The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-03-20 00:00:00

SATURDAYS MARKETS.

CORN.

BATH.—Trade WAR quiet at shoot late rates.
CIIIKSTER. —Prices f..r wheat remain steady.
111.01XEST F.ll.—Traf le was lull, and ruled
decidedly in favour of the pur•haser.
GRANTHAM.—At the corn exchange tn-day a
moderate quantity of wheat was offered, and buyers
operated cautiously, prices being as last quoted.
Barley was a small show, and fine parcels met with a
fair demand at an advance on this day se'nnight.
HEREFORD. —Wheat trade slow at late rates.
Barley quiet
NORWICH.—The supply of wheat at this market
to-day was fair, but, great dulness prevailing in the
Sour trade, millers were slow in buying on the terms
of last week.
NOTTING/lAM. —There was a fair supply of
wheat to-day, and the trade was quiet, at about the
rates of the previous market • new white, 545. to 60a..
new red. 53i. to 555. per 34 stone. The supply of
barley was not large, and the trade was 6rm, prices
being higher than those of last week ; malting, 365.
to 48*.; grinding, 30s. to 335. per 32 stone. Oats
remained steady, at about the prices of this day
se'nnights, 265. to 31s. per 24 stone. Beans were *
small show, and supported their value, making 50i. to
Ms. per 36 stone.
PETERBOBOUGIL—Business in wheat to-day
was firm.
WARSIINSTER.—There WAR a good supply of
corn at our market to•day. Trade in wheat was
quiet at last week's rates. Best supplies of barley
were in much request, and sustained the full prices
of last week; inferior sorts a trifle easier. Wheat,
4435. to sfic per qr. ; barley, 275. to 475. ; oats, 22*. to
325. • beans, 425. to 524. • peas, Ms. to 46a
WINCH ESTER. —T;ade ruled slow at late rates.
WORCESTEIt.—An average market to-day, and
wheat selling on easier terms.
YORK.—Prices were without alterati..n,

CATTLE.
DORCIIT,STEII. -Unusually lar,;e supply of stock
at the market to-day, about 200 head of bewit being
disposedof. Attendancelarge. Fat beef commanded 13e.
to 15e. we wore ; harrenera, £lO to g 22 per head. eOWII
and calveti, x:l2 to r 25 : fat Dorset horn ewes, G.u. per
head. Fat Southilown ewes, ft.;s mutton may be
quoted at 91,1. to 10101. per lb.; good fat lambs at Ykc. ;
and calves 1:1 to E 5.
NOILIVICH.—There was a fair show id atore
cattle on offer to-day. Trade was quiet ; former price,
were about supported, but a clearance was by no
means made. :Shorthorns were quoted at I:10 to £l5,
and Irish at 1:8 to £l6 per head, Fat beasts made 10s.
to 11 Is. per 141 b. The chow of cheep was rather
larger than last week; trade ruled quiet and the pens
were not fully cleared ; at', the same time prices
experienced no material change. Fat cheep made
10s. Gd. to 12s. per lilt.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
'MINIMAL Innarrarr has arrived in England and is
the guest of Lonl Salisbury at Hatfield House.
THE blockade of Diramney is being kept up, but the
King. it is thought, will soon cave in.
PRINCE CHARLES /NIPPLE has been appointed (o-4-
master at Cape Corat Castle.
THE agitation in Constantinople for the recall .4
litidhat Pa-ha continues.
AT HCLL a outple of butchers, named Sander-on
and Reddy, have been tined an and il4o and costs
respectively, for selling a diseased cow for food.
The lirand Jury at the Middlesex sessions to-day
(Monday) returned a true bill against Lord Marcus
Beresfoni, for an aniault upon Mr. Tidy, a solicitor.
ANOTHER domestic servant -one Shuker—died at
Liverpool from swallowing a net of false teeth. They,
were re -ea from her throat by an operation, but
an abscess formed.
Miss MARI SCOTT, a young lady grvernew of
Southport, has been awarded MO for injuries sus-
taimil in a collision on the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway. An issue limit.z be opened in her knee.
AT CLAPHAM a single woman named Elizabeth
Shall, t, and a domestic servant, has died from "a
broken heart.- She received a letter announcing the
death of her inveetheart, became hysterical, and never
spoke again.
As AMERICAN despatch states that a young man
walked deliberately into the rapids above Niagara on
the sth brat., and WM swept over the falls. Nothing
was known f him, hi a supposed to have been a case
of suicide.

Aipjg dealer named Bradbury has; been fined £27 by
the Warrington magistrates for having 11 pigs on hie
premisea dressed for sale and unfit for human food.
They were meaaley.
THE betting on the boat rare in the London dubs
wap quoted at 7 to 4, and in Rome OW'S 2 to 1 on
Oxford. These odd,, are by no means phantom beta,
but a large amount of money has already been laid
out on the dark blues.

