The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-20 00:00:00

TH. CAITLII TRADE.

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BRISTOL. —There WM lair supply of wares of beef
and mutton. with rather a briik demand. Beef meld at
41. to 4a. 44. per atone of Sib; mutton, 4a. 44. to 4e.
84.

BATlL—Ther• was afar sopply of oareasaa to-day'a
market. Beef sold at 4.. 4d. to 4a. 10d. per stone of
81b.; mutton, 44. 4d. to 44. 10.1.; lamb, Si. 4d. to 64.;
veal, 44. Bd. to 844.; pork, 41. to 44. Li.

WILTS/11111. —Beef has *free sale, the best making
12s. to 12s el. the score.' but retailed prime am still
kept up to 8.1. to 9.1. the lb. Mutton, of which there
it a good supply, has a steady rale at M. to 9.1. the lb.
We have have had on large fairs this week. Bacon pigs
are still plentiful, and pries. have • downward tendency;
9r. 3d. to 9.. id. the more is the general quotation.
There is more demand for hay, the quotation of whiett
varies hoes £4 10r. to E. 5 10s. the ton.

ROBERT ROOD, Jus.,
PRACTICAL WATCH k CLOCK MAKER
JEWELLER, Sc.,
SALISBURY STREET, BLANDIPORD.
NEW and Second-hand Lever, Geneva, sod
other Watches. English Clocks of every dew e:riptkin made to order. A great variety of Atomics& and other Foreign Cloeln •Iways on sale. Gold and
Silver Chain,. Wedding Rings. ke. Old Gold and
Silver bought or taken in eichange. The beet &Waimea
paid to re;mirs. Clacks cleaned in the Country. A well.
seileMed mock el Spectacles to tuit at sights. Heroine-
den and Thermometers of the beet make always on sale.
Agent for the United Petriold &neat Sosietr•

JAMES GOVEY,
JOBBING CABINET-MAIEKR,
FRENCH POLISHER, MATTRESS MAKER, ko.
EAST•STREET, BLANDFORD.

TAMES GOVEY, having bad several yeas's'
experietior in the above business with Messrs.
444444 TCH and Sorsa, bugs to inform the gentry,
cltrer, and inhabitant. of Blandford and the surrounding
neighbourhood, that he has commenoed on hi. owe
account, and hops* by strict attention and moderate sharps, to be favoured with a share of public patronage
and support.
Diedas and Drawieg-room mites cleaned, Poliabad,
sad rad* espial to clew.
Furniture carefully packed sad removed.

TIME As SPIRIT ISTABLISHMENT
CROWN HOTEL, SL&NDFORD.
REYERB respectfully announces that all
articles in the above trade are warranted heat
quality, sad Nay he had in Bottles at Wholesale pries•
Auaorra PALE ALMOT. , h. IIERYX'S LONDON
wro

WALTER ELLIOTT,
AUCTIONEER AND GENERAL AGENT,
BRID PORT.

°MUM INN, BRIDPORT.
PHILIP SAM WAYS,
NURSERYMAN, EIIiIIDSHAN, AND FLORIST,
BEGB to inform the Inhabitants of Bridport
and the Pubbe generally, that ha has taken and
entered on the above Inn, and hopes by atrial attention,
and with • supply 01 Beer and Spirits of Funsst-rste
unlit to merit a sham of 14'0 Faunas,' and Support
N.BArt minds @Greying on his criamal Trade as
rusel.

