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Newspaper
Edinburgh Evening Courant
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 28, 1868
Page
11
Sporting notes discuss Goodwood meetings and expert wagers. Key horses include Mamists like MOSLEM and ATHENA with contenders like TABOURET and KIDDERMINSTER noted for potential wins. Multiple races and juvenile championships outlined with favored runners and speculative outcomes.
Turspar Craven Stakes winner Charnwood third Vespasian second Mandrake third four ran. Geat Twick Stakes Lady Blanche first Herald second Phoebus third five ran. Rovs Stakes Paul Jones walked over. SweepstaxEsxs 10 8ovs Ventnor first Sir Oliver second Fal Lal third four ran. Lavast Staxes Duke of Beaufort first Heather Bell second Badsworth third. Sir ran Stewanos Cup Ver first Mercury second Salliet third. Hama Staxes Belladrum first Minaret second Bide rolite third five ran. £60 Puste Faker first Merry Andrew second Arkadi third three ran. Anne Esteys Stakes Blinkhoolie first Taraban second two ran. Betting on the course Goopwoop Stakes odds listed against various horses. Arrivals include Ines Witchcraft Corporal Tynedale Tabouret Dean Lord Hawthorn Melbourne filly Mandrake Crocus Phoebus Glenderg Belladrum Sunstroke Parson Fidelia Returned Salliet Landscape Showman Seringapatam St Murgo Fitz lvan Professor Anderson.
Tweedsmuir hosted a successful sports day adjoining Bend House with many visitors, including dignitaries from Edinburgh. Captain M Neil officiated as judge while George and John Stodart were stewards. Prizes awarded to competitors from Tweedsmuir, Kingledoors, Fruid, Crawford, and Polmood in events such as running, hopping, leaping, hurdle races, caber toss, and wrestling with James Brown of Fruid claiming multiple wins.
The report says fishing remains light with warmth as the only lure. Rivers run lower than in 1826 due to drainage, but recent heat has been tropical. A barometer drop and approaching cloud cover chased a thunderstorm warning in the evening.
A potter named M Dermid was found in the Forth and Clyde Canal near Glasgow. Reports describe multiple drownings and near drownings at New Haven Sussex Wolverhampton and Whitehaven with details of victims Magnus Colvin John Leask William Pritt Joseph Pickering and related family tragedies.
A young man is in custody in Liverpool for setting a haystack ablaze. Four men injured by a gas explosion in Leeds. A police inspector shot himself dead at Hall. The guardian of King Theodore's son stands about 6ft 6in. A fire at Irwinton, USA burned a rare house, two condemned black men perished. Two youths quarrelled at Almondsbury, one died from a stab wound. Two men killed by earthfall while excavating for a lime kiln in Armagh. A gentleman shot himself in a carriage on the South Eastern Railway. identified as an Australian artist. A French female barber shop opens in Paris. Paris Tele's telegraph correspondent laments poor letters. Cameron suffers from Abyssinian captivity. Mosquito stings near Newton Abbot cause swelling. Windermere water levels drop nearly four feet. Gloucester milkmen discuss price rise due to drought. Corporal Peake to sue for Queen's Prize. Nantes theatre tragedY as gauze dresses catch fire. two ballerinas die. Death of Lady Armitage at Hope Hall from heart disease and dropsy. Sunstroke cases denied at Sandhurst. heat caused fatigue among 1800 troops. Parliament prepares for prorogation. Liberal whips scatter as business ends.
The article notes the highest mine as a silver mine in Potosi, Andes, at 11 375 feet above sea level, and the deepest as a salt mine in Westphalia at 2050 feet below sea level. It also covers various tales including a Portsmouth torpedo accident, legal actions, railway robberies in America, and a grand Vienna riflemen procession.
Edinburgh Gazette notes creditor meetings for James Berry junior in Aberdeen at the Lemon Tree Hotel on August 5 at 2 PM and Alexander Drummond Jeweller in Perth at Guild Hall on August 6 at 12 PM. Additional listing for William Stewart junior Merchant of Dundee notes a creditors meeting at the Royal Hotel on July 24.
Advertised remedies claim immediate relief for diarrhea and dysentery with Holloway's Ointment rubbed on the abdomen and Holloway's Pills taken in judicious doses. A flannel binder and a farinaceous diet are advised to ease symptoms as the medicines work.
