Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1880-05-14 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

TIMPRRANCI HALL, COLLITON-STRUT. —Thii was the scene of another pleasant gathering of juveniles on Tuesday night. Mr. Irving White, a veteran in Um temperance cause, delivered an address to some scores of he Band of Hope, exhorting them to persevere in teetotalism and inviting those who have not enlisted on that side. Afterwards the lecturer essayed to teach the older people " How to be healthy, wealthy, and wise." The old gentleman had been about 50 years an abstainer, and his powers of speech were remarkable. Principally founded on the example and teachings of Solomon, his address was not oonfined to the stronger sex, but included some sound and pertinent remarks on the good wife, of whom the wise man wrote in terms of such praise. The children sang very sweetly such temperance songs NI— "Give me s draught from the crystal spring,"  And proved they must have been well taught. There is ample accommodation at kik hall, Mr. C. Greening has fitted and decorated it very agreeably, and the general remark on coming out was--" Thin capkal place only requires te be better known." The tea, &a, advertised to take place at the Temperance Hall on Whit-Tuesday, May I.Btb, has been unavoidably postponed till later in the year.  MATRIMONIAL QUAIL/OIL —On Wednesday, before the Mayor (W. Ourdeu, Esq.), and G. J. G. Gregory. Esq Jan:es Not ey 'NOP surinaonedbfor asaaulting his wife, Sarah Notley, a. Tuesday even at Foruiigton, where they lived.—The wife said the il -usage and abuse commenced on Saturday night, when she went to the I%ull's Head to ask her husband to come home, as he had been drinking there the whole of the day. He would not co eat once, and her little girl came to tell her the paraffin lamp was burning up very high, and witness went home; but on going back to the inn she met her husband and sister coming home. She asked—" Where is Joe?" (the sister's husband), when the husband struck her down on Mr. Saunders's doorstep and knelt on 11r, but her sister got her up; yet the husband followed her, and beat her head against Mr. Masten's door. She dialed " Murder !" and her husband left off beating ,her and struck the sister, and the wife took shelter in Mr. Cotttnan'e passage. Notley was "more like a raving lion than a human being," and Ale went away to Woodaford, to her mother's, returning on Sunday, when he abused her again. On Monday he took 10s. out of her locked drawer, and went to the Bull's Head all day, and into bad company at night. Next day she was washing, and Notley, telling her to shut up that blubbering, struck her, and ordered her to leave there by 12 at night, or he'd be her bloody butcher, and he had another person to bring in directly she left.—The man said he only pushed the woman, and she did not even fall. His wife had been telling lies.—Rachel Stone, of Fordington Green, saw the husband strike his wife twice.—The iayor said it seemed it was this cursed drink again that had brought him into trouble; he bad a home and a wife to make bun comfortable, yet he went and beat his wife.—Bound over, himself in £2O, and two sureties in £l5 each, to keep the peace for six mont he.