The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-04-25 00:00:00

SALE OF THII LATE M. FARQUHARSON'S
STOOK.

One of the most important sales ever held in this
part of the twenty took pima) on Wednesday lest, at
Langton Farm. when Mr. T. Baum offered for public
competition the fat and other stook, or-1, carriage and
back horses, the property of the late J. J. Farquharson,
Esq. It attracted a very large number of the leading
agnealturiste, and dealers, not only of the immediate
neighbourhood but also from Smahamplion, the Isle of
Wight, Jersey, Berkshire, Wilts, and Haute. The
stook oonsisted of animals of the pare Devon breed
from the celebrated stook of Kr. Davey, which have
taken Ist prizes at the Smithfield, Birmingham and
other shows, and the sheep ware of superior excellence.
The arrangement+ for the MO 1 were undertaken by Kr.
W. Fooks of Monkton. From 1,500 to 9,000 persons
were present. About half-past 11 o'clock, Kr. Baser
commenced the proceedings by descanting on the
merits of the stook to be offered, end stating all
was to be sold without reserve. The auctioneer
oommeneed with the barreners, of whioh there were
33, put up in lots of two each. Thais, c allied £520, the
highest lot being 4.19, and the lowest EV 10i, and an
&servo of £l5 15s each beast. The go upetition for
working and (rasing oxen was very keen. There were
19 lots, two in each lot, and they realised £1,021 Si,
being an average of EU sash lot, the primed fetching
rather over kV per head. Dairy cows and heifers,
with a few lots of calves, realised £370 18t, the highest
price for 0011111 being E2B, and the average for heifers
and cows £l6. Five bulls realised £lOO ss. Fat
Devon caw, hisifors, and Mears fair:hod from £lB
to £4O a *se, and with five tote of young steers
realised £745. The fat sheep, which were put up In
alternate lots of ten and twenty, realised very high
prices--ewas from 42s to 49a each, wethers from 47a to
574, hogs 304 to 45., and the rams fetehri from 62s to
85s each; the total realised by the sheep being
£1,240 15s. Cart horses were sold at various prisms,
the beet £l2, £45, and Ea the average price being
from £4stoif3o. The total realizid for cart horses
and their heroes. was £620,65. Carriage horses, basks,
do., realised £53.9 144.: one • very valuable gelding
Marionette, 5 years, by Marionette, dam by old Sir
Baronies, was kirocked down for £126. Sows with pigs
fetched from EA to £lO 155., and the whole of them
realized about an A. quantity of aainfoio and
meadow hay was also sokl,and realized about £590. The
total prooeeds of the sale were rather over 1.7,000.

