The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-02-12 00:00:00

WITMOUTEL.

TH. 13"Mall•BOWICIT-11-1ILLIN4 docurrr. Th•
direotors of this eociety, wluan ha. now ning
establiebed nearly • year in toes town, hove decided
on making another appropriation on Wednesday,
Meese dth, so that who've j one before or on to.'
date well have • chaste of beemning elated to £lOO,
C 200,8300. or £4OO free of taterest (or Well* rare,
sad with whicii toe, eau purohee loud or house
property, or if not requiriog ewer may sell their
appropriatioe
LIMILUIT (1110a011 IMPSOYMIZAT.— We understood
the ociannitese appoioted to carry out the various
improvements agreed upou by this ooragregetiou are
, about to finish toe first part of the suggested alter.
adorn. In • short time tdie sew gaslight", which are
' being designed by Messes. Jose and With., the wed.
known eactssiastioid furnisher', will be in their pleas
at Caret Catirob. They will Consist of • baadaimass
30 jet corona, hung from the roof of the chancel, and
of twelve jet Ootonlill hung from the apex of the
several atones in the nave. There will also be new
brass gee brackeee over the reading desk and over
the vie*. Should these lights wore insufficient for
the wants of the church, eine braokete wit. be aided
in the side arched as the necessity for them may be
proved. Wean this is all done the committee, relying
upon the liberality of the congregation, hops to get •
really good organ. They have weedy some funds in
hand for this most desirable object; they have also
promises of more assistance, and with a hearty effort
en the part of the congregation they quite hope before
many months are peeled to be able to make this most
useful addition to the weenies of Christ Church.
Lieguirro • SOLICITOL —Mr. G. H. D. Chilton,
Under Sheriff, and a jury sat in the Grand Jury
room of the B istol Guildhall on Thursday to Amasen
damages in an action for libel brought by Mr.
Graham, a solicitor, of Bristol, agalast Mies Catherine
Frost, • lady residing at Weymouth. Mr. Bullea
(instructed by Messrs. Clift in and Outer) appeared
for the plaintiff. and Mr. Pitt-Lewis (instructed by
Mr. Williford, Weymouth) for the defendant. Mr.
&Wen sed he was very happy to say that the Under
Sheriff and jury would not be troubled for many
minutes, because the moment that his learned friend
and himself consulted On the matter they came to the
oonclneloe that no benefit would be arrived at by
either aide going into the care. The cause f action
was libel. The a iy, • former client of Hr. Graham's,
got modelled—if he coald soy each • thing of a lady—
about some figure., and then supposed that Mr.
Graham had defrauded her, and she wrote to a
former partner of Mr. Graham's saying Co. No
man could stand under that accusation. The lady
did not attempt to defend the action, and no pleas
had been entered. Mr. Graham was • matt of honour,
and honour to him was worth more than money
or anything else. He did not want to put money in
his pocket, and he said if Mies Feet would retract the
libel an I apologise, and consent to nominal damages
of £lO being enters I, he would be sa'lsfied, and tbat
course had been agreed to. Mr. Pitt Lewis said he
did, on behalf of the lady, what had already practically
been done, becausee when the case wise put into the
hands of her legal adviser it was at once seen that
there was no defence to the action. The lady ought
not to have made the charge of fraud. Because one
did not agree to plaintiff's vend in of the accounts
even if they were wrocg, and botch, hiatus.' o eurnieli did
not way they were, she ought not to say that they were
fraudulent. Mn. Graham as a protemional man, was
bound to take some areal of the matter, and the la ty
was convinced abe ought not to have written the letter
that she did. A verdict by consent was entered for
plaintiff —damage. Ell).
IXTIMPIAATI Uaal v. INTMIPSItare Wont-N.—A
somewhat singular debate took place last week at
Bournemouth, in a mused ,n with the parochial
branch of the Church of Buten 1 Temperance
S wiety, the subject being which has the greater
hill lime for evil, an intemperate man or an intemperate
woman. The argument& were pee evenly divided,
but no vote was taken upon the subject. The Vicar
of Holy Trinity, the Bev. Can en B 'ot presided, and
lb* chief speaker' were the Bev. F. J. Boas, who con.
teetotal the latter was the more mischievous of the two,
and Mr. G. Eaut,of Weymouth, who Invested a drenkep
man with the more power for evil—The Rev. F. J.
ROM in endeavouring to chow that an intemperate
woman does more harm than on intemperate man,
pointed out, in the first place, the greater Julianne
which • wife has In domestic life—far greater than
that of the husband, an I met the possible objection
that the man, being the bread whiner, would have
the command of the purgeotrings, and therefore have
greater opportunities for evil than the wife, by 01111.
lug that when the man driuks it la usually away from
home, but that when the wife drinks it is usually
in the home, where she is surrounded by the
children. UMW whom her influence is likely to have a
very bad effect. If the hothead did not let her h eve
mey, the furniture, the children's clothes, and
perhaps the husbend'e clothes too, would be pawned
for drink. He further showed that public opinion
looks more severely upon intemperance in the womau,
that she has far greater difficulty in shaking off its
effects than a man has, that her intemperaooe makes
a home more miserable, that no one will employ a
woman known to be addicted to drink, and that
women, when once they beams victims to this
terrible vice, are almost irreclaimable.—Mr. G. Eliot,
who took • oontrary view to Mr. Bass, prefaced his
remarks on this subject with • few words on the
general aspect of the temperance question at the
present time, showing that although most encouraging
progress has been made during the lest few years,
only the friars of the sublet has as yet been touched;
few our catkin' drink bill last year amountel to
£136,000,000, whilst the amount spout in bread only
mime Is one half that sum, and the amount spent in
Christian missions was only just over one million,
Yet this country professed to obey the command of
Christ,—" Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven."
Coming to the subject of the debate Mr. Eliot
admitted the force of Mr. Roea's remarks as tithe
terrible degrad ill in of women who become addicted
to drink, and showed Gab was particularly notic able
in contrast to their general character, quoting the
words of the Poet Laureate :
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For man 11.1M.-...5t 7.lll;:r—a-; heaven to earth.
But women, word and best, as lies,.., to hell.
He ooutended, however, t tot the mischief caused by
the man who spent his wages is drinkiur and selfish
indulgence woe much greater than that wrought by a
woman who spent what she could filch from her
husband's earnings. There wee no limit to the
terrible evil done In this way, mai it was this which
filled our prisons, our workhouees, arid our lunatic
asylums. With regard t the question of example, he
WM of opflion that the influence of a into • evil
example did more harm than thetas woman. There
was no doubt the w,..man's example was paramount in
the lamas, but that was • very small circle indeed coins
pared with that in whieh the Men moved. Another
respect in which the effect of dromkenness in • man
was in ire harmiul than in • woman wee the
physical power for mischief which a man had,
an I which—as the columns of the news
shovel—was so frequently exercised. He hoped,
however, that the time was not far distant when men
who were guilty of brutality towards women and
ch I iron w Ibe eel Otto mach in ire severe punish.
went than at present. (Hear. hear.) It was perfect',
horrible to think that a men vhs mull kick his wife
almost ti death -houl.l 10 off with a few months'
immissnalent, whilst the man who pilfered from •
shop—perhaps through hunger—should be sent to
penal servitude. (Hear, hear. Taking individual by
individual, be thought that a drunker, man's influence
, and power to do harm was mach greater than that of
clrunkon woman. He hoped the result of that meet-
ing would be that more attention would be directed to
' the temperance movement, and that they would to
away determined to relax no effort to stem this terrible
evil of intemperance.

