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and can be employed, it is said, with advantage in ornaments, 
tea-trays, and other such articles. 
APPLICATION OP LEECHES. 
Having selected the spot to which they are to be applied, 
cover it with a sinapism, which is to be allowed to remain 
some time, in order to effect congestion of the capillary 
vessels. Then wash the place carefully, and place the glass 
containing the leeches upon it. In a few minutes they will 
all take hold and draw with an energy and rapidity quite 
remarkable. After the leeches fall off, the flow of blood from 
their bite is more abundant, and continues for a longer time, 
than under ordinary circumstances. — Gazette des Ilojntaux . 
POISONING DOGS AND POXES WITH STRYCHNINE. 
It wilk be in the recollection of our readers, says a local 
journal, that we some time back published an account of the 
destruction by strychnine of some of Baron Rothschild’s 
stag-hounds, and also of several fine foxes, on the farm of a 
Mr. Bowden, on the estate of Captain Lovell, at Soulbury, 
Bucks. From that time down to the present, foxes and dogs 
have at frequent intervals been found poisoned. W. S. 
Lowndes, Esq., only a few weeks ago, had two very valuable 
setters destroyed by foul means. A person who, it is sup- 
posed, was guilty of these shameful practices, has been 
convicted at the Winslow Petty Sessions. He is the brother 
of Mr. O. Bowden, of Soulbury, upon whose farm Baron 
Rothschild’s hounds met with their death, and upon whose 
lands the poisoned foxes were found. The symptoms, as 
exhibited by the poisoned animals, were thus described by a 
Mr. Yates : He said that on Sunday, the 7th of December, 
he turned one of the dogs out of the house at dinner time. 
The dog remained away only a short time, when it returned 
home and went and smelled at the fire, and immediately fell 
down backwards, its joints becoming very stiff. It frothed 
at the mouth, and its lips were shrivelled up, leaving its 
teeth and gums bare. It died almost immediately. 
Mr. Newham, a medical gentleman, who was examined 
before the bench of magistrates, proved that he found a large 
quantity of strychnine on an analysis of portions of the 
intestines and their contents. 
The accused, Bowden, on being convicted under the 
Malicious Injuries iVct, was ordered to pay damages and 
costs to the amount of £\ 1 3s. 6d. 
