... I Woman Saved from Herself. I A woman named Irene ColwiU, wife of John Col will, in the employment of the harbour authorities, has attempted to commit suicide. She took a quantity of vermin poison, and was found unconscious on the floor of her house by her son. Dr. Payne, with the aid of the stomach pump, brought the woman round. She took enough poison to kill, but aid was so quickly at hand ...

... RELENTING WIVES AND OTHERWISE. The case against James Daley, hobbler, New- porot, for assaulting and wounding his wife, Julia Daley, one night last week, again engaged the attention of the magistrates at Newport Town Hall this morning. A police officer was called to the house where the Daley's reside, and found the wife with head and face bandaged. She accused her husband, who was also present ...

... THE GUERIN SEIGE. I I Beleaguered in Want of WatAr. Paris, Tuesday.—Complete tranquillity prevail to-day both in the Rue de Chabrol and its approa- ches, order being maintained, as it was yesterday, by Republican Guards and a number of detec- tives. Tbi3 morning the besieged, fearing an attack from gendarmes posted in the house ad- )oining their own on the Cite d'Hauteville side, soaked part ...

... A RANCH IN PAPilS.1 The boys called him 1; Frisco because he aaiisd from the Golden Gate city. and considered it appropriate whan he dubbed ills apartment the rancn. The room in question was one of many in a large house on the Rile de Yangirard. and faced an open court paved with asphalt, upon which opened a camber of ether apartments occu- pied by lodgers, of whom some made a well- feigned ...

... A remarl-able and touching scene is reported by the American papers as having occurred on the recent arrival of the liner Teutonic at New York. la the second cabin were twenty-eigbt bright-faced, rosy-cheeked girls, who had left their homes in Ireland under vow to enter a con- vent. Relatives of some of the girls met the Teutonic, and when the dark-robed young women left the steamship they ...

... George Trezise (40), a sea.ma.n, who lodged at I Dudley-street, Docks, Cardiff, accidentally feU near th3 Roath Basin this morning. The unfor. tunate man broke a blood vesssl and died soon I. afterwazda. ...

... A Boom in Mules. (Central News Telegram.) Rome, Tuesdsy.-The Naples and Bari journals state that in the aotrthern provinces of Italy the price of mules has risen to an nnprecedented amount. Owners of mules havp taken advantage of the extensive purchases on behalf of the British Government to make excellent bargains. In the provinces of Foggia, Bari, and Lecce nearly every mule has been sold at ...

... New York, Monday.—Despite the three failures to bring the first Cup race to a finish, interest in the event seems undiminished. The very close- ness of the contests thus far adds zest to the ex- citing sport. Opinions have so far changed that it is generally felt that the Columbia will have hard work to retain the Cup, even if she should succeed in doing so. There is already speculation as to ...

... Gossip and Incidents. THE CESAREWITCH. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE ECHO ) Newmarket, Tuesday.— The earliest news con- ceraingtheCesarewitch horses to-day wasthatScin- tillant had finished his preparation in a style that gave entire satisfaction to Jarvis, and that it is true F. Wood, his accustomed jockey, will be able to ride him at 7st; also that Asterie is in no way the worse for her slight ...

... RUSSIA AND PORT ARTHUR. I An Exampfe for Kruger. I St. Petersburg, Saturday.—A free port will be established at Dalony (Port Arthur) as soon as the building of that town shall have been completed and the harbour rendered capable of affording shelter to shipping. The town of Dalany, with its immediate neighbourhood, will fores a. special district placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of ...

... YANKEE YARNS. I An Inimitable Feat. Ihe sailors of three men-of-war—American, French, and British-while in the same harbour, were competing with each other for the best dis- play of seamanship. A Yankee went to the top of the mainmast and stood there with an arm extended. A Frenchman then went aloft and extended both arms. An Irishman on board the British ship thought if he could stand there ...

... MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON. Malta, Tuesday.—The Mediterranean ron, composed of eight battleships, one first and four second class cruisers, three gunboats, live, torpedo bop.t destroyers, and four torpedo boats under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir John Fisher, sailed to-day for IJémnoi1 on its third summer cruise. The Squadron will return about the middle of October.— Router. ...