The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-09-06 00:00:00

CATTLE MARK HIV.

NICTBOPOLITAN, Thisraday.—Our Niarki to-day was
well "applied with beast.; but the general quality of
the stock was ',dolor. Prime Soots, he., moved off
etesday at fall pries'. Other breeds were vary dull,
and the quotations had a drooping tendelsoy. We wars
feirly oupplied with sheep, which net a dull sale at, in
some Instances, reduced currencies. The top Isere woe
te 61 per 81b. The few lambs sold at mutton prises--
lb • lamb season being over. Calves were very dull, and
44 per 81b. lower The supply was very large. Prime
small pigs were arm at full quotations, but lug. bogs
and mulch cows were heavy.—Total supply.-
1.300 ; cows. 130; cheep and lambs, 1380; Wets,
3.0; pigs, 431 Foreign— 660 ; sheep and lambs,
3,300; salves, 510.
NEWNAN! AND LiADINZALL, Friday.—lnferior beef,
38 te 3s 441 ; middling ditto, 3s 6d to 3s lOd ; prime
large ditto. 4. to 4. ; prime small ditto, 4is
to 44. 44; veal, 3s Id to 4s 4d • inferior
mutton, 34 84 to Is I middling ditto, 4. 21
to 4. fid ; prime ditto., 4s 64 to ta 84, largo pork,
34 44 to to; vasall pork, its Id to Ist 84 per 81b by the
.rosae.—But moderate "applies of MESA are oa sale at
thee. markets. For good and prime qualities there Is a
steady ditaitatl , at hal pr 0.,.; otherwise, lb* trade is
dull, at oar o,,,osaiksa.

Fiats ia TII MaraoroUs.—On Saturday moraing •
very 'mime Gre broke out is Deanotreet, sad
dearoyed property to the 'mount of emend thousand
pounds. A police-oomistale firse discovered the eoa•
'aeration, •nd having raised an alana several eosin's
were speedily on the spot, but wen usable to do move
thee prevent the Ire from spreadiag to the adjoining
buildings, some of whisks were, however, injud
Another Ars in Lime-street, City, Sunday oserniag,
ceased some alarm and did very scrims damage.
EITIIIOIIOIII AZT LONOICTITT.—Thare an at present
redden in the same mans* In Cardigaashire three
sisters, whom united ages fall but 17 year, abort of
three esatur- es. The deters have reached the m
tire ages of 92, 94, aad 97 years, sad are me aad4"4"
Ms enjoyment of good health and unimpaired laseltitie.
Even the eldest of the three is able at present to disposes
with the nse of spectacles in reading—a circuastaam
almost unprecedented at such ripe age.
Or A BIRTING 11•1.-05
Thursday, • most determined attempt at self -Meanie-
Hen ems made by Captain Jervoies, • gentleman well.
known is @porde.' circles, at his residence, Nutford-
plea'. Edgewater-road. On his servant taking his, up a
I•itter at nine o'clock he found his master Ilyiag zeroes
the bed with the blood flowing from a fearful wooed
that lotted inlicted ma his thrust with a ream Seraiml
seststimice we. obtained, and tbei wound dressed, but it
I. doubtful if he will survive. Extensive hoses on
recent ruing events iodated the rash stamp\
Imrimantem EITI•111) C•TTLI. —By the amended
Highway AM of 1864, the 5 and 8 William IV., cap.
fal, 74-, is repealed, sad In lieu thereof all mid* totted
straying are to be sewed and taken home, if the owners
COO known. 11..,, they are to be taken to the mamma
pound. and the owners on being summoned before the
liseticee, are liable to • penalty not exceeding Is., with
resemshle expenws for nab head.
Worts 5 TVS 11•11•1• T Moos?—!. ear grand•
!staters' day. is ordinary seasons, the PTA harvest
throughout Ragland were much later in the year than
they are at preemie ; and so marked has beeome the
change, that It fairly comes to be a question whether
the moon of August or that of September, strictly sad
properly apsehleg, should be considered as the "harvest
"noon.° Is the years gone by. the last-named month,
throughout the chief part of this comitry, was generally
the tome when the grain was gathered in; but sow, im-
proved drainage, a better system of hasbandry, the
mitiatille sad more extensive applicatioa of maitre, ke.,
have greatly daMmed tk• ripening of the mope ; so that
by the tinse the month of August has ended, the chief
Nrt the English grain is ate ln the bares and stack-
yaris. Is the reseal year this is particularly to he
and, dunag September, if the easther matinees
favourable, the late richly-covered fields will be lying in
shablde, and the labour of the reaper at an end. It
INIMIL therefore, that in England the moos of Ammt
should mew be mesidered that of the harvest; but
whichever way this may he determined, the 'moonlight
of both these months, 10 eight out of tea iastances, is
tiviiilitidul—orepecially so to the &Antis eye, and peril-
calarly when

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" The moon, sweet mistress of the night,"
about the full; then she makes rare pictures with bet
Misery esteem light.—Busilalsr.

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INAUP'OI. Dostm.—• timma namsd Efeeritoon,
resoling at Ravens , Westmoreland, went one
shooting ea the Moore on Saturday last, and did not
again return. • much was instituted, and on the
following morning the dead body of dammed eras found
at OmaAoki Yell, bearing upon it the evidence* of a
faufal death. It woe quite .cried and naked, except-
ing we sum put of the Mookiiip and the sheet
~noised; the gun lay climes by, and the pointer dog
was with the body. Round about for a cossidsroblit
distance tits dry heath/sr had beet band up. Aft....
examinaeios of lb. spot it became iimideet that tho
unfortunate gentleman had met with 11011•11 widest
with his gun as he wma getting over ails.. dyke moms '
diatoms Si. This mooniest had blown mit one of him
eyes, and blinded the other, end Um lame ezitha set
fire to We clothes. Thee Winded, be bad sae4,ej he..
oeot to spot, his sloths, burning. and Um mediate of
his pockets dropping tkreagli as ha west. Where he
had brat meld be trued, and his pocket-book,
C istaining CRO in notes, kis parse, in which Wits
Eli. hie gold width, hays, powder flask, ha., were
'sand aloug the track. Ha bad bort Wilgus mftporestlY
to the last, wthd Um fell wham ha was famed. A. imaml
wei hold as Meador, when • verdiet was Nand of
—Aocideatal Death."

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Mar AID CMOS. 1861.—A1l of us haws a lively
recollection of an locieisitorial government paper Wag
left at our residence* in April, 1861. requiring our
whriatim arid SIIIII•ON, profession, and age : from which
even the fair sex were not exempt. This eel/seam we
irnagioed was for the weal of the State, but us now
adreeably surmised at the muss being placed before us
in a per...sally interesting form. This manipulation of
otherwise dtimegures has been brought out in the form
sif a Map of Oust, that shows on the railways the
-various towns, with the populstioss aecording to the
venal.; the counties are asked sad their names
pramineetly 'valour's', so that the reedy student, or the
mean instantly trace, his native pace, the
rail by which it is reached, and the Number of the
human family there located. In adiition to this in.
istructire information, we observe that' I. who rams
rides) may opium each place the name of the'
agent of Mews. Mon:linen, who Erre ceased Usia mag,
of such wideepreed utility to be prepared, and exhibited
for public view at ilts various railway mations through-
out the kingdom. Ws do well in drawiag the attention
of our racslers to this sheet, sad woeld remark that,. a.
good...fa no busk" ...idler doom Me that is
always good oliko require 551 55505155d04ati0n.

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