The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

A 00NPAIIIIIONATO JODOR.—A very learned and corn-
judge in Texas, on peering sentence on John
onesi had been convicted of murder, concluded
his remarks es follows :—" The fact is, Jones, the court
EM not intend to order you to be executed before next
spring, but the weather is very cold; our jail, unfortu-
nately, is bt • very bad condition; much of the glass in
the wisher. is broken; the chimneys are in such •
dilapidated slate that no are can be made to render I
your apartments ecenfortable ; besides, owing to the
great number al prisoners, not more than one blanket
lan be allowed to sash; tosloep sound and comfortable,
therefore, would be oet of the question. to considers- I
ties el thew eireeinstanees, and wishing to lessen your
millerings as much as possible, the court, in the exercise
ef its humanity and compassion, hereby order you to
be exesuled to-morrow morning, so soon after break.
lass ae may be wormiest to the jsheriff and agreeable
to yea."
NORM AID ATTRNITIM SIIICIDI IR FRANCII.
The Oceirt of Amines at Mayenne, on Monday, tried • I
married women named Poacher. of La Rare Traver-
sals*, for murdering her child. She and her husband
had, it appeared, from failure of crops, and. suocesaiou
of misfortunes, fallen from • good position to one of
extreme poverty, and the change produced such an effect
on her Osten declared she would Demean suicide. It was
sot believed that she weeki falsl the threat, but one day
In July last she went, tamales her three children with her,
to a river which was mar the village; She then cut off
her own hair, and that of the eldest child, • girl aged
sight, and told • little boy who was near to take care of
the other two children. She next took the elder child
In her arms, and leaped with her into the river, at a
spot where the water was deep. The boy raised loud
cries, and • farmer who \apposed to be near hurried up,
jumped lan the water, and, though with some dila-
salty, get both out. 'Tim mother was senseless, but re-
wavered ; the child was lead. An attempt was made to
show that the woman's mind was affected, but the jury
declared her guilty, and ,condemned her to six years'
hard labour.
AILDITID ST Witicra.—The Paris Ciarivari pub-
lishes • wood-out in which an old man, with • long
white beard, • warm Aeneas cap, • thick wadded
dress, • pair M bellows by his side, skates on the feet,
and marked " Winter," is holding beck by their robes
• yawn seas and young woman rushing forward bead-
keg, aid representing the Hungarian question and the
Roman one, Underneath the point is written "Old
Winter Mopping everything for the moment."
MURDER •ND BMWS IRON LoVß.—The Berea*
has the following A dancer of Vienna, of the name
of
GroU, lately demanded in marriage Mdlle. Wirkler,
dankter of another dancer; but her hther flatly re
fused. The lover then resolved on • violent step; • few
days bath he west into • forms in the neighbourhood
of Reds., accompanied by the young female, and there,
with er without her coesent, shot her dead witha pistol;
idler width he blew out his own brains."
ANCINAOLOOKIAL Dl•oo7lll7.—The 8010 Sc l'Oise
states that • discovery, very interesting to numis- ,
matista, bas jest been node in the forest of Compinne.
Borne workmen, employed in the estimations directed I
by N. Albert de Roan, near the old road celled the
Brunets:A, found an old *ripper rue of the shape of a
large elongated gourd, arid sontainiag more than 900
Was. They weeprise • complete swiss of the Roman
Emperors and Rommel from Nero to the last Gordian,
sad sway are in lee preservation.
A New Toorg.Powonn.—Dr, Delabarre has been
lad:teed to reerenewed carbonised rye ass tooth-powder,
fro the fast that, in all those countries where breed
made ef rye Is the food of the generality of the inhabi-
taste, the latter are remarkable for the whiners, '
strength, and durability el their teeth. Savoy had the
Larne are lastanese of this With. Schrader has found
500 grammes al ashes of rye to contain 7jrranames of
w thenthe of Ines, 9.8 ditto of earbonate
71 of oxides of iron and magma*, and l'9 of=st
whist' whiteness have a favourable effect on the teeth.
Reel% end from his own experiment., Dr. Denbarre
seardeles that rye, carbonued and finely pulverised,
wed daily as • tooth-powder, soon stops caries, and
r=tewes the small abscesses which are sites
ra the ism.
