The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-05-31 00:00:00

Voroet ennutti exprts FLOWERS FOR THI Sicx.-Lady Theodora Guest has to the poor woman at Weymouth that the London
gentle
IX very kindly sent large
/Jo dowers to the Royal Hospital and Sanatorium. . one at Man-heater with 1,400 members, "PT, closed on
quantities of wild and garden I MID mould get their wine,. Some large Outs.
THZ Rev. JOHN Ro n M.A.. of Queen's I Sundays, and as sem iu it was foiled the clots are filling
DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, MAY!I, 1881. College, Oxford, eld 1111"11°-.
- Rob the gaols with criminals, and the workhou us with penper.,
Including
est son of %Ir. James Robertson, , lion he would agitete for closing them on Sundays.
is the first victor of Holy Trinity Church, Hill, not le the t ~,,ne of the north it is the fashion for the
111"rusey, to which a separato ecclesiastical district sons of the inaun'act ours to speed El Ind.), evenings in
• was esegned on the 2nd inst. toe hot ds, and Sun,.a . dosing will he equ .1 legtalation
Wow. Igo QUARREL AT PORTLism.--On Fray last, or every cis.% or the c •ininimitr. In upwards of LOU
no Archdeacon .sf Dorset will hold his Visitation beim, Mr. H. C. Goo Idea. Col. nel Swaffi'll`l "" pl sees, diclub..g CILI• • lik , L verpool, • caper had I:sen
is', at every lioll. mac
Mr. Cot, Anacombe to Gorilt n, a stinsuo no fir w 'Fut ~. .
Court at Porcde-ter on Sa:ur.lay, Jut., 11th. ',id 1 Are you
Cc. T.-4 match will he played on ,vedneedeg damege toe door, was b.,,r j , n isijooroment.-John pu gich,,..e. on Saud ,vs I Are yo i 0*015,,-,, ,0
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between the Dorchester Cricket Club and the D-rest Auwe'ull'es the hoe who had be .ke.t his arm, on the ' neutral IN at day the pai,ors witre cil•l2 r. nn? so,
dig, '' Are you in favour of closibg
County School. 18 Ii Ate ii was at home when Mrs. Gordon came. The . °maim. ~f , ri a xtii of the nois.liold , . iu England and
I Wales sere thus 'obtatoed--eight to on, AA OIL'S. In We,'
A WATCH CLOD is being formed for Dorchester, and door was locked inside to keep her ~ut ; bet she burst niotph . city.,, +ma made oome ye ire a", anti it was
salt will been seen by an announeemeet in another it open, came into the room, end almuil him and his I .und 1,082 h u•eholderr were in favour, 72. *Walk and
column, any Per-oee wiabiog to ILL. ate requests, to mother when sha came down. The staple of the door 71 mutru ; Weymouth howo.h diets *ago ti.e -.store 13 to
to
ap,dy the secretary, Mr. A. . Blake, at Mr. F. w a broken, and she kicked it al mg.- qr. H ,watd on. In favour of c rasing. A bud hsd bno intr oducatin
,lefended, and croes-exa i I h witness h^
Jacob's., jeweller, High East-etreet.the Boos., of D mmnus, proposing to oihn the um cs
A DESISTS& -A soldier named Tom Lock was on a knits.' running away froguallehirctlior: ion wtneew he- o
only fir two It° u," il2 . the afternoon a Sued., a and from
',en to ninef r the ssie of beerlt: , for e insomption
Thursday charged, before Colonel Bingham, with saw her in the yard; but be did nrd make faces at her. off the prem
bi Th
ag a deserter from the 6th Battery 7th Brigade, at i.es. not would lessen 'the evil, bus not
The staple had been driven in again by the prisoners ; remove. end at Itorecomhe, in Luocashire. the Iron Gates
portaniulttb.-Mr. Supt. Gels gave evidence as to the but they could not fasten the eose as well.-Mr. distr.ct, Seaford, at K ddon. Where the 2... r, Fll."1/4‘al
WlWlrtion, and an otder was made to hand him over to Howard styled this CMS II small storm ins very smell wris chairman, and at • meeting at S diehory, meetings
l, Mre.
the wiliest/ authorities at Portsmouth. This is the teapot. This little boy beat Mr,i. Gordou'll IWO nose against it ; at Liverpool the working menu voted
W dimwi
Wood time the prisoner has tted litt e childr,n, five end seven years of age
within a month. eight to one against it, the other classes is,x to one ; and
CHURCH OF ENGLAND TIDIPZWICII SOCIWZT.-We Gordon went to get the boy, 14 years of age, corrected • at ll,otteriog the shoemakers 30 to ono.
