The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-05-25 00:00:00

ST EXPRESS & ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

NARK LANE, MONDAY, MAT 24.
Supply cd English wheat small and prises of this day
week could not be exceeded. A fair retail business in
foreign st prima of this day week. Barley, beans and
pees unaltered. liaise and oats rather °beeper. Flour
inactive.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, Mei 24.
Very little choiew English beef at market. Priem
sexier. Foreign dearer and a clearance will be made.
Sheen saarket flat. and prices supported with difficulty.
Little or no demand for lamb. Sales at considerable
reduction. Veal .demised. Pork stemiy.
Beet, Se &I toga; mutton, 3e 8d to 5 104 ; veal, 3.64
to Iss 19s ; pork, 2s dd to 151 6d ; lamb, 40 to se.
prime Waste, 4,040; sheep and lamb*. 31,710;
calved, 119, Pits. 100. Foreigo beasts., 2776; sheep
and lambs, 12,950; Glares, 129; pigs 'botch
besets, 150; Irish beasts, 50; English besets, 1,144 e,

CORE MARKETS, RaTtIRDAT.—DOITEtsger Wheat,
MIS to 45. ; average, 43' 81d.—Bfandford Limited
attendance and trade dulL Wheat same pries as last
week. —Both : In every respect our market to-day
was • small one, and there is scarcely Loy bruisers to
report. Wheat sold slowly at the rates of last week.
Nest to nothing was dose in barley, and oats,
and beans met only • retail sale. For llour there is
fair eonsumptive demand, at from 300 to 325 per sack
for swede, and 33. to 355 for gue.--Tneston .• The
supply of wheat wee tolerable, and there was a quiet
demsod, at about the priests of last week- Only •
limited amount of business wasdone in other articles, at
late quotetions.— Warminster : The attendance
at this market ho-day was small, and we had only
scanty supplies of cam. For wheat higher
prices were asked, but millers are very cautious
buyers, and vary little business indeed was eoncluded,
the extreme prices of last week generally ruling. Trade
was quiet for oats and beans, at previous rates. For
flour the demand continues quiet, and prices stationary.
—Olomaster —At our market to-day there was • fair
supply of linglish wheat, for which there was • demand
at about last week's prices. More inquiry for foreign
whist at former rates. Grinding bailey without alters-
lion. Oata the tern *wow.

A Ifi,ulPrl editor end justice of the peace, married
I couple in 1858, divorced them in 1860, married be
man to soother woman in 1861, married the woman to
another man in 1862, and has now re-married the

