The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-06-09 00:00:00

SALE OP WORK.

There was a sale of work on Thursday and Friday
afternoons at the Assembly Rooms, Burdon Hotel,
in aid of St. John's Schools, the rooms having been
gratuitously lent for the 0001111i00 by Mrs. Scudainore
and Mime liouur. The articles contributed for sale
were arranged upon some half-a-dozen stalls .if fairy-
like cunxtryctigq, tieing daintily 4raPed in Madras
muslin, and relieved with 'flags. The first afternoun
the hand of the Royal Scots Fusiliers discoursed
splendid music. Miss Thompson, Miss Rogers,
Mrs. J. Thompson, and Miss Frampton presided over
a mall which contained many interesting articles,
including "old women's heads, pincushions," pottery
from, Gibraltar, chute: gold and silver ornament.,
fix. Another stall and an artificial aquarium were
managed hi Mies M. Wallis, Mies Cotterell, and Miss
Hopkins. An artudically arraiiged refreshment stall
wax in the cheer of Mrs. Appleferd,' Miss Delphine
Carpendale, Miss Stanley Scott, and Miss H. Smith.
Mrs. R. Phalli's had a lovely collection of plants and
flowers. Her "assistants" were Mesdames Rough
and Lyon, also the Misses Phelipe (2), and Markham
(2). The other stalls were :—Fancy work: Mrs.
Hime, MIN Stephenson, Mrs. Moor-Bridge, and Mrs.
Neale. l'i,ttsty and flowers: Miss C. Stephenson.
Work in &sigma and colones, fancy articles, fic. :
Mtvidame. Moorhead and Bell-Saltbr, also the Mimes
Day and Dibben. Plain work: Mesdames R.
Thompson and Clarke. The Misses Kemp and Bled-
well sqld work executed by the pupils out of school
hours.

