The Sun. — 1835-05-19 (London, England)

HYDROPHOBIA.—A case of this dreadful disease occurred within the last week. The unfortunate sufferer was a young woman, a native of Ballyneen, who had been bitten in the hand three months ago by a strange dog in her own house. The violent symptoms began on the afternoon of Sunday, and after horrible snffering and excruciating agony, she expired within sixty hours from their first appearance. We are informed that in this case the tobacco enema afforded the only relief; every possible means were used, but the tobacco alone appeared to quiet the spasms. This young woman was induced to eat the liver and heart of the dog by which she was bitten, as soon as they could be got ready, a prevailing custom, and looked upon as a sure antidote among the lower orders.—Dublin Mail.  The incendiaries now seem to direct their vengeance against farming buildings rather than ricks. On Sunday night last the farm buildings of Mr. William Whorrah, in the parish of Burton Dassett, near Warwick, were fired and destroyed, together with farming stock therein to the value of 300/. ; and on Friday last, at midnight, a fire was discovered in three places on the farm buildings of Mr. Knight, at Donhead St. Mary, near Shaftesbury, by which a dwelling-house, barn, stables, carthouse, and their contents, were entirely destroyed. The buildings and stock were fully insured in the County Fire Office.  A Coroner's Inquest was held at Welbeck, on Monday se'nnight, on the body of James Smith, apprentice to Mr. Reynolds, cook to his Grace the Duke of Portland. On the morning of the 9th he was found in his bed-room in a state of complete exhaustion, produced, as appeared by the evidence given, from the effects of a pan of charcoal, which he took into his bed-room on the night previous, with the intention of destroying himself. It was clearly ascertained that disappointment in a love affair was the cause of his committing the melancholy act. Verdict—" Febo de se." Yesterday Alexander Somerville, formerly of the Scots Greys, and whose flogging made such a noise in the world three years since, was brought before the sitting Magistrate, charged with being drunk, and breaking the door and several articles of furniture in a house in the Canongate, on the morning of Tuesday last, also with biting or cutting the hand of the watchman who went to seize him. The case being clearly proved, Somerville was sentenced to pay a fine of 2/., and, in default of payment, to 30 days' confinement, besides finding caution in the sum of 201. for his future conduct, or failing which, 30 days' further confinement. From the notoriety which the offender had acquired, the case excited some interest; but his appearance, which was rather simple and clownish, certainly did not bespeak that shrewdness and talent for which his zealous partisans had given him credit.—Edinburgh Observer. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF THE LATE PRINCE DE COND=.—In a very interesting cause in itself, which came on lately before the Tribunal of Senlis, the following incident occurred :—lt may be remembered that in October last, Madame de Pontalba was the ivictim of an attempt at assassination committed on her person by the old Baron de Pontalba, her father-in-law, who afterwards committed suicide. This lady applied to the Court, that she might not be obliged, at least for the present, to cohabit with her husband in the same chateau which was the scene of the horrible catastrophe, or in an apartment proposed for her in Paris, and which was the very same occupied by M. de Pontalba the father. Among other grounds for the application of Madame de Pontalba, was a certificate of M. Marjolin, the celebrated physician of the capital. This document, after having been severely criticised by the Advocate of M. de Pontalba, afforded the Procureur du Roi an opportunity of making some observations upon the attestations of Doctors, and the little confidence that should be placed in the certificate of M. Marjolin. Upon this subject the magistrate felt it his duty to recal to the mind of his auditory a frightful event which, about five years ago, left among all the population of the town and its vicinity most deep and sincere regrets. He cited the tragical end of his Royal Highness the Prince de Conde, the benefactor and patron of the whole of that arrondissement, in which the Castle of Chantilly, and the greatest part of his immense inheritance are situated. He said that at the moment of that melancholy catastrophe, this same M. Marjolin was called to examine the body, and ascertain the sort of death of the unfortunate Prince. M. Marjolin certified under his hand that the death was caused by an act of suicide. " Well," added the Procureur du Roi, " notwithstanding all our .respect for a judicial verdict, and whatever may have been the cause of that dark and mysterious event, we feel it our duty here to state, gentlemen, that there is not one of us who believes that the Prince de Conde committed suicide." These words, thus publicly spoken, have produced an indescribable effect. Received with approbation as they generally hre in these countries, the words of the Procureur du Roi, are, as it were, a public and se, lemn suction pf the religious respect attached to the memory of the last of the Condes, and of the well-established opinion that this Prince perished the victim of assassination. Every eye was turned to the Honourable M. Hennequin, the Advocate of Madame de Pontalba, who was present at the hearing, and who appeared M be singularly affected by an argument so unexpected, and an acknowledgment so important, from the lips of a Magistrate 9f the present Government.