The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-01-30 00:00:00

PETTY SIOSIONS.
THURSDAY.
Brf.Ye the Mayor (Mr.& Aldridge), Mr. G. conk,
Mr. A. Balaton, Mr. W. N. Wester°, and Mr. H.
Farmer.

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY. JANUARY 30, 1883.

NIGHT &ROIL TIA.—On Monday a tea, with
magic lantern entertainment, was given to the scholar.
attending the Nati ,nal Night School. At the appointed
time a number of la la fell to and sill ample justice
to the things provided. Many thanks are doe to the
rector, the Rev. IL Mason, T. Randall, R q., &c,
for the tea and entertainment pvivided.
Ow Monday evening the weekly meeting was held as
urn ‘I In t'te Bitiab Sch.Kil. The large room WM quite
filled without any notice of &Ulric:ion whatever. MP.
Lose ',rapids t, ansi Mil • Ni. Coleman g see goire a fooe
r•Ci' (" 'Ewe L ttle Shoes "j without any mistake,
and wee -el aPPla‘i'le I. Mt. Mill war I and the
sec rotary addre.ited the meeting, and with the chair-
man's remarks the eveniag was Vies intly spent.

CORRESPONDENCE.
BLUE RIBBON 411.11 Y.
To AC Editor.
Sir.—Anti.ilornbug having, in your liens of the 19th
inst., given vent t Me feelings of iudig oath's' respect-
ing the ispel Temperance Tiestion, I beg • small
space in jour valuable paper tor a few words on the
some suhject. Ott.- friend charges the " movement"
with enlist r, selfish, and unworthy motives—m acing
" capit out of rt." Now this is an oil device of the
enemy when argument fails. Paid had to deal with
it MO years ago, or was even the Master Himself
secure from the calumny of enemies. Our (dead
explains that the Blues' offer no "counter attract-
ti ma" to the public houses; but does he not know that
in the places where the " movement" is establishe
coffee taverns are being possessing all the
attractions which he Memos In ids pat ore public
house, in Swarrage, where, lon, I am t ild a similar
counter attraction is to lie opened in due U ? And
were I a Swan le
.publicso, I w. %lid be the first to
open it iuc the "81ue.," rather than trust to the
sympathy of all claimers poss.ered of Common sense. '
I quite agree wi h our friend respsc lug the excessive
use of tobacco. Perham' he will eee s way clear to
establish an anti-tobacco society. Our friend care" Tem-
perance without the other virtue, makes men no better."
It IMO bu
.ti ue, it shows at once the necesety of
" Gospel 'temperance," for utile-s the virtues have
their ro it in the Gospel they are only a building with-
out a foundatio ',an I this bi Inge me to time 'clergy-
man' whd is c.ar lemied to 'point to any passage of
Holy Scripture where total eietiueoce is explained."
(l presume incuitated is meant.) Ii expaunsd be
intend. I, I would refer our (need to Jeremiah, a. 35,
and to Daniel, c. 1, v.B to 16; but if inculcated, I beg
hi. attention to Proverb.., c. 23, where from the 29 v.
to the end, sone most acatliing rental kis are mole upon
the drunkard—'• They that tarry long at this wine."
(Is d..locnon hr. anticipating our friend spending an
evening in his model pubdchuuse ?) The remarks
culminating in • pressing injunction not only not to
drink of the intoxicalug cup, 'out also nut even to look
at B. Hot had we uoasuch injuuction it must not be
forg-t•eu that the Bible Ir.e.Utm us with broad
principles, leaving as to carry them out as circurn-
Amours and pc ism dictate. There are the commands,
for instauce, to pre ,ch the Gospel, teed the buugry,
visit the sick; with no ditections about missionary
uaiou houses, an Is iup kitchens, or hospitals
—▪
the m adern machinery by which these Christian
duties are now carried out, and so with the
drink question. The Bible denounces the drunkard,
anti our friend will agree with me that it is the duty
of Christian men to rex aim him; and that whatso-
ever their hands find t do they are to do .t with all
th dr might—use all the itiflueuce they possess. And
so hundreds of good men, with the fact before them
',went to the least observer, the: there is • claim of
drinkers of intoxicating liquors who have no resting.
place between dead drunk and ahatinoncie—are asking
themselves the queation ? Wherein Use my might
with these; is it in moderate drinking? Not so ; for
tid I can tell the poor sot that I son • total abetainer.
I cannot consistently nor with =yahoo' advise him to
be one. All honour then to flaws who mak• the
sacrifice, if sacrifice it be. Uur friend describes the
"Woe Ribbon Movement" as "an intolerable
nuisance" and a "humbug." These are sweeping
aseerti 'irk Now as the "movement" is only • bantling
of •o i
'in, eighteen months old n this country,
instead of such sweeping con 'emanation would not •
following of the advice of Gamaliel be more ae be
commended in the mattsr ? " Ruffian from these
men and let them at ,us ; far if this c nurse' or this
work be of men it will come to nought ; but if it be of
God ye cannot overthrow it ; lest haply ye
be found even to fight against God. " Young as
I. the movement, b )I,ft ver, it numbers it.
score', nay, hundre Is of thousands; and until
Anti-humbug can prove from reliable sources that not
one in a dZ in .at the 111,111 is a teetotaler, I must
take the Ii ierty ti diff ,r from him. So much foe
"Humbug." Astor the movemmt being an ''iutoler-
able nuisance." there never was am orement for good
luau riiratavi in ths world tbst was not in lot ilerabls
nuisance to sorneithly. When the twelve apostles
went ~ut to preach the g npil the sold tit night them
• nuisance, an hence, the cry "l'hese men do exceed-
inzly trouble our city." And, again, "these that have
forma the w old marble &awn, havoc one h timer also.
Yrs, and they came t i mane ',thee such places, these
lament itions an entry wailing* notwithstanding, and
continued their troubles one humans till the world
was indeed turned "upside down" and made all the
better for the turn.
Swauage, January 23rd, 1...5d,

