The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-05-31 00:00:00

CATTLE DIA MIXT.

METROPOLITAN, Tbursday.—Our market to thy Will
fairly 1-upplied with best, as to number, but their
general Iviality was very tuiddlmg. All breceir moved
off .lowly; yet Window's prices were supported. Th..
geotral top figure sta. 4s 101 per 8111. The .how of
sheep was oplv moderate. Sales progresaed sloarl7„*. ht
late rates. The best oln Downs realised 5. 44 per 816.
Lambe were le-e .oti.e than on Monday, prices, how-
ever, were firm, the current rates being fra 4.1 to is 6d
per 81b. The veal trade was M slussish stole on
former term., namely, ft-n,O ge 21 to fie 21 per 81b.
The demand for 144 ind mild, cows was heavy, at
Isle currencies. —.1.014 RUpply : Beasts, 1030 ; cows.
110; sheep and lambs, 6,120; calves, 380: pint, 290.
Foreign : Smuts, 3r l; sheep mad lambs, 810; calves,
260.

A FOITUNATZ 30CIIT Inattnan, the jockey, luta
now won the Penne'. ikerby fur times—in 1837, for
Lord ,etmour. with Lydia; in 1846, for Hal,ll de
Pultschd with llrud it ; i.• 1856, for the Prince de
Be ovau w th Lmn ,and now, for M. Deletes:re, with

An .cadebt oecurred on Wednesday evening, May
2.5.6. to a party in • pleasure van, coming from the
Derl.y. On of the party let fall the lighted end of •
cigar ..m-ng the Lose ..traw at the bottom of the vehic e
w ich speedily Maned up and set 'be csavgil ommin
and awning on the. Great difficulty wii• experienced in
gettioe the women out, as some of the c'othes had
taken fire an three are so much Injured that it is
I axed they will not survive

Ti Biiu- ii IT D K 1 NOM*. -Rent
rel.inn• show that, .11 11462 th.re ere,e in flnrland
JO 362 in Scotlsod 2 060, and in Ireland 6 815 blind
person.. To th nombers must be added 197 for the
Chan el Islands end t c Isl• of Ilan ; the-efore. in
round bombers the number of our blind is 30.00. or
one to every 1,000 of our p ulation Blindn.st
more freq..e t agricultural dotricto. The relative
proportie • of 'M. acres among the blind is about 113
males to 100 females.

Lord Petra has nifle I his Intention of prohibiting
at•eplc• hoe meet in,s 1111 his proper,.. in consequence
of tit- fat d accident *MO. heel Mr. Tilbu,g while
vi ling n one of the South Essen steeple Ouse. at
Berntwood.

