Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-20
.ORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1879.
FOREIGN.
ENGLAND.

Frightful Accident at Political Meeting.
LONDON, November l9.-An accident
occurred last evening at Dewsberry, at
a political meeting, just as Sergeant ST.
mon was about TO address his constitu-
ton in a skating rink at the Battery,
at which about 5000 persons were pres
ent. The meeting excited great interest
in consequence of Mr.. Simon's refusal
to submit to the decision of the liberal
800 concerning his future candi-
dature. The gallery extended around
three sides of the hall and
part OF the end iarthest from
the speakers platform fell. The extent
of the disaster being unknown, Simon
began his speech, but discontinued it in
a few moments, when the casualties
were announced and the meeting dis
solved. Two persons are dead, one is
dying and thirty or forty are injured,
about twenty seriously.
Weekly Review OF British Grain Market.
LONDON, November lS.-The Mark
Lane Express saws: Except few beans,
the harvest is now secure in England.
In the Scotch uplands the cereal crops
are still being harvested, mostly in an
unripe state. The Scotch harvest, how
ever, will probably be terminated in a
week or ten days. Farmers generally
availed themselv OF the favorable
weather for field operations, which con-
tinued up to Friday. when there was a
sharp frost. Threshing had been ne
elected, and supplies at coun-
try markets were consequently
light, and wheat in fit state
for either sowing or milling was very
scarce. Fortunately good area has al
ready been sown in wheat under cir
cumstances which augur favorably. The
recent uncontradiCted estimate OF this
years crop shows that it will be neces-
sary to import 100000 quarters OF
foreign wheat. Doubtless, with every
allowance for possible eXaggerations, the
crop is desperately bad. The Mark Lane
and country markets have been
dull, with liberal arrivals from
abroad. Prices have fallen about a
shilling for all descriptions of wheat.
There was not much pressure to sell,
but the enormous visible supply in
America, and the uncertainty as to the
actual extent of the surplus available
for export thence, caused pretty gen.
eral abstentiOn OF buyers. Until some
thing more general is known trade must
feel its way cautiously. In some quar-
ters the opinion prevails that wheat will
prove remunerative even at present
prices. Doubtless decline OF a few
shiuings will bring forward number of
speculative buyers The arrivals at
ports of call have been large. Early
i'm the week wheat off the coast
declined as low as - shillings for
red winter for the continent, but subse-
quently prices rallied from six pence to
shilling per querter. Maize is in fair
inquiry, principally for the continent, at
about the late rates. Wheat for ship
ment is quiet in consequence of the
high prices asked in America. Maize
is duh. Barley has receded from six
pence to a shilling per quarter. The
sale of English wheat the last week
amounted to 1868 quarters at IS shlll-
ings and 8 pence per quarter, against
54.740 quarters at 40 shilling and pence
per quarter for the same week last year.
The imports into the United Kingdom
for the week ending November Sth, was
1885. fS0 hundred weights Of wheat and
243, ,S9l hundred weight oi flour.