The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-01-18 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

Bonin:nit MESBEWS Fri:Aerie Johnstone,
Mart, M.P., has very kindly direetesl Mr. Flisker to aupply
a th.,u,awl I,ii)iol j he 4 coal to the poor of Wevenonth
&trills the present col.l weather. The pv ir, warm Pi by
Sir Fre.teries coal, shout I with more fervour pray that
the hon. baronet may find the warmth of Nice restore him
to health. .

APPEAL. ON BEIIALP OP THE LANE FAMILY. —An appeal
has been male for assistance to John Lane and Mrs. Lane,
Parents of the unfortunate victim of %Vaineright. Mrs.
Lane is stated to be ill In bed. midi John Line's expenses
to have very much exceeded the anamint paid by the
Treasury Bench. Is theronooneelsecs,ine.'tel with that
wretched case who can make an appeal to Weymouth for
halo
eterna !—Mrs. Vase, of !Idea's-lane. on Thurs-
day night tried to hill a benx dine damp with a c siPlle
close by. Of course the volatile oil caught flre, when the
frirhtened woman threw the burning things on the bed I
Some Custom house °Meer* awl porters rushed in, and
prevented the damage which might have been expected
from her foolish act. As it MIK her bedding was much
damaged. and she 11131/ be thankful her house WWI not
destroyed.
Sr. Jolts's PARISII.-011 Thursday evening 45,1 parents
of the scholars of St. John's had tea at the Burden Hotel
Assembly Rooms, kindly lent by Mesdames Scudamore
and Roper, and beautifully decorated with flowers alpt
evergreen'. The following ladies presided : —Mrs. Tryon,
Miss Marriott, Mrs. a. Eliot, Miss Franks. Miss Payne,
Mist Sparshatt, MiSi Thompson. Mrs. It. D. Thompson,
Misses Stephenson, Miss Younghusband, Misses Smith,
Misses Armstrong, Mrs. Stone, Mrs. and Misses Csrpen-
dale, Miss Cotturell, Misses Penny, Misses Syers, Miss
Allen, Miss Plowns in. MIAS Reynolds, Mrs. and Miss
Powell, Ic. After tea • conceit was given, the following
programme being perfornsed :
Song, The Itsy Queen," Mrs Mead ; asia, is
R.sprost," Mr. Harding; song, "A Father's Love," Mr. idak
1,4 ; reading, " Peggy n Haven," Rey. .1. T. Vsudrey ; duet
" !lark, the Goat Bells Ringing," Mrs. Mead and Milo Simpson
swig, "When other Lips and other Hearts," Mr. Ranting
song, " Birds in the Night," Mrs. head; song, "Give Inc the
Man or Honest Heart," Mr. Oakley.
The songs were well received, the audience being most
appreciative. At the close the Rev. .1. Stephenson gave
an addreas to the parents.—On Friday evening Mr.
Stephenson's Bible class hail tea at St. John's schools.
TeaTEMOsIAI o MR. Psiir..—A testimonial, sub,criliad
for by the members of the Working Men's Club, has wen
presented to Mr. W. Page, the founder, and for many
years the devoted and hardworking hon. secretary of the
Club. Mr. Page founded the club in a small room in High.
street ; with the assistance .if Mr. Edwards, M. I'., whose
ever-flowing generesity bad begun at that time to be
already manifest he saw it mere militia Leidy bussed near
the North Quay, and still devoted his eternise to it, then
Mr. Edwards nobly gave a new club-house to the wastes-
mated clubs of Weymouth and illelcombe Regis, and Mr.
Page still did the work of hon. secretary. But the club
had now got beyond Mr. Page's design, it had become •
reading room and library for a more respectable class of
men than he had hoped to benefit, and after some warning
Mr. Page retired. No person more deserved a token of
respect than did Mr. W. Page, the testimonial subscribed
for by the Working Men's Club •, his has been a labour of
love throughout, and while performing the arduous and
troublesome work atten.Butt on raising the club to it. pre-
sent position, and bringing it near to be self-supporting.
Mr. Page received neither fen nor reward. Many other of
his works praise him, for Mr. Page has done good all
around him. The testimonial consisted of a handsome
clock, asoi wag given to Mr. Page on Wednesday night, at
the Lecture-room.

