The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-28 00:00:00

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MARTIN.—The Mayor of Salisbury, and other
members of the Corporation, who are trustees to the
late Mr. Alderman Talk's Charity, came to this
parish on Monday, the 13th inst., to discharge their
important duties, conjunctively with the Incumbent,
Churehwarderui, and Overseers of the pariah. Mr.
Talk's Charity directs presumptively, he having
been a Churchman himself, that the person to be
relieved by his charity should also be a Church-
man. In this instance the Trustees of the Charity
gave it to the most deserving object, viz., a poor
disabled shepherd, who had laboured for 16 years
with his preseut master, and thirteen with a former
one, and the votes taken were five to one in his
favour. The Trustees performed their functions,
and as they were proceeding to a friend's house in
the village, two men named Charles and Malachi
Martin, calling themselves sometimes Independents,
and sometimes Ranter*, obtruded themselves before
these gentlemen, and by way of showing their
hostility to the election which had been made of a
Churchman to one of their own body, who was also
a candidate for the charity, they set up the bray of
donkeys, and that with so close a resemblance to the
brotherhood that the Mayor was induced to compli-
ment the said Charles and Malachi Martin on their
attainments, inviting them to come into Salisbury
and present him with their photograph&

BOYTON. —The following liberal subscriptiona have
been prtrunisixt for the teatorotiou of the parish
church, winch although one 01 the most interesting,
beeono3 one of the most dilapid.ited in the ddeaso
of Sarum : —The Pretideut and Fellows of Makida-
!tine College £4UO; the Rev. A. rane, 4200 • ere
Fain. Beoutt, Egg., £'2oo ; the Hee or if 134t0n,
£100; Etluituid Douglas Farm, Esq., £4O.

TROWlNll(llL—Mechoniri file. • ;rho, Rev.
Mr. Wilkinson, of We, 'le founder at his
own espouse .4 the 4. •• • . in this
town) has generously .. • ••• .r 4.13 to the
secretary or this institution, AMA ...us freed it from
a I..ng.existing debt. The Hight Hon. $. Ebkwurt
11. P., has al*. sent £5 to the lustitutiou to be
expended in the purchase of useful books.
MARLIOKOUUU.-064drudi51i the Highway.—Mr.
Phelps, ironmonger, Mr. S. Reeve, le,ree dealer,
and the Rev. Mr. Warman, ivere summoned on
Saturday, before the county magistrates, by Mr.
Cundell, of Manton, for obstructing the highway
road in that parish. The defendants, who are
Primitive Nlethmlists, were holding a prayer meeting
in the village, thus causing the complained of
obstruction. The case excited conic intmest, and
occupied the court a considerable time. Fined is.
and costs.

Coars.—A rifle corps has been formed st
Salisbury, and upwards of .C3OO subscribed towards
providing arms and accoutrements. The rules and
the names of .the proposed officers (Mr. J. H. Jacob,
Captain Robinson, Mr. A. LI. Hussey, and Mr. John
l'inknev), have been forwarded to the Lord Lieu.
tenant of the county for his approval, and as own as
lii. Lordship's instructiens are received the corps will
he called out for drill. Each member provides his
own uniform, the cost of which is not to exceed
£2 102.

SOUTH WILTS ELECTION.—The High Sheriff of
the county (Captain John Neilson Gladstone) has
appointed Wednesday next for the election of • knight
of the shire, in the room of the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, the new Secretary for War. The election is to
take place at half-past ten in the morning, in front
of the Council Chamber at Salisbury. There have
been numerous rumours of a strong opposition to
Mr. Herbert's re-election, but it is now believed
that the right hon, gentleman will be unmolested.