The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-08-27 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

WAY 1/5.000f. bed been destroyed. The conflagration wee aaesed by some children playing with ebestisal seelehes weer a sleek WI ran.  EXTRAORDINARY lifOrlYß FOR MORDERINO • Hets• naND.—Tou Cmn t of Asaiwa At MAillift.l.oro WU. • few dips back, occupied with Om trial of • woman nait.e I °needier, 63 yours of age, of th” village of Pretleidin, on the charge of inurderiug her Int.band. A neighbour having, in the evening of the 26th of April, callad to see the mun, and not finding him, entered bin bedchamber. To his horror he found the dead body of Ouesdier lying on the door, with his skull aina-died in. The woman, who a moment aftvr pie+ented herself, did not npiwar auri.iieed at acting her husband I lead, and 'bongo aim uttered exclamation+ of sorrow, it WWI observed that alai did not stied a tear. This c..11+.1 her to suapected, and it Was ascertained, on inquiry, that no one bct the woman had been in the house at the time the murder must have been committed ; also, that the dog which was in the plum had not barked, as he would have done if any stranger had entered. Moreover, her chillies were stained with blood, and she could not 'satisfactorily explain how they became no. As to her reason for the crime, they were stated to be two-fold. In .he first place, mho hated her husband, and had repeatedly expressed • wish to a+e him dead ; in the next her SOO, a young OM) to whom she WAS devotedly attached, had been drawn for the conscription, and as she could not buy him a substitute, the only means she had of preventing him from being taken was to make him the son of a widow, and so she killed her husband. The jiiry declared her guilty. and the court, on account of her age, condemned her to hard labour for life.  AN ODD Stun.—Ai a tratlemiiiii of Lau (Austria) WIC one day last steels about to get into • earrisge to proceed to Vienna on business, he new a man passirg with • fine live hero in lii hand, and i tttt neiliately promied to puieliase it as • iire,ent for • friend in town. The price was agreed upou, and the hare handed over to our tradesman, who took out his puckyt hook to pay the money. Meanwhile thy hare, in struggling to escape somehow or other got entangled in the elastic band of the pocket-book, and by • sudden movement slipped out of her porch...ices lianils, and MIMIC the best of her way into a wood rt a emit distance, taking with her the locket-book and 100 florins in bank notes.  Actium) Sugatterirtu:s. —The &tele has the follows ing :—" We often allude to encroachments of the clergy, and the Mime Altditak points out • fresh instance in its last number—the transformation of parish priests into phi siciaus, by means of two little pamphlets, contenting infallible remedies for all aorta of melodies hernias, palpitations of the heart, aneurism, erysipelas, complaiuts in the chest, hydrophobis, ennuis, lac., and even the maladies peculiar to the other sex. Here is a remedy for the jaundice, discovered by the Abbe P—, who also, it is said, has found the means of curing warts, bleeding of the nose, &a. The abbe writes sin communicate to you • remedy with all the greater confidence from the fact that I have applied it to one of my sisters, liar skin was as yellow as an orange. I eared her thus : placed round her neck • live eel. anil I stitched its head and tail together, in order that the neck might he completely surrounded. lii twenty. four hours the eel had sucked out all humours, and had become quite yellow ; the core was complete !' We might, proceeds the Sleek, quote two bunked receipts of the same value, all prescribed by ecclesiastics who certify that they have employed them with sow. ma. The publishers of this precious collection will consent to part with it to all the cures awl parish priests in Francs., but ' to these gentlemen only, and on the express con. dition of not communicating it to any other ecclesiastics.' We seek in vain fur the re mon of the interdiction ; but perhaps the publishers meant to say that the communication should be made to no other persons than ecclesiastics." . _ .  A dimie TrIINED To