The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-08-29 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S DAY'S MARKETS.

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MARK-LANE, 'rins DAY.
Bulk& and Poreign wheat generally la dearer on the
week. Barley quiet Oats ed. lower on the week.
Maize. beam and peas drooping. Blair dulL

METROPOLITAN CATTLE, TSId DAY.
About 6.700 beasts, including about 4,000 Foreign.
Steadier at 4s. 6d. to da ftd. About 25,000 sheep and lambs.
Sheep 4s. 21.; advance at 4s. dd. to 7s. 94. Calves small at
41. 94. to de. ter eight lbs. At Deptford 4.000 beasts.

SATURDAY'S MARKETS.
Tim Come Taws. —Bath : Supply of English wheat
very sinalL --Dorset: Supply of new wheat insufficient to
meet the demand, local millers being anxious buyers at
is. per imperial qr. advance. Red wheat sold at 445. to
465. per imperial qr., and white at 49.. to 48s. Scarcely
any new barley and oats on offer, there being neither
supply nor demand of any note. Last week's official
average of wheat was 425. 3W. per imperial qr.—
Gloucester: A moderate supply of new English whftt,
and prices were Is. per qr. higher. —Hertford : Supply of
wheat vary limited, but better prices wererealised.
Leicester; A moderate show of wheat and a steady
demand was experienced, business being trallaartrsl at
rather more money.—Oxford : Market somewhat thinly
attended. Wheat made an advance of Is. per qr. on last
week.—Reading: Arrivals of new wheat numerous.
Inquiry active, and buyers obtained an advance of Is. to
2s—Southampton: Fair healthy demand for wheat, new
selling at 42m. to and old at Ms. to 465—Warminster :
Small supply of corn. Trade very limited. but pri ~es for
wheat advancel fully Is. per qr.
TH2 CATTI.2 NARK/T.—Dorchester : Moderate supply of
stock, and late prices prevailtaL Fat beef, 13a to 16s. per
score ; harreners, XS to .4:15 per head; cows and calves,
/II 19a. to £l7 each; ewes, 445. to 60s. : lambs, Ms. to As.
—Gloucester ; A fair supply of beef, for which there was •
good Inquiry.- -Norwich: Supply of store rattle rather
smaller, sales wereeffected at an advance of 10s. per head.
Nottingham : Supply of horned stock limited ; trade slow.
Show of Calves small, the animals making Ms. to 40s.
..ch.—Reading: Best cows in full milk were readily
sought after at .C. 30 while animals less line sold at f;34 to
SC.—Southampton :Steck, changed hands very freely at
high rates.

TIIE WAR IN THE EAST.
A telegram from Nisei, dated Sunday afternoon, states
that after two days severe lighting the Servians have been
everywhere driven heck, and the Turks have gained a
real victory.

DEATH OF LORD RIBBLESDALL
A tekgrarn has been received at Gisburn Park announc-
ing the death of Lord Ribbleedale at Geneva.

MR. STANLEY'S EXPLOITS IN AFRICA.
The Saturday Reriew say.:—" It is curious to °tisane
Ike strangely callous way in which a certain section of the
religious press of this country regards tt roceedings of
Mr. H. M. Stanley in Africa. The original object of the
enterprise was of course to supply • traveller's em-
ployers—the New York Herald and the Daily Telegraph
—witit sensational correspondence, but it has since be-
come invested with a sort, of missionary halo, and it
Poems to be assumed that in such • case the ordinary rules
of humanity and morality may be justifiably suspended.
We cannot say the record of Mr. Stanley's exploits leaves
exactly this impression on our mind. He appears to have
repeatedly attacked the natives without any serious pro-
vocation. Mr. Stanley has since found that his plan of
conciliating the natives and promoting gospel teaching is
• practical blunder."

A WELSH FARMER LOST AND FOUND.
What was regarded as a Beano mystery, giving rise to
much anxiety on the part of those interested, has just
occurred at Durwen, near Ruthin. At the end of June a
farmer named Williams, residing in that parish, and his
wife, who appear to have had occasional misunderstand-
Ina, had some words about taking their wool for sale to
Denbigh market, the woman at the last moment refusing
to accompany her husband thither. He, annoyed at this
refusal, divested himself of his beat clothing, which he
wore, dressed himself in his working suit, and left the
house, declaring that his wife should see his face no more.
As he did not return. the 'woman and her numinous
children became anxious, the police were communicated
with, search parties were organised, the hills and sheep
walks were 'earthed, the country around scoured and the
brooks and pools dragged, but no trace of the missing
man could be found. The woman and her family were
frantic with grief; and, as a lest resort, a reward of £lO
was offered for the recovery of the man. No clue was
obtained until Thursday, when the wife got wind that
her husband was still alive, and working at a quarry in
Carnarvonshire. She lost no time, but set off in pursuit,
and there recovered her coveted prise. Mutual explana-
tions were made, and the couple, to the evident joy of
the woman, returned to Durwen late on Thursday
evening.

FLOGGING A GAROTTER.
A prisoner, named William Leonard, who was convicted
of a highway robbery with violence from a young lady in
Lincoln's-inn-fields, at the last session of the Central
Criminal Court, received on Friday, in Newgate, the first
Instalment of the forty lashes awarded him. The prisoner
had been previously flogged in 1820 for • similar offence,
and the present is said to be almost the only instance in
which the punishment of the rat has not proved effectual
in preventing the offender from repeating acts of violence;
and Mr. Commissioner Kerr, having regard to this fact
and to the prisoner's previous bad character, sentenced
him to undergo two separate floggings of twenty lashes
each at an interval of one month, and then to be kept in
penal servitue for seven years. The prisoner, it is stated,
greatly dreaded the punishment, and frequently appealed
to the governor to relieve him from it, representing, that
he was ill and unable to bear the flogging. Dr. Gibson,
the medical officer of the prison, was consulted, but he
could find no reason in the condition of the prisoner to
justify any remission of the punishment. The moment
he was taken into the room where the punishment was to
be inflicted he began howling and appealing to Mr. Smith
and Dr. Gibson to have mercy upon him, and it was with
some difficulty that he was fixed to the whipping block.
At the first stroke he shrieked for mercy, and urged the
warder who was administering the punishment not to give
It him too hard. He continued shrieking and crying all
the time the punishment was being inflicted, and when it
was completed he pretended to faint, and be was then
liken back to his cell.