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  2. 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
  3. HEAD-CENTRE O'MAHONY.

    "C. W." writes to the Daily News:—"In Heckethorn's 'Secret Societies' (Bentley, 1875) I read— 'The Head-Centre O'Mahony, who was in receipt of an official salary of 2000 dollars, is thus spoken ...

    Article : 205 words
  4. A FRUGAL CAPITALIST.

    March 2, the remains of an eccentric and parsimonious individual, named John Clark, were interred at Woolwich. He was 86 years of age, and, although he was reputed to be the ...

    Article : 187 words
  5. A CARDINAL ELECT.

    The Right Rev. Monsignor Howard, who has been added to the Sacred College at Rome by His Holiness, is a distant cousin of the present Dulce of Norfolk, and his name figures in Lodge's and ...

    Article : 196 words
  6. FIRE AND LOSS OF FIVE LIVES.

    A terrible fire, resulting in the loss of five lives, occurred at Ashford, Kent, on March 11. It broke out in a wood-built cottage, tenanted by a bricklayer named Cook aud his family, the centre ...

    Article : 256 words
  7. TALES OF THE SEA.

    The history of a ship "from her cradle to her grave" must necessarily be of a chequered and, to a certain extent, of a romantic nature. Sea tales of a moro or less startling hair-on-end character ...

    Article : 536 words
  8. A PRACTISED THIEF.

    At the recent Middlesex Sessions, Samuel Thompson, a young man about thirty years of age, with aliases of Poile, Francis, Carpenter, Morris, Parker, Barnes, Eastham, and Middleton, and a ...

    Article : 573 words
  9. SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY.

    Captain A. H. Bogardus, of Elkart, Ill., champion wing shot of the world, treated the citizens of New York last evening at Gilmore's Garden to a novel exhibition of his skill. For the first time he ...

    Article : 841 words
  10. STARVATION AND DEATH IN NEW YORK.

    A curious case of destitution ana death in the ranks of the imeniployed has occurred in Hoboken, For the past five months au English carpenter named Wild, residing iu Second-street, has been ...

    Article : 203 words
  11. DR. SCHLIEMANN'S DISCOVERIES IN GREECE.

    I had a private inspection to-day of some of the articles lately exhumed from Mykeme, and now deposited in the National Bank at Athens, but a more extensive exhibition of those precious articles ...

    Article : 370 words
  12. DEATH OF MR. GEORGE ODGER.

    After a lingering illness Mr. George Odger, the well-known representative working man, died on March 4. The deceased was a native of Plymouth, and was then in the fifty-seventh year of his age. ...

    Article : 211 words
  13. CURSING THE QUEEN.

    The magistrates at Tadcaster have sentenced a man named Leatham, who appears, from the reports, to be in a good position of life, to be imprisoned for two months for audibly cursing Her ...

    Article : 155 words
  14. A FREE LOVE MURDER.—A HUSBAND AVENGES HIS WIFE'S SEDUCTION.

    A man named William C. Pike, spiritualist and phrenologist, came to the Central Station this afternoon at a little after two o'clock, and said he had just shot S. S. Jones, editor of the ...

    Article : 639 words
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