The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-27 00:00:00

SALISBURY,

ri RASVINIt —What nutting oommenced lut
weekLu 'emu! Ouse •In this dlstrlut, and this
week it will be very gencril. The wheat crop is
reportod to be promising, but barley ma nut so well
spoken of.
CHONCH UNION SOCIITY IN TUV DIOCINI 01
Sauget/Ky.—The annual meeting of this &misty is
announced to be hold at the Word•room, in the
Close, on Thursday neat. The sermon will be
preaohed in the o,lthedral by the Rev, Prebendary
Fans, Vicar of Warminster. _

A monumental tablet to the late Duchess of Beau.
fort has recently been erected in Badminton Cherub'
near Chippenhain. It is a very °Mutely designed
and admirably executed work of art, in white mar-
ble, and comprises a medallion likeness of the
Duchess in her widowed data, with a group of
"Charity," and a figure of Religion mourning the loss
of one who, during a long life, VAIII distinguished
not alone for her domestics exoellenoes which lend to
make a family and friends, servants and dependents,
happy, but distinguished for a seltdenying beneli•
since which extended far and near, and for an
earnest yet unobstrusive piety which brought the
sanctities of peace and hope to the mind. .
BRITISH A RCHAOLOOTCAL ASSOCIATION. - The
fifteenth annual congress of this association will be
held in this city, from August 2nd to 7th inolusive,
under the presidency of the Marquis of Ailesbury.
During the week various papers isonnected with the
archtedlogy of the district will be read, and excursions
will be made and antiquities examined at Old Sarum,
Wilton, Beinerton, Boroombe, Wardour Castle,
Tisbury, Durnford, Stonehenge, Lake House, Ames-
bury, Clarendon, ho. The cathedral and its monu•
manta will be freely illustrated, and the ancient mu-
niments belonging to it and also those of the Corpora.
thin will be examined. •

FIRS AT FISHARTON. —On MlLTllday. last a fire
occurred at a shop in Fisherton, occupied by a car.
penter, named Hurst. The owner, it appears, had
Just loft to go to his dinner, when on looking acrou
the road, he perceived smoke issuing from the room
upstairs. Water was immediately procured, and
after a short time the flames were extinguished with-
nut doing very much damage. A tire had been left
burning in the shop, and some lighted embers, it is
supposed, fell amongst the shavings.
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MARLBOROUGH.— Death from Sun•Sgroks. —On
Wednesday last a poor painter, named Beokansell,
walked into Marlborough in a very weak condition,
having eaten hardly anything for three days. lie
begged Mr. Awdry to employ him, and he wss set
to work the following day to paint a house, but the
extreme heat of the weather affected his brain. He
was placed in a straight Jacket, which he split to
atoms, and died on Saturday afternoon,
Mr. G. 0, Bradley, the newly-elected Head
Master of Marlborough College, was ordained a
deacon by the Bishop of Loudon at his recent ordi-
nation,

SIN Itmovaan.—One night lad weak, a to;
entered on of tho proaervol at Totten- ham Park,
"BoOoljo, and clootroyeil the largo AUM•
bar of 130 phaseout",
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BUrilIMOZ—Con Thuvadoy the children belonging
to the Nationel ond Infant ilohoole reoeived their
annual treot from the Rev, Thoinoo Manton,. the
esteemed viper, In the Afternoon the children,
nnnibering more than SAO, marched tWiPA round
the (Mum* green, ond then entered the vieorage
front Rote to a ineadow, well relented Mr the
mmilemente that were to follow, The entertain-
niente, whit* WON of A DAttill DAIONIMOtt to pros
mote the health unit eNoyinent of the children,
went tiff in the most tAttinitt4o7 msnhlur Among
those premed were the Net T, And Mm, /Winton,
Rev, U. Anil Mrs. iltallord, MN end Mm, Dole,
MN cod Mm, Weetiniry, the Mimeo Mole, Mime
Davis, Itho, !fortieth ire,, he, Tile OIOMPAII YON
then ranted under the pleowint ehade of the
trees, mid good (WOO@ WAN done to a plentiful
wipply of brood mid Witter, plum coke mid tee,
The repo*, limns OM they AMMO POIJAIPtht to their
polo until the elisdee of evening, Wholl A NOMA
*imply of plum @eke end tett wee moved I *one
hymn. were sting, and the entertaismeilte were
I brought to a @lose,