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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 514, 16 February 1883, Page 11

The Bishop of Ayacucho, Peru, while attempting recently to quell a riot at Huanta was shot by the rioters. The island of Sardinia is in a very alarming condition. Many bands of brigands roam around the country and fall on the villages, plundering and killing everybody. The condition of the island is much aggravated by the fact that Sardinia is a sort of Italian Siberia for public functionaries, who therefore are not of the best brand, and do not always act as honestly and energetically as would be required. There is a letter of a Deputy to the Minister of the Interior stating the miserable condition of the island, and that gangs of men of from thirty to fifty terrorize the whole country. M. Stanislaus Martin states that as the result of an experiment on three different criminals sentenced to death who accepted the scientific trial in preference to banging, No. 1 nourished exclusively on tea, lived three years and then died. He had become almost a skeleton, and waa in a transparent condition. No. 2, on coffee, died in two years, burned as if an interior fire had calcined him. No. 3 lived on chocolate for eight months, and died in a very advanced State of rottenness^ and ? as it were, devoured by worms.