... troops at Bue- to tally lly how the Emperor lost 156,000 50, in the war of 1828 and 18 ys 9, only a small of these having been killed in battle of their wounds, This subject ap to me not to be or having died appreciated, and yet it -is-far rtant. being unim ...

... the inmates of Acme houses, which shook rather unpleasantly. It continued about half a minute. —Inverness Courier. Seamas Killed.—On .Saturday evening, coloured seaman, named Jacob Francis, a native of Bombay, while engaged aloft hoard of the ship Quiutin ...

... weeks of her confinement, was brutally murdered with a club. The negro attempted to llill her oldest boy, and fancied had killed him, fearing, as said, that he would tell on him and two younger children were sadly bruised, and thrown in a fence comer ...

... attached to a cart, which was used in conveying material from one part of the building to the other, and the scaffolding falling upon them, killed them upon the spot. visiting the building Tuesday morning, the Daily News says, we found Sir Joseph Paxton ...

... the tailing of a scaffold at the new Crystal Palace in course of erection at Sydenham. Two separate inquests have since been held on the bodies of the men—one it the hospital where two of them died, and the other on the ten who were killed on the spot; and ...

... railways, well known as contractor for the line extending from Coal, ville to Burton-upon-Trent, was killed a few days ago bv falling off a scaffold erected against his house, called felcotes Hall, near Tunbridge Wells. He had recently purchased the estate ...

... sentence of the law upon the murderer Connor. The scaffold was erected in the northern part of the jail yard, in the usual form, most of the timl»ers being 1 those used on previous similar occasions. The scaffold was feet inches high, with a platform 9 feet ...

... portions being carved on the spot. A correspondent comments the circumstance that the Highlanders seein to have a contempt for scaffolding, ropes, or windlass. He says that every block of granite, from two to three feet long, is transported singly on a Highlander's ...

... assault with intent to kill a white man. The execution was attended by an unusual degree of solemnity. The prisoner, standing at the foot of the gallows, took a final leave of his relatives and fellow servants. He then asoended the scaffold, accompanied by a ...

... seeming to enjoy the sport. Bat if the little urchin rejoiced in their company the shepherd did not, for with much difficulty he killed tbe adders, to the great distress of their little playmate, who wept bitterly their destruction.—Wiltshire Mirror. SCOTLAND ...

... drummers who were ordered by Santerre to beat a roll when the unfortunate Louis XVf. attempted to address the people from the scaffold. He was called 44 the shaker because every timo that mournful event was mentioned before him he was seized »i a violent ...

... called out to spare him, and I am assured the words were, Epargnez le —ne le tuez pas, le miserable! ] (Spare him—don't kill the miserable wretch.) The Emperor did not lose his presence of mind for an instant. He gratefully and gracefully replied by ...