Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-27

the state, and properties that were aban-
doned years ago are again being worked.
Silver miners out of job are now hunting
for gold and location notices have been filed
In large numbers.
1t is said that on the day before the last
earthquake of Zants a cloud of hutterinG
objects, at first mistaken for locusts, made
its appearance near the village OF Mega
ponte, on the coast of the Morea. As it
approached the village it was seen to be
bats of small rust-colored variety that
haunt the coast swamps In the night time
and pass the day in caves. Thousands OF
the squesking little excursionists settled
on the lower branches of the shade trees
or dropped on the ground exhausted, as
though they had come from a considerable
distance. 1t is supposed that-they had
established their dormitory in the vaults
of the large limestone caverns six miles
north of Megsponte and were dislodged by
an eruption of sulphurous vapors from
one of the volcanic clefts that cross the
coast range in all directions.
Sowing and Resping" is the title of an
interesting editorial in the Redmont Ala
bsma) Inquirer. After reciting the large
number of entertainments and similar
crimes in the South committed by high
dignitaries and State>ofioials, 1t says they
are the result of the ballot-box frauds,
which some of the best people in the South
condone and even defend. A man, 1t says,
"who robs his neighbors of their political
rights would rob them of their property,
whether he thinks so or not. A man who
would take and hold his neighbours Office
by fraud or technicality would take and
hold his neighbours horse or house by sim
liar means. One who will commit crime
to attain position of public trust will
prove unfaithful to his trust If temptation
come. One who will aid and abet any po-
itical crime will aid and abet any crime in
public or in private business for equal con-
eideration."
The recent developments concerning DR..
Meyer and his wife have led to much talk
about poisoning. But poisoning nowadays
is apparently not as brisk business as 1t
was in the old times. For instance, in the
year SS1 B. g. there was frightful NOR
tality among the husbands of young and
good looking women at Rome. A general
panic prevailed among husbands and a se
cret investigation began. It was discov-
cred that a ladies' society existed for the
purpose of Kidding wives of undesirable
husbands. They met in small parties at
the house of an old woman, made pretense
of celebrating religious rites, but really to
procure poison and arrange among them
selves whose husband should be next put
to death, so that suspicion might not be
excited by too many deaths at the same
time. A female slave was induced by the
promise of protection and large rewards to
denounce the women who had put their
husbands out of the way; ITO were in
formed against, convicted and put to
death. These were the first known cases
of poisoning at Rome.
Dr. Edson's electro-ssline process for
purifying water is to be applied on a large
scale In the Croton watershed with the
intention of purifying the whole water
supply of New York from that source.
Two plants will be established in the Gro
ton watershed at cost of from 81 900 to
$1,000. Exclusive of salaries, each plant
will be maintained at daily expense of
not more than So. Each will have oapsci-
ty for purifying 10000, 900 gallons of
water daily, and the present daily consump-
tion is about 182, ,0O0, 900 gallons. Each
plant will have twenty-five horse power
boiler, fifteen horse power steam engine,
five horse power dynamo, AN electrotizing
tank of 1,000 gallons capacity, and 8, 900
gallon storage tank. To the water in
these tanks is added solution of chloride
of sodium, bromide of sodium, sulphate of
potassium, sulphste of lime, sulphate of
magnesia and chloride of magnesis. Com
mon sea salt will answer the same purpose.
The passage of an electric current through
this water changes the chlorides to bypo-
chlorites and the bromides into hypobro
mides. The contact of the hypochlorite of
sodium with any organic matter causes In
slant decomposition and makes the water
absolutely pure and free from all discol-
Grafton.