Suicide has a peculiar fascination for this copie. A father will take opium and kill himeelf if his son is wild. A son will kill himself if his parents do not procure the girl of his choice for him asa wife. Your correspondent knows of one such case, A couple of neighbours will get into a quarrel over a few cash and one of them will commit suicide, A case in point. An old sergeant belonging to the mutinous camp of soldiers here had a repittation for great probity and strictness. Not being able to ward off the threatened trouble, he attempted suicide in several ways but without success. Finally he got a dollar's worth of raw opium and swallowed almost the whole of it. Feeling that now he was sure of his purpose being accomplished he told his associates what he had done. But a missionary was in the camp seeing the wounded, and h" was promptly called to see the man. One hypodermic of apomorhine soon {relieved the deluded man of jis opium, and of course he was given a new lease of life. That night he hanged himself from his bedpost, using his girdle for a rope.
'2nd March.
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