The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-11 00:00:00

fforeign intelligtuct.

A PAPAL minion to the oases in the Sahara, peopled
by tribe., is about to be ontanised.
Bounces of the provincial garrisons in France are in
many places assisting in getting in the barveet._ _

_ Alt ABSTINENCE Oant.—A .aloon.keeper in Troy,
United States, voltuitsrily went before a justices recently
and took an oath not to drink any intoxicating liquor
during the next five years.
TRI APPROACHINO PIINNIDENTIAL ELficefog.—Tbe
New York correspondent of the Times says it la
generally supposed that Grant end Colfax will be
suocessful at the approaching election, an thus give a
new triumph to the Republican WIT.

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Elia/110S OF THIII SERVILN CONIFIIATOIIII.-00
the morning of the 28th July, at six am., the prisoners
were executed. With the exception of Jose Jersmich,
who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, and
against whom no proof of complicity in the assassination
was di-covered at the trial, all the other mowed persons
who had been arrestel, to the number of 14, were eon.
demned to death. Prince Alexander Karageorgewich
and his secretary,lTriscovich, and Philipp Btankovich,
who had not been captured, were eentenoed in default
to 20 years' imprisonment. At half-past five the con.
&mood men left the fortress sud proceeded to the
place of execution, which was in • valley about two
miles from the town, on the shore of the Danube. In
crier to avoid • large crowd, • report had been circulated
that the execution would take place in the evening at
six o'clock, whereas it was in the morning that the
actual tragedy occurred. Nevertheless, even at that
early hour, an immense number of persons were
assembled, who occupi,d the heights surrounding " the
Black Valley." as the pleat of execution is called. In
the valley itself a long freshly dog trench was to be
seen, along the edge of which fourteen posts were emoted.
A large body of troops who were present kept the crowd
at a distanos. and formed square along the bank of the
Danube. Precisely at six o'clock *even closed
carriages arrived from the fortress of Belgrade, out of
which the condemned men stepped, and were
conducted 1,1 the gendarmee In front of the poets.
They were not ironed, and all of them preavrvel
• serene, almost cheerful, demeanour. The sentence of
the court wastrel read out to them, during which the
prisoners smoked. At the conclusion of the reading
Costa Ritclovanowitsch and his two brothers begged per-
mission to be allowed to approach their brother PauL
This being granted, the three brothers advanced to him
and kissed his hand, he responding to this act of
affection by a fervent kiss upon the lips and forehead
of each of them. Then commenced the pinioning of
the condemned, their eyes were bandaged, and their
hands bound behind their backs, while they were
fastened to the posts by ropes passed round their necks.
They stood in the following order :-1, Petkowitsch ;
2, Vilotigewitsch ; 3, Atanakowitaoh ; 4, Jekowitsch ;
5, Pstrowitsch ; lfaritsch ; 7, kijubomir Radovance
witsch 8. Ojoko a•org Radovanowitseh ;9, Taditsch ;
10. Eitim4Neriadowitsch ;11, It lamb ;12 Paul Etadovano-
wirach ; 13, Costa Railovsnowitsch ; 14, Bestow
Nenadowitsch, with their faces to the west. Four
gendarmes then advanced with breechloaders to within
six paces 01 the poet., and fired UPOII the first prisoner
in the row, Petkowitsch, who died instantaneously.
The body was then detached from the post and laid in
the trench, and the same course of procedure warn
punned towards all the Test, who were each shot
separately. At the execution of Nenaclowitsch • sad
catastrophe happened. One of the bullets aimed at
the condemned struck the post to which he WM
fastened, and glancing off, entered the eye of an officer,
Lieutenant Basil Matowitsch, who was commanding •
company of sddiera on the ground, killing him
Instantly. The extraordinery calmness with which the
condemned men met their fate has been a matter of
general remark. Sims Nonad iwitich continued amok.
Ing even alter his osighboor was dead. Within a
quarter of an hour the travly was over, and the bodies
lai.l in the trench, which was at once filled up and
levelled with the earth.