At a select ionlinittee on fraina ay s to-day (NI onday)
the lion. T. Hawley, M.P., thought they had sufficient
stitlence to form ground-work for future
Mr. (..attley, 14.1'., thought that if monitors were
at lated by Parliament it would lead to the este)).
lislonent of a l, better class of engine.
A itst.Te named denkinwin hat been fined t:", and
costs at Leeds for cruelty to a cat. He fractured its
skull with a poker and left it to other people to put it
ont of its misery. The committee of the Leeds
'Smeary, on whose medical staff he was, have very
properly discharged him without teatinionials.
AT the *adzes at Kingston Mrs. Hunt recovered
1.1,a00 from the London, Brighton, and Month Coast
Railway Company for the low of her husband. He
was returning home to Forset Hill at night when the
train wan not completely drawn up to the platform,
and the man in stepping out of the tarriage fell and
sustained injuries from which he died.

A DIFFICULT POMITION FOR A Towx Cuote.--in the
course of a very long and heated discussion in the
Sheffield Council, on Wednesday, some extraordinary
revelations were elicited. In 1870 the Corporation
went to Parliament, for the purchase of the gas and
water works; and the water company obtained an
Injunction against them for using any of the funds of
the ratepayers for that purpose. Some members of
the Corporation, however, gave the town clerk a
personal indemnity, under which expenses were
incurred, amounting to upwards of £7OOO. The
Coporation s pnweedings in Parliament were unsuc-
cessful, and consequently the whole of the expense fell
upon the town clerk. • A. voluntary rate to pay them
off yielded only £2500, and the town clerk stated on
Wednesday that be was out of pocket to the amount
of £lOOO. With considerable emotion he stated that
he had been sued for the expenses incurred by the
Coporatiott that he had been put in the Bankruptcy
Court for them, and that he had to sell property in
order to meet some of the claims. Nothing was done
in the matter, but it was under...food that a committee
would report .sn it at the next meeting of the Council.
A NEW EDECATIONAL DIF,II. 'ATT.—The Lucia
Mercury publishes a statement that a girl has been
expelletl from Boston Spa National School for no
ether offence than refusing to "curtsey" to the vicar's
wife. The girl, who is only seven years old, is under
the guardianship of a person who is called a sturdy.
Independent, he having adopted hers and the story is
that this person had told her, while she was to be very
particular in obeying all school regulations, not to
'curtsey' to the clergyman- or his wife. On her being
asked by the latter "where her manners were," she
assigned the true reason fcr omitting the usual mark
of respect, and the vicar then desired the schoolmaster
to punish her, which he refused to do. The master
subsequently retuned a request made to him to expel
the girl. and the vicar thereupon expelled her himself.
It is added that the final result of the affair was that
the schoolmaster found himself obliged to resign his
office, which he had hold for twenty years. On doing
so he was presented by the parishioners with
testimonials to the value of about EGO. The Leeds
Alert-to-Pis informant pays there is no other school in
the parish to which the little Nonconformist can be
sent.

PVU Mk IN RARE Pear Ken et. —The Pure. Strong
Fragnuit and delicious Teas imported by POLAND,
ROBEILSTON & Co., Curtain Road, London, P.C., can
now be obtained in airtight packets in quantities ranging
from 2 oz. to 1 lb., of most respectable Grocers, Chemists,
Bakers, Confectioners, Stationers and others, and the
others, at the following prices per lb. :—Black, Is., and
2s. 6d.; Mixed, 30.; Green, is. 6.1.; Assam, is. tid.
packed in Tins, 2, 4 and 13 lbs. All qualities guaranteed
rare as Imported. The Sib. Tin sent carnage paid to any
Railway Station in the United Kingdom on receipt of
Post 026ce Qrder. The public are respectfully requested
So ask for Poland, Robertson and Co.'s Pure Teas, and re-
fuge all others, as large quantities of worthless trash, con-
sisting of warehones sweepings, Tea damaged by salt
waiter d decomposition, are. by • protasis of steaming
and *rein& made to resemble genuine Pare Teas. For
particulars of agency apply as above.
Warm' QUININE WIN! for Sixteen Ire&ill has been
aniversally admitted to be the best tonic known, and
a useful and agreeable sccompsnunent to Cod Liver
"We can bear personal testimony to it. value
as a tonic."—Ses aslant —Agents for Weymouth, D.
Prioson and Son, Grocers; altesbury, G. Munsurr,
Wine and Spirit Merchant Sherborne, Carp
Grocers, Itc. Cheap. street • Lyme Regis, W. R.
Buena, Family Grocer, groad-street ; Wholesale,
WATMI and SON, 34, Eastebeap, London ; and Lawn
and Co., Worenter.