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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 184, 3 September 1878, Page 4

The revelations which are being made before the Potter Committee in America are received by the public with amazement. Perjury, forgery, and bribery are seen to have been employed in the U.S. Presidential election. A Queensland paper called The Week has the following from its Sydney correspondent: — " Very few persons in Sydney knew till the other day that an ag-d minister of the Church of England, the Rev. Mr Love, was lingering within the walls of Darlinghurst Gaol because of his poverty. That was the case, and he released himself by insolvency, which the law permits in such cases, after twelve months' imprisonment. It seems that a little better than a year ago some disagreement took place betweeeu Mr Caswell, the Police Magistrate of Moruya, and the police. Mr Love took the part of the latter, and in the course of some bitter letters in the local Press, he published a, libel on Caswell, who at once took proceedings, aud won a verdict for a considerable amount in the Supreme Court. Mr Love was either unable or unwilling to pay the verdict and costs, and was conveyed to Darlinghurst, separated in his old age from his family to lie within the walls of the gaol. Caswell was unrelenting, as, by foregoing the verdict, tho rev. gentleman would have been liberated. Mr Love's family gave him the comforts of their presence. and personal attention, as far as permitted by gaol discipline, and the warders speak in very feeling terms of many affecting scenes witnessed between the old gentlemau and one of his daughters. The most noble part of the sufferings of this family was their silence in their tribulation. They appealed to none, though, bad the real circumstances of the case been made public, the money required to satisfy Mr Caswell's injured character would have been subscribed ten-fold in a week. Here still exists a barbarous law—imprisonment for poverty. " Imprisonment for debt has been abolished, but by some oversight, an equally barbarous law remains in force, as above described." In order to test what a spider can do in the way of eating (says the New Era), we arose about kaybreak in the morning to suppuly his fine web with a fly. At first, however, the spider did not come from its retreat, so we peeped among the leaves, and there discovered him at work at an earwig. This was at half-past five a.m., in September. At seven a.m. the earwig ha d been demolished, and the spider, after resting awhile, and probably enjoying a nap. came down for the fly, which he had finished at nine a.m. A little after nine we supplied him with a daddy-long-legs, which he ate by noon. At one o'clock a blow-fly was greedily seized, and then immediately, with au appetite apparently no worse for his previous indulgence, be commenced on the blow-fly. During the day and towards evening a great many small green flies, or what are popularly termed midges, had been caught in the web ; of these we counted 120 all dead and fast prisoners in the spider's net. Soon after dark, provided with a lantern, we went to examine whether the spider was suffering from indigestion, or in any other way, from his previous meals; instead, however, of being thus affected, he was employed in rolling up together the various little green midges, when be took them to his retreat and tea. This process he repeated, carrying up the lots in little detatchments, until the web was eaten, for the web and its contents were bundled together. A alight re3C of about an hour was followed by the most industrious web-making process, and before daybreak another web was ready to be used in the same way. Taking the relative size of the spider and of the creatures it ate, and applying this to man. it would be somewhat as follows : — At daybreak, a small alligator was eaten; at 7 a.m., a lamb; at 8 a.m., a young camelopard; at 10 o'clock a sheep; and during the night 120 larks. This, we believe, would be a very fair allowance fora man during twentyfour hours; and could we find one gifted with such an appetite and digestion, we can readily comprehend how be might spin five miles of web without killinghimself, provided he possessed the necessary machinery. If you love your children, look well to their health, and correct in time any symptoms that betoken approaching sickness. The Aperient Mixture of " Giiollah's Great Indian Cores " is a faithful preparation, and particularly suited to the ailments of children. You can get it at any Chemists'. Testimonial.—" The Glen," Caversham, near Dunedin, 10th December, 1875. Dear Sir,— With much pleasure I testify to the speedy cure which your Aperient Mixture has effected on my child aged four years. She having a very distressing cough, troubling her the most in the night, and thereby disturbing her rest for •wbicb we had tried different remedies, but without effect ; and at last, more by way of experiment, we administered your mixture in doses prescribed for children, and I am happy to state, after a few doses the cough entirely left her, and has not since returned. You are at liberty to publish this if you think proper, as it shows the medicine to be quite a safe one for children.— (Signed) J. E. RomNuoN.