Fitiortrtl. SVICIDIt Or • LADY ON TIC BOOTH.
Wunridtst li•li.W %T. was received on
Sword*, he Mr. esrt• r, the coroner Int the ...tern
ilie.•nin of Sere. y, of a most frightful ocen•rencel.-
•ehriou the dea.h of Hrs. Gre•ahoisr' aged AO years,
who threw her."( from tie pl.trortnof the &her arni
ireto•oot 4..tion of the Keith We•t..re ruilvray tinder
the 1.11... lig drr.4lul etreum tane•-• i---The unfortunate
l•dy was Me& r to Mies Harriet Martineau, and wife
Mr. Or-eohow, a barrl.ter rrvi,ing at g•her. For
&one tim oat .11.• 1.3,1 i.unered much Iry ni Illness. On
the D. rby..l.y, • Ith lom little child, amd five years,
and a b wale remit. she went te Asher station for the
eof going to Weybridee. While ersiting for the
train she twined ilesiumie every moment to jump on the
1t..,, hut wee pull-4 back by this serves& Just
as the train MLR emeeine the •tation, however, arl'h
a 1.-ad .hri.k she bounded from the platform, and fell
across the rails. Film was caught by the wheels of
the c+rriaxes. and whirl. d r-und in • fright.
10 winner. As won a• the train had gone by an
awful .ight war presented, there being nothing bot
an enalmien mass. the wheels hmring completely crushed
sad nial.gl.d the unfortun te lady. At the time of her
leaping Ire had heat of her child's hand. and doubt-
bee well have dragged it with her lad it not hese
been for the wrvant snatching hold of it. As lama as
ro•ll4tia Du. hod, together with Hr. Williamson. and
othee gestlemen, were in attendance, and the remains
of 'be talor laAy. whiefi were scat•ered about the line,
wire collected and placed in • Well. Prim was wit
Itneurn er.d highly resiseted for hergoorl and charitable
Pei I.nsa, and Shia dreadful occurrence be. oast quite a
gloom over the aeighboarhoed of Kober.
Go Saturday erelong kip,e was aseekw of she
Volunteers in Hyde Psrk, wirer, his Roma Highness
the Prince of Wales ieweted them. The Volunteers
en the ground numbered 20 000, or 3,010 more than
the( did in 1860, when they were reviewed by Her
• e-ty. Tire is, of course, a gratifying proof that the
V. tiniest seal has in no degree diminished from it.
Grit fervour. The evening was flne, and there wee an
tome rue aseemblios of people, way thoesands more,
indivil, than there wee room tei allow them to tee the
-evolutions There were also present his Royal High-
s,. s. the Coninoinderin-Chief, the Princes' of Wales,
Trin-e and Princess 1,61 of Hews, and • brilliant staff
of genersl ollioer• The mancenvres were necessarily
c„inened to roor•ncents of a simple nature, but all tended
So ab .w the proficiency of the regiment& It is mai-
anted there were about 50.000 present to witness the
performances, and all paw I off without •easualtr.
Ad' ic. by the Overland Mail are from Calcutta to
the 22. id (orl, and from Hung Kong to the 15th.
At Calcutta the only matter of interest was the elate
of the eiirreney, which was wiring a good deli of
anti. ty and giving ries to much discussion. From
Chihli the c ref sohket of interelt is the Twping re-
bellion. The Chino Moil has some details of the two
disasters which Col mid Gordon'. forces bad experienced,
ia or,. of which the oilsnel was wounded. Notwith-
standing their temporary success, the rebels were, oa
the whole, losing ground, though they still bade form
of 40,000 men in the li4l Colonel G..rdon waa
covering from his wound/, and wsexpeoted to be ehorily
able to naome active P.rvios. At Japan the Tycoon
and If -bade were on gmai term.; the loreign traders'
dalimlty we, o,cupying much attention,
lips telegram from Braila,. dated Om 14th Kay, we
learn that the Viceroy bad •rrived at Simla. The same
telegram conveys the melancholy intelligence that the
Rev Lambert Lowenthal, missionary to the Afghans,
bat been murdered at Peshawor.

Froarri. -e-A. -LA U-IT.T--,111; -6
RID TT.--SRT IN &TS
DRoWSZIA —A sad occurrence took place on Saturday
afternoon, by which raven boys lost their lives. It sp.
pear. that for come time past the West Dock has been
closed, and it bee been the pm:Aim of bora ensured in
the w're works to moue them.elves during meal time*
be getting on • rifi of' timber kept in the dock. On
ti.tunlay .bout 14 by. were on the raft, when the bell
rang for Work, and in their angtety to get no shore they
all rutted to one able of the wood when it cognised,
.1 the whole of the blys were thrown hit* the water.
Sono of them maoated to .triin on shore, bet the others
were les. fortune., sod seven were dronsed. • yonut
mon named Wantons noted in • moat tiourageou
*Demme/ he lumpior into the w.tor and brine.' two or
three or the hoes to land. In hi. lut attempt he sank
In rn exhansiton, tarrying the boy he bad with him.
Portia .tWy be we.. or I timid, and wee rescued, but
for nittre 'bah .0 how he was in gush an unconseiona
at.t• t•,it Ira life was dean
R ,BLATifti (THu tit •MPIU, AT BILLIARDS) FARE-
WALL gATCII.—Mr. John R rt., the ai.a.uriorn
hi Iva plower of the world. bud • f.rewell nub h on
i I 7 rt.. tang. .t St. Ilan, with W. D01t...,
in ti,.preunoe of /wirers' hundred admirer. ..f th:
game, iei.toer die and geoile: • tol•ptilot übt, had
b.,. fired .1p for the ..1:0.1./0 in tile inouar
.nil Cot, of Br pt ti-roed. in,n
bat tatting aeto
R.,beire Knee gal le int. in the 1000. and. won by 291,
the limiest I.r ak being fa, ineledum thttrrtn 50cooseen-
tire pool • troke H j•nhog anti 10-mg huirdA and
pson-ine p100jt...1 throttglisMt VIP etOltlltg.rtittUlllll,4lo
4,4 .1,6, .11f If', manipolitiee and Ai:unit& power At
th•• gam. wa• 'WIMP MAW brnotifolly . At
th- otnellaion of the gni.* OM doers ROM give. for
the tthestrieth

