The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-08 00:00:00


LONDON ILtRKETK

Sr Japain 4 BLIOTRIO TALINNUPH.

LUMILLia. MONDAT. Fob.
..1218110 wits few bayou, sad trade ruled very dal
mild* irb,aM DiOLINID ONE SHILLING os 1164
1?°"4171 la. lower. Country Or exaossiooll
...._°4o4 &I. to Is. knres. Britiab wheat 6,619 qrs.,
uute 3,866, dour 21,398. Foreign whoss
12, oats 124 m , oist 23,741, dour 1,024
smoky. ISM barrels.-

LONDON OGRN !LAMEST. TWO p.m.
Atioadmise fair. itarks4 very heavy. English
witatA TWO TO THREE SHILLINGS CHF.APRR.
1. °rola 2t. Country dour 64. to ii. Americ4a
OMB billy In. end traria I&abeam Nat 66..
WO Pity,

IitirROPOLITL/4 CLITLI 4.14KE1', FIB. 7.
ih_.Ttode akm. &apply moderato. Prior sakod too high.
611. to 4a. td. ; mutton, 2a. 64. to 3a. 104. ;
-"11. 36. &L to is. 10d. ; pork, to. to 50. Bow* 285 ;
duo% lurs.

4.7lllatril 00■31 )(Amara—DoraTatu: Wheat, 892
13., avenge 43.. at •. barley, 1,593 quarters,
Ba. 9d., avenge lted..—./ktrA: Good Magadan..
% lane otter of grail,. The wheat trade wee very dull, and
further fell la per qr. The quotation was from 34.. to
mui Bid. ey 1. %WO a poor trade, at from Ste to 40e. or qr.,
• decWed downward tandeary. Oats, Nam, and pus
very quiet demand, at about previous Patel—
: Pretty Rood upply of wheat, the demand for which
dulL Tbe show 01 harey so U. hut trade dank.
d_ileaderaus supply of mt., for which a Into demand was ex-
ferieneed, aud late currencies were maintained The tupply
et beam wu small, and the tone of the trade quiet. quota-
,l••••:—Wheat, Is. 3d. tot. 64. per bushel ; malting barley,
tot. la ild.• la Ad. to 3e. Bd.; OW, aw Id. to 6d.; been., ie. to W. BA; Pea., 6a o 6., 64.; at!: It.:
With ; floor, Ws. to We per melt; superfine, Ms.
11nrinsineter : Wheat mate to hand in • very damp date, and
added to the &premien in the trsde, mond • very list
st.f.ofthhtlPh Lod • WV* stock remained on hand The best
elttalittel did not realise more than aes., and the downward
!Itagewee to 34e. Barley also me in hut litU• demand, at decidedly
w•mt. _rates. Wu Wag the top quotation. Other eon. very quiet.
--er—mempelefre: At the Southaniptaa Ownexehange=erriat
'bees wee • good attendance, with. quanUty at wed
for mbar gratis oh otter. Trade was dull in an uUcles, mad
_prices
wbeal•ed barley declined 64. Is. per quarter. Beam,
&ewe. and eats were unchanged ; flour • doll sale, and le per
Gkelt lower. 'The following were the quotations : Wheat. a:10 ••-
•0 £l5 pat lead • Mans, 43e. to tea ; mu, ots. to Wm.; malt,
Wis. to We.; bariey, for malting, Ilk. to its.; ditto for grinding,
10a to lb. ; oat., We to Sea quarter; tour, 113 e. to 33e.
Mtaik.—lit Alton the at au Min, and the wheat
t to market wee In poor Condition' trade cousuquently
;;;11.311. Wheat. 1.0 lOs. to &II per load. —At Ringwood
wheat slow, and to effect Was Inrer prime were In Teeny
balance. taken. Wheat &versed 40.. Bd.—At &mew the earn Wade ware dull, and mime had • downward taudeticy. —At
Beetzeptoke wheat •xperiericed • Menne of fully to, pee qr.
Quotation.: 311. beta—busks : Wheat be. been depramed,
haling 6e. per lad st Aylesbury, Buckingham, sad
ree4acirt Pagnell—Carawiery • Prhass continue to tend in
favour of buyera—Derity: Wltasirla lowsw.—Dawassfer
wheat Trade dull, and eat ed. per I cheaper.—Smas : The
mittrkete have be.. drooping, and wheat 1. 1. ow qr. cheaper.
--Haab: inset quiet,- with • downwant tendency. —.••••
Naaingiim, and Northam yew : Wheat sold for la
tots Wes wianey.—Pegerioareept Wloestalull, and is. cheaper.
----Port: Trade In wheat quail and prime La. eader.

