The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-26 00:00:00

foreign fittelligence.

11•BBITII is Fll4lOl. —The Imperial Court of Lyons
has delivered • judgment which will be well re«iired
by persons engaged in farming. By this decision rabbits
waneas are classified as noxious animals, and such
proprietors as have suskiined damage from them are
permitted to hunt them with (wrote at all 10.5011 k
Some hotrible cruelties have been perpetrated upon
British colonists in New Zealmtd. Aimoreling to the
latest advice' the rebels had surprised the settlers is
Poverty Bay, and committed atrocitioa which make the
blood run coil. Men were burnt alive, children were
mutilated, and the bodies of women after they had been
violated, were thrown to the pigs.

Death has at length pat an end to the sufferings of
the Prince Royal of Belgium. More than • week ago
the state of the young Prince underwent • change for
this worse; dysentry set in, and it was felt that warmly
any hope remained. Dr. Jenner, who had been called
from London, left Brawls, in fact, seme days since,
finding tint he could render no farther service. The
Prince di, d shortly after one o'clock on Friday morning.
He wu born on the 12th June, laW, acd had not,
therefore, completed his tenth year.

A MURDERER TRACKED BY TOR MOO OF RIO Vic Tux
—A man named Legrand was tried two days back at
Melon for the murder at Coulommiers of Felicia Bouncy,
aced It, daughter of an innkeeper of that neighbourhood.
This crime was • cruel sat of vengeance ; the father of
the deocased had put an execution into the premises of
the amused, a wheelwright, to obtain payment of £7 for
weed supplied to him. and Levan& in order to be
revenged on Homey, laid wet for It. daughter and cut
her throat. A woman who had been attracted to the
spot by the cries of the deocsuid, saw the murderer
escape into • wood. followed for stew seconds by • dog
which belonged to the young woman; the animal then
returned to protect the body of his mistress, but shortly
after, seeonspanied by several penons, lob was again put
so the track, which he followed to • copes, where he
commenced barking; on the spot being searched Legraud
was diseovered in an abandoned marlpit, standing up to
his middie in water, in which he had probali y entered
for the purpose of clamming the trams of the crime from
his clothes. Ile at one. gave blineell into atuitody, and
oonfeesed hie guilt. Re was now oondemed to hard
labour for life.

A New Ergesne. —The Impartial ckSoigsies devotes
live mimes to a description of • new Ecstatic named
LOUIS(' Lsteau. It appears from the statement of the
Be'giati journal that for some months past this young
girl presents every Friday the phenomena which are
called the stigmata of the Passion. She his on her
hands, feet, and over the heart, sangoiceous blisters,
which mode abundantly. The ordinary functions of
life are suspended. The ayes open, and, turned obliquely
towards !leaven, appear to be attentively fixed on some
object. l'he pupils are dilated, the face is psle, the
month partially opened, and the features express •
sentiment of admiration, mingled with a sweet sorrow.
At times the object she seems to contemplate produces
a painful starting. When not to ectiwy, she is in
catalepsy. At three o'clock she Marta up all at core,
and suddenly Ship herself on the fisga, without the
least attempt to protect her face with her hands; yet
she ressiess no Injury. She remains for an hour in this
horiaontal petition, her arms and feet crossed. About
4.30 she raises herself quickly, without any assistance,
leer arms still in the form of a cross, as if some invisible
power bed placed her in this vertical position. She
then falls on her knees, neat sits Gown, and in about 10
minutes the body is subject to • kind of torsion, and
the &static of Bois d' Heine—for so she is galled —throws
herself supine on the ground. Then it ia tbat she is
waked up; but no aceonsplish this the person about her
must belong to the Ord 1r tts Pais o

A WONDIIIITUL STORT.—Ot all wroderf el sot stories,
the following, extracted by the Chicago Tribune from
a New Hampshire paper. the name of which it does ent
state. Is about the most wonderfal•—" Last year, Mr.
Charles Edgerly, of Meredith, owned a cat whieh
was • regular hunter. He would often go off and
bring in rabbits. If soy of the family weed berrying,
Tommy would gobo and devote his ersergies to wild
game. If he berme separated from the party, he would
climb • tree and ascertain the direction to bead himself
to and them. He would catch birds en trees, and the
boys of the family knowing the propensity of squirrels
to take to fences mid stone walls when in danger, would
put him on • wall and alarm the game. One afternoon
Tommy caught fifteen oquirrels in this manner. He
would wait any length of time when pat down in •
place toil told to stay there. One day he brought a rat
and laid it at the feet of Mr. Edgerly, who took his
out his knife and skinned It. ha ay yed the opera-
tion with intense interest, and seemed highly pleeeal
at IL Mr. Ealprly said, 'Clo get another,' and the eat
went off and returned at Interval. Miring the day with
three more, which were drily skinned under feline
superintendence. Mr. Edgerly told the oat that he
would skin all the rate begonia cake ; andbene.pm.y
made it his tole oceopatioa to catch the rodents and see
their hides removed. The skins of the rata were
fastened on the born at the distance of • few feet from
the ground. Thirty-seven trophies were In time dis•
played on the barn. One day this feline Nimrod
brought In a rat, and laid It at Mr. Edgerljs feet. Ile
was busy at the time, and could not gratify the animal
with the usual skinning operation. The eat laid it it
his feet lime moceetive times, and was finally repulsed
in such • manner that Tommy went off with his back
and mil up in the recoils: stiff gait wide° sereged
animals have. From that day not a rat would he catch
though other small game continued to suffer aa of
But now comes the wooderful part of the tale. On the
night of the day on which be became so mortally
offended 'Tommy want out to the tarn, and tore down
the hide' of the tkirtyeeven victims, to show his resent-
ment at the result. Boob • cam rarely is board of, sad
we record it for our madam, young and old. Though
It. woal4 keep all his old habits, such ea skating (for he
would slide in the beet manner be was able on the los
whomever the boys went), he never mato was known
to match • rat to the day of his death, which happened
emus few month& after by being eanght in • lex imp;