The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-09-24 00:00:00

THE ABYSSINIAN CAPT.P7E3.

The motives were at lfaittala on July 27. Tin
aamp of the Netwaror Theodore was at Debra Tabor on
July 11. Tfro surrounding country wit in a disturbed
rooditiow. The rainy 811011011 has csommeneed.

Si. FRIDIMICIC Bauce, the British Minister et
Washington, has died from diptheria.
THE ventenee of Amelia Mitchell hu been redooed by
the Horne Secretary from eight month's to one month's
I eprisonneent.

amnia= is said to have sent an order to the men
who have reoently entered the Papal Metes to rise in
insurrection on the 28th September.

Ma. Krorr, the Yeovil farmer, senterwed to • month's
imprisonment for sending bed meat to London, Ina
liberated last Tharsdny, after a fortnight's incareeration.
Toll Sind* Lowdota Press asserts that the corpse which
was pertly eaten at St. Thomas's Hospital was that of a
suicide, a moldier who cut his throat in Waterloo-road.
The cannibal was an assistant in the chemical
laboratory.

'non AKlNlCA.—Aecording to the rAdedelpAia
Ledger, tlie Priam of WAkiwis beam* • teetotaller, and
has taken the pledge. Our contemporary thinks thet
the 'Prince may have been led to take this step in eon-
Sequence of reflection upon the strongly contrasted
careers of his great uncle and his father.

Thu Eyre Defence committee publish the affidavit of
rsn American officer, Capt. Edenboreugh, giving details
of Gordon's negotiation with him for purehaaing an
armed vows I, which the captain commanded, u es
warlike 'tom

Ti FINIAN 11101,1111 MT IN IBILAND.—Tbere I. he
longer any doubt that the Iranians, although apparently
Iniescent, have for some weeks been at work forming
hew centres, reorganising the brotherhood, and carding
money for the furtherance of their schemes ; and that
setae of the leaders of the movement have lately arrived
horn the Continent and from America. In consequences
of the reported intention to attempt a second rising the
Channtl Fleet was moved to Queetntown on Wednes-
day, anJ, ants) the outrage al Manchester, three ships
of war lutes been despatched from Plymouth as •
reinfereement.

CHILD MUSD= 111 FIAIIOI. —A horrible case hee
been brawled to light within the last few days at Puy,
in the department of the Haute Loire, which reveals •
speeies of trait) in eitilduarder which can scarcely
he exceeded in cruelty. Victoire Veymeire, assisted
by her huband, undertook within • given time to
sucomplish the death of newborn children committed to
their charge, without, however, ahedding blood. Tbe
system pursued WU very atm*. The abiklren Were
slowly starved, bet their lassalty of life appears at
timee to have ersulderably disturbed the equanimity I
of Veysseire end her amoomptlees. On some Information '
being given to the police as to the state of • little child
wbou constant moaning excited the compassion of the
seighbours, they proceeded to the house and buret open
the door of an apartment. The living skeleton of •
ehi'd of tw.o years oil was to be seen lying one heap of
dirt In • beam cradle, covered with raga. The little
body was one mass of sore., the bones of the knee
rad those of the toes protruding. On the child's death
the Verseim were to receive a sum of sixteen pounds,
with which they boasted they wruld have • good lark.
Pastries wu more than once heard to exclaim, "Oh I if
she would but die, we would have three days' rare fun."
On the discovery of this horrible sight the police insti-
tuted an inquiry into the past life of Victoire and her
husband, when it sus revealed that for several years
past this woman bad made • regular trade of getting
rid of illegitimate children. Her first attempt was on
• child of b. r husband's, who bad been married before.
She took a dislike to her step-child, and from the day
of Inc marring. ill•trested it in every possible muner,
forcing the infant to swallow unwholesome food, which
she forced down its throat by means of • spoon, mean-
while allowing the child's body to be eaten up by begs
end other disguating insects. The infant naturally
died. Several other children. handed over to her by
prostitutes, met with the same fate. She collected
these victims in a earl (catalpa a h with holes at the
bottom • the Infants being shut up in this hoz, and
rattled 'aloe( rough country rosda, usually died of
suffocation before they reached her bur-. It is need-
less to add the woman has been sentenced to be
guillotined, a fate she undoubtedly well deserves.

