The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1862-03-13 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

ELHAM PTON. —Toast:axes Socierr The annual public tea in connection with this society was held in Athelhampton schoolroom on the evening of Tuesday, March 4th. It being highly suitable weather, numbers of people came from along distance. Some of our friends kindly volunteered for the occasion to form a braes band, which "discoursed sweet music" during the tie and at the conclusion of the meeting. The public meeting was opened by the President, the its.. H. B. Miles, who gave out a "Temperance;Hynin," and afterwards delivered a few appropriate remarks. He then requested the secretary to read the report, from which the following sentences are extracts. Although all has not been done that might have been done towards the promotion of temperance principles in our neighbourhood during the past year, some of the best friends of the cause having been occupied in the promotion of other great and important works, still, however, we have not only kept our ground, but made a certain, though steady advance. The number of pledges mentioned in our last report of bona Ads members was 115; the number of similar members at the present time 138, being an increase of 23 members. Two meetings have been bold during the past year in the Wesleyan Chapel at Tolpuddle. Both were moccasin!, and the agreeable number of pledges taken was 16. The offspring societies from airmen, namely, Milhorne and Whit. church, are in a flourishing condition—Whitchurch highly so. We wish to take no credit to ourselves on this account, rather let "all honour due" be paid to those self-denying and devoted individuals who planted the temperance flag in those places. Our Band of Hope is yet but a bud of hope, which may yet, we hope, expand into a flower. We are pleased, however, to be able to state that several young hopefuls, the first enlistments to our bead, still remain true and faithful amidst the may temptations to which they have been exposed. The Society is now represented by a committee of 13 persons, some of whom have been recently elected in consequence of the resignation of two members whose loss we deeply regret. The finances of the society are now in a very satisfactery condition, a balance existing in the Treasurer's bands.—hlr. Shave then addressed the meeting, giving interesting details of the gradual development of the Whitchurch Temperance Society from its unity to its present 200 members. biro Shave was sicoseded by Mr. Snook, whose remarks were sensible, humorous, and hearty. Mr. Hammett, of Tolpoddle, detailed his experience of teetotalism, and being a person who works very bard both mentally and bodily, his testimony is highly valuable. Lastly, Mr. Gregeon's speech may be described as cool, highly interesting, occasionally witty, and when necessary, thoroughly caustic. He gave a thrilling anecdote or two, stating the circumstance which led him to adopt Total Abstinence principles, and properly divided people into two cisme, namely, drinkers of alcholie liquors, and non-drinkers. This classification provokes the ire of some individuals, because we suppose of the undesirable company in which they find themselves. At the conclusion of his lecture Mr. Greven gave the Temperance melody, "Throw down the bottle," in the chorus of which the audience lustily joined. Mr. Cresson is an highly acceptable speaker. We heartily wish him the Burmese he deserves—Communicated. A melancholy case of suicide through disappointed love occurred at Trowbridge on Monday. The demised, Miry Ann Moore, aged 19, was the daughter of very respectable parents. From the evidence given at the inquest on Tuesday, she seems to have been driven to the commission of the rash act by a letter she had received from her lover, named Pitney. Deceased addressed a letter to her lover before her death, in which she declared that if possible she would visit him from the unseen world, and tell him her conditien there.