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Show Cold Poison. It occurred on Tuesday night. It was in a down Btreet miison de joie. The principals were two, unless Dr. Hamilton, who pumped out the poison, can be counted as the third. A few days ago a gentleman of Evauston came to Salt Lake on business busi-ness and pleasure bent. In pursuit of tho last named object ho visited the establishment of a fair, frail creature, and at once tho latent spring of living love in his manly heart wellel up and overflowed in the direction of a soiled dove. She, too, had Alice t ion for him, and they both loved, not ouly each other, but wine also. They drank and were merry, and finally biic.mn) sad, brooding over tlu:ir lot on this mundane mun-dane sphere. Strange thoughts crept into their oxcital brains, mid thoy couceived tho idea of dying and in each otiiiirs uniid. 3j rummitic, you know! Tim puUon was procured, pro-cured, aud she first swallowed a doae of the deadly potion Ho then drauk of the drue. and they both began to die, while others, friends of the parties, exerted themselves to preserve the two life thre.wU which were being severni. Dr. Hamilton soon ap peared and by the ftsiaUnco of science an. I skill speedily put a stop to the woman's dying. Bjt Ibn man had taken iiiu.e than hi share of the poison, and only alter long and desperate des-perate exertions of the doctor was there hope of saving his life. Tho would-be suicide was removed to the Walker house, where he now lies in |