The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-29 00:00:00

LYDE WAY.

FATAL ACCIDINT. —On Wednesday morning, •
wagon belonging to Mr. Joiner, of Netheravon, and
drawn by nit home, was proceeding homewards
with • load of coal, when, just as it had reached Mr.
Dowes's at Lydevray, • man fired • gun in • field on
the other side of the hedge. he report frightened
the horses; they become uninaaagsabl., ran away,
and knocking down the carter, the waggon paned
over his body, and killed him on the spot. Hie
name is Thomas Mateo, and he had for many years
been • good and faithful servant to Mr. Joiner, and
had always borne the (diameter of a steady. sober,
and industrious man. The horses were stopped near
Mr. Edwards' farm by Mr. Edwards' eons, one of
' whom accompanied the under owlet (who was also
much bruised) to Netheravon.

BBADFORD•ON•AVON.
PIATLOUS BOAT ADVILIIII7I9L 7-1614 week, during

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the prevalence of the Roods in the river Avon, Mr.
John Moulton, younger ma of Mr. 8. Moulton,
lannalted a pleasing canoe on the river, for the pur-
pose of trying the decrial's experiment of "shooting
the weirs.' When be waned the weirs, the rush of
water was so great that his skiff was dashed to piece'
spinal one of the piles of the wooden railway bridge,
sed be was his Wining to tbe pile, unable to Rio,*

bold yr hot, mod likely- iv- -ber wathed-wwy _
drowsed. John Murtha a man is the employ of
the Or. Wasters Railway Company, et the risk et
his own life, crawled aloog the woes timbers under.
Death the bridge, lowered a rope, drew the yoong
adventuror up, sad Laded him wifely oa tam firma.

torrtssponbrna.

LICENSED TEMPTATION.

To Ike Edifors.
The late Canon Stowell, in one of hie thrilling Miss
persona speecLes, remarked in reference to the liconsed
temptation which the United Kingdom Alliance suks
to remove :—" Tbe Hours Of C 00115004 and this Rosso
of Loris pray, as often as they astable, "Lead us swii
into temptation ;" bat? think our legislators lead the
people into teen:Mani every day, sad all the year
round. Wliy and How? Become men are ruponsiWe
for the cell they ciao preveot, and Government CGS
prevent the present lionised temptation to the evil of
drunkenness, and therefore Government *vela to pro.
vent it." I was painfully sod forcibly reroloded of Lb*
truth of these words by the skimming sighted intozim
tint whieh I witnessed during the recent Christina.
and New Year's holidays—Do longer holy days, but
seasons of Indulgence and dissipation. Truly this cus-
tom of drinking health' in unhealthy drinks is one, as
Shakspere says, "more honour d in the breach than the
ohurunoa" John Wesley, when writing about this
"liquid fire," and "fashionable poison," is be aptly
tensed it, exclaimed, " It is &miming that the preparing
or selling this poison should lie permitted—l will not my
In any Christian country—but in any civilised state r. The
United Kingdom Albano° is • national organisation,
supported by person of various polities and needs,
having for its objects the developicent,concentration,and
espressioo of public opinion in reference to this licensed
temptation of the liquor trail. ; and no one
who notes the signs of the times can doubt that
the votes of the people is being raised aloud for
more stringent lionise laws and the total suppression
of the drink trade on Sunday.; whilst • large and daily
increasing number of ratepayers demand the total and
immediate prohibition of the roanafeeture and
beveEages, of those poisons, whfeh are the sole cause of
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4mA-elude—that dives of England, the parent of
pauperism, crime. sad heady. I have. faith that what Mr.
Hughes, M. P., tediously calls the Permianlye Bill
" nostrum," will work a peaceful, beneßedit, and
effectual reformation In the drunken habits of the
, frequenters of public-hone send gin shops, and I MU of
opinion that these licensed temptations will be speedil7
removed when the electoral power of the people is
extended. Thad who are now the bolded sufferers
from this vile traffic - British slavery—will assuredlp
use every secession of political power to purge the
statute book of thine bed laws which tempt men to embark
in • demoralising triage, speculating. in fad, upon the
hope of creating an appetite far these pernidous com-
modities. Every observing pereon must have awl this
premed of making drankarts in operation, and it lee
rigid to make a patriot blush. The object of the
Permissive Bill is to give the people a self-protecting
power against this insidione enemy of desperado,
providence, order, morality, and every virtu* that
should eltaracterin good CitiPIDS.
HENRY PITMAN.
Manchester.