The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-10 00:00:00

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THE Secretary of State having taking the cironre•
stanoes attending the oonviction of Madame Valentin,
into consideration, recommended her Majesty to rank
her a free pardon, and an order was sent on Thur.:Lay
to the prison at Holloway for her Immediate release.

THE "Garibaldi Mutual Life Assurancej and Sick
Fund Friendly Society" has ceased to, exist. This im the
society the proceedings of which Mr. Tidd Pratt fill It
his duty, in the public interest, and especially in that al
the more provident among the humbler elesaea, to
expose before the Lord Mayor about six weeks ago.

THE Hon. Richard Bethel! underwent his final exam!.
nation at the London Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday.
His debts amounted to £24,171, while, his assets were
only LW. Among his creditors are persons who hold
post-obits to heavy amounts. There was no opposition
to the bankrupt, and he obtained his discharge.
THE OW between Captain Cuff, superintendent of the
Canadian department of the Dublin Exhibition, and
Mr.'lselie, the manager of the Exhibition, which eame
%fore the Recorder of Dublin on Wednesday, wee
settled by Captain Cuff consentingto a verdict of guilty
on the charge of assault, and giving a small sum to a
charity, besides making an apology.
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DOUBLE MORDEII.-011 ThRIVC47 morning John
Hunter, a young man of weak 'intellect, murdered his
mother and sister by smashing their heads with an iron
bar. The murderer attacked his mother on the roadway
at Grange, • villa suburb of Edinburgh, where they
resided, and the younger woman interfered to protect
her mother, when both were so severely injuredthat
death immediately ensued. The bodies were found in •
pool of blood in the street, and the murderer was ar-
rested a few minutes afterwards.
THZ CHARGS AGAINST A STATTORD TRADESMAN.—
The adjourned inquest upon the body of the female
infant child which was found on the 23rd ult, on the
banks of the river Mawddach, near Dolgally, was hold
on Wednesday. It will be recollected that Mr. G. F.
Griffin, the reputed father of the child, was alleged to have
thrown the body out of the railway train from Stafford
to Dolgelly. There was no evidence to show how the
child came by its death. Mr. blotters= stated that, as
certain report' had been circulated tending to Mr.
Griffin's prejudice, he should have been prepared to
prove beyond all question, had the case gone further,
that at the time the child was born Mr. Griffin had
been absent from home for two or three days, and WO
he never beard of the child's birth until he beard of its
death.
SUICIDES IN PARIB.—The Broil giVSE the following
list of suicides, or attempts at micode, in Paris pro.
seeding from love of one kind or acethei. Mr. it—,
a Florentine by birth, residing in Bainbuleaw-strees,
destroyed himself with carbonic 'acid gas, because ha
could not endure the refold of a young lady whom be
passionately loved. Aootber person, also an Italian,
fines himself out of the six-story window of a home in
Valmy-quar, became he experienced a similar refusal.
Another, M. Augusta V--, having lost • few days
previously • wife tnirlwon ha wea devotedly attached,
neglected his bnappromul him apposommits ed two o'ol°°h
the previous day be went to *be grave where his wife
was buried, and after a long prayer he drew forth •
pistol and shot himself in the heart. He left eight
children. Edouard F— a young man, aged 19, living
in Helder-street, was seised as he was about to threw
himself into the Seine, became he felt weary of life linos
the death of his mother.

DeFlrimarx FIGHT SITWZIGI 1 arnr AND • BEAM
—The Greenport (Long Wend) Watchmen says :—" At
about 9 a.m. on 'Sunday last, the schooner Catherine
Wilcox, of Lubec, Maine, was proceeding down the
Sound, and while becalmed abreast of that port about
eight miles off shore, the sapient and • young blan 17
years of age, named Peter Johnion, belonging to Maine,
formerly a soldier, and now working his passage home,
stripped off their clothing and jumped overboard for a
swim. Johnson swam • few rode from the vessel to
pick lip a small piece of wood, and while returning •
huge shark, judged to have been 14 or 15 feet long,
darted towards him and seised him about the middle,
and instantly disappeared with him, dragging him down,
as he says, about 30 feat deep. He ekroggied and fcurbs
with the ravenous monster, fearfully leserabbell hi*
right arm in the stud. He &tally eaceeded a preseind
the shark by the bead and hi Bening ne 1 " "es'
It the same time dealing him powerful blows eked the
head, he snoeeded in wresting blow& free, lie then
lIIVIan to the schooner pursued by tin mossier, bat
being a men of remarkable strength and pluck, be finally
suiceeded in driving- him oti, and got 06 board of
the schooner, pulling himself up by the foretopsail
line which hung overboard, but liOt until the terrible
teeth had left their mark in many • ghastly wound, no
that be was one mess of gore. There were some 34
distinct wounds on his person. The A groin
of the *deistic% were fearfully mew being
off and hit bee
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