The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-07-09 00:00:00

LATV3T NEWS.

REVIEW OP THE CORN TRADE.
The Nark-Leine Express to-niglit says : —We hate
16d • week of splendid weather. Thu change hui come
just In time for the bay, which we. getting risky (rein
the coin, but whloh is now being ear:ed iii good Wadi.
tion with • very large crop. T. br74l.tt sunshine aud
hest have lame .nacist oportuuely too for the
wheat blooming, and our knosoects are much
brighter thee they were ten dsys ago, as tbe
floe weather has been universal tlirou.ruont liurope,
as well as In lb. United Stat.,. The trade haA
maturally yielded be such &ulna:l..l,w and the tseidency
of prises is stUl downward. ,Vhest, however, h.,
given we, more than was thought at oat likely in the
Present position of the teed., • ith stocks running low:
A steady °optimums, of favoureble resther is of the
utmost importance. The number of o•rgos• on psessge
has somewhat ieeresteed, not wittstane rig goo arrivals
during the week. Barley does not promise to be *good
seep with as.

MAIM-LANE, Tins DA-Y.

Very little business doing. Kuglish wheat
steady; foreign occasionally cue shilling cheaper;
Country and American dour, oata, and maize
sixpence lower. British— t 1 bent, 1,'53; barley,
2J; oats, 394; ;lour, 14,188 : Foreign—
Wheat, 36,121 ; barley, 65,074 ; oats, 58;261 ;
maize, 20,b83, flour, 4,754 sacks and 1,500
barrels.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE, Tails DAY.
Tonning season so-called has commenoed.
Arrivals from that quarter fair average both as
to number and quality. Beef exceptionably
dear. Trade slow, but everything sold at an
early hour. Mutton dearer and freely bought
up to subjoined quotations. Foreign brisk for
beet qualities, but inferior Merino • dead sale
at twopence to fourpence reduction. Lamb
slow sale at previous rates. Veal inactive
Pork unaltered. Beef, 41 101 tote 4d; mutton,
be tote 8c1; veal, 4.8<1 to 54 101 ; pork, 3s tld
to 4s 101 ; lamb, 7llto 8s Bd. Beasts 2,830,
sheep and lambs 20.680, calves 480, pip 150:
including Yoreign—beasta 1,51:0, sheep and
lambs 10,900, mires 430.

PROVISIONS, Tuts DAY.

Butter Irish dull and inactive; foreign
quiet. Friesland, 84. to 91. is ; Jersey, 7tht to
84.i,5. Beam firm for hue fresh quanues, inferior
dull and lower. Hama continue iu good demand.
Cheese: American flue, 58a to tiOs. Lard dull.
Navy provision. quiet.

THUNDERATODA AT WAkaliAg, AND •
OOTTAGE Buitxr buwx.

One of the most terrific storm; smoompsnied silk
thunder and lightning at the most vivid kind, visited
Ws town on Itanday morning lett. On saturdey night,
about sighs p.m., several iliehet of lightning were men
In the tax distant*, and between 10 and 11 thunder was
heard. The storm 001111DODOOd about • touter to on.
on Sunday morning, and lasted for uteri, 20 minute..
At five mintage pat one the lightning week • nfilaell
instilled house situated at the b.ek ol Nul/.81/110i, and
set it on fire. The house was amnion' by Osiorge Hood,
his wife and several children, and with boute oiltiouity
the Inmates went aroused in time to make their escape,
• very narrow one indeed, without being able to save
but little of the enemata, so rapid did tag tire burn. A
Hodp saw to. lightning strike to the
of the Nonage, and on going to the spot taw
the thateli burning. and instuaidy gave the unweloome
alarm of be, weigh moused • large nomber oi to.
Inhabitants who noddy rendered all tal. Mal/UW.II they
weld. The totlage and aontimta wets intim] burnt
out.