General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4706, 6 February 1884, Page 2

General News.

A serious accident occurred to Mr Edmund Kelly, the eldest son of M> John E. Kelly, of Nyngan, New South Wales, last month. He was driving some brood mares from his own up to hig father's paddock, when, within sight of the latter's stockyard, the blood stallion Woodlawn, which was with the mares, rushed suddenly at young Kelly, seized him by the knee, dragged him off the horse he was riding, and literally worried him like a dog. The flesh was terribly mangled above the knee joint.

A new Thames tunnel", to cost £1,400,000, has been sanctioned by the Metropolitan Board of Works. It will be situated one mile east of London.

In an article entitled " Horrible London, Mr George E, Sims relates the following anecdote in support of Jhe theory that in many instances it would be well to separate children from their parents and guardians :— '[ A little girl of nine came one day to a Board School in the Mint with a pair of boots on. Thw attracted the attention of the teacher, for though the child had been at school for two years, this was the first time she had not appeared with naked feet. ' Why, Annie,' said the teacher, • where did yo« get your boots from ? ' • Please, teacher/ was the answerj made before the whole school, 'one of my fathers gare*em tome —the one what's home this week.' *' The following marvellous escape » narrated in a recent issue of the Liverpool (N.S.W.) Herald's A man was leisurely crossing the viaduct near the paper mill, when the goods-train came along at a rattling pace. As he saw no chance, of escape by running or jumping, he thrW himself down between the rails and allowed the eagiae and trucks to run over him.. As soon as the last van passed h» afcaod and waved his hat to a number of ladies who witnessed the affair and who screamed lustily all the time. . The Japan Weekly Mail giwes publiefey to a terrible story which ©omes by telegram from Hiroshima^ It is to the effect that on the night of September 3, at about 10 o'clook., q, $re broke out at the gaol and spread with such rapidity that all the buildings from the first to the 12fch ward were destroyed iv a very short space of time. In eaoh ward from 30 to 80 criminals are confined, and it is stated that tk* occupants of the fourth and fifth wards, 61 persons in all, were" burned to, death* wnile 156 persons were vkox» or less severely injured. 120 escaped, bet of tbes« 15 were re-captured the same night. Iwo brothers, were on «e staying in a New Engird town, when one of them became, seriously. ias« De . A phyaioian'g s.ta.tement ofc the ease was reduced to writing, and the sane brother started for the »syjum in charge of the maniac. H» W\ asleep on the journey, and the demented one, with marvellous, slyness, robbed bun of his papers, assumed the attitude of his keeper, assured ever* onethat his brotder was insane, and sue. eeeded m h.av,*ng bim placed m the asylum, f w »ww