Poisoned With Matches

dlcrs recen tly stopped at a house near Alamo,Tonn., and calledfordinner. Tbc WQinan at tlio house prepared somo food and a pot oí' coffee, aiid sat down aud ate with them.. The peddlers at the dinner drank ih9 oofTco, nnd sturted off in théir wagon, but shortly after both bocame sick and died. The woman, who also drank somo of the coffee, died soon alter. An examination showed that a box of matches had fallen üito tbo coffee while it was being made, and that the sulphur and othcr poisonous subgtances had made the draught trebly fatal. A noTcspondent ïuakes the atnsiMe reïBnik that, winter Or suumier except in storiny tiuics there is uo plaoe socomfortablo for colts or tired work-horses as a good pasture lot. To ti up a horse at night. in a nairow col!, with a plimk floor to stand on, is a species of cruplty that oivilization opht to bc ashnmed of. If the poor aiiima] must bc confincd liko a convict n a dungeon, for pity's sake let Kim bave liis heao, and give nim at least tm-elve fect sqiuire, with :v soft' dry floor to stand or lic on. - Stephen Gladstone, son of the Britith Premin, ii:;st,eon mado rector. of. a-church ond preaok or not, vill reccivo fiftoi n tbuusand or anauiu.