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THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SCOTCH

... years old. {taken to the lock-up st He went very od quietly, but before leaving the house requested persis- twice that he bad killed bim, aod after some con- to better hat, Various euotives for the varsation he appeared to have ascertained that Mra a PLEASANT ...

TRIAL AND SENTENCE

... aod then the woodwork. The ropes havgiag down aod the having also caught fire, the flames eoon came to the top frames and scaffold- iog. A large numter of men endeavoured to subdue the fire and keep it from spreading by throwiag on water, bot that for ...

PUBLIC MEETINGS IN FRANCE-

... chimney coping-alone weighing about six cwt. They bad raised it almost to the re-ioired elevation, when Brown felt that the scaffolding which was the inner side of the chimney, and on which and bis fellow-workman were standing, was giving way. He immediately ...

INTERESTING EXTRACTS

... bestowed upon their dress by the other sex. Whatever fashion they adopt, whether their petticoats are trailing the ground or killed to the knee, inflated like balloons or clinging to the limbs, whether their bonnets coal-scuttles tea-saucers, their hair ...

NEGRO HANGED ON NEW-YEAR’S DAY I ÜBCCTIOS. Holmss, a molatio, hanged Tarbora, , N.C., Jan. 1, for the Matthew King

... regular order round the scaffold, and besides these targe number of persona bad been admitted within the jailyard enclosure. Shortly after was seated, Holmes that somebody would pray for him, and the snggc-suoo a party near the scaffold, the condemned bad ...

SPIRIT-RAPPING IN THE CHANNEL FLEET

... cell, but bim with coldacss, aod evidently war anxious to get rid of bim, bat dreaded the revela- tioos be might make oo the scaffold, Finally ard Taitebell thea mide a in which be charged bis wife with the murder: said be knew nothing of it uotl soe awoke ...

THE OBAN TIMES

... us. The natives have burned about worth of cotton, killed half-caste boy, twelve years of age, belonging to one of them, and ate him ; killed and ate five horses, stole L.500 worth of property, killed four labourers (Sandwich men) belonging to the white ...

PEERAGES FOR SALE,

... which the Kirl'a pitent was being s-aled, the King whs planning an attack upon Algiers, and was preparing bring Hdeigh to the scaffold. Vet Rich bad done coolly and deliberately things infinitely worse than aoyl 1 ing which bad been perpetrated by Raleigh ...

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... years penal servitude. THE STORY OF A MURDER AND EXECUTION AT ST LOUIS. A FEARFUL SCENE OS THE SCAFFOLD. William Edwards, a coloured man, who was convicted killing Lewis Wilson, another coloured man, at negro ball, last winter, was executed in the jail yard ...

SCENES AT WOOLWICH DOCKYARD

... was killed in Nv. ‘ pit, in course of surk by Messra Colo Dunlop & Co. Along with two workmen, be wae stand ing oo a sc. ffold about 4 fathoms down the sbaft, wait- ing for the pit beadsmac to lower the craaerope, by There is a which the scaffold wis ...

I’EHEORINO Ul-l-ETTA LA IouKA UU.I.U bTHAMfcKO

... G1Bs0n has declined to contest Southwark on account of his health, Two men fell with a scaffolding at the Bolton water- works on Friday week, and one of them was killed. MANILLA advices of the Z7th ult. report that @ severe earthquake had been there. Tue ...

A TALE OF MISERY

... of trouble, aod she took todriak ; aad, my lord, to add two all this, last night her brother fell from a scaffolding fifty feet bigh, aod was killed.’ As sooa as the prisoner heard this of ber sister she gave a most piteous aud piercing scream, and, running ...