The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-03-07 00:00:00

VIOLENT GALE-THE GUERNSEY STEAMER
DRIVEN BACK.

The gale which blew up on Tuesday night aod
Wednieday morning was heard to be very violent on
land, especially after the comparative calm which we
have no long enjoyed. But it appears to have been
still more b.ilyternue steels; the Brighton, one i.l the
Weymouth awl Chaluel Islands steam. r-, went out aa
flan.' about 12 inhlnight, and proceeded in the I ce of
baffling wind and heavy lea about 23 miles to the
southward; but she encountered mute tremendous
wave'', several Panes of glass were brolgui, and some
damage done to her woodwork, as well a. "mu of the
iron railing around the eoginsaroorn being "ached
away. Thl sea broke into her engiee-room, and ame
of the men were hurt Things getting t thi. pa-s,
the captain wisely resolved to put about, and r torn to
Weymouth, where she arrived pretty well b ttered,
about eight o'cl ick on We Inesday mor. log. Her
repairs, of course, were quickly taken in band for the
necessity was pressing, the Aquila being under eaten-
pine repairs. and the Cygnus engaged on the Cherbourg
traffic. With energy, however, Mr. Nobba expected
that the repairs would be completed In time for the
Brighton to leave the Harbour at the usual time on
Wellneaday night.

CHURCH OF ENOLANO TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.
SL John 'e branch of this useful Foci, tr in
bolding on it+ anooemini way in spite •f frirn•llv
criticisms and fierce attack., the YVnnine fin' sod
nermeeranos of the Rev. Clll/013 Stephenson not only
inspiring it, bat etlrring it up to steady work, so flint
those who would hive been expected to be last to join
the teetotal ranks ar3 being ooeirinced sod drawn in.
Last week thwf bad a crowded meeting in the parish
'shook am, when although amend who was expected
did nt alnic"r, a very Pleasant and instructive t me
wan spent. They commenced with • couple of 1.0^(1.,
and • reading by the Rev. H. L. Randall, of "My
thrn Hat."

Mr. FOCLIC a Good Templer of hi.:ll +tending I. ono
I,lncashhe, baying entered. voiuul..ue.l toasy
a few wor to, He bad rotes from a little •ill ere wh:ch
wee nearly under his own control, awl in which he had
a cotto.n mill. Forty years ago there had been a beer-
shop in and that continued for 20 years; but for
nearly 20 years after that, there ITU no beer.
s'lon here, and n 1 until recently, and he had
been strengthened in his conviction that the
lase we bane of beer, the better it is for
osaa's winos& Whoa the last vices loft the parish he

said—" I am going sway, ead can therefore talk plink
to you. I have go in Tr church members fr. on Let
part of the parish where there are the most tut ,taler.,
and I gM the m. /IG money where there • e 1.0 liquor
shops, and the Chu eh will fiouridi 1:110/ where there
are no liquor 5h00.," The speaker itai I to. wee • went
sufferer by he liquor trafflo antd be became a t dal
abstainer. Whet, be smoked an I to mk hi. 1,0 so 1,0
aim felt HI, and went to a namlical man. who .olvised
him t give up smoking. but to take s gloss of bitter
lss-s. This we. shafted to Guinneas's stow, then to
p ot wine, and then to brandy, bat he wee considerably
the wore.. for it all, and after being uuder the doctor !
six month.. he thought he wan n it going to cur.. him.
li. took up a b ok and read that tobaoco and alcohol I
were wraith-, Anil injured the rtervous system, a be '
gave up drink( ga mU emokin.; 29 years ago, and L'OC 4010
very much etr Moat unfoitunate results he had !
sew from att,, g rink. Ma iy .iuttit men hod gone
wrong tbrou.rli it, and he thought cricket clubs !
and goot, °ugly to re kept uparste iron beer shops, I
and point cans n be allowed to sell beer on the
cricket ground. 'rimy knew but little of the evils
c mused by mining drop', an I he told instances, from his
own knowledg of its evil effects.
The °Hammon said they weie touched by facts such
se they had ju4 heard, but they coasidersl them
is:slated in.trancs, bad doubts ab iut them, anl there
was an . nd. But the evils and miserie, of the sin of
intemperance ..!ught to be deeply pondered ; scarcely ,
one present but k :me of some sal story ab iut a friend or I
relative; and it bat been said that from this terribLe
, evil, there was not a howe where there was not role
: dead, spiritually dead, or not one Jowly untouched by
it In ems way or Oth •r. And what their friend had
I stated wan perfectly tine—many of the cued were kept
sil.nt, and bidden up. Did they know all the
drunkards in Weymouth, all the misery that drink
caw II close esiile The whole nation is groaning
on ler it, arid mu every quarter there in toe awno oxit
tale ; the same terrible lbillgl are brought bef .re our
eye.. Many of our people are living in cowl irtahle
home., meths no druokude ; but in wretched
h mins, think of the poor little children I We feel for
the poor women when they have brutes to deal with ;
but be felt more for the poor little children, who
ought to have everything as bright and happy as
p amble in their playful days. How many are in
sorrow, and the women in anguish I We want to
souk out with a loud voice when pe pie may the cues
of evil are isolwed one., for we are flooded with them
on all sides. It is wickedness to make little of the
evil; every one with any notion of the country tells
the same tell : judges, magistrates, riders, all tell the
same. A. good old roman was spoken to by an Infidel
who told has there wu
_po devil; but she replied—
No devil I I know thins is. because I have felt
him." That was just the answer that a great many
of their poor Lien& could give when people talk
about the evils of drink as if they were not so tremen.
dims, and who say people use excited and exaggerated
language .ben speaking on the queetion, S rani of
those who had suffered, were they to stand up and
tell their tole of woe, would say-w" It has crushed my
heart, spoiled my home and Lorded it to • very hell
upon earth. It has made my huebond—tbe kinde.t of
men when sober—like • brute, and spoiled my home,
life, and prospects." lie gloried in the work that had
been done ; they had heard about excitement, but his
idea arts that we want to excite people a great deal
more; he liked to see people excited in a good cause;
let them have more fire; he wanted to set people on
fire about this question, for he pitied the man who
could look on the miseries that are round about, and
sit with the sobriety of • judge and tell them to be
calm. Remember the excitement caused in WI mo ut h
by the upsetting of a fiehrrinan'is but and the efforts
mldo to save the men struggling iu the water ,• hut we
have weave friends and nei,..hbours fr en wonething tea
th ousa Howe worse—from the mieeriee of a drunkard's
life and death, and a drunkard's eternity. A great
work has to be done, ant St. John's branch, he hoped,
will not be behind. Every one who read his Bible
ought to know that, if he could help his brother by
abstaining, he ought to abstain f otn string drink
lie hoped the members of the Blue Ribbon Army
would a A keep their itbb ins for ,unday clothe', hut
west them im week days also. After the talk, they
wants I work ; and not to let the mission tire out, and the
best way to prevent that was ti keep putting on fueL
(Applaine.)
Serail more joined the society, and the Chairman
saki he had 180 garde let those wh had joined • short
time since.