The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-10 00:00:00

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THE DORSET COUN FY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1885

were earning good wars, be found that they were
generally drunk on Saturdays, Sunder, and Mondays,
and that was the Cause of his signing the plealge. Re
found, altar Is hat signed the pie !go, that be amid
do his work batter, and fa I batter haith. Some
years ago a learned gentleman cingratulated the
Rechabitee on the fact that they bad not to pay half
as touch sick pay as was paid by other too ties' and
Dr. Richardson had ea. i that whatever alcohol wee
Intended for, it was c-stably not for the stomach.
He had always taken an inters tin young men, ant
he know a young man wb.,, instead of spending his
money in drink, pat • ehilling every waek In • Boil I.
ing Society, and he is cow the icAsseteor of £5OO.
(Applanse.) 7mp ranee wo kers wire not fighting
against men, but agar., *leo 01. The speaker men.
Ironed that one benefit society had • ruie not cadres
tine those who were eogaged In the Tgonr traffic.
Before they made that rule they hal charged • higher
premium for their almirsion, but afterwards hued
that would not pay. They wanted t) battle with the
two worst conetquences of davit—crime and poverty.
Ore out of fun paupera was brought to poverty
by the use of strong drink, and 7.. I; I. out of every
10t. of poor rata is p..i I tomc i .tin those persons.
Toe rev. gentleman related a story of • p ,or drunkard
who came to a temperance eneetire, and ask, d have
his name signed for I int, as he was unable to write,
and, although he was laughed at, he rep ated his
entreaty, and he was now pr epering. He said Ms.
MAnsel had been for many rare a worker of the
association, and bob el that his visit there would be
blessed. (Ap pl sus.. )
A hymn we, then sung and • collection male.

the strong
s in oonnection with that society that
they were met togother, not WI • teeta' al s olety SO atodraink. He war that leull when he stood on
the pist ri
nothing more, but a • Gospel Temperance Societe,
(Applause.) They soei;ht to advance this c.loto for
their fallow crew ure,s' sake, and above all for th ir
leer,' and Muter'. eake. The rev. gentlem on then in
camelr ld, e a-ihueinviawo
rsar e
,ai
.at
For on
ho to,iy
such ri
victor
-ortcei si
ane
dtt:net little
i,unl
pa.
the drink, for he was better ia.his bee:th and iu ever:
the
h.eirt wbd
iary , and did
hh,me
hneans h.oeet
w.clo,rosuitod boat.creditrae
of
of re p -Habil g from this
horrible curse. (Ao.plans,)
end he
heßeavp.
poka'.l.4Va ufir,,k; .1,
pwooa: th Ilednelfraleaktrii-ro
a
expense, of the Mistier. He bridle, referred to the
week's mu logs, and re:eluded those present that some
&erects. They shad had the qtdation dealt with
andyry the octruttti tmma matters
hheaelabi'dena ltbrwot uLtilidreurres an;
conviction
ntinht isiyo.n greet
Tm tu
se
dt dealiltak,
we if b
ee vu vw, itngyd
mti nan in e
every
reepect, and wee it then • self•sscri rice to eh e it tip:
Was it then a self...cc:hoe to live I .oger, t het
men, wh ; were oleo curse by the drink. Wret
betterh ihke.• Itt ,
pa t better
t eorn if ic
solir ede,kr
name and misery had now given Ow to happineoe
and pewee. It did not look much like self-eocr;ti.e
lie rs.rer aio
some of the
customs of the count's, heifer superst.tioo.
the iLle ; pls. s hider.had orkinitiedpe.
elbowing the a .valitate of tete! abstioenc.. Th,eis
read
adew gar ea: perfectly
yrp etorrsfut
.ortuaisr. rticl fill9:l;:nrctio7l:. one
the
ware
e.r ea, nitteetth,, e
..17rt., butc.me
were
rho f
f.ce a t
b
say. Surely it was no socrofice to live longer. if.
could biased( liesotity end 'rad all Mr. Knipe tel • iid
in this matter. Teetotainin to him Wee no &scriber
ws he coid b
hateverrile bi
It
.wrestsino
becmebet
n.. h
wanteel.t.oua
live
a
healthy as he cull, to (tailors as much work as
poisible, and to retain as much vitality in hie -yite a
U pos.ible. He considered, 'indeed of it. le og
suriboe, they were the gainers. (liar, hear.) It
would be a glorious thing if, ea the reeul: ..f the
meetings, they Lai a hand of young mete in Birch -so
ter who would rally under rho stmdsrl, au 1 tot,, up
the work in the oat villages to otir up the comp..
there. They were doing • st ible work in this teip ct
in Bournemouth, sod be hoped the yo rug toeti ml
D orchaster would be la treed to fellow their exeinele.
