The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-02-25 00:00:00

Slaricrts.

SALISBURY CORN, Tuesday—Wheat in short supply,
beet qualities v. ry scarce, realising last week's ertreme
prices. Barley small supply, beet qualities firm;
=dory unaltered. Fees stuffs, no alteration,—
—7laere was a tolerably good supply of cheese at
this market on Thiusday. A good deal remained unsold,
and the pion were /ewer. Some half skims sold as low
as 30e to Ms; and Somerset. as low as MR
Unarm, Cons, Tneeday.—With a fair attendance of
buyers, our market opened strong for whist Holders ask
ld. per rental advance on the rates of Friday but Flour
steady, but quiet. Indian corn sealer; new mired
American, lid. ; and old,
articles beton 49
; Cenadinn peso 61. sd. Otherquiet.
SALFORD CAITLR, Tuesday—Hors shee and trade
slow. Beef, beet prink lid. ; woods, d, to 7d. ; sheep,
Md. to 9d. ; calves, Sid. toped.
Cola &mum, Tuesday.—O : nets.—
_woods,
124 ; thirds, 9lu fourths. ; ; tixtfl—•
Seperise, Mild cored —: escoeds, ;
thirds, 94a Number of firkins in the market, MO.
WRTMCHMIL HAT AND Aram, .—A moderste
supply of hay and straw was on eel* . There was
rather more badness doiu in clover sad straw, but prices
remained unaltered Mme clover, 96e. to 12k 61,;
inferior ditto, les. to MU ; prime meadow hay, The to 84s;
inferior, 2k to its ; and straw, SOL to au per load
RULL Coax, Tuesday—There is a short eupplgoszl
Ziliswheat, for which fanners oak advanced
h succeed in °WALL( Is, per quarter over lest week's
No change in Foreign wheat,
alteration,
as
=or all aorta Feeding corn without
Lame Cons, Tuesday.— Good wheat meets • fair
trade, at the full rates of lad week. Secondary sorts sell
slowly. Barley is held for late prices, but the demand is
only slow. Flour the same as last week. Oats and beans
without alteration.
Stamm-0 Coax, Tneaday.—No material changes took
place in the condition of the grain trade here today.
English wheat was in moderate supply. Sales programed
slowly, at the quotations of laid week, but if anythingthere was a tendency in favour of IMMO. Malting
barley scarce and dull. Oats unchanged, and but few
Pu
BIRMINGHAM earns, Tuesday—Besets, ;
564 pipe. 317; with no improvement in the trade Beef,
7d to 71,1 ; mutton, Bed to led per lb. ; bacon pigs, 9a
Id; sows, 7a 64, to th.; porkers, 10s, to Its 61. person,,
BRISTOL HAT AND STILAW KARKIT, Tuesday—Seventeenl•-ads hay sold at egs to its, twelve loads at MS,
and
two loads straw at 635. 41 per ton.
MARK Lava Wedlitesday. —Wheat sold quietly at
about but MotiAsy s prices. Barley without change
Not much done in oats, males, beans, or peek quotations
being unaltered. Flour dull Imports of wheat into the
United Kingdom from September lit to close of last week,
113 MASS cirta against 1e,197,542 carte of the correspond-
ing period of the previous mason.

BILIDOWATiI CA117.1, Wedosoday. —A large
to.
seprmg
stock was Main on offer to-day, and most e
exhibited .hanged hands, those of tbe beet quality being
dispoeed of at from lb la to I.lb per score. The prior
for dote cattle were hardly so good as for the past week or
two, cows and calves averaging from Ll 6 to PO. and
barrenere from XII ti £l7. Mutton averaged from 84d.
to 9d. per. ; • few Down ...titers realized 96d. In the
Corn Exchange trade was dons, with a slight advance of
prima

Tin Volunteers are to hers a geld day on Easter
Monday, if a suitable locality can be obtained- Tbe
Goreniment should sce to this as Ui. annual o.p.danity
cd the "taking stock of our valuable Army at haserre
sh old not be missed.

The dock labourers strike at Liverpool still drea.
dcm.
At • meeting it the men on Friday, an nut ly
demonstration was made against the patios, bat the
authorities have taken steps to prevent • breech of the
peace.

lt la now known that Lord Chelmsford with his main
body was within twelve miles of the seem of the disparate
struggle, yet he was i.tht of the fact that his rear was
assmiled and his conunimitlan cut by • map of 10,000
Zulus. A horseman might have carried the news in an
hour, and this is the service that should have been
performed by that useful corps, the Cape Mounted Rifles

