GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7782, 30 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

THE DECAY OF THE SAi Thb London correspondent*! os *fisr ? paper writes as follows i n re °' a Li,_ straits in which ''General himself:—I hear that the fi oti] fin; of the Salvation Army i 8 J^ 1 * 1 c onditi' than i. generally Z cessions have weakened th! , ' keot ot i, desperate step just taken by T aoJ J' recruit the funds show, M, e ° er »l Bo> the danger which threat. ukase has .been issued orderL ir «v" °! of tbe army during a weft - * tie ttemt A abstain partially or totally 0 pi{ fcby ? indulgences, such as eatini ~t fQ® St * smoking, and to forward th, '"S Si? saved to the General'. l tk 3 doubt if every member of the price of, say, seven j- * rcn y «ah.' -A 0 Booth, there' wiU b J ! (ond« ; bat ijj ..t.,,'*'"='«»!, :jl ?*' and fasting very often 18 f„ii Dir,J i &■»„ and riot. If " General" ft '? ed b, ?feto this method, we are with 4 ® h 'eUn distance of the collap 3e of the J, ****& a wedding PARTY POl^''" 1505 ' " Mr. John B. Law ? * D - Carlisle; and Mies 'u ° B - t cherh» youngest daughter of a farm?* « at Carlisle on the 19th An* * 'A* re ®5iJ P a ,l ° f -A . partook Of br^fanS? of the bride's aunt, Mrs. U° in Spencer-street, Carlisle , n ' * a » lire,' wards 12 of the party, inciad in f;. y Jf: «- and bridegroom, were seized 3 taß "de of irritant poisoning, and tuT ByiD Ptom g ill. Un Wednesday the bride h 11 " "7 and died in Edinburgh, *h»r effor 't moon was to have been Spent i? L e ioneyl were prepared by a careful'., rh viand, a high character. The most ml!?° b '-*rs is that the game which was used . the cry a state as to generate a certain Wlßini ncii on the other hand, it is curion. f" 0 "'• at. Miss Story, of Shaddongatp ®h the guests, partook of none'ot th! *E Olleo s she is one of the few who es-aped *' Mll

A CHILD ATTACKED Br A little child named Thorn,, < admitted to Mercer's Hospital n" 003 * 1 ' other day, Buffering frcm sever. ' til 9 inflicted by rats. The child's m L Woaad! left it in a cradle in the hoa se 5 hli went out on some business On i ,!l9 she found that several l a rg e r . . 3e ' "torn into the cradle and attacked thechu got hunted them off, and some of tk. upon her. The child is i a a T ,® tttfa9d condition, the bites being very d e l Mtl3aj EFFECTS OF EXCESSIVE DEIS SIS(; The future proceedings aai D ,t i> l Waters, fruiterer, Lynsted (who Wi ,dl ! in custody at the aittiDgbourne policeS® l on the charge of having been connected the death of his wife)? were .bj J nated by the man's sudden dih . ' occurred in his cell early in the momL A " enquiry into the circumstances cooLt? with the death of his wife, Mrs. Ada Jo£ [ Waters, was opened on August "l X' evidence was adduced to show that she kS died from the presence of a large clo> " t blood underneath her skull, the result of » blow which was supposed to be given by her husband. By the direction of the coroner Waters was apprehended and taken to Sittmgbonrne, and shortly after six o'clock on Monday morning was found dead, as stated An inquest on the body was held at thj Sitting bourne police station, when the medic*! evidence went to show that the deceased's internal organs were all diseased and that the cause of death was jitty degeneration of the heart, acceleiated i>v excessive drinking. Inquests have thai been held on wife and husband respectively within, three days, drink being the nrim»ry cause of death in each case.