Mr. Bowe, Q.CL, will, it Is said, stand for Tipperary
Plums &wawa will attead the funeral obsequies or
Yr. Peabody,
Mr. Liam, the meanie. of • Lelesster bank, earn'
minted seaside, through overwork, on Friday, by
hanertil.
• Gain are has occurred at Marrs. Boykin's, at
Nottingham. Keay hands will be thrown oat of
employ.
A totleo woman named Crime, was pushed Into the
eared at ladoester on Saturday night and drowned. The
wardens is unknown.
At a county meeting held at Preston, on Saturday, it
was resolved to meet a Inereorial to the late Lord Derby
In the old northern division of Lansashire.
TIM meant indisparitiou of the Queen has dderred to
the return of the Court to Windsor. Her Majesty, who
I. now understood to be much better, will probably leave
Osborne earns time between the Dith and Ikea td this
month.
MIL Roos grow, Grouseett, sad Dentile have been
ordered to surrender themselves to the authorities to
undergo ths terms of imprisooment to which they were
recently soadentaed. It la stated that the Ministry has
desided to have Raebetast arrested if be does not
surrender.
THs Cals. Jameson, or CALcorra. —Sir J. Oeugh,
Chief Justice of Bombay, has been promoted to the
Chief instiesehip of Calcutta, 'nested by the retirement
of Sir Bataan Peacock, We hear that it will be too-
ssededbyMr, Montan B. Bare, Q.C., of the Western
Circult.—Low Fiesta,
MAIIILADOWYIR AT Mancnieren.—Daring a drecken
brawl on Saturday evening in Ravaldotreet, Salford. •
man cured Kitohin struck another named haws,
with whom be was quarrelling, and killed him ors the
spot. Jackson was sufferinerom heart (Bessie.
NUILDRII AT GLASOOW.—Ths woman Jodie Wlsai
ohms Cliftoo, who was stabbed a week age by William
Cennaehan, died OR Saturday night at the Glasgow
Infirmary. In her dying deposition she gare such
evidence as has changed the ohargs against Connashan
from manslaughter to wilful murder.
Ti. Queen will hold • Court at Buckingham Palace
en Friday, the 25th of February-, Drawing Rooms at
the Name Pale.., on Wednesday, the ittb, and Tueeday,
22a4 of 11.-oh , sad a Levee, also at nusaingnam
Palace, on Friday, the Ilth of March.
A LITRE will be held at St. James's Pallas by his
Royal Uighur the Prince of Wales, on her Majesty's
behalf, on Thursday, the 3rd ot March, and smother
Leen., in April, the date of which will be hereafter
announced. •
Puma Airrson.— Prince Arthur is visiting the public
Institutions of New York, and achieving great personal
popularity.
Tun young man William Strong, sent to prison for
shooting a pheasant five years ago, at Tiverton, ham been.
by order of the Secretary of State.
CaLtronnia papers report the singular feet that the
tatioc: nrostie.reloiun (earin, e
d th:r,m. have been
surface.
drowned
AT a coloured meeting, • few nights ago, • worthy
brother, whose piety erased' his learning, rather
adonished his hearers by quoting, during an exhortation,
from 'dc 'Waite oh Yard to de Canadiana."—Ng,.
York paper.
Tug Biahop of Winchester was presented with
paditersl stair at Basingstoke on Monday. It was sub-
scribed for by the ladies of Beehipstoke, and presented
by the rector.
Sin WILLI• 11 GORDON, K.C.8., an aide-cle•carop of
the Queen, who was honourably distinguished in the
Crimean war, has attempted suicide by Gutting bla
throat at Westward Ho, near Bideford. He lies in •
. .