ilia ei,po. serdvathii.e
are glad to see •Mire steps are being taken for the but Mrs. Ansoombe I lied et her as the boy diil, act i weelwamie. 'moue the publdso, his tam ly. and " "
ought I, have out re rest on dun lays, awl besides th it,
purr sae of forming a branch association of this e .elety, when Kn. Gordon saw the boy in the yard, she went if children were sent to the publicsouse for hear thee
sail that the late temi'ereuce tTaamie is not lik.ly to to him. Upon her going to him he rao away and would soon get seemmouied to the language and menu
remain where it was Ink A meeting is to he held at went through the d .or, breaking the staple. But there. Re asked those who wished publicimuaes open on
the Alindtioll Hall on Friday next to take the wee., he hail the offici.l letter to s.), n„ chart,. ;would be 8 indays for a giggle hoar at noon and 111 eight to ludd uP
eer7 steps of forming • branch in connection with St.'Wade de the damaae, arid Mr. Heard ur ed this tn. ir hand.
The Rey. W. S. SHUITLIWORTII, on the platform, was
Peter's and Al, Sainte' parishes. The Sev, T. Iv, was • trivial case, that the msgieratos ought not to
Knipe wia preside. be troubled with.-.4otne eoquiry wing merle, s to sorry to soon an °op Men: to this excellent movement;
huts. he bell wi,ii MI coinor rus., he thodght it world
PlitlitTlTS METHODIST CAMP MRITHIGS. - The the strength of the staple, Mr. Ho rani s iid : Suppoe to braver and bolder he should honestly say so. (A
primitive Methodists of Dorchester held camp meeting.; lug you geutd•men go and view the op A. (Laughter).- planar.) .
on Sunday. The day was commenced with an early Dismisses', tho Bench cot:wide' ing it a trifling women's Mr. Shuttleworth was alone in wishing to open public.
prayer meeting in the chapel, conducted by the Rev, quarrel. house. for two hours on Sundays, the Maw of the martian
of his system of mnenuudas,
J. Roipe, of Weymouth. After thi. apr occasion meg STRZSCITHINIZO MlnglltY.-lir. W. Stakes, teacher being in favour of tits' closing. and if there was awther
formed at the chapel, coesiotitig of many of the Primi- opriTie4iit he 'lid not imuirtitethMe r. Sioluttlaworhtho 'giacdosumratei
his c.onviNcitionza.LLbut
or aids to memory by
tire Methodist friends at the town and neighbourhood. "a sciating ideas.. gave • lecture at the National
From the chapel they proceeded to utlought higgeouvrt tie araguwment so good
'enhh,,,,,,nier. I Schoolroom, St. Mory's, on Wednestay esening last. they must convince Min. In Scotland puitch tarsi bat
Here addresses were delivered by the Bev. J. Knipe, with illustrations of his system's KUOLWIII from one of ham closed for the last 28 years, and with most gratifying
Mr. IL Foot, Mr. A. Daniell., Mr. Bailey, and others. " The Wonderful Bop," also some lads of the Nat.oaal results la Edinburgh during the two year,' previous to
There was a large attendance. As the weather pre- School, who had had one lesson. -Rev. J. Watney the closing ou Sundays. there were 6,279 cases of (Dunk
vented the afternoon open-air service, which had been Wan chairman, and bslieved anyone with ordinary and incapable, but in ilia two years cooing 1879(th i iut
announced, • meeting was held in the chapel, when perseverance would master the system. and it would self:4ol:d etti;dice.had b.sints.btainissi) t..tiez
~...:;:ry
.L)uly 2886,
the Rev J. Knipe presided. In the evening the corn- cultivate the memory as he had never tried before. ca,.. .......
~.,P,,,r341",:,,,,ar":1,7,7,Va,,,u1.‘7,,,, iLybes;l,7tvr.
Mr. Stokes admitted the subject was not new, many Bofors tam, Mooed, Edinburgh Omil wes become so full
pony met in North-square, and, after • short eervice
proceeded through Friary-buildings and Church-street marvellous things were achieved by the ancients in they were about to get a grant to enlarge It. but write I
to the chapel in Dtungate-etreet, where an "experience improving the memory's power of retention; but there to seethe elfecto of the Sondsy closing, and the numbers
meeting n was held. The chapel was ailed to (=we the art seemed to hove stopped or even been lost before declined hem 390 in the cells toab,ut dirsh learing46 empty
by an attentive congregation. his system. In 20 or 30 minutes by that system a cilia, and no necessity for the enlargement. (Applause.)
