The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-21 00:00:00

Sortign Elite Warm.

MARSHAL NIEL has °panelists-I a military alining&
to follow the British army in Abyssinia.

THE Pops has this year .et to the (Ineen of Spaicn
the g..1,1en to.. which he blesaed, as %tenni. at the mw.,
on Twelf lb Day.

Tag child of misfortune born in the Illelun rrison a
few dila ago, of the murderess Frigerd, died on Jan. 12.
In the hospitsl a that town.

A FitiourrcL ACCIDSST happened at Mantes during•
the recent frost. A coontryman mad. • bet that he
would cross the frozen Seine Viers driving • cortioad of
hay. Twenty-eight potpie followed the cart to see the
result of the wager. Is the middle of the river the ice
broke. and the whole party fell into the water ; nine
only were rescued. This is now denied. It is said to
have originatel in a wager that all the Perla papers.
would insert the paragraph I
A Nies PLact To :Ay! Ig.—What • lovely spot for
a residence Memphis must be! On Christmas-.lay
policeman wag killed by a drunken party whom he wu
eodeavotoing to arre4t. Another stray shot killed a
German lat of 17; iiae negro boy was killed by another.
and our despatch concltutea by eating, with charming
frankneas.t. at "some dozen persons. most'y negroes,
war.. aecil.ntally shot during the day by the promis-
cuous firing of ppitails loaded with ball." No doubt the
" promiacuoua" feature of the day's sport was especially
amusing when a negro or two came temptingly sear.—
New York Tribune,

. SUICIDE OF A SENATOR YOE LOVE.—W. 13011.Agi, •
member of the Ita.tan parliament, committed 'minds on
Saturday by firilg three barrel, of a revolver in the
region of the heart. The last idiot killed hint inatan.
tanrously. Arranged in front of hint while he cover
mitted the fatal not were three portraits of • young
M,1.0... lady to whom he was engaged to be manierf.
but whose parent. bed lately Moken off the match,
the ground that as General Nl..nribrea had di•mimetl
him from • prefectuie, to which he had bean appointe,t,
by Id. Rattazai (hie intimate friend), his worldly pota-
tion env too tincertvin.

GARIFRLDI OX THE PART Awn FETTIMIL—The follow-
ing fragment of s letter from Ogribrildi to M. Quinet
is publi.bed

Camera, Jan. 7, 1868.
Venting was Vr me a nee A •prollik.tltc. I
wia not -wounded in the heel but in the heart, ha' ing I et no
many .4 my brave Mothers In arms. I e.nfess that I did It
reckon th t day on having • seco d time to eight against •
French army, and that error led to my defeat The Pope's
soldiens, whom we had already beaten, were Eying ; but .or
ammunition being exhatuted, and a new French line replacing
that of the mercenaries, the firmness of our poor volunteels
use way, and we retired up. is Monte Rotund, . . . .
t our friends in Frame and the world be easy. we sill
begin again.

