The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-18 00:00:00

butt Cottutti Express.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

MARK-LANE, MoNDAY.
This being bank holiday there was no baldness
transacted at 711 n-k Lane to day,
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METROPOLITAN CATTLE, Teri DAY. NOTES OF THE WEEK.
About 2,240 beasts including about 400 foreign
trade ;
Five of Her Majesty's gamekeepers at
firm at is and is. About 16,000 sheep :
trade stealy_ at 4s. &I. to &a &I. Lambs. 84. to 9s. Balmoral have been fined 50s. for carrying guns
Calves, is. 6d. to 64. 10d. pigs, 44. 4d. to 54. &I. At without • licence. Prince Lenningen considers
50 German beasts. this a set-off against the Miseltoe affair, and
SATU ,RDAY S MA hopes, with the owner of the yacht who solaced
DORCHESTER MARKETS, Sartransv.—At I himself with £4,000 for the loss of his daughter,
the own Exchange to-day the supply of wheat was that the " matter may rest now and for ever,"
small, and there was a good demand at late figures— and that he may still receive, without any
from 42s to 468 per impala] quarter. The season for
over, and the demand for seed
awkward questions being asked the £2,000 he
making barley is nearly
purposes /TM small, late prises, 29s to 364 per imperial BO ably earns as commander of the Queen's
quarter prevailing. Oats in less supply, and 5d to Is yacht.
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imperial quarter dearer, the quotation being from
24e to 275. Last week's official returns give the average I The Sheffield magistrates have just heavily
of wheat at 454 04, and barley 328 104 L—At th. fined a number of men for indulging in what our
cattle market there was a large supply of rf°rk• Fat forefathers considered legitimate sport— cock
beef realised He to 154 per score; barreners, £l3 to
£2O each ; heifers and calves, £l2 to £24
4 fighting: We understand that pigeon shooting
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to £3O. Ewee ranted from to 62s per hek Mutton lat Hurlingham promises to be unusually lively
has lately had a downward tendency, and the demand lin the present season. The only ditierences in
to-day was bat slow. the two acts of cruelty will be th it whereas in
READING CORN MARKET, SATYRDAT.—To- the vulgar amusement indulged in by the miners
day was quite kbpliclay market. A thin attendance,
it was a case of the beat bird wins, at the more
and very little doing.
BATH CORN MARKET, SATURDAT. —The supply aristocratic resort, the unfortunate birds will
of wheat at to-day's market was small. A good trade simply have to stand the chance of being
at fully last weeks prices. Barley, beans, and peas " potted " by a number of lords and "honour-
about last week's rates. Feeding stuff firm. Flour a ables " ; that instead of a number of working
good sale at
CORN MARKET, &minima. at late rates.
U GLO men attending to witness the contest, delicately-
-At to-day's market there was stair supply of English nerved ladies will look on and freely bet their
wheat, and the trade ruled firm at last week's prices, dozens of gloves; and instead of a Sheffield
Foreign in rather better demand, at previous rates, rough lending his countenance to the affair, the
Grinding barley steady. Maize the turn dearer. Oats Hurlingham butcheries will be patronised by
quiet but firm. _ our future King.
TAUNTON CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.
A thin attendance in the market to-day, and but little
doing. English wheat sold freely, owing to scarr The vi le print by which, with the additional aid of
at prices. rather in sellers' favour. Foreign wheat 661. i_t7 the twopences extracted from the pockets of the
lower on the week. Barley quiet and unaltered in fools who have joined the ex-Queen's Counsel's
price. Maize 3d Iwo money. Beans and Pe" latest bit of humbug, the Kenealy family are
unaltered. Flour 345.
WARMINSTER CORN MARKET, HATTIMAT. supported is more than usually dirty and dis-
-At our market today there was a good average reputable in its style this week. We are sorry
but a somewhat limited attendance. The wheat to soil our pages by any allusion to this detest-
as dull.lnit all the better descriptions were fully able concoction, but as it takes the opportunity
as dear. Although the malting season is far advanced blackguard
in the most abominable style a
fair samples of barley were in request, at fully late "'
paper that we know to be as ably conducted as
rates. Oats, beans, and peas quite as high. Wheat,
340 to Me; barley. 28s to 41e; oats, 26s to 15.; beans, any of our provincial journals we feel compelled
244 to 275; peas. 25. to 35.; flour, 364 to 434 per sack; to speak out. This is how the paper "edited
bread, is. per filb. by Kenealy" (it used to be 'edited by Dr.
Kenealey" but the "Dr." like a coward has
sneaked out of the prefix) alludes to the writers
on the paper in question : "And a large income
is thus secured by the rich proprietors, who
keep two or three half-starved scribblers, out at
elbows, and in dirty linen, by whom the Paper
is filled; and whose "public views—Heaven
save us—are accepted by the provincial masses
as being the Hower of politics and the cream of
general information. These writerlings vegetate
in garrets; they have hardly ever meat to eat;
their scanty stipend scarcely keeps them in beer
and " baccy" and clothing; and yet if you are
to trust their own account, they are hand in
glove with all the leading statesmen of the time."
Those who have seen the rag-shop appearance of
the dis-benched and disbarred Counsellor would
wonder at his temerity in thus attacking a
respectable class of men. They can however
well retort that not one of their class ever "did"
months. We regret to have thus to write ;
but, desperate diseases demand desperate
remedies, and as long as the correspondents of
such vulgar rubbish as the Eng/isionon are
allowed to go on unchecked, it behoves all
honest journalists to "lash the rascals."

neptfod

RICETS.

THE ELECTION FOR NORTH NORFOLK.
The nomination took place to-day (Monday). The
candidates being Col. Duff (Conservative), and Sir T.
F. Buxton (Liberal).

FEARED LOSS OF A VESSEL
• It is 'feared that the ketch Arethusa, of Goole, has
been lost off the Norfolk coast, with all hands. A
vessel wail Been to founder off Skerringham, and
shortly after some board marked Arethusa was washed
ashore.

A Parliamentary return respecting railway
accidents reported to the Board of Trade during
the year 1875 states that the total number of
persons killed on railways in the United King-
dom was 1,290, and the total number injured
5,755. A summary of the tables given in the
return states that during the year 116 passengers
were killed and 594 injured from their own
want of caution or misconduct. Of these 25
persons committed suicide by throwing them-
selves on the lines in front of approaching
trains.

The Royal Geographical Society has awarded
the Blue Ribbon of Scientific Geography this
year to Lieut. Cameron, an officer in the Royal
Navy, who was sent out a few years ago with
relief for Livingstone, and, finding Livingstone
dead, collected his papers and everything that
could be found, and then started off on his own
account to traverse Africa from sea to sea.
This involved a tramp of 3,000 miles, and
although Lieut. Cameron's companions one by
one dropped at his side' although his men
deserted him, although the native chiefs plun-
dered him, he stuck bravely to his work, and
after two years and eight months' toil found
himself at the end of his journey with the sea
once more at his feet. It was a tremendous
feat, a feat second only to that of Livingstone,
and the Lieutenant has rejoiced the hearts of
the Milani by returning home with upwards of
5,000 observations, and these observations are
so accurate that for the future we shall have a
definite lino laid down from sea to sea across 20
degrees of longtitude, a geographical baais for
all future explorations of Equatorial Africa.