Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-16
The Malley Trial.
ReopeninS s To-Day-A Busy Weeks Work

 this week and presumably there will be lively tilts between the lawyers on both sides. Judge Granger with his usual dignity will no doubt keep the Illegal lights" within the proper bounds of court etiquette. so that no undue Interruption will be observable The same stereotyped faces will occupy the seats in that portion of the court room assigned to attorneys and reporters and the usual attend ance of females in the box set aside for wit nesses will be observable. There will also be the usual rush of ''unoccupied' men to the seats reserved for them in the court to strike 10 o'clock Judge Granger will pass quietly from his retiring room to the judges desk; Sheriff Byxbee will ann-unce the usual Oyez, oyez, oyez the clerk will call the jury and business will proceed in usual form. It is said that the State has twenty five or thirty more witnesses to put on the stand and that the present week entire, and the most, or the whole, of next week will be consumed in hearing the direct evidence. Then will come the testi- mony for the defence with from eighty to one hundred witnesses, consuming at least four weeks more Then the rebuttal and sur-rebuttal, occupying several days addi- tional. So that if Independence day" sees an end of the trial young America can fire the tormenting Chinese crackers on the Green, they will do, without regard to results of the trial or the damage that may follow from an indiscriminate discharge of toy pistols and fireworks. It is a gratifying thought that there is judge on the bench who is firm and prompt in his rulings and whose decisions, when made, although exceptions are some- times taken. are as rule impartial. His honor has thus far shown Q tendency to treat both sides with perfect fairness.
 The matter of arsenic and it's uses is receiving considerable attention again just now. An article on the subject in the New York Sun gives some idea of it's use in New York for the purpose of beautifying the complexion, and says:
 Are you ever called upon by women to give them something to improve their com plexion ?'' asked a reporter of city physi- clan.
 ''Quite often, as matter of course. Women are always looking for something to intensity their beauty. They are not te blame for it; the first inquiry most men make about women is whether or not she is pretty"
 "Do you prescribe arsenic for that pur- poser"
 s'Not as beautifier. In the treatment of certain true skin diseases however, Fowler's solution is often used, and rightly managed is valuable remedy. But arsenic is oftener prescribed for malaria neuralgia and dyspep- sia.'
 ''Yes, arsenic does, though not always, produce the effect ascribed to it. Its beau tifying powers, however, if such they be, are much exaggerated. It is possible, but not probable that 8 physician would give arsenic to woman who wished for it, as something with which to heighten her charms at the expense of her health. No respectable practitioner would do it. There are. any number of old women and quacks to attend to that sort of thing, and the number of those who use arsenic in this way is consid- erable have prescribed sulphur in such cases half dozen times, but never afterward heard of my fair patients. Stopl One of them did return. She said that my medicine not strong enough. Arsenic was good, she had been told, and she not only asked me for it, but was indignant because would not write prescription.
  such cases should be obvious enough. The patient almost always adopts the principle of the more arsenic the more beauty. It is not, by the way, habit confined to women. I know of two cases in which arsenic was used by young men for the same purpose. I have had several cases of women who had serious ly injured themselves with arsenic, all of them within seven or eight years. Twenty years ago they were rare. The symptoms in nf trouble begins with pausea and abdominal pains. Then the eyes redden, and the upper lids become thickened, having taken on dropsical character which soon extends over the whole body. Frequently the arsenic pro- duces severe skin eruptions. The nervous system in time becomes seriously involved, and wasting of the fesh falling out of the hair, and sometimes paralysis, follow. Young women should be careful how they meddle with Fow1er's solution"
 A druggist said that calls for arsenic were not infrequent, and came quite as often from middle aged as from young women. 'I never sell it to them," he added, without a pre- scription. I know, however, that it is sold for beautifier, and I have reason to believe that it is bought of the wholesale druggists, put up in bottles and disposed of by ped dlers of nostrums, who, no doubt, get high prices for it."
 The New London Day is responsible for the following: 'All the ladies want to know who the New London party is that resembles Blanche Douglass. All of them swear by all that is good and great that they would never, never breathe it to 8 single human. But they know better, bless their souls There are few of the fair sex who can keep secret, and probably not more than one of the ex- captions to the general rule of gushing lives in New London. Who is this one? Of course everybody will think 1t must be she. Why not let them all enjoy the delusion On the other hand no lady cares to hear it said that she resembles the unfortunate girl who is on trial for her life; to satisfy everybody we will keep it secret'
 The Meriden Republican thinks to hasten trials in the future and suggests as follows There is only one safe way that will hasten lengthy trials, where it is necessary to take the testimony verbatim: Stenography should be made a branch of a law students course, and no candidate should be admitted to the bar without passing an examination in short hand writing Those already at the bar could be exempted, but they would soon study it, and make themselves sufficiently proficient to take testimony.
 Pastoral.
 The Rev. J. K. Wilson, of New London, has received very cordial invitation to be-