TVs body of the Emperor Maximilian on arriving
at Trieste, was brought on shore from the Novara on
Thursday morning. The ships in the harbour hoisted
their colours half.ma.t high, mourning bruin. re wer•
hung front several houses, and denim crowd. filled the
streets to witness the mournful cavaleade. Tie funeral
car, whirh was decorated with wreaths of flower., was
headed by the Duke of Wurteurburg and an escort of
troops, followed by the municipal authorities and the
clergy. The Archdukes, Admiral Toast hoff, the
repiesentatives of foreign powers, and the toilitsry and
sailors closed the procession. Business was entirely
suspended, and the greatest sympathy was manifested
by the inhabitants. It is said that the Empress-
Obarlotte was informed four days ago of the catastrophe
of Queretaro. It appears that the unfortunate
Emperor'. body lIIRR carefully embalmed at Queretaro.
He is deemed in block. and lie. on • curb ion of black
velvet in a coffin of rosewood most carefully prepared.
On the lid of the coffin is a crucifix in raised work,
surrounded with foliage, alto carved out of the wood.
Thin rosewood coffin is placed in another of zinc, her-
metically sealed, and this spin is deposited in one of
cedar. At Trieste the whole was placed in a large
capper croffin, forwarded from V eons. The Emperor'.
remains were taken by special train to Vienna, and
bulled with great funeral pomp on Ward.), .fternoon.
A Swine Flgectioii.—The man Heti Freymond, wh
was recently condemned to death at Moudon, canton di'
Vaud, in hwitzerland, for prinining his wife sod at-
tempting a similar crime on • young man betrothed to
his sister-in-law, whom he wished to marry, has fust
undergone the extreme penalty of the law. The crimioal
is firmly bound, blindfolded, and his bands tied behind
him, begird on a chair, which is fixed on an elevated plat-
form. The assistant executioner then holds back the
bead by the hair, while his principal, seizing • two-
banded sword, cuts through the neck by a single blow.
On the present occasion about 12.000 person.s were
preeent. The condemned man slept wsll during the
preceding night. At ten o'clock he drank two. glasses
of wine and then set out for the place of execution
ceded by the headsman, &need in scarlet and wearing
• cocked hat. The criminal walked firmly, and on
reachingand t egtehned afroomt f h
e The l
preparationse
miones ; the exevutioror then took up his sword ;
the scaffot meor
ueded the
abochuatpl five
hissing noise was heard as it cleaved the air, and the
head severed from the body. The Chaplain Bencti then
delivered • short address while the body was bang un-
bound and ry eared with • trim* Moth.
NZARLY HURIRD ALIYL—A story IA Mid of • lady
being very nearly buried alive at Peony last week. She
advanced in pregnancy, during which she had been
hirolisbena dyoaut"No7.m3:Rdnewodur'
Mar wohbok her lived with
ill. On Werdneedsy she was seined with • letharey,
which terminated in apparent death. She was laid
out in • ooffin, and a hawse was at the door waiting to
convey her to the cemetery, when her husband said be
was not satisfied that she was really dead. In con.
sequence of his determined opposition to the interment
three medieal men were called in, Dr. Jowl, of Paris,
Di. Lavaud of Fssay, and a physician of Auteuil. They
found thst her heart was beating, and moreover that
she was making efforts, though they were wean and
elmost imperceptible, to give birth to • child. In their
presence • child was born, but dead. The coffin and
hearse were sect array. The poor lady, however,
reoovered.orinecionsneas. The phssicians who justified
the despairing doubts of a fond husband by minifying
and proving that she was alive, remained to eertify
her death, and on Saturday she was buried at the
Auteuil Cemetery, • great crowd of the inhabitants of
Prissy attending the funeral.
Tug DURR OF EDINBURGH AT Al AUSTRALIAN
ABORIGINIB' Danes. The Duke of Edinlvorgb, in
the ermine of his visit to South Australia, venters/
Into the lake districts, and the ehurifiets Ia lb°
vicinity came out to inset him. A vsrl
cellent address was read, in which the yem2l
men of the tribe said that their elders wetadi
show the corroborem but that they did Dot wish his
Royal Highness for that reason to consider them "wild
blanks." It went on to state that many of them met
for Christian worship, and were learning to work like
heated at nicht On this 000•81011 there was rather too
hwihsitesirelront It eisDuakfieehroeonouanrcr fitehnediwrmsh dtre.se, with
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much moonlight for it to he thoroughly effective. When
the royal party reached the native enemnpment they
found thirty or forty women seated, beating time with
wonderful precision on a cushion or rug before them.
keeping up a monotonous " yab-yah, rah-esh," increas-
ing in earneatnem as the •zeitement heightened. About
the same number of omen—naked, tiniest from the waist,
and painted in the most singular and grotesque manner
—were lying down as if dead. After one or two
manteuvree with their legs they all sprang up, and then
the real dancing began. At Intervals this odd enter-
tainenent was varied by rounds of cheers for the Priam,
hid by a basalt N.C., who had the conduct of the pro-
ceedings. His Royal Rightism, by way of "astonishing
the natives," Beall for his bagpipe.; 1.4 the Australian
aborigines were shown that Europe has ingese of rro-
' dueineamods wilder sad mons assarthly than Oak
elm sarskag enresses.