The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-03-01 00:00:00

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BATH CORN. Ssruitriar.—There wee a larder supple
of Eogash who & &ten °mi.'. and for any tamp MI 01,4
qusltf . ready sole writ found Pt an advance ot
quarter. Bettina barley lull Ai !Atm rAtAr.
with an imprived demand. Feeding studs were th• tare
deerer.
GLOUCESTER CORN, SATURDAY. Inrush whut
was in fair supp y, sod the iwet samples wars 11.
quarter duster. Foreign was hell for • fooll.r To..
which chocked War. Ma's' 6d. higher. Gpuidi4
and oat+ firm.
SHEPTON mk.Lutr CORN. SATURDAY. —Wino. 3p,
to Oa. per quarter ; barley, 30a. to 36e ; Pate, tog ;
been.. 484. in 66.._
TAUNTON CORN, BATURDAY.—There wag orwr
tons Ha ten open market, and English wheit sold
se
;emetic:mid advance of 1.. Berk,' rtanliwq prefaces' mat.
Flour. 34..
DORCHESTER CORN, S•ronosy. —Tb. e.ppy of
wheat ems smell, nod lam reuse were inaiiitainea
touting barley met • slow sde at 114. to 381. Oat. M
reaps scat ttl. to Is. *trance.
DORCHESTER CATTLE, MATURDAY.—Fat beef mit
a reedy wile at 124. to 15a. per more mutton at 81. to 111,
per lamb silo. Al. end 0..4et 81. to 101.
WARMINSTER CAN, SATURDAY.—Time
elf ri suoply oi attest wad harlei Wlth
lei r attendenc• and pool inquiry, leo h realipea no adrsool
of lr. per qr. on last wesk'd ic,s. Ows firm ei Lite rete&
Been, epL poem eteiluary. Wnset' 30p. to 50.. per qr.;
barley. 254. to Ms,: beams, Os. to 60s. ; oats, 2.1.. to 31a.;
peas, Lk to 225.

Fenn Soria IN ELFIT DONNICT.—The storm came it
an unfortunate time in Dorset, a. the ewes in this
neighbourhood were fast lambing, and a great deal of
attention was required both by night and day, to
prevent their being snowed in, or lamb. (rotes tx,
death. The thaw has been very gradual; had it been
otherwise the conseaiuences would have been disastrous
In the low-lying districts. But then never was there
a time when the sheep required more extra food than
for the past month, in the shape of a mixture of e.,rn,
cake, and chaff, seasoned with that genuine condiment,
malt, Which I believe to be the best condiment inn,
, and of which they are very fond, caudng them to eat
with an appetite a much larger quantity of chaff. I
make but a few wren of hay, therefore I sulsditute
straw and straw chaff for it. lam sorry to sac foot.
and-mouth disease has been prevalent in our district,
but I trust it will not spread. I have not heard of s
fresh outbreak lately. I have just sold a lot ,4 fit
Hereford steers, fed on straw chaff, pulped zaamol,
corn, and cake, with about • quart of malt to each
animal per day, mixed the day before feeding, and
never had them thrive better iir keep ;mire healthy,
mot having had a bullock off his feed during the winter.
Field operat: have been at a standstill, and thresh.
ing almost the same, as the driving snow is so beaten
int the stacks Horses have bad an easy time .4 it,
nothing for them to do excepting hauling due.; and
od I johe.—J. F. in the Agricultural Gazette.

