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

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" itiIITIN V. MACIONOCHII." —nig Ippela will ap-
pear in the neat list of the Judicial Committee. The
defendant hag not app-sled, and the only questions to
be raised will be on li.b.ed candles, arid the coats of the
snit in the Arches Court.

DICADIUL MOIDIR BY A LUDIATIC.—CAUYAVaIereII,
place distant from Cork about two miles, has been the
some of • tragical event. A widow in good circum-
Manors, named Mary M'Carthy, engaged in her house-
hold avocations, heard her son Patrick, whom mind has
been nom:sued for the last IS months, haying an alter-
cation with his sister. At first she paid no attention
until she beard him inquiring where the hatchet was
kept. At the mention of the weapon the Mater im-
mediately fief from the house. The mother, not having
the least suspicion, pointed out to him where the
hatchet was, and in less time than it takes to relate he
had given the mother inch a blow in the necks, almost
severed the head from the body. An old woman who
happened to be employed in the house spinning flax sat
horrified and transfixed to her seat, expeeting to be
despatched In the same manner by the maniac. Not
oontent with killing Lis unfortunate parent, he seised
the holy and dragged It Into the yard, and there gave
her two blows on the skull, completely fracturing it,
and scattering the brain in all directions. After sow-
witting the dreadful de-d the man left the house and
ran off towards the ma, which is about • mile from the
place, crying out on the way, "Oh, I have killed my
mother I' He was about to dng himself into the water,
when be was caught by some men and prevented from
acmomplishlng his denim: They kept him in custody
until the arrival of the polies.

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Sagami or Peon's' aten.—A cue of breach of
promise of marriage, in which religion and affection were
curiously blended, was heard at the Leeds anise. The
plaintiff, Him Marshall, was about 30 years old, and
she and the defendant named Faber bee been members
of the same congregation. Five years ego the parties
were engaged to be married touch other, and from that
time downwards • great number of letters had passed
between them, all haring signs of an earnest honest
affeotion existing between them. In June, 1861, there
was • letter in which the defendant, writing to the
plaintiff, addressel her with the greatest possible
tenderness, distinctly declaring his determination to be
inarriod. Again, in the same month, the defendant
wrote as follows :—"June 24, 1861, Linchol —Hy
dear Alice—l feel myself at • loss how to address you.
I often think of you. 0, how I love you, God only
knows. May the Lord keep you in the faith of the
just, so that you may receive the crown of reward which
the Lord bath promised to them that serve Him faith..
fully, lo this world, where'er I rove, whereer I reek
I often think of you. I (snook leave your image,
because I believe that God is mysteriously joining as
together. May the Lord bless you with his Heavenly
usu. Atoen.—Yours truly, James Feber." Huy
other singular letters were read. The defendant was the
son of a cotton manufacturer at Canteen, near Tod-
morden. His father died in 1865, and sines that time
be had been the manager of his father's mill. The father
left £151.10 or £6OO, divisible among five children, and it
wag for the Jury to say what amount the plaintiff eould
claim from a man in the defendant's eireumstancies who
had promieed to marry her, said then bestowed himself
and his fortune upon another. The jury gave the plaintiff
only £2O damage..