The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

Sgriculture.

LATE Sumrica.—Autumn having now fairly set
in, we can form some idea of what the year haa produced
and what it has not. It gave us the severest winter and
the earliest spring on record. These were followed by
the largest quantity of bloom on the fruit trees ever
known. Cherries, applea, pears, plums, and wall fruit
were alike the sport arid prey of the elements, so that
even common fruit have become a luxury. The summer
has produced a fair crop of wheat and beans, and a good
crop of barley and oats, virile peas are better than at
one time expected. It also produced • good crop of
potatoes, the finest for several years past, which have
been gathered in the best posible condition, a circum-
stance which will ad" greatly to our stock of food for
tire conning winter. The summer also produced plenty
of hopbine, which gave premier, of a good crop, but it
Ira., not been realised. It is an old saying, "a good hop
year, • good nut year." If that be so we fear the con-
verse is equally true, for there is marvels, • nut to be
found, either in the hedge-rows and woods, or in the
nut-cultivated grounds. As regards walnuts, it has
not produced any. Such has been the lengthened dry
weather that it lour not produced any mushroom!. It
Iran not produced many flies, and very few wasps, and
frogs in tire fields were never known to be so scarce.
The past year has produced a fine summer, but it has
not produced its usual concomitants. Taking
it as a whole, however, we have much
cause for thankfulness. The year has been
a very healthy one, a fair crop of many of the necessa-
ries of life have been setured in the best possible con-
dition, and the prices of food for the ensuing year will
be reasonably moderate.
HOWDEN CELEBRATED boles FATE.—This great
horse fair, famous for its production of the finest class
of young and useful cattle, was formally opened as a
public horse inert on Wedneaday,tlio 25th,and continued
during tire week. The show of hones was extensive,
and comprised animals of high fashion and value, and
fully sustained the high character which Yorkshire has
so long acquired and maintained for the breeding of our
best descriptions of horses • there were also many teams
of exceedingly well-bred Irish horses on sale. There
was present a large class of persons interested in horses,
many of whom previously availed themselves of • pri-
vate view of the horses stalled for sale, and made
valuable selections from the stud. Horses of good
fashion and usefulness readily obtained buyers, and
hunters of high clam and pedigree commanded sale;
but seasoned h0e..0• at various
usual in the autumn of the year, lower In value. The
average selling prime were as follow :—Horses of good
breed and pedigree, &dented for or accustomed to follow
the hounds, made figures ranging from 95 to 120 and
200 guineas; and ditto, of high character, op to heavy
weight, and good timber-jumpers realised from 250
guineas and upwards. Horses above 16 hands high,
suitable for private carriages and double Mimeo, 75 to
90 guineas, and well-grown upstanding matched pairs
of bays and greys, 180 to 250 guineas; colts of this
description, unbroken to pair harness, 50 to GO guineas ;
compact-built, neat-going cattle, quick steppers, suited
for light broughams, phaetons, Ice., TA to 65 guineas ;
small, thick-set active horses, for public conveyance and
machine work, were in active demand, and horse con-
tractors for the army and military purposes brought
this description of horse into high competitien. Well-
grown handriome horses, of high fashion, for chargers,
park-riding, lee., made 140 to 200 guineas; light-bred
horses fur riding and single harness, 35 to 50 guineas;
strong-built cobs, 28 to 40 guineas; powerful young
Ironies, adapted for van-work, town purposes,
made 35 to 45 guineas; and cart-horses, young,
and well-timbered, and quick walkers for London
purposes, 50 to 65 guineas; seasoned ditto, for
agricultural work, 18 to 20 gunieas. Irish hones, short
jointed and well-bred,for riding and draught purposes, 40
to'7o guineas and upwards; brood mares of good blood,
35 to 70 guineas, according to pedigree; ponies, 12 to
20 guineas. The London division of hone-dealers and
jobrrutsters bought largely of promising young cattle,
and provincial professionals and gentlemen of the
hunting field speculated freely in best descriptions of
Yorkshire-bred horses, and prices generally were
remunerative to breeders.

STANZAS.
Unthinking, idle, wild, and young
I laugh'd, and da.ne'd, and talk'd, and sung;
And proud of health, of freedom vain,
Dreaned not of sorrow, care, or pain;
Concluding, in those hours of glee,
That all the world was made for we.
But when the hoar of trial came,
When sickness shook the trembling frame,
When fully's gay pursuits were o'er,
And I could dance and sing no more,
It then oocurr'd how sad %would be
Were this world only made for me.
NUNCIOS!! ANNUAL