very Precarious state.
Kainia• Orrr bee had It. wedding on horse-
' beck or, as the local paper expresses it, the twain
wens raids one, even ea they NA upon their fiery on.
tarued owners of the desert.
HINIBT WELCOME, nonrated OD the 10th of 'anxiety,
at Burlington, Vorosout of murder, the °blest of which
was robbery, was sentenced on that day to be kept In
'solitary confinement for ono year, and to be hung in
January, 1871.
Zr has transpired that the Hartford youth who,
mush to the disgust of the lady In the case, postponed
his wedding by swallowing laudanum, was driven to the
oot by the refusal of his tailor, In whom he treated, to
trait him for his wedding suit
Ponca Aware and his party ware more encoesef el
In their moose beating expedition than was at first it.
They = " begged " one moose, one beer, and five
The Prime -also took part in felling a pine tree,
se vie are assured by an enthusiastic Canadian,
the part of an axeman with credit to himself
and great malefaction to all present.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OP A BRIDEOZOOM.—Tbe Rev.
Jr. W. Parker, of Banbury, was on 'Needsy week
married to • daughter of Mr. Bennett, of Henley. Lad
li.. newly-warned pair left the same day for Ventnor,
Isle of Wight. On Wednesday morning Mr. Parker was
discovered by his wife, on returning to her bedroom, to
be dead in his bed, from, it is supposed, an attack of
apoplexy.
OMAGH AT WoOLWICIL —Gunner Harris &armed
with attempting to murder two of his comrades In the
guard-room of the artillery barracks, said that a number
of wideta, whom be described as spirits, came Into the
(ward-room to take him to hell. He did not believe'
In going, and, in resisting, struck men whom he did not
Intend to injure, in mistake for the (Write who were
punning him.
Thu son of Jain Drysdale, • ploughman of Cowrie
Mains, near Oakley, was on Sunday playine with • flask
of gunpowder, when the powder esploded. The boy .
wee dreadfully burned. His sister, Mary Drysdale, a
girl thirteen year. of age, was also much harmed. The
windows in the cottage were blown out, and a consider-
chili portion of the roof torn off.
THZ woad eon of Mr. H. Birkbeek (of the firm of
Gurneys, Birkbeek, Barclay, and Buxton, bakers, Nor-
wich), met with a fatal accident on Monday. The
young man was attempting to ram some gunpowder
clown an iron tube with • stick, when the gunpowder,
from some cause, exploded, and the stick entered his
body. causing his death soon afterwards.
The Washington correspondent of the Bt. Louis
Republican, spooking, in one of his letters, of "the
beauty and elegance of Madame Kataksay," wife of the
Russian minister, declares that "the profusion and
„aloof of her hair would lead one to look upon It as
aweigh it had been spun by the nimble fingers of the
g-say hours as they glided through bright June deys„
ghost, sunny rays of light had been caught in the meshes,
ocd were content to go no further."
AreOrMe of seneationeJ divorce oases, there is one to
be Ivied shortly, In which the son of • well-known
„„ootry banker is the 00-respondent, and tbe damages
:se laid at 00,000. There are also several theatrical
bairn. of fame whose names will appear before the
„uhlie, and oo• especially in connection with that of a
; and there are also • lady and
tulnan of " starring private theatricals." who will
rp;oddy figure before Lord Penzanoe.—Birinistpkam
Poet
NATIONAL ENIGILATION.-14. Gladetone has sane,-
tided the project for organising • national emigration
°yeineet to be most important; and he has promised
that it shall reactive the serious attention of the Govern.
ea. Thole pa•fa and significant words were elicited
the Prime Minister by a very ialluential depute-
"... .biob waited upon him on Thursday afternoon in
Dow.hagatreec The deputation was introduced by the
Duke of mancbester, and composed of many well-known
including clergymen, members of Perlis.
public men,
meet,
°sew of the navy, and artisans.
DNATIL An inquiet was held in
ito.day upon the body of • woman named
rak-a- The evidence showed that on Saturday night
te bodygd of the deceased mos in drunk, and seeing
his Lie lying stretched before the fire upon the hearth.
ees be thought h. wee asleep, and "wok. tier up' tel
give Si. big tea. Oa toughing her he found she was
itad docket, who sae her a few minutes after,
itsgg itite it.d bats dead several hoeri. There were
seven o the womaa'e ehildres in the house, but they
thought she was " oelY Weep." There were also four
odirr. is the hones, but they were all drank, and know