The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-10-26 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE.
A firm tone has pervaded the wheat trade at Illarklano.
An endeavour, though nuatieceesfuL has been made to
obtain an adviume of la, and the business concluded, has
been at the full prices of last week.
Farmers continual very diffident in supplying the
markets, and it Is evident that we may look for short
house deliveries until the future of the trade has become
more clearly anti accurately defined.
At present the opinion is generally hold, and lleertainlY
well founded, that fine supplies must necessarily from
their scarcity ultimately command higher prices than
Usey do at present later on In the season.
The hardening tendency may be expected be become
more noticeable than it is at present, so a curtailment of
our imports must at the saute time take lilac?.
We do not however perceive the likelihood of any
advance being established until winter has more
thoroughly set in, and navigation has been closed. At
moment the quantity of wheat afloat is estimated at
1,100.000 quarters or 31)11.000 more than last year.
Spring corn has teen firm and quite as dear.

MARK LANE.—Tms DAY.

Wheat closed firmly, at full priees. Barley the turn
aiainst buyers. Oata alepenee dearer. Melee, Beans, and
Peas firm. Country and American flour 81 to
dearer.

METROPOLITAN C.AIILE.—TIIIB DAY.
About 5,50 D beasbt including some 3,000 foreign. Fine
breeds daub% Other qualities dull. Prices; range from
Is. to es. 4d. About 11.000 sheep. Market firnh at Is. ed.
to 7a 14. lres sell at 4a tkl. to Gs. fa figs Is. IM. to
od.

TUE CORN AND CATTLE TRADE.
The grain trade on Saturday was firm, and in some
rases an advance of Is. was secured for wheat At
Dorchester there was • small supply of wheat, good dry
qualities realising la. per imperial quarter advance, while
doer, parcels were neglected; last week the official
average was 12e. 3141. A small supply of barley, which
made fully late rate.; last week IS quarters realised
£1,736 He. 6d., or an average of 31)s. 61d.—At Mr.
Symonds's fortnightly cattle sale there was • large supply
of beasts, the best fat beef commanding lie, per score.
Fat steers sold at 1.22 to C 25 10s. per bead ; fat heifers,
£lB to £23 10s.; bulls, .gti 5. to £l6; harrenere, kit 10e.
to £lB is. Sheep dear, from 10e. to Ms. per head, the
supply being small. At Reading owing to the extremely
wet weather, scarcely any business was transacted. The
few sales effected were at about late rates. At Gloucester
prices were without change. At Taunton English and
foreign wheat changed hands at the extreme rates of last
week. Flour 36. per sack. At Rath trade was very firm,
at fully last week, and Is. per quarter advance on foreign
wheat. At Warminster a large supply and • good atten-
dance. Trade was quiet, and last week's rates were sus-
tained on all good lota. Quotations :—Wheat itis. to 575.;
barley, 30a. to 46a; oats, 275. to s6s.; beans, 24.. to 30+.:
Peas. na. to 27e.; rye, 10.. to 201.; vetches, Ils. 6d to 13a.;
flour, line, 10s. to de; best seconds, 325. to 36e. per sack;
Is. per 81b.

SUDDEN DEATH IN THE PULPIT.
The Rev. Isaac Hanks, Independent minister, Hahne,.
bury, fell, and expired in his pulpit on Sunday evening,
just after giving out his text.
THE COILMANDFM-IN.OHIEF OF H. M. FORCES
IN INDIA.
Lieutenant-fieneral Sr Frederick Haines will succeed
Lord Napier of Kepis'& as Uonunander-ln-Chief of Her
Majesty's forces in India.
THE FLOODS.
Four bodies have been recovered from the Nottingham
- Three others ore still miring.

A DETECTIVE CAL7OIIT NAPPING.
A prisoner named Barry him done a rather sharp thing
at Plymouth. A defaulting clerk in a Liverpool firm, who
had absconded with • large emu of money—running into
tkousandi—belonging to hi. employer., succeedel in
getting out of the country, hut was traced to the West
Indies. Maxwell, prestunahly one of the sharpest of the
I.iverpool detective force, sea. sent in quest of the fugitive.
lie hunted Barry down in Jamaica, arrested him, and
brought him safely to Plymouth, hut instead of locking
him up went to an hotel with him, and there allowed the
prisoner to sit in the smoking room and enjoy his cixar,
without apparently warning either the landlord, the
waiter, or the door porter. that his companion was in
cuatody for felony. The detective, it is said, fell asleep in
the smoking room, whereupon Mr. Barry very coolly
walked out of the apartment, and, telling the door-porter
that he should like tm tini,h hi. tobacco in the open air,
passed unsuspected into the street. Of course be omitted
to return. But on Friday last he war re-apprehundivi at
Yeovil.

