The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-06-03 00:00:00

Local club District fictro.

DORCHESTS IL

GOOD Tntrwir.—Tho Good Templar. la Milo
,town have just procured a £6 art of lodge-room
furniture, widoh they much required. Five candi-
dates were proposed for Initiation on Tuesday evening.
Aeciaxy ()Ron or FORIIITIRL —The membero and
friends of Court" Pregreee," of th• intend
having • grand demonstration sail aat Dorchester,
on Monday, July 14. A capital field rentirt by Mr.
J. Fudge, and belonging to the it,. H. livered, situate
In the West Walks, has been obtained through thief,
kindness, two good bands will he in attending*, sad 11th.
weather should be doe there In every prospect of •
saimeesinl meeting.

Tll3 DORSET MILITLL.
Th. let Dorset militia. which bee won &high repute.
Men as • regiment of the first usury* and maintained
eseeptiooal credit cm wellemoduoted body of men,
ender the command for 21 years of Colonel R. H.
Bingham, has completed i • last training under the
direction of that gannet officer, but all that he and his
devoted wit, have done for the regiment will long
remain in happy memory, and doubtless Nikes*, for
good very many of it.. member* their live through.
Time sea. when th• assembling of the regiment at
Doreheeter was regarded with aversion and fear by the
inhabitants as Comes of drunkennesss end rowdyism
were not unoommoo, bat Mrs. Bingham has changed
all that. sect for several years the training of the
militia and all the martial glory of the time have only
agreeably enlivened tie prosy old county town. That
estimable lady had the wisdom to devise, ited the
aptitude and eef.saarifice successfully to carry out the
tea-end-coffee aid recreation-room scheme, the doings
of which hay* be. n so often reported in our columns.
Cheap. exoelleat, and substantial refroshinects dis-
pensed by Mr. Ulu/ries Greeting. alarms for icstruse
floe conducted by s.rgrant Gamble. Bible classes with
Mr. Davis, of Charminsur, at thei, head, and his
oonstaut attendance to promote the moral and religious
w•lbbeing of the regiment, entertains game. in tbe
room with the freedom of the plasm and the liberty of
making their own smoke and consuming just u musk
as they liked, night. of entertainment, materials for :
letter-writing and • free post-office by which to despatch
them, and above all, the nightly attendants. of Mrs. '
ninehate, gatlearing the men around her harmonium
and Medias the sleeting of Evans, several of whish
have bums* to them" familiar and well-loved as any-
thing am be, then the savings-beak with its famous
hsgerest spite if the Vienna panto, 'he Gellitall 'More-
Mon of gold, and the tightnese of our owo lames
market, with kindly greeting and advice from her to
all, have made the room • happy plass for the regi-
ment of duty, sod brightened th• live, of many poor
fellows to whom Christian kindoess had apprised
Ii inch genetical galas before.
This year pecoliu success has attended all the I
engagements of the room, the &est of enjoyment has
been intmaitled by the ever-present thought that it is
tie last time it may be conducted for the regiment,
and at any rate by Mrs. Balthus,. It was no wonder,
therefore, that the men wished to give • further I
expression of their appreciation of her labour, for them
by • parting keepsake, yet we unmet doubt that Mrs.
Bingham was right in asking them not to do it, but let
the past muffin,. and show their reseed by remembering
the good they bad been taught there. The last train.
leg bad been marked by not • single complaint by
townsfolk against the Militia, not • solitary appearance
by a red-jacket before the magistrate.. Ail thus 600
or 700 men have been publiely blamelesa the month
through. What • credit to the regiment I Of the
tirifdneu of the men let the faot that about £lOO
have been deposited in Mrs. Bingliam's saving. bank
indicate.
On Saturday evening, Colonel Hal.., lcomerly
Major in the 7th Fusiliers and 75th regiment, and son
of the 1t... P. C. Malan, of Broadwinur, gave an
address to the men in their room. The gallant soldier
went through the Crimean war, and was shot le both
legs. On his way home he !stayed for a little tme at
Dorchester, and men of the Dorset militie, the regi-
ment being •t the time embodied, carried him from the
railway station. Ile now addressed them earnestly on
the importance and blessedness of believing on Christ,
and walking consistently with RN will, and he urged
them to &wept ulvation to day. Re added that for
several years be had been a watersirinker, and be
recommended that practice as a means of avoiding
many temptations to sin. Hie was heard with great
attention and obvious intermit. At the occlusion be
distributed a tract entitled "A few words on happi
nears," which he wrote for the men of his compauy and
regiment.
By the kindness if 0.• British and Foreign Bible
Society in foregoing half the cost, and of the Rev. R.
W. Pearl in providing the other moiety, Mrs. Bingham
has received copies of single Gospels euffiolent to pre-
sent one to each of the men. The Gospels are in large
print aid of convenient portable Mae.
On Wedneadey • peculiarly solemn event occurred.
OD* of the men died deriort the training—such a
thing had not occurred for 20 years before—and he
was buried with military honoons. His name wee
Samuel Garrett, and he OM* from • village near
Yeovil. It was his Bret training, and he was only ri
years of age. He died early the previous Mon lay
snorting, afmr fifteen chyle illness from meningitis—
& dismiss of the brain which caused inteoee pain. He
mai under the care of Surgeon G. Curtne and Assistant.
Burgeon D. Corm., and be was visited frequently by
the Rev. E. W. Pears and Mr. Davis, while the Colonel
and MN: Binsham exercised toward, him the most
anxioue tininess. The decas,d whilet in the host teal
was under the care of Sergeant Gamble, wh s wee
very silently, ti Lim, and who also mede all the
neerassry errenitenteata for the funeral. The regiment
wu drawn up in the bursa Naar., tone tits funeral
procession start. Ile was followed to the grave by the
men of his own company (No. 6), the following being
the order

