The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-09-12 00:00:00

DORI:ILLS SUICIDE

The Sao Franci4c) RA:Win cd August 15th says, that
Oil the pa evioua Ft la.Ly tanning a odaviet at Sim Quentin
Daiwa Fr s sut slutonood to a term of ten year,
°limbot tot) too a " hugo oupper vat full of boilinz
watcr, awl Men II himself backward into it. Ito
was reinovad froar Vat, seething caldron with all possiblo
durpatoll, alai received medical attendance, He suffcred
tartlEe ..goi.y for two hours, and then died. D4ociaaeal
was au 13,g'isimma by birth.

TUE witzex OF TOE IdEGiElitA.
A teleArsithio message bag been received at the
A twitchy from the English Consul, whioe entities -
telligenee from St. Paul's Island up to the Sib of August.
the blegsgra vie e titled in rocks,and the decks were
being used fat Incised lino protection of stores. Eight
wen ilia.) Li, cud thi remainder had Legue to exhibit
evidint pre.tratiou." The Oberon left liatavia for their
relief on the WI, and might be expected to reach on the
21r1 Att.pni. Two other steamers would follow in & few

M. JULlid FAVILS.
4iilibel ease ag4inst • writer and two Parts news.
paper editoza by U. Julee Fevre, olisite from the
Minister the admiseun ‘lllll4 he Islstly registered as his
own daughter a onild of another man, with whose wile
he lived, liowover the defendant Lothiy4 whom he
prosecutes for Islely representing that he (Jules Fevre)
wrested him fr.in vengeance for writing the other
sta,ement whiou with grief, shame, awl repentant
' tears ho ooufeascs is true, is sontenoed to one
>mil'. imprisonment and 1,000 trawls fine, and the
elitori of tho nowapapers—tho Virile, reoently sue-
Ptu 1.1, and do Aucnir Liberai—Co one mouth's
impr.siainent au.: SYJ francs fine each.

A SINOULAR TILAIIRDY.
The SLOW Ti.cs says that last spring the wife of •
peasant died at Gluons. A low hours before her death
she took a pill which had been prescribed by the
medical man who was attending her. Alter bar death,
the husband, who was passionately attached to his
wife, got the fired idea that the pill oontained poison,
an i that it was owing to her having taken it that his
wits dial, and with continually brooding over this
thought he became quite melancholy, and • few days
ago took his two children, aged respectively eight and
swolve yew, and but out their brains with • hammer,
after whieh he out his own throat. In a letter which
Mil taunt us a CIL"i in his bedroom he statei that as
be was uniblo to lire without his wife he had take
the shorte.t MAUS ho join her, with their two children,
in the other world,

MIL GL thnTONE ON POLITICAL PAK fIEO.
The P.c.nier. replying to an address presented by the
Waktli.'d Llsoral Aisociation, said the experience of
40 ye.-es ul poputar repiesentation had boon in a great
degrce tlici tee ',may which is known as Liberal is,
upon the whole, the stronger in this country-001 that,
on thit iinconat it is likely to absorb, and to supersede
the other party. Per my part, I always focl that
every political party to be sound and healthy iii itself,
has a very great intermit in having the opposite party
sound one h.altby a so—(hear). You cannot have one
of the tire great ptrties that divide public sentiment
in this con in; tett slily depress° i in its moral tens
without the co iii. 'ton, so to speak, spreading to Vie
°clic r —(hear, heal—and therefore in that sense, gentle-
men, I ant propmed ti say, and I am sure you will
agree with not, we are all well-wi,hera of our pelitical
(ippon° ita—(laughtur cnd cheeri). At the tun) time,
•hi!ie wiiil.iiig them all manner of good, I cannot say
Vint I wisu ih in w.l: to such an extent as to desire
to lieJ t .ti' tit : pr lom'aouit pirty—(renewed lau;te ter
an l Nip: u• ). lint I. know of no reason why the
Conscrv..t.ve pry s iould not fairly comPote with the
Libsral pa ty in too country in such matters as the
foreign Deliay uf ttiis coantry, and for the purpose of
bringing isto e!striim jid noes economy and
retren..hintiit. Taut Premier elcnood rapidly at the
i Vali WI ..1-m..1.3 of to o.lllltry'S progress ald prtaa-
I Iti-t.y u•..i • t'.., re./i a: of Free Tale, and intimated
las h re.;r_t ... t .., c ttimercill treaty with Prcuire is
likely to be rcvek.sl. With reforenee to the rejected
Ballot Dili, Mr. Gladstone repeated his wonvistleis that
II will spconily liticeini law.