The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-22 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

DEMI OF AR. CR ,em—Mr. %V. ensibie, who
was long engaged at the Royal Library amiss secretary
to the LiterAry Institution, died at his resident*,
Drunnuoud Cottage, Enfield. on Wednesday last, in
his 76th year.
A NLAN Clit,lllED IN A QUARRY. -Thomas Gibbs, of
Artists'-row, met with a nevere accident in Wednesday
afternoon last. He was workin4 in a quarry on the
Verne when the "she" of one of the crAne-jibs broke,
awl the jib, a baulk of timber about a foot square,
fell awl struck Gild. across the back. Fortunately
in falling it came into onttaet with a stone, which
broke the fall, or the man W.atl.l itably have been
killed As it was, his rib,. were aeriously injured by
cotnpreasion, and there were several bad bruises on
the surface. He was attended by Dr. Parson., and Is
gettiu n welL

A.2:NIVERSA,RY OF "SOLDIER'S HOPE"
LODGE, 1.0.G.T.

(hi Thursday evening the members of the above
lodge celebrated th. 4 first anniversary in the Maiden
Well School, by e tea and public meeting. Both were
well attended ; the meeting being held in the chapel,
Bro. F. Wyatt in the chair.
Bro. W. TARVER (Weymouth), said he did not know
that the military men could have chosen a better 1141111,
for thed. lodge. It showed that it belouge 1 to the
army by the first word; awl the next word Hope was
sea, sit the Good Templars mottos: words. Faith,
Hope, awl Charity: he knew us, other hope for the
annY—lelving aside Christianity —than total absti-
nence. It was deplorable that strong drink took such
hoist on the men of our regiments. There was
sith.r cause which SO much lel to turning back to the
rank: as drunkenness. Abria lit was eating away the
life of the British army ; it not only brought disgrace,
lint disease awl sloath. If a thing was ha tin itself
there coul.l not be a temperate use of it; not even if
n,4.1 in tit. wernaLmet •I• if,. ar01...1 that
strong drink was of suchpree
a nature that by partaking of
it to the slightest extent, that was not moderation, as
it created a craving which let to the taking of more,
and the taking of mire added to mere stilt, then it
was taken to excess (min which all evils spning. Ile
urgel strongly on the members; not to be selfish after
receiving benefits themselves ; but try to reclaim those
who were outside the lodge awl temperance society.
Ile wanted each to feel an individual resp
Words, acts, deeds, an-I life were an influence for good
or evil. We all were exerting an influence ef some
mid, let it be for good. Officers needed total
abstinence more than some of the men; think was no
respectsw of persons, it did the same ti colonel as to
private. He urged them ti be consistent, firm to their
pledge, awl go on awl persevere in their work—
(applause).
Bro. I). BALLASII (Lychettl, said Bro. Tarver had
taken the wind out ssf his sails—(laughter) —he hardly
knew what ti say. but he was an out-and-out teetotaler,
he hail hut over 20 years of it, and disl.nt feel at all
failing now —(laughter) --he could not find any tailor
to tit him so well as total abotince —(laughter). Pp at
his place they called gin " vitriol and taty water "
(renewed laughter). Some people said they could not
work without taking some of this dirty water, he
would admit there was one kind of work which could
wit be done without it and that was wife beating,. In
100 gallons of it what was there? 918 water, 3i alcohol,
a positive poiesin and the rest, why it put him in mind
of carpenter's glue awl shoemaker is wax. If he was a
brewer lie would have the manliness to go to a temper-
ance meeting awl contradict the statements that were '
made (that is if he could) but they could not. It made
people work sometimes when they did not wish, at
cracking stones, and picking oakam. Bro. Ballam
very much amusel the audience by giving his address
in the very broadest of D.inset, causing at times
iiproariows Laughter, 4uisl at the conclusion of a hung
speech he was loudly applauded.
Bro. I'. W. Gioven, of the United Kingdom Alli-
ance, although late, addressed the meeting. The cause
lie said was ru,iusg on increasing every slay. Nlselerato
drinking he described as the A 11 C of drunkenness.
Moderate driakere could not help to nave the drunkard,
WI his hands, like Johnny Sand's, were tied. Some
were not teetotallers because they assist they could wit
find it in the Book. This reminded him of si man who
always left instructions in a book as to what his wife
was to do during the slay, and when to retire to rest,
&c. ; she had to .1u nothing but what VIM in the book.
One slay he 'wing away his wife consulted the book,
immil found she had to go to heel; she accordingly went,
but in the night hearing cries sif distress, she got out
of bed, opened the window, awl saw her husband in a
ditch up to his nek. He called to her to come awl
help hiin ; no, she said, she sweld not, it was not in
the book, awl shut down the window. It was a fact
in three years there bad been 30,000 church members
expelled through intesupenmee, an-I yet Christian
people said they could not find it in the Book to be
teetotallens, an-I so could not join them. He urgel
caeh to do what they could Is. raise their comrades; at
present it might he a rough ugly looking block, hut
an angel lies hidden beneath the rough exterior.
Under the drunkards raps awl sliognsee awl frow
fa, was the lovin: Father awl Wind man, and Ipy
patient awl persistent effort the surgeh might be
brought out in all its beauty --(applause).