PtfDDLETOWN.
DONUT AND 80(1 THERM COUNTIEB TEMPER-
ANCE ROCCETT,

The quarterly meeting of this society was held at
Puddletovrn on Thursday last, June 4th, in the
Congregational Schoolroom, kindly lent by the Rev.
F. Vaughan. Amongst the speakers announced to
attend weft—The President of the amociation, Mr.
J. F. Rutter, Lady Michel, Rev. G. L. ltlansel, M.A.
(Rector of Churchknowle), Rev. H. Pelham Stokes,
M.A. (Rector of Wareham), Mr. W. Mate (Mayor of
Poole), Mr. G. Curtis, J.P., Alderman J. J. Norton,
Mr. D.._
_Hallam, and others. The delegates from
Poole, Verareham, &c., arrived at Dorchester by the
1.5 p.m. train, and were met by waggonettes, etc.,
bidormilig to Moors Foot 'anti lanitl, Dorchester,
and dnven to the place of meeting. The weather
beieg qf the beat that one could wish, the drive was
greatly enjoyed. Afriving at lluddietown, a public
luncheon was held, 'Asa which the del./fates
adjourned to the chapel for the transaction of busi-
ness, which was opened by singing Moody and
Sankey's well-known hymn, 'Hold the )ort," and
prayer offered by the Rev. li. P. Stokes.
The Pinnies?, ie his opening remarks, said it was
with a great deal of pleainim they nut there that day
to push forward the good work they had in their
hearts, and he thought it showed great Wiel4olll on the
Part of the society for pointing out Pudelletewn as a
place to meet, as it was a very beautiful place. He
was very glad a vote of condolence had been sent to
the widow and family of the late Mr. Knell. He was
a man who had done a great deal of good for the
cause, and they were only now working out ..me if
his works. Ifis duty was a very simple one at
present, viz., to eany out the programme before
him, and the first thing he would ask tLe secretary to
read the minutes of the lam meeting.
These Were read and confirmed.
It was reported by the Fete Committee that the date
for holding the animal fete had been altered from I
Augost te the 99th J_mie, in consequence I
ol their not bong le tollohtesin Beenksonn• Park for !
that day. Cheap rat waY ftcil#Lies h lieen granted I
by the railway companies, and the Royal Italian I
Band had been engaged. Speaking upon the question
of railway fare for that day, Alderman Norton emu-
',Lined that this privilege was not held out to !
Admitting that the fare was only Rd., he said when
you come to consider working men vrith their families
a difference of only 9d. in the fare would be a great
difference. lie recommended the society to do as he
did wheq he wanted goods brought down from Loudon
at • cheap rite, and that was just to remind the
railway companies that there was 4404 a thing as
barges and water. (Laughter,)
TAMA/MUM then presented his report, which
came rather as a surprise upon the meeting. It
that there is only a balance in hand of
appears
lls. 9d., and there was owing. £69 Is. 7ed., of
which amount £5O 12s. 7d. warn owing to Mr. Mate,
who wished to explain that this amount had not
accumulated last year, but was a running account.
The Rev. Owx3 dismal. did not consider the
treasurer's rePrite a very satisfactory. one, sod he
advised them to try ad get the illbilalbet, 1414,H4)1,3
their subscriptions.
The conference was decided to be held at Shaftes-
bury on Wednesday, September 2nd. The Rev.
Pelham Stokes being selected as the preacher for the
Malolioll, and Mr. Harding, chairman of the Porte-
mouth Division, to preach at the Wesleyan Chapel.
twilerman J. .1. Norton and Mr. Mate were the
ehiate* appointed to attend the Western Tem-
peraqce League to be held at *tog on September
Nth. 4 vote of thanks wail carried Het,. Thorium
Nueva fur his swum at Puddletovrn the night
previous.
The CHAIRMAN said he did not know whether this
meeting intended to take any notice of the prolsei-
tion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to place
• tax upon beer and spirits: he thought they
should, and by some action of theirs strengthen
his hands.—Mr. BALLAII said he should like loin to
know that it was their opinion the tax ought to be
put on heavier, and not ion article.; of food consumed
by the poorer Cleaves. (Hear, bear.)-- Mr. Dlparcet was
in hopes that when the Government came into power ;
iimX they would take Id. off the lucerne Tait and
it upon the hoer and spirit duties. He was
greatly optssed to taking any off the beer. tie read
an article in • temperance Paper that the rpm impest
nly amounted to a third of a farthing per galloe,
whereas some of the publicans had increased the price
of their beer by 9d. per gallon. It war a very curious
thing that when the price of malt went down, the
price of beer was never affected.
A vote of thanks was poinessed and carried to the
inhabitants of Puddletovm for their kind invitation,
ied Was responded to by the Rev. F. VAUGHAN.
'his hoeught the business meeting to a close, and
there were left 30 minutes at the disposal of the mem-
bers to roam about previous t,, going ii) to tea
At seven o'clock, the hour fixed for the publie meet
ing, the schmilroom became the norm of iction, and
was speedily filled. Punctually to the time fixed for
commenoujg, .fr. VAUGHAN roar and said he felt very
great pleasure in standing there that night in com.
pany with those gentlemen who had come there to
give them their opinion. He was very ;very to say
Lady Michel would not be able to be preeent, having,
ail she said in a letter addressed to him, had to leave
the neighbourhisd, but she wished them every success.
(Applause.) They had there that night several
gentlemen well known to them, and he was sure they
would give thou a hearty welonne. (Applause.)
there were a large number if speakers, and some of
them would be leaving at nine p.m., he suggested
that each speaker should be allowed ten minute*, and !
by that means they would be able to heart little from I
each.

The
CHAIRMAN (Mr. .1. P. Rutter), said he could
only reciprocate the feeling id the secretary when he
said how glad he was tube amongst them that day. It
showed the good some of their secretary to come and
live amongst them in such a beautiful country. His
great question was temperance, and he hoped they
would not relax their efforts, but go n pushing for.
ward their principles, and not have it said that
England wail one of the moat drunken countries on the
face of the earth. They were now living in very critical
times, and the candidates now before the country were
being catechised on the great question of temperance;
they were being taught, and had to believe, that

