The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-09-18 00:00:00

would have to dictate to 'England about Ireland,
mars :—" The conduct in this matter of many persona
of auperior Christianity, and in particular of the
majority of the clergy, NI contracted with that of the
Nonconformista, will to my dying day he to me a
auhject of great grief and actonichment."

wAs.vicrims is TURRET,

An we walked about the town we could net avoid
coming upon five street executions and witnenning the
whole disgusting proceedings, not that they were to
me any novelty, for during the two or three days I
Adrianople it eeetned as if I could never get
out of eight of men dangling in the air. An noon no •
likely looking chop in reached nay one with nun
blinds nuppArted with bracket*, the officer erlee
" Halt r' awl a soldier carrying a 'O,Ol ;Lnd a rot*
ntei gone nide and arrange.. the latter over the
bracket. The man stela (m to the nun'', the none is
pineal around his neck, and be in drawn if him feet.
Mere in no drop, but in every case, I am told, the
poor wretch dies just as those we saw did—that is
to say, inntantaneounly and apparently with little
pain, being, in fact, choked, inatead of having the
neck broken.

LATEST TELEGRAMS (To-day.)
SHOILA, Blunday.

MORE TURKISH VICTORIES.

The Turks have destroyed the Russian
entrenchments south of Plevoa.

On the 14th the Itnnsians were defeated at
Smankili and pursued to fialbunal, their loss
being some thousands of killed and wounded.

flu 'K HABER?.

It is ntated that Sulnman Pacha has etructed
a junction with Mehemet All.

CAPTURE OF A FORT.

A Constantinople telegram announces the
eaptere of the Fort St. Nicholas in the Schipke
Paas by the Turks.

AMATEUR HIGHWAYMEN.
It will he remembered that two men, about May
last, created much consternation at Blackheath, by
their daring, and in .ne case successful, attempts at
highw,y robbery. It will be remettaberwl that in their
that attempt they stopped the carriage of Mr. flodgeon,
the tuptistant solicitor to the Treasury, and, by
threatening him with pistols' sncceeded in inducing
him to give up CU in notes and gold that he bad
about him. They were wearing masks at the time,
' and were otherwise dlis.fuitted no as to avoid identifies,
Bon. After this they stopped several other carriages,
but the occupants of these, being Of a more courageous
dispoaition, ordered the coachman to drive on, and aa
the terrible highwaymen evidently had no desire for
bloodshed, the pistols were not discharged, anil their
intended victims &raped with their money and their
For wone time all efforts of the local police
failed in tracing them. anti the matter wet placed in
the hands of the authorities at Scotland-yea From
the enquiries that were made, Inspector Shore went
down toPortsmouth, where he succeeded in tracing
two men now in cotstmly, upon whom pistols and
masks, and some of the stolen property, were Contd.
'the two men arrested, who gave the names Thomas
Hyslop, 19, amt John Denham, IS, it appeant are
native, of Parbanontli, by trade bakers, and last
Whit-mond:iv left their homes, returning after a
moth'.. aleienee. A short time aro, Denham
employer WWI rabiNo of a cashbox, which wan fottnil,
as wall at,, a revolver, in a field near Portsmouth.
The prisoners were suspected and their boxes searched,
when another mrolver woo discovered, and cartridges
which fitted the weapon were found in the field. This
naturally gave rise to suspicion, and when it wee found
that one of the two Li notes which were in Mr.
'puree when he gave it up to his Black.
heath assailants had been changed by one ,4 these
Ruenyg men a m , t pair been Itakenithbeftrre a twneat,rltriratel at
Greenwick and were remanded.

In the autumn 0f"1R75 an EnelJohnsen of the name of
!ferry Ilwitinex, from London, in a foggy lay attempted
without a guide to croon the Krunilertnnern l'asii, in the
Tyrol. He wax Lot, and the eleareh inatitutal failed to
dikeover any trace of him. Foul play MU at tha tiros
mpipeeted. Laid week, a View, rorrexponilent writes. •
illiepherd .liwovereil a akeleton at the hlgliext point of th•
mountain. It wan identified by 1111'4114 of the accoutre.
ments lying near nil being that of the miming tourist.
The skeleton an Mimi in a ',Piing poidtion, and it la
therefore eon led that he had !oat his way and died
of eslimixtion.