Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-09-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ENRAGED ELEPHANT.— An accident,' showing the latent ferocity of the elephant even when tamed, occurred at Wolverhampton on Friday last. In one of the compartments of Manders' menagerie, which is now in that town, were confined two elephants. In this compartment a man was nailing a board, when the larger of the elephants, apparentry provoked by the intrusion of a stranger, seized hold of him with his trunk and threw him upon the ground. The elephant then attacked him with his tusks, which fortunately were blunt, and were further joined together with an iron band. Owing to the obstruction of a tub, the elephant could not have full play for his huge body, and, consequently, the injuries inflicted upon the poor fellow were not 80 great as might have been imagined. The man's cries immediately brought assistance, and, when extricated, it was found that his head was much lacerated, especially the right ear. The action of the tusks had also so bruised the stomach and liver, that life is despaired of. An alarming accident occurred a few days ago in the neighbourhood of Chamouni. Mr Longman, the well-known London publisher, was crossing with his son, F. W. Longman, one of the glaciers between Chamouni and the Tete Noire. Suddenly young Longman disappeared from the group. An immediate and anxious search was made for him. The guides were not long in discovering that the unfortunate gentleman had fallen down a deep crevasse. One of the guides being tied by a rope was lowered into the crevasse, and on reaching Mr Longraan, lie seized him by the collar of his coat, and they were both pulled up a portion of the way. The horror of his father can well be conceived, when he saw the guide come to the surface of the ice alone. lle was able to drag Mr Longman up a certain height, but in consequence of his great weight he was obliged to let go his hold, Mr Longanan falling still deeper into the crevasse. A rope and strap were then lowered to Mr Lonem 'an and he was requested to place the latter round riis body. This, he replied, he was unable to do, in consequence of the benumbed state of his hands. The other and stronger guide then descended by means of the rope into the crevasse, and happily succeeded in bringing Mr Longman's sou safe to the surface, very little, if at all injured. The trial of Mrs M'Lachlan, for the murder of Jessie M'Pherson, at Glasgow, was brought to a close on Saturday last. The mystery in which the murder was involved for some weeks after its discovery, and the fact that the accused was a married woman apparently of a religious turn of mind, and so far as hitherto known of good character, imparted an interest to the ease rarely called forth by trials of a similar kind. The accused female, too, had been an intimate and apparently sincere friend of the deceased; and this circumstance, together with the absence of incentive or provocation, and the seemingly feeble physical frame of the accused, rendered it difficult at first to believe her guilty of a crime so horrible and cruel. One discovery after another, however, at length removed all doubt that she was either the actual murderer or an accomplice and after a trial extending over four days, she has been declared by the jury to be guilty of the capital offence. No recommendation to mercy was made. The prisoner, after her conviction, entered into a statement how the murder had been committed. She declared herself innocent; that old Mr Fleming (the father of tho deceased's employer) was the person guilty of the crime; that it was perpetrated while she was in the house; that he had compelled her to swear on the Bible that she would keep the murder a secret; and that he had given her some of the deceased's clothes and some of his son's silver plate, in order that he might leave the impression that the house had been robbed, and thus throw suspicion of the murder on others. It is needless to say that this story, though told with plausible confidence, is wholly inconsistant with the previous declarations of the prisoner. The Judge declared her assertions to be, in his belief, the most wicked falsehoods he had ever listened to, and sentenced her to be executed Cu the 11th of October.  The iron shipbuilding trade on the Wear is very brisk at present, all the iron vessels on the stocks at some of the yards having found buyers. To