GREAT FLOODS nr THE ProRTEL

Much damage and loss of life haa occurred in cond.
queues of the adding of the streams coming from the
Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Lenoashire hills. It rained
heavily throughout the district, frown Tuesday to Friday
stied, and the low-lyiog parte were inundatreb many
houses rendered uninhabitable, thousand' of people
homeless, and thousands out of employment through
workshops being flooded- At Manchester a man wu
drowsed in saving aeons children, mu 'h property was
damaged or washed away, and the tunnel on the Lan.
cubit.. and Y..rkshire railway was rendered impassable.
At Waketeld two vowels were carried over the dam-
stokes, where the water was 15 feet above the ordmary
level, and two men were drowned. At Preston farms
and soils were swamped, houses insndated, cattle des-
troyed, trees warned up, and roads rendered imousable
At Dewsbury, the carcases of cattle, pig., and other
animals, trees, household furniture, shoddy, kb.,
boated down the river, and shops in the °entre of the
town were flooded to the depth of several feet here
they are "dragging the distrod"—truly a ghastly air
cumstanee—while a cloud, pertly of lamentation and
partly of apprehension, overhangs the hearts of the
People. Twelve persons are already known to have
lost their lives—sorne drawn into danger, others
gallantly driving to rescue their fellow-creatures, but
washed from their saddles into the relentless, bad. At
Leeds on Friday a earn-mill chimney was washed down,
and three persons wets injured; no Saturday morning
▪ lawful calamity cocurred—between Wand 30 persons
were standing on a slight projection on the bank of the
river Aire, when it suddenly gave way, and they were
thrown into the water; several were rescued but the
greater number were swept past the hundreds of by-
stander., who used every exertion for the purpose of
moue, but from 12 to 15 lives were denfloed ; nix
women, who clung together by each others' clothes, and
seemed thereby to exclude themselves from all hope,
were actually laved by two captains with boathooks,
owing their lives mainly to the very circumstance which
might have been expected to have condemned
them to a watery grave; another poor fellow,
gallantly straggling with the waves, was as
gallantly brought to land, but it was too late
—his strength was spent, he breathed no more. The
lower part of Blackburn was submerged. At Stockport
and Stslybridge much damage was done to mill and
other property. Severed bonsai were destroyed at
Opens/um, At Brighouse the waterside froiries ware
stopped early in the day, and the valley of the Calder
for our miles waa one sheet of water. Dunkinleld was
greatly flooded, and a man endeavouring to saes • plank
was washed away. At Bury, Burnley. and Haider,
considerable damage was done. Four people were
drowned who were crossing a bridge at Kipponden when
it wee swept away. The flood at Todmorden was the
mod setensive ever known. At Minton 19 of a Book
of sheep were drowned. Bradford gas works were
flooded, and the town was in total darkness on Friday
night; one man wart drowned, and the damage to pro-
perty along the stream is estimated at from,f4o,ooo to
£50,000. At Bolton and Wigan the flood caused the
stoppere of many mines, sod workshops, and
hundreds of dres of meadows were submerged. Much
damage was done at Rochdale. At Oldham • men was
drowned; a building was washed down, and three boys
narrowly escaped instant death. Opposite apiece called
the Cresent, at Belford, there is a large expand of low
ground, and the floods converted the whole 500 or 600
sores into • lake. One remarksble its demi was the
floating towards the Crescent down the aver of
• great wooden structure, which proved to
he the bridge leading to Broughton rad-coarse.
At Lower Broughton the basement of the Town Hall
was appropriated to the use of 200 persons rescued from
water-logged hoods. Fires were lit, beds were made I
cooking ammgementa were exteroporidd while
numerous oth.r refuges opened their friendly doors.
Near Preston 750 looms were stopped end many lives
endangered, and an incident occurred in a ooal pit
which would match well in thrilling interest with the
most sensational inventions of the novelist or play.
wrigbt. Some forty men were working in the mine
when the alarm was given. lit all speed they were
brought to the surface—all but four. Theft four were
not missed for half an hour, and then the fears of
the people had proved too tree the pit was
several feet deep in water. What was to be
done? Could the pit be descended? After some die.
ouseion, two men volunteered at all ludards to descend.
They did so- searched under circumstarters of mush
peril for their four triads, and at last found them. Not
drowned—not buffeting with the rising waters —Dot
fleeing to the pit shaft or raking souse higher pi/Alarm
of the coal workings—but perfeetly happy and undis-
turbed, working away in a distant ramileatioo of the
mine Vahan% an idea of the peril they were 6.

CHILD 1101D12 AT PORTIHIA —A girl of 16, named
Caroline Clemente Horst, is in custody charged with the
wilful murder of her illegitimate child, 10 months old.
She WM apprehended at her father's house, and charged
with the crime. Mir slater said to her, "Carry, did
you do it?" mid sbe replied, " Yee, I did."
Tag personalty of the last Marquis of Landsdowne,
ca., of Landsdowne, Somerset, &wood Part, Wilts,
and Berkelsy Square, Loudon, was sworn under mom
His lordship's will is very brief. It been date Feb. 12,
1863 and is contained In these words :—" I give and
bequeath to my dear wife, Emily Jane Merger, MerMile-
nem of Lundadowne, all my personal estate and effects
of every kind, and I appoint her executrix of my will,
and guardian of my children deringe their respective
minorities."—/Uratrated Lowdow News,
A MIRACLE. Three columns Of the Moe& are
filled up by the eminent of ex:arse-10 which took place •
few days ago in Para, Rue Villedo, No. 11. A servant
girl was on her disath-bed ; she had ,/ready received
extreme unction, had become speoehlese. and her eyc.
lied closed, when • confessor entered the deeth ehsmber
and rubbed her eyelids with • small piece of the Pope's
white flannel petacioat. I tranalste literally (soirarase
en lonic 6/asa4e). The effset of this new species of
friction, which until now I have never heard of—
though I have burnt aeonsiderable &Mount of midnight oil
In poring over books on therapeutics— was that the
young girl mesh to the edification of her seeping
friends, jumped up and complained of hunger, and
draak suiesseively three tape of broth. Her hunger,
borrower, increased to snob en alarming extent that to
satisfy her voracity provisions were mat for to a
neighbouring hotel

PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS.
Tuesday, 20.—Witweaton County Court.
Wednesday, 21.—Mr. Boyton Smith's Evening Coneert
at the Townball, YeeviL
Salisbury County Court.
Thursday, 22.—Mr. Boyton Smith's Ennio( Canoed at
the Tomtits% Dorchester.
Andover County Court.
Friday, 23.—Mr. Bolton Smith's Morniag sad Evening
Concert at the Royal Hotel, Weymouth.
Martinstosn, and Shaftesbury (Dorset) Fairs.
fleturday. 24. —Mr. Ensor's Repository Sale (Dorehmter).
First Meeting of the Dorchester Farmer.' Club
at the Antelope Holed, Dorebeeter.
Tuesday, 77, and followlng day.—Amateur Theatrioal
Perfortnanees at the Drill Bell, Bridport.