The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-24 00:00:00

CATTLE.

30g
304
290
SO 7
31
304

301

Mutton

BRISTOL, Titraso.tv.—Fair supply of beef, and
best samples were in demand at 85s, while middling
sorts were not much wanted, at (ruin 755 to 785 per
cwt. About an average show of sheep, but trade was
very quiet, and best wethers sold for od per lb. ; I
heavy ewes. SI A good show of lamb, for which
there was a free inquiry, at tad per lb. Full average
show of milch cows, and there was a slight improve-
ment in the trade, at about late rates. About 1,300
store cattle on offer, but trade WAS dull, and all were
not disposed of. Short supply of pigs, but trade was
dull, and they proved quite sufficient. Bacon fetched
Irons us 4.1 to 124 6d, porkers 125 61 to 125 9.1 per
score.
METROPOLITAN, TIIIIRsDAY.— We hare a
short supply of beasts, enough, however for the
demand. Monday's prices are pretty generally realised,
but trade finishes dull. The number of sheep is about
the same as last Thursday. Choice qualities are in
demand at Monday's rates. Lambs are rather dearer.
Calves are plentiful, and trade is dull. There are
only aS English and no foreign milch cows, yet trade

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is not brisk. Our foreign supply consists of 240 beasts,
5.340 sheep, and 510 calves.
(Per Mono of lb.)

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Best Scots, lloreforda, .. • • •• " 1."16. d. 04
Dant Shorthorns •
Sto6
Second quality Ikaate . . . •
4 oto 5 0
Dort Dorms slid liall•hrods 7 010 7 4
Do. Shorn . . 0 oto 0 0
Dort Lofts-wool; .• • • • 68to 7
Do. liborn .• • • • 00to 0 0
Ewan and Second quality • • • • 5 gto 6 4
L•
hum •• •• •.• o otoo o
" •• • o otos o
Calves•
PIP • • • • • . 44t0 5 6
Ban* 770; Shoop Ind landyr. 11,310; Chiron, 'OM ; 11g., 15.

NI ET RO l'O LIT AN NI lATTUESDAV.
Trade remained dull, and prices hail a downward
tendency. The supply on offer was moderate.
(Per stone of s L. by the wow )
d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Ito& +eel 4 Bto 0
.. $ 8 tuft 4 l'ork.. .. 4 4to 5
Nestyeebary Frush Butter .. NIL per dozen lb
SW. I do. du. •• ..
J Lusa A Co. 143, New MestMarkut,

MANURES.
Per ton-2 I. d. C & .1.
Bono Ash (on 70 per cent.) .. . 6 0 0100 6 0
Peruvian titian°, direct (ruin importers'
Stores, in iota o(30 tons.. .. .. 12 10 0-
1,0, do., smaller quantities .• 13 0 0-14 0
itonos r• •• •• .. 6 6 0010
DO., crushol .. • • .. 760 7 10
1)0, half-inch •• • • •• ••00 0— 0 0
In dust . • • • . 710 0-- 0
Animal Charcoal (70 per cod. phosphate) . 00— 6 5
Nitrate of sinla, in 11 15 o—lt
Do. do. in Uteri...l.. 11 6 0-11 10
Suiphatl ot Anamoula.. • • .• ••18 0 0-10 0
UnicOrn 1 8 0— 1 10
E. rralICR and Co., (Landon Manure Cu.),
116, renchurch Sirest, LC

HAY AND STRAW.
There was a fair supply of fodder, which changed
hands steadily on former terms.
(Per Load of 36 Trusses)
Fine Illeulow Hay 001 to 1520
Inferior Ditto.. • • . •. 1.64. to 71. e.
Prime old Clover • . 100 e. to HAL
Infetior Ditto • • .. 06a. to SiSe.

