Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1879-06-14 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

HEXIIAM.  Mr Cook sold through his ring on Monday 14 fat cattle, 9 calves, 94 fat sheep, and 21 fat lambs. Competition was spirited. Beef, 9i 3d to 10s per stone. Mutton, 100 per lb. Prices--oattle H.B. hoilers,:2l4 15s to;EI9, top Mr Thos. Telfer, Green Carts; Kyloe heifers, £ll 7a 6d to £2O 7s 6d, top Mr Thos. Sartees, Colwell South Farm; bullocks up to £l9 ss; calves, 27s to 665, top Mr John Robson, Colwell North Farm. Sheep—Shorn boggs up to 635, top Mr John He wetson, Broom Park; up to 62s Mr E. Charlton, Heathery Edge; up to 60a 6d, Mr Cuthbertson, Whittington; and Geo. Crawshay, Esq., Haughton Mains. The whole of the sheep made an average over 57s a head. Lambs up to 425, top Dr Jackson, Heaham ; average price, 32s 3d a head.  TYNEDALE (HEXHAM). Mr Thos. Blandford passed through his mart on Monday 17 fat cattle, 129 fat sheep, 25 fat lambs, 1 calf, and 5 pigs. The competition for all clones of stook was very brisk, aud the whole were soon disposed of at the under-mentioned prices. Cattle: Bullocks from £l5 10a to £l9 2s 6d, top Mr Win. Taylor, Ninebanks; heifers from £l3 to £27, top Mr Win. Hall, Whittle. Sheep . Shorn hoggs from 47s 6d to 64s 6d, top Mr W. Hill, Wnittle ; mule hoggs from 40a to 49a 6d, top Mr R. Herdman. Fern Hill; one tap, 725, Mr R. Herdman ; rough hoggs to 445, Mr J. Riddle, Biugfield ; ewes up to 53s 6d, top Mr J. Walker Corbridge ; lambs from 21s to 435, top Mr Jos. Walker, Thornbrough High Barns. A lot of 12 shorn hoggs from Mr W. Hall, Whittle, made an average Of 61s 6cl'a head. Fat pigs made 538 to 665; store pigs, 36s to 425. Beef, 9s 9d to 10s per stone; mutton, 9fd to 10*d per lb ; lamb, lid to 11*1 per lb.  Professor Seeley has accepted the presidency of the Workmen's Social Education League. The Copenhagen University has just celebrated its centenary. Two men have been suffocated at Nailsea, near Bristol, through descending a well 50 feet deep whioh had been closed for some weeks. After the men had met their deaths, it occarred to somebody to lower a lighted candle into the well, and the flame expired at a depth of 12 feet. in Edinburgh, on Monday, Elisabeth M'Clure, who had been a servant at the farm of Collechon, Kirkundbrightshire, was tried for the murder of her infant child, whom she had cut to pieces and flung into a pond. A plea of culpable homicide was so. °elated, and she was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.  At a meeting of the Delegates' Council in connection with the South Yorkshire Miners' Association, held at Barnsley, it was resolved to hold a series of mass meetings in the South Yorkshire c,oaltield, with the view of gaining farther support to the union and to discuss the proposal to ask for a 10 per cent, advance in wages.  Joseph Chisno.ll, a collier, in the employ of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, was on Monday committed to prison for a month by the county magistrates, at Bolton, for having neglected to prop the roof of his working place. The defendant complained that he should have been brought before the magistrates for a "a thing of nowt," bat it was shown that he only escaped death through his omission having been discovered by the turderlooker, abont a ton of coal having fallen in a few minutes alter he had been despatched for props.