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  2. Abolition of Tolls.

    THE Legislative Assembly has, by a majority of twenty-three to twelve, insisted on the abolition of all tolls on public roads and bridges throughout the colony; and this although two members of the ...

    Article : 831 words
  3. AN OLD LADY AND HER CATS.

    Miss Phœbe Brown, a maiden lady, aged 68, loved her cats. For 18 years sho lived in a firstfloor back room in London, and systematically fed a dozen cats. When she grew feeble and was no ...

    Article : 102 words
  4. SENTIMENTAL SUICIDES.

    Sentimental suicides are becoming very common in the United States. About a fortnight ago a young lady, who was engaged to be married and apparently happy, committed suicide in Marion ...

    Article : 99 words
  5. MORE RITUALISTIC DISTURBANCES AT HATCHAM.

    There was again a disgraceful disturbance at Hatcham Church on Sunday last, February 25. While the locum tenens, Mr. Dale, was performing service, a number of Mr. Tooth's adherents left the ...

    Article : 163 words
  6. English and Foreign Extracts.

    New Orleans, February 15.—A little before noon to-day the city was thrown into intense excitement by a report, which spread like wildfire, that Governor Packard had been assassinated in his ...

    Article : 599 words
  7. ESCAPED AT LAST.

    The trial of Peter Claffey, for the murder of Michael Rigney, on the 17th of March, 1875, came on to-day. The prisoner had been arraigned on four previous occasions. At the first his trial was ...

    Article : 199 words
  8. Forces of Russia and Turkey.

    THE facts and figures published in our last issue will convey to the mind of the reader some idea of the comparative strength of the two countries that are now engaged in war. ...

    Article : 833 words
  9. SUICIDE OF A BANK MANAGER AT DEPTFORD.

    The melancholy death, by suicide, of Mr. Stockley, manager of the Deptford branch of the London and County Bank, has occasioned much excitement in that neighborhood. From the ...

    Article : 290 words
  10. Mr. M'Elhone's Charges Against Government Officers.

    THE fact that the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly folt hound, for the vindication of his own impartiality, to take part in the long discussion which arose last Friday evening on Mr. M'ELHONE'S ...

    Article : 984 words
  11. FRIGHTFUL LEAP FROM A RAILWAY TRAIN.

    James Bennett, a labourer, of Dundee, was being convoyad to Forfar on a charge of poaching yesterday. On the way, when the train was at full speed, running fully thirty miles an hour, Bennett ...

    Article : 110 words
  12. A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.

    A farmer's wife living near Ghent, Belgium, recently captured a thief while she was in childbed, lier husband hud left her during the evening to inform a relative who was to be godfather of ...

    Article : 189 words
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