Y.t in Manch ster and other large
_cities tb y have had t
A Gitairke Teaveztaa-Heinrich Wecklekind, • change may be made in a person's power of memory •
, ; enlarge their ; while Sdinburgh Gaol hi:abecome one'
German tramp, described as having no home, was but could the ordlosel Plan of rePeLilion he ce`W" third empty. "Applause.) Scotland Sitting more sober.
brought up in custody charge i with sleeping in the successful? No. If you with to improve the memory and England more drunken, and we are getting more full
open air, in the parish of ChickerelL -P.C. Miller you Inuit give attention to the Principles of association, of aiminals because we betook (So I's command. When •
said that morning, about ten minutes to two, and work by association, by picturing.-The boy criminal is made, he himself, his family, and society suffer.
he was on duty in Putton-lana He went into • field, brought by the lecturer was shown his brain was not How did the peop:e of Sommed get tusu ermines last
ead on looking round a straw rick, found the defendant larger than another's ; but Mr. Stokes allowed any BY getting their members of Parliament to vole right on
lying there asleep. He found a watch and chain and four lines of advertisement in a paper to be chosen, the this eletto.o.o irnwao or throlloditolsr.blt,beed, ~:t.41 In
211. on hi and • quantity of wearing apparel in a boy wrote them on a black board, and afterwards re- favurir of Sunday ers:4, and tins year for itarto be applied
eeg.-The et, who spoke English very Wirer. pasted them when his back turned, be also spelt the to Weise; Sir Frederick Johnstone voted neither way;
Sealy, could not make himself understood, and it was whole backwards. The once-taught Weymouth re- Hon. W. H. B. Foremen, in 1879, voted for, 1880 against,
with difficulty an interpreter was procured. Ultimately membered • number of diverse words given without acid IEI for-(laughter)-but he voted for the Welsh Bill
s lady from Miss Tabor's school very kindly came to order by the audience, and repeated them in the order en May 4th; Mr. Floyer voted against in 1879, and so did
the Court and interpreted the evidence to her unfor- given. The rile A which ii enforoel.and illustrated in 2elWela Dishy, but neither bad voted on the imestion
se nee. He nerd that petitions be got ufierd Ted by
tunas countryman. He explained to her he had been teaching, is " übses ve, relict, link thought wt..
every an
watann 16
years
of
aim a
.y
are
to London, and had wine to Dorchester to seek work, thought, and think of the impression." The London "
Men not too young to go wroug, and that every one should
The magistrates gave the defendant over into the boy remembered • massmass of miscellaneousfigures Yili;"ng write (shortly) to their member., asking them to vote for
eiscosatty of P.C. Killer, to take him to the German the blackboard, and repeated them in any order. He the Sunday Ciosing Bill. lie attended a committee of the
at Weymouth, with a view to his once more also gave the distmaces of the sun and planets, and House of Lords on intemperame, where Major Vaughan
hang despatched to his F•therland, their diameters, from a printed banner, which he had spoke of the "three black days of the week'-Saturday,
ENTHSTLINVINT. - The Royal Osborne Handbell net looke t at, and that in any, order, or none, the when they take their wages and go drinking ; Sunday,
when drinking hi contieued, and Monday, whey they are
Singers. an as having appeared befor the number being given. A most impracticable-lookieg--
dar
God
dothlior nothing.
their In
h.a conclusion, n.