MgBMW= lit POOL! 1:100i.—A meeting of the
Poole committee of the Dorset Moodielty Society was
held on Thursday last, the Mayor (.7. Harker,
Sq.), in the *hair. Captain Aorystt Brows,
Chief Oonstisble of the county, said daring the year
1869. before the society was termed, 1,332 vagrants were
admitted into the Poole union workhouse, being •
tarter number than in any other union in the oonnty ;
whilst In 1870, after the establishment of the swirly,
the number was reload to 703, showing a decrease al
629 —nearly 50 per cent. Comparing the first quarter.
of 1869. 1870, and 1871, the numbers were as follow
From January Ito March 31, 1869, 429', 1870, 191;
161, 101. Thal there was • decrease of 90 in the first
throe months of 1871 as compared with the correspond'
lug period of 1870, and of 325, or about 75 per cent., as
compared with the first quarter of 1869. The subsoils,
tioos to the satiety_ from the Poole noion in 1870
amounted to £3 165 6d, and the sum paid to the bakers
for bread was £4 lie 10d. The Nabwiption• In the
Poole anion were lower than In any other union in the
county. • Beaminster union gave 64 3s 63; Blandford,
£7 14. Id - Bridport, £l5 13s 01 ; Cerne, £6 12s 6d ;
Dorchester, £29 2.64; Lyme, £9 2e63 ; Poole, Rb 16,83'
Shaftesbury, ES us; Sherborne, £l4 7. 6d ; Star-
minster, lie 6.1; Wareham, £l4 11.5 gd ; Weymouth,
£l9 21 ; and Wimborne, ES 5L— Ppm said the
Board of Guardimul of the Poole union had, at their
meeting that morning discussed the question as to con-
tributing to the society, but they had not panted say
resolution on the subject, thinking It best to learn whet
had been done in other oaks." of the oounty, and to
, take the matter into consideration again at the next
meeting.—Captain Brown said the Weymouth Board
of Guardians wished to subscribe £5 to the society.
but the Poor-law Board would not allow IR -m•
Mayor said It seemed • reasonable and sensible way of
laying out money.--Captain Brown read the Wanes
sheet of the society, which showed • balancer In hand of
£29 6s 13.—The Mayor thought probably there was no
other instance of so gresit an advantage being attained
at so little 00111—Mr. Pple said is was a very onetime
undertaking, and Mr. Milins remarked that it was
great encomia—Alderman Belben stated that previonnly
to the establishment of the satiety he had 30 or 40
applications for relief in • week, and now scarcely had
five applications weekly. He bad, however, seen how
eagerly 'many of those who asked tor tiokets devoured
the bread they procured with them, and when they
applied OD Sunday, when the bakers' shops were closed,
he never sent them sway without food. The Mayor
mentioned an installer in which it wee shown by a con-
versation between two "cadgers in this minty, that
one of theta considered it a bad day's work when he
only obtained 12s, his companion on the same day
receiving El, as the result of their apFeals to the booms
lent; whilst the honest and industrious labourer 11111111M11
, only 141 per weelL—lt was resolved on the mold=
Mr. Pyne, seconded by Alderman Belben, that • pel4
collector should be appointed for the Poole Union, and
that his remuneration should be at the rate of 10 par
cent, on the money he collected. (*stain Brown WI
he would send to the Mayor • form lobe signal by
him, for the collector as his authority for res
money on behalf of the society. The meeting
mated with volsi of thanks to the Mayor and to Captain
Brown.
Pgrrr firarnone, Thundey.—Before .7. Harker, Far&
(Mayor} F. T. Bogor., and C. J. Stone, Bars,
The surveyors of the highways for the parlshes of SS.
James, Longfloct, Parkstone, and tlamwertby, produced
their accounts for the magistrates' signatures.
ll.•••••altil. • .
JANLII Bll.lollf, ODA or lie Border, baker, of Long'
Sect, brought up on remand, charged with embezzling
lls Sid paid by Mr Bayley, on the lilth of March
Prisoner sold he had appropriated the money to his own per.
put poem intending to repay it as soon as he could. He pleaded
guilty.—Mr limiter having recommended hint to mercy on
account of his large family and previous good conduct, the
magistrates, after deliberation, sentenced him to three months'
hard labour. lie bad been in prosecutor's employ three
yeas.
LiACINO • 001155 AND CULL
Cams VINCNNT was charged with unlawfully leaving his
hong; and waggon by the side of tho road on the 10th of April,
without any one lu charge of 11.—P.C. ligament said that
defendant's hone and cart, laden with ooal, was standing on
tan roadside over half-an-hour, whilst the defendant was In
thu Sloop Inn thinking beor.—Supt. Hunt mid he had re-
received numerous complaint. of parties leaving hones and
carts by the roadside, and defendant had been cautioned be-
fore.—Toc Bench indicted a fine of Is and costs.

SWIM/ WINDOW&
gumg MAGILLLI ws suosolooed by Charlotte Burgem for
breaking fivisequares of window glass, besides an image, to
her room: Tbe latter succeeded the former as housekeeper to
a person named Welch, and in revenge for her dismissal, cams
to the premises on tho es cuing of the 12th Memel, nod dld
U,. &huge in question.—The Bench decided that the Mew
dant should pay 4. &I the amount of the damage, sad le floe,
with the costs, or suffer 14 day. bard labour. She chose to
go to gaoL
Fewei,—Belere the Meyer (J, Harker, Seq.)
SUMS mama. .
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A young man named Reig-igo—a, of &Acetone, of respectable
antecedent., a... brought up charged with enebegallug several
sum., and falsifying the accounti of his employers, Yews.
Tribbett and SAO, printers. Prisoner during the past four
year had been tho managing clerk of the gun, and had had
the outlre management of the account.. Several account.
..ippeared In the books to be due, which prisoner had collected.
Pri.oner bunt into Were, and said ho regretted to have
brought this disgrace oc Written, and had only to request his
ate employer. as well as the Beach to boa. 'intact to him aa
they could.—ltemmidal.