MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1271, 14 May 1883, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A peculiarly sad and shocking domestic tragedy (tho St. James Gazette says) is reported from the town of Batyn, in Hungary. The keeper of a crossing on the East Hun garian railway near that town happened to win a few hundreds of florins in a lottery. The poor fellow, who had never seen such a large sum of money and amused himself in turning them over, forming plan after plan for their disposal. All at once a train was signalled, and he rushed to his post, leaving the precious roll behind him. As ill luck would have it, his little daughter was playing in the room at the time. Struck by the peculiar appearance of the notes, having rarely if ever seen one before, and not knowing anything whatever of their value, she proceeded to use them as a plaything, and presently flung thera' into the fire, where they were burnt to ashes. Just then the father returned, missed the notes, and learned what had become of them. "ln -his fury he struck the child a violent blow Avhich stretched her lifeless on the floor. The mother, who was giving a bath in adjoining room to her second child, an infant, rushed in on hearing the disturbance, picked up the little girl, and tried to restore her to consciousness. Her efforts were vain ; the child was dead. She flew to the bath in which she had left the infant. Another shock awaited her — the child was drowned in its bath. The childless mother, distracted and desperate, rushed out of the house, and hanged herself on the branch of a tree. The wretched father, overwhelmed with misfortune — his fortune gone, his wife and children gone — seized a revolver, and put an end to his existence. The artistic completeness of this tragedy gives it a certain air of unreality: but the Hungarian journals vouch for the exact truth of these details.