(Atop's-Pied
Mies Dingy next addressed the meeting. This lady
poesesees • most engaging kyle of speaking, and a very
effective manner. She said she wmiel to pereuade
aU thou who were not toted abstainers tr become so,
for she did not believe in half-way people. There
wee a terrible nudiebe for their taking this step.
They who gloried In being English people, and who
were proud of their country and their nation, did not
Ilk, to have anything sully the E relish name, and in
the matter of this moral and nett ,nal evil it lay, so to
el
oak, within the hand of each of turn. They might
not be able to help what the Government did, but
they could help what they did themselves. Let them
look at this qu ation, and each one • k himself—What
can I do iu tote m titer' If they did the,. she vim
quite sure they would come t ; Boit cooclusiou—they
were on one side or the other, for they and I nit
'tend in a middle place. It mattered • great deal
what they said and thought about this q destion. Let
them look at their homes. Each one loved his home,
and it warn only thou who had left their homes who
knew how painful it was to wandr r hither anl thither
without any real home of their own. Therefore th
wanted the brine to he bright ant happy. But what
was it that often ma le rot oerable homes ?—The drink.
And she WU not speaking only of the poor. She
knew it was a 0 inn the him e of the poor, tern- ly too
much, alas! but she knew alai; it was so iii the homes
of the rich. She never mental Co set class against
class. They were all memhere of a great family,
and, thorefora, they we'd d ti stand on tee
same side ie this matter. Let them see if
they could not get s mistiming done shout an lay
closing —(apt lanse)— ond then if they could let thesis
see if they c mold n.t got in roe teetotal home". Re-
foreleg to the drinking cadoms of the country, Miss
Blebs, reworked it ear much b Bet than it need to
be in this mopes', still there was much that needed
mending. What an evil it had boon. takiug a 'Jess
when the bargain was made, and things of that e rt.
Look at the hie.o,y of ma my a c rnmercial traveller—
it had been his ruin. Sea urged thorn to act in the
matter of tem?erance in the moat deternoieed epi
but litt it always lea with Love, god temper, sad
patience. Let them net c au their labours, and d..a't
let one of them think they calla do without him.
They wanted n all fr tho biggest to the L.met,
there was Dot one they c mull do without. She hod
not taken op the work, merely as • pleasure of her
own, bit when she weet oat to di eomethin.; in this
CUM* it was upon tn ci, wor " Whetsoever lie s oith
unto you, tio it," an t them were the w.,r I, cue would
like to put before them that night. 'dim ling to the
Blue Ribb Mieeion, ehe ssid elle took agr at
Interest in it. She a.kiiri tern t ; keep it al way. in
view that if total ah.tioence We. to be • power for
good it must be a work for G nil in the land, and it
was worth nothing if not that. It crrrld only be
carried on by the power if the Lord J sue Chrl.t.
(Applause.) Supporie there should be 'Marne ba that
room who bite been under the power and the slavery
of ,the drink, and perhaps had trial end t led, arri
tried, and failed over end over again, and woe ming
to himulf or herself "It hi no use, I mud t give it up."
She stoked such a one to remember lb it Joel+ Clor.:t
had the power—His is the king km, the pow,r, and
the glory, and the ohl inesoage Wan tree for them—
"My grecs is euthti.ut for rm." Bat it w•s not
enough ti put on the uulform, unleta they meant to
fight. It must b 3 wu to the knife ag duet self, and
' &packet sinful lis-t and plea-urs, sod they maid take
the hand that was held .ut to them, ant eleeelet fact
and holdint Let to Hick they must walk leeway! in
Idle strength. Let them take up the Crofte of dill!
culty, temp tati in, an I heeettiug ski, and
as to Him and pay —" L ri, m ,ke my
will one with thine," and if thole W4S the
want and the told), if it was like the wish
and the deeire of Ruth when she clove In Newel, tarte
came the power to fulfil it. Mist Digby th.-n q lotted
• number of statirice rut feet in an op rt u- teal
, abetiuence, and eh ;wing the evil. rf the 11..uk. It
was not one sort cf brain that olive war to the dank
—it wee the clevereet as well an the weakest : there -
fore they wanted irate I aso ion sizalust it. Toe true
OA el was s ild to lea au o line' tn some, bat it was
nothing to compare In, Geer., sigt.t with, podia" tin it
one glue of wine th it CM144.1 a we .k brother to I ffe d.
