The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-01-08 00:00:00


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CoXIIIMIoN2I SIGNED BY MR I.OIII2.LIMETINA4T.
—Robert (raves, Charkou, Lai'well. and
John Lewis Phipps. Lag., Leighton. Westbury. to
be Deputy• Lieutenants. —Wilts Volunteer Rifle
Corps —lst (Salisbur)) Cotupany : Ensign Antlinee
Denis Hussey to lie Lieutenant, vice Sir Edwanl
Poore, Hart.' resigned ; Georou Smith, Gent., to he
F:iisign, vice Hussey, pr.. tr7.l.
ssos ABLE ISZNEVOLENCK. Lieutenant General
Buckley and Mr. Nl. H. Marsh, the two tnendsos
for Salisbury, have 6 roarded to the mayor of that
city, Mr. P. W. Ottaway, £541 each, 6.r ilistribu•
tbm among the poor of the loam. Mr. and the
Lady Charlotte Wetrat Taylor have au.. supplied
the 1,..r on their Wiltshire estates with blankets to
the amount of £5O. besides adding to their cond. .rt
in other ways. They have likewise sent £lO to-
wards blankets for the poor of Devizin.
PEwsEr, Literidif Colonel G.
W. Wroughtmi h 13.1 given a bounty to 50 .4.1 in-
habitants ; Nlisa Rouverie has presented grocery,
weanng apparel, ke., to 6.5 families, and many of
the farmer, have given their labourers coal and meat.
The gua'aiiins have pr0vid.....1 the inmates of the
union with auhjiiiier of roast beef and plum pudding,
and the Rev. J. A. Gale sent cacti of the old people
a present.
MAIZIW11101:01i. The Situp Kitchen. The
Mayor awl ex•Slayor. R. E. Price and J. Reeve.
Esqrs., have made a most successful canvass for
subscriptions for this useful charity. The diatribu.
tom will commence on Tuesday. The largo quan-
tity of 14.341 quarhe was given ont Miring last
kr, soul the total receipts were £143 16s, and the
balance in hand tom anis this season, £3 15s.

The snow on Sunday week was so deep on
the road I etween Ilainsbury and Milliounie. that
ths Huy. Fnuiek Show. who was being driven from
Nlmlboroligh. in a carriage with a pair of homes to
IlaY.loo. %a.'uiial.leto proceed when Mend a mile
(non the Nlarliewough silo of A lilhotirtie, tii..
wheel/ of the carriage became so tirinly imbedded in
the woow that the rev. gentleman was 4.1•1114.1 to
make his way acmes the fields on foot to the latter

pl..ee, and get men with shovels to disaster the
uheele, and enable the horses to retrace Oka steps.
•as further progress was impossible. After live men
had hems digging for some tune, the carriage was
: r.lmsed, avid Mr. Shinn was enableat to return to
j Nlar.b.arough, having been four hours on the road.
; The tierce wind of Saturday night haul drifted the
snow to a depth in different places uf seven or
ei-lat feet.
11A Lsll:Shilty. ettindy. —ut subscription htr,
lam% sat on foot for the purp'sc of diatribliting
coals atinaw.: the poor, during the inclement state uf
j the weether.
Suutur.ys iiilialJitants or this tows,
were startled on Christinasolay by the announce
moot that S.sueuel Weavvr, a mac a respected in.
habitant, hail died in the most sudden manner.
The deceased, who bad fair the last 27 years been
employed by Mr. William Clark. road.surveyor.
rose on Tumlay morning about half-past live o'clock,
anal went as was his custom to attend to his master's
cattle. lie returned home a little after eight o'clock,
whets ho complained of the cold, anal while its the
act of taking off his shapes, fell trim the chair and iuu.
inediately expired.
W STEnst.ii%V. A Gent Exrtimple. —F. T.
Egerton, Esq., the benevolent proprietor of Beebe
Court, who as now its his 90th year, kindly alio.
tribiated. last week, 301111 n. of heal. 132 gallon-
loaves Gal Wankel., 40 counterpanes, 40
pair of stockings, awl 100 yards id' lindsey.