Widnes Examiner. — 1880-09-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

TAL T.NIII.SI'OIOI,—A terrific thunderidorm pasaed , over Cromford and Matlock, commencing at midnight, and continuing until about four o'clock on Monday in,ruing. 'Fbe thunder can extremely loud and continuous, whilst the lightning was most vivid, and dashed with such frequency at Ogle° the appearance of the atmosphere being on tire. A horae was struck dead at Chestertidd, and much damage was rime to property. At Coventry the lightening was terrific, the flaahea being remarkahly frequent 811t1 of All unusually brilliant character. 'rhe toll fore.. of the storm fell at Wentworth. Six stags and three buffaloes, belonging to the Earl Fitawilliam, whilst gracing in the park, were etruck by lightning and kill,l. At rralee, A woman and two children, living is a cabin on the inouutains, were drowned by a waterspout. . . . . . .  A Hromanic Tuansni.—.4 sad tale of domestic rniaery Ilan been elicited in the proceedings of an inquest held before tle Clverston coroner. About noon on that day, as name persone were walking down the bunks of the I:tension Canal, they found a coat and vest, and Minding upright bathe . water was the dead body of Thomas Miller, iron miner, of Myers:on, aged 45 rears. The same evening an inquest I was held, the principal witness being Arthur Miller, aged 15, j an intelligent lad, ton of the deceased. Froin his evidence I it appeared that he was the eldent of six children. Some I time ago his mother gave way to habits of drunkenness, and ultimately left her horns. After consorting with another man, elm and her paramour were driven be their dissipated! habits, into the workhoum. They ht since left the town.. Miller etrove to bring up Iris young family, and was fore ' considerable time afoul abstainera but the cares of his houmhold and the remembrance of his wite's conduct at j length drove hint to seek solace in drink. This led to the! hose of hit situation, and a week ago he told his eon that he I had had a dream to the effect that it 1,13 impossible for him to do right, that however touch be tried he could not succeed , —something opposed hint. On Friday niorniog he took no • breakfut, but left the house at eight am., telling his son to , one 4500 his coffin—that was his age. His dead body was lotted as above stated. The coroner mid that doubtless the , ! poor inaris death was attributable to the greatest of all curses, • !a bad wife. The jury returned a verdict that deceued coon . milted suicide whilat of unsound eind. I ALLEGRO CRUELTY IN A CoNVENT.— An appalling act let cruelty is reported from Pontreinoli. in Italy. A female ' lay servant, employed in the Carmelite convent, had been : deVeted in the act of stealing some bread, the property of . !the Sisterhood, and fur this offence she .133 tried, about ten days age, heforo an impromptu tribunal consisting of the abbess and two of the es nior nuns Pronounced gd-ilty, the ' sentence passed open her by them pions ladies condemned her "to undergo the torments of purgatory." At once self- ! constituted judges and executionms, the abbess and her ! reverend coadjutors proceeded forthwith to enforce their 1 barbarous sentence in the following manner. Having conveyed their victim to a esti in which an iron stove stool out from he wall, they causal the stove to be heated in her presence, and then. tying her hands tightly together behind . her hank, held her face down tor several num., close to ! the surface of the glowing metal. Her struggles and heart- 1 rending entreaties for mercy were of no AVAii. The pitiless nuns, deaf to her outcries, protracted her martyrdom until I her scorched eyes had lost their sight for ever, and her ! whole fam was converted into one huge blister. So profound was the horror generated throughout the sisterhood by the unheard-of torture that ite perpetrators, despite con, vein.' discipline, were denosnced by mental menthe. of • !the community to the local authoritieu who, after instituting a searchma inquiry into the circumstances of the ease, bane consigned the abbess and her cunfederate tormentors to prieon, where they are now awaiting their trial. ' COSi OF