FOUR DEAD PIMPLE IN Oirg Roo.—A shocking
calamity is now exciting great interest in the neighbour-
hood of Holborn. A poor woman, in the employ of
Mr. Smith, dairyman and co wkeeper, living in Eagle-
street, Holborn, finding the period of her confinement
drawing near, employed one of the midwives of the
lying-in institution to attend on her, on account of her
not having the necessary means of procuring the advice
and assistance of a medical man. The poor woman
was confined of a boy, but she died a few hours after.
The following day two of her children were seised
with the scarlet fever, and died the same evening, and,
to complete the woeful tale, her infant died on Thurs-
day, and the fear lie dead in one nom. At the !rooms
moment the eldest daughter is lying dangerously ill, and
there seems to be no hope of her recovery. The
budiand, a labouring man, is also completely prostrated,
and souse fears are entertained of his being restored to
health.
ACkIILD DROWN= IN • PAIL Or WATIR.—On Thurs-
day Mr. Wakley, the West Middlesex coroner, received
information for an inquest on the body of Mary Ann
Westeni, aged one year, whose death has taken place
under very strange circumstances. The only trust
worthy particulars at present gathered by Sherwood,
the coroner's summoning officer, are shortly thew : On
Tuesday night, about half-past ten, as William Western,
who is • wheelwright, returned to his home at 3,
Charles street, Lisson-grove, from work, he found the
deceased (his daughter) bead foremost in • pail of water,
standing close to the bed side, and his wife lying on
the bed in, as it is alleged, a beastly state of intozi-
cation. He at once snatched the child from the pail,
and finding it dead called for assistance. The woman
denies that she was drunk, and says that some one
must have wantonly put the child into the pail after she
had carefully placed her in bed.
FATAL MINI ACCIDZST NEAR CARDORNX,CORNWALL.
—On Monday George Richards, aged 30, of Gernick, in
the parish of Crowan, met with his death at West
Tolearne Mine, near Camborne, in the following sad and
most melancholy manner. The deceased was engaged
about some timber work in the shaft of the said mine,
when lie accidentally fell away, heed foremost, down
the shaft to a distance of sight fathoms; here he fell
across a "solar," his head striking against the sides of
the shaft in the descent in a fearfully violent manner,
causing frightful laceration of the back part of the head,
end greatly injuring the front part also. The skull was
slightly fractured, but there was no depression of bone.
The accident occurred at tws o'clock in the afternoon.
The poor fellow was immediately brought to the sac'
face, and removed to the account-house, where Dr.
Harris and the assistant-surgeon, Mr. Vincent, did all
that medical skill and knowledge could suggest, but
I their efforts were unavailing ; the man was never again
conscious, and by four o'clock lie was numbered with
the dead. He leaves • widow and two children to
mourn his untimely and most melancholy end.
A dreadful accident, resulting in the loss of six lives,
occurred on Friday at Lesidal, near York. An iron
bridge is in course of construction over the Ouse there,
and it appears that while a girder was being placed in
position the supports gave way, and a large number of
persons were precipitated into the river beneath and
were drowned. Up to • late hour only two of the
bodies had been recovered.
TRIAL FOR MURCIIL—Iit the Central Criminal
Court on Friday, • labourer named Malony, living in
one of those miserable courts which abound in West-
minster. was tried on • charge of having murdered his
wife. The ease against the prisoner would have been
one merely of suspicion if it had not been for the
evidence of • man named Saunders, who declared that
while mare:dug for • lodging he opened the door of the
room when the prisoner was at the very moment
striking his wife with a knife, The judge interrogated
the witness very closely on the point, reminding him
that a man's life was in his hands, but he steadfastly
adhered to his statement. The jury, in the first in-
stance, gave as their verdict—that the prisoner was
guilty of killing his wife without premeditation. The
judge, however, said that they must answer the ques-
tion— was he or was he not guilty, Ultimately the
jury found him guilty of murder, but recommended him
to mercy, on the ground that he went home without
malice, and that something must have occurred to pro-
voke hhn. Mr. deistic." Byles then passed sentence of
death, but promised that the recomineedation of the
jury should be forwarded to the proper quarter.

MR. MORBUCC Hosier:l. The Daily Neal of
Friday concludes a leader on the recent statement that
• hoax had been played off on Mr. Roebuck respecting
his assertion that he knew a convention had been
signed between Italy and France for the Island of
Sardinia, by saving it remains then with Mr. Roebuck's
constituents to take it up. "If they are eoutent to go
halves in the honour of being duped by an impatient
Austrian forgery, let us trod that the HUII.IIO of
Commons will take the earliest opportunity next ses-
sion of bringing the hon. member to
_book.'

—Lest you the then Mayor of Southampton, Mr.
Perkir.s, had • silver cradle presented to him in con-
sequence of the birth of his daughter daring his
mayoralty. The Southampton Town Council met on
Thuistay fax the purpose of making arrangements for
the presentation of • silver cradle to Mr. Coles, the
present Mayor of that town, on account of the birth of
his daughter—an event which took place • few days
since.