The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-01-02 00:00:00

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MARK-LANE.—Tnis DAY.
Wheat ham closed quietly but firmly ; English wheat is
quoted at 47. to 59a, and red, 465. to VA. per. qr. For
barley not much demand prevailed, and pnces were NOTES OF THE WEEK.
unchanged. Oats met a slow eale. Maize, thoiigh in
limited demand, was firm in value. In Leans and peas The boy of 17, named Callagham, who was to
there was not mucli done ; prbais pillow no change. have been executed at Kirkdale gaol this morn-
Flour quietly dealt in, but foreign parceL4 were very
dear. mg for stabbing a man, has been respited.
METROPOLTTAN CAME.— DAY. Over .£2OO have been raised for the widows
About 3,500 beasts, including about 000 foreign. and orphans of the two policemen murdered by
Trade dull, 4.. to Ile. 2.1. About 4,790 (+eel, ; fine poachers near Hungerford. What does Sorrier-
breeds steady, others lower prices, se, to le. 4.1. sot say to this ?
Calves made se. GA to fie. 10d. Phre, 48. 4.1. to fie. 2d.
Per Sibs.

-Ting

Some of the idiotic foot' connected with the
Admiralty have been playing what, in their
shallow-pass, they, no doubt, consider a
clever trick. They sent a bogus message order-
ing the Goshawk gunboat, then at Queenstown,
at once to proceed to Gibraltar. She started in
tremendous weather, and it was not until she
put in at Vigo Ray, from stress of weather, that
she could be signalled it was a sell. The lives
of G 3 persons were thus jeopardised to gratify
t. stupidity of some of the imbeciles whom the
country has to support.

DORCHESTER MARKET.--SATuRnAT.
In consequence of the ince,..snt isin, which
baa
rendered wheat quite net of condition. the suPPII to-do,
was extremely small. Dry wheat rather dearer the hest
may he quoted at 4‘.. to 525. per imperial qr. Moderate
supply of barley, the heat being ssleshle at rather
Improved prices—Z.. to tli. Per imPerfol
lf(Z qrs. made £1.245 Di. Ad.. or an average of 3'l.

_
DISASTROUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN
AMERICA.
During • snowstorm Friday nicht the esteem train
Unrolling westward on the Pacific Railway fel: through a
trestle bridge at Ashlobs (Ashland 1. fl ho, a distance of
75 feet, into a shallow creek below. The train took fire,
and many of the 'essence,. of whom there were In in
all, were crushed, burned, drowned, or Omen to death.
Upwards of WO have perished and over sixty are injured.

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The maritime world seems to be considerably
less satisfied with the results f the recent
Arctic Expedition than London land-lubber' in
high places. The patching clubs are talking of
fitting out an expedition on their own account,
and Dr. Petemtui, the well-known geographer.
is now in London consulting with the promoters
of the scheme. We trust no more public money I
will be spent on Arctic exploration for the pre-
sent. A more promising method would be to
offer a reward for the navigators who actually
succeed in reaching the Pole. Whether baloon-
ing is to be the ultimate means for the solution
of the Arctic mystery, or no, :vronants flatter
themselves that they have recently added to the
value of their art, by rendering it subservient
Ito sea-surveying purposes. Rocks no Ivss than
two or three hundred feet below the surface of
the sea, may be described, as it is said, in the
bird's-eye-view obtained from serial heights •
and, it is suggested that A Anal of experienced
balloonists should be added to the Royal
Engineers in time of war, in order to discern
the whereabouts of the teeachifous torpedo.

What no one but a Poor Law Guardian can
understand is, how our rates are kept up, in
sp!tri of the steady and continuous decline of
pauperiatc. During the five years since the
Gathorne Hardy Act has been in operation our
pauper roll in Lom!iin has decreased from
12n,403, at which figure it :mod in 1869, to
83,:ittZi, which is the number on tbe rolls at pre-
sent. All the while the population of London
has been increasing, and the valuation rental
also rising. Why, then, under the operation of
these concomitau: causes, the rates do not
decline, no one can tt,il who is not behind the
scenes.

The transfusion of blood theory has been
bef.we the public for a great many years, and
at times has been put into practice with remark-
able succias. f,Mite recently a young hospital
surgeon suffered himself to be bled profusely
in order to save the life of a patient who was
sinking under the operation of amputation.
And, by the way, the admiration of bystanders '
a genenuts self-sacrifice was such that it
permitte:, thdin to let hint steg:zer home to his
lod.iiiita in a i.alf fainting state, from loss of
. bbssl, without an "ire.; c; assistance. lu a few
years time this incident may :ic.::,-. probably be
reproduced as the the tftrilling plot .1 a three-
volumed novel. The Russian army surgeons
are paying great attention to this question of
; baetoion, in vice of the prisaLly impeuding
Iwas. The rotation is, who are to be the
victims f 10.. ..honlil pri.pose that the army he
accompanied by ei....„,e of plethoriciielividuals,
good subjects for apoplesy, l . whom the loss of
a pint or two of bbod non- mid Totten 7-,,nld be
, a po:sitive benefit. Treusfiision front annese's
I, has been tried : but, unfortunately, the blood of
Ithe b....er orders of creation is found io be too
heavy for ..I:- purpose.