The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-14 00:00:00

THE WEN AND CATTLE TRADL

On Bete:day at Bath a much mailer supply of
legUob wheat. which Mei a ready gale at last week's
peoes. at Norwich whsat supported former prices.
At (..;;onoester good supply of ingUsh wheat, whleh
Bold at is. per quarter deolta..; most samples were out
of oondition. Grinding barley 6.1 per quarter lower.
At Reading !bore was • tolerably good show of wheat.
Trade ruled rather heavy, and in some instant:ism the
best sorts of wheat declined 1.. per qr. The out-of.
(audition parcels were from 2.. to 3s. °beeper than
last week. The market was lower for malting barley,
and the secondary sorts receded 2,. to 3s. In value.
Trade waa ea let in oats, bas, and pees. At
Warminster a largo supply. Dry lota of wheat
realised former rates, but inferior !temples were
ls. to 2s. per quarter lower. Moat of the bailey was
of • very rough description, and scald only be sold at
a redootion, but best qualities were firm. Wheat,
lila to 65r. per quar.eir ; barley, 56.. to 63a; eats,
221. to 30..; beans, 406. to 465.; peas, 361. to 456.; rye,
110 a to 385.; vatchee, As. to 5% per bushel; dour,
40a to 475. per ',Gk. At Taunton the fortoightly
tattle market was pretty fully supplied, but buneas
'nu not at all brisk, and priote for nearly everything
were tending downwards. Sheep. 81. to 9d.; pigs,
10.. 61. to lla; calves (coarse), 16.1; and beset.,
14% to 15.—The corn esehatoge had plenty of samples
showing, but even with an ail-round fal there was
nothing doing. At Dorchester • smaller 'apply of
',beat than lad week, and the *audition much inferior
to ocaseqannee of the damp weather. Prices ranged
from 66% to 621. per imperial quarter—la to its.
cheaper than last week, when the oftedal average was
63a. A large supply of barley, the best qualities being
is. cheaper, and esoondary 2, less mousy; the quota-
tions nom' f out 365. to 464. Oats 61. to la. eheaper.
—Only a moderate supply of stook at the cattle
lwarket, but the demand was good. The subjedned
=were readily obtained :—Tat beef, 156. par furore ;
era, 210 to £l6 per head; f.t .was, 464. to
WU. 6.1. sash' fat whethers, 52e. to 745; calves, 765.
to 111 s. 63. No lambs on offer.

A. mall employed in sinking • pit for the Gnat
Western Colliery Company, in the Rhondda Valley,
Blipped out of the cage, and his body wee smashed into
• Mills.
Say Monurnes.—The OaMk de Mau states that
a woman who is oonfloed in the prime of that town
upon • charge of poisoning Lae bitten off part of h.r
tongm and I, now noodle t• utter articulate sounds.
The West India Regiments are °emotionally named
rather diapmagingly in speaking of Cape Coast
by those at booze at ease, but it must be mum=
that these troops however inferior they may be to Our
own English soldiers us jut the ones (properly
officered, and handled; to be of infinite armies Inn oar
of this kind, and are naturally far more acollmatissd
Shots Englishmen who go direot from this country, and,
s, are conatitnUonally far leas liable to bo affected by
She pestilential climate of the country.
DALT!' Yews SNORING. —112,14411 W smokers will
y robtatly be considerab:y startled by the fast that an
Inquest has been held on a gentleman whom death
▪ ppears to be atisibutol.:e to excretive smoking. The
dammed retired to rem at his n.ual hour on Thursday
right, and on the following morning was found dead Co
the floor. He had been smoking on an empty stomaoh,
end this prodooed fainting of the heart. Some oomfort
may be found in the statement of the mAloal witneee
that had the decessod taten a glass of grog or some
rtionulant with his pipe the melancholy event would not
lay. happened.
QUAINSLAND EMIGRATION. -The ship " Winefred,"
1,359 tons, resistor, 3,000 tons burthen, Messes. Tsylcr,
Bethel' and Roberta, 110, Pone nroh-etreet, London,
ailed from Gravesend on the 4th Instant, bound for
ltriabane, Qmonsland:—Captain, Fawkes; Surgeon-
tinperintendeot. Charles It. Woolward, 164. ; /tattoo,
Mrs. Gaudin. The " Wioefred" lithe 119 M mese' that
ham sailed under the Land Order System of Illmigraiien,
e nd under tho inime!iate direction of the Queensland
Governmant Gigue, 32, Chorine Cross, London. She
swim 493 souls, divided kW full-psiieg, remittance
'misted and free pateongers, and oensloties of 201
members of families, 156 single men, A 7.4,1 129 angle
tamales. _ _ . _

COST OF Len YEW!! Dania ro.—Kr. Dawson
BUM', quotes the follcuing figures In the Tunes:
2x9vd,a in 1872: —On tea, suer, coffee and wean,
£42,000 000; ou drink, £120,000. 000 ; Pzeces on drink,
£7B 000 000. On bread, £73,000,000; on drink,
£120,000,000; exceis on drink. £47 LOO.OOO. On
butchers' me t, £11.) 000 000; on drink, 120,000,000;
OXOII6II on drink. /10,000,000. Or put the matter than:
—The whole of the railwsy receipts for passenow and
good. traffic In 1871, was £47,000,000, or £78,000,000
In.. than the drink expenditure of 1872. The estimated
value of all the coal and metals prodesed In the United
Xlnadom at tLo p'see cf produotion In 1871 was
£52.000,000, cr £05,000 000 short of the arkk bib cf
1872. The iota YEW unt st the credit of all Investors
In the savlrise.h.t.k. acid poat-i filar saviogs-benks at
the aloe, Of 1872 war £60.000,000, or Just noc•half of
the drink•motey sp Lt In a eingle year • but the whole
amount Inverted In that year war £18:700.000, or lan
then one.seventh of the iti.ney spent on intorleating
pqnor. The ow public expenditure of the United
Kitten= hi tb• aliani year en4lng the 81s0 ef Kara,
)873, was litee then £71,009,000, or £47,000,000
then the expeaditure no alocholle drinks. The entire
riofteof Bdiarb and Irish prodime orported in 1872 ins
roily about doable the British and Irish people's ostler
vs rites. Mak.