TEA.—Tho Sunday school
teachers' tea in connection with Maiden-street and
Chapelhay schools Caine olf on Wednesday evening last.
The Maiden street schoolrooin, where the tea was held,
was very beautifully decorated, the work being so
elaborate that it is difficult to describe. The black
pillani were covered with white and spirally wreathed all
over with ivy. I:roiii the ceiling depended Japanese
lanterns, lent by the Ready Money Company, and front
each lantern rvAiated coloured chains er wreaths of ever-
greens Thu walls were richly decorated with devices in
al' bright colours, as fleur delis, emblems, bannerets
bearing mottoes, awl Nags also with words. Behind the
chair were "Chapelhay Wesleyan Sunday School" and
" Maiden.street Wesleyan Sunday School," with a hand
on each site pointing to the words "Unity is Strength,"
" Alleluia," and also many texts were shown in illuminated
letters; wreaths bordered the windows, awl yet the effect
was not overdone, for bright colours were everywhere in-
termixed. The worker., who deserve every commenda-
tion, included Mr. Bliu, Captain COSlini. awl Mr. Rolls,
About WO sat down to tea, and after that had been
enjoyed a public meeting was held, the Rev. W.
Lewis, superintendent minister, in the chair. Mr. Cosens,
general secretary, read the report. There are tTB children
In these schools. with 34 teachers, and a special feature,
especially in Chapelhay school, is that many rough
children of the streets have been gathered in, mpecially
by the labours of Mr. Iloneybun awl Mr. Beale,
the latter a most energetic looker-op of those who
would otherwise go nowhere, so that they have doubled
their numbers within the last twelvemonths. —Mr. Blin,
superintendent of Maiden-street school, acknowledged the
heartiness with which the decoration committee had
worked with him. He WM not et all alarmed at the debt,
for the committee bad appointed two lady collectors, who
had been very successful in gAting contributions, and he
hoped the .C 5 would be cleared away, Besides that they
wanted new books, fresh Bibles in particular, and they
must raise more subscriptions. They had passed through
the last session of entertainments very succesifully, and
were not very deeply in debt. The Chairman had said
this was a time when Sunday schools were much needed;
they are needed now inure than ever, with the scepticism
and immorality that is about. But the young people of
the town behaved themselves very well, and this was
owing to the Sunday school., which were doing a great
work for the children of the people. The time would
soon come when everybody would be compelled to he
educated, and they wanted a religious bias given to the
children. naiads. He came here only in the month of
May, and placed himself in connection with the school,
and when they Dit him in as superintendent, he entered
on the duties with 4if4dence. But ho had received
saprj from all the teachers in upholding Ids
-*4o,ltYr ess.'d the tone ef the Wiwi', and, as
ae. nu% tue ettention was good.. Ohc avLrago
a senor— - Leen 'luring the put year Mil in
attendance n.e.
the afternoon, lie w,. nut Ma:mow,' at that, for he
' • het tit,* they must try to
has! begun in a smaller whom ,
-where. The duty
get more scholars of those who went a..
devolved not only upon the teachers and sops:..
pbut also.=
fuoprenthethpe
ro.f ripe:ridaty thaof the
school'.sh offer
He hadcel.3t
home the uames of 00 scholars who had been brought to

lied in a school, and this was entirely through prayer.—
Mr. ltoneybun, superintendent of Chapelry school, asked
what ig the great lark of the preaent site 1 Methodism
larked the youthful energy it once had. Class healers die,
and they have been men with the wieloni of *'lemon:
hilt where are the young ituil Methodism had in p ist
timei not eondlerel sultlriently it, daty to the young.
A. ti Chapelhay they found it rather tote: hut
they went int) the lowed place') and gathered them in,
an I tried with te trg ant entreaties to save them. Ile
Ito I a noble stilt 1 te alters, whe worked well, were
she ism at their ei.t, aol in ale it their object to ingtract
the children. Mr. It in yhoTi conclu.led with an eloquent
speech in encour.a4ein mt. ai to the good work for the
chillren.-31r. .1. Otter, of Broadway, said that he
shoodl move at the ri.,,st beat preachers meeting
that Mr. Illin he put on the local preachers' plan.
Ito contradicted the idea that if we did not make the
children happy, the devil would, for it wasonly the devil's
work to in do penile tuigerable. In the school at Broad-
' way, when they had a school of 104, the committee
numbered 22, and they always worked very harmoniously,
and never hat a seriong debate but one. They had lately
opened a school at Osmington and another at Preston,
whieh were working well. —The Rev. I'. Itarvey said that
with the Sunday schools of thug country it Wel Utterly
impoisible that such scenes could he acted a, were aeen to
Park during the resistance of the Coininunista. Neither
Popery nor it. bastard child Ritualism will ever get hold
on the minds of the people permanently, while the
children are taken hell of awl taught the triith.-11r. J.
E. B ole, secretary of the inilh iv sch,»L ma to a
stirring speeeh. Mr. 1•1,414, jun., Mr. Muter., and Mr. It.
Miller:ilsoiallreg,el tlia in ',tin.: in speorher. The
evening WM male more eitioYalge by the children of the
erhools singing, between the speechar some of riankey's
hytuni. .

Perm qatamics, M etlaw.—Etelore Dr Drew, Mr B.
Mr 0 iteyn il Is, an I Mr r. Atib a.
Henry llill, ol I off. ler. WS, brouslat up for being
drunk awl disor lerly, 011 eitttar In low, in St. Mam,street.—
P.C. Di per saw him drunk and -rlitius on litturday night.
Ile was abusive to Mr Vincent, the Jeweller, an I they a mild
not get him ow iy from the eh b it a crowd collocte I around
him —Supt. Vickery sal I mi. oiler wai c wivlcte I tour times on
his last vilit, throe years mil a half a.m.—dno month's hard
lab nu..