The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-05-04 00:00:00

Alarktts.

BRISTOL, TacnaDAL—English wheat, which was
better supply, sold at rather less mosey. Foreign wu
Y 557 inactimand has altogether lost the improved toted
last week ; to promote business it was necessary tom*,
Is to 2. per qr. Grinding barley had ano lender snap
tire trade at late values, but maize with
Is. cheaper. Oats quiet and unaltered. Beans and pie
in improved demand from scarcity.
BRISTOL CATTLE, Tiftmansr.--In the emie mitt
there was • moderate supply of beef, with a good degas&
owing to the nun - ern, al of the M.sig...,ats fns
itnerica,and prices wet, higher, best descriotloos realigns
80‘ per cwt., and middling and inferior 70.. Mop em
limited I. qu %laity, and they met eith a selling trade at
101 per lb. for choice webers, and 01 for ewes. Ugh
sold well at 12 Ito 14.1 per lb. There were about a Ass.
sand store cattle, and they root with a wild sale. ovise
to the continued cold weather and the slow growth at
keep. There were also a thousand pigs from loosed, aed
they sold at 111 prur score for loscon pigs and 12, 111.
porsors.
LIVERPOOL CORN, FRIDAT.—Wheat met with mid
inquiry, and a moderate business was done, and although
a further decline of 2d per cental was suffered. 4 tette
feeling asserted itself towards the close. Fl,or sae vet
and without quotalile change. Beans and peas scans
and very firm. Maize was quoted at 4,81 t. lid Is
new mixed, or about 21 lower since Tuesday —Weather
dry and bright, but cool temperature for the se,asos.
YEOVIL FRIDAY.—Wheat, 40e to Ms ; barley. tots
aits ; oats. 23s to NI; beans, 40s to 52s ; flour. 39s to 11. pet
SOlb.—There was a small attendance, and a fair trade
was done at Is to Os decline on foreign wheat, clang
firmer. Very little English produce offering. Spriest=
steady.—There was a moderate pitch of cheese, new boner
hold selling at 25. to 325, and old at 30s to Its ; no bed a
offer.. _
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-WARMINSTER, CORN. SATURDAY -There wu advert
supply and attendance. Wheat wee Ls cheaper than he
week_ No malting barley on offer, and a very abort
supply of oats and beans, which made full price+ Wleue,
best, 40s to 521 ; seconds, 300 to 40.; grinding, 23e to Be;
beans. 44. to 54s : oats, it. to 20s per quarter.
CORK BUTTER, SATURDAY. -011.th:eery-Firsts, lie;
second. 131.; thirds. His; fourths, 113.; fifths, Be;S las
mild, ; mild, 132 a. Salt kegs-seconds, 123 s ; think.
116.; fourths, 100 a. Number of firkins in the market
BATH CORN. SATURDAY. -The supply of lOWA IS
market to-day waa smell, and good samples malted tel
prices, whilst inferior sorts were neglected. Flom me
enchanted in value.
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—OLINFORSTER CORN, Flannoper.—Raslisk wheat we
I n very moderate supply. and without chest,* in yds..
Tureign was in rather bett deer mand. but cm were *
per qr. lower. Maize Is per qr. damper. ats qcust. tit
lob quotably lower.

oorvett• Bacchante, with the two sone of dr
Prin.* of Wales on board, ha. returned from her roe
months' cruise, and ate anchored at fipiebend r
Sunday altoruoon. The pampa Princes are said to le
lookin4 remarkably well.
'rho ?era understands that Lord Lytton. Tsetse
tion of the Viceroyalty of India was, by his itzeellettry's
desire, tendered to her hi +Pasty by Lord Bsecosofteli
clrinitanextely with his own reclamation as Prim
Minister.

The Pea Aka Osactie has changed hands, and trill
henceforth be a Ilinialswial journal, with Advanced
Liberal principles. The paper has passed into the
hands of the late proprietor's son-in-law, Mr. MAO
Yates Thompson, a gentleman who held office under
the last Liberal Government as private secretary to the
Irish Vioeroy.
The four petitions relating to Barnstaple electin
which were lodged last week have all died a natural
death, no sureties whatever having been tendered riari
the documents were lodged.
French wines threaten to become still scarcer, for ii
of six million acres, the phylloxera has devastated
'
two millions, so that at the present rate, the via,
will be destroyed in tea years.
The wended% Zulus came before the Westminner
poltawonurt on y, in a wretched state and hair 0160,
and the spokesman said they were destitute. iVart
Williams, they said, prom sed to take them bea IS
Zululand. The captain denied this, and said they trea
too Lay to work, and ought to ooine back to the Avarua
This was refused by the spokesman, and they tr,
Marred to the relieving officer ;but on learning &bout
fare at the Workhouse, they went back to the Avon°
except one, who was rejected.
Some trueninsai and witty journalist has prcdteed
a " Comic Dod," the frontlapiece of which h a dos
caricature of the notorious member for Cavan. II!'
ar. The first character treated of in this " COO
Dod " is no lees Important a personage than Or
Marquis of Martineau, of whom it is said that 1
being accused of yawning in the middle of OW of, kr
own speeches, he made the happy and chareetensUt
retort "Well, wasn't it awfully dull f" Mr. Nor
MrLaren is described as a Scotch terrier in appcsrllr,.
and manner, always worrying at statistic', but
=i;ql:3 leaner and meaner on his sad fare. :tu*
haplin is described as "a friend of the Prugl
of Wales, always asserting that he is a geeklerrali
Mr. &later-Booth is handled very roughly. It rw
that "be waet the worst man ever known at 8
questions, and it used to be said of him that he
not my whether two and two were four withouter
• history of the multiplication table." Of Sir .
Drummond-Wolff, the book says he ii' fair.
but Israelitish in appearance, a pleasant emperor
the dinner table, but too laboured in his spsechxl
to be agreeable in Parliament, over honest sat
for the wild Jingoes among whom it has been Im 17.
to sit. Would like te be an ambassador,
disquelified by his inability to ' lie abroad idc
country's gooV "

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