A New Matrimonial Agency.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3483, 12 April 1890, Page 3

A New Matrimonial Agency.

•Auehlirelynewkindofmatrimonial agency has boon started in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. It undertakes to proteot marriageable ladies b) making systematic, though private and discreet, inquiries into the social status, moral standing, pecuniary liabilities,, and personal habits of anj gentleman ivho may happen to b( any lady client, Th( account of the mode ol 'conducting operations is:-"If t youne; man is paying attention to on: of our members, wo appoint a committeo of throe to find out just hov the young man stands—financially, morally, and otherwise. At the nexl meeting tha committeo makes a report, lover is found to bo all right, the young lady is notified tc ■ that effect," The good qualities ol the men are fully explained iu the presence of all the members. ■ If tin man is bad in his everyday life, liif Aajweetheart alono is apprised of his «Bfaultß."- There is, as a.not unfriendly critic has pointed out,'one defect ir the scheme. It is that the raomonl the agency takos a young lady's casi in hand, and undertakes to report or the good qualities of her suitor, sin will in all probability marry him ii epite of all tlio organisations in thi world. A Child Charged with Poisoning the Chester Police Court, befori fl. T. Brown and other Magis trates, Elizabeth. Koberts, aged nine years, was charged with attempting to poison Annie Hodgkinson, a youn; woman living with her mother at the above address. It appeared from tin evidence adduced, and the opening statement of the chief constable, tha the defendant's fathor, a widower and his children lodged with Mr Hodgkinson, and ho was ongaged ti be married to Annie Hodgkinson Lately various inmates were takoi ill, and on the 13th inst. Mies Hodg kinson was taken violently ill. Thi defendant, on coming in from school asked about her, and on being toll 1 she was better, said," Oh, I havi jfap crying; lam frightened. Annie would be dead.' Further, she said that she had giyci Annie some mixture which had beei obtained for a lotion, and which was marked 11 Poisonalso other medicines which were in the house. Slit said something came over her tolling tto do. it, and that her grand' her had told her first to do it, i imputation was denied by the grandmother. The defendant after wards said that she had put variout poisonous mixtures into the food, and particularly on one occasion,when all the family were taken ill. She said she had first tried this thing on hei grandmother, Mrs Eider, at Staffney, with Vhom she arid her mother used to live, She said' that on one occasion Satan tempted her to do it, Mrs Rider said that during the Maybrick trial the defendant took a deal of interest in it, She and anothei little girl used to play at being Mrf Maybrick, taking it in turns to personate that lady. In answer to th( charge in court, the defendant said, " Mrs Eider did tell me to do it-she told me." She was ordered to b( kept in a reformatory for seven years, Miss Hodgkinson has now recoveret fronyhe'ill effects of the poison, Deroopments of the Fedem . Conference. rffiie recent political assemblage ir Melbourne will mark a new,era ir the history of Australia. It is cheer ful to contemplate that forces ar< now at work which instil into us thi elevating-and inspiring picture ofi great united Australia; and if i federal union for the promotion o interests common to us all will become an accomplished fact, .then the delegates of the various colonies, who so calmly and earnestl'ydiscussed the great subjeot, will be entitled to our sincere gratitude. One of the clljef obstacles to federation was always set down to tha discord in the policy of the divers colonies, It resulted from the efforts of politicians who confined their views within the borders of their respective territories,

and who thus rendered approach to Australian unity moro difficult. Now however, that the efforts of the leading statesmen of this great continent upon which nature has lavished her choicest gifts, are actively engaged ipibe possible formation of the longcflfted unity, we are impressed with nmaiopeful views as to the organisafederal union, which is now a step liearer to its goal. The colonies bound together in one league of common defence will form a power and take a place amidst the nations of the earth. Disunited they labour under manifold grievances as is so aptly illustrated in the anoient fable, where the various parts pertaiuing to the human constitution quarrelled, and failed to perform their assigned functions, They soon found jbat without unity of purpose their existence was endangered, for directly one organ of the human system becomesdisordered the whole frame labors under the strain ofbodilyaffliction. Mr Harry Conway; Member of the House of Assembly, representing Georgetown, also Grand Master, Masonic Lodge, Tasmania (Irish Constitution), under date Launceston, February 22, in proof of the foregoing, furnishes us with the folding details I have suffered disorder of the kidneys, combined with an affection of the liver, for thepasl fife years or so, There were severe pains in the back and occasionally aggravated attacks of lumbago. Ultimately jaundice set in, causing more constitutional. disturbance. At this time Warner's safe ctf® was very favorably introduced to mpotice, whereupon I gave myself treatment with it, and after the use of six bottles of the safe cure, taken in conjunction with the safe pills, all pains had subsided, and every disorder of the liver and kidneys was subdued." Cases like thjjakive could be quoted ad the afflicted recovered through the agency of this medicine when other means signallyfaiieil; in many instances a federal conference of physicians having given up the patient in despair. As a.i agent for federating disorganised constitutions it has no parallel. ' :