The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-02-21 00:00:00

THE HORRORS
.OF WAIL,

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Herr von Was:de, of the Colvegc Gazette, deserib.
big an excursion he made from Belimn to Pontalier,
thus describes some of the ghastly so •nes connected
with the rout of General Bourbaki's army :—" Heeps of
forsaken oorpses mouldered away among the bushes
sad in the ditches by the high road. Not far from
lffienthiliard • doctor and I found eight Transit.
men dead in one house, and already in an advaneed
allege of decomposition. Among them lay a wounded
Man Still alive, and who eried out for help in a lament-
able Yobs°. We took him out with some difficulty and
laid him in the open air. He was • little man, scarcely
17 yens of age, a student at Avignon, A Prussian
pomade had torn his two legs below the knees. He
had remained in this state seven whole days without
Wag attended to. without water, and entangled
smoag all those sorpess. He had wrapped cm) his
wounde in the rap of his uniform, and the oold had
Pepped the hemorrhage. He had crawled up to his
companiaos, and had taken hits of biscuit out of
their poke* which sufficed for his anbuistence ; he
had diked his burning thirst by drinking the greet
flakes of snow which fell in at the window. He had
lived thus fair a week. The unhappy man hati been
balm to Brahmins& end the doctor thinks he .111
live. Hanelesh is now the principal food of the John
uilsathed themselves e the Gauntry ; and I have myself sseen• bevy
of women throw upon a dead
bum • a peek el wolves, and, tearing it with all
sorts of butratneete, swallow morsels quite raw. I
hove eve. been teld—bat do net vouch for the truth
of tbie—thitt the sinfortimate people hap eaten bums*
IMP lakes from the remains of the dead molders. This
=IP eighth sactrotan I have been threepx, bat
Ia algecla, nee in hely, Mt ia
gm is &UNTIL bawl I lila Was se krirtie.

Ammer= ROBBW:—On Sunday morning, Mrs.
Brown saddler, of Fortune's Well, narrowly escaped
• robbery in her shop at the top of High-street. Her
assistant closed the shop ae usual, in the evening, and
P.S. Florence, going his rounds At eleven o'olook, tried
the don, among others, and found all safe. On his
return front off the Hill, at 1 a.m., hi heard a suspi-
cious noise in the street, and proceeded towards the
spot wheelie the sound appeared to oome from. He
found tint Mrs. Brown's shop door was burst open, and
part of the look in the shop. Matches were strewed
about the piece. A very emote search was made, with
essistanee, bat no one was found, and it was evident
that the would-be robber had been either mistaken in
the place, or disturbed by the unexpected return of
Sent. Florence,
Bevel. I.—Th• rowing 111001 for the Channel
Fleet, same off on Thursday afternoon. - About noon a
Shia fog gathered Over use WSW, and the various
vowels were seemly visible front the decks of the others.
The Dowse ley from HAILS. Agincoart (ffsgship), round
the Hereales, Maghreb, Warrior, Northamberia“,end
Insonstant, and bask to the slatting rrilit, Mangold*
the Agineoart, where Mr. II Lieutenant
of H.M.S. Baroales, elLibited as jed The Kesereh's
stem Pasoan, nailer Oimaimailsr Boy* of MIMI.
Aglasserl, sessiefeeisi seek "eft

The Observer understands that the Black Bea Oen-
tarsus lass not exactly adjourned sine dic. Ac there is
an agreement on the main points, the date of the next
meeting is left to Lord Granville in the hope that a
French representative may be prosiest.
It is reported that several of oar regiments of bawl
and medians cavalry are to be sairsesed, the value of
the murals aa a means of peelecilea for the body of
the hem soldier having ben iffssMenabir
Lathe Ogatialabal war.