Dear Bro. Armstrong: Please give the following brief description of one of the saddest events which has ever transpired in our Province, room in your columns. George Burton CLINCH s/o Brother C.F. CLINCH and Sister Julia A. CLINCH, perished in the flames of a burning blacksmith's shop on Sunday morn. 20th inst. about 2 o'clock. He spent Saturday eve. with the family at home and about half past 9 o'clock went up to his room, as the family supposed, for the purpose of retiring. Not long afterward, however, he went out without any of the family knowing it, and went down to the bridge which crosses the Musquash river (St. John) near the shop. Here he fell in with some men who had liquor, he drank with them and becomingly considerably under the influence of the cursed stuff, he was taken by the persons with whom he had been drinking and put into the blacksmith shop - which also served as a carpenter shop - among the shavings. They all left him then and went home. One of the young men just before starting put his hand into all of Burton's pockets and took with him all the matches which he had. In less than two hours the building was discovered to be on fire. He (G.B. Clinch) jopined the Baptist Church at Carleton, N.B. He was born May 21st, 1854 and had he lived one more day would have been 23 years of age. (sgd) W.J. STEWART (see original)