Morning Appeal

GALL.—The newspapers which are at present discussing Congressman Daggett's gall, will do well to turn to a case which has recently come to light in Russia. A church organist at Aratoff, near Kieff, lately confessed on his death bed to the murder, twenty years ago, of a farmer. He committed the crime with the priest's pistol, which he stole and then placed in the sacristy, confessed to the priest so as to preclude the latter from giving evidence against him, without infringing the obligation of secrecy, and then went and denounced the priest as the culprit. The priest, who vainly protested his innocence, was sentenced to hard labor for life, and when his liberation was applied for on the strength of the organist's confession, the reply was that he had died a few months ago. The gall of the organist above described is as far superior to any exhibition of gall which Daggett might treat us to, as the cheek of Bill Sharon is to the modesty of a country maid of eight years.