Petersfield.—Awful Visitation.—On Saturday last, Mary Lipscomb, aged 16, living in the service of Mrs. Henson, in the High street, being suspected of having purloined certain articles belonging to her mistress, her box was searched, and a valuable knife and fork, a hymn book, quantity of Berlin wool, &c., were found; and on being questioned respecting another missing article, she impiously called upon God to "strike her dead" if she knew anything of it, although there subsequently appeared no doubt that she had secreted that also. Mrs. Henson, after a serious admonition, dismissed her from her service. She returned to her friends, who live about three miles from the town, and awful to relate, in a few hours she was a corpse, having died in excruciating agony early the next morning.—Sussex Advertiser.
