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Show ' A HORRIBLE MURDER. A horrible murder and suicide was Committed in a part of Copenhagen, called Christians!! ion. On Ihe 23rd of May, a man, w ho works as blacksmith in the navy yards, relumed relum-ed as usu.il about 6 p. m. expecting to find his wile and children bidding him welcome; but rinding ihe door hastened, and xettrug 110 response to his repeated knocks, he buitt it open, and was horrified horrifi-ed at the signt that met him when he entered the bed room There be found his tour or five year rid boy hang.ng in "TSTiete tif TdptCMnt-ntt mar bed Ciy : bis! wife, dead, with her throat cut;' white j the b.tbv had been smothered to death. As the family is said to have lived on the best of leans, and the Unfortunate mini was very ord;ily and industrious, and! agoo'l provider for his l.untly, the cause j of this dreadful catastiophe can only be sought iua le.npjrary fit of insanity; i winch also was the opinion of the phy-siciarattending phy-siciarattending the inquest. Millenial festivities in Iceland, in connection con-nection with an exposition of its local iudustties, will be held this summer in that far oft' island, as it is just one thousand thou-sand years since Heli;e, the lean man, fiist seltled there. Tiie festivities will commence in June, and will lust for several days. . An aged woman 140 vears old, celebrated cele-brated her last birth-day surrounded by a numerous host of relatives and friends, and was even able to keep them company com-pany till an hour alter midnight. Her memory seems to be unimpaired and she generally takes a walk in her garden daily. . King George 1 of Greece, who is a son of the king of Denmark, will likely soon abdicate in iavor of his son, the Duke of Spatta who is married 10 a sister of the present emperor of Germany. The crown-prince was born in Greece and is about 27 years ol age; and thus the obiectional feature of a foreign rulerd jes not exist in his case. |