The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-02 00:00:00

TSB CATTLII TRADZ.

BusTOL—A good supply, with fair downed. Hoed
sold dr. to is. Gt. per stone of 81b.; mutton, tr. Bd. to

DAVI. —A moderate supply of carcases. Beef sold at
Is. 4i to 4a. &I. per stone of Blb ; mutton, 4s. W. to
se, 24.; lamb. ss. 44. to 6s. 41; veal, 4s. 13.1. to 64.;
pork, 4s. 84. to ss.

DIVONISHIRL—Fat stock continues to realise high
price., end store cattle are in request. Fat bullocks,
12s. ed. per wore; inferior, 115, to 124.; and btu genera,
7s. 811. to 84. Sheep—wethers, Bg4. to Bgd; ewes, 7gd.
to 70.; fat calves, 741. per lb.; cows and calves, £l3 to
£l9. Wool, washed, Is. W.; unwashed, 18.2 d. per lb.
Some.aerreutae.—The cattle trade in this country is
for the most part confined to beat The prices made
range from 104. to Its. ficl. the score. Btors cattle sell
quietly at firm prices. Fur mutton there is a steady
demand, the quotation being 91d. to 91. the lb. Pigs
ore abundant, but some market. have been closed
against them. Bacon to,. 34. to 10s. Bd. the score.

NOZWICH.—This market was opened to-day for sheep
and lambs, but the trade has become so disorganised,
and transactions are so hampered by Ofßeild restrictions
that not more than 1,000 were penned. The business
done was effected at about former retest Fat sheep
moved off somewhat slugglisibly. Store pigs, 255. to
284.; and hilt 4al, 35e. to 40s. per bead.
Wirrenritg.—At the sheep fairs recently held in this
district there have been fair supplies. Prices ion-rally
have declined, though they are still high. At Wherwell
they were 2s. to Sa the head undershot, at Wilton.
The general quotations were—leiaba, 30a. to 46e.;
wethers, 425. to Ms. ; and ewes, 40s. to fria At Shorten
there was hardly an average supply, and prices declined
about 2s. the head. The demand for bed is steady at
former prices, the quotation for best being 12a. to 13s.
the soore. Baton Op sell fairly at 10a 3d. to 10s. 6d.
the more.

POTATO STAMEN, a coryempoadent of the Clarekitees
CAroxicle suggests. would makes much liner paper than
straw, which u now highly used.

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A WATMISPOUT was observed at Burnham, on Thurs-
day evening last, in the direction of tho out. It was
very large, and bore the shape of an inverted cone.

TBZ COST OrAN OVATIO/11.—TheIds expended by
the city of Berlin for the entry of the army on the 20th
sad 214 mounted to 200,000 thalers (C 30,000

THII CHOLZRA.—We it. glad to learn that No many
days have elapsed withoutlthe occurrence of an attack
of cholera at Glastonbury, that it is believed the visita-
tion of the epidemic has named away.

Ifongent Paorganv Itswatinin.The Vioe Consul of
France at Liverpool lost a letter oontaining £4O in Bank
of England notes. Next day a ladleund it, and reported
the feet to the police, who soon found the owner. M.
Totoucher gave the boy LS for he honesty.

DELIMMATII AND, THOUGHTVUL.-00 the 91h of
September a 'untried woman, a German, residing in New
York, pois.nod herself, led to do no by continued dee
prennion of eparits, imperindured by bad health.. Before
committing suicide, she mode up • set of mourning
dresses for her another and children, put crepe roiled
her hunband's hat,'and prepared and laid out her own
burial-clothes.

A , CuizilaltVATlVl RIPOIII BILL—The Economist
sake 'who refuse a good Reform Bill at Lord Derby's
bands We are not very likely, perhaps, to get one, but
we may; sod till we see it, who is to pass an opinion
If Lord Dm by oan really do what Mr. Bright seems to
suspect he will do, frame a:reform bill which shall satisfy
the workmen, soothe the Libiirali, pass the Tories,
deceive Mr. Bright, and be really conservative after all,
why, clearly, Lord Derby is at least in power of brabi,
the fittest licrson to rule great Britain.
A 81.713Ma111111 PinneltlPTlON.—Amongst the noes to
which the Atlantic cable hail been put is one which would
hardly be anticipated. A correspondent communicates
to us a telegram which he received from a patient who,
being 'civil with a renewed attack of an illness from
which he bed suffered in this °Gentry, and for which be
had been succesifully treated, telegraphed to his old
reediest attendant for directions. These were returned
by the sane channel without delay, and we hope they
may have prospered, awl that the proper remittance will
follow by an early pocket. This prescription will rank
among the curiosities of telegraphy.—The Lanett.

