The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-08-15 00:00:00

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CORNWALL: Fat loullocks were firm at last week's
enotations.—Donsrr : At the Dorchester market to-day
there was but a moderate supply of stock. Fat beef
from Eis. to Pic
perscore; larrenens, £8 to ils
d heed; cows and calves, ill 10s. to £l7; ewes and
wethers, lls. to Ma each; lsmh.s. 21s. to :Ole —Noftwirii :
Businciui dull, although prices were reduced in some
cases be. per (med.—Norman...al : The trade was dull,
late rates being difficult to obtain.-11KADING : A com-
paratively small number of animals. Fine milch cows
were taken off at high figures— from £27 to £3O;
secondary cla.,s, LIS to £25 per head. A slowness in
the inquiry for young animals.

THE EXECUTION OF THE BLACKBURN
MURDER Eli.

William nth was executed at Liverpool this
(Monday) morning, for the murder of Emily Holland
at Blackburn, in March last. He looked scared and
frightened when brought to the scaffold, but he died
Instantly.
Richard Thompson was executed at same time for
stabbing a man in Liverpool, he also died quietly.

Under pressure the corporate authorities of
Blackburn have been compelled to take down their
small-pox hoepital. The epidemic ix 4ill increasing.
The French Dlinsion chapel at Ning-kone-foo, In the
province of Sing-lioei, bax been attacked by the populace
during Immo. The officiating priest and many of the
congregation were killed.
Mr. Richard Banner Oakley, the founder of the Co-
operative Credit Bank, and the gentleman who promised
to popularise finance for the benefit of the million, has
been found guilty of fraud, and sentenced to flee years'
penal servitude.
Alfred Johnson, who started from America:on the
15th June in a small boat, landed at Abercastle,
Pembrokeshire, on Friday, having been 57 days at
sea The boat in which .lohnstone accomplisheil hie
voyage is called the f'entennial„ of Gloucester, Mas-
aachusette. It measures only 20 feet over all.
The Keighley fools alias gnanlianx seirrensiered thrum.
selves to the Leeds authorities on Saturday 1111 l ening,
and proceeded to the station accompanied by a number
of policemen, whose efforts were unavailing to keep
back an excited crowd which insisted on the prisoner's
travelling firet-clasx to York. The prisoner; were not
dejected, but continued saying "This is might against
right." Amid I 1 cheers the train started for York.
Mr. Thonim Wssmleimmt*, who for thirty years was
chairman of the South Devon Railway, died at Devon-
port on Saturday, in his Tali year. The deceased WAS
elected town clerk of ISevonport at the incorporation
of the bonsugh in 1810, and held the appointment till
within two veers mince. Ile was the originator of the
Royal Albert hoospitsd, Devonport, and hail much tomb
with the Contagious I/iseaaes Acts, both in their
original and amended forms, writing frequently in
favour of them and their results. .

The coroner's inquest on the bodies of the driver and
stoker killed in the accident to the "Flying Dutch-
man' on the 27th ult wan resumed on Saturday, at
the Long Ashton Petty Sessions Court. Evidence
wan given by Mr. F. Fox. late principal engineer to
the Bristol and Exeter Railway; Mr. J. Caley, civil
engineer; and Mr. B. B. Cooper, district engineer of
the Bristol and Exeter section of the line. Captain
Tyler, Chief Inspector of Railways under the Board of
Trade, also gave evidence, and the enquiry was
adjounied, for the consideration ,d his report. lie
stated that he had no doubt whate‘er that the uneven
condition 4 the pernianeut way was the cause of the
accident.