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Evening Post, Issue 212, 12 October 1865, Page 3

Death from Lockjaw. — The Bathurst Times of 20th instant says :— "On Thursday last a magisterial inquiry was held before ¦ Dr. Busby concerning the death of a Portuguese named Emmanuel Mishad, for some < time a servant in the employ of Mr. Thomas Jones. From the evidence taken, it appeared that the deceased, so far back as the sth j instant, had, in separating two dogs which j were fighting, received from one of them (a ' mastiff) two or three severe bites on the fore part of the arm. He took no notice of the wounds at the time, but on the evening of the same day, as they grew painful, he waited upon Dr. Connell and had them dressed. His | arm, under the proper remedies, was pro- ! gressing favourably up to Wednesday last, when he complained of stiffness about the 1 back of his neck. Dr. Connell at first thought this was produced by cold, but, on ! Friday, unmistakeable tetanic symptoms set in, and the. patient was confined to his bed, { where he remained, growing gradually worse | unable, but with the greatest difficulty, to swallow anything, until he expired with spasms early on Monday morning." Praiseworthy Conduct.— The following instance of real and praiseworthy humanity 'in humble life is given by the Kyneton ' Guardian :— -*' A patient was admitted in the Kyneton Hospital, from Mount Blackwood. Her name is Mrs. Tyrrel, the wife of a digger, who had been lone ill from rheuma1 tism and rheumatic fever. She had lain in 1 bed so long that she had two large abscesses 'on either side, caused by bad sores. In this state she would have been unable to survive the over thirty miles of one of the worst roads in the colony by the ordinary means of a dray or spring cart. By lashing ! two poles to the Bides of an ordinary iron stretcher, a means of conveyance was impro- , vised, and four men, placing themselves 1 under the burden, carried her shoulders high. To relieve these four at intervals, other four men accompanied the carrying party, and in i this manner the poor patient was carried J thirty miles in two days, until she was safely [ left within the shelter of the Kyneton HO9I pital. The conduct of these seven poor I miners who accompanied the husband with his sick wife is beyond all praise. " Every one knows," says the Patriot •« that Dr. Jacobson, the present Bishop of Chester elect, was educated for the ministry among I Dissenters. He was first a private pupil, we ' believe, of the late Rev. Wm. Walford, and afterwards a Btudent at Homerton, where he ' passed through the whole course of study under Dr. Pye Smith, and his former tutor, Mr. Walford." Great anxiety, says the John Bull, is felt as to Dr. Jacobson's successor in the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Oxford. It is currently reported that it will be conferred on the Rev. Robert Scott, Master of Balliol ; and thus Professor Jowett will in all probability become a Head of a House, a consumation much desired by certain Liberal leaders. A correspondent of the Times truly observes that our French neighbours are not content with entering the lists with us in horseflesh 1 and steam-engines, but are entering on telegraphic ground. We have no English instrument for general use under £18 to £20, but can obtain French instruments, with works unequalled by anything we have yet produced, even at the price named, and less liable to derangement, for less than £8 complete. The inventor has agents in London, Manchester, and Halifax, and is progressing quietly but surely in defiance of all competition. His secret seems to consist in good workmanship, moderate profit, and the abolition of ail royalties, alias penalties.— Mechanics Magazine. The Journal de Rouen announces a new infringement on the limited liberties of Frenchmen. No one is to get himself hence- | forward photographed without depositing a I stamped (timbre) copy of his likeness in some oQcial depository.