Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-02

Splbe Oh us opinion, MT. DdlSug gave INC
tempted three months Imprisonment and
the temptress only one.
TURNING HER MsFoRTUNEs TO AC-
COUNT.
Mrs. Weldon is decidedly a remarkable
woman. She is now turning her misfor-
tunes to account, and impersOnating on
the stage the different parts which she
has PLAYED in that greatest of all tarces
whose name IS Life. This clever and
versatile lady had a great success last
Monday in Birmingham, when she APP
peared for the first time in 'new and
original lunacy DRAMA" in five acts, of
which she is part author, whole heroine,
and central figure. In this sensational
play, the heroine, Hester StanhOpe who
is another Mrs. Weldon is unjustly de-
clared a dangerous lunatic. For some
time she is confined In a lunatic asylum,
but eventually succeeds in proving her
sanity. | am sorry that she omitted to put
on the stage her last trial at the Old
Bailey, a scene or two at Holloway, jail,
and her triumphal exit from it. More
thoughtful, Mr.. Edmund Yates, editor of
the WOrtd, has, in new and cheaper
edition of his autobiography, added his
"reminiscences Of Tourney to Northern
Latitudes"-thus he calls Holloway Jail,
situated in the north of London, and in
which he was confined during four
months for libel on the Earl of Ions
dale.
Mrs. Weldon has plenty on her hands
for the present. She is TO appear next
Monday in the same drama at the Grand
theatre, Ellington. While fully occupied
by nights, her legal business will no doubt
engage her mornings. To-day she viii
have to answer another charge OF
libel on Mr.. Rivlere. Whatever may
be said OF some people who talk big
aud loud, they often do great
deal of good. The new lunacy law
amendment bill might very well be called
now the Weldon act, as the new criminal
law amendment bill viii ever be known
as Stead's act. 1t may be sad to have to
say so, but legislators seldom listen to
quiet talk. The shipping bill, passed a
few years ago to prevent ship owners from
sending TO sea unseaworthy vessels, would
not have passed II MIR. Samuel Phmsoll,
in Mt OF passion in Parliament, had not
called the opponents Of his bill ''criminal
villains" The language was not parlia-
mentary, but it aroused the nation from
It's indifference on the subject, and the bill
passed.
CRAZY BRITON
belonging to the "Suicide Club" OF which
| did not know the existence, has pub
lished in the Pau HaU Gazette the sensa-
tions of hanging. He has actually tried
it before the members OF the club. 1t will
be pity if his narrative has the effect of
diminishing the wholesome terror which
the rope has hitherto inspired, and fear
II may induce some silly people to try
hanging as a substitute for opium At
first there was great jerk and he felt a
violent pain in his neck, but after he lost
consciousness the proceedings became
quite pleasant. He seemed to be trans
ported into a new world, more beautiful
than anything imagined by the poets. He
was swimming, he thought. in a sea of
OIL. The feeling was eXquisitely de-
licious. AS he swan easily and
without effort through the liquid
mass he noticed a far-off island of
the most glorious emerald green in color.
The sea kept every instant changing its
/ hue. At one moment it was mass of
gold, as though the sun We're shining
brilliantly on 1t. The next instant it was
vivid blood red, but there was nothing
terrible or disgusting i'm this new color.
In TACT, 1t kept changing to all the hueS
OF the rainbow, yellow and red being the
predominating tints. He got nearer ana
nearer to the island AS he approached
1t there sprang out suddenly from the
/ ground great number of people whose
/ faces seemed known to him At last he
! reached the land. Then a maguidceut
cnOrus OF voices, human, and those of
birds burst forth. He closed bis ewes in
ecstacy. He tloated calmly on to the
shore, and lay as a child in it's cradle.
slightly weakened from the encryating
effect of the oily matter in which he had
been swimming. Al last be opened his
eyes. The magic charm was at once dis
PEELED. The divine harmony ceased.
The faces we're still peering at
him with an expression Of eager
curiosity, but be perceived that they be-
longed to the members of the club. The
pam In his neck was great, 1t appeared,
but he was now in entire possession of
his senses. His friends cut him down.
ana he was able TO tell them at once his
experiences. Although he drew a charm
ing picture Of the bliss which he felt. no
other member would try his experiment.
His look was quite CHASTITY. To the best
OF my belief this lunatic is still at large.
Politicians frequently complain of mis-
representations, but no one in this coun-
try, says the Globe, has yet gone so far as
to spread report that his opponent is
dead, "haying been poisoned by mush-
rooms" This has happened to NJ. du
Chevulard, candidate for the DEPART
ment of the Loire in France. He writes
that he is quite well, and in the most
Christian spirit suggests that his adver-
saries are quite capable of making away
with him il they had the chance.
MAX O'RETT