An 19th century advertisement touts Mass. A. Atrex s Woxrth s hark Restorer or Decssion as quickly restoring grey or faded hair to youthful color and preventing baldness. It claims hair growth on bald spots, thicker hair, and no oil or dye, with prices six shillings and three shillings for large bottles. Sold by multiple chemists and perfumers in Edinburgh and London.
Schedule data shows weekly traffic figures for the Great North of Scotland Railway ending July 18, with correspondences to the week ending tear and various coded series indicating passenger and goods movements. The fragment lists numbers and classifications for traffic categories.
The electric telegraph reports thin attendance at Newcastle Corn with reduced quotes for English and foreign wheats. Liverpool and Hull markets show mixed activity in corn and flour, with declines noted. Cotton in London closed steady, and Manchester and Glasgow show quiet trade with subdued prices. Cork butter lists varied firkins as buyers and sellers move cautiously.
Last week's grain conditions were mixed with generally good supplies, especially foreign oats. Exports included 160 gra rye 8 cwts flour and 6043 gra foreign wheat with 24 846 qrs. Samples from Kent and Essex were few and variable, mostly new, dry, and some steely. Prices fell below first prices with old cash slow. Foreign supplies declined about 1s per sack or barrel. Town millers kept top prices low. maize and British barley showed limited activity while foreign barley remained firm.
In London and Edinburgh reports, fine red cloverseed remained strong with brisk demand and higher prices. White cloverseed scarce and valued highly, trifolium and canary seed also dear. oats and barley futures weakened in Dunbar with top lot oats at 4s 2d per stone, barley around 4s.
At Newcastle, July weather stayed hot with chilly nights as harvests start and stock from Aberdeen, Ireland, Norfolk and foreign parts arrive. The week shows higher stock numbers but weaker demand with beef prices down and lambs and sheep trading unevenly. Fat cattle fetch 16 to 21 pounds, sheep values vary and pork sales improve slightly.
Market notes from B Baist and Hawick auctions with 2000 sheep and 100 cattle, prices for cattle from £9 to £23, cows £7 to £20, sheep to 418 per head, lambs 203 to 253, calves 21s to £3. Hawick sale shows 400–500 sheep and lambs, cattle, milk cows, calves. prices per stone and head. Metropolitan imports total 10,728, demand heavy. best stock to 53s 10d per 8lb and lambs 6s to 63 per tib. calves and pigs subdued with limited activity.
Better sentiment in English wool market with buyers less forceful on sales and prices firmer though export demand remains light. Notable quotes include Southdown fleece ranges around 11 1/3d to 11 1/2d per lb and Southdown ewes and wethers at about 12s 13d, with Leicester and combing wools also listed in the low shillings.
Reports from plantations show overall less favorable conditions with some conflicting data. London sees no foreign hop imports last week while prices remain steady to firm. Belgians and Farnham values noted. Anterbury trade brisk yet prices firm. Worcester notes slow sales due to planter reluctance to accept current prices amid dry weather and limited stock.
Markets were fairly supplied with potatoes on Monday. The trade was steady at late rates with English 73 to 83, regents 63 to 92, Jersey 6d to 8d per cwt, and French 63 to 7s per cwt.
ENTERED INWARDS on July 27 at Stettin includes Brander handling goods Cumberland 472 Hamburg Mylins Dwina 403 Muir Havre Gnome 854 Barnetson Copenhagen Anna 43 Olsen Nestved wheat and barley Re membrance 320 Foster St Petersburg oil Vennag 72 Anthonisen St Petersburg pit prop and ice Victor 49 Neamath Mandal. OUTWARDS on July 27 Catherine 47 Isbister Stromness Woods Admiral 58 Georgeson Wick Mane tuart 384 Drysdale Dunkirk. July 28 Spectator 296 Renney Cronstadt coal Windsor 321 Luckie Rotterdam John Preston 115 Hughes Plymouth coal Sou venir 179 Angel Southampton coal Florence 838 Bogue Havre Granton goods Ben cleach 377 Groundwater Cronstadt coal.
From Lloyds List Ragnours reports the Bellona Norwegian schooner Helgesen stranded on the east coast of Samson after leaving Charleston with coal. Vessel full of water, but some cargo likely salvageable. Also quarantine notice for UK Gibraltar and Malta arrivals for three days and several ships spoken with and port arrivals listed.
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