SEEDS.
We have to teport a good steady business now doing
in agricultural seeds. Trifolium continues in steady
request, at full prices. A few lots of French seed have
now appeared on our market. Clover and trefoil
seeds are held with much firmness, but for the moment
no great quantities of either description are changing
hands. Advices front New York indicate high rates
for American seed. We have a fair sale for new rye
a good many of the parcels come to hand in poor con-
dition. More money is asked for winter tares for
future delivery; it is thought that the crop will be a
short one. Good samples of mustard and rape seed
are in brisk request, and realise more money. Some
transactions are taking place in new French Italian.
Canary seed keeps scarce and dear.—John Shaw and
Sons.

BURIED WRiPPED—IN A /LAO.
Es-Presidont Androw Johnson was buried with
" Masonic honours" and amidst popular demonstrations of
respect and sympathy at Greenville. East Tennessee, on
the 3rd inst.ln pursuance of a wish espreased by him
some time back the body was wrapped in the national flair,
and a copy of the United States Constitution was placed
between his hands.

UNION DEMONSTRATION AT SALISBURY.
About • fortnight ago mix labourers ware sentenced to
fourteen days Imprisonment, at Salisbury, for leaving
their work during hay harvest. On Monday their term of
imprisonment expired, and a demonstration was made by
the local branch of the lAbonrers Union. It was
announced that the meeting would be addressed by Mr. J.
Cox, of helper; but • letter was received stating that he
was prevented from attending, and he sent .C. 5 to the relief
of the men. Mr. Cox (brother of the late J.C.) and Mr.
lieorge Mitchell were prevent.

SAD CASE OF DISAPPOINTMZNT.
A young man named Cheney, of Spratton. Northamp-
tonshire, has committed suiade outer sunewhat singular
circumstanees. His father had built a Louse for him,
and he was about to be married, when his intended wife
was taken ill, and on her discharge from the infirmary
was forbidden to marry on account of her great weak-
ness. Cheney wamterml from home to Rugby, where he
conmlained to the landlord of the holtse where he lodged
that his head was very bad, lie wen found near the
railway station with his throat cut.

PERVERSION ON A DEATH BED.
The Rev. R. S. Hawker, vicar of Morwenstow. Corn-
wall, who died on Sunday, was distinguished by unusual
cleverness, combined with great eccentricity. He wan the
author of Innumerable works, some of which have gained
a wide circulation. and also of poetry. During his forty
year's occupancy of the vicarage of Momentum., his High
Church tendoule4 developed, and on Saturday eVelling.
when on his death lied, he was formally rcrcivel into the
Roman Catholic Church by Canon Mansfirld, and a
requiem for the repose of his soul is to lie said at the
Roman Catholic Cathedral, Plynionth, on Wednesday.

A CHILL/ DROWNED IN A WELL.
A singular accident occurred on Saturday afternoon to
two children belonging to • labourer named Dixon at
BrAlington. A little girl, agot ten year., Wan in the
backyard nursing her brother, aged twelve months. In
crossing • well which had been disused for • considerable
time, and had been lalarhal over and covered with earth,
the boards having been rotten suddenly gave way and
they both fell in. The little girl was got out a few
minutes afterward.' greatly exhausted. but the younger
child was not rescued until life was extinct.
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SERIOUS CHARGE OF FRAUD.
At Bristol on Monday, Thotnas Henry Moody, cattle-
dealer of Salisbury, was charged on a warrant with obtain-
in.: under false pretenees 44 sheep. value £126 11., with
Intent to defraud Joseph Lewis, jun., cattle-dealer, of St.
Austell, Cornwall. The accused owed the prosecutor
several hundred pounds upon throe dishonoured cheques.
but the prosecutor gave up these 44 sheep upon the pri-
soner pledging his honour that the money was In the
hank to meet the four cheques, whereas the fourth, like
the others, was also dishonoured. The case was remanded
for • week.