131MTF18.
Ha 7 ft, at Salisbury, th. .ui of the Rey. H. B.
Wbeloos, WA., a • dat,ght.r.
May 20, at Andover, Hants. Mn. Frank Hansard. of
• daught,..r.
May 19, the wife of Mr. Charles T. Prandley,
burr, pr.matumly of • son.
May 18, at Moreton, the trite of Mr. Robert
Gregory. of • edo
May 21, ea Wareham, Mrs. W. Abeeme, of a
daughter.
May 24. al Um rectory, Wareham, 1t,,. Arthur Cepa.
of a daughter.
May 24, at Poole, th• wife of Mr. Lamm, enchbaildor,
of • um.

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MARRIAGES.
May 18, at Grantham, Lineolnebire, Mr. A. Tabor,
of Aeon Farm, Salisbury, to Miss Stanton, of the former
place.
May 19. at St. Margaret's Chita, Conley, by the
Rey. J. H. Waugh, rector, Mr. Gawp Huddeo Knight,
of Westbury Leigh, Wilt., to Louie., eldest daughter of
the late Mr. John Knight, of From*, Somerset.
May MIN at the parish church. Ringwood, by the
Key. H. J. Wale, Mr. Charles Bement, of Here Regis,
Dorset, to Emily Elisabeth, fourth daughter of the late
Mr. J. B. Kingsbury, of the former place.
DEATHS.

May 18, at her residence, Wilton Road, after s loos
illness, deservedly respected, Mrs. Young. aged 80 yearns
May 17, in St. Ann-street, in hie 77th yeer, Mr.
William Foot, who for upwards of half a eentury was in
the .e-rice of the late CoL Baker, of Salisbury.
May 19, at Verne Abbe., suddenly, Mr. John Wood.
land Sherry. shoemaker, aged 30 year.
May 22, at Slandtord, Mr. Edas Datiombe, aged 50
years.
May 24. at Rhindford. after a long illness, Mr. George
Rolls, of the Greyhound Inn. aged 44. Deceased was
greatly respected an the town and neighbourhood.
May 29. at Salisbury Terraes, Dorchester, Elisabeth
Hvllard Gregory, relict of the late Mr. John Gregory,
build. r. _ _

May 27, at the residence of Sir R. B. Baker, Etsrt.l
ftanston Hogan, Doreet, Henry Ker Berner, Es 1.,
lat M.P for the county, is the 5711 yearof hi. age.
May 22. at West Lntwiet.,. seed 61, 1 B.
Criepin, second son of the late Bs ojsmin Crivio, R.N.
after 37 years' service in India, very much respected
and tvgretted by his family and friend..
Mae 23, at South-etreet, Dorchester, Rdmtind Gibson,
tbe infant child ef Mr. Robert 1401trard Shout, aged 5
weeks.

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Hay 27, al Woodington Ferns, Rowley. the infant
son of Ifr George Allsop, Lieuterant ot the 11th
Hants Volunteer TR.el,
M., 23. at Stertnotster. after e prolonged illness,
Mr. Mind Ferrets*, lat. surveyor of ib• Btureninster
Dfrritt. aged 32.
Hey 22, st Bnantspuddle, Mrs, Mary Woodrow, in
her 90th 7ear.

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