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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 210, 21 August 1875, Page 2

Some eight or nine years ago, writes the Maryborough Standard, a considerable amount of excitement was created at Adelaide Lead through n young girl having beea seduced by a man, both of them living in that neighborhood. The residents were so exasperated that they took the man, stripped him, covered him with tar, and then rolled him in feather?. One of his tormentors was so enthusiastic in applying the tar that he burned the delinquent's face. Of course a police ■court caso arose out of the affair, and •■» pretty expensive one it was too After the tarring and feathering, the toan and his wife separated, and the young girl went in another direction. About two months ago fhe man and the girl again met each other, and, on his making a solemn declaration that his wife was dead, the girl agreed to marry him, which she did, we understand, a few days back. Th© G-eelong Advertiser states that recently a brutal tcene was witnessed in Corio-street by a crowd of men, women, and children. It appears (hat a well known resident in that street thought fit to chastise his son, a Jai about fourteen years of age, for playing truant from school, but the manner in which he went about it was, to say fthe least of it, inhuman and brutal. He shut himself up in a room with the boy, and then threw him down on the floor till the blood flowed freely. This wa;3 done so heavily that. the noise of the boy's head resounding on the boards could be plainly heard fifty yards off. When the unrelenting father came out of the room he wns a pitiable object, his. hands besmeared and his clothes covered with blood. On the floor of (ho room where the punishment was inflicted there were two large pools of blood. As im»ht ba expected, the boy, when his father had finished with him, was very uear dead.