The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-03 00:00:00

SLAW °FORD._

Goon Tteriakr.—Ou Handal the iffala Met the
enarterly session of the District Lodge was held in the
Town Han. A public meeting was held in the evening
when there WU a limited attendance—Kr Bond, oi
011liegham. presided. The proceedings cogimented with
singing and prayer—The Chairman in • brief addj,ess.
said the object of the meeting was to promote temperance.
gad to promulgate Ike principle'. He attributed the
=commercial depression in the country, In e greet
to the drinking customs of society.—Mr. Mr.
Tarvei was the And ep;&rer. In an able address be volts
of the evils of intemperance He said that the British
public were mowed when thousands were slain in war,
but were very indifferent about the victims slain by stamp
drink. It was time he said. that Ragland, who boasted
of her civilization and rips liberty, made • miehty
asset to remove the terrible drink muse. When denounc-
ing this curse, reformer+ had been accused of exaggeration,
but be could prove that they understated the amount et
Its evil Dr. Norman Kerr had carefully made •
Maculation, that the total number of victims WM by
drink. annually, in the United Kingdom, is no lees than
1.1.0i1d. It must be allowed.
,he said, that these il
indicate the drink to be a meant.. evil _.rh. Ftge77
Leach we, the next awaken He said thelirink trail;
bad become uncontrollable, and the remedy for the existing
drink cone wee total abstinence for the individual and
prohibition for the state—Mr.. Lewis, at Nova Scotia,
than addressed the meeting. She pave an exeunt of the
woresn's crusade against the drink in that country, and
' premed upon the audience the weaselly for individual
work for the cause of temperance. She felt it her duty to
do all in her power to lanais Intemperance, and said that
drunkenness Is more prevalent In than socrose
the ntientic.—Mr H. J. (iundry of WeEmc"Ah• Um,
fnelut==.eddreee, followed by Mr. T. W. Glover,
a who delivered an iweent speech. He
said the drink Wyss indelible stains on personal character,
sal loid some terrible nom 'os front Um ow of
alcoholic liquor. It had d t public OWIIIO9 w
11 1111
qu the woos, . Milt. idayer•ooo equation, but he
did not credit the at ; as temperance sermon+ were
I,= reached in every church and chapel in Southampton,
dny, end every MIN this wee
.. k. tempenure
would be held in that town addressed by fhb
shay ef Meontchawan, and other einisset men —A vete
Ili thanks was accorded to the 'peahen, and the meeting
Ifoominaiod with singing.

Feammmi's Foxll4l. —O4 Tsunoda, last the menshs el
T.um of 991 of Mth, were borne to their resUag
arrsi Winfrith churchyard. D ',ceased am • member
ck,apt "Forget tier," 4MK Slush-Wane= Dim Mira
A. OP. sad died out the 19 h instan al t slow lever.
MI yeah dtbout 40 members"( Me Order, waista•
•ttendwl the luaus! in procession to the sketch. shim
the beautiful Perrin, for the dead was impreedeety read
by the Rov. J. Philippa slier which Bro. P.O ft Bahl
read the customaq. oration et the trArit Misch sympathy
sut 414 for OW 5140 5. 54 Ihl4 544 her third beresrentsnt
iitt threW or four weeks. she haring buried two
cblldrea In that time.