The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-03 00:00:00

WILTON ABBAS.

BAND or 1101'6—The juvenile teetotallers of thin place
on Tuesday had alpleasant afternoon', enjoyment, through
the kindness of older friends of the temperance cause.
At half-past two a pruceseion MIA formed with banners
and flags and the Stickland hand, and they marched
through the village to the Abbey, when Om Barone.%
Hamlin) welcomed then and distributed a niiiiilinr of
illustrated and other books. On returning to the village a
public tea was held in the reading-room. It was well
attended, and the company included --the Rev. It. A.
larraker (curate of Stickland), the Bev J. Marsh and
, family (of Baton rectory), Mrs. Kemp, and the liaronees
1 Hamlin,. In the evening a meeting was hell en the hilt,
when addressee were delivered by the Rev. J. Jackson
(chaplain at the Abbey), Rev. It. A. Farraker. 11.1,. .1.
Marah, and MAYON. Vaughan and 0. A. Bell. D.,rset 1,111•
p6rlltlCl3 Illittliellariek Mr. J. W. Barnett pre".1.1.1.
Twelve signed the pledge, including the Mend. family,
1 Mrs. Kemp, and others. The otheera of the Temperance
Society worked bard to make the gathering pleasant and
succeeded thoroughly.

BOITRIITEMOI7TH.
Tug Baptiste are about to build a chapel at Lansdowne,
to cost £4,0011.
THE Premier made a trip here from Weymouth on
Friday. with about EN passengers.
Nr_uter 300 passengers embraced the opportunity of
paying a short visit to Swanage on Thursday evening, in
the Heather Bell.
A tocst. sorer:Tr for the prevention of cruelty to
animabi has been formal here, at the suggestion of Sir li.
Taylor. and over RIO has been collected.
ATTEWerillu To Court Itlaasie.-A short time since a
middle rural man from Somersetshire made his appearance
at Bournemouth renrrnenting himself as &cider-merchant.
Ile announced that he posseesed considerable property, and
anon made the acquaintance of a buxom widow. whom he
informal that he Was a single man looking out for a wife.
Acquaintance speedily ripened into courtship, the wedding
was talked of, and the dal named. In the coesntitne the
widow's mother became somewhat suspicious, tie& train
and set off to the supposed residence of her would-he son-
in-law, to ascertain whether he really did possess the
property he talked about. In arriving at her destination,
she soon found out that his property consisted of a lawful
wife and halfa-dosen young children, anxiously awaiting
their father's return with money to buy bread. To make
the case perfectly clear, she went to the Vicar and obtained
a ropy of the marriage certificate. Thus armed, the old
lady returned to Bournemouth with a firm determination
to convince him that he would not many her daughter,
and threatening the sweeping brush about his head. The
fellow, who got scent of the excursion. skedaddled before
her return, and has not ventured to return to lead his fair
one to the altar.
Tim Ptiguc WORSHIP REnougtio, Act.-The Rev. P.
F. Eliot, vicar of Holy Trinity, has Issued an address to
his parishioners, in which he says -"The Public Worship
Regulation Act of 1474, came into force on the lit of July
last. The occasion of this Act was the continued violation
of what has been declared by the Supreme Court to be the
law of the Church of England, by a certain section of the
dergv. The object of the Act was not to create any new
law, but Sn provide • ready lIIIRSLUI of enforcing obedience
to the existing law in cases where that obedience is still
withheld. Public attention has consequently been drawn
to the question of clerical obedience to the law of the
Church in the conduct of public worship. Under these
circumstances it seeing to me that the Evangelical Clergy,
though they were not the offenders who occasioned the
passing of this new Act, should yet be the first now to set
the example M • lord and ready obedience to the law,
even in minute and trivial points. Custom, as you are
aware, has long sanctioned certain deviations iron the
rubric in matters indifferent .• hut now, when liberty to
make other des idiot's from the rubric is claimed for the
express purpose of teaching special views of doctrine, it is
time for all deviations to cease, and for the letter of the
law, as well as its spirit, to be LR far as poseible
scrupulously obeyed on all hands. I feel sure that I shall
