GLEANINGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1283, 20 January 1883, Page 4

GLEANINGS.

A shocking suicide recently occurred at Dover, in elderly man named Rampkins cut his throat, and finding he had not done it effectually, hastily bound up the wound, went down to the harbor, and threw himself mto the Wellington Dock, where he was found by some seamen,

An American paper says some English travellers have found a sect in Finland, the fundamental principle of which; is the sovereign authority of women in the family. Upon marrying, each man takes an oath 'to submit himself entirely to his wife, and to confess his sins to her once a week.

A canal connecting the Baltic with the North sea is to be built, A com-"v--i.li composed of members of the s Jl'.Hid officials from the War and Admiralty departments has been appointed, with a view lo niakt, tho necessary preparations for the work, The route will probably be over that of the present Eider canal, which runs from two miles above Kiel for a distance of about thirty miles to Rendsburg, where it connects with the Eider river. Th" »ntire length of navigation is 'about se> wi'y miles between the Baltic from the harbour nf Kiel to the North Sea, but neither the canal nor the river can accommodate any vessel of considerable draught of water. Some time, ago a little American township decided to hold a mammoth negro camp meeting, advertising that "more amusement would bo furnished that at any oamp meeting ever held in Georgia." This naturally brought up thousands of negroes in anticipation of unlimited fun and whiskey. The meetbecame excited, a quarrel arose, and a negro was shot dead by a white, A dramatic inoident followed. A near relative' of the. dead , man, a drunken negress,"fell across the dead body, and exposed bis death-wound to the crowd, " as Mark Anthony the body of Caesar," Plunging her hand into the wound, she rose erect with the blood dripping from her fingers, and called for vengeance. A general fight commenced, and a white was'shot, After some shooting order .was restored, and a number, of people were arrested; five of whom were sentenced to death. A curious defence was ,made on their behalf. To sell bad whisky is oriminal. The whiskoy in this case is bad. .Therefore the men who sold the whiskey were the murderers. They ought to suffer. One witness, indeed, declared that "he didn't blame anyone for committing murder after he drank it." In spite of this, however, four men and one woman were hanged together—for the first time in the history of Georgia,. - ' Prince Krapotkin, who has just been tried at Lyons for being concerned in the recent revolutionary outbreaks in that city, and sentenced to a term of imprisoment, has long been ono of the principal leaders of the .Russian Nihilists, He is deseribpdin a remarkable work entitled " La Russian Sotteranea," by " Stepniak," a norn deplume meaning the" son of the Steppe," as an admirable orator, a distinguished savant, a rigid and impracticable theorist, a poor conspirator,and "an incomparable agitator." The Standard of November 3 gives the following communication from Berne with reference to the movements of this notorious conspirator. The authorities of Vaud arid Geneva nre unable as yet to furnish the Federal Council with information relative to anarchical conspiracies ori.i Swiss - 1 soil; : ■ Prince Krapotkin, no doubt, is often atGeneva; to visit his Russian friends there, but his visit would not' be observed by the police, ty-be Uvm _at ( the Haute Savoie, whence he could readily run over by .train or -steamboat. The French Government, it is suggested; might easily watch his movements -by prohibiting him fromtaking 1 up his abode on the frontier, and requested him, if he lived in' France at all; to keep in theinterior of the country, asSwitzer? land did in regard to .Mmini in 1569 and Don Caylos iii 1873. The ment of Geneva has, moreover, beenrequested by the Federal Council to see that . the decree pf ,;,expulsi6n; :v against Ptince Krapotkin is duly enforced, i