AMERIC•NEISCUTIOX.—Bridget Dorgan, of Daimon,
et young woman, housemaid in the family of a physician
residing at Newmarket, was executed at New Bruns-
wick, on the 11Sti alt., for the murder of her mistress.
The murder was, without doubt, the most atrocious
that ever took place in New Jersey. Mrs. Cone!!, the
victim, was the wife of a doctor. Dorgan conceived
that she would obtain a permanent situation as nurse
its the doctor's family if she should put her mistrus
out of the way. Mrs. Coriell, while Kamp, was
dreadfully beaten with a chair ; afterwards stabbed,
bitten, and scratched; finally (Imbed with kerosene
oil, and dragged into the flames of • burning bed.
No one memo to have had any sympathy with Dorgan; the
giemeral expression wae that it any ono should be hug'
albe should. Petty in the night of Thuredity, Dorgan
booms intelbated—urne person hieing supplied her
with spirits ; she howled and danced all night long. On
the scaffold she displayed no emotion. The New York
Tunes my. "Bridget ma dressed in a plain brown
snit, sod wore • white collar and white gloves. The
priests, the sheriff, and any number of ez.sheriffs
.....puted her, but she needed nose of them; she
wu as steady as • ship's mast, and quite as devoid of
emotion. The insulting expreasions of the great
croaking crowd before her, their eager dears to be near
her, the confusion of the moment, and the great fats
before her, would have unsettled the mind of my
person; but she never moved • muck, nor do we
believe she oared • half-penny. 'Don't let them
Protearants know what I say,' said Bridget. The cap
wsis drawn, the *nal was given, the rope soured, and
up she went with • jerk. In 30 minutes she area
lowered into the onflio, and the cap was about to be
removed, when the priest interposed to prevent it, it
being Bridget's inquest that her face should not be seen.
The sheriff, however, insisted, and disclued her polo
bloodless features to the people who gathered round to
look. She made an eseln-ive grant of Isar last words
to her Church. Several 'confessions' had boon publicly
hawked about and offered for sale. It will seem
strange, but it is neverthelue true, that the recorder
of the edgy, Ur. David T. Jeffries, pmpoesd to sell, some
time 11111, the oonteedos of the Bridget Dorgan, and
his molest pries was 1000 dols. In gold. Another
man named Randolph, who, we believe, is p gaoler
under Sheriff Clarkson, had a contortion, and we
anderetand his price wee 200 doll, gold or currency,
we don't know which. One of the evening papers is
report•il to have paid ISO do's. for another confession
Ott eorth the paper it was written on. Mr. Adrain
Bridget's counsel, furnished to the proms still another
oottlession, and the nest angular part of it all is, that
each holds ell bogus but kis own, and no two are alike.
Her indiffetenoe on the scaffold we attribute not so
mash to whisky as to natural brutality.TEllLUOG "
ENCOUNTIS WITII BLACK 811/Z...—Pro.
fewer J. Mikhail, the celebrated "South Mountain
Wisard," while out gunning oa Friday, bad a most thrill- !
lag adventure with a den of Week snakes, known as
"racers," from which be narrowly escaped with hi. life.
As is his habit, ilts professor had takers his favourite
carbine end gone into the mountain after squirrels. But
part of the forenoon had been spent in beating through
the hushes and over the rook. without meeting with any
adventure, and but ordinary nooses In procuring game,
kr. Suddenill., however, bo male to. lodge of roan
shoot • mile m the South Mountain House. Stopp-
ing • moment to take survey of the surroundingo be sow
a lug* black snake stretched out on a reel, sunning
himself. He at ones took up a comln of atones and
threw nro at his sulteship, but unfortunately missed
him. me aroused the im.ele, who is an instant unsoiled
himself, and stood with big brad mot, sail indignant
at this intrusion, arid at the same time gave a loud,
shrill hiss or rather a whistle. The professor delivered
Lis ssoo, Maas with such precision as to mortally wound
Li, enemy. No sooner, however, had he thrown the
at...ne than he beard a rustling among the brush to his
left, and mother whistle, louder and shriller than the
hut ifurning his eye in the direction from whence
came tie noise, he sew • isionotrons block 11118 a• (a moor)
coming directly towards him, with bead erected about
five feet from the ground, and hi. forked tongue darting
from hla distended jaws aa if beats,, fight. Tie professor
(who ism aoknowloidged crack shothm modintely raised his
carbine, died, and had ibe prend satistastioa swift
the mousier make roll over in the. atosies of death—
having spilt his bead open with a NUL WS Permod