whe grestedgui then.d. p Lad enth to
t e
Queen, the Sultan of Zanzibar, and other royal pecan. patter song he also repeated from memory as fast se it
ages, gave two entertainments at the Town Hall on could be pronounced, and also my part thereof pm tf,
gave would soon fume to rejoice together in the success of this
Thursday and Friday evenings to fair audiences. The the whole of Colder'" " leading dates hum 13rill'll great lesienstoon,
carapace comprises five performers, who besides History," from a book containing the name of the See Z Bourort seconded the resolution, saying some
being chew cempuielegnete are good vocalists and event., but whence the delft were omitted, and them people were wise and some "otherwise' on pal drinking
their entertainments are agreeably interspersed Inch filled four pages of smell print; also melted Southey" question. Personally, he would go much farther than the
smogs and musical sketch... Their performance on 'Cataract ot Lodore," and gave any of the 70 lines resolution, and not simply close pubblichouses on Sunday,
the bells is very good aLd the effects produced in some uso canvass of tke town, and was struck with the barge
on its number being told.-The Chairman msved !ode every moor day. t was his pr silage to take part in
and. My Hooper,
•Esq., proportion of the person' who voted in favour of closing
wf their pewee most striking. Not only are the well- thanks to Mr. Sta.'s,
Urges airs played in a f suiting manner, but more emended, and, as an old pupil of 1864, bore witness enbiieheneet altiesttg on the Lord's Day. The objectors
modern dame tunes, polkas and echottisches, are the system was of invaluable um to those preparing were not found amongst the working men of Weymouth,
played in a Iv4y and a spirited manner. One of the for mamleations, and wishing to get up dates -A hut came from the big houses on Use front, the I) archestar-
most bestatibel pieces was" The Last Rose of Summer" memory cjes is being formed. Among the ails to road, and temehere-just those who had no occasion to
Sly Stoket's memory glob'. By means um publichousse Tney said legislation would be an
elsd la
a " t'
wit)a
rgileau°l.rt4 accompaniment,
by
memory
" scli'' h kead urf imprinted on it the interfer.nce with liberty. Then let the vote of too work-
W. Kingsley. manipulation was really of !fa" an et er 'Y ace_ , hie man decide the matter, and if so, it would be settled
wonderful, and the bill. In this fevourite air peodnoed poutions on the Ruth of t4e..priucipal features are
, right off, and the larger question too. The publicans had
s charming eft mt. One or two of them mire were emus. easily remembered, as the NaiJong4 SUBOOI boys a eight to a quiet Sunday, and be eue wee F. ~. int...it
Seg. Altogether the entertainment ie a most enjor enow•o• of the tradesmen, for the money now spent in the public-
alga atm and amply repel I taws who &rage,' hues ought to go into the till of the pease draper, beker,
themselves ad the op, ortnntty afforded them of hew bootenreohom.akee and others. Hs also seconded in
behalf of the little ones, who were sent to the publichoose
lag these we 1-known roll ringers, with toe jug for beer. He hoped that Eng.and will soon
FISH Poacitea.-At the Borough Police Court be se prirdissel as Ireland, Sootland, sad Wales-to hare
as Monday. befOre the Mayor (W. Durien, Esq.), publirbousse entirely closed on Sunday,_
Alderman Curme, A. blame, Esq., J Tudor, Esq., , The fled resolution moved by Kr. Wleitwell was then
F. Lack, Req. and J. Peard Jillard, H.q., carried unauimously.
Edward Thomas Garrett was &wird with unlawfully Mr. H. J. OSBORN moved that the following memorial
attemptlsg to take fish is water in which be awned by toe chairman on behalf of this rueetng, an 4
forward*, to R. E i wards, Esq., 111..*., Sr F. Joe...tate,
Major-General Henning has the prised,. right Bart, WY., liun.. W. B. B. •Y. 01131110 M.P., J. Prover,
of fishing. - Acing Sergeant Cerise said on liaq . IL P., and Ron. 4 ill T. Duchy, ht.?. :-,,The
Sunday morning, the 22n May, about twenty in .in .51.1 of a p ibiic mestiog of toe lob .bitanis oi
minutes past ten he was on duty at Friary-I me. Ile Wey uth, held in Sc Y.ry's Sghoolrodia, on relic:day.
sew the defendant in akole 'eines th fi iod hatches, 11. 26, 1891.,heweih,-tost your ui,wl g BM. bell ye that
attending on a large stone. ije had • etick with wire the ..sie of ibtozi sting liquors on Sunday is a fruitinleource
attached. The wire was in the water. When the a: interupsraips, domestic misery, pauperism, and crime;
ti.st it,. tolurious to those who are engaged in the traffic,
defendant saw him he ra 1 away, throwing down the to their Nellie, ant than servant.' mat it is unjust to
stick and vies-Defendant 'said be was not fishing other traders, bemuse on the day following ill at on which
for trout, but was tryi,g to catch a small g dd-fish its wages of the country are usually paid, the liquor traffic
that was in the pond.-Mr. Supt. Coward said-Oene. al has the' romovily e the prodt from the expenditure of
Henniag had given Instruct) ons fur the police to those wages; that your i..emor'..liste believe Mat the stop.
