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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 146, 21 June 1881, Page 1

A lady V 6060^ - ,9^tw n ed ; a private audience with the Pope and warned him that I the day .and hour were fixed for the murder ! of himself jan.cj. Cardinal Peccii.' ";.V ' '„ .A; judge' at Leamihgton, England, < onlered a debitor to pay one penny a! month, exteriding~the payment of the • dejxtiqvpr gudg©'^ i sense of the harshlproceedings of the j creditor.;; i ■--.- •. .: • . •■..•'•■ :• •'• ; -. -■• --:'• _ \ ■ :>The^ Mu'dgee Independent " records j tlie ,djeith of a dog, after, sliryiv^g'more | adyenfures and thrilling;, dangers than : probably/ ever befell' any, other, unit of j the canine category :-—" On 1 19th May : the qppr animal wak first run over by a [ cart;" which bo, mapglpi and mutilated ! him that his owner- determined to'have ! him : pufc put of his misery. , With this object bb'tbok him to Mr r C Bird clj.emist,.of! aud requested the latter to give the dog a dose of poison; The-/ poor- 'mtitilatfed- KMfV'^ki "tied^p . to 1 a fencMn leg'^r.upgic-acid> a" qnantity.qriit©BuflSi oietft W ipbison; ah .army. • : '£ii& dog'fe mdutb 'tv-^s forcibly^!o|)(eixM .arid . ih&p^r. .aciidJjQurfid.dp^n,^ wKfir^upoii Oft.instantiys Qollasped find- was left > for dead. In thecourseof-a^fewi'fiourfl^^^a mpSß'en^er fetWhed :< tb ; 6ay that 1 the dojg.' was! stilt bo inspqctipn' the poor brute waafoundftd be as lively as^eyer, though still suffering froin hi^agonism^ founds; Mr Birdimjiediitely gave him anoihej; teas^oqni!iil : off,,prussic acid,:, and: once i more the animal flopped down, s'tretched I oufrih all tlie apparent agonies of iriipehding- death;;'' $?ext moaning,,'" to .' Mr Bird's surprise the. dog had survived the pQi6o.nousdoee,,andit was -then resolved to> try : strychnine; Ten grains of this deadly nixtqre were then' iidininistei;ed andi .' for ] a third i.tiine, the. 4og went) off ! into? iwhat.ilookefd. like a' fatal swoon.i , Some hours afterwards'he had recovered, I and seeing that his bodjr ajineared to be, I poisipii^'jprqofji it was, resQlveJd to. adopt, some oilier method of destruction;! His owner requested a friend to try the efficacyivbfpPwder and shot, which, was, I doie, ' ojp^j bullet" , lodging Jtself i4 tliej anipi.al*B, forehead iandi.the other behind? the ean -'After thelabse ic»f twb.hou r8 h^ a^fr^rfed^^^ ppeW with' an pse' which had the