They were sit elsveonf clot om, hilt Wero tOre t
up autocue if they wore •CA lee it offence I, weak. r
brethren? They wer • (roe to To in th. y like', it wis
said. She did riot den', thee ir,ed.tru, huts tiny
wore rifle-I, being free, to be the b tool Waves of
Christ. Surely, with the great I've wherewith Ile
loved them, did it not speak to them? Sh ,uld they
keep the paltry klees of wine, and sheuld they retain
that custom of drinking with others, and ren the rick
of dew. ying • brother'. or a sit ,r. 4 Sle prayed
them not ti stand there upon their boosted liberty
and say they cared uot what I ep.oned to soother,
and that it Sae MI concern of theire. Surely they
would not stand by sal see • telow creature dro err-
ing in a river and not putt him out, neither would th 'y
stand by knowing there was a chili in a burring
hew., and not try to rescue him. Would they thee
continue this habit, not thiuking of the terrible cense.
()minces that hung upon it? She horned they would
not thlok 'he put total ebitleence before everything
else, bat it was so bound up with the a ohsl and
religious; life of our country and it was but • little
thing to give up frr lir,.t'e melte. It might not be
• temptation to them, bat He 10,, oe knew whet ,t we,
to some. Mies Digby concluded • most telling speech
by an earnest appeal to her bearers to give up the
drink. (Applause.)
At the close 11 large number took the blue ribbon—
in feet, more than we have awn at a 'ampere ace meet-
ing in Dorcheetd for • very long time

The Rev. 0, L. Maher., who was enthusiastically
received. expressed his great pleamrs at easing the
room so fall, because there were othsr meetings going
on In the town—a Liberal meeting and • Conserva•
tire meeting—aod he hoped thy would settle their
difference., and unite to put dowa intemperance.
(Laughter.) He hoped he would be able to prove that
intemperance was the canoe of a great deal of the
poverty and wretched es which are so prevalent In
our country. It was the drink which helped
to fill our prison.. When be first became • total
abstainer he told no one t ut his wife of the fact for
12 mouth., but at the gni • f that time be Viand be
was just as strong as be was before; and just as good
• subject of the Queen as he had ever been, and lb n
he became openly a pleleed total abstainer. They
would find that when they signed the pledge th/
would be in better health, and would live linger. Its
would not say • word against the w• rking men, and
did not want to take away their pleasure, but driuk
was not a pleasure. Drink was an expensive thing,
and was more than a working man mold •ff ird, not
that strong drink Is a reepector of persons, for it
would knock down • I:dthop as well as a chimney
sweep. (Laughter.) Hs was very pleased to see
some soldiers primmest, and gave them • few waroing
words, and advised them Ii melts the best use of
their life while they eared their country, and save
all the money they could for their old age. He asked
those present to pray that they migit do some good
for Goers kingdom, and there was nothing except the
salvation of souls to which they might bett•• de• its
themselves than trying to it tp tits prscas of using
strong drink. (Applause.)
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The closing hymn was then sung, and the .Hata-
MAN pronounced the benediction.
Several pledge' were taken at the close.
I The attendance at Tueeday'a me, tin{ way greatly
affected by the most unfavourable weath •r, rain fall-
ing heavily at the hour of merlin'. The Rae. T.
Neese presided, and there Ward Oil he p:atform Rev.
C. F. Powys, Rev. J. J. Dalton, 1t.,. F. Vaughan,
and Me. Magoon.
Tbe CHLIKIIMI delivered an excellent + !deem On
thesubject of temperance, adducing etc evidence of
judge', the Prime MI +IA w, the doo.o-s. and the Times
as is the evils of the drink. Ito exlweseed hie pleaaure
at the manner in which Mr. Murky hal come( r ear I,
aid hoped others in a similar pos tion wool' follow
hi. example. The evils of the clikir coil I n t be
exaggerated; they were even greater than the three
historic scourges—war, pestilenv. and (Amine. He
urged I. t +Were to bold by to al nteeinence, and
those who hal n t yet signed the pledg., he hoped,
would net lo+e a m 'went in ding in. Inentionid
be bell in hi+ hand two or three I•dter.. and if he
ware to expatiate on their contents It w mid he found
to be v. ry One Mateo°e which the Chair-
man stated was • most panful one. Oas of the ere
he hail was written in the year Ira from • y rung
max yad le the Small Arm+ Deptrtmaid, Bir-
mingham, and a very cheering letter it 4 Aik He was
a very 12103 yoong faro ' who-of Vier hl kn,w when
• student at Edinburgh. He Wes s very promising
lad, and held • good po.ition in her Maja+ty's s-rvice,
but beide+) held i hi. Ii Inds letter from idly,
Bit in which he sold—" I hove b-on walking :thud
1, oidm doing n• thing, h-onn'e•s, rbathi•••, and for-
saken. I have been nosh!) to obtain emi.!ormene,
and n dhlug Facies likely to torn u." Whet a sat
eud to • Ida begun under such f ivournble circom.
stances. The drib was the cups of .ndla+s misery,
and he urge! Owe present, as lovers I their conutry,
to leave it off, be done with it, and trainAe it down.