prosecute anyone fishlog.-There was another and a pine of the sale of (otos% Ain't linear' on Sunday, except
Mallow charge in the mine stream one hour previously, io the mu of lodgers and bona Pe travelers, would be
productive of great benefits to mis locality and to the
and to this he pleaded cruilty.-The Mayer gave the
country in general, and emneatly request you to give your
del a severe reprimanding, and fined hiss 6s. and waistent support to a Bill for this object &sued on
emits far the charge to which he pleaded guilty, and behalf and at Me request of the above meeting ; that a
the second charge was dismissed on payment of costa, petition to Panamint' be signed by the ch.irman on
Synause • Foes-L.-At the Shirehall on Saturday, behalf of the masa no, and forwarded for preeentaDon. '
before H. B. Middleton, Req. (in the chair), and H. Kr. Where explained how Sunday closing bad greatly
Pearce, Seq. John Lucas was charged with stealing a benstrited Ireland, and pointed out that during the preeent
period of diatiarbeirs. things would be very much worse
fowl the psoPerty of Henry John Eidout, and Isaac tnan they are if it were not for Sunday closing, for people
Forel was charged with receiving the same.-The
would go to the Publichouses to discuss mutters, and get
pressentor said he lived IL Radipole. On Friday greatly inflamed by intoxicating dnok. Tame is • very
ultimo= about half-past four he missed the fowl.
in
in strong desire that the Sunday closing should be extended.
w b
quietism He last saw it at 12 o'clock In aco -an so as to mew the whole of Ireland. If the derision were
time b xtell Dear his ' house. He found eke fowl left to 0.• working clasiss. they Would soon settle it,
scemeeeled in • basket in an old but on the reilway without eon:term:Mee ire mentioned a publican who
declared the promoters of Ul4 MOVOMOnt had no real
about a quarter of a mile away. The bleed. was
sympathy for publicans, who ought to he loft alone to do
covered with a hag. He could swear to the fowl their work: Within a short time that publician died
jprodticed) as the oat stolen. He had mimed fowls at suddenly, and the verdict was that he died from brain and
different moutons privionely. One of the prisoners, heart disease, the result of overwork.
Wag in his employ. Powell lived at R. G. Vinson. Esq., diocesan meretary of the Church of
Joba Lucie,
Breaderey, and worked on the railway-PC. Haines, England Temperance Society, said that in a CiflV.lBll of
3,068 householders in 20 parishes in Wilts, 963 declined to
atetioned at B•dipole, said on the previous evening at
vote, )82 were neutral, 178, and 2,465 said "Yes" for
half.past eight,from information received from the last
wigwag that • fowl had been esented in the but, he
hue:my closing of publichouse On canvassing Liverpool
ft was fooml Mat sx. the very wont parts tney wished the
watched It till half.past six in the morning. He publiebhusas etzeau, f..r On ttet; sober Momenta they
this
Lucas with stealing the sauna. cried out for th• feloyeitidtt tele taLen act cf their way.
caseriged
Ha cealemesde:onotrit and VITO It to Powell. Wleases (Hear, hear.) ..
aszt west to Powell and charged him with receiving it The resolution was carried nem. ma.
and he denied having bad it. He took him to Lucas Rev. J. Mors, a teetotaler of le gave stealing, sad
who said he represented • Christian community number-
mood he then admitted he had had the bird, but said
lag 1,100 ministers. 9 out or every 10 of whom are
lent it him.-Luem pleaded Plitt% -Powell teetotalere, moved the gentlemen named on the bills
rinileddhaving the fowl from ,Lticas, but said he did ceding this meeting with power to add to their number,
not know it was stoket-Lucsa was sentenced to one lib requested to be the committee and officers of the
month's IMPeleonlaeat with hard Lebow, and Powell eymouth Smaller:" to the Central Association for &top-
e dismissed with • caution. ies She said of intcrlcating liquors on Sunday. That IG.
ari G. Wilson be requested 4 o fOnVela HUI committee
8011100 L Arrssrmsct suunoSsni.-Fif teen parsons !Lev. -W. Lewis sec sidni, pleading (mate wives and
summoned on Monday at the instance of the .
wise fasitilies of tee publicans, tor whom there is•no Bank
and for
School Attendance Officer,under the hye-laws, Radar or any other holiday. La mach ought to impose
dfieolsedienee of the school attendance orier.r. T. on them the necessity of 'shearing on Sunday, and he
A. Pewee proved the various cases.-In time cams of asked every Christian man, every one with • sense of
John Burtand Frederick Whitty, the excuse was made justice, to endeavour to extend to them the privilege
that their children hnd been mat back from ths school on which other donna enjoy. Ns was glad to know one a
our members bad voted for the bill, and the Mayor had
account of thee sot having their school ponce. The
&memorial on behalf of the movement.
