The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-05-07 00:00:00

THE CORN AND CATTLE TRADE.

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act damnlar• markets Ilrmsms• sra• nalvenal. sad la many
liran advance of Is per quarter oar ertabll.hal for wheat.
t:Urchater them um • brisk demand fur wheat, It from Is
to 0e arlvaneJ on last week'. prams the rin .tan 'ova ranged
from Ms to ON per Imperial qr. Last week... LA avt-age
ita 104. kteqardlna barley, the einem te elating ben
hehdr over, the Supply wet meth, the tee *ain{.l:l on our
madam from 02. to ear ; parcels .4 grioilin; ...OA et the Letter
hors. Oat., 'lls to Ma
At Jo same. fortohrhUy mle, at Dorr.heeter, about 000 Mew
MA 140 head of coo stack changed halals. Bleep ware • Chill,
10111 e, wethors making trona 41.10 Ws each, an 1.e., from
47. ae Ga. or hal to Old per lb. Lamb lid to 101. FM loaf,
111. 00 to lit CI • room; harmers. L2O to L. 43 per 'mar. let
bulls SU to faJ each, Wafers anal oalrm al3 to /Id 10a
mime Ms 10 00. each.

SHOCKING WIFS MURDER.
• delermined niturkir was ecommittel at WillenhaU,
mem Wolverhtmploa, at • late hour on Tuesday night.
obrietopher Edwards, aged 35, his wife, • you younger
them himself, mil two obildron, age! too •nd three,
gm& an appellate., aged 16, named George Marsh,
lived In Church-street. Edwards be. frequently smelly
Mahan his wife and threatened to take her If:. Instead
a working on Tuesday he went out drinking, aul when
he retuned home at night be ordered his wife upstairs.
After looking both the front sad back doors be followed
her, tarrying • heavy and roughly forged poker in one
hamt sad en Iron candlestick in the °Vier. 11 shell
bedroom he struck her soros* the right ey• •
• fearful wound. The woman weaned •• dlurder,"
sad waled George (the up tier), who was in bed in
tbsnsxl room. Her oat than began to batter bar
head with the kaob end of the poker, and drove the
skull in at the hemp effeetually as to c iuso oeath io •
few minutea. The womaa's arlea of murder bad milled
the attention of the neighbours to what was occurring,
mil the shadow of the murderer's arm being observed
is the window Idled the ery was raised Mu with •
hatchet Edwards was "ehoPPing his ode to {Atom"
Preesetly, some rifli volunteers burst the door open,
mad the polies, who bed by that time came up, entered.
They met the murderer, who bed ingenues 3 do wo stairs,
Mirlds reneged child in his ann.. lie said :
ado you want Whit', the matter I'm the
sum" The weapon he had thrown stale int the
Ileader. In the kitehea. Two Alain were hardly anfll•
dish to keep the populace from Ghosting the 'snows
eil prey. The merdreer himself teak insliteni Tory
agally. Oa We way to the cells he mil (alluding ts hi.
yogd6ymeot). " Telt old Lloyd I shan't make any more
ildok Ow for him." In the sells be add, in mower to hie &use of having. murdered his wife, "I am the
ass ; her .1.1 O.OOM is no, and I lielehod her ; I
dm* Mal bees deed her hada% ought hi be. I dial
eh& %lull gin me above twelve nteathi
Tatum Were • last media* ha was to
1.10.-11 pal

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to noel oil Midtown*