Decatur Eagle, Volume 1, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1857 — Page 2

TH E E AGLE. 7i. l/phSElips, DEOATUR, INDIANA. FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 80, 1557. - I Xtf'The last Quarterly Meeting of the j Decatur Circuit, for the present Confer-; ence year of the M. E. Church, will be : held at the Salem Chapel, Feb. 21st: and 22nd. J. J. ELROD. OUR PROSPECTS. We take pleasure in announcing to our readers that our prospects are highly flatterin'', when taking into consideration the discouraging circumstances under which the first number of our paper made its appearance before the public. When yielding to the earnest solicitations of many citizens of this county, we came to the conclusion, after mature deliberation, to, establish a weekly newspaper in this place, j thereby mutually benetitcing ourselves, and the citizens generally, Under these conclusions we issued and circulated our Prospectus, but to our dismay, the citizens of town and country, almost universally refused to subscribe when the prospectuses were presented to them and soli- i citation made by those who took a deep : interest in the welfare of our paper, giving i many reasons for tlje course they were j pursuing, the most prominent and un- : answerable of which was, that they would : not subscribe for, or agree to sustain a j paper without seeing it and ascertaining whether it would be readable or not. Without a single name upon our subscription book, 'our first number went to press; we worked off only about three hundred copies, late on Friday evening last. At the appearance of our paper much interest was manifested, and continued to increase to such an extent, that on the following evening we were entirely out of copies, and our subscription list had increased far beyond our most sanguine expectations. Our Prospectuses arc being called for, subscriptions obtained without trouble, our circulation increasing, and we now have assurance of being sustained in our entupriso, and we look forward to the time, which is uot far distant, when our subscription list will exceed li* e or six hundred subscribers. We would, therefore, request you, friend-, and citizens, to Continue your exertions, ute your utmost endeavors to extend the circulation of the “Eagle,” solicit your friends and neighbors to take their county paper, patronize a home journal; and we will remunerate you, by giving to you weekly, a readable paper—one that in point of neatness, will not be excelled by any country paper in the State.

We return our thanks to those who have, already, manifested such a warm interest in our behalf, by giving a general circulation to our paper, and for the advertisements already furnished. Ever bearing in mind the maxim “live and let live,” is our motto. jTr?'jJii. Samuel L Kuos,on Monday l ist, concluded a sale of the “Fornax Mills” at this place, to Mr. John Sedgwich, of Fort Wayne, who, we are informed is an efficient miller. Mr Sedgwick has entered upon, and taken possession of the Mills, and is repairing and refitting the machinery, and in a short time the “Fornax will be herself again. iarw« would invite the attention of the public to the advertisement, in another column, of Niblick Gloss, Boot and Shoe manufacturers, they will always be found ready and willing to accomodate the public to whatever is wanted in their line, and we feel confident that there is no place in the county, where the public will be better accommodated cither in neatness or durability, than at their establishment. r«r\v ilson Beam, keeps a little the best Livery Stable that’s kept in the State, and is always ready to accomodate his customers with the finest of carna-'es, buggys and hacks, and the best saddle horses the country affords. See advertisement in another column. Those in want of new clothes, and "i h something neat, cheap and durable, should cal! or. C. W. Miller. Bee advertisement.

Great Floods.—The break up last week, appears to have been general, and we have accounts ofgreat damage in various places by the floods. The lower part of the city of Albany has been entirely submeiged, and the loss of property in consequence is estimated at two millions of dollars. Fix steamboats were sank on the Ohio, by the fl atingice; two bridges on the Pittsburgh <fc fort Wayne Railroad, east of Crestline, were carried away, and almost all the roads west of Chicago have lost more or less bridges. The papers from every direction are almost filled with accounts of damages from the flood. Fort JPoy'/# Stntinel.