The production of gold last year in the colony of
Victoria exhibits MS increase of 90.00 d ounces.
At Hull on Wednesday. an oil will was buret, sad
damage to the amount of 010,000 done.
It is state I that the B .roares Id irdettd: rata Botha
has been seriously indisposed during the last fee do".
Messrs. C ire Brothers. ot Clardid, have given • woad
donation of £1,060 towards tee building tondo' the Tower
Hamlets Missiou.
Tee Senate of the C imloridge University on Thant.,
decided, by aos votes to 32, t admit lady siudents to the
tripos exzeuitiationa.
Its rep...rted that a roach is to be started to ruu bairns
Liverp,ol and York at one pArity a wile fare.. The du.
thrice or alsmt 100 miles.
A vitt rn mill containing 15,000 spindles we. buret
down at Aslttonmuder.L. no on Wednesday, the Ices
Nine estiroated at £12,000.
The Middlesex magistrates have resolved that it be
recommended to the Home Secretary that the Clerk of ths
Peace be paid by salary in lieu or less
Intelligence trios Panama to the 15:6 lard. unmans
that U. ddl,s4eps. engineers have established fire surrey.
iog came, and tut the entire party is now at work.
VicedJaancolur Sir R. Malin. was seissd with paralyels
on Monday evening ; but he was on Wedsed.. nested
to be somewhat bettor. TM" learned judge is le pure of
age.
The Postal Telegraph accounts were issued on Wader
day. The figures show • profit on last year's wonting of
£354,039, equal to nearly 31, pir cent on the entire capitol
raised.
At the Preston Sessions E heard II me. charged with
stealing two hens, was sentenced ti five years' pied
servitude and fire years' polioe supervision, he being well
known.
The Bake says it is rmcured that the troubled at Guy's
Hospital are again approaching • crisis, and that fu • thee
resignations amongst the medical staff are act unlikely te
be given in before tong.
The strike of colliers in South Yorkshire is exteniinr.
Three thousand men came out on Tuesday. The men on
strike now number upwards of 10,000, and many of them
are in a destitute condition—The strike in Lancashire
has virtually collapsed.
At Stafford, on Tuesday morning, James Williams, :4
years of age, was executed for the murder of his sweet,
heart. Elizabeth Bagnall, at Great Heywood. A man
named Licher was the executioner, the drop being about
four feet. On Monday, the culprit made • full confession
M his guilt.
Ritualistic lawsuits seem to be gifted with immortality.
A little paragraph in Tuesday's noses warns us that se
have not yet heard the last of the Bordealey case. the
English Church; rrdon having resolved to appeal front the
recent judgment of the Court of Appael to the House of
Lords.
A bushman, named Skulthorpe, hu telegraphed from
Blackall, asserting that he has found the explorer
Leichhardes grave, and has recovered the diary of the
whole of his last expedition, together with other relics
Skulthorps refuses to show any of the articles until his
arrival in Sidney.
A TI3,IIIILL FATALITY. —On Tuesday night, erhile
Captain Morris, of the 47th R.Kimeat. was dancing its
hours is Upper Fitzwilliam-s..rut, Dublin, he accidental'?
tripped and fell throriah an open window into the au
below, a distance of 311 ft, The unfortunate genthemask
skull wee (Tutored. and be died is • few minute
Captain Monte had been only recently smutted toil
company in the regiment.
FATAL ACCIDICRT. —On Saturday night • married awl"
named Millett was killed at New-street station. eirsioO;
ham. Just as the train was starting she juin*
the carriage to find her huaband, whom she thous% Itd
been left behind, and, stumbling, fell between ter
form and the train, her body boing out through lied los'
fully tuagled.
The report of the Groat Western Kill way Company es
issued on Friday. It States that the revenue of the Pet
half-year amounted to £3,580,138. being £56,0130 more the
in the corresponding period of 1280. The expenditures's
/1,814,383, or £30,247 more. The balance. alter Dorsi
Preferential charges, is £4213.732, and after providisgs
dividend at the rats of 5 per cent, • balance of 05. T.
will be carried forward. The diminution of rec-ipts swat
to the great snowstorm is estimated at £50.000.
A deputation of Scotchmen, headed by the Duke el
Sutherland, waited on the Secretary for War es Wiliam
day, and presented a petition for the retention of the
tartan dress hitherto worn by tie Hmtiland regiment°
Mr. Childers, in reply, said it had never been his bow
tion to abolish distinctive tartans, but when it hersow
necessary to consider whether larger regiments should not
be substituted for the linked hattalloa system, they had to
consider how, without making unnecessary changes. they
oould form regiments with the same meliorate out a tho
existing battalions
A CA/M1 of cruelty to a horse came before the coast'
magistrate' at Bradford on Thursday. A farmer sad ith
innkeeper, occupiers of adjoining fields, had a diaper
about • horse, which one had contracted to buy sad thal
other to sell, and an appeal was sada is the Comte
Court Jodie to decide in whom the ownership of 08
animal *am vested. The farmer wee declared to he tic
owner, but ho turned the horse out of his field tato dth.,°
of the innkeeper, the result being that it Wee kept with'
out food foe fifteen days. The disputant' were both now
charged with cruelty, but only the farmer was held to to
guilty. It. was comltterl to prison for two months.
The Rev. Benjamin Spoke, Vicar of Dowliall Walk
Somerset, committed suicide on Wednesday awok _e ./
drowning. His wife died on the previous day. lir
fluke was the clergyman whose mysterious dastatunthj;
some years ago caused so much eingWY. Sthto s'77
after his disappearanas be wss discovered in
employed as • cattle drover. Mr. Spoke was the brodost
of the late Captain Spoke, the African explorer. II"
Inquest on UM body was heid at Wakebill-house OS
Thursday. The medirrel attendant expressed his bel,le',„
that distress and unrest, occasioned by the death.oi
late wife, to whom he was fondly attached, so affected te'
mind of Mr. Spoke that he because insene. and Irbil.° is
in that state of gated he committed suicide. The thl
returned • verdict to that offset.

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