The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-05 00:00:00

Cameral Nctus.

MURDER DINCOVERED HY A DREAM.—A discovery,
surprising if true, of a horrible murder, is related by •
Belgian journal of recent date. Two brothers, Israelites,
set out from Gyek, with a view of placing their two
daughters at a hoarding school in the town of Gross-
wardein. During the night of their absence, the
youngest daughter, aged ten, who was left at twine,
woke up her mother suddenly during the night, and
crying bitterly declared that *he saw her father and
uncle, and all being murdered. The mother, for some
time, took no notice of the child's declaration, but, Ai
she peniisted and would not be pacified, she herself
began to be alarmed, and next morning took the child
before the Mayor of the town. To him the child
declared her dream, stating at the Mlle time that the
murderers were two men (whom she named), living in
the neighbourhood, and added that the murder wax
committed at the entrance of the forest, on the road to
Grosswardein. The Mayor thought it prudent to make
inquiry after the two men, when, singularly enough
they were found to be absent from home. The mayor
now despatched some officers to the forest, and the
brothers, the two daughters, and driver of the vehicle
in which they all took their departure, were found
murdered. The corpses appeared to have been set on
fire to prevent their identity, and the vehicle had dia.
appeared. The assassins were captured at a fair not far
distant, u they were in the very act of changing wine
note on which some spots of blood were visible.
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THE MURDERER PHENTII4.—After the sentence of death
had been passed at the lute Kent assizes on this unhappy
culprit, for the wilful murder of a young woman
named Emma 'amino, at Queensborough, the judge
(Mr. Damn Martin), who at the time commented on the
apparent absence of motive in the case, communicak-d
with the chaplain of the Maidstone prison (the Kett.
Watson King), and made several inquiries respecting
the prisoner, intimating that he should in 1110 way
hinder A commutation of the sentence, &et he saw no end
to be seaweed by the man's execution. In -0111110-
.litence a statement of the whole circumstances of the
cane lia.; been forwarded to the Secretary of State,
whose reply has not yet been teceived. The prisoner,
who of course is kept in ignorance of what is going
forward, apparently entertains no hope of his life
being spared. For some time past, through the con-
stant exhortations of the chaplain, he 1111/ been deeply
penitent. When first admitted into the gaol he was
unable to spell a single word, but he has since learnt to
read, and now spends • large portion of his time in
perusing the New Testament and other religious books,
he is also frequently engaged in prayer, and sometimes
in singing hymns. He Is supposed to be a native of
Leicest,niltire, but refuses to disclose anything with
respect to his friends, as he does not wish them to know
the position in which he is placed. Should the sen-
tence be carried into effect, the execution will take
place on Thursday, the 7th of April.

Ssowsrronx.—The metropolis was on Wednesday
visited by that unwelcome guest, a snowstorm ; and
March, which came in like a lamb, and continued to
behave with the proverbial mildness of that innocent
little animal, goes out in the shape of • lion, and a
white lion too, his inane all icicles, his hide all snow.
Nothing can be conceived more comfortless than a fall
of snow in London. It is hard even for that t
hardened of all beings, a London boy, to extract any
pleasure from melting snow; and we are happy to state,
that though many attempts were made by divers of
these urchins, to whom • London fog and town•inade
snow-balls are the 'unlink* boniest, to get up snow-
balling matches, yet their devices were frustrated with-
out the aid of the police, by the passive nature of the
Allow itself, which melted in their wicked grasp, ran up
their sleeves, wetted the arum of their shirts, where
they had any, and so sent them home to their mothers,
which, no doubt, brought down on their devoted hexds
some of those vials of domestic wrath, which, like
domestic medicine, all good housewives keep ready for
naughty children. The London sparrow, too, that
rival in audacity of the London boy, seemed quite put
out by the aspect of the heavens, and sat and moped,
his head probably full of home cares, and without •
grain of oats in his beak, a sad and sober sparrow,
reflecting that at that very moment his sparrow, with
whom he had contracted an improvident and early
marriage. MAS incubating on A future brood whose pros-
pects in life and whose very existence might be seriously
endangered by the untoward downfall. Such was the
metropolis on Wednesday for little boys arid birds ;
what it was for grown men and women, let i!very grown
inan and woman who was out imagine for him or
herself. Thrice hpppy those who were able to stay at
home.

MASSACRE.—The following shocking
narrative is given in an Australian paper : "A number
of Chinese men, women, and children sailed from
Hongkong for Sydney some few months ago. Their
numbers is stated to have been 327, and they shipped
themselves as passengers. Their object, doubtless, was
to reach those gold diggings where no many of their
compatriots had realized a fair amount of profit for
the labour they had bestowed. They proceeded fairly
on their voyage until the 29ch of September when a
squall arose, and the vessel was eventually driven sight-
ly out of her course, and, notwisthstanding the efforts
of the commander, Captain Pennard, totally wrecked on
the island of ltossel, in the South Pacific, about 500
lodes from New Zealand, on the night of the 30th of
September last. The means of communication between
the crew and the Chinese passengers were limited in
their nature. They thoroughly understood, through
the medium of • Chinese interpreter, the terms of
agrement into which they had entered, to be conveyed
to Sydney, but for other purposes their means of inter-
course failed. It was with the greatest difficulty Capt.
Pennard was enabled to get his shipwrecked passengers
on shore, little thinking, MA lie endeavoured to do an, the
horrible death that was in store for thew. As far as it
was possible under the circumstances, the neccessary
provision was made for the comparative comfort of all,
and Captain Pentiard and eight of his crew left the
island in one of the ship's boats, to endeavour to obtain
assistance from any vessel they might fall in with, and
so release their unfortunate Chinese passengers from
the sad position in which they were placed. These nine
heroic men are stated to have undergone the severest
privations, and it was not until the 15th of October
(having started on their Illittriioll 011 the 30th of Septemer
i.retvding) that they were picked up by the Prim.* of
Denmark schooner and COIIVUYUII to the French set-
tlement of New Caledonia, where they were received
with the greatest kindness. The authorities Mime-
iliately despatched the French steamer Styx to ascertain
the fate of the Chinese left oil the island, and the vessel
arrived there on the Stli of January last. The result of
the inquiry reached Sydney on the 25th of January, and
was to the effect that the whole of the nge and
the remainder of the crew bad been kill/44'17rs
he natives,
with the exception of one Chinese, who, having been
accidentally spared, was rescued by the crew of the
steamer.