Decatur, Feb. 18th, 1857. EDUCATIONAL. Mr. Editor:—An observer has concluded to submit a few thoughts to the readers of the Eagle. The idea of promotion is a prevalent one, and in one form or another, it moves and inspires ail; there are but few who do not look to ‘office,’ as a source of honor and profit. Office! of- ( flee! any' office - ! While this idea is so, prevalent.it is astonishing that by com-1 mon consent, the office of School Director | is an obscure one. It is never sought as j a means of influence. How many feel the | discharge of its duties an ungracious task.j These are mistaken views.no office j confers higher responsibilities, none; opens up a more extensive field for usefulness. No honor is greater than that i of overseeing the mental and moral cul- j ture of his own and his neigbors children. ( Tu him t’w icsponsibility of wise* ly destributing the public funds. The erection of buildings for the whole community, adapted topurposes of tase, health comfort and the progress of pupils. To him belongs the responsibility of employ -, ing teachers who will impress, for weal or : woe, those upon whom all the interest of I the future, civil, social and moi al, will ' soon rest. Your duties arc intimately connected with the present good, and future prosperity of society, lt.is true, your reward comes not in the shape of a fee, but if you consider that the results of your duty well discharged, ends not with time, you have a reward in the consciousness of having discharged a high and noble work. Would it not be well for all to view this subject iti a more liberal light. And es-: pecially the “.School Directors,” to look upon their office as a responsible one.— ; Our republican Institutions have no guarantee for their existence except the inteligence and moral principles of the Who then is to propagate these elements'? School Directors, to a far greater extent than is generally supposed. S. L. C. : Minnesota Territory.—We learn from lour exchanges —for the document has not yet reached us—that the last annual message of Governor Gorman, of Minnesota, shows the population of the •Terii- | tory to be 180,000. The taxable propcri ty amounts to between thirty and thirty--1 five millions of dollars. In view of these ! facts, and of the large increase in agricul- ■ tural products, cash capital, <kc, the gov- ■ enior favors a change from a territorial I to a State government, and recommends that the speediest action consistent with | other interest should be taken to accomplish this result. To this end he sugI gests that a convention be called to form i a constitution, that an act be passed providing for the taking of a census in March lor April, and for such other preliminary I steps as are necessary; and that, if the I constitution be ratified by the people at I the next October election, it shall be presented to Congress in the December folI lowing. A change in the present revenue laws, I an act prohibiting the circulation of paper j currency of a less denomination than five ! dollars, and a preemption polacy, are I severally recommended. The governor ' is sanguine as to the sucess and the speedy . completion of railroads and other internal I improvements now inprogress or con tem--1 plated. A PERPETUAL GOVERNOR. —It seems : that, owing to the blundering of the last ' legislature of Mississippi, that State has a perpetual governor. The Natchez Free Trader of Tuesday last says: ‘in his message to the legislature on this subject, which we publish this morning, [ Governor Mcßae says that he is governor for life. We should have no objection to his being governor of Mississippi ' for many years to come; but the organic I law of the .State provides that the governor shall be elected every two years.— But it seems that the botch-work of the I legislature on 1854, in submitiug changes to the constitution having managed to make the term of governorship perpetual, no one can tell when the official term lof the judges and members of the leg- ' islature will expire.’

.| . Mi rdek. —The Randolph County , : Journal gives the particulars of a fatal , affray that took place in Marion county, 1 ! about two weeks ago. It appears that . ■ two men, named Davis and Shipley, the i former a chairmaker and the latter a carj penter, got into a dispute relative to a ‘ I settlement, during which Shipley struck , Davis and knocked him down. As Daws rose again to Lis feet, he seised a chisel , which lay on a bench nearby, and strik- .■ ing at Shipley over his shoulder, stabbed him to the heart, killing him instantly.— Davis surrendered himself into the charge of the proper officers, but the matters had 1 not been investigated up to the time the . Journal’s infomant left. The dispute a- • rose about the difference in settlement of twenty-five cent. Mental Independence.—Every man I and every women is brought up from the cradle with a bias. The mind is never sent out into the world’s life unfettered. It carries with it always the heavy chain 1 of habit. The religious character of the ■ household is the seed of many more households of like faith. It is a strong i i and admirable mind indeed; which nursed in error, has the courage and heroism to begin its own emancipation. It requires more courage to think differently from the multitude, than it does to fight them.— The first hero, therefore, was not he who m ikes the first conquest, but he who uttered the first doubt.

A Marvelous Story. The Rockport(N.Y.) Republic has the J following, which comes under the hear, oi marvelous,’ if true: ‘About three years ago, a girl was walkin" on the beach of the lake, north of this place, with a young man to whom she related a wounderful dream of the previous night, in which it was revealed to her that - she should find a large sum of money union the shore. The young man was to I have half for assisting her in the search. I Directly they came to a dead body, which ; from its appearance, and the size of the | 1 head (nearly as large as a bushel basket) j had evidently been in the water some ! time. ‘At the sight, they both fainted away l but soon recovered-, and ventured tocx- : amine it; discovered about it a belt coni taining a large sum of money in bills — ' this they counted and found the amount as stated. ‘They buried the body to prevent discovery, and also the money, which they agreed not to disturb for three weeks. , At the expiration of the lime, the young ! man returned to the place; tljg ; was missing. His companion acfriowlI edged she had taken it, and would take care of it until he was twenty, which would be in three years. ‘As the time has expired, he demands his half which she answers by denying the whole statement. The young man tells a friend, and it spreads like wild-fire. Report says, a large company of men armed with spades and shovels, are to-day looking for the bones of the buried stranger. The excitement has been very I much increased by the fact that a propel- ■ lor was wrecked there three years ago, i and that a gentleman, supposed to be a ■ Spaniard, a stranger to the passengers j who were saved, was lost. ‘Some parties, formerly rather hard up 'report says, have been very flush of late, I speculating very largely in real estate and making a great show generally. ‘Later—We just learn that bones answering to the fact of the burial have been discovered in the woods about a half a mile from the beach.

