The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-06-10 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of her late Ma' ty Senhors DODS Amelia,
Empress Dowager of Recoil and Duchess of
who died at Lon on January 26, vras Proved In
on the -.Mth ult. by Viscount &Almeida and Viacount
d'Abjesur, the executors, the personal estate in England
being sworn under £lBO,OOO. The testatrix bequeaths
280,000 imperial florins to the six children of her late
brother, Duke Maximilian de Leuchteftberg ; a like NM
to the four children of her late sister, Princess Theolinda,
Countess de Wurtemberg ; and a like sum to her sister
Josephine, Queen• Mother of Sweden and Norway, for
life, and alter her death to her children. These three
legacies are to be paid out of the testatrix's Bavarian
property. Her property in Brazil, which she derived
from her late husband, the deceased, gives—onefotirth
each to the Emperor of Brazil and his two sister, and one-
fourth between the King of Portugal and his Meters and
brothers. There are numerous legacies to charities in
Lisbon and Madeira. The testatns appoints her said
sister, the Queen-Mother of Sweden and Norway, her
residuary heiress. The will of Charlotte Mary, Buenas
Bridport, the widow of the late Samuel Lord Bridport,
late of Cricket St. Thomas, Sontersetshire, was
proved on the Zhul ult., by her son, the Eight
Hon. Alexander Viscount Bridport, the sole exe-
cutor, the personalty being sworn under £14,000.
Subject to some legacies, testatrix gives all her
property to her son. The probate of the will of Sir
William Verner, Bart., of Churchill, Armagh, and of
Eatonsquare, granted at Dublin in the early part of last
month, to Joseph Atkinson and Burleigh Stuart, theexecu-
tors, was sealed at the principal registry, London, on the
%tlx ult., the personal estate In the United Kingdom being
sworn under I:108,000. There is • provision in the will
that any of his children Of their issue who marry any per-
son et...ding in the rclatioo of cousin, or klrdessing the
Roman Catholic faith, shall forfeit itll their interest in
certain legacies mentioned in the will, as though they had
died.

11. Piitri has written from Chialehurst to some of the
papers to say that the document purporting to be • letter
of the Empress Eugenie is " entirely apocryphal"
WILD llEserra us RUSAIA. - in the year 1872, ,in the
Russian liovernment of Novegorod, were destroyed by
bears and wolves 1,908 horses, 9,8Z1 sheep, 98 swine, 1,352
calves, 3,032 kine, 993 foals, and 144 geese, valued at
120,000 roubles.

In the case of a man prosecuted at Westminster, by the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
for illtreating a horse past work. the Marquis of Queens-
berry appiairevl as a witness. His lordship had tendered
the man £2 to have the horse destroyed, and this offer he
repeated in court, with better success, the man requiring
a part of the money to pay • fine of 10s. imposed by the
magistrate.

THI SPANISH COMXCNISTS. —The Igita!dad publishes a
circular signed by Senor Oreme and other extreme Repub-
licans. avowing as one of their objects "to blot out the
artificial distinctions of the ancient and hitherto existing
social organisation, so as to leave no other differences than
are inherent in human nature." The same paper has been
to advocate a rebellion against the Constituent Assembly
in case the deputies do not fulfil the mandates of their
constituents.

ALLIGED CHILD MURDER.— A woman, giving her name
sa Ilargaret Stock; of Sheffield, has been apprehended in
Barnsley on a charge of murdering her child, whose
deed body she was tarrying about arrapped in a shawl, and
which was plastered about the head, neck, and shoulders
with manure. She was seen at various times .luring
the day, on her way from Sheffield to Barnsley,
with the child alive, calling it name; and wishing it was
dead. It is believed she forced the child head foremost
into some manure in Barnaley. The child was eight
months old. The body was removed with its mother to
the policestation, followed by hundreds of persons.

THO KHIVAN Alla. —According to the rvynni Zbunsik,
a Itusaian tnilitary paper, the army of the Khan of Kline
is inconsiderable in numbers, but among the cavalry there
ire many excellent guerilla soldiers mounted on good
hones, who could ,lo much injury to the Russian 4letach-
menu if well led. The Khivan artillery is said to be pretty
strong. On both aides of the pte of the citadel of Klan
there are about twenty guns, and &bone sixty more in the
citadel itself. All the towns in the Khanate are fortified
mid surrounded by ditches, which are more or less filled
with water. The most strongly fortified towns are Khiva,
Asarasp, Urgenj, and Tclianky.

