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  2. CRIME IN SPAIN.

    A letter from Madrid relates that a man named Joaquin Devis had recently been executed for a murder at Val[?]ia, only three weeks after the crime was committed—a rare thing in Spain. ...

    Article : 456 words
  3. A TRAGEDY.

    At Wilhelmsdorf, Austria, a man named Pasqua, who had served in the army, finding himself out of employment, and with only two florins in his possession, determined on suicide. ...

    Article : 397 words
  4. AN IRISH BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

    At the Derry Assizes, before Mr. Justice Keogh, a breach of promise case—Beatty v. Johnstone—has been heard. The plaintiff was a farmer's daughter—that is, as he explained, ...

    Article : 817 words
  5. GENERAL NEWS.

    SMOTHERED IN SAND.—An inquiry concerning the death of Frederick Augustus Pawley, aged seven and a half years, was held yesterday, before the City Coroner, at the Yorkshireman's Arms, Fitzroy-street. William ...

    Article : 3,212 words
  6. MURDER OF A GENTLEMAN BY HIS CASHIER.

    On Saturday night, April 6, about six o'clock, a murder of a most brutal character was committed at the works of Messrs. Redman and Pryse, gun manufacturers, Ashton, Birmingham. ...

    Article : 762 words
  7. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER.

    At Colchester, on Friday, 12th April, H. P Draper, a man of bad character, was committed for trial for the murder of Mary Ann Pettitt, aged twenty-six, whose body had been found in ...

    Article : 384 words
  8. A CHILD'S ACCOUNT OF HIS MOTHER'S MURDER.

    A fearful story of murder was artlessly told by a child, ten years of age, in the Manchester Coroner's-court, on Tuesday. The boy's mother was the victim; his father the murderer. This ...

    Article : 442 words
  9. THE GERMANS IN AMERICA.

    The New York papers give long [?]ptions of the famous annual Leiderkranz, or Carnival Ball, of the Germans in that city. Grotesque scenes were acted by the revellers. There was ...

    Article : 297 words
  10. RITUALISM AND WHAT IT LEADS TO.

    The Rev. James Hunt, of Northmoor Green, is still at variance with his parishioners, in consequence of his strong tendency to the practice of the Ritualists. The other Sunday ...

    Article : 299 words
  11. THOMAS COUTTS THE BANKER.

    In 1700, or shortly after, he married one of his brother's servants, the daughter of a small Lancashire farmer, Elizabeth Starkey by name; " in whom, with a handsome countenance and ...

    Article : 505 words
  12. THE SECULARISTS AND THE POLICE.

    In the month of January last the members of the Secularist Society in Liverpool engaged, through their secretary, Mr. George Cowan, the Oddfellows' Hall, in St. Anne-street, for the ...

    Article : 539 words
  13. A CHILD EATEN BY SNAKES.

    In the early part of the month of August last, a girl, named Eliza Drummond, about eleven years of age, whose parents live near the town of West Monroe, in this county, left her ...

    Article : 438 words
  14. A FARMER MURDERED BY HIS WIFE

    The corpse of a man was found a few nights since on the road at Bray-sur-S[?]ine (Yonne), with five severe wounds on the head, some of which have penetrated the skull. The ...

    Article : 137 words
  15. SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT WIGAN.

    On Saturday evening a shocking fatality occurred on the London and North-Western Railway, about a couple of hundred yards south of the Wigan passenger station, and close to the ...

    Article : 298 words
  16. DAMAGES FOR DECEIVING A WIDOW.

    In an action for breach of promise of marriage, tried at Gloucester, on Friday, 5th April, the plaintiff was a widow, named Jurvey, of the mature age of 46 years, and the mother of three ...

    Article : 278 words
  17. HUNGARIAN WOMEN.

    I doubt whether any other European aristocracy save our own can present such a display of loveliness in all its varieties as that of Hungary. Their chief characteristics are the ...

    Article : 207 words
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