The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-23 00:00:00

SHOCKIIIG MURDER IN GALICIA.

Five Jews named Moses Schneider, Mayer Brecher,
Abraham Moses Schneider, Joseph Landau, and Moses
Feldmann, have just been tried for the murder of Abra-
ham Feldmann, son of the latter, at Tarnapol, in Galicia.
It appears that the deceased had made an offer of mar-
riage to a Christian girl, and that she had accepted
him on his promising to become a Christian also. Having
heard. of this premise, the accused men assembled in the

house of Moses Feldmann and warmly upbraided young
Feldmann for his apostasy. The latter, however, remained
ob,tinate, and during the altercation the father threw a sling
ope round his neck and pulled at it with the other men
until his son was strangled. Hannah Feldmann, the
aother of the deceased, who was absent at the time,
spewed much grief at the death of her son, but was soon
pacified by her husband representing the murder as a

religious sacrifice, and passed the rest of the evening with
him in prayer. The case was clearly proved against the
defendants. Moses Feldmann and Mayer Brecher were
sentenced to be hanged, and the other three to ten years'
imprisonment with hard labour.—Eastern Budget.

LITERARY ADVICE.—In reply to a young writer
who wished to know which magazine would give him the
highest position quickest, a contemporary advised " powder
magazine, if you contribute a fiery article."
A HUMAN Fossm.—While some men roam the
world over, and never seem contented to rest, others have
an almost superstitious love of the place where they first
saw the light, and never care to leave it. Mr. Joseph
Rundle, storekeeper of " Par Consols "Mine, in Cornwall,
who has just died at St. Blazey, was one of the latter sort
He had lived to the age of 31 years, and it is reported that
in all that time he never slept one night out of the parish
in which he was born.

A. WONDERFUL OLD WOMAN.—The telegraph
informs us that President Lopez, of Paraguay, has again
murdered his mother for conspiring against his life. That
sprightly and active old lady has now been executed three
thousand times for the same offence. She is now 83
years old, and erect as a telegraph-pole. Time writes no
wrinkles on her awful brow, and her teeth are as sound
as on the day of her birth. She rises every morning
punctually at four o'clock and walks ten miles ; then,
after a light breakfast, enters her study and proceeds to
hatch out a new conspiracy against her first-born. About
two "p.m. it is discovered, and she is publicly executed. A
light toast and a cup of strong tea finish the day's busi-
ness, and she retires at seven and goes to sleep with her
mouth open. She has pursued this life with the most un-

faltering regularity for the last fifty years, and it is only
by this unswerving adherence to hygienic principles that
she has attained her present green old age.—San Francisco
News Letter.

AMERICAN PRISONS.—The American prisons
appear to be the best and the worst in Christendom. The
best as regards the larger and state prisons ; the worst as
respects some of the county gaols, and even some larger
prisons in the Western States. Almost incredible
enormities were reported last spring of a certain Indiana
prison, such as systematic profligacy and revolting cruelties
practised by the male officers on the female prisoners.
The Howard Association has been since reliably informed,
by a valued correspondent in the west, that the reports
were but " too true." Thanks to the energetic action of
Mr. Charles F. Coffin, of Indiana (chairman of State
Reformatory), and some others like minded,these abomini-
tions have been checked, though it is feared their perpe-
trators have not been duly punished. The appointment
of short term officers (in prisons, post-offices, &c.), in the
United States, mainly through political party interest,
and only during the term of party tenure of power, is a
curse and bane in many ways. It often checks or almost
paralyses the influence of the philanthropic and able men
who are happily neither few nor inactive in that great
country.'

Mr. George Dawson, in a late lecture on the great
founder of Methodism, gave the following details. When

Wesley settled he said, "it would be more useful to
marry." There is nothing like giving that sort of pretty
facing to your wishes. I have known a friend, when he

was going.. to move from a little living to a large one, say
that it was because he was going to " a larger sphere of
usefulness." A certain witty man used to say that when-
ever a clergyman went from a little living to a large one,
he did so because had got a call, but that he would want a
"good loud hello to take him from a large to a little living."
Wesley married a widow, who, through her jealousy, led
him a life of wretchedness and misery. At last his spirit
was up, and he wrote to her, "Know me and know your-
self. Suspect mo no more; provoke me no more; do not
any longer centend for mastery, for power, money, or
praise ; be content to be a private insignificant person—
known and loved by God and me." It was not likely that
a woman would be pleased at being recommended to be an
insignificant person. After twenty years of disquietude,
she one day left him. He bore it philosophically. He
went even beyond it—he took his diary, and put the most
pithy entry into it I ever met with in a diary :—" Non
earn reliqui, non demisi, non revocabo," which may be trans-
lated thus : " I did not leave her; I did not send her away ;
I shan't send for her back," And so ended the married