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     fire. A house situated on the west of Kent Street was 
     
     discovered to be in flames, which speedily spread to the 
     
     premises known as Scott’s Coach Factory, which in a short time 
     
     were beyond saving; but by the judicious and constant play 
     
     of the five Fire Engines the fire was confined to these build- 
     
     ings; unfortunately, however, a tall chimney of one of the 
     
     burnt houses being relieved of its support came tumbling to 
     
     the ground, falling on Pipeman Thomas Dodd, of No. 2 
     
     Engine, breaking his leg. 
     
    

    
     Destruction of property by fire always calls forth expressions ' 
     
     of sympathy, but when it is accompanied by loss of life, it 
     
     becomes truly mournful. One night during March of this 
     
     year, the family of Mr. Alexander McLane, Upper York River, 
     
     consisting of his wife, three sons and three daughters, the ages 
     
     of the latter being from 16 to 20 years, had retired at the usual 
     
     hour, and were sleeping soundly, when a little after midnight, 
     
     one of the sons, whose bedroom was over the kitchen, was 
     
     awakened by flames and smoke coming into his room ; having 
     
     alarmed his brothers he rushed down stairs and awakened his 
     
     father and mother, who had barely time to escape from the 
     
     house by the window which was then enveloped in flame, but 
     
     after the fire had exhausted itself his sisters’ remains were 
     
    
   
   
    
     discovered locked in each other’s arms as though they had died 
     
     without a struggle. 
     
    
   
   
    
     At French Village, Lot 47, Alexander McInnis, aged 40, was 
     
     struck by a falling tree and killed. Deaths in the woods when 
     
     lumbering or when clearing the lands of its forest were 
     
     frequent and sad. During a severe thunder and lightning 
     
     storm which occurred on the 9th ofJune at Lot 9, a woman was 
     
     killed by the electric fluid shattering the stove to pieces by 
     
     which she was working. The violence of this hurricane having 
     
     reached the vicinity of Rollo Bay, many of the fishermen’s boats 
     
     were capsized and several men were drowned. At Big Cape, , 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lot 42, a few days after this Angus McDonald and his four sons 
     
     were drowned while fishing at that place. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The death of Major General Ready, Lieut. Governor of the 
     
     Isle of Man—the once popular Governor of Prince Edward 
     
     Island—occurred this year under circumstances unusually 
     
     aflecting. His Excellency had been long suffering from ill 
     
     health, and was in the habit of having draughts frequently 
     
    
   
   
    
     administered internally and embrocations applied externally, for 
     
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