EXTRAORDINARY DOUBLE SUICIDE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1044, 19 June 1880, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY DOUBLE SUICIDE.

Hungarian newspapers report a peculiarly painful case of double suicide committed by two shepard boys, respectively aged 10 and 12, near Karlsburg. These lads were in charge of a flock of sheep turned out to graze on some grass land abutting upon the Karlsburg- Arad Railway, and had been several times reproved by the watchman stationed near their pasturage ground, for allowing the sheep to stray on the line. On the 6th instant, just as the Arad express came in sight, several sheep had wandered down the embankment, and were in imminent danger of being crushed by the train, from which, however, they were rescued by the timely intervention of the watchman in question, who, as soon as the train had passed, called up the boys and told them that he would have them severely punished for neglecting their duty and his repeated warnings. The terrified lads held consulatiort together as to how they might escape the threatened penalty, and speedly came to the conclusion that the best way of getting out of their scrape would be to drown themselves. One of them had just had a new hat, adorned with a gay peacok's feather, given to him, which he sold for thirteen kreuzers to a little peasant girl, who had been at play with the boys when the dreadful menace of punishment was imparted to them. With the price ot this hat he purchased some small loaves, arid the three children sat down by the Maros to hold their " Pamona," or death feast, and this being terminated, the boys climbed the parapet of the Maros Bridge, their tiny playmate counted aloud, >( One two, three," and at the word " three," they sprang hand-in-hand into the river, sinking immediately under the broken ice with which the Burface of the rapid Btream was partially covered.

A young New Yorker was introduced to a Boston girl, and before they were acquainted twenty minutes she got so spooney that she called him an osterolepis, a Sulutrain placeid and a cartilaginous vertebrate. He returned to New York by the midnight train. How noble to the innocent young girl seems the smart young man who has won her heart ; how good, how kind, how gentle, how so ever much nicer than mother. It is different however, when she gets him ; she does so everlastingly awfully want mother then.