Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-09-01 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

STOCK AUCTION MARTS.  TYNEDALK, Aug. 27. —Mr Blandford had through his ring • fair supply of cattle and .beep. Heifers made from 4EIO 10s to £2O 10.; top, Messrs John Haile anl B,os, of Corbridp. Bullocks made from Ell 10s to £2l; top, Mr C. Reed, of Husashangh. Shoutings ranged from 401 to 57.; top, Mr Thomas Cowle, of Triornbrough High Barns. Baez, from 41.64 to 51s 64; top, Mr 0. Reed, Hamshaugh. One two shear top, 565, Mr Peter Dixon, of White }lenge. Beef, 10. to 10.61 pr atone; mutton, 10d to bid; ewes and taps, HILICHAM, Aug. 27.—Mr Cook sold 85 fat cattle, 2 calves, 165 fat sheep, and 112 fat lambs. Nearly the whole of the stock on offer were of the best deseription, and prices ruled firm at the under-mentioned quota. Uinta. The competition was keen and animated throughout. Best beef, 10s 61 to lie per atone; ordinary, 10s per stone • best mutton, top, 1014; current, Rd per lb ; ewes, Ito, 84c1 per lh ; lamb, 104 d to lid per lb. Fat cattle, bullocks, £lB 15e to 829 17s ; top, Sir John Swinbtorne, Bat., Capheaten. Heifers, £l2 to £25; top, Sir Joha Swinburne, Bart, Capheaton. Cows, £2O 5. to £53 12s 6/. Orolves, 51s to 805; top, Mr Ityal, Matfets. Fat sheep, 'healing., 41s 61 to 57.; top, Mr G. Langhorn, jun., Haydon, and Mr Joseph Pratt, Wed Wood. Bwes and tops, 57s to 65s each. Lambs up to 44s bd ; top, Mr J..bn (lowan, Moor Fields. The whole of the lambs on offer averaged 37s Sd per head. HEIMAN AM:3IION MART (SPECIAL SALE), Aug. 28 —Mr Wm. Cook held a snoods& sale of grazing cattle, sheep, ate., in his Auction Mart to-day, when be sold 9 young pigs, 35 half-bred ewes, 19 blackboard ewes, 9 half-bred shearlings, 69 mulis'shearlings, 544 keeping lambs, end 67 mach crows, haler., ail= cattle. There was • very large attendance of re, bidding! were brisk, and prices goal. Ores-parts bred lambs sold from 206 64 to 35s each; half-bred lambs, 23.64 each ; mule lambs, from 20s 64 to 94s 6cl each; half-bred ewes, 40s each; half-bred shearlings, 44s ebb; mule shearlinp, from 224 to 42. sack; nolloh cows, from £9 to £27 each; two year old heifers, from £l5 2. 64 to £lB 17s 61 each; yearling steers and / heifers, ES 15s to £1.5 17s 64 each.  The system of building houses billets is gradually making way in London. It is calculated that 20 people die of starvation every day in and about Bangalore.  - Captain Fraser and three ether English Engineer officers have inspected the fortifications of Constantinople:  At Bridlington, £12,600 has been raised to restore the old abbey cnuroh there.  Mr Gathorne Hardy has arrived at Balmoral, as Minieter in attendance on the Queen. The sentence on Mns Brown at Lowestoft has been commuted to penal servitude for life. Mr James Fisher, clerk at the Walsall County Court, has committed suicide by shooting himself.  A man named George Totheriok has died from the effects of poinon at lifilltield, near Sunderland. He had been working at Dunstan, and is believed to have been addicted to taking laudanum. A postmortem has been ordered.  The new scheme for the government of Morpeth Grammar School, which has now been before the Endowed Schools Commissioners and other authorities for nearly three years, reached its final stage on the lath ult., when it received the saisetion of the Queen in Oonnoil.  On Saturday night, a child named Joseph William Painter, two and a half years' old, living with his parents in Bickersteth Street, Stockton, pulled • pot of boiling water upon him, and was so severely injured that he died shortly afterwards. A young man named John Turnbull, was on Tuesday sentenoed to two months' imprisonment by the Auckland magistrates for an aggravated assault upon a young wortlftli named Sarah Watson at Billy Row, Crook.  A Parliamentary paper kilt issued oonteins re-1 tarns showing the gross estimated rental and rateable valne of coal, ironstone, and other mines in the different counties of England and Wales. ()timberland is the county having the highest rental from ironstone mines, via., £174,562.