The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-23 00:00:00

foreign Intellionce.

LORD SHAFTWORT and /Aber active promoters of
religious assemblies are in Paris, providing for this
"spiritual want?' of the Exhibition multitude.
TRII New Pork Tema anticipates tLat in a few days
Mr. Jefferson Davie will be liberated upon his own
recognisance. to answer the charges that may be brought
against his.

Quick Salugo.—The China clipper Taira's( has
sailed from Shanghai to Hongkoog in nevanty•two
honor —a feat never before performed by a sailing
ship.
Tag Troy Times says that there la still a soldier of
the first A oieriona revolution living via., llr.
Frederick Bakerman. one hundred and eleven years old,
who resides in the State of New York.

Tun Pince Inrcitist. --Private sdviess from Paris
describe the stste of the Priem Imperial as musidng
some anxiety. 71te feet that 'ejections of iodia• hays
been employed le seised on a* affording proof of some
eonetitntional delicacy. and dismiss of the bone le men-
tioned an a poesibility, but this is mere conjecture.—
..helical TIIIMIS and Oasettd.

1001 POLAlll7.—Anntber step towards the oornplete
obliteration of Poland has just been taken by Hosea.
hp Imperial ukase was ptiblisbed on Thursday, placing
the financial administration of that unfortunate country
wholly under the control of the Itesean Minister of
Finance. In a few years the name of Poland will be a
thing of the past.

MAUACII IT IIDI4IIII. —Another terrible Indian
mamma" is reported. A garrison of 80 men at Fort
Buford, on the Upper Mislead. has been slaughtered
by the hostile Indiana in that medico. The unfortunate
soldiers were Nurrotsuded by 2,000, Indiana and though
they fought gallantly and killed and wounded many of
their foes they were finally overpowered.
Paounc RABBITS. —Right years ago fourteen rabhits
were turned out in lfr. Austin's estate of Flerwon Park.
The number of their progeny shot last year on this
estate was 14,233 ; and in spite of this dogmatics, arid
what goes on °Weide the estate, they have swarmed
over the neighbouring tiouetry, and have been found at
considerable distances around.—Msilloteres Argue.

A Nnw Rusorets Boynton,. —We have the
pleasure of announcing to our readers the 111:01.4n11 of a
new Surorman Sovereign. Pane. Henry XXII. of
Reuse•Greiz, having attained his majority. hita amended
the throne of that oountry, which since 1859 ht. been
governed by hie mother, lb. PllOOlll/ Caroline, as ragrut.
The ex,ipet of the territory over wbicb Prises
Henry XXII. is now rule: ia seven genre inUes.

Pato lITTUL 000131REPCO TO • CHOZCH.—The Journal
Ilk-et•VMaine gives on soeount at deplorable disaster
which betel the commune of Montour, in that depart-
meat of France on Sunday lest. Th. Aural, had been
for Revved months past in entree of recoustreotion, and
only the olive had been preserved for divine service. On
the day mentioned, just es vesper. were about to
commence, and when. considerable number of pergola
were assembled, a loud cracking was heard, and the
eseiffnlding and roof of the be adieu, composed of tiles and
wooden rafters, frills to the intent of IS yarda, berying
many of the congregation in the reins. Pour penman
were killed on the spot, and twelve others naive:4
contusions more or less severe.

A THROW Yon Lim —A singular dorl has just taken
pluce it Berlin bourses a jouroeyinsti silvencisith sod
another artisan. Tbe arms selected wen a bottle of
sulphuric acid. Tbe arrangement was that whiebever of
the two adversaries threw the lowa.* with dim should
swallow the sautesits of the fatal phial. Chasse favoured
the silversmith, whs iesmediately paired out a glue of
the liquor ant hacided it to his adversary, who unhesi-
tatingly drank off the liquid :bat to lb. astonishment of
hie antovist, instead ad falling seamless, sesseked his
lips and slaked for another glen. The moods had
acted ou tbe sensible idea of substituting amok for the
corrosive fluid. Ills hardly neesseary to say that the
affair terminated la • reecoailiation.

Tag North German Parliament was closed at Weans*.
day by the King of Prussia in person. The amine was
seemly so brilliant as on the mashie of the (monis; of
the session, but the nsnfron amorded the King was
quite as enthusiastic, Tb. apes& delivered by his
if Olney did not ceetnin mush of political importunes.
He songratslated the members upon the petriotie
eernestaess with which they had serried out their peat
and Impatient labours, and which bad enabled them to
emnblish npoe a snare basis a constituttos whose
devolputetit they might goeldrutly leave to the future.
'Me tame bad arrived, be mid, when their German
Fatherland was able to uphold It, pesos, ite rights and
It. diginity by Its owe eollsoties stresgtb ; end be
observed that all the Government tad peoples of
Germany were uniminious that tbe regained power of
the nation had above all to uphold its eignimmut by
rendering assure the blessings of rem Hie &OA/
was frequently cheered during the delivery or the

