The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-01-16 00:00:00

CONFALESENCY OF THE PRINCE OF
WALE&

It is stated that the Primes of Wales him already so
much improved so to be able to sit up for • short tiros
daily. and oven to leave his bed with assistance. Hill
Roysl Highness ham been able to listen without fatigue
occasionally to reeding by the Princess of Wolof, nod
we learn that he is not unaware of Om Intense and
universal interset sod sympathy which bare been
manifested daring his alone, but has sbown that he
Is deeply affected by what it has been thought proper
to communioate to balm at premed Iwo* this subjeet.

ASSASSINATION OF Ma, JAW% FISK.
King 101 L, Sanday.—Mt. James Flak, jun.. was
shot yesterday by Kiward S. Stokes, Cl the Greed
Central Hotel. Mr. Flak was wounded in Um abdomen
and through the arm. He died this morning, retaining
001$41iYUISIOU to the lest. He was cloeely *Hooded by
Gould and Tweed. S•ones has been smiled. There
lea ball s lung and mandulous litigation between the
assassin and Ws victim, originating in the arrest of
Stokes for taking away a woman with whom Fisk had
Illicit relations. Stotts gave smith:nix against Fisk
yaskerday in • libel salt is which tbia woman waa
conearned• ILOCCOVur, Lis threatened to publi,h letters
of risk to her, revealing redoes regrets connected with
the KAI Railway. Fisk bad jest obtained an lojano.
ties forbidding the publiaation oi these letters, and nad
induced the Otand Jury to indict Stokes far conspiracy.

THE EFFECT 4 OF A GRAIN OF STRYOHNINE.
Amen in Harrisburg, gays a Chicago paper, recently
attempted to commit suicide by taking a vela of
strychnine. Tile skiLl of his physidan having armed
hi. life be narrates his expenenee for the hermit of
science. He eye —.ln the sourer of five mingles I
began to feel sIMIrt cramps in the calves of my legs.
The cramps increased lx intensity, and extended to
the feet and thighs, °toeing the wait intense pain. 1
•tteinyted to rise front the ohiiir, but fell to the fbo,
with convillejol3ll in the lower
ceastul attempts' were made to baths my feet he hot
water, mob effort to raise me bringing on • violent
paroxyism, in ttie lest one of which I ;nought my jaws
bad become unhinged. I was now perfectly paralysed
from the hips down, and suffering the most excrutlah
Mg pains, which began to extend upward; the muscles
of the ehoulders and neck soon being considerably eat.
sulked ; the foreerins still being free from pale I
now prepared forth, uslatruggle, which I knew muse
be near at hand, as I had become rigid from the neck
down, save the foreerm. T4O 0012VMSIOUS of the
iso•elre were be:waling fearful, and the torture awful
to endure. My hands were drawn into my sides, with
the fingers drawn apart, and slightly bowed, and the
jaws bream° rigid. I felt myself raised as if by some
mighty power, end fixed immoveably, with telly my
feet and heard touching impetus/. I became snoop-
er:dons of everything except my own agony which was
now beyond all description. I could feel my been
flattering, and my brain beating and throbbing with an
irregular motion. an though at every beat It would
burst from it. confinement. Every joint was locked,
anl every drop a blood maimed stagnated. I remember
thinking it could not be bug thee, when I mast have
lostoonscioninese. I remember nothing more steel I
fell a sensation of relief, ag though the (anneal. of
death, which had been drawn over me, were now belag
drawn back. Moss terrible *ramps 'seined to be
descending toward. my lower limbs. A feeling of relief
stole over. and I began to be again conselour From
that time I resumer oineriousaces, when I was erstiregy
free from cramp, with the exception of • little in the
fest. I hod but one attack of mono afterwards,whish
was immediately relieved by • dose administered by my
wife—the dootor having left for • abort time--and
when he returned I felt that the pelmet was etimpleitely
neutralised." tie is not likely to try seryithalne
again.