The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-12 00:00:00

CORN AND PRODUCE MARKET:

Doerr. gaturday.—M the Dorchester CA-ea-Exchange
to-day trade ruled dull, and lower prime then last
weelit were in some instances secepted. Wheat—the
averago reduction being Is. per qr.—realiaed from 48s.
to 525.; barley, 24a. to 38..; °eta, 25.. to 28s. Inspector's
return—wheat, 417 quarters, £1,172 11s.„ average
49,. od. ; barley, 20 quarters' £3O, average 30s.
DollSaT, Saturday. —At lb. Dorchester market to-day
fat beef fetched from 10a, 84. to 12a per score; beeeenees,
£9 to £l2 manic; sows end salves, £lO to £l6; mutton,
76 to 746. per lb. ; lamh, 74.1. to Bd.
BRIBTOL UNION-COM WHOLINALS Meirv, Saturday—Semi
3.6 s to ries per ewt. Litton 6id to 7d per lb. Lamb lid to bid.
Veal, &I to 7id Porkers, 12. Od per more.
TAUNTON cams 11•11117, Salerley. FOltilight.l7 cattle
market not very well supplied.anl demand anything but brisk.
Pat beasts 12.66 to 13e per wore. Hei ers and calves a poor
ral., £l4 to 617 was &eked. Fat *beep 70 to &I per lb. Store
lambs, 'born, were offered at 17. to 113 s each, but little business
was done.

Tot nox
WOOL MARILST, Saturday.—The bminess in wool
was steady, and prices ruled about the same as Nat week. Tog
wool let bed Is 11.1, per 1k; Dorset born and crowobred, led;
Nose wool Is Did.
Rune, Saturday —Thin attendance, grain in scanty eupply.
Wheat slow at sbout the prices ol lest week; top quotation
66s per qr. Flour Ms to &Ss per seek. In barky nothing
doing. Oats quiet at ?As to 264 per qr. Beans, "Seto Ms.
TltlrfON, Ssturday.—Market generally very quiet, and
prices hal Idoeiiwad tendency. Farmers gave way gd per
bu.hel on wheat, but millers refused to pun:them even at Oils
"once-Mon to any great extent.
Wamimmt. Saturday.—Fair supply of wheat, mad a fair
business at Is reduction. Date Arm

DONCASTER WOOL-I(ARKET, JotY 9.
We bad about 400 'beets, all fresh wool, on offer
this wormer. Dealers' wants have been pretty well
supplied, and they are not sager buyers, nor buyers at
all, save at • reduction, and we must notes good 31 per
stone le.. money to-dsy, as oomp.red with the currenoies
of last week, with a very slow business doing. All bog
and the finest lustre wools are bought at full money.
Our quotations are: —All hog. 2016,4 to 21s Od ; two
third bog, Id. 91, to 3). ; half hog awl half ewe, 18,1
to 134; and all ewe, 16e 6d, to 17.6.1 per stone.
Lineolashire lots made about GI lees than the above

IS LORD ARTHUR CLINTON DF.A.D?
XXXXX 4., ILDUILIT SUMUOIL

There i. at present. says the London corresportedot
of the Oforpoto Herald, a very wide-spread belief in
London that Lord Arthur Minton is not dead, and that
the burial was a sham one. It is asserted that when
the Duke of Newcastle went down to Chriataharch to
bury his brother be found the tiofflo screwed down, and
that upon his requesting it to be opened be was put
off with an amines by Mr. Roberti, the solicitor. The
Duke con.equently never saw th body of hi, brother.

RAILWAY ACCIDZJIT.—At the Sydenhametion of
the London, Brlghton, and South Coast jzl way, on
Friday, a train from the Cryetii Palmer ran into a train
from West Croydon. The guard of the former, in
jumping el, fell under the amines, Om Titania of
whjoh out off both of bin feet. Two muTiages yen
thrown off the line, bet hose ot the paleesiere wen
teektuivtaPtt4

FEARFUL TRAGEDY NEAR BEVILIA7-'
On die outskirts of C..tille de la Gissrd,a,
lima farm house tenanted by a labourtrig
wife. Thee bad not been married very long,,,,rlta
had jest arrived to compete their domestic
With • pripsy and his wife they were on Very
terms, the spay man being employed as 4,14 n'trlly
disposal of farm produce, and in the pu,chaise
of animals, &a On the advent of the !title
the Kim couple solicited the honour of being ii.°4".
parents, • request which was readily gra„,,,L rd.
ba,,tisimal day having arrived, the whole hoo.„bT4
with the exception of the mother. who was,
unable to leave her bed. and the giose worn
remained in attendance, proem led to the eher,}7' '4O
tonm of two miles. After everybody had
sufficient time had been given for the party to g,t :41
out of bearing, the gipey woman, armed with a.p.
approached the bedinde of tbe iuvalid, mutt
ber with death in cue of refusal, dernaaded bf
the money that was io the house. The poor item,"4
with rare presence of mind, and without • ineei„-;',
hesitation, indicated that all their small ten.
was in a drawer in the lower part of • chest sa-4
adjoining room. No sooner had the gips, eb,
this room to obtain the cash, then the
jumped out of bed, ran to the door, secured the ee'n't
inidde, and seising her husband's lecher°, or bleed,,.
bum. rushed outside the house. to the window
which the gipsy might escape, and covering her with
gun threatened her with instant death if .he mos.-4,4
the same time rai-ing load cries for help, which,
happily, no one appears to have heard. In the in..,.
while the christening party were now on their re•.„
Meeting two paned(' cirile mutual compliments
and the soldiers VIVO asked to some to the farm
and partake of the modest fiesta prepared for the teen
lion. This proposal and its ready acceptance inog
have somewhat disooneerted the [Noy man, for he mt
Proposed to run on before to see that everything .44
ready, and begged to be allowed to carry o,e
as to return it the goner to the bosom of its tootl..r.
On reaching the house be immediately
his deeply-laid design bad in some way ruiscani.i,
Approaehtna the woman at the widow, he de.ir-I n.r
to 1,4 his wife go free, or otherwise he would k II
child. Never dreaming the man would be so
diabolical, she declined. Without another word tti
man whipped out his knife, and with one blow
severed the little incooent's bead from its teely. itt
tossed the quivering *ogee upon its moiber. Maadet...!
by this horrible sot, the woman turned her gun cog
the man, and laid him dead at her feet. The elti! ape
and screams brought the 'mania cinife alnio-t
taneorisly to the boase.one of whom rushing in aI
locking the door where the gipsy was confined,
0006 shot through the heart by that woman. "Its
second guarda chile hearing this second explos
hurriedly entered the house, and seeing his mih,.4,
dead ou the floor and the woman with the still sto-Vuor
Pistol in her band, raised his carbine and drilled her
lifeless where she stool

VOLUNTERR SHAM FIGHT.
A them fight, in which 2,000 Volunteers of Dent
and Dorset took part, was held on Wednesday after.
DOOO on Woodburyroommon, near Exeter, in pre.eict
of between 10,000 and 12,000 spectators. Colon,.
Wean., CM., who commanded, warmly congratulate:
the Voloneeers on the manner in which they bad
&quitted themselves.

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Chemist, or Chandler, will supply it.
THS wide reputation, and intimating demtei fw
Horniman's Packet Tea, has inducted some to copy th.
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cheapness of this tea is in high estimation. For load
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