The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1866-12-18 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

FIRE, AND THE CREW BOAUTID.—" News from Cores" says the 1 Hemp Kbag Mail of November lst, "has arrived to the effect that the French have initiated proceedings to ! teach the Coreans that murdering foreigners is an unlawful pastime. The French admiral has sailed with his squadron to the Cores, but active operations will be deferred until after the winter. A sad Mk of Crean barbarity aceoinpanies this intelligence. The master and crew of an A werican schooner, named the General Sherman, with two English gentlemen, a Mr. Thomas and Mr. Boger th, have been roasted to death by order of the King or his father—some accounts say the latter— the unhappy victims having been tied down in their berths and the ship then set on fire. We may suppose that some notice will be taken of this by the British Government." MT/MEMO@ DISAPPEARANCE 01P Till COUNTENB OP Sonorsoso.—ltallan tourists communicate the meat melancholy conjectures respecting the, as yet, Mex. pliable disappearance of the Counter of Schomleug. Two months beck she left Enghien. where she hat passed the summer, and went to snake various exam' eons in Upper Italy before rewiring Naples. She set out one morning with some friends for a walk in the mountains, sod when about half way she was beset by such sorrowful presentiments that she took out her diamond earrings, which she always wore, and gave them to one of her companions to take care of, saying she was afraid of encountering robbers A few steps farther on she separated a little from the party, and from that moment it was found impossible to discover the smallest trace of what bad become of her. The belief is that she must have fallen over • precipice; but hitherto the most minute march has been made without result.  RTOPPAOII OP A RAILWAY TRAIN IT GRAINNIOPPIRIL —By letters from /WM., U.S..we are informed of • widely-extended and destructive plague of grasshoppers, actually darkening immense tracts of country as would a total eclipse of the sun, destroying every vestige of vegetation along their route—awn-fields, gram, weeds, an leaves of trees. Some Idea of their numbers may be had from their taking three weeks to past Latienworth, a stream about twelve miles wide and 900 miles long, devouring every vegetable thing in their pomp ; and from another fact that, having got on the railroad track of the Union Pacific road in such numbers sate sense the wheels to slip on the rails, and the freight train at Wyandotte was detained several hours beyond its time by the impossibility of penetrating the massive crowd of the insect* the slipping of the engine wheels, and the amid total darkness tonged by their numbers. From specimens sent In they are not apparently the same insect as our grasshoppers, nor are they like the common locust of America, but something bearing to some extent the character of both. They travel from wi st to east.  " 01:17.IDE on lo."—The Salsa Prbiie of Lyons give an amount of • curious trial. A widow named Jaeob and her man of busineas. named IRonniehon, living in the parish of Ouches (Loire), had been for a long time past on very bad terms with the mire, and seised upon every opportunity of giving him annoyance. On the 29th of July last, they brought a band of six musicians provided with a big dram and brass instruments, and placed them close to the church ,100 T so that the noise made might elfeetuallv disturb the celebration of mum and the preaching of the ecclesiastic. In consequent* • prosecutton was commenced against them Wore the Correctional Tribunal of Roanne, which condemned them to six days' imprisonment and 50f. fine. Against that Judgment they lodged an appeal, on the ground that the Act against disturbing Divine worship aptlte of of brawlicg and noise in churches, end could not therefore apply to them, as what they had done was outside. That ingenious piece of argument, however. bad no weight with the court, which inereased the imprisonment to a month, leaving the line as before.  THE Trupa. or Miami RIAU FOR Time