... practised on the child. Her hands had been for hours, and indeed whole eights, tied behind her, and she had been held by tho prisoner under the pump and water poured on her. She had been seen to strike her with her fist, so that the child's body was much ...

... had charge of a decrepit child, which she laid on the bridge, allowing it to creep along, and exciting the sympathy of the passers-by. The mother of the child was ordered to be apprehended for lending out her child; the child was sent to the Town's Hospital; ...

... years. She has had fourteen children, seventy grand-children, eightythree great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grand.- child, nearly all of whom are at present alive. She is a native of the pariah, and never lived out of it in her life. She was married ...

... himself severely wounded—his sword arm being nearly severed. Of seven officers who accompanied him into action three were killed outright, two, including himself, severely wounded, and two only came out of action unscathed. He owed his own:escape to the ...

... whistled four times; and at once reversed his engine, but it was too late, for the train had passed over the poor man's body, killing him instantly. He was completely decapitated, and otherwise shockingly mutilated. The deceased was Mr. Andrew Roxburgh, of ...

... stones; a very small row of diamonds, fastening an aigrette worn on the left side, was her only head ornament. TWEETI MEN KILLED BY A STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT.— The Boston papers of the latest date contain a brief telegraphic announcement of a terrible accident ...

... the men was instantly killed, and his companion was pitched off the line of rails, and had one of his arms broken and his head badly cut. The train was soon stopped, and the injured man, along with his companion who had been killed, was removed to Fleetwood ...

... 00:1 idle negro men; in some counties of Mississippi there is not a living hog, or cow, or chicken—the famished blacks have killed the domestic animals of the planters in order to obtain food. In Virginia, Honnicutt and his fellows are telling the negroes ...

... its height, a cry got up that the youngest child was still in the house. No sooner was it found that the poor thing was in bed, than Mr. natd rushed through the flames to the bed-room, caught up the sleeping child, and, finding all egress cut off by the ...

... John Keegan, solicitor, and his brother, Mr. Thomas Keegan, wine merchant. Miss Keegan, their sister, an elderly lady, now killed, lived with them. In addition to the family, Mr. John Keegan had three clerks employed in a back room on the ground floor ...

... during the night the consequences must have been fatal, as the bedroom destroyed is the one occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Easton and child. No such gale has been felt in the neighbourhood of the Shama for years, many of the thatched tenements have been almost ...

... letters, postage stamps, dividend warrants, and a bank note for el. lie was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. A MAN KILLED BY FALLING OVER A PRECIPICE.—OR Saturday evening, the body of a man was fouud at the bottom of a precipice close to the road ...