The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-09-28 00:00:00

Ithltsbire.

BALE OF STOCK—At the sale on Wednesday at Winter-
slow, of the late Mr. Herbert King's live and dead farming
stock, horses sold at from Migs. to 3Ugs. ; founteeth ewes,
58x to ; sixth-teeth ewes, W& to 515.; full-mouthed
ewes, 565. to 515. ; chilversoa to 40e.
STOCK SALK AT WIIFIFOR.D.—The stock belonging to the
late Mr. Large, was last week sold by auction. For
sheep the highest prices were—full.mouth ewes tgls. six.
teeth Ws. four-teeth 675. two-teeth 61s. chilver lambs 50e.
wethor lambs 11,. Cart horses LS to £75. A nag sold
for £1017,. _

DISCOVEIT.—An inquest was recently held at
Chitteme, on the skelenton of an infant, found on the 9th
inst. up a chieiney in • servant's bedroom at the house of
Mr. Hayward. Front the evidence and appearance it must
have been there nine or ten years. The bones only were
left, and those were perfect, no fracture beim( discovered.
The jury returned &verdict of "Found Dead.'

RUNNING A NEWSPAPER.
By some unaccountable misapprehension of facts here
is • large class of people who think it costs little or
nothing to run a newspaper; and if they buy • copy from
the newsboy, when too far from the 0111C4 to come and beg
one, they are regular patrons, and entitled to unlimited
favours. Men call every day at newspaper offices to get a
copy of the paper for nothing, who would never dream of
begging a pocket handkerchief from a dry goods store, or
a piece of candy from a confectioner, even upon a plea of
old acquaintance, having bought something once before.
One paper is not much, but a hundred a day amounts to
something in the course of time. But this is a small
drain (simpered with the free advertising a newspaper is
expected to do. Home men who have paid two dollars
at an early period of life for an advertisnient worth four
or five dollars appear to think they are stockholders in the
establishment for eternity. They demand the publication
of all marriage and funeral notices, obituaries and family
episodes, for the next forty years, greue- Speak of Per
and they grow indignant. "Don t I patronise your
paper r " Yes; but you receive the worth of your money
for what you pay." "But " says the patron,." it will not
cost you anything to put this in ; which is Just as ridic-
ulous as to ask a man to grind your axe on his grinding.
stone and graciously tell him it won't cost him one cent
It takes money to run a newspaper 011 well as any other
business : no paper will succeed financially that carries •
dead-head system. Any mention of the people's affairs
that they are anxious to see in print is worth paying for,
and when printed is generally worth as much as any other
investment of the earns amount. The newspaper business
is very exacting on all connected with it, and the pay is
corn lively small: the proprietors risk MOMST for
s er profits, and the editors and reporters and printers
work harder and cheaper than the same number of men
In any profession requiring the given amount of intelli-
gence, training, and drudgery. The life has it charms
and pleasant associations, scarcely known to those who
think the business all fun. The idea that newspaperdom
Is a charmed circle, where the favoured members live
a life of ease and free from care, and go to the circus
at night on a free ticket, and to the Springs on a free pass
in the summer, is an idea which we desire to expkele.
practically and theoretically.--Anaphis diralanshs.

The Church Herald is dead.
At Ilenelly, in Wales, the Rev. R. Willilllllll, has
baptized three men by immersion in the river Flan's.
Notice has been seat to all the porte that the approach.
ing equizecolial ples are expected to be of extasordlaary *multi