TOLPUDDLIII.
FUNIALL.—Th• WNW remeins of Mary Ann, the
wife of Mr. Joseph Riggs, of Higher Park, were
consigned to their lan resting-pleas in the To!puddle
Churohyar I on Wednesday afternoon, last welt, the
Rev. Canon Nash, being the °Sainting rainlater. The
decenwd. who bad been ill only • •hort time, died ON
Saturday, February 2n I, aged 72. Else husband I.
alen very ill, and I. not expected to imrviva
Tin ANNUAL Setif ison behalf of ths National
Society for the it locetion of Poor Ohildren were
preached in the perieh church on Sunday afternoon by
the Rev. Canon Neel', vicar, who oh ws for his text
Job xxvili., AS. " And unto man he said,
the fear of the Lord Is mt. lom. and to depart from
evil I. undentandlog." special lessons, hymns, and
peal= were used. Th• Ch dr did their pert exceed.
ingly well, and greet wales It doe to ths much
beloved and esteemed vicar Um the p dos he hea teirato
In seourin4 11110)1 a tblentedi organist SG Mr. Howland,
twirl haa broe4lit the c toir such proficiency id tth
minting and af tern° m the beautiful little church of
St. John wan crowds I by Imp cod overflowing
omgregntions. Collections were omde on behalf of
the above a patty.

POOLS.
Tee Direct ...A of the zioath•Weetern Railway hope
to proceed with the 13 wirnentouth direct line in two
or three month.; In factoie woo as tiny have °Masud
possession of tbs land.