The Palo Poisoning

Ionia, Micb , 1G. - The preliminar? examination of Matthew Aullará, of Palo, charged witli poisoning his wit'e, will recommence on the lSih. The i ircumstauces which have led m .his trial are briefly these: Sarah .M üard, wife of the defendanf, died on I Ue 9Lh of May last an3 was buried. Certain symptoms of her last illness, tnd various circumstances which have come to light since, led to the suspicion that she died from the effects of poison. Thia suspicion took strong root in the neighborhood, and the reault was that the body was recantly exhumed and the internal organs sent to Ann Arbor for analysis. The receipt of a telegraphic notification that large quantities of arsenie had been discovered in the stomach and other organs led to Mr, Millard's being promptly arrested. The prisoner is a small man of swallow complexion, possessing a keen eye and intelligent but cold and passionless face. Prior to his arrest he was one of the leading tusiness men of Palo. Being questioned, he said he feit convieted tnat the present trouble grew out of animosity to him engendered by business and other matters with some of his neighbors. He never had any trouble with his wife, and they lived happily together. She had been sickly for a number of years. It was his opinión thKt "she was troubled with a female difiiculty, but the doctors gave no sat'sfactory explanation of what didail her." He said he bad been an undertaker, and accouuted for the poison being found in her body in the following way: Anxions to preserve her body unlil he couldget acoffin and robe from Detroit, he had prepared an embalming fluid containing arsenie and had injected it in the usual marnier. The fact of his having procured arsenic several days before the death of his wife and the additional fact of its being found in her stomach and liver, where it is impossible it would find its wav after death, look like dark points againsthim, whilejthe absence of a,well founded motive will count favorably tor him. It is truo that gossips allege that there is another woman in the case, hut the accusation seerns to rest on very fliinsy support. The case excites much interest. The prisoner has rnany influential friends and doe3 not lack for means, so that it is safe to say the legal battle will be one of the closet and most stubbornly contested that ever took place m the country. The Toronto professioual four have challenged the Celtic club of Buiïalo to row a race for $1,000, not later than October. A gentleman who, in a public meet ■ ing, was telling that he was eighty-one years old and had not been an abstainer from liquors, was interrupted by the remark: "You would have been a hundred by this time if you had." Life is cheaply held in Colorado. A man who went in swimming at Denver and nearly drowned rewarded the man who saved his life by a gift of ten cents, and was going home when bis rescuer called him back and gave him üve cents change.