... directions with her nursemaid that the child went to sleep she was to put her to bed. On her return the child was bed, and she suckled her three times during the night Mr. Martin, the medical attendant called in, said the child had been dead two or three hcurs ...

... Boy Killed by Leeches.—At the village of Mentigtiy la Mare, near Paris, Lanquie, a druggist, lately established nursery of leeches, for medical purposes, in marsh or pond, where he was accustomed to feed them by driving an old worn-out horse, purchased ...

... Saminhar Allan Monroe, jun., Glasgow, William Myersoongb, Middleton, Manchester ; and an aged female and child, name =kneed. In addition to those killed 12 others were very seriously injured. The station master has been given into custody. ...

... cottage, at Coleman-Hennesey, near Lisronagh, an infant child, named Mary Britain, was left in a cradle while the parents were at work; the door wasclosed, though in the same room with the child a pig was allowed to remam. When the mother returned, to ...

... evening. The jury turned a verdict ot Death from Hydrophobia. The Mysterious Murder of a Child near Gi \si HEAD.-'! he crime to which Sarah Melvin, a child e age, residing with its mother, at Carr's-hill, near head, fell a victim on Friday, the 13th ...

... Anne-street, a state of drunken stupor, and her child, which lay on her knee, was nearly strangled by its hood «tring, which was tied tightly round it- neck. She was taken into custody, and the child removed to the workhouse hospital, where it was found ...

... morning o he on duty at the police-station, and was the mother of the child that half-past six o'clrck tb» ing she found the child dead at her side. He asked her if'» had seen the child, and she said that both her and her had to Mr Fenhall, but he had not ...

... Mr. Roach Smith on Bird Killing.—ln the Strooc! Parish Magazine, Mr. C. Roach Smith writes as follows, on the subject of bird killing ,l It is one of those vices which society does not care to recognize as a vice because it is so common, and is tolerated ...

... A Railway Pointsman Killed on Ckbmtmas Eve. —On Tuesday evening an inquiry was held Mr. Richards the deputy-coroner, at the Mile-end Union, Bancroft-road' Mile-end, touching the death of James Williams aaed 23* George Browning, rarlway truck number-taker ...

... little dish of gibier yesterday, was the answer, to the consternation of the traveller. Why, did you kill the owl for my dinner ? he next asked. »I no kill ze owl, M'sieur; he died himself! — Frank Buckland, Land and Wider Sept. 14, PRIZE SHOOTING OF THE ...

... CourAGEous OoF*A CHILD.—On Friday morn- inz the son of Colonel Munro, of Maidstone, nine years of age, was bathing with his younger brother at Herne Bay, and saw a man in the water drowning. The little fellow bravely rushed into the water, and swam to ...

... Wakxey on Child Murder and Foundling Hospitals.—On Friday Mr Wakley held an inquest at the Pakenham Arms, Calthorpe-street, Grays-inn-road, on the body of a newly-born female child, which was found in garden Agar Town, St. Pancras. The body was produced ...