CArOIiIIALISH I 5 THIE SOUTH SCAR.—The Chinese
passenger of the St. Paul, who was rescued by the
steamer Styx, and arrived on Tuesday has furnished us
with the following account of a measure of the Chinese
pusengen by the St. Paul, wrecked at }Wesel Island :
The shop went on shore during the night. and when
she struck the passengers all rushed on deck, making a
great outcry, upon which the captain drove them all
below again. When daylight broke we landed by means
of the boats on an island, where we remained two days
without any water, when some of us went on board the
ship again to get some, as also provisions. The captain
left in his boat with some of the crew, and we were not
disturbed by the natives for a month after he was gone;
they then came over from the mainland, distant about
three-quarters of a mile, and made an attack on us.
Some of us had double-barrelled carbines, but we got
frightened, and threw them away. The only white man
left with us, after the departure of Captain Pennard,
was a Greek, who having armed hinistlf with a cutlass.
fought desperately, and killed a great many of the
natives before lie wee overpowered. They then took all
our clothing, &c., which they partly destroyed. Any
valuables that they found, such as sovereigns, rings,
&c., they placed in a net bag, which each man carried '
round his neck. A watch particularly excited their at-
tention, as they were continualiy opening it to observe
the reflection of their faces in the glass. At night we
were placed in the centre of a clear piece of ground, and
fires lit in several places, the natives keeping a regular
watch over us, and during the day they would select
four or five Chinese, and after killing them, roast the
fifth, and eat it; what was not consumed being deposited
in their nets. Their mode of proceeding was as follows:
—The victims being decided on, they were taken out,
and beaten all over (excepting the bead) with a kind of
club, soil then despatched by ripping the stomach open.
The body was then cut up in small pieces and divided ;
the fingers, toes, and brains being eagerly sought after ;
the bones were then collected, and either burnt or
thrown away. I law ten of my fellow passengers killed
in this way. On one occasion some of the Chinese took
a boot which belonged to the ship, and went over to the
mainland at night to get some water, but never re-
turned, no we thought they had been killed. Every day
they brought us oncoannt4 or some wild roots to eat, and
appeared to be quite friendly with us. This state of
tbiligs continued until i was taken off the
island. When I left there were only four Chinese and
the Greek alive, all the rest having been killed. I saw
these Ave the day the steamer came in sight, but when the
natives saw the boats coining on shore they took them to
the mountains. I was sick and lame, and they would
not carry me, so that I watched my opportunity and con-
trived to conceal myself among the rocks until the boat
came on shore. They are very numerous, but do not
appear to have any chiefs among them. They live on
cocoanut'', of which there are large quantities, and a
kind of yain, which they roast before eating; but,
beyond a few dogs, I law neither animals nor fowls ot
any kind.

I THE MAGNITUDE Or ENTF.IIPIIISE.—it is marvellous
to look around one in these progressive days, and mark
the individual as well as the collective advance in all
things appertaining to improvement and emulative
ascendancy. The conqueror was wont of old to mete
out glory in accordance with the extent of his victories,
but now that extention of territory by the sword has
given place to the overwhelming influence of advance-
ment in science, we naturally ask what are tho great
features of magnitude in enterprise? It is one thing to
discover, and another and far inure difficult underta-
king to make that discovery known throughout a hernia-
phere, or even a continent; but Thomas Holloway has
done more, having not only erected a "Beacon of
Health," but brought it within the gaze of nearly all
the human race. " Health for all" as his watchword,
and by the discovery and dissemination of his
l'ills and Ointment lie has brought that boon
within the reach of all. But the point we
want to note more especially at the present
time is the magnitude of his undertaking, evinced by
the fact of his having heralded he widely and univer-
sally his twin remedies, and in the short space of 2.5
years actually placed them within the reach of nearly all
the human family ; no sooner were they first promul-
gated than they radiated iimimimltaneously to all clinics
and countries communicated with through our own vast
commercial channels. In the jungles of India, in the
wide grazing plains of Australia, and to the backwoods
of British North America they found their way, sped
by the agency of sympathetic impulse ! Holloway re-
cognized no obstacle, and therefore vanquished all that
attempted to impede his onward way; having overcome
prejudice and jealousy, • universal "free trade" was
tacitly granted to his specifics, when other comuiodities
of home consumption were strangers to a Lreign
market ; our cousins north of the American frontier
more especially adopted the l'ills and Ointment, and
welcomed them as the all appropriate medicinal,' of the
settler, and they are 110 W I've learn) the accepted pro-
tection against, and preventative hem, all the internal
and external diseases peculiar to them. Nor dot% this
man of giant intellect leave this organization to work
itself, but like the great centre of a system, makes hiv
periodical vidtv to each and every point ; vivifying and
urging onward his all-iiiiia,rtant inksion, through the
varied channels of communication, to every corner of the
carth's broad surface !