(Applau.s.)
-

The Dm C. F. Pours ocxt ad 'reseed the in eting.
esp-es.ing his de,p interput in the wok. Hering
twit fly narrated the circulustancos which induced him
to take an active pert in tao work, he suid it wee
only in the last few years be bed been a told
abstainer, but cow he bed dgned the pledge be hop..d
he do ,uld keep it ti the end of hue Jays. (Applau.e.)
It we' a greet ad vantsge I)1. young tu- t b brongl.t
up wthout takkg unythli g ot all, and he WM sure
the children would have • very gse..t 111vAnt.g) over
the pad generati,n, if they grew up and manual to
ke p clear ni the drink altogeth.r. H 9 urged the
young mai. and w mute to avoid the terrible tempta-
tion and evil, and the awful ale of drinking to iszon..
He addressed• few wonts to the total shutdown. He
hoped they would remember their a a•ching order.—
tomer I. (A.pplattw.) Don't go back, but go on.
They had done • great d eal, tut there was a very
great dowl more to do. He trusted they would be
unceasing in their eil oda in this good cause. (t.p.
planer.)

Mr. Mame next a'd-owed the meetine. With
referewee to the fact that the ladles were comb g
forward to .41 the ternoerance urieverneet, he soil 0
there was any eriestion in which the women ought to
be interested. it certainly CO. that iif the lack, for
they hail to .uff tb.. lull their letpibarel'e constant
iutulgenee to .t ong liquor*, and also for the loss of
the wiatee which their -bomb ni. *peat in this in dud
Reece. Ile (ipotesi • few mat:oleo which showed that
there wererl4 murders committed not many ye we ago
during a time when everyone ought to be peaceful
and heropy, ant when they ware c orate morating the
txrtb of the Saviour. These murders were committed
durirg the epee. of 14 Jays, and during that same
time 24 per ous committed suicide. r, prove that
iutemperance was the cause of a great dodo( thee/dm%
in the c metre, he mentioned the ipsom my of the
if .me S ecretary, who eaid " the warn. part
.4 the crime c emitted is the coasen.roace of
drualt,nuesa" Ile was pleated to know that
Sir William Ilercourt woe • water drinker. (lip.
pleeee..) Lcr.l Chief Justice C der dee, who ought to
know a greit deal about the 0.101404 of crime, said to
the Grand Jnry at Manchester that with one
exception the wh.ile of the ca or whiob were broaght
before them had been caw. iby crone drink. In
11676, one of Resealed'. mo-t prosperoul y.a-e, when
the working Glasse. bed plenty of work, an I were
earning go od wage*, and when the miner, were allowed
scarcely any time to open I In the open sir, the
expenditure in drink hicrea,ed an room ins amount.
Tares years alter, 1579, there was • great depremion
of trade, and at Matichecter sereral large C tton
Ito:Aortae had to throw hundreds out of employment.
Both the amount of crime and the drink bill decreased
considerably, which showed that the more money the
peeple had to spend to drink the more the mime.
The Rev. J. J. Dacron gave a shot but earned
temperance address.
There was • very intere.tine meeting on Wedgies.
day. Tne Rev. F. Vaughan presided, and ad leeee.,
were given by .is workint-men, viz., Messrs. : W
Comb., G. J. Eveleigh. W. Hammett, Sergi. Man-
atee J. Otter .1. lied Perris.
The oloing megifiug on Friday night wag the most
ince...mini of tie whole series. There 1/41 a crowded
attendance. Mr. R. if. Eliot (Weym eutio) prodded,
and there were on the platform. Rev. T. W. Knipe,
Rev. C. F. Powye, Bre. F. Veughen, Re. J. J.
Dalton, Colonel Marshall, and Mies Wingfield
Prayer having beeo offered by the Rev. C. F.
Powym, and • hymn mane,
Tee Clielmeax briefly addressed the meeting. He
said Heade of temperance had no mem to be dis-
couraged at the present lime. The public ear had
been gained, the national coca-mace had been
awakened an I leached, and they might reasenably
hope that it Wolla wit be very long ere by GA*B
blessing a very great social revolutioa, or retherrefor-
mation, might be looked forw.r.l to In this matte'.
