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     with skillful marksmen under command of Major Dogherty, 
     
     as Range Officer. Ranges were 400, 500 and 600 yards each 
     
     there were many prizes, though some were small, yet the hope 
     
     of capturing one or more, brought every man to a careful 
     
     steady position. The shooting throughout was good, and at its 
     
     close Col-Sergeant R. V. Longworth was said to have won the 
     
     first prize. 
     
    
   
   
    
     But a most melancholy accident occurred here on the 4th 
     
     November, resulting in the death of James Heartz, a gunner of 
     
     the Ist Battery of Artillery. It appears that on the day above 
     
     mentioned, a party of militia had assembled at the butts for 
     
     rifle practice, in which they continued until the evening, when 
     
     gunner Heartz,-—the marker of the party~—adva’nced in front of 
     
     the target, not having in his hand the danger flag as customary, 
     
     then a shot at 600 yards was discharged from the butts, which 
     
     pierced the unfortunate young man through the body, from the 
     
     effects of which a few minutes later he expired. 
     
    
   
   
    
     During the twenty-eight years existence of the Rifle Associa- 
     
     tion, or at any target practice, had any accident occurred to 
     
     mar the enjoyment of the marksmen until now, when a sad 
     
     gloom hung upon the countenance of all beholders as his 
     
     mortal remains were escorted to their last resting place by the 
     
     various fire companies and active militia ofthe city, a party 
     
     of whom fired its farewell volley from their rifles as the body 
     
     of their friend was committed to rest within its narrow limits. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Assembly having been called together, it met on the 4th 
     
     March, 1881, Capt. Longworth being in command of the guard 
     
     of honor. The usual salute was fired from Fort Edward by 
     
     the Ist Battery of Artillery. The next roar from the big guns 
     
     was heard on the 24th May, when at the command given 
     
     the and Battery of Artillery, Her Majesty Queen Victoria was 
     
     proclaimed to have entered the sixty-third year of her existence. 
     
    
   
   
    
     As already explained, our Island volunteers had on various 
     
     occasions placed themselves side by side with those of the 
     
     sister Provinces, but as marksmen only. It now happened, 
     
     however, that the militia of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia 
     
     assembled for annual training at Sussex, a town of the former 
     
     Province, and that a representative battalion from this Island 
     
     was ordered to report to the General commanding there on the 
     
     30th June. Accordingly at an early hour specified, a mixed 
     
    

    
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