The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-11-28 00:00:00

TUESDAY. NOVEMBER *3, IC.C.

NOTES OF TUE WEEK.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE.—Titta DAY. A Novel and ingenious method of attractim•
public attention and courting favour has been
About 6,000 beamta, including about 2,000 foreign;
resorted to by a young actress, who in shortly
trade quiet at 4s. Cd. to fia. About 18,000 sheep;
trade inactive at 5... to 7s. ; calves made se. 6d. to to make her (Phut at the Vaudeville, Paris in
6a. Bd. ; pigs, 4s. 6d. to 4a. ‘L per 81be. a peicu Druyfus. which is to procedo the great
--- - comedy of Sardou. A few days back all the
SATURDAYS MARKETS. papers snn,fliiced thu attumptod suicide of
CURS. Mtllle. Angele Itenar.L daughter of lho former
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tenor of the opera. The story ran, that in a fit
of despair—the cause of which all the journalists
have wisely asserted they knew, but were not at
liberty to inention—this young lady boiled a
pound of matches in water, and drank the con-
coction. Naturally enough before morning
her sufferings became intense, and at nine
o'clock when a friend called to see her she was
found in convulsions, her face livid, and to all
appearance in the very jaws of death. A doctor
; was called in, the room searched, the boiled
matches found; and a confession extorted from
the sufferer, who was not, according to first
accounts, expected to recover. The story of
this romantic drama spread like wildfire on.
, the Boulevards, and the papers published a '
bulletin daily of the condition of NI dlle. Renard,
chances of her recovery, and so on. Well, the
whoie thing is a romrd, and a successful scheme
to evoke sympathy for the interesting young
de/infante. In a spirit of enterprise which will
be greatly admired and perhaps imitated in
Yankeeland, Mdile. Bullard did not hesitate to
seek renown even in the very matchbox, and to
swallow a sufficient quantity of some drug to
givo some semblance of foundation to the
dramatic story which she took care to have
circulated. All the newspapers swallowed the
, bait, and reported the attempted suicide in
perfect good faith. The consequenoe is that,
when in it fortnight she appears at the
; Vaudeville (for appear she surely will, notwith-
I standing the consumption of a pound of
I matches) she will inset the cordial reception
which her talent alone would hardly have
insured her.

l!AMIlltlIN4E. Prices were against the tuner.
cHEsTER. -Good red wheat worth 70. 6. a bushel.
CH EsTER Prices were 6d. t., la per
qr. higher. The barley trade was quiet.
DORCHES'f -I.arge attendance at the Corn
Exchange to-day, and a tolerably good business done,
especially in barley. Moderate supply of wheat,
which was la. per imperial qr. dearer than last week.
The quotations were from 48a. to 50s. Large supply
of barley, the very choicest descriptions being Is. per
Imperial qr. cheaper the, last week; quotations, 35..
to 425. Better demands for oats, which made full
prima. The returns of last week are : Wheat, 97 ,
qrs. 4 bushels, £230 7a. 6d., average 475. 3d. ,• barley,
1,782 qrs. 4 bushels, £3,447 Is.. average 38.. &I.
GRANTHAM.— Sales were made at Is. per qr.
more money than was 010.ainable last Saturday.
HOEWI('H. —Good dry qualities advanced about
la. per qr.
NOTTINGHAM. —.%n advance of li. per qr. was
established. Barley was a fair show, and the demand
was quiet.
CATTI.F.
DoßcirEsTF:a. -About. 700 head .if boasts and a
good supply of sheep °Sea f to-lay, the attend-
ance of buyer. being large and , orupetition keen.
Barreners realised fram £l7 10i. to 4:26 per pair;
inferior malcing Ell to £l6 per pair; grazing short-
horn oxen £l3 Inn. to £2l ta per head ; mod
calves, £l2 to 1:14. ; shorthorn eons 13th wr pair ; in-
LIM heifer' £l4 to £lB per lair. Fat beef 14s. per
nowt ; horn ewes, 56,-. to 64... per hen I, or 84.1. to 9,1
per
NORWICH. —Trade again ruled dull, 111111 a
reduction of 10s, per head 100 to be conceded in
some ewes, while a clearance WM by no means fully
effected.
NOrTINGH Alt —The amount of busimps done
was small, and pi'.s of cattle showed no change fr im
those lately current.

The Registrar-General's report just issued
shows that two-thirds of the deaths in England
occurred from one or other of fifteen causes.
Bronchitis heads tim list, and from it no fewer
than 53,022 people died in one year, a larger
number than in any year included in a table
extending over tho preceding fifteen years.
Phthisis, or consumption, was the cause of the
deaths in twelve months of 43,379 people, amid
ads was a smaller number than that of any
year, 80,995 deaths, chiefly those of young
children, are accounted for by atrophy and
debility. Old age, is hick ought to be the ,
highest on the list of causes of desdm, Is fourth,
and only 28,604 deaths are referred to it, La
of this number there were 12,495 men and
16,109 women over 65 years of age, and some
who were reputed to be centenarians. It is a
lellienteble and astounding fact, but not more
hunentsble and astounding than true, that
28,513 penman. died of htart disease, showing
an euorinous increase in the spread of that
i complaint. 27,139 children died ic the course
of twelve mouths of convulsions i and mom-
•onie more fatal than it has ever been, killed
P
in the 113Ulti
,1014111 4 Ihno 25,927 persons,
Eight on th,, i4.flogfc cfaxlat fecer. to which
disease the deaths of ;f4,923 gro
attributed, and this is near!" dollbte of either
of the next two preceding year. 21'204
deaths were caused by diarrlou a much !nor°
a and fatal disease than it was twenty
! years 640, and out of this number of deaths
more than 18,000 were those .1 children under
tive years of age. Apoplexy and paralysis,
both of theta out the incieaso of late years,
C 111134.11 24,372 deaths, but, in,ratt4e to say in this
in.;tl of worry and over-auxiety, these figures
.show a deervise. Last on the lint of the foes of
human life come deaths fr. en a leaiping-cough,
c sneer, and premature births, and to these
CAIMANS 9,829 are put down.

A eocreapaulent upon whom) we eau nap
sends 114 11. etoinnunication which we certainly
think demands the :Mutation of the authorities
of the Gre.tt Weaturn Railway :
" A few ilays ago I watt a traveller upon the \Vey.
mouth awl V. 4.01 branch of the f :reat Wimtern