New-York tribune., 1882-03-11

Epitaph hunters may be glad TO know that
rich reward awaits the enterprsng searcher in the
lonely mountain gulches OF Colorado. The following
sp pecnens will to illustrate the prevailing senti-
ment Of these last tributes
lie had sand in his craw
But was slow on the draw;
So planted him out In the dew
which Is equivalent to saying that Is essential to be
quick as well as brave. Another inscription thus nc
then killed himself in a dismal gIlch near Del Norte !:
"TwO poor tendcrfoet-cOudn't stand the altitude"
The Ne,c Orleans Times Democrat draws a
lesson from the floods before they have begun to
subside. Speaking for the farmers, It says: "We find
ourselves here very threshold OF the year. without
a weeks supply Of bread mest-terally paupers In
danger nay In certainty OF starving we be not fed by
charity. Had the flood not come, we should have gone
on in the old, old way, borrowing money upon un-
made crop. mortgagng the labor of a year for mere
food The factors would have come forward as usual
and the weary dsheartening routine would have been
perpetuated" The moral OF the situation it finds to be
that real prosperity depends upon Diversified ed crops
wisdom we shall live to bless as bencfaction what we
now bewail as "A calamity
In the Swiss Canton of Aargau is observed
curious custom unknown elsewhere, at least IN the
same degree. In the early months of every year the
young OF the villages give elaborate open air enter
tanments generally Sundays, illustrating the past
present history of Switzerland. Occasionally striking
events in other lands depicted These folkpays,
they are popularity called, are realistic pantommes,
speech not being essential to their comprehension Thus
the young Of invited their friends
to witness The siege Of Landenberg" February 10
On the Sunday their neighbors OF
were to give representation OF The Battle OF Morgan
ten" On February 26 two SUBJECTS from contemporary
history TO be offered in TWO COmmunes RonTdorf
witnessing The Opening of the ST. Gohard Railway :"
aud Magcnwyl The Murder Of the Russian Gar"
Readers will remember, perhaps, the Laros
poisoning which occurred at Easton, Penn In 1870
Allen G. LarOs put four ounces OF arsenic into coffee
pot and thus killed his parents and an old man who
lived in the house. lie confessed the murder and the
motive for It, He desired to inherit his fathers prop
erty When ho was put upon trial hs lawyers pleaded
eplepc insanity. lie found guilty, however, and
sentenced TO be hanged. Upon appeal a commission
appointed to inquire into his sanity and upon report
OF 1t he was sent to the Harrisburg Lunatic Asylum
From this he escaped. Beng captured, he escaped
agnin. He went TO Arkansas, when he confessed his
crime and desired to bo returned Pennsylvania He
was brought back put again into the asylum and es-
capped for the third tme from which may be inferred
that tho Harrisburg Asylum must be easy institution
to escape from. Now when after all these years infor
nation has been received Of Laross marriage "n the
South" the hospital authorities who DO not consider
him insane propose bring him back II possible to tho
institution order that ne may be delivered to the civil
authorities and duly executed for his crime The
seems have been loosely managed. The least which
the public ask when murderer is sent TO On insane
asylum ID that he be kept in reasonable security,
whereas IarOs has run away three times from
the Pennsy retreat and upon the last occasion Of
his fight has not even been pursued II the defence Of
insanity continues TO bring forth such fruit this 1t
will soon be OF no effect upon the minds OF Jurors, 1t
long ago ceased TO have much effect upon the minds Of
the public 1t would be rather energetic exercise Ot
executive authority TO hang LarOs now but there
to have been no particular reason why he should not
have been hanged six years ago.