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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

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severely contused. He cannot give any very ...,,
count of how the accident occurred, further than stating - FATAL FORCE OF IMAGINATION.—The following sing'''.
that he had a confused sort of idea that he was about to lar circumstance is one of many that occur withouffinding
walk out of one door into another.--Glasgow Citizen. any publicity, notwithstanding the number of newspaPersf
EXTRAORDINARY GROWTH OF WHEAT.—Louis Phil- which are ready to snap up every inconsiderable trifle °
lips, a gardener at Hastings, sowed last autumn 410 grains
the day. We relate the fact as it was received from Car,
of red wheat on one rood of ground, in drills 12 inches tain Corbin, the admired by all who make a practice 01
apart, and by single grains near eight inches asunder. going to Ramsgate by water. The captain, as is his wont,
This produced within a few days past the enormous quan- went his rounds among the passengers to receive their
tity of five gallons, being at the rate of 100 bushels per fares. Upon taking the amount demanded from two ladies
acre. The quality of the grain is good, and it weighs one of them discovered in consequence that she was on
601bs. per bushel. The weight of the straw was 681bs. her way to Ramsgate, and not, as she thought, to Margate7
The ground had been previously planted with potatoes, Captain Corbin seeing her sudden alarm, assured her tie
which, being blighted, were dug in. Sixty-two straws the difference was comparatively.nothing, as the weather
and 1,744 grains were counted as proceeding from one
was fine, and the sea as smooth as glass. She, however
grain. The ground had been manured in the winter o-f
expressed the utmost dread of the North Foreland. CaPt•
1845-6 with a quarter of a load of rough dung, and the
Corbin heard but little further on the subject, naturally
wheat, when young, dressed with one gallon of soot. imagining that in a little time she would laugh at her ill--
DEATH OF A WOMAN FROM FIGHTING.—On Friday grounded fears. Upon being told by her companion that
evening, a lamentable case of death by fighting took place she was off the North Foreland, the lady in question fell
at the Lye ; both the parties were single women, about 19 back in a fainting fit, from which she neverr-d•
rpcove
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years of age, and jealousy appears to have been the cause
of the quarrel, the parties being competitors for the com-
pany of a young man named Bromyard. But few blows
appear to have been exchanged, and but little injury was
sustained by either party, except that which caused the
death of the one named Foxall ; how the injury was pro-
duced it is difficult to determine. The other, Perry, was
in fits for several hours after tiv.
became known to her, and She was removed out of the steamer
at Ramsgate, and placed in a fly by order
who himself obtained apartments for ther '
and her distracted sister. E
paid her, but she died .
naryupono theftscaaprraLia.l,
insensible lady
Every care and attention wile
the same evening—an extraordi-
instance of the folly of allowing the mind to be
overcome by horrors of its ~,,,-, ---4-, --

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Lepstow, Surrey, situate.
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