RAW POIK.—Tbe Springfield (liamaabasetia) Rs-
pothers* gives an account of Ms mere of triesisa in •
family in that town, owned by preside( of nemoked
ham. A few days afterwards the symptoms of disease
began to appear ; pain and smiths' of the eyes, pains
in tho atomic& and bowela, "omitting and Maritima,
and profuse panipiratioe. Afterwards the limbs beassm
rigid, the lead movement gaming meat &golly. One of
the daughters, 17 years of age, died altar • fertnisbt's
illness. She could eery Be with bee lower limbs
perfectly straight, the least change from that Parities
miming bet dreadful suffering. Daring all her illness
her pules was never lower than 130 to 140 • minute,
while daring the last four days it was toe quick to be
emoted. During the first part of that lime her bands
and feet WSTS sold and olamosy, while Ilt• rest ef bee
body retained its natural warmth. On • mai pima of
monis examiaed post enortem, Mishima wars fotiod at
the rats of from 60,000 to 80,000 per square inch. The
rest of the family are .n getting well, azaepl the mother,
whore state is described is still erititaL

de 100MITZIO DIVIVIL—Tba Rev. Zola. Twitohe
wee the most !mewl Methodist pressen la Vermost
for shrewd mid laughable sayinp. In lb* pulpit b•
maintained a imitable gravity of manner and exprimirio,
bat out of the pulpit be otardowed with fun. Oesa-
sionelly be would. If em.rgeney mewed to require,
introduce something queer in a sermon for the sake of
arousing the dogging attention of his bearers. &sag
that his sadism's were getting sleepy, he mama in his
discourse and disosamdas follows :_egr.46..
. you
haVot any Mei of the sufferillim of our laieddeUidito
the Dinv settlement., on aesoent of the !mosquitos' in
some of these regions being esonsoes. A meat mealy
of them would swish a poem!, mid ow, worm, on lan
sad bark when the missicomies are goisg." By this
time all ears and eyes were ems, and he mended to
finial' his discourse. The mixt day on. of his houses
failed him to mooluit for telling lies is the pulpit.
'Thai. sever was a roomallo that weighed a wend,"
be noel. "But I did's* say one of them would weigh a
C:r; sad a ma* may, and I think a million of
would." " Bat you mid they barked at, the
mimiomarien" "No, no, brother, I said they would get
on logs &lad bark."

NM= 07 • YOOlllO BRIAII•X NT • WIDOW.—
Brio ',Wes the tareemestaweee of a
shocking warder recently perpetrated jealoe”,
erioshial bei a widow, named sad the
victim • yoong paned Adolphe
with whom oho biat married ow an Improper hi=
for a cooold•rable UM& Relorriai to the Paine
lAspilor della or Ma), the writer protases his narrative
bp Wang oloolbor seam are set predediaed. It
would ho Laipoodlile to lad owe whioli wood mors
dismally with the 0611111 of whist' iodide has sow
rweesial the loadoole. It woe three* wwlew imams
1"• tad afteelupowk with* oho kept epee kg alwoholia
th• widow Oilmen wee &mod to
sod ea ewer Wilda hid mover hen
eery in Wes while low lialbeed wee Aye
ohs wetTltlitia. with BolteeepoolOmb ralml Inek.

men, maid to have hese very haudeo, and who was
loved by another woman se well as by eeee oesseit.
When her hu•band died she had passed her fortieth
Imr, and she berme aware that the young Belgian
was dary repenting himself from her more and more.
Wbat put the crown on the jealously of the widow was
the belief that her Inver wan thinking of mar.vioe.
Front that moment she conceived the design of her
rasilrengeanoe. It was proved that on the 14th
A tiolphe spent the night with the widow, and
was not afterward. seen. After some days, peeing that
neither the widow eercuiel nor belay,r reappeared, the
porter formed wen* nine respicions. He broke into
the room, and the S,.t °hive whieh met his Mew we.
the bode of the 110110 f 10•12 covered only by Ma ehirt,
and fathom] into • Mooping potter. De., eh. 1.4 no,
the aide of which his head was leaning. He had died of
suffocation, and in the room wee atilt found three pans
fell of the allhee of eharonel. The first exclamation of
the widow "Quit. right, 1 have rereesed myself ;
he dinned his fate. It was he who mused roe ID deeert
my elsild." The truth was that the moieties of het
passion had stilisrl maternal love, and that :the had
Preferred awning her child to, Ovine sop her loner.
'laving been brought hefore the eourt on her own con-
ies:sloe, the widow Chnewil loudly denied the ch•ree:
and protruded that the vane man mast have committed
nieide in her slasewe. There is no ...mon to doeht
that after leaving the burning charcoal to do its fatal
work, she mast haws re-entered the room and lain
quietly on the bed beside which lay the deed litel• of
lover. For the two next tights., a10r,0.", she mei'
han slept near the corpee. Rbe way interrogated an
follows :—" Too bad connived for him who afterwards
hemline year victim • mad end uncontrollable passion :
when you perceived It, indifference you wished to bold
him by throat.. On one ocewrion he found • knife
antler roar pillow and said to his fellow workmen,
"Chat woman is seehte of killing Enryone
heard your threats of evermore. Ifn knew that he
had soother mistrese" The widow flireeeil went, and
said nothing. "It is said that OW the death of your
lover you west ,o the sentelory, that you gave yourwlif
op to despair. and that you tore the kneed with your
nails in order that you Micht MI the body &Via." .0
r
shall always mint him." the priamier answered. "You
Preteaded tint be ememitted suicide ; that is most un-
likely, as he was a young man of a ray and buoyant
disposition. He loved his life, only he meet h•ve leen
wearied of your persecution." The widow nersiMed in
cleaving that she was guilty. The jury of the Seine in
liming her guilty, set adde the shame of premedita-
tion, and allowed extenuating eirommeteame. She was
sentenced to ten yearn' imnrisnement.