A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' ANTI-SWSiKDB LEAGUE. The Commercial Traveller's Protective Association of the United States have isia'ed a neat placard, to be placed in the hotels banks, railway stations, &c., throughout the country. It is called the anti-profanity placard. At the top are the words "Gentlemen are requested not to use profane langnage." In the centre there is a cut represent, ing commercial travellers just arriving at a railway station. On each side of the picture are mottoes, and below, the words "Commercial Travellers, Attention." Tie associa. tion endorses the following;-"Believing that the use of profane language is an innecessary and nngentlemanly habit, not only disgusting, but tending to lower our selfrespect and degrade us in the minds of gentlemen belonging to other professions, and that, if the attention of travelling men who are naturally gentlemen are called to the subject, they will refrain from the use of profanity and set an example that will exert a powerful influence in favour of decency and good manners. siisrsfore we request the hotelkeepers sain iiunsrs to place the above card in gomt uannpiazouß place in their establishment!;, and id call the attention of all that are aidinuacl to the use of profanity to the same."

A CHARACTERISE." SCT'S FROM MS. BKKLS. To a new naEiiifir of "Proserpina'' (" Studies of Wayside Flowers") Mr. Kuskin appends a note which will bo interesting to I all his friends and readers. "Life is really I too disgustingly short,"he says; "one has only got one's materials together by the time one can no more use them. But let me say, i once for all, in closing this fragment of work old and new, that 1 beg my friends very earnestly never to mind paragraphs about ma in the public papers. My illnesses, so-calljd, are only brought on by vexation or worry (for which said friends are often themselves in no small degree answerable), and leave me, after a few weeks of wandering thoughts, much the same as I was before, only a little sadder and wiser !—probably, if I am spared till I am seventy 1 shall be as sad and wise as lever wish to be, and will try to keep so to the end." This note is dated Brant wood, 10th August, ISS6.

HORACE GREELEY S HANDWRITING. Horace Greeley used to write a miserable scrawl. One day he sent the following to the lowa Press Association:—" I have waited til) longer waiting would seem discourteous, and now decide that I cannot attend your Press meeting next June, as I would do, I find so many cares and duties pressing on me, that, with the weight of years, I feel obliged to decline any invitation that takes me over a day's journey from home." Out of this, toe recipients, in consultation assembled, made: —"I have wondered all along whether any squirt had denied the scandal about t " 8 President meeting Jane in the woods 02 Saturday. I have hominy carrots, and Katies more than I could move with eight steer. If eels are blighted dig them early. Any in* sinuation that brick ovens are dangerous hams, gives me the horrors."

ANGLO-BELGIAN PIGEON* The following is the result of the race Iron London to Belgium between the 300 which were released at Westminster Bn g under the superintendence of Mr. F. A. the president of the London Colnm Dirl *" Society. Taking Belgian time, the biro' we released at 10.20 a.m. on Sunday, and , first to arrive within the precribed radio* fifteen miles at Brussels was M. Demermacse of Droogenbooche, at 4.1 p.m. on ' j 6 , Bin L day, having thus accomplished the d| 3tan of about 180 miles in 5h 4lmin, B ' loWlD^ tie average of over thirty mile* an hour, second bird reached Brussels eight min " later, and the whole of those taking P r ' (soma fifty in number) were timed in five o'clock. The pigeons encountered ase storm of their passage, and this in £ r^ fl measure accounts for the difference » time as compared with last year, w^ en bird first in did the distance in four hour <

A ROMANTIC CASE. A romantic case came before the May port magistrates a few days ago, when Jane Hope was charged with attempti n commit suicide. The young woman, s months ago, fell in love with a man t J years her senior, a gardener at the n where she was servant. The f ee ' m ,= , ® apparently reciprocated, they agreed ' i s , married. On being informed of the sta affairs, the woman's mother vetoed proposed marriage. On being inform® _ , g this by his sweetheart, the man said, now done for ever; there must be no more of it." £cme time afterwards the w0 was found insensible on the drawings sofa, having taken poison. In her 00 . were found three letters. One was to I lover, in which she said, " Good-bye for ev' » I cannot live longer without you. £ 0 , your portrait and mine close together ever." She wrote to her mother, "I ara ve j ill. lam going to die. My time has coffi Bury me near my grandfather, and as* * one to the funeral whom I dearly love. « life was in great danger for some days. k told the Bench that she was in such tr( ? a that she did not know she had taken P 018 ?,' and, having expressed regret, wM charged.; ,