Booth were not gadded as to the genuinsosss of the
tr stw. Rev. W. S. SHOTTLZWORTB, in proposing a vote
.egense and lined them k.. oath.-i(Hiss Symonds, of .
coututitte I.hankil tothe Chairstais, said be did not think •
the &boa Atteadance meeting irit. Meats/en could give an noprejudiced
sepreem
sestarkedlat it had bees held at the Q0•11D'Il Bench opinion. was ma
_listener ; bat he wanted to defend
that, if a child was rdneed admission through not bring- tiailleltd. y, and therdcre wag izdised to upheld what
t could not be oon. had ben wed by the' SalisburY Smut-Dye Philo-
log the achool pence, the paten
shad.
at
sees imedd be open' foe • abort Moo on mussy for
vident fee the non-sttendelece of the eay beer , dff the p:einises only. ' ' •
th rides would have their remeil:l7l
the eitool an o
e old be well for the sated , ked, U.. so. trytT seconcbd the vote of than/re and
another way. 1- yr° The f Richard the sees ' el after the Benediction.
lamer that. - • case o - t ,
---
Inaltigelitterter waigifidi owl to the second Monday in Jane YILTON 41.1134111
.----,,,. ',J..- - -`"ur f maintenance of
sa to the Rost o
""" diV" - "head wheal.. be wishing his son to
L 1 at an ind
of &oar Polleyblenk, for
be seat there. -The case r
Was . _ _
for
the
son.attmciance 01 daushte . eif../?.eril ,
send-
ing
deduction of a medical certificate; oe "" 05u
w fined le.-An adjournment w
her
an° °teeth:Case of James Notley, for the le ..)-
netroll certiicate as to the age of his child.-The
4 a• and George
fined :_Thomas anger
gail"ringire
6 each; and Joseph Harris, William
Gale. john x•tber. a.
ohn King, Thom.. Horlock, Samuel Bullets,
am .la. ficgaibbeach.
John Andrews. sod Willi

SUNDAY CLOSING OF PUBLICHOHSES.
St Mary's kiational School was again well filled on
Toureday events; by • mvetiog promited by the Costral
ASSocia.lon for stopping ten dale of intoxicating liquor' on
Sunder.. Rev. J. W itself presided, supoort. d by R. G.
Wilson, Bg., oil *Diehl, secretary of the Colored' of • Ent-
land Tempaance 8 ciety for this diocese' E feud Writ-
web, Hg , hon. secretary id the Central A-so gatioe, M.
R. J. 0 Won. Rev. W. Liwis, Roe. J. Knipe, and Rev.
.Y. S. Suutti-worth.
T .• C 10.1111104 sad perhaps most of us know the Pawls
why
.we etri iiiid pe himu Parli.unt to stop the sale of
newsman ig it gcer on Sundays; as a c'ergym in seeking
the spiritual we (us of roe peopl,, be itn,s, uotkin4 more
furl olly i 4 than holiday driokmg. 01 other days
or nklug is bad ammo i but on tit; day when spiritual
good is souslat ti be one, mill:tore hal:, are U d,
where there are at every corner places where pie dr: ok.
Let no them make up our minds to do some mg to stop
tole fea,ful curos. From We first teatetil Wetted be
beard, he resolved touch somber drop. lie wee
then • young man in bedtime, and had every health to
drink.; loot he left that 11.11, after hearing ,Lihn B. G iugh,
rt tertnined never to touch It; that wee 92 years ago, arid
Steak God be had been e. teetotal. r ever eince. Did they
hear and have c invictiod I then stooks while the iron is
hot, end if not teetotalers before 'leering the room, let
them become so before leerier. In his own city, Lincoln.
be had to go from his own parish ti the other side of the
elm end got these jest as Old Tom struck six; as he
Mimed borough the pebtichouses were all closed. but •
dome or twenty then were awaiting outside till the doors
should open, then they rushed W. 4.nd lin returnine. he
saw thew men, who bed been there ever eines, rolling
across the streets to their bootee drunk. That he had
men Sunday after Sunday for years. If they wanted con-
vincing, let them stand outside the comers of the divots
about ax o'clock, and sce what gorse on at the public:Anus..
