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

FAITH IX TII.E.BIIILS

Captain l'ears;:tit-e-iai.i;aci:Weil;Vueel's Prize, baring
been escorted to his tent, said :—•• Otte of the winners of
this important Kiss: attriletted his seeress to teetotalism.
Now Ido not attribute mine to that. I consider I owe it
to faith in my Bible. About six months aviii that feeling
came over me, awl since then I have felt everything I
have done has Lain done with a higher tic,,. I hoped
to win this prize to-day, that I might have an opportunity
of saying this. That opportunity has come. and lam glad
of it. In the present state of may feelings I hope you will
excuse me saying more." This statement is in all respects
very similar to a statement male hto
y Captain Alsn, It
of his own expoience,. in his hook " Beady, 0 Ready."
course of time I jinned the Excellent, at Portsmouth, I
to qualify as a gunnery officer. While going through the
• Hyde., course' with a squad of blue locket seamen
gunners, with whom I marched out daily to the rifle
ranges at Browndown. I had fratuent occasion to speak to
them bout their common habit of swearing, which I
heard ts. h of, as I relaxed the usual discipline while
we were all exercising and tiring together. On board, ILI
I conducted a prayer meeting, I was looked upon as a
relitnousotheer.and as religion is looked upon by these swear.
ing fellows as a thing tit only for milksops and muffs, I
prayed that in this trial of musketry skill which we were
going shout I might nut substantiate Pie common belief.
Naturally. I ant au uncommon bad shot, not having a
good eye, and those that tired with me were picked men,
who threw their rates into the shoulder and held theta
up with the grip of a vice. But at each day's firing at the
different distances I headed the list, and at the conclusion
practice I not will first among them, but hail
,o the
nf
aao
more marks than, up to that time, hail hesn made
I, y any officer or 1•1311 in the anuy or nary. This was
announced by the Ili-the Instructor who conducted the
practice, on reference to the published returns, and afters
wants I saw in a shop in Pwealilly the portrait of the best
marksman in the army With the number of pinto he hail
male, and which were two less than what I list gained "
The her. O. Alston, of Stmllanil, who calls attention to
the two cases remarks that they show that faith in the
Bible is not hell merely by women and children, and that
prayer to Almighty thal is not so itleflieaeisala /1., some
people would have us to believe.

A company ia being form to spread the lloyton dress in
all directions.
The Queen is at Osborne, whither the children of the
Prince and Princess of Wales have gone on is visit to
Iler Majesty.
.1n average twenty sheet, are worried to death per day
In Ireland by dogs.
The Pope is now completely cured of the rehunuttic
pains in hi, left leg.
The public income of the UMW., Kingdom for the ye sr
ending the 314 of June wit., I.elIJ, CICIIS.4 over
expenditure, £tt.2.11411.
At an undertakers in Birmingham, the police found in
a cellar the bodies of three infanta, much deoimpomisi in
rough coffins, and another in an earlier stage of patridty.
lib; writing to the Agricultural QOM* says :—lf we
ventured to predict at all, it would he that the coining
month (August) will still be vexed with storm, wet large
rainfall, but at longer intervals
The alterations tuade In the Aglieultural Holdings Bill
mashie through comtuittee may generally be clamed as
landlords or incoming tenant. safeguards, added to • Bill
which previously bristled with restrntions upon the
occupier. A few concessions to the viOWA of tenant., where
they could have bi.eri made without to anyone,
might aurely have been expeeted from the House of
11111 l tons if not (coin the Honer of Lord•—sigrieulittrel
Gegatte.
Tile lA•nuftgat,' Bsiox.--On account id the critical
coudition of the National Agricultural Labourer,' Union.
all the delegatm except live are dismissed, and a great
many Manche, decline to Pay any More money to the
preiient °dicers, because they have started a
.viper in
te the Lanni., l'qi.qa Chronicle The new
union in opposition to the old is in full operation, and
meets with oonsidemble support. On the other hand, the
' Labour League claims an increase of over 7,111.10 members
during the pest mix intinthe.—lnzdy