DEATH BY Loam'No.—On Friday last, during the thunder-storm, a boy,
aged nine years, was killed by lightning, at Ottringham. It appears to have struck him on the temple, then to have excoriated the Jaw, and dreadfully lacerated his breast. What is singular, he was proceeding in company with several other boys to weed corn, and was in the centre of them when struck by the electric fluid. His half-boots, which were nearly new, had every seam in them entirely rent asunder ; one of them was thrown to a considerable distance, and yet his feet exhibited no marks of injury. All the other boys escaped without the least harm. —Leeds Intelligencer. A severe thunder-storm was experienced to the westward of Penzance on Monday. At Trengwainton, a horse belonging to Sir Ruse Price was struck dead by the electric fluid, and another was deprived of sight ; several other animals which were exposed to the fury of the storm were killed or severely hurl—Dorset Count y Chronicle.
A few days since, Benjamin F. Howard was standing on a ladder placed against the back part of the Soho-square Bazaar, in Dean-street: something distracted his attention in such a manner as caused him to lose his balance ; he fell upon the spikes of the iron railing, was conveyed to Middlesex Hospital severely wounded, and survived only three days. A man has been poisoned at Barton, near Doncaster, by drinking porter deeply impregnated, in some unknown manner, with opium. A companion nearly shared his fate.
SuereanaxEmiFIRE...-." It is a curious fact," says the Stirling Journal, "that there is a seam of coal, at the coal works.situated between New Sauchie and the river Devon, which is at present burning under ground, and i3 said to have done so for many years past ; and, though repeated efforts have been made to extinguish the fire, they have been hitherto unavailing." The journal next records a melancholy proof that such a fire exists. On Monday week, two men and two women descended, for the purpose of building a dyke to serve as a barrier betweeu the coal that was not kindled and the burning mass, and had not been long engaged at their work when the roof fell down behind them, and shut them in close to the flame. They had entered in a sloping direction, the earth had fallen behind them, and there they were entombed alive, amid the burning embers and smoking turf. Escape was out of the question. The unfortunate sufferers were literally burnt to a cinder.
On Thursday week„ as the Saffron Waldon coach was proceeding to London, the packages on the roof were set fire to by seine lighted tobacco falling amongst them from the pipe of one of the passengers ; and before it cohld be extinguished, a box containing cotton and woollen goods was consumed, and very considerable damage done to the luggage of a young lady.
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