JAPAN CHRISTIANS.—The native Christians imprisoned
in the province of Owen i have been released, and are re-
turning to their homes. Those deported in le7o from other
provinces have been informed of their release and restore.
lion to all civil rights, and are probably also on their way
home The Japanese Government, en thus acting, has
sought to rectify a wanton exercise of power its best
friends regretted; but this concession, though somewhat
dilatory, does it honour, and will be warmly acknowledged
by the entire Christian world, from whom recognition is
also due to the Ministers of treaty Powers for their exer-
tions to induce the government to take this step
Jane Am Chrisp, nineteen years old, farm servant, has
been charged with the wilful murder of her illegitimate
male child at Monkton, near South Shields. Prisoner
wept bitterly during the hearing of the case. According
to the evidence prisoner bad been taken all and given
birth to a child, which was subsequently found by her
mistress in hr bedroom dead, the mother having killed it
by forcing down its throat pieces of glass and cork, thus
causing the shocking death of the infant. A post mortem
examination proved that death resulted from violence!
Prisoner was committed for trial at the *seises for wilful
murder.

lIR. GEoac• Acersrcs SALL—Some time ago we had
occasion to report on the health ef Mr. G. A. Sala, which
was such as to have given rise to rumours of • somewhat
exaggerated character. we are now glad to learn that
since he reached St. Leonard's-oiSes he has been making
steady progress towards recovery The erythematous con-
dition of the limbs affected, and the intense irritation to
which it gave rise, have almost entirely subsided, while
insomnia no longer persist& Under the inAucnce of the
rest he is enjoytng his strength and nervous energy are
coming re-established—The Laset.

MR. ONSLOW, M.P., AND Tilt CLAMANT. —The Leeds
Express states that Mr. It. Hogg, of Duke street, Leeds,
has received the following letta in answer to one written
by him, asking him if it was true that Mr. Onalow had
"deserted Sir Roger Tichborns"—'• The Grove, Iltla;
Hants, May 30.—Sir,—In re* to a rumour in
that I have deserted Sir Roger Tichborne, I beg to state
that I am more convinced than ever he is the man he re-
presents hinmelf to be. In spLe of the terrible amount
of perjury he has to content with, I am confides-
tally certain he will receive an lonourable and triumphant
acquittaL —Your obedient servint, Gou.nroln ONaLow."
Exciirnox num Joyce.- Gauss sof the Juries Bill
contains the following earinptiins Peers, members of
Parliament, barristers, attoneys, clergymen, Romish
priests, dissenting ministers ei every poesible variety,
officers of all Courts of law and Equity, clerks
of the peace and ther deputies, coroners,
gaolers, keepers of 'mimic asylums, medical
practitioners of every kind, incliding physicians, surgeons,
dentists, apothecanea, chemists Olken of the army and
navy while on service, the hamehold servants of Her
Majesty, persons connected vith the Post office, the
Custom How*, and the Inland devenue, schoolmasters of
public schools, professors and °allege tutors who maids in
the Universities to which the) belong, members of the
Royal College of Veterinary &Von* " actually in prace
lice," and the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank of
England.
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A- NEW AMERICAN MOIKRTER.- Good wild-beast stories
have been scarce of late; the mghty bunters who used to
entertain us with them not long ago seem to be resting on
their laurels, and the ferm tordirm appear to act on the
maxim, "Let sleeping dop lie." In the meantime there
is awihl story about • oompliested beast from Shelton
Dist, North Carolina, where tie people are terrified oat
of their senses by an astonishing nioantain monster. Am
individual who has seen the anknal describes it as being.
as to size, an ox ; as to its borne, in elk ; as to its mane and
bead, • lion; as to tail, a horse as to eyes, • panther;
while its voice is • mixture of living, roaring, neighing,
and growling. This mast be mow remarkably intelligent
beast, who is infected with Darwisism, and is developing
In several directions at once. Ma present phase* seem
likely to render him an unpleasant denizen of s country
distnet, but as he has already uncle-gone so many modifica-
tions of form and utterance, them is every probability that
he may at last settle Corm into some very respectable
shape, And, like Trinculo's "servantmonster," "-be wise
hereafter audited' for grace."

EMT on MI DMZIiCaN 8111•11111. —The Temps Orel
esir.e particulars of • row on baud the Americus vessel
Success at Havre. /be French riggers had gone ash
the tug was about to make fast, and the greater part
the sailor, were stowing their chaste. when the seocod
mate, who 10l gose below amongst them, rushed
on deck precipitateli. baying bees stabbed in the left
thigh. 'Me crew bllowed him OD deck, and • fearful
fight took place between the officera and men with hand•
spikes and belaying pins. The deck was literally cowered
with blood. A Spanish sailor was to frightened that he
junqml overboard into the maim and another man
leaped n to the jolty, injuring kitimelf considerably.
The captain lookei on from the quarterdeck with the
gresti-st coolness. They WIJII not a Noland altered dr
the stru,.;zlv ; the couillaLuits ore too excited to thitlial
defending The sounded fcU to the deck in
inert lIIIMII et, owl Cyst was all. The tug brought some of
the seriously injimel •II shore. As she was burring the
vessel exam, his be,: halted in blood, came to the side,
asking to be takes 14, hut the Hood mate knocked Insi
inbminl with a Legible Mow. The Success spread her sub
a. the steamer left her, and pursued her course. It is
stated that four loci remaining on h.ttrtl were "'mild'
two badly.

A/ a !orating !.I Katraat of Meat Company a
cliri.lencl awl butt.. of Miwr ciii. or 32a
.per wiggle"
declar,vl, carryivig forwar.ll:2,,),lL An addition of
otos mirk I. the,..'

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