There were already sign, of tbi ti he seen lu many
reel sots at the present tlona They must have courage
and faith in God, toil in their gout c ouso, sal then
they might be quite sure God would give them Ills
b'eselog in Ili, go I time. (rt -mle re.)
The It +V. T. W. K1'1,6 sail the nna'sroes had
struck • a ale dile note whoa he rip .lere uf the danger
if custom, and habits and the difficulty of
Mu lag people t giro them up. It took a very long
tine to remove old pr. ju il,oo, ted tarn med., If.
and Lehi that had gone en fr en center: to unitury.
Take for instate, the m-re habit if drinking one
another', good beeith, It. yielded to ne man or
woman (eel they ill knew the loyalty .4 the
I 'dies) in his leyalty t hi. graetioee Sovereign,
yet he woeld tell her Majcs'y if she were
bee, and it hec me him •o du to, that
he never drank liar tralth in retro m drink,
eel he woal.l never drink her health as
long as be lived, that vu to say he never supposed
he did bee any g et by p miring dime his 0.. .a. a little
sort of ruixture of powit,le grope joie., and half-
doe.° other c map. undo Thry n • doaht remembered
the ice Hint cf a modern poet of tat t urible curse,
the wonderful result ol which was th .t nub dy wee one
Penny the w •n I so with drinking h.althe
un-
holy wag one pen oy the worse orb•tier I r their health
being drunk. He belleval the old custom of drinking
one another's health at dinner, was Grotty nearly
ober:date now and he mantien ei amusing alec.l Aso of
this, little couresies. There had been all sorts of
foolish euperstitions and custom., some f which
were, he was glad to say, new extirce Ile knew
there wee an old enatom in this c iunty, which he
believed did n.,t exiet now, for the c nocier at inquoti
t treat all the jurymen with a glees of gin. Ha
I supposed that ea' the fiest thine, to d to give them a
I ciear id. a as to how John Tompkins fell into the
water and met his death. He referred with pleasure
to the fact that the interest in the mission was n.t
In any way abated. They had done roach good,
hot he asked them to remember they had
still something .f prejudice, and honest pre, u lice, te
c extend against. The leading men of the medic,'
faculty were On their • ide, but lie believed there Wel
an Idea far too prevalent that in sacrificing • little
ety,ng drink people wh o alled themeelve,, moderate
drinkers were twirling the risk of eectificiug their
Bat be wiebed ti ui Ole atiou on
higher gonads, and he dea:r. with the odf.le..ial of
temp rauc., sissutolag for arguinent'e sake it wee a
self-denial. Wu it not worth it if they could here
any !media fighting this battle, if they could dry any
if those bitter tears that were falling, and fllllole
this. miseries that existed on all hands In our own
land and other lends through this terrible delusion of

Toe name of Ur. John Porno's was submitted, but Lord fiellsbuit havini.xpreesed • doubt whetter it wet
he also decliaikl, awl the mstter was ultimately left possible to mate • 'silver la such • but eouat,y at the
in abeyance until the next me •ting. rats of two WWI • d.y. Lvd Granville remelted th.t
It was only • militsry Ime, and that all the matensis
Twelve names were sub nitthi in c mnection with
the General C,unil, and the viz ultimstely elLctoi qv:until:nada', —O,L. 11.
hDri,rbra
atoll
cLogurndt,lFl awrr oszblLetchia: 11
re
were :—llomr*. Brow,', &keno, Nowler, Parsons, wee .till the select of dtplonatle oommnalotion
II uasell, and Rolls. with Gemini.
This concluded thl 141.1na5.. I

BROAD 0/11Y.
SVIMEN DRAM-I in Fl d y igat a woman, named
Elea B irnwell, of L't•l-m ..r, was misse I, and in
the sowing, about bail-pact seven, some friends fouls
Wool alth tulle' up le her, ni knocked the door
several awe. Nt recAvb g any reply, and knowing
she had been unwell 'abily, they enteitalued teens
that something had happ:ne an", finding the doors
locke they it ours seat f Oellinv and Dr.
Prldham. On their • rived the do .rs wile forced
open, and lira. B trawell we. timid I jig des I on tier
with • knife sal lock in her hauls, and gado
stiff. The doctor essmined her, and said she must
have been dead fes sin., time. The deoeased hal been
under ths treatment of Dr. Wood, Weymouth, who
gave • oeriifi•ste that th cause of death was heart
disease. The coroner was oommuniosted with, but
he did not consider an lag elf necessary.