&isl Officers" we. ably responded to by W.
&q.. M.D. Some first.rate singing enlivened
the proceeding,, and the company broke up at an early
hour, after spending a most agreeable end Filmiest
evening.
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Boa&len Potion. Satarday.—Before the Mayor, S.
Randall, Esq., end C. Willcox, Fay.
Janes Mines wta sammoned .19r drawing beer
, daring prohibited howl on Sunday, the glat.—The ease
was astrly proved by Sups. &lea and defendant wee
Seed 10a. and meta.

Postroy was summoned for aseaulting Alfred
Spicer. It appeered from the evidenoe Unit complainant
and some more boys were cliaeins the cattle *bout on
tbe Lower Common, whim they were oeught by the
poliesman, and, 'Deo/ding to the onmplainent, he was
severely beaten by him; but he wee costradisited by his
witnesses, and the case was dismissed.

Alfred Spiger wail charged with ill•naing a cow. The
same rues eel a du last; but. as the animal did net
seem to have beep cruelly ill•treuted, the ease wee
dismissed.
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Eliza Pramploa was sammoned for an aasaalt on
angebna Barnes. Ttua was a family squabble. The
complainant appeared to be the aggressor. and &earl
jelly the ease woe dianimed.
Seam Orckard wai also tharged with assaulting
Barpes.—Finad lla. 64., including oasts.
' Ciagelgaa blames was sommoned for assaulting Elias
Frampton. This is.. crass-summons, and elided in
tor being land Hs. 64., including cosi&