A Woman Kills Her Sister and Fatally wounds Her Nephew.

Te Aroha News, Volume 1, Issue 47, 26 April 1884, Page 4

A Woman Kills Her Sister and Fatally wounds Her Nephew.

Opelika (Ala), March 11. — News has reached here of a terrible tragedy which occured a day or two ago in a remote district of Coffee country. Mrs Harvey and Mrs Hughes, twosisters, lived on adjoining farms. A few days ago Mrs Harvey's cow did some damage in thegarden of Mrs Hughes, whereupon the latter drove the animal out, striking it across the back with a stick. When this incident came to the knowledge of Mrs Harvey she flew into a rage and started out to the residence of her sister, armed with a sharp butcher-knife. When about fifty yards from the house Mrs Hughes met her and attempted an explanation. Mrs Harvey immediately made a lunge at her sister with the knife, sending it at one thrust through her heart. As the wounded woman fell, her son ran up with a stick and struck hir aunt with it on the head. The infuriated woman then turned upon her nephew and began cutting at him. The boy's scream i attracted the attention of some neighbor.^ who rushed up and stopped the progress o; the bloody work. Mrs Harvey was taken to the Elva jail, where she will be held for trial. The boy is so badly wounded that his recovery is not probable.

Tiie First Dahlia.— This was introduced into England by Lady Holland, and is thus alluded to in " Holland House," the recent works of the Princess Marie Lichtenstein :—": — " Having been much gratified somewhere in the south of Europe by her first acquaintance with Palestine soup, and ascertaining that the main ingredient was the Jerusalem artichoke, Lady Holland pi-ocured what she supposed to be a root of it, and forwarded it (probably by a king's messenger) to her gardener at Holland House, when a beautiful flower came up instead of a succulent vegetable. She gazed on it with a feeling near akin to that of the fox-hunter who complained that the smell of the violets spoilt the scent; but the value of her acquisition began to break upon her when the London seedsman who came to look at it offered 30 guineas for a root. Another version is that a root was given to her at Valentia in 1804 by a celebrated botanist, who had just received it as an unknown rarity from South America. Mr Sintha, a Hindu gentleman, has carried off from all his fellow-students of the Inns of Court in London the prize offered by the Council of Legal Education for such extensive and various subjects as Roman law, jurisprudence, constitutional law, and legal history. An American coroner's jury rendered a very singular verdict, that a man whose body was found in the river came to hJs death by a blow on the head, * f which was given either before or after the drowning."