Tug following relates to the process of preserving
meat patented by Dr. Redwood:—" I And on my return
to London that in RD article inserted in The Tina of
the 7th inst., referring to various methods which have
been suggested for preserving meat with • view to its
Importation, you notice any process, and say of it, 'rue
meat thus preserved, although agreeable in taste, will
not bear limb cooking. It is fully cooked by the process
itself, and can therefore, it is apprehended, be used only
In its existing cold state.' As this statement if uncor-
rected, will produce an erroneous impression, [hope you
will allow me to say that, although the meal preserved
with paraffin by my process does not ',require further
cooking, yet it may, of course, be warmed, and may be
converted into • variety of made dishes in which it
cannot be distinguished from fresh ungessoteed
meat. It also makes excellent soups and gravies.
T. liffriwoori."

GMT MASSACIII Or CRILIOTIAIB.—A sensational and
harrowing story is published in the Greek papers. On
the night of Vieptember 3, • false report having been
spread that the Christians had killed two Illussulmans
at the village of Benin, the Turks of Rethyinnoe
assembled at a certain point, from whence they spread
themselves over the surrounding country and massacred
all the Christians they encountered. A Turkish
battalion sent to put an and to the disturbances made
common °awe with the assailants, and the two parties
together are said to have slain 150 persons, chiefly old
men, women, and children. The villages were sub.
sequently pillaged and the plunder publicly sold. As
protests against these acts have been made by the
consular agents of Greece, England, France, and Russia,
there is reason to fear that the account is too true.

Armin.= ESCAPE or Coxrier.—As • party of
conviats were being brought on Friday from Exeter to
London by railway, one of them, named George Lee,
made a rather daring attempt to escape. Whilst the
train Mu pa-sing through Gillingham tunnel, he rdeoped
from the carriage to the footboard, aud wag walking along
it, when • rails. ay constable who chanced to be in one of
the carriages, heard him. Ile gave the alarm and the speed
of the train was slackened. The convict leaped down
Iron where he stood and made from the line, and the
eonskable followed him. A somewhat exciting chase
followed, amid it was not until about two mile, of
ground had been traversed, and after swimming across
a river, that the o.nvict was caught. Hu wan brought
tato London by the constable in the express train, and,
being handed over to • warder, was conveyed to
Pentonville.

A VALDABLIC To FAILMMS.—A novel mode of
detecting rinderpest before it becounw infectious has been
succcalfuliy tried at Yeovil, and from the simplicity of
the method it should commend iteelf to the notice of oar
agricultural friends. Professor Simonds wax in tho
neighbourhood recently, and recommended the then
mumeter tort. Supt. Swill., of the Yeovil divi den of
the Sentenietsitire constabulary, adopted the reoonsmen-
dation. ands abort time into found that the heat of two
bullocks out of a largo bri was a few degrees higher
then usual. Theft two aiiimals were ivolated from the
others, and la the course of a abort time died of • very
virulent attack of cattle plague. Mr. Smith has else
been semiarid In a tk-cond Poisibly, if the Mier-
nietucter teat hail net been applied, the &aim& attacked
might have communicatial the dixease to the whole of
the remainder of the large herd before the usual &dint.
tire somptions showed themselvist.

A HINT TO GAIIKICIIPIIIS.—The following method
of destroying magpies which ere well known to be
very destrnetive in the game breeding eitairon front
their partiality to the flavour of pheasants' and par-
tridges' Legg, was related to me by • superanuated old
gamekeeper, as he sat Newly enecoooed in his chimney
corner smoking his pipe—“Wheu I lived in Craw
bourne chase," he observer], "one of my principal pre-
serves was infested by magpie; so I hit upon • elan to
destroy them through the agency of one of their Own
specks, namely, • tame magpie, which I kept in a
willow cage in toy woodaide cottage. Poor Diek, for
such was the name I gave him, was • seanible bird
and well unierstood what I raid. Early one morning
I carried Dick to the cover I have named, and
placed lam in an oak tree In close proalmity
to the dead earcare of • sheep, giving him
instructions how to set. I then laid in ambush about
thirty yards diatant, and so well did the wily bird per.
form his religion that his feathered brethren within
hearing of Lis persuasive powers, floated to the 'mot,
and on perceiving the tempter's bait, pounced upon it.
As soon sal saw that they were fairly settled, bang,
bang, went my double barrelled Joe Marton, rolling over
thirteen of the egg-sucking fraternity, to the groat
delight of the traitor Dick, w`so looked towards me and
sung out lustily, " George, we've done 'inn now."
The narrator of the above WSJ A magnificent specimen
of an Englieh gamekeeper, and I have often heard his
distant view hallo when in chase of the "antlered"
monarch of the waste with his favoured hound Hooka