Tring party of 12, frith &Corporal and Serirant, with reversed
arum

The I/rum-Major.
Band, older Buditeeter Carroll, the drum, ehrouded
with crane.
Mr. Lash. t:ros e Buildings, undertaker.
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Ths walk on cwri • ge,— cre4ll with pill, ova

—which a thn.•:i a Nion Jack, and upen It riarte'd—
the shako and aide arm.. f the decrwaed It wee
drawn by on hones of the It /LA., with
Artillery rider., and under the charge of
• mrreant.
Canine containing female nriatiree of the deceased.
Three male moumsre walking.
Sergeant Gamble, of the hospital sta.
About to men of No. 6 Company In twos, open order, ander
Captain Bower and Lieutenant Yansel•glevdell.
At ball -past bun the procession IMMO lown High-street,
slowly marching to the mournful wailing of the Dead
March in Sacs/ well played by the haul the footpaths
being lined with spectators throughout the route. The
burial took plane in Fordington churchyard. where •
large number of persona had meembled. The corp.,
was mat at the outran*, to the church by the Rev. B.
W. Pears who officiated, the cafen being Girded lobo
the church by four of the doomed's comrades. Mrs.
Bingham sad several of the officers of the regiment
were in the eonsregation. The service in the shuts&
sod at the grave was imprenvely read by the rev.
genUentan, and at the clam three volleys were fired
Oief th• grave, after which the proesseion returned to
the town.
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On Wednesday afternoon, Colonel Hanker. In sots-
mend of the brigade &opt:, with Lleutenaot K.ranach,
of the 75th fitiriingsbite 'regiment, adjutant of the
centre, made an inspection of the internal economy of
the regiment, careful examiaing arms, accoutrement.,
and peeks, after whisk tuners warn formed on the leading
eompaoy, and ho addressed them, warmly expatiating
en their seldierlik• appearance, admirable physique, and
the excellent trim in which they lied turned out. He
then "peke of the formation of brigade centres, the
benefit' of enlistment, and the facilities for young men
joining the oounty re4imento under the now system ;
and ha also expleined the army reserve. After this the
orderly books were examined with the Captains of
eempanies, and finished by importing the hospital and
tom