thew principles were right. iHear, hear.)_ On
peram had said to him—" I wish you would bark
Ines and bite more "—(laughter)—but he was under
the imisnmion they had given up barking, and were
biting twins esery day. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer was bound to put the tax on beer in con•
sequence of their harking. (Hear, hear.) Old England
would he a far different country if they could only get
rid of the drink. If they could only do that, what
a beautiful country this would be. The time Mall
coming when they as temperance reformene would be
I able to lessen the number of publichnium by one-
third. It was a very gust suggestion to limit the
time of speeches to ten minutes, and le. did not intend
to exceed his, for there was a wicked man mon the
platform—that man was sure to he the chairman.
(Aieelause.)
The Rev, 0. L. Nlasset WAX the next speaker, and
remarked that teetotalers were persons of rather long
wind, and t wrefore always wanted more time to
express their views. Ile did not like talking to
reformed people for any length of tune, and, me he
did not expect to find any in Pieldletown who were
not converted, this being the home of the society he
could do very well with the time allotted him. IThe
great question before 011.111 .11/1 li. or 14, lemon the
amount 1.1 dreniketenem. What surprised him was
the want of patriatism ..f the licensed victuallers who
displayed large placards ;n their windows denouncing
the present boveniment as nsbbers of the user man
leer. Why were they showing sucli affectionate
regard for the wor working Man ? Did they ever
study the poor working women, the wives of these
men? Did they ever hoer a publican say to a man—
'. Bow about your poor wife and children at home?"
(Hear, hear.) urged those percent who were not
teetotalers to look into this gumboil for themselves,
and to try and see if there was any groat good clone
from it. It wan like. the gentleman who stayed at an
hotel to breakfast, and having asked the waiter
if he wan sure the eausagee were Resat warn
answered by him "Oh, yea, Rh; I know
the man who made them." "I wish," *aid the gentle-
man," you knew the pig that made them." (Laughter.)
And so it WWI with drink ; they none of them knew
a what it was made. It Wan now something like IS
years ago he gave up the drink. He thought at first
that he. could not be an Englishman unless he drank
his glass of beer, but he found he WM% every bit Id
rod if not a better Englishman than he WM! with
it. He would never have taken tile pledge bad it not
been for those thrilling tales one nude of daily in the
papers. They were living in different days from what
they were year.. ago. The I..wer status lit society was
getting better now every day. Working muttwere
beginning to find the temperance people were now
their greatest friends. It was their duty to try with
God's blowing to remove the stain from off the face
of the earth.
...(lsond applause.)
The Rev. H. Pitutse Swum, who was received
with very great applause, said he did not like to com-
mence in the old ortlestlox way if addressing them as
ladies And guitleuesu, but would use a better term,
friends, of the great temperance cause. It was
some lung time ago he had the pleasure of speaking on
the platform of the INeset and Southern Counties
Temperance Association, but the truth was his friends
in Wareham were beginning to grumble at his
repeated absence from home, and he began to gut
frightened when they said he really must stay a little
more at home amongst them. If by lived to an old
age he should look back with pleasure to the days be
spent an the platform of the INerset and Southern
Counties. Temperance Association, and say they were
the happiest tin ever spent in in life. If ae d tell
them wonderful results of temperance work, Nearly
two years ago he went to speak at a meeting in the
suburbs of London. Arriving at the station he was
met by his friends in • dreadful dinropour drain, who
expressed regret that it was such a bad night, and as
the hall in which the meeting was to take place held
2,000 people, he was afraid they should have s very
issue audience. What was the surprise on arriving at
the hall they had great difficulty le passing through
the crowd assembled outside thy doors. That night they
got a large number to sign the pledge. That was only
one instance. There was one thing that was con-
vincing him more and more every day, and that was
the communion of saints WArn but'diging-t." tile
Church of England alone. (Hear, hear.) He had
long given up what the world said of him, as he told
his people at Wareham." Lies were like flies, too
many to catch." The failure anigsngst them wan
where the Christian workers would not quite under-
stand one another. He liked a nun who came to him
and said "Oh, do give me the liedge ; I do want to
give nay heart to the Lord." That was the ..wt if
man he liked, IXICIIIIMB by was sure he had tlmuglit the
matter aver, and Wait IlUite OglnVinCo4. NVIAt the'y
wanted to belieee in now was the ...Reality." Did
they believe in the Lard Jesus Christ? Could they
give up everything for Him and say now they did not
care what became of them? lie hoped they would
never be tired of hearing that beautiful story of
General Gordon, MIIO in the morning placed a white
handkerchief outside his tent, Every man, every
soldier, and every officer In the canoe knew that they
must not go near his tent whilst that handkerchief
was, there. They knew that their General was then
in communion with his God. He wished re eryone in
Puddletown would'join the tenijorance league, from
the head down to the lowest in dee
(Applause)
Mr. Men (Mayor of Rob) told his audience that
it had been his gosl fortune to hare leen a teetotaler
for 38 years. (Hear, hear.) Teetotalism was a very
digm-eut thing now from what it was when he first
joined, and used to LIAVI.I 46/Ut comory as a
reporter. It was then a very rare thing to find a
teetotaler, especially at a 1,1116 C dinner. He had seen
a great deal of the effecta of drink. Only teat week a
sailor MIA brought before the Poole Bench and
charged with being drunk and incapable. He had
he wait fu,imnd to have uumilv 3d.
ern searched
hint.. ed
returned from a voyage to Australia, and when
at t
He wh.oLtalitniz
be. and coats, ~r seven 4aya.
Having received the money f van some friends, the
fine was paid, and he hoped he went away a
better and a wiser man. ThiM wag only one case
out of thousands. There was scarcely a village or
town in England where the effects of mum perance were
not felt. It had Leen proved that teetotalers have
I,ser lives and better health than dcinkers. Even
medical men admitted that they hid taught them a
lemon. Some people would say they esquid give it
up, because they have to mix up with drinkers in their
business. The fashi2l.4 is IiOW changed, and will
change even more. There wens some ales would say
they -had not nude the progress they ought to have
made, but this could be disproved by the statistics.
There was not • single man who could come to their
meetiqgs and get up and say that they were altogether
rr"olb TirY were ail the right side, aqd he was
sure if they ought shoulder to shoulder vieteery would
be theirs. (Hear, hear.)

