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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 11 July 1868, Page 5

Romantic Suicide in- Birmingham — An inquest was held in Birmingham respecting the death of a young girl, named Ann Maria Pyne. • Reversing the usual order of things, the young girl, who was just entering on her teens, had been paying her addresses with unusual ardor to a smart butcher boy, who had only completed his fifteenth year; but the young man's affections lying in another direction, he coldly spurned her, an# ordered her about her business. She bore all his. rebuffs, and, as he said, was continually turning up wherever he went. The- girl's mother came to know of the affair, and in her haste was said to have i threatened to kill her child if she persisted in following the boy. This accumulation of misfortunes was too much, the- girl swallowed three packets of vermini powder, and died within an hour. Evidence in accordance with this statement having been given, the coroner shortly summed up, and the jury returned a verdict — -'Committed suicide in a state of insanity." Falling in LovE.--Sam Slick says: — if you want a son not to fall in love with any splenderiferous gai, praise her up to the skies, call her aa angel, say she- is a whole team and horse to spare, and ' all that. The moment the critter sees her he is a grain disappointed, and says — "Well, she is handsome, that's a fact ; but she is not so very," very everlastin' after aIL" Nothing damages a gal, a preacher, or a lake, like overpraise^ A-hoss is one of the onliest things in. natur' as is, helpt by it.