The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1870-06-21 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE-Ims DAT This morn man named John Duke, living in the city of London, cut his wife's threat nod then his own, in &111, of despoucksey, srisins from wwwt of work. Both utt Cliusprously wounded.  SATONDAIrn Coax limunem—Dueleeter : The drought is electing the proepects of ardwalturs. At the Dorchester Corn-Bschangs the samly of wheat was tolerably tura, and there was • fair demand for Ws and all other sorts of grain. In pries theni was • general advance. Wheat realised BM to bits. per qr., an advance of fa to its. Oats, rfs. to ns., ties same advance. Barley. Us. to 275. —lnspectees return: Whim, 86 quarters. Cell 10a ; avenge, 466. Bid. At the had. Of markets the trade was Brun at the recent advance. Thissiman Wool, 14th. There barn been no Improvement In the wool-market during the past week. The demand for wool het been very manly. Drama rug. —The market Is now buoyant, and an .rti,a busker has been done during the week In meet departrnenM of the trade. The great rim In flu sad Merl In Raul. ham put a stop le F. 0. B. transactions, as our spinners can. not a Nerd to pay the prima now demanded. Stocks on the vet ant held for full rates, but that, has been little maing, and to-day the tone of the market k quieter. Jute I. also rather lest inquired for, and the value slightly in favour of Me... Both flax and tow yarns are in goof deemed and higher. ; and jute yarns sue also very Washer at full pre, ium rate• ordet, fur linens have teen given out more freely of late, and manufacturers are all well employed.  The great Roman Catholic will ease haa ended in;the failure of Dr. Goss. Few people will regret the fruatratiou of an intention (even if it did exist) to leave a wife penniless even in favour of religious objects. The old proverb may very well be applied here, that "charity begins at home and ir the Roman Catholic dignitaries thought that Mrs. Moreton was morally entitled to the £9OO • year which they offered her out of the property bequeathed to the bishop, why did they not prevail upon the testator to put this bequest in the will, which would have rendered the document far lees suspioiona Among the many tributes to the memory of Dickens (which MI ihu Burritt preposterously proposes to oollect in a large volume for publi' eation) those of professional journals are not the learnt interesting. The British Medical Journal vouches for the medical knowledge possessed by the great novelist and for the fidelity of his dos- I ariptions of diseases, some of which descriptions have been transferred to medical works; while the Law Journal, explaining Dickens's many legal caricatures as satires upon the black sheep of the profession, claims him as a whilom solicitor's clerk and • friend of many eminent lawyers. As for the church, have not the Bishop of Manchester and the Dean of St. Paul's designated the departed author as a real and effective preacher I IT is expected that the grand achievement of the Vatican Council will be proclaimed on the 29t1i instant, being the day of St. Pwria. and St. PAUL Thenoefortb all who do not believe in the personal infallibility of the Pope for the time ing will lie under the penalty of anathema