A very characteristic tragedy was effected a short time ago in one of the suburbs of Mexico, resulting in the murder of an old woman who was known only as "fortune-teller." For several years she had obtained a regular monthly allowance from every family in the neighbourhood, thr

The decision of the Board of Guardians of Hastings to employ Mr. J. Mullins as a "water-finder," on the site for a new workhouse, is the subject of much comment among portions of the inhabitants. But the Board, fortified by the expressed opinions of the Earl of Winchelsea and ot

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TWO MIX KILLID. A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday at Fernhill Colliery, Rhondda Valley. Nearly 100 miners had been lowered to the bottom of the shalt, and another cage, in which 10 men were seated, was being lowered, when it was by some means obstructed and upset. Two men wer

'The case of " Swaby r. Watt " came on for hearing on Monday, before Judge Bayley and a jury, in the Westminster County-court. The defendant, Mr. Hugh Watt, is the sitting member (Gladnonian) for the Camlachie Division of Glasgow, and he was sued for the sum of £lO,OOO as damage

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