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LiTINT Irriu.ionalca —A telegram isms been received
by the Amt-Genersl for Queensland, 1111nosuselog the
following as the sew ministry of that (loamy —Theme
lifellwraith, Esq., Prernir end Treasurer; A. H. Palmer,
Beg , Colonial Secretio7 _
_• T. M. Thompeon,
Minister of Justice ;T. IL llcCrorasa. Zee Minister of
Works; Thomas Perkins. Zoe., Minister of loads; 0.0.
Busacott, Postareler-OenersL
The discipline of the rrack is telling eaverely on the
industrial condition of the German people. The math is
that quite an exodus of illte working classes in now going
on. During the pa,t yew the Semi police have sent back
to their own country offer 24,000 natives of the Father-
land who were trying to escape from military thraldom,
and had been unable to procure the puma requisite for
their emancipation from Prince Bismarck's deep am.
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The panic of the plague comes nearer and nearer. After
Germany, Italy took alarm, DO IV France is greatly
OXlllei/Oki on the subject, and even in RegiaM 1101110
uneasiness is felt. Medical authorities say that every
Rusdan mail should le fumigated, and that a sharp look.
out should be kept on all imports from the Black Bee On
Tuesday the Fellows of the Royal eollee of Physicians
adopted a resolution appointing • committee to adopt
preventive melanins sgainst the dreaded pestilence
The catestrophe at Rorke's Reef haa had little or no
ulterior effect ea the fortunes of our Zulu
Neither FABr rising nor Zulu invasion
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ron..rt
swam of Kln ea aye; aid not only had General
Pearson eUrablbiled hlmsslf at Ekbowa, in Zululand, but
sitar the mamma of the British on the land the Zulu
forces stistebasd two decided defeats. This is a very
reassuring stele of things, and we trust that it will last
until reinforcements reach Natal.
HOLLOWAY'S OINUEST LSD PILLL —Sudden changes of
temperature setely try all persons prone to rheumatism,
taodsha.qc, and many maladies varcely lege
painl ul, though of dither duration. On the first attack of
attendee or snag* in sey muscle, joint, or nerve,
recourse should inmeedbleb belied to fomenting the seat
of disease with hod him tad tubbing in this remarkable
ointment, which willesueep the OneMillille of the pert,
subdue inflammation, and reduce the swelling. The pills,
simultaneously tam, will rectify oneetiCatimig dl..
turbances and renew lie strength No remedy heretofore
discovered has proved so effective as the ointment end
pills for removing gutty, rheumatic, and scrofulous
attacks, which 'Ma all ages, and are oo2unonly called
hereditary.
Dansanonino.—Dreemaldng mysteries must be most
Parldexhid to • 0001,t7 Glatt Judge A lady in HasUnP
refused to pay for the isaldm up of a dew a short lime
since ; and the dreems savoured to recover 8a it
for the work. The dram was produced, and laid ou.t rpou
.
the teas of the County Court, and its points and
were explained by the defendant It appears that
" gores' were not correct —there were three on each ads,
and the proper number is two. Again the drag was 17in.
round the roller, instead of 15in. Indeed, the dress was
condemned as being uszally too big, with too many
" gores." The dr.smatec attempted to explain one part
of the defect by saying that she allowed for an Mama.
of family; bat ea his Honour refit ed to go into this
delicate estimate, he gave a verdict for the defendant
upon the "gores' &lona

SCHISM AT 1111 CAM —Callon Butler, the COMMiIIMITT
of the Bishop of Pietermaritzburg (11Lacrorn), lias rewired
from that prelate a long letter, the substance of which
was communicated to the members of the Natal Guild, a
body of laymen in London, complaining that just atm.
Sir Bartle Frere and Lord Chelmsford had ignored Bishop
Colenso and attended the cathedral services, the dean
(Kr. Green), against his earnest advice and protest, had
Introduced vestments, Hera, and laosose into the
cathedral, alienating thereby nearly the whole of the coo-
Mei°n. The Bishop hastily siuntooned thecolydniod.l.l
. this conduct was almost unanimously
Nevertheless the dean pomaded in his course after the
Bishop had pointed out to him that his position was equally
with that of Bishop Coleus*, one of schism. The letter
adds that most of the cathedral oosigrogation new go to
the military chapel.

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COCOA. —GIATZTUL AID 001170117/o.—" By
a thorough kno • ledp of the natural laws which rovers
the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a
careful application of the fine properties of well-
selected cocoa, Mr. Epp. has provided our breakfast
tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may
save us many heavy d Ictore bilL It is by the judicious
use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be
gradually built up until strong enough to resist every
tendency to dimes. Hundreds of mobile =Macho
Sr. floating around no ready to attack wherever then
is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft
by keeping ourselves well fortilied with pare Mood and
• properly mooriebed frams."—OirE Service Gemita
SoM only in Paoksts labelled—" Jams Errs I Ow,
Honicermaikie 011aiddr. Leedom.

WLIKLT Ring, OP TNI 002.11 TILLDS.-11.41T0 Weekly
Meresmar says : —"The weather las been mild during the
pm* week, and a considerable quantity of rain has
fallen. Owing to the facility with which the land is in
many localities drained, complaints al deeds have again
arisen sad, comemmativ, In low-lying districts
agricultural work bas been 'ma imPedod- n the high
lands, however, it Las been remused; but the land seems
to work heavily and mem are not, therefor*, being
uickl made up dome dry weather would now be
desirable. In a few week, we shall have left winter
behind us, and the work of sowing will be in active
operation. It matters little whether the temperature
be high or low as far as the corn trade Is oonotormi
During • severe winter the trade has been devoid of
animation, and now that the weather I. mild it Is equally
taathmats. Buyert_ are, of course, influenced by the
still existing lindaaos in the United Slates, which
.ssas to be adequate to all rqulresnent.. The quantity
of wheat new Amt. emethting Wady of American
produce, IS I.WSA. VI. and It le reported that the
Aims supply In the United States is as much as 1,560,00,
gra. Is the boo of *lto flares, and with the proreete
dike Battle .a 4 oiler torte being sacs r.opened to
senseely need not to
:Lev milataihear IMlWomenta The MIMICS ht
the ~km k sorlidhly Ter, leakkonarY.