FAIIIPLAT.

Defendatt said she was home by a gum 6.r.past nine
o'clock.
The Mayor said the magistrate. thought it a
terrible thing ii see the defendant in the position she
was, but as there was a list of coovietions &grin.t her,
they felt that they c ,nld not to leas then they did I.st
time, and be would be, therefore, sentencod to one
month's imprisoninent.

ATTIVIDANCIA.
The following pen ms were summoned by the Usbon
School Attendance C awn uegl,et,tigli eend
their children re;ularly to achoul :
Line* Butcher, fined 2s.
Chyle' Francis, line I 1".
Mary An this, judgment suliendel on promis-
ing to send her two children regu[arly io futur,
J .ho Yoke, adjourned 1.4- a foetuigh•.
William Baiter, who said he did n,,t kn, w the age
of hie child, but she was "I, run., the same day
that Mr. Waring was unseated," withd .awn on petunia-
lug to send the chill regularly.
Matilda %Liam", withdrawn on a similar c
don.

illiam Wallis, withdrawn.
James Henry Dyke, sev.ral tim-e irevi usly
Timed, fined ss. in each case fdir tw .cJild.en.

AISISAULT.
Joseph Burbidge and Jueeph Mon ii, h ys, were
summoned for assaulttng an old LUAU named J n Allan
Fez, on the 20:11 January,
Def.ndaut said the boys were always annoying him,
and on th • day in quastien the delendan s caught hold
of his cost tai's and pulled him down.
Meth Annie bigg.. • ii she sac the def 3ndants
and two nth, r by. aix ying the c .mpleina..t. She
did n t See M oton touch the come' uncut, but
Burbidge pulled hie coat.
A by named floodchild, also said hl. nun did not
touch the onni lainuat.
M zoo was dirmiscd, and Ilurbridge we; lined
3s. 61., includi. g mists.

monster ginning, cup we br S ...non Daniell at Vs.
tr asit nut cry learn sin mt in It Agricultural lull L in-
don, then timer Piled with chemii•ano —After all nad
&oak (ruin this unique losing rim," the Emprmin
actnowled red the compliment pal other
toasts which I include " Tao Town ..nd ado of
le I to. by Mr. J. .1. 0114 'eel It,. T.
Veamptati; ' The Visitors." sviknowl dad by t is Re. F.
Salmon end Mr. J. 0. Ir terke. ; "The It!thrill 411 ii •erl."
roolled 'o by Di. 800.. Dr. Spomer, and M.. G. W.
Dun eli "Tn• Ist ri s: on lot I. by Mr. J I. Biros
an I Mr. E It 0h.......The V cock tern,.,," ant "The
lint oat II wires" Daring ti'm eveliine earn' enp tat
So.htS war, SU or, and chola lanais app .Iml at let reds
by the Illanduril Brass Band, lb. whole farming • 'err
enj lys'ile and plermni ermine, lona to ha re arrobere I
by War. eh bzlped t 0,1(0..10 . the aril 11611• V rrrrr y of
the L.yal Blood ord Lodge of Oldfstluwe.