Saturday, February 3, 1883   MARRIED,- At Fort Beaufort on Thursday 25th inst., W.D. BENTLY, son of T.H. BENTLEY, Esq., Tylden, to Miss S. ELLIOTT, daughter of N. ELLIOTT, Esq., Fort Beaufort.  No Cards.   Tuesday, February 6, 1883   EXECUTION OF A MURDERER.- A correspondent sends the following:- The execution of Adam FREDERICKS, a Hottentot, for the murder of Mr. LAWMAN, at Slagter’s Neck, took place at Somerset East on Monday morning, at half-past 7 o’clock.  About 7 a.m. the black flag waived from the staff within the goal, and very shortly a large number of coloured people collected outside the prison.  The prisoner walked to the scaffold with a firm step, and to outward appearance not realising his awful position.  He was attended on the scaffold by the Rev. Mr. OATES, minister of the coloured congregation here, and by Mr. DIEPERINK, editor of a Dutch paper in this place.  Both gentlemen read and prayed with the condemned man, who, during the words spoken, betrayed no signs of fear, but rather seemed to betray a stolid indifference to what was about to happen.  After the words of consolation  addressed to him, the two gentlemen shook him by the hand, the Rev. Mr. OATES asking him “if he had found Christ and grace,”  to which he replied “yes.”  They then left him to his fate, and in a few moments he suffered the full penalty of the law.   FATAL ACCIDENT.- We regret to hear that a man named BILLINGHURST, a contractor on the Colesberg Extension, was accidentally killed a few days ago.  It appears that on the arrival of the engine, with a long train of trucks at Zoutpansdrift, the man was missed, and about an hour and a half afterwards a following train was signalled to stop by some platelayers, who had found the man lying by the rails, with both leet broken and so injured that he died before reaching Zoutpansdrift.  The supposition is that he fell off between the trucks, the wheels of which went over him.   Thursday, February 8, 1883   MARRIED,- On the 7th February, by the Rev. James THOMPSON, B.A,, by special license, William Robert, fifth son of the late G.F. BLACKBEARD, Esq., of Grahamstown, to Annie, second daughter of Capt. J. BOLTON, of Whitstable, Kent, England.- No Cards. MARRIED,- On the 6th February, in the Presbyterian and Congregational Church, Queenstown, by the father of the bridegroom, Alfred, youngest son of the Rev. H.H. DUGMORE, to Sarah Jane (“Dollie”) eldest daughter of Ralph John GODDARD, Esq., of Queenstown.- No Cards.   Thursday, February 15, 1883   BRUTAL AND WHOLESALE MURDER NEAR HOOPSTAD.- News has reached Bloemfontein of a most horrible murder having been committed in the Middenveld, about 5 or 6 hours from Hoopstad.  It appears that a Mr. THOMPSON, who had a wife and three children, kept a shop on a farm, about an hour from Nauhaus’s.  The report brought into town of this awful affair by Boers from the neighbourhood, differs somewhat from the telegram received by Government from the landdrost of Hoopstad, via Boshof, published below.  They say that some of the neighbouring farmers went on the 23rd instant to the shop of the unfortunate man, THOMPSON to buy some necessaries.  They were surprised to find the store closed.  On going to the door they discovered a pool of blood on or near the doorstep.  They broke in at the window and saw THOMPSON lying with a pillow on his head, but could not tell whether he was dead or not.  The body of Mrs. THOMPSON was lying close to her husband.  The neighbours forces the door open and found that both Mr and Mrs. THOMPSON had been brutally murdered by being knocked on the head and stabbed about the body.  An infant of 3 months old was also killed, and a child of about 4 years of age was badly wounded, but not dead.  A little girl about 9 was missing.  The neighbours immediately attended to the child that is still alive, and sent at once to Hoopstad and the fieldcornet to report the state of affairs.  The child revived so far as to be able to state that two black men committed the awful tragedy.  The landdrost, however, says nothing about the child being wounded, and nothing about natives.  He mentions, the Friend believes, the name of a white man who is suspected.  This is what he telegraphed:- “A bloody murder took place in the night of the 23rd inst., on the farm Kalkpoort, on the boundary of the district.  Mr, THOMPSON, wife and child were brutally murder.ed.  Have apprehended persons on suspicion – am busy tracing culprits.  Please offer reward in the Gazette.”  The Government have issued a warrant and offered a reward of £50 for the apprehension of the murderer or murderers.   Tuesday February 20, 1883   SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN CAPETOWN. MURDER, ATTEMPTED MURDER, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A tragic occurrence took place on Saturday night, at No. 19, Caledon-street, when a white man, of the name of John Peter NELSON, murdered his infant child, attempted te murder his wife. And attempted to commit suicide.  The details of the horrible story are not yet fully known, and can only be ascertained by the story of the unfortunate wife, who is the only person who can really give any distinct narrative of the circumstances which led her husband to the committal of the crime which he has perpetrated.  The outlines of the occurrence are, however, very clear and simple, and have been corroborated by the wife herself as being something to the following effect.  Shortly after ten o’clock on the night in question, some of the neighbours in the vicinity of NELSON’s house, which is directly opposite the grocery store of Mr. PFUHL in Caledon:street, at its junction with Canterbury street, were startled by the loud cries of “murder! Murder!  He has murdered my child!”  in a woman’s voice, proceeding from the house, above mentioned.  A rush was immediately made to the door which was discovered to be locked, and this necessitated a resort to the window, which was suddenly thrown up, and the agitated and terrified wife leapt out into the street, and hurriedly narrated that her husband had murdered her child.  