After a few remarks from Alderman Nola." the
meeting was brought to a close by the singing of a
hymn and prayer.
A collection wan made at the clone of the meeting.

POOLE.
AU R !

At the police-am. on Friday. beton, the Mayor
(Mr. W. Mate), Mr. Sty in. Mr. Farmer, and Mr.
Stone, a sturdy young fisherman natned Deoege
Coombs was brought up in custody charged with
assaulting his wife, Eliza Coombs. Prisone- wore
the order 011ie lilye ribbon upon his mintanly !Aeon!,
anrilpt • hipocritiical whine throughout the
pro tap.
he wwe, whore tha police deseriliccl as a very
respectable woman, but who looked hallstarv4
stated that recently she hal heard he had been
keeping company with a young woman at Lytelett,
and she made it her business to go tilt.: and enimlre
into it. She found it was true, and when she accused
him of it he abused her and struck her. That was
about two months as, and he had been pursuing that
00.1411 cl ever since. Me had kept her without money,
and she had beem ,phirto tot york at the factory to get
the 14144118 to buy food. Me hail sold her clothes, and
also her baby's clothes, the bed horn under her, and
all the fun.iture excepting the bedstead. Wnit.
Saturday he went away t 0 Southampton, leaving her
without any (sod in the house, and he did not return
till 12 at night on the following Wednesday. Ile
abused her, and struck her, and threaten.] if she
kicked up any disturbance he would strangle her.
She was informed the girl at Lytchett was "in
wed+ le-n.
I Presincr: tritig t,: go, up a blubber : Did ever I
strike you, 'mixer YtX, !lousy 4 ti4r.)
No, never, AU true as in, in this box, and if, gun ,
you'll look it over I'll go home and make her a msed
husband, and (sobbing) I'm a it' ,4011.tAl (fhb
pathetic appeal, it is painful to relate, only elicited
laughter from an in& cling audience.)-•Prisoner then
adopted the injured innocence style, and said when
be was invalid.] isit of the 11Isfitta for heart disease
46, ftkui., home he gave his wife ii sove-rign.
“1/idn't I siow iei.terr —Ycs, 11,1 u 44 ..ai4 tilt)
v .fe, to buy a pair if lasita with, but you made ine
give you hack tint change, and you spent it,
• Mrs. Rfixabeth Molly said on the 29th of March
uhout law o'clock at night, abs. and her husband were
' awe ike by hearing WOW& She got u pand ikwl out of the
bedessii windows, and KW the primmer beating his
wife who was crying bitterly. She told him he isight
to be &sham d of h itself, and that he was no man.
And he said he would bewt any Into or woman who
stood before h. n, and she had better put her head in,
and mind het 064 business.
Triaomer said he had gone away to Southanfitton to
buy 24 /Me fi4ll, And he did not get any
money, mi lie did not like to come hot&
tint Wednemday, knocked at the dicir
almut 11 at night, end ouuld not get P, so lie went
round to the back and main, and then Lixer was oilite
comfortable. (Laughter).
Mrs. Susan Take, deposal to primmer selling the
baby's clothe., and alms to trying to men the bedstead.
She sent for his wife, and she asked him what he was
about, and he said going to sell the things and she
enekl go. After that lie "(hew out" of the house with
an accordian in his hand. She (witness) took the
woman in, and she had Ismn wish her ever since. She
had no inioney for food, and she supplied her with some.
krogs:cyttir was her lodger before primmer married
her, and was a well-ixinducted woman. lie had bren
dinning her ever mince they were married, and if lei
met her out in the street spat at her and iusullatil
her.

Prisoner again began bowling, and asked Liter not
to tin..o it, and she should never have to go out tsi
work azain, but the wife hook her bead and said he
had told her that too often.
The Mayor: My opinion of you is that you air a
desperately bed fellow. You have tust done two
uvulas at Porettisixer, and now pH. rob Your Wife and
sell the baby's clothes. We nod give you six months
if we 'clusie For the assault, prisister was sentenced
to one 2i:eolith's hard' labour, and on the application of
the wife a separation order was niade, and prisoner
was also ordered to allow tis. per week towards the
utaintentutce of net w.e and eh'id.