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  2. English and Foreign Extracts.

    The article which has recently appeared in a Ministerial journal at Berlin has occasioned widespread uneasiness. The Berlin Post is under the immediate influence of Prince Bismarck. It is ...

    Article : 926 words
  3. AN INCIDENT OF THE BEECHER-TILTON TRAIL.

    The NEW YORK TIMES of the l0th instant remarks that the Beecher trial has been replete with novel and dramatic situations, as unexpected, most of them, as they were novel and dramatic, ...

    Article : 447 words
  4. COCK FIGHTING AT LIVERPOOL AND BUTTON COLDFIELD.

    A correspondent of the BIRMINGHAM MORNING News describes two cock fights at which he was present last week. He thus describes the first battle between the cocks at Aintree, near ...

    Article : 590 words
  5. TRIPLE EXECUTION IN INDIA.

    On Tuesday morning, says the BOMBAY GAZETTE of the 5th April, three Hindoos who had bean sentenced by the Session Court at Tanna, were executed. Their names were Rama, son of Subhana, ...

    Article : 497 words
  6. A COALPIT FLOODED, AND SUPPOSED LOSS OF FOUR LIVES.

    A deplorable accident occurred at Barrowshaw Colliery, Side-of-Moor, Oldham, on the 26th April. The pit has been in existence for over twenty years, and is 110 yards deep, and is worked by ...

    Article : 284 words
  7. THE SEA-SERPENT AGAIN.

    A sea-serpent story that gets a little ahead of the ordinary run of such yarns comes from Portland. Captain Oliver, of the a[?]ath schooner Winslow Morse, relates that Thursday midnight, when off ...

    Article : 156 words
  8. EXECUTION AT BRISTOL.

    On April 26, at eight o'clock, William Hole, aged fifty-six, was hanged in Bristol gaol for having, in August last, murdered his wife. The convict began life as a bargeman, but, being a teetotaler ...

    Article : 310 words
  9. A CHILD'S BRAINS BEAT OUT IS A BELFRY.

    Biston, May 23rd.—About 4 o'clock this afternoon people passing the Baptist Church, corner of Warren Avenue and West Canton street, were startled by loud and piercing screams, which ...

    Article : 258 words
  10. AN INTERESTING REQUEST BY AN ECCENTRIC SCOTCHMAN.

    The Metropolitan Board of Works—a representative body who do not always command respect, much less love—have been remembered in the last wishes of a dead millionaire. A quarter of a ...

    Article : 240 words
  11. THE FIGHTING FORCE OF ENGLAND.

    The fighting force of England, of all arms, exclusive of the navy, amounts to 450,755 men, viz., regulars, 129,281; militia, 118000; volunteers, 161,150; enrolled pensioners, 21,980; yeomanry, ...

    Article : 439 words
  12. VERY STRANGE, IF TRUE.

    Atchison, May 7, 1875.—To the Editor of the St. JOSEPH GAZETTE.— Perhaps it would be interesting to your readers to know the true story of the mysterious discovery which has recently thrown ...

    Article : 686 words
  13. AN IRISH ABDUCTION CASE.

    An extraordinary case of abduction has been at hearing at the King's County assizes. It appeared that a young widow lady named Bridget Daly, who is possessed or considerable property, as she was ...

    Article : 237 words
  14. ETHER DRUNKENNESS.

    Our readers will remember, observes the MEDICAL PRESS and CIRCULAR, the notorious cases of drunkenness reported as existing in the north of Ireland. It would seem that Ireland is not the ...

    Article : 234 words
  15. THE BEECHER-TILTON TRIAL.

    The New York journals contain details of the evidence given by the Rev. Mr. Beecher in the great libel suit. His testimony occupied the whole of two-days. According to a summary of ...

    Article : 1,976 words
  16. The Alleged Case of Kidnapping by a Catholic Priest.

    Owing to a notice of question in the Assembly on the 9th instant by Mr. G. Smith, public attention has been directed to an extraordinary case of alleged kidnapping of two children by a Roman ...

    Article : 1,894 words
  17. ATTEMPT TO SAW A MAN'S HEAD OFF.

    On Saturday night, about nine o'clock, a most extraordinary but cruel assault was committed at Peasley Cross, a suburb of St. Helena, on a young man named Samuel Wright. It appears that ...

    Article : 325 words
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