Suicide of a Baptist Elder.
--Elder Stephens, a Baptist preacher, of the close communion order, whose home was in Chester, Geauda county, Ohio, committed suicide on Monday week by cutting his throat with a razor. He has had spells of derangement for a year or two past, but continued to preach. He preached on the Sunday preceding his death and gave out his text for the next Sabbath--‘"Behold bow great a fire a little matter kindled."’