CHILDREN IN BRICKEI ELMS.
At Uxbridge, on Monday, Willi/en Penn, moulder at
Radcliff and Smith's briektiebla was charged with employ-
& girl, aged 13, working in the plug-hole, carrying clay.
Early in the session he saw her harrow•loading. Had
cautioned him four times. Defendant said the girl was
amusing herself I Fined .C 1 and costs.

HEARTLESS BREACH OF PROMISE.
At Maidstone diunsges have been assessed by • jury In
• breach of promise case trankfernal from the assizes.
The plaintiff, Mice lieeching, was • young lady of Bs, of
prepossessing appearance, the daughter of the postmaster
at Torii, near Maidstone. and the defendant. Mr. Wm.
Fred. Wood, was described as • hargeowner. The
defendant had seduced the plaintiff under promise of
Immediate marriage, and deserted her upon discovering
her condition. Her father is a Methodist local preacher.
and the intimacy between his daughter and the defendant
took place during his absence on Sundays. A verdict of
£175 damages was returned. ,

"SUCKING THE MONKEY"
Mr. Humphreys hell an inquest on Monday evening
touching the death of Thomas Collis.; aged 29, a labourer
employed in the spirit vaults of London Docks. On
Friday he went to work as usual. At night he was
picked up in the street insensibly drunk, smelling dread-
fully of spirits. He never became conscions, and at two
o'clock next morning was removed to the London hospital,
when he was found to lei dead. I)ocease.ts wife stated
that she had heard her husband speak about "sucking
the monkey " ; she knew he used a bone for that Purpose.
The coroner said a mutton bone Mee inserted in the bung
of the barrel, which enabled the men to draw up the raw
spirit into their mouths. Dr. Hughes stated death to be
duo to congestion of the brain consequent on drinking
strong spirits, and a verdict to that effect was returned.
EXTRAORDINARY AND FATAL OAS RS OF
POISONING AT NORWOOD.
On Thursday evening • number of persons who had been
drinking at the Gipsy queen public-howns. Norwood, were
standing in a state of hilarity outside. Whilst there they
were accosted by a young man respectably dn...ased, who
said if they wanted anything to take away the effect of
the drink, he could eno them something. A labourer
named Thomas Tayior, age' 42, employed in the Norwood
cemetery, together with • wonian named Mary Ann
Hudson, aged ea, and another woman named Hannah,
who was living with the man Taylor. accepted the
'Winger's offer to have something "to put them right,"
and they all adjourned to Taylor's house. Atter being in
the house • very short time, he pulled a small medicine
bottle from his pocket, and administered to the people
sonic of Its contents. Then he left. Directly after they
were seised with violent cramps in the stomach and pains
and twitching in the body The old woman Hudson died
almost immediately in frightful agony. Dr. Harris and
Nosid were called in, and did all they could to save the
other two. The police traced the man to Knight's
Hill station, and apprehended him on the charge
of murder. The prisoner gave the name of Walter
Thompson Hunt, accountant, of No. 11, Wsslside-
terrace, Gipsy hill. Ito was the worse for liquor.
At the station he said " I had been drinking with Taylor
and his wife, and I did administer some strychnine to
them in a wine glees, se they had all been drunk together.
The woman Hudson I know nothing about. I have not
seen her." On searching him was found • bottle contain-
ing a liquid which he said was strychnine. Ile mail that
be was a great drinker, and had been in the habit of taking
strychnine to deaden the effects of the drink. When
before the magistrates prisoner said he never thought ..f
injuring anybody, and expressed has regret for the death of
Mrs. Hudson, ef whom, he mid, he had no recollection.
Ile was remanded. Mr. Carter, the district coroner for
Surrey, on Monday opened an inquest on the body of Mary
Ann -Hudson. One witness stated that the deceased
helped herself from a battle belonging to Hunt, which
contained • liquid tasting like alum, and on receiving it
back he said, "Why you have drunk enough to kill a pig."
The inquiry will be assumed on Tuesday nest.