Startling Fraud and Disclosure. — The Evansville Journal publishes the following startling intelligence: We learn with regret that a most embarrassing disclosure was made at the meeting of the Henderson and Nashville Railroad Company on the 15th instant, that threatens to embarrass and interrupt the progress of the road. At a meeting it was divulged, for the first time, that nearly $300,000 of the bonds of the company had been misapplied by the i company’s agent in London. The bonds , were issued three years ago, and carried by the then President of the company to London for negotiation. Not succeeding to his wishes at that time, they were left in the hands of an agent, the brother of the chief engineer of the road, to be negotiated, under direction and on such terms as should first be approved by the company, for the iron of the road. It [ appears this agent, in gross violation of bis I trust, used a part of the bonds in the purchase of a steamship, or some other ! vessel, for the avowed purpo aof freighting the iron that should be bought for the company. The vessel he chartered to go to the Crimea, and she was lost on the voyage, as it would appear, without insurance, when called to an account, he alleged the vessel was the company’s and the loss theirs. What amount of the bonds were used in this transaction is not known; or what has become of the balance of them, has not been discovered, as no satisfactory account can be obtained from him of their disposition. The correspon- | deuce with him has been very unsatis--1 factory. I ——. The Elective Franchise in Ohio. Col. Miller, of the House, has introi duced a bill upon the subject of the elccI tive franchise in Ohio, which prohibits I persons of African descent, either in whole or part, from exercising the privilege of voting at elections. This bill makes it the duty of judges of ' elections to reject the votes of persons reputed to be, in whole or in part, of African decent, after taking testimony satisfactory to them, of the fact of such decent. Any person reputed to be, in whole or in part of African decent, who shall vote at an election, shall be subject to imprisonj ment in the county jail not less than one | nor more than six months. Persons who i assist, counsel or advise such person to vote, to be subject to a fine in any sum not exceeding live hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in jail from one to six months. Prosecutions to be by indictment in the Court Common Please, and ■ the act to be given in special charge to grand juries. The act to take effect on i its passage. We are gratified that this bill has been brought forward; it will, if passed settle the question whether this is a government of white people, or whether ‘woolly heads’ are to be our equals. It will also give the Black Republicans, an opportunity to 'define their position’ upon this important question. If we are to have nigger vo- ■ ters in Ohio, let the responsibility be placed where it belongs.— Ohio Slales- \ man.

The mortal remains of the immortal Franklin rest in a cemetery in Philadelphia. A Chicago editor, who was recently iin Philadelphia, complains bitterly that | notwilhstading very diligent inquiries, he i could not find the grave. The Philadel- ‘ Tibia Bulletin admits that a stranger has I considerable difficulty in finding it.

The United States Senate. The following gentlemen have been elected to the United States Senate by the State Legislatures now in session: _ I Maine—Hannibal Hamlin, RepubliZ. Chandler, Republican. Pennsylvania—S. Cameron, Republican. Indiana —Jesse D. Bright, and G. JS. Fitch, Democrats. Florida —S M'allory, Democrat. Delaware —G. W. Bates and J A.; Bayard, Democrats, Wisconsin —Doolittle, Republican. , Massachusetts—Charles Sumner, Re-j pufican. . . , Rhode Island—J. A. Simmons, Republican. i t a Missouri —Trusten Polk, and J SGreen, Democrats. The next United States Senate will be constituted politically as follows: Dem. American. Rep. Maine, “ ~ N. Hampshire, “ " Vermont, “ “ 2 ' Massachusetts, “ “ 2 ; Rhode Island, “ 1 Connecticut, ” “ 2 j New York, ” “ ~ New Jersey, 2 Pennsylvania, 1 *' ' Delaware; 2 Maryland, 1 ‘ i Virginia, 2 iN. Carolina, 2 “ S. Carolina, 2 Georgia, 2 Florida, 2 Alabama, 2 Mississippi, 2 “ ( Louisiana, 2 Texas, 11 Arkansas, 2 Missouri, 2 Tennessee, 1 Kentucky, “ Ohio, 1 “ 1 Indiana, 2 " “, Illinois, 1 * | Michigan, 1 Wisconsin, 1 lowa, “ “ 1 California, 2 “ Total. 37 5 20 Touch Not! The Cleveland Bank Note Reporter gives the following under its “Wild Cat.” Let the bills on these banks “slide:” Bank of Chatanooga, Tenn. B. F. Jones & Go’s Checks, Columbia Ind. Commercial Bank of Elkhart, Elkhart, Ind. Covington and Danville Plank Road Co., Covington, Ind. Exchange Bank, Bangor, Maine. Franklin Insurance Co’s, checks Franklin, Ind. Indiana State Mining and Manufacturing Company, Michigan City, Ind. Mining and Manufacturing Company’s bank of Commerce, Point Commerce Ind.