EDW•RD WHITWILL, Em., hon. secretary, moved 'That
this meeting is of opinion that the We of intoxicating
liguqrs on the Lord's Day is productive of • large amount
a druokenness, pauperism, arid crime among the people,
ePd, busman', as it is enacted that other trade, shall not
he yvened on that, day, it Is both impolitic and unfair
that such sale should he asioctionwl„ es at present, by the
laws of the realm." (M 4111041 lee Yee weer glad thus
who are not teetotalers are woolly anxious for the
deliverance of oar Sundays front We tomptalloe of Wem-
panne,. In 1929 the first temperautesociity erae fcibned,
and ten years after publichousse were closed on Sunday':
for previous to that, people were drinking on Saturday
eight till 11 o'clock on Sunday morning, and then relays
of pollrioneen hod to take up the drunken men and women
who Med We ettset4 Things were got to that pass that
pilblic-hottsie here dome from midnight on Saturday to
one ...clock iitsdeday filtersoon, and the streets were
com.wea, c. 9r gm ppople lit 1818 drinking on
B.a ay wu ONO tat pliat IS ; but 30 years have
parsed without the siker kJ/ of Semler being delivered.
Oar predecessors got the -dish betil'oleg .cl(bedi lend'aluxid
the good ; bet we hue not failonad &bier exam*.
The questioe is in no way one of poly polities, six
measures had been introduced into Pediment au it, three
by Liberals and three by Caneervativse, and last setaimer
&resolution in favour of the Association's Bill was moved
by Mr. Stevenson, • Liberal, and secouded by Mr. Birtey,
a Conservative, No politics are therefore recognised
except Howe llohe for Ration& (Applause.) It awl been
Did that an Act mused • few yeses ago for closing public.
busses on fluidity-led to riots in Ilyde Perk: but Sunday
dodos hod nothing to do with then:Ahoy were caused by
L-Ird Bolted crOsr•nra's in The ilftoef edit wltlit.odoster•
wormers and Sunday closing ' not
been tried far VIII* Fe•T, : but • blil as now
aksegy yeses& ghe ilisy ;wain in Use house of
Commons, and is down for Mend reading od July g.
, which proposed to shut theft lip ail iv du, except to
besaillfide travellers and loditeru ks 14 fhe s c m-
' tarred by Sunday rest, Lord Elhafie gulf het it ilea ;.hat
• large Dauer of horses Lad earriaser, and who employod
them gay. in the week, was remonstrated with by hie
reitister, and he agreed to try Sunday rest. At the end
of the year he told him the men and horses had
womptrafeg were work, had better health than before,
and the men wetrher temred towards each other
Wan when this w sad*R:l7;44 and for himself the
employer was 4 may. et the year of Sunday
rest than in the previous yew Sunday rest therefore
answers foe muter, man, end beast. ti, hap orange that
a trade should be as it were compelled to be c'a irded on for
.B,en gays, especially when it occupies web IoJiR boors on
ka other six ; it teas it a man who has • Lusa ainetant of
' to do shoed try to economise time by dohs' .eith-
Out Meat, t the House of Commons triad that a few weak,
Lie. but ge *cit, eltalt to repeat the trial. Other men wish
So shorten their hopes. And last we-A he wee at a meeting
In Exeter Kell, where jbe Palfrey porters assembled by
thellenade. wR4 LOOS tO .014_ tigliments to work only ill ii_ra
nine hours a day, ape lf Pmethis amly hi bouts a week.
If porters and the irorperorgere of the gortb and idland
eeesties want only nine hours odor ond eloseton an y,
why should publicans, who work It Loom a ary $ d s,
' wept, six hours more work on Sanctity 1 liw lai d be
I among the rest of the population there are deA
I among pultilwais ; there trade MI so dangerous, and the
Other de, at ii•orbeiter • publican was lying on his
deathrbed, OR bandy ample& when • lot of young men
came into the eilsrayoont. and their oatbs were so
I assent that the glint hie wife to beseech them
to stop, where WEIDA a( Moss,, the4iiirdein to beset up
the furniture, and this wee en tlie pu , . hog night on
earth. (Sensetion,) A friend told him his wtfe tad
murame I the publican. in a distrie., •41 Wee were
desirous ii, do log on Sunday ; but when A wen crised bp
house •• gloat day, be got • letter from the °weer tellinx
bits if he did so again, he would have tootle] to quit. A,.
Liverpool some pe Omen canvassed all the publicans, and
KA were for Smolt, closing, 252 only against, and 167
neutral. while only sip wialawl to open for an hour or two.
At one house the pub imp wits, out, 12 it his wife said sits
see ,ore her be.hiend would be lo Aartur, and she gave
CI Is. towards the eldeet, for, she' wed Is attend the
I, wife Supper; but now felt she could not partlite of the
secrante,t, and then stand bobbed the bar and bum, to
the language there. At Kettering be eas asked why, if
thq publicans are anxious to close on blundei. toar do
not tote out a six day: license, but toe answer is that
many of tte; tr ,srers insist on the houses being kart open,
although spine les at on their beint closed. In Lawton
the publiehesses eta duo open from five in the morning
till half-put twelve the ,pipt. morning, and how can toe
health et tie barmen and fteraitle employed endure such
a strain I There are laws pr iventing he employment of
women and children in factories beyohd oe;tiiiii boors, yet
In London Is no law to prevent women work., in boors
• week. Attain, it is unf .ir to other trades [bat 'ontilic
houses shout,. tw kept open on Sundays, a considerable
port of the money wages is paid on Se'urday night, the
publicbouses bare the opportunity of getting it on Sun-
day, and on Monday the men are utterly unable to go to
work, so we have " Saint Wonder," and 'Black Monday,"
and instead of Sundaj being the happiest day of tiro
week, meting a halo of oy and glades* over the follow-
ing days, it begins in n and eorw, apt the whole of
the meek le mere ruirrable, so that • poor women told the
Bishop of Jester tin r. would be Dry glad if Were eres no
Sunday at all. We howl Sunday echools to teach our
children the way to God ; but on 13 inday evening Sunday
schools of another kind are open, *ad between eight and
eleven o'clock, one tailed of the attendant, el Pu, bnchous,"
is some parte are boys, one third .01911* Oaf tie. the
Other wen, the wone for drink. Whet is the e ea( In
galfoed gaol out of 721 prisoners. liet tad been hopday
scholars. and it teachers. An objection of ten brouskt
against the movemest is that on Sunday, the workitg
man gets the beet dinner of the week, that he has it
at home with his family, but sonnet enjoy it without
a pot of fresh-drawn beer. But be was also told that if
the Working man oould only send his bottle to the
rlblideboikan open Saturday !debt, and cork it up well,
would he Jai ee ernh as it brought from the public.
homes In an open vessel :a Sunday. A lady had heard
there wee flamer of re
bew going '' Bet," U bought
,IcaZtiardaysi but she theesk.:, there wu mire
of he o going sharp e'li •was asked
why he sooldn't tale it On ElsurraiLY.• ad he
Nil _ “If i es ft then, I drink it then,"
agalteurl Such • roen could not be trusted In the
'Then we au told that the Reform and the
raffles slabs are open on Siunday, and therefor* the poor
maas=rnot to be prevented frets getti kis beer ; but
the could not understand what ditinceitiaade

CHAPEL ANNIVERHART. —The anniversary of the
Wesleyan Chapel was celebrated on Sunday and
Monday. On Sunday Mr. T. Ainsw-mth preached
two sermons. On Monday • public tea was provided,
lib a . public meeting held afterwards. Addresses
' haven by the Rev. G. K. Osborn, and Messrs ~efri
g. 'ford; l: W. Val nett, la. Higgs, and T. Ainsworth.
Allusion was mit' le the sleath of Mr. G. Cole, and
also the icas suiti4ed I* the skath GI the Rms. W.
O. Simpson and W. M. Punshen; hcifh of whom had
opened chapels in. that circuit; but it viPeremarked
that, although God had taken some labourers from '
,
1 amongst thee', others remained, and ths good work I
was continued. The fact that there had been • net
increase of six members in the circuit and 4,000
throughout the connection was a sign if prosperity.
o4ptewht'. was liLcwhe made to the kindness of the
teas garon iri 'citing the Bind kr building a chapel to
Messrs. Wave, Barnotg and he ',mists.. it was
stated that theproperty wai gibe trbmqlebt ;Indeecl, the
Secretary's (3U. Snook) report shoived p Wades of:
lb. 7.1. in hand. The chairman offered the first
sovereign towards a fund for fitting up a stable at the
nd of the chapel for the convenience of the preachers.
e choir, waisted by Mr. J. Best, the organist,
ebdeyed stver:).l pieces very creditably. There was a
plei,t daj,t4, of rowers, and the meeting passed off
isSitiNk4llY. . "