Tie Poplar Board of Guardians have discovered that
essay Of the poor of the distriet sre in the habit of
pladfmg their relief tickets at" leaving Mom" to obtain
loans of mull same, on which they are charged isteren
at a rsioons rate. The keeper of one of these shops u
to be prosecuted.
Tel oaks or. now getting into fine foliage, whereas
the ash is quite bare. Experienes prover the indica-
tion to fode a fine dry summer. Had. says the
Mork Lona Lyre" both trees prompted the same
grimmest as regards foliage, the Mamma are that the
earning mason would have been neither particularly
wet nor dry, but cold and unproductive throughout.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO • VOLONTUN. —An inquiet
was held oa Saturday at Wens, on view of the body
Illotthew Chattiness, a private is the Bilston Volun-
teer Cope. From the endues it appeared that the
dammed was employed as marker arid leaving the
'meant without raising the demur signal wu shot by •
voluteor who shamed to fire jut at the time. A
verdiet of "Accidental death" was returned.
AN ANIABLZ 112101 OF JUDONENT. —A native of
Delhi, in whose cute it wee forbidden to have two
wives, went over to Christianity in order, as he
fanned. to he able to metro/ • second marriage. He
did on; but his Gres wife, to his oonaternatioc, followed
him, sad he also discovered that bigamy was neither
a fluidise virtue nor a favourable recommendation to
the notise of the law of the country. So, to it. the
difficulty, he murdered both his wives, and now Gods
himself brought up by an Inhuman soder for having
eadeavolued to rectify a mistake—hi/ion Public
Opinion.
BunaniAn CAns or CRILD DROTTING.—At the New-
portn4.3orouseey police mart, on Friday, Mary Am Wall,
dreamed married woman, residing at
Liaeloa, was 'barged before Mr. T. (Matrix, ud Mr.
11.. J. Phillips, with deserting her infant Mild, by leaving
It Is a of the house No. 15. Williusetreet,
epee by . Lila. bandmaster of the Artillery
Volunteer& The soma did not deny the charge.—
Margaret Watkins said: I am gamut to Mr. LH*, who
lives at 15, Williams-street. On Friday night last a
lutodt MIN to the door, which I answered. A woman
asked for Mrs. Lila, and pre me a non for her, saying
at the time that abe would wait for as answer. I took
lb. seta to Nrs. Lib& who cipmad it, and toned it con-
tamed nothing but bleak paper. I went down stairs
end found • Mild had been dropped on the mat in the
pump, with i bottle of milk by its side. I took the
child straight to Kr. Lile, who was playing with Ike
baud at the Theatre, to ask Wight I most do with it. Hs
"Ton had better take it to the Town-ball.' I
did as I was told, and Kr. Lile accompanied me there.
I believe the peisoner is the woman who come to the
door. Yr. lAlselterwards took the shill to the relining '
ofileer.-Berpant Curtis sail: Last Saturday morning
the Mild was brought to the Tomball eari sepoisia,
ikon Hurtable had sense bills printed, cawing • reward
for sub information as mall lead to the detection of
the penal who deserted the child. From what I heard
I went to look for the prisoner, and saw her ooming
lowa Slow-hilt. I ahmrd her with leaving • child in
a purge, sod she said. ' Yes, I did ; but I did not think
it was any bares, as I left it with its hither."—The
Clerk: lit. Lila is a married man, is he not —Sem&
Curtis : I believe so; he am. thrum Saturday morning
and mid be knew nothing "boot it, and hoped we should
keep it filikA —TM Clerk (to the prisoner): Have
you anything to say in answer to the charge ?
Primmer : No, ; I have nothing to my. I thought
Mr. Like knew the child, and that he would snake some
amusement to keep it.—The Clerk: Hu he been
rirManything towards the support of the child?—
r : Yu, sir, ss. • week. The Clerk: Has he
pall it to you or to uy one Mee I—Prisoner: To me.—
The Clack: Did any one me him pay you any money? ,
—Prisoner: No, dr. He always paid me, and mum
persons have seu us together: but be would not pay
IN is the premium off anyone. He always paid it to
me alter he same from thapM—(lotid lusliter.)— The
Clerk (to the Bench): She did not leave the shill in
seed, hut la the pamap al a house, therefore the
did sot desert the child in the street, it she did she
would be liable ton heavy puiishment —Prisoner : I
wispW it up nice and wann.eir.—Senemet Hateable,
The was well wrapped up, and had pkoty of good
olothing.—Hr. reboring
_older, said the
Mild was brougbiltytarliim La the middle of the night,
mad be took it to the Haim. The ouster of the Onion
was In Goon, atid the elilld was in the adjoining roost.
—Hr. Ontrez (to primmer): Is you hitshend at boss?
—Primmer : No, sir, ha le at ma, and bas bees away
Mere thee three years.-14. Gratrag (to prisoner):
The seas &plod you, as promoted to as win be dis-
missed ; bat the child is mon, sad you mut lake
=pal it. It will be for you to Mks any other pro
yes think

'HE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1869.

.r.wcwceecve...—
abatis of four horses, 4= al of a steam threshing
machine. Is was oom be bad bum driving
the homes at fell spiced from Fresapton to Maiden
Newton, and the man with thob was Angel to
knock him down before be would lrttrein stop the horses
as he kept whipping them.—Defesdant mid he had bad
%drop of drink which • Mead (!) gave him, but he never
drove up against anyone. It was hie Int offermea, aidhe had worked for one master sight years.—The Chau.
man mid they heard be had • good eliarsoler, end be
would only be geed se.
Joh% Duncan Clemess, under missend for obetracting
the railway between Dorchester and Weymouth, was
again brought up, and as the railway oompany did sot
attend to proeecote, be was discharged.

WET MOUTH.
THE Commisear7 of the Bishop of Salisbury bee
licensed the Rev. Joshua Ground, Clerk, 11.1„ to the
Curacy of Meloombe Regis
fiamog'ff Hors. —H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh
bee kindly gime £lO towards the funds, end other rub.
scripiims, to the amount of £lO 105. have been received.
ACCIDNIT.—IIr. C. Byers, son of Bandmaster Byers,
was riding home on his return from the yeomanry drill
at Weymouth, and fell off his bores, about two miles
from the town, and wee seriously injured about the
bead His father's carri•ge otme up, and he was placed
therein to be conveyed dm route for home.
IIiACCULLL —About 10,000 of this delicious Ash were
caught at One drsaght on Friday evening, and the
majority were dispatched by South-Western mail train,
to be sold at 19e. per 100. The freight for fish by that
train amounted to about £4O, besides a considerable
quantity being emit to BOUtb&Mptoa.
PIit6Z.TATION.—The famous flautist of the Royal
Engineers, Corporal Hitching, was presented on Tuesday
evening last, •itli a handsome meerschaum pipe and
'oilskin tobacco vouch, si • Waimeay of their rest
esteem arid appreciation of his services. Mr. Atkins,
the soboolmiister, made the presentation at the school,
and secompanied it with • suitable address Corporal
Hitching feelingly returned Mocks.