bat the eammealleleeelt of the beide, for _before die
professor had thee to coapatulate hinmeff epos his
seems la mmquishing two of ha foes, • WO one,
meesering sheet eleven feet in length, sad thick M
=6:4hog approached to within • few feel bf him,
recol, Wining and darling his tonges out In •
manner to appal the stoutest heart. To realist was
oet of the question ; a fight was the oily alternative,
and quick is thought be levelled his cubism at the
matinee heed, but, unfortunately, missed it, at the same
Rine dropping it (his carbine) upon the ground. With
the rapidity of lightning the black snake attacked the
professor, rind commenced winding his slimy mils around
his legs and body tighter and tighter at every ooil of
his loathsome form, r until the professor was unable to
move • foot. Ris efforts to extricate himself from the
"coils of death"—sa they seerne4 to be—Were unavail-
ing, for with every effort the folds tightened, and the
stork of respiration Iremme difficult. Death and the
mks stared hint to the face, and made the cold chills
of horror and agony weep OM his body. It arm a
fearful moment, • moment of the most intense horror
and agony that made the flesh creep, the blood chill,
end the hair literally "stand on end, like quills upon a
fretful porenpine." Nothing but his greet presence of
mind saved him from strangulation and • loathsome
death. Recollecting that his hooting knife hung by hia
side, he seined it, and, with his nerves braced by
despair, drew it across the axly of the snake, severing it
at • etroke. The soils relaxed, the snake dropped at
his feet, and the professor was free again. By this
time be heard a pest rustling in the bashes, and the
dry bark ersekllng In every direction, accompeoled by
Loud, shrill, corm hisses and whistling as If the whole
surrounding woods were tukd with snags. D..emon.
discretion the better part of valour, he hastily
up his carbine, girthed his hunting-knife, and best
precipitate retiree& The professor was pursued by the
black snakes for some distance, but being in • hurry be
bad no tiros to look hock and count the number. Re
says that had they come one at • time he would not
ham retreated, but to attack him by companies,
and divisions wee enough to frighten any man.
&osboro (mitylawd)

ligirtutAne Ekinronotre Peer*
wee a double performance a few day. ago at the Cremates
Order of the human trap, for Haider brought with
him • Pupil, who assisted him and played all sorts of
perks with him in the water. The performance is
really remarkably curious, end highly interesting, as '
showing what may be done by training and perimeters
in orreetidng the difficulties to be encountered in a new
elemset. The human frogs went through their rola-
tior In a huge iron tank with a plate-glans front, whir
is plastid oath. stage, and measures nine feet by five,
being about six feet deep. This tank hold. four tons of
water, and in it the human frog stands on his heed far
about a miner, his feet rising above the surface. Haw-
ing performed thi. trick, Narks swam several times
round Use tank without ones coming up to breathe. The
small sir of the tank renders this • very troublesome
and difficult stair. He eat down at the bottom of the
tank errs-legged, and commenced grinning at the seep
tatora One of his most remarkable feats was opening
his mouth quite wide under water. Another ex-
tremely difficult feat was eating under water. It seems
that three years' practice has enabled him to do this.
He also took • bottle of milk down and drank it. He
and his pupil tumbled over one another after the manner
of downs on the slnge, he not coming up to breathe till
after more then half • minute, He takes a lighted pipe
down to the bottom and emits toren) smoke from his
mouth while below, and on returning to the surface
shows that his pipe Is still alight. But it rem that
this might be accomplished by filling his mouth with
smoke before depending and emitting this by degree.
while below, the pipe being kept alight for a short time
by simply covering ii so closely as to exclude the water.
But he stated that he really drew the pipe while under
water, and that when the pipe was filled with smoke the
water could not enter. His tricks generally occupy
about half a minute, but on several ooessiorui he re-
mained from forty-fir to fifty wood, under water,
while be can stay one minute, and has been as long as
sixty-nine Brand.. One fact is worth relating, namely,
that when he laughed under water his laugh wan dis-
tinctly audible, though seeming somewhat muffled.
When be came out of the water after his performances
his heart beat • strongly, but he did not rem other-
wise much He rys he enjoys exeilleat health.