The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-11-06 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S xsiunirs. •
Ilgrott (Ciotti fxpress.

MARK LANE.—Tess DAY.
There was again a very limited supply of English
wheat here this morning' still, the trade continued ___
extrem.ly dull, and in the little business effected . NOTES OF THE WEEK.
factors ha 1 to submit to a reduction of Is. to 2s. per
quarter up in the prices on Monday last. On foreign, It is difficult to realise nowadays how cheaply,
of which the arrivals were again very large, there was as regards loss of life, generals achieved im-
a similar decline. Spring corn of all kinds was with. memorial victories in past times. Agincoart
out material change. At the clue of the market wheat
was won with the loss of less than 100 men.
was 2.. lower.
There were only 25,000 Englishmen at Crecy,
METROPOLITAN CATTLE.—This DAY. ' and less than half that number at Poietiers.
About 2,600 beasts. Trade firmer, at 44. 6d. to Since then the science of slaughter has developed,
es. 2.1. About ;000 sheep. Trade steadier. at Sc. 6d. and already in the Turko-Russian war, without
to 7w Calves made ta est to ein, and pigs is. to any decisive engagement, nearly 150,000 must
4.. 84. per Sibs. At Deptford about 2,100 beast., and have been sacrificed.
6,000 sheep.
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SATURDAY'S MARKETS. : Lord Alington is fittingout Crichell in princely
coax. style for the visit of the Heir Apparent in
These markets show throughout a dullness in the December.
prices realised and the amount of trade done, farmers _
being generally busy with their wheat sowing and The Marquis of Lorne is to be raised to the
stowing 44 root crops. Prices at most were Is. per rir. Upper House. Whether this honour is intended
lower. In exceptional cases trade was steady or
best samples. Oats and beans were without alteration, as a reward for marrying a princess, or for
and barley at some markets went up Is. deserting the Liberals and supporting the Court
DORUILSTER. -The supply ,4 wheat was much less and the Government party (the latter step
than last week, an.l there WM but a slow sale at Is. , against his father) on the Eastern Question,
per i opinion is divided. The true guess, we think,
mptri.d quarter reduction. The quotations
ranged from Gls. to :ISt; last week the offici.d average wouldbe—and it can only be a guess—that his !
we me. GO. Larze supply of barley, the best having i
n open tendency ; quotations,
104. to 74, Lam , elevation arose front the circumstance of his
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week .0.1 quarters made £1,051 1/Is., the as erage being . being the Queen's son-in-law.
4Xs. 7i I. Increased demand for oats at late rates.
CATTLE. I Within a radiul, says notit, Fair, of little
1
The markets of Saturday throughout show a down. : more than five miles the County of Surrey
ward tendency. li contains all the localities in which the British
officer's career is spent from the beginning to its
end. There is Wellington College where the
time of the boy-aspirant is divided between
cricket and cramming; then comes Sandhurst,
where careful culture coaxes the young plants
to put forth tender buds for the final examina-
tion ; the full blown sub-lieutenant blooms at
Aldershot, within a stone's throw; when tired
of regimental life, mess dinners, and slow
promotion, he submits to a severe ceurse of
training at the Staff College ; but soured by
being constantly passed over in favour of men
who have learned leas but have more friends,
and exhausted by over-study, his brain gives
way, fortunately Broadmoor Asylum is handy,
and he leaves it only to lay his bones in
Woking Cemetery:

I/ I%C ELLAN [Or S.

METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET. --SMITHFIELD. —The
weather being drier and otherwise more favourable,
the trade here to.day was rather firm. Beef realised
from 2.. 81. to 3.. 4d. ; mutton, 34. to .-OL 8(1. ; veal,
ro. to o. Csl ; and ts.rk, 3.. 81 to 5. 41 per Bth.. by
the carcase.
GAM E AND I'M:LIRE. —LEADEN HALL. —Woodcock,
4.. to 44. 61. ; pheasants, 61 to is. ; hares,
4. 6 1 to 5,..; partridges, 2s. to 3.. ; geese, ss. 6.1. to
lq -BILLINE,M; ATE. 14. 31 to lt. 61.;
eels, 9,1. to Is. per lb.
VEGETABLES AND FEWIT. —COVENT GARDEN. —The
supply of fruit and vegetables is large, and prices are
in favour of buyers.
HAT AND STRAW. —NV HITECHAPEL —The supply
was ra.her small, and with a go.sl trade prices were
firm. Hay made rather more money. Quotations :
Prime clover, 1619.. to 1345.; inferior ditto, 85s. to
955. ; cood new clover, 10*.. to 130, ; prime meadow
hay. SO& to 107..; inferior ditto, 75.. to 85s. ; and
straw, 44% to Its. per load.

A cure for hydrophobia is suggested by Mr.
Brookes in the use of vapour baths, which he
successfully tried on himself, having cut his
hand after dissecting a subject who had died of
hydrophobia. Mr. Brookes having all the symp-
toms of the disease, had decided that suffoca-
tion in a vapour bath was preferable to death
from hydrophobia, but the intended suicide
proved an unexpected cure. A writer in the
I Echo asserts that in South Carolina hydro-
phobia is unknown among dogs feeding on
J Indian-corn meal. Mr. Laporte writes that a
coolie servant in China showed symptoms of
hydrophobia sixty days after being bitten by a
rabid dog. A handful of the leaves of the
J/Jit,iof ..JfJoJaoaiiiiii (thorn-apple) was " boiled
in a pint of water till the mass was reduced to
one-half." The fluid, after straining, was forced
down the patient's throat, who showed the
greatest aversion to water. The drug operated
before long, and a violent paroxysm ensued,
j accompanied by copious perspiration. The
j patient fell into a profound sleep of eight hours'
duration, and when he awoke the symptoms of
, rabies had left him."

It is stated that orders have been given by the
Admiralty for the construction of eleven swift torpedo
vessels, at a cost of about sixty thousand pounds.
The Home Secretary has consented to be put in
nomination for the Lord Rectorship of Edinburgh
Uoiversity, in opposition to the 3larquil of Harting-
ton.

Encouraging reports are current as to the prospect
of raising the vanguard. Captain C'offin, it is stated,
has already t.,,0t one chain under her, and i still
sanguine of ultimate success.