Rockport Manufacturing and Insurance I Co. Rockport, Ind. Tarkington and Aikens checks, Bloomington, Ind. Union Plank Road Co. Michigan Citv, Ind. Watson’s checks, Terre Haute, Ind. Grover and Madison, Terre Haute, Ind. Wampler’s checks, town of Gosport Gosport, Ind. Western Exchange Company, Indianapolis, Ind. Thames Bank, Laurel, Ind. Indiana State Bank, Bloomfield Ind. Gosport Bank, Gosport Ind. Logansport and Maiion Railroad checks, Logansport and Plymouth Plank Road Company. Fort Wayne and Southern Railroad checks. Agricultural Bank, Tenn. Bank ol West Tenn. Farmers Bank, Tenn. Ocoee Bank, Term. Atlanta Bank, Georgia. Cherokee Insurance and Banking Company, Georgia. Fulton Bank, Georgia. Manufacturer’s and Mechanics’ Bank, Georgia. Bank of Florence, Nebraska. Platte Valley, Bank. “ Bank of Nebraska, “ Fontenelle Bank, “ Bank of Macomb Co., Michigan. Bank of New Castle, Penn. . Erie County Bank, Penn. Warren County Bajik, Penn. Exter Bank, N. 11. Farmeis Bank, R. I. Tiverton Bank, R. I. Rhode Island Central Bank, R. I. Commercial Bank, N. Jersey. Farmers’and Merchants’Bank, Greensboro, Md. Farmers’and Merchants’ Bank. Kent Co. Md. Valley Bank, Md. Greenbourough Bank, Maryland. Movements of President Pierce.— The Washington correspondent of the New York Courier of the 3d inst says; The health of Mrs. Pierce continues so much affected that it is thought unadvisable for her to undertake any journey, to the North or South, until the settled weather of the late spring shall have arrived. In view of her condition, Mr. Buchanan has invited General Pierce to make the White House his residence so long as be shall desire to remain in the city, and it is stated that the invitation has been accepted.

Horrible Murder in New York. Another shocking murder has been perpetrated in this city. Dr. Harvey Burdell, a well known dentist, was found dead in his office, No. 81, Bond street, on Saturday morning, by bis errand boy, who had come as usual, about 8 o’clock to attend to his office duties. The body was lying upon the floor, shockingly mutilated, and surrounded with clots of blood. The inmates being alarmed. Dr. , John W Francis, who lives in the immediate vicinity, was called to make an examination, He found that Dr. Burdell had been strangled by a ligature applied around the throat, and that no less than fifteen deep wounds almost any one of which would cause death, had been inflicted with some sharp instrument on his person. The facts thus far elicited have not been sufficient to dispel the great mystery surrounding the shocking deed, nor to designate with certainty the perpetrators although two persons have been arrested on suspicion. Dr Burdell was a man of fine personal appearance, and about 4G years of age, ' though he looked much younger, He was one of the most successful of lus profession. He bad accumulated a fortune, estimated at §BO,OOO nearly all of w! was invested in stocks and real estate. '' ;i# ■He had married, but bis wife obtained a divorce from him some few years ago. It was not known that he had married ■ again, until, upon the evidence before the I Coroner, it appeared that quite recently I he was secretly wedded to Mrs - Cunning- | ham, a widow, and the landlady of the I house wherein he had his office and was : murdered.

I Robbery appears not to have been the 'incentive to the murder, as none of the doctor’s papers were disturbed. It must have been done by some one weil acquainted with the house. A shirt marked ‘J. Ketcum,’ and >i sheet and towel stained 'with blood were found secreted in an anti room, which, with every other part of the ! building was thoroughly searched by or- } der of the Coronor, with a view to find i some clue to the party. A