The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-22 00:00:00

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.cOlll,l AND CATTLE TRADE.

At the leading markets on Saturday. the wheat trade
was dull and drooping.—At Dorchester wheat still in small
supply. Millers free buyers or best quality at late rates.
Best barley and oats rather dearer. —At the fortnightly
suction sales of stock there was a large supply of both
cattle and sheep. The best beef commanded Ha. 6d. to
15s. 6d. per score. Heifers and calves, .613 to .£l7 10s. ;
barreners, L2O 105. to DJ per pair. A good lot of wether
sheep. Downs selling at Ma to TOs, per head, and horns at
40.. to Ms. Down ewes, aik. to Ms. ; sucking lambs, 255.
to Ws. A general improvement in trade, prices being
higher. —At Reading holders asked high prices, but buyers
were indisposed to give the money. Trade generally was
slow.—At Norwich trade was quiet, and in some canes •
reduction of la per quarter was submitted to. —At Bath
trade was by no means brisk, and late rates were hardly
maintained, except for the finest samplea—At Taunton
rather limited supply, farmers holding bock their samples
in the hope of an improvement upon the present low
quotations. Prices generally were somewhat firmer on
the waek.—At Gloucester • fair trade at last week's prices.

FROM THE ALTAR TO TIIE GALLOWS.
The eecond act in the tragedy of the Pei:lucid murderers
has closed, and two of the murderers have, says an
American paper, paid the forfeit f their lives to the laws
of the country. A strange ceremony, and one almost
unknown in the annals of crime, was that of the marriage
of II ypolito Tapia to his former mistress, while standing
as it were with the rope around his neck. The woman
Trinidad &wester°, had long been living with Hypolito,
and was the mother of several of his children. To have
them legitimatised as far so pouible, she induced HypoUto
to consent to a marriage, which he readily did.
So tin Thursday evening a linie number of his relatives
sad friends, and thou of the woman, assembled at
the poi, and were admitted to an interview with the
condemned. The Reverend Father Jaillet officiated
amid surroundings in the highest degree dramatic and
solemn: Under the sentence of death for the commission
of a terrible murder, and within a short twenty-four
hours of his doom: within • gaol, at one portion of which
stood the dread machinery which was to launch him into
eternity ; with witnesses composed of his sorrowing and
weeping relatives and his companion in crime, doomed at
the same time to suffer death with him: manacled, and
in chains, this man stood to take unto himself that holiest
of all things—a wife ! Two of the great events of life—
marriage and death—under such circumstances t Hypolito,
during the ceremony, preserved • calm, collected
demeanour, and made all necessary responses in a clear
firm voice, Not se Trinidad, who barely preserved milli.
cieut command of hermit to go through the marriage
ceremony. The marriage concluded, the parties present
were told that the hour had come to close the gaol for the
nizlit, and that they must part. On the scaffold, Tapia
said "My friends, lam here to-day to die by hanging.
I have killed no person, nor helped to kill any one. The
people forced the person who was guilty to swear against
me, but It is all right—good bye" Davila had nothing to
say. He stood very still, with his eyes cast down, and
evidently communing with himself. When the bolt fell,
s series of heartrending screams were raised in the crowd.
Both men died without a struggle