DRUGIIED AND RoplAp IN A RAILWAY

TRAIN.
An incident has just occurred on the London an.l North
Weitaru Railway the publication of which may put rail-
way travellers on their guard. A gentletnan booked from
Li:Mister to Oxford via Nuneaton. and at the latter place
got into a compartment of a sixond-class carriage. He had
no sootier seated himself than • person of gentlemanly
ameiranee Joined him, entered into conversation m to the
weather. an.l conversed (ratty for mule time. It, al-o
olferel a cigar, which was accepted, and after the train
lual started induced the gentle:um ti drink from a desk
containing liquor. Directly after drinking, the Leieester
gentleman lost alleausciouinem until be WU aroused from
his stupor by the ticket examiner it Willesden lent n.
There he discovered his pockets had been rided and his
money taken, which, fortunately, only amounted tots..
He did not remember the train reaehing or leaving !Wall
station. so that the drug used must bad done its weals
quickly and effectually.

The Queen and Pilules,* Beatrice on Thunday attended
the funeral of John Brown's father.
The St. Pancras guardians offered CV a year for a female
cook, end did not get a slnfle applicant.
At the City I,U:why Sessions, on Saturday. the recogni-
sance% of Alexander Collie were eitreated.
Another sale of greyhound. took place at Aldridgen on
Saturday. The Phi,' dog Hamby fetched 133 guineas.
The Prince of Wales arrived at Port Said on Saturday
morning, sad reached Cairo at nine o'clock in the evening.
lie wau received by the Khodive.
Two Men were drowned on Saturday by the upsetting of
is boat on the Irwell at Manchester. Three others had •
111111 TOW COMPS...

Peter F swell, • Genoese sailor. was remanded on Math?-
day at Bow-street, on a charge of murdering a Alienist,
on the high as.
A child ham been poisoned at Di'sten by a done of tooth-
ache tincture bells.; given it in mistake for soothing
syrup.
On Saturday, Lord Saltoun laid the first stone 01 the
breakwater expansion works at Fraserborgh. towards
which the Government has greatest a solo of etin,ooo.
Several shipwrecks are reported as the result of a severe
gale, which swept over several districts of England and of
the cant and north of Scotland on Friday ant Saturday.
A ConlOON WANT.—A certain New York dry gooils
merchant, in want of a boy, lately displayed the following
suggestive notice, "Boy wanted, that has fully rooted
himself, an.l is not too intellectual."
TOR .tMERICAN LIN' OF DIVORCE. -A divorced couple
remarried lately in Maine. But meanwhile toe wife had
been married twice, and her second husband had died,
an.l Use third been divorced. Thus No. I becomes No. I.
It is a ttttttt owed from Cape Coast Castle that several of
her Majesty's ships had assemble,' at Shark's Point, pre-
paratory to making an expedition again,' the Congo Pirates.
who are reported to have taken tlight to the interior, after
having destroyed their towns by fire.
ATTRIIITF.D POISONING RV • Wtvg.—A woman named
Millward in in custody at Stafford, charged with attempt-
ing to poison her husband. She had previously told a
ueighlum that he was in throe benefit clubs, and that she
would get g:P.I In' him jibe were dead.
A Paracit Vgitnter.—A man called bleringet, who
literally stoned his wife to death, has just been condemned
by the Court of Crouse to imprisonment for life, the jury,
as usual, bringing in a verdict of "Ouilty," with extenua-
ting cireunintances."
John Ho Ige, a labourer employed In a sugar refinery at
Greenock, loot with a fearful death on Saturday morning,
through falling into one of the cauldrons through which
the hot liquor was passing. Ile was literally boiled to
death, and his holy was not recovered for about two hours
after the mrstrrence.
OUR IGOICIARS.—Now that it has been ascertained by
Use mtual experiment of the Vanguard that the best iron-
glade are ii•ot is, ulnerahle, and that the .sne only argument
for such absurd mounters has disappeared. the Adtuiralty
have ordered two music of them. This is • fact worthy to
be reroute rotate Fair
INGENIOUS FIOUD.—Two Excise °direr' from London,
have made a singular disicouery ia a distillery in Pitiochry,
Perthshire. Casks of whisky had been going out without
permits. On examination it was found that ID the bonded
warehouse thirty casks, believed to he whisky, contained
water. The entrance was obtained by • hole its the roof,
and the whi.ky conveyed by • syphon in the wall to the
casks oubible. The manager has absconded.
KILTI4OIIIIINART CUM: OF` A COUGII.—" Her Majesty's
GSM Boat. • lietley,' Wick, North East Coast a Scotland.
—Dear sir.—llaving bad • most distressing Cough, which
CSUSISI me sonny sleepless nights and restless days, I was
recotausended. by His Lordnhip the Earl of Caithness, to
try your ano.t invaluable Balsam of Aniseed, and I ran
assure yea with the first dote I found immediate relief;
even without having to suspend my various duties ; and
Use first small Bottle completely cored me. therefore I
have the greaMit eonfidenre in fully recommending it to
the million. Most respectfully yours, W. Lineal. 11. M.
G. It, • Netley.*--To Mr. Powell." Powellrs Baleen. of
Aniseed can he had of all Chemists. In Bottles at!.. lid.
and St. St Warehouse, Black( rlars Road, London. Ask
fur " Pewelrs Matron of Aniseed."