The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-11-10 00:00:00

THE CORN AND CATTLE TRADE.

There leas general dullness in the trade nu
Saturday. but little variation in prices. At Dorchester
supply of wheat larger than last week, the quality being
improved in courequelive of the dry weather and parcels
were saleable at late rat, —,,bout 124. per imperial
quarter. Barley in good supply, selling at is. per Imperial
quarter cheaper • than 1:14 week, when 1.671 quarters
realised £3,5151 12s. 2d. the average being 41s. lied. There
was a large attendance and a good hildness.--At the fort-
nightly cattle sale there no a larze supply of cattle, the
number of sheep penned being lot moderate. Heifers
and calves brought from 4:10 to £J; barreners, in which
there was an improved trade, SA to Liii 10s. per bead; fat
!Rasta, Xl4 to .Ctl each, the hest making 14s. &I. per
score; bulls, .210 to £3O per head ; fat calves, which sold
well, bid. per lb.: fat ewes. Ifs. to 67.. each ; fat wethers,
Ma. to Ms.; fat lambs, 26-1. to 40s. Business brisk, a
general clearance being effected. At Bath a heat aohl
slowly at last week's prices. At Reading trade in all
kinis of grain was exceedingly dull, and little variation
In prices. At Norwich, prices experienced scarcely any
change. At Taunt in a downward tendency in pricer. At
Gloucester trade slow at last week's prices. At War-
minster trade in wheat very Ilat, and to effect sales easier
forms had to be yielded to.

Earl Granville has arrive.' at Venice.
The Cotrit do elisnarinl has return. tl to Frobsilorf.
There has been no rain in the Ce noes for three ~,,, nth,
SUllilAY was the 1,1-centenary of the death of Milton.

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It I reporkl that the I .brikti arc bailie/ hum. in II uDgal y
Asphalte pavement in London is giving place to wood.
Jersey ha v produced three pears which together weigh
11lbs. Cos.
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Drunkene,4 is to be sca-cely known among the
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French emigration to C.mada of NW years ha l bent at
the rate of ssi souls per annum.
The American painter, ronst.tntine Kaiscr, has jua, died
at Philadelphia, at the age of Eel
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A bill Was been labl Ine-fo're the Dutch Parliament pro-
posing to limit the production of flogs.
A 1.0 at Newcastle. 14 years old, has been remanded ua
a charge of dangerously etatl.ing another WY.
A horse-chestaut tree is in flower in Kent inston Ggrdens,
London.
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INT.U32 are cull qy Irani Italy to South
Murk:a . . .

For foti• months past not a drop of rain has fallen in the
neighbourhood of A then
It is steed that only men have been cl;schaexed from
Iler Majesty's dockyards.
It is said that tho Counteia of DArtniouth lath. Captain
of a Yorkshire volunteer company.
The Duke of Aberrorn is elected Grand Muter of the
Freemasons in Ireland.
All the coiartvards at the Palace of Westminster are
being paved with concrete and suphalte.
Dunne the past ii‘hery in Scotland, six boats
were wrecked and seventeen persons drowned.

It IA Na 41 that the Carlotta ate aettvely eng.lged in buying
hor,es in Ilan :ary.
'The Duke of Folitiltunfh ha; been to the Allutinbr•
Theatre.
A ...Ilion .4 U.: elr ricut I to wil.tcr off the o.a.A. of
Eurtug!Ltl. . . . • _ . . -

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Itumundy vita-L.4u I. rvikoritlal to bavud for fiflo inc,,W
but bad for the lustrr
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The total f the ordcre for Meal rails for Iltanis during the
ii3st frer weeks In akid to be 70,000 tons.
1 1. WM4IOI fivlA at priaient numhure go armourplated ships
11,14 Din °there. hearing In all 521 gone.
Two children were honied to death at a fire on Sunday
mornins, hi a workinan'a direlling.bouse near Dundee.
It Is announird that some law resembling our Wild Fowl
Protection Act is about to be passed In France.
(lame is very plentiful this year in Pails, and ch, an in pro.
isirtion
The Prince and Princes+ of Wales; arrived at Swahili....
Lain at 5.311 on Satordsv afternoon.
Fringe and Princess 'hristian on Saturday visited the
Eniprvss of Russia, 3t Rockingham Palace.
A White Stir r, the Adriatic, ha, performed the
eoTale felon New York to toren.' no under eight days, inevn
Music.
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Leikrwy ttl 11Sill to Itra,lti to ,osideral,le extent In the
little 1;11.40 11 Tra.. Ite Ai Lilt: 111 tatli of the Ifiramichi
CalkaAls.
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Eltalarration il"Taallipt tonna... In a einsiderahlo ctivint
amongst the rellway iiervauts of several of the great com-
panies.
Thu Emperor id Japan h... Just ordered a handsome State
chariot., together with a suite of other ciniagin and harness,
from • well Moir. London Inn.
Sample , of the new C.ilifornia crop have appeared
In tho San Frditeiiivi market. This year's crop is esti-
mated at Pal ton..
Thu miii,nmi• lion of Inch Pari,ih (*hutch, Frot'afo4.
have petitioned &loins., the use of a liarinon.uns in the
The Ilialtana of Na! .111 as %hided the E 21 of eir.iarro
at Ilietteli•ris rustle, upon !minim i iooneci3d with the
recent net, ye disi.irlonce in the colony.
A new butter. --called illaram-ine Maurice, hrtheen intro.
Clur,l in Pauli. It I• not nimie of Lid, oii, nor grease of
a• iv kind, lwr entire', of chemietto.
The proposal of the • 'oneerrative parte in the corporal:on
he c:ty of Tioniloa 1., i.onfer the freedom of the city on
Mr. Dismal' har for the prevent being allowed to drop.
The project of a tannei larder the lkner Et-a'. will he
brought be,ore tl•e French As,cmhly w:thin • few days
s•trs• lta meet,iie
The medal for the olfii .irs and loc., who sorrel in the
late Asbantee rpnpail i will, it is .I.4ted, lie issued lw 'ore
the end of the year.
The esifirants, from !he German empire to Anon:ea
numbered in P'3 110,1,74 ; P.:3 they no littemd
1211840.
Two or three b-n,14 of hi iquid4 are travere‘n7 the
country about Naples sod extor.jut money from the rural
population.
Greet OaC.l.4oaDelit him been mownl in the Hotel' F..-eit
fndlan colonies hj rumour.i of an iatentioo t.i introdioni
the income-Mx.
There are now steel rail orders ila comsat of execution
for RAMIS to the a,:greZate taaatviat of ;own lons. The
t•rauset 'Works have contrarted to supply Lttliefu tons.
several vessels of the Channel squadron are so ellort of
their complataant that 1.42 a+e tole deaf ted from trai
ships to domains& sduty.
A letter from Paris decUre. that the reLelw4e.l capital
a „Insure is. at the present liniment, fuller, livelier, and
more pleasant than ever,
Prince LOllOOl4l. who ix now pur.miaa his studies at
Oxford, la still unable to walk, although b. pretty g... 4
health- His Royal Highness takes carriage exercise
dad/.
It it stated that the scarcity of
.seamen in the navy to
vetch Jukt the Manna squadron will be compelled to make
zstat full complement of hands from =Oaf the boy. ee
tentatng Alpe

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