Some hesitation was at first felt by those present to enter the house, but at length three gentlemen arming themselves with sticks, to be used in case of emergency, entered through the window into the front room, where all was found to be quiet, but the articles of furniture greatly disordered.  A quantity of blood was discovered upon the bedclothes and on the floor, and a track leading out in the passage, when followed up, conducted the three gentlemen to the kitchen, where the man was found extended upon his back upon the floor, with the dead child upon his left arm.  The throat of the child, a girl of some two years of age, was cut in a most frightful manner, close to the junction of the neck with the body, right away through to the bone at the back of the neck, the knife having severed the carotid arteries, the jugular vein, and everything else, almost severing the head from the trunk of the body.  The wound was so deep that death must have been almost instantaneous, though when first discovered it is said that there were still some signs of life in the body, which was drawn up in contortions.  The man himself had cut his throat, not so much under the chin in the vicinity of the jugular vein, but rather more to the side under the jaw, and the injuries were rather more the result of a flesh wound than otherwise.  The floor of the kitchen was deluged with blood, which was scattered too in ghastly pools in other portions of the house.  The child and the mother having been removed to the house of Mrs. TURNBULL, her sister, who resides in the neighbourhood, Drs, ROSS, FALKINER, and FISK were sent for to attend to the man’s wound, information of the circumstances also being despatched to the Resident Magistrate.  On the arrival of DR. FALKINER, and subsequently of Dr. FISK, the man was removed into the front room, where his wounds were attended to, and he was subsequently left there in charge of two police constables.  The Resident Magistrate arrived upon the scene of the tragedy at about half-past eleven, and proceeded to inquire into the circumstances of the case.  NELSON himself was perfectly conscious during the night, acknowledging one of his friends, and it is said that on being interrogated as to the motive which induced him to act as he had done, he replied that he was desirous of “sweeping off the whole lot.”  Shortly after the occurrence took place, the street was rendered almost impassible owing to the number of people who congregated round the house.  The man NELSON was removed in a cab to the new Somerset Hospital at about twelve o’clock on Sunday morning.  On his arrival there, however, he was pronounced to be in no danger of his life, and it was recommended that he should be removed to the gaol, as at the hospital he could not meet with such constant supervision in order to prevent him from proceeding to any rash measure to rid himself of life.  To the gaol then he was accordingly removed, and there he will be under constant surveillance of a police-constable.  From what can be ascertained, it appears that on Saturday night the prisoner showed signs of a restless spirit by constantly shifting about and altering the position of the furniture in the house.  At about ten o’clock he left his wife upon the bed, endeavouring to compose the little child to sleep, and proceeded into the kitchen where he obtained a long strait knife, with which he intended to commit the diabolical crime.  He suddenly returned to the bed-room, and accosted his wife with some words to the effect that he intended to make away with her, and following up his words, he endeavoured to cut her throat.  Springing up she screamed for help and struggled with her husband in order to obtain possession of the knife, receiving several cuts in the attempt.  Her attempts seems to have been unavailing and her husband suddenly picking up the child from the bed cut its throat with the knife he had obtained, the unfortunate women having wrested the knife away, then seems to have flown to the door, and in her terror seems to have lost her presence of mind, rendering her totally incapable of unlocking it.  From the door she rushed to the window, by which she escaped, as we have already narrated.  The husband of late has been employed as a driver of one of the railway engines in the docks.  He is said to have been a steady man until some time ago he lost a child, which apparently upset him and unhinged his mind.  This appeared to have preyed upon him that he became morbid and melancholy, and a resort to hard drinking stimulated these morbid ideas, which at length completely gained possession of his mind... – Cape Times.   SUICIDE.- Last Sunday week a native, named Willem GAIKA, committed suicide at the Location, Port Alfred, by hanging himself.  He effected it by means of a woollen scarf tied twice round his neck, and then attached to the end of a piece of chain suspended from the top of the hut.  No reason has yet been assigned for the rash and insane act.   Thursday February 22, 1883   A MAN named John RYAN has been killed at Natal through falling under the wheels of a tramcar.  He was endeavouring to get on the car whilst it was in motion.   SUICIDE IN CAPE TOWN.- It was reported by Mr. Avendale JONES, residing with his parents at No, 31, Mechau-street, that his father, Mr. George JONES, had hanged himself to the frame of the door in the kitchen by means of a pocket handkerchief on Tuesday.  It appeared that the son arrived at home about 12.15 p.m., when he found his father in the position indicated.  He immediately cut him down and sent for Dr. ROSS and the Resident Magistrate, life being however, perfectly extinct.  The body was removed shortly afterwards to the New Somerset Hospital.   THE MISSING SCHOOLMASTER.- Some weed ago we reported that a schoolmaster named Antonie GENTZ, had been lost in attempting to cross the Baviaan’s Kloof mountain.  We are now requested to contradict a report that the body of the missing man had been found, killed by lightning.  A most earnest search was made but no traces of the missing man found. – Times.   Tuesday February 27, 1883   FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE KIMBERLEY MINE.- An overseer in the employ of the French Company, named MORAN, we regret to say, lost his life on Monday afternoon, through falling from a tub, whilst he was coming out of the Kimberley Mine.