Demme AND ATTISIRTRD FIRLI•DINTSIXTIOII.--A
ragfemale, 19 years tug., living with her mother
Res des Aisles, was some time back prevented
I.a.rsyds of the right arm from following her calling.
iollis print eolourer. Bean greatly grieved at being
• burden to her mother, she resolved to die. On Tues-
day taking advantage of the mother's absencealter
adopting presaations to prevent the entrant* of JrM, she '
lighted • pea Of charcoal in her room, and placed
hermit is the bed. Some of the neighbours after •
while perceived • Aran smell of charcoal, and ens
-
pasting something wremr etheted en entrance into her
reset. The young email was not dead, and restora-
tives belay applied she wee resocered.
A Two-Imonth RAT —"ln the he years of the Re•
steretioa," says the Tosileariais, " • report was sent to
the NW*/ of Maxine, announcing the denippearseell,
from es beard of • brig of the lloye navy, of apiece al
seonos. which was declared to have bees 'devoured by
selenished minister wrote, with hia own
heal, at the het of this INgeler document, 'Approved
of, on seemed if the tigekily of the fact.' An met'
deal more easy to illispeei, but WU very extreerdthery,
lied eat weaned at Teske, where 59,000
el Taganrog wheat, which the naval authorities
to be pound at the mills of Derclenees, have completely
disappeared, and the rats, net setiallad with eating the
wen, have devoured the auks also. The Maritime
Prefect, however, was unwilling to admit that rats alone
weld have dow the mischief, and ordered an inquiry
to be beelteted. The consequence has been that the
Mad miller has abeemided. leaving a deficit in his
menests, as well as in his awes. The company has
eagaged to incliessally the Marne, and justice is now
iieWiaools ismestipeng the antler."
MIR RITWIRN LONDoN •ND PANII. —A
statistkel return just otialeed shows that the Inter-
inane Nemesia London and Paris is satisfactorily in.
arewin. The number of paiesagen at 'Melee* from
orbo Illaglrad has amounted to 106,758 In the first ten
months el the present year. There were 91,785 penma-
n the eorrespooding period of 1880. Thu •
llVsrsaeeis messed in favour of 1851 of 16,973, er
Llper cast., attributable in part to increased facilities
the abolition of the pam ports, and in part to the
operation of the Commercial 'hotly in augmenting the
Seas fir bethaesszirposes.
Tan JRWS Of WARSAW.—A letter from Warsaw
The Liestesant of the kingdom, having been
21o:1-sed that it was proposed to dose the syrues,
mot fee Rabbi Merjeals, and severely reprimit him
for that intended act of rebellion. The rabbi informed
Omit Limbed that if the synagogues were opened, the
Israelites would sertainly sing the Polish hymns. Os
the mum( Trigg she 3.1:= were surrounded
bet the rabbi did
by trews before the time
not epos the doom"
ILthanalar Sronceumr.— A Charleroi relates
• mortifying incident which occurred • /Ina' ya go
to some sportsmen in the weeds af Goddine, near that
tows. A lasis pony of mintlemen went out to sport,
and divided emaelvee into two beads. After a while
Me el the wielemesraornmosed companions to fire
▪ their boas in swessemos, in order to make the
others believe that they had fallen in with • oossiderable
quastaty of game. The proprieties was aceepted ; bet
no
sower had all the gess bees *red, than six magnifi-
cent wild heats, alarmed by the noise, reeved from •
Widget and peewit does to the sportemea, sot one of
whom seed Ire • oboe.

A Yam Coma= sr • Ihm.two Than— • fatal
assideat osserred ea Tssaday, at Ja.o., at &ha forts
aow la assoirmetion at Portedowit Hill, whissebi • Peer
man named Goddard WS his hit.. It aglow, that
Goddard and savoral others wore workins in a pit, and
were veneelag a Imp shim of a twos, when by sone
anasas the stramaxispowszal a quantity of earth fell.
rat?assists's.* was opeadily
to remove the Main, and two bonne war* put
as to pan It sway. It was lea Wanton before It
meld hemmer* at altar It was dons the warbles had
Is ilk seesed fast dews While they weld get bin' out.
WINO ail Mg he was Valle desk; his hits and wad
wok Is phase It is raananad be lollop
.. to la Ifarnmeadh, and hawse a widow sad
Woe lkont— Wall slia• Oeselle.