have your resds• acquiescence in this conscientious desire
to obey the directions of our Church. The sanction
hitherto given by custom to a few unimportant deviations
Sir Robert Phillimore has declined to annul the Bishop
from the Rubric seenie new to have been withdrawn by
the course of recent events; and, in my oMnlon, it haa of Lincoln's refusal to permit a Wesleyan Minister to
become the duty of every loyal minister of the Church to describe himself on a tombstone as "reverend,"
render, as far as he is able, complete obedience to the A marble memorial of the late Sir John Franklin wu
whole law. But to do this with that literal exactness uncovered on Saturday in Westminster Abbey.
which present circumetances seem to demand will A boiler explosion occurred at Manchester on Saturday,
necessitate the adoption among ourselves of some few at the works of Messrs. Mosley and /tons, indiarubbee
trivial chances, which, however, I should not hare thought makers. Sixty men were buried in the ruins. One died,
it right to introduce without a clear explanation of the and six are seriously injured.
grounds upon which they are made. That explanation A tire occurred in Belfast on Saturday morning,destroy-
being green, there cannot possibly arise any of the secret lug the Bread"'ani Weaving FaehavY• The damage is
suspicion w lib+ usually (and not without reason) greet. glrAooo. Seven hundred have been thrown out of em.
every unexplained change in there troublesome times." Off ment-
The rev, gentleman indicates the changes decided upon The Duke of Edinburgh has consented to resign to the
and which were commenced last Sunday. Rapthim will German Government his rights to the succession of the
take pie, &wine service, at evening Gemminnmee throne of Coburg in consideration of the Payment to him
the whole office will be used, the longer exhortation of Via." • year.
to communicants will always he read, at morning Tag lialavierT.-Mr. J. J. Mechi writing on the pros
service the Communion office will he said a. far as the snorts of the harvest, says there will, of course, be much
prayer for the church militant On the eurPlice question inferior grain both of wheat and barley. but we may
he says-" In the Privy Council judgment, delivered hi safely conclude that there is (especially where steam
the Lord •Thancellor. on February El, 11371, it was declared Ploughed) • very bulky grain crop, now depending greatly
that the surplice is the legal dress of the minister for all on continuance of the present brilliant harvest weather.
ministrations: This juchonent does not by any means The tetamt has had its mitigating advantages ; there will
be an abundant second crop of clovers and grasses • root
forbid altogether the use of the black gown in the pulpit
But certainly when regarded without prejudice, It does "al' are yen' promising, potatoes and veal/table's are
seem toprescribe that whenever a sermon is • ministra. abundant. although I hear that the former are begituiing
tion 'in the technical sense of the word, then the surplice to enfieg from disease-
ts the legal vestment. Now, whenever the sermon forms A Humoring Pascrict.-For the sake of extra pr° fit
part of the Comniunion °thee, as it does in Morning seine unprincipled tradesmen, when asked for Rea' irr
Service, it cannot he regardesl otherwise than as • a PAISIS BLit IN SqI:ARLIa substitute inferior kinds in the
ministration,' being • part of the •PrViCe prescribed by the same form. The Paris Blue, "An cegti IN THE PRINCE
Rubric. The fact that in the place of a sermon a homily or WALES' iS now so universally esteemed
might be read (which would unquestionably be • minim:, for its splendid quality -above all other blues- it is
thin). strongly fortifies the view I have egpmeed. Added important to sleerve it is only genuine when sold in Printed and Published at P. lirek.e....treet West, Dorchester,
to which, there is no direction whatever to the minister to squares, wrapped up in pink paper bearing I. Reckitt and by ALIMED the parish of Holy Trinity, for
change his dram The Rubric ckeirly contemplates his Sons' name and trade mark. Refuse ail Blue which aati and propriator.
gugoing horn the CoVOILIIIIiaIa table grated to the Pulpit, not so wrapped. ap
Tondo, August 3, 1874.