Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-03-21

mat they cannot be wholly vile. for in
many cases they have graoiousy permit
TED their tenants TO remain. on condition
that they abandon their sordid money
making schemes and give up possession
or the premises for week before and
week after jubilee-day.
What all this means to the owners may
ne judged from a single instance, whore
house let TO monthly tenant at an an
nual rent OF $500. was let by the tenant Cor
jubiiee-day FOR 500. But the owner step
ped in' give the tenant notice 20 quit. and
now offers the house for the day for
thousand dollars.
IAN M'LAREN" IN TROUBLE.
Rev. Or. John Watson. otherwise Tan
McLaren.' is likely soon to be in hot
water. Long before he went on his lee
turing tour OF the United States growls
were heard from Scotland as TO his al
legged unorthodox doctrines and general
worldliness. These mutterings have al
most deepened into a roar since the pub
hcation OF his last book which. I'm the
opinion OF many worthy, II narrow
minded, Presbyterlans, is distinctly
Unitarian in its teachings II not down
right heretical. Above and beyond spe-
cine offences, however. the dlssentients
object TO minister Of the Presbyterian
church engaging in the sinful work Of
writing novels, and they propose to ask
the offender TO give explanations and ex-
press contrition at synod convened 10
meet at Sunderland, at the end of April.
HUSBAND POISONING.
If the attention Of the European world
was not absorbed by the threatened
march Of great events, popular interest
would be directed in a large measure TO
the astounding revelations which are be-
ing made this week In the criminal courts
OF Hungary and Austria y dozen
women are on trial I'm one town for
poisoning their husbands. and IL is freely
admitted that theirs are only typical
cases which illustrate what is almost
national custom in the country districts
of that region. MISUNDERSTANDING, it
was coolly announced i'm court, is a COM
mon calling and the Public Prosecutor
declared that he only proceeded with
these few cases because the cuprts had
confessed and desired TO break up the
practice A trial in Vienna. which ended
I'm a sentence of death yesterday, showed
what an important part arsenic plays in
the domestic economy Of the inhabitants
Of Styria. A peasant named Schmallfor,
became enamoured, shortly after his mar
riage in 1891, of a servant, named Marie
Pcnlsipp, with whose assistance he
poisoned his wife by mixing arsenic In
her food. He then married the servant,
and on her foster-sister. Katrina Millek,
then only 10 years old, entering his SER
vice I'm 1895. ne also became cnamoured Of
her, and murdered his second wife, as he
did his first. by sprinkling arsenic over
pieces Of meat on her plate, which, while
she was away were turned over in or
der that she might not see the powder
on her return to the table Two chill
dren-girls Of 2 and years-esked their
mother for more meat. and, as she gave
it TO them from her own plate, the father
had to sit by and see his children eat
poison. He managed, however, TO keep
silent, I'm order not TO betray himself.
The children recovered, but the mother
died. Suspicion being aroused. an eX-
humation Of the body OF the first wife
took place. and speaking of it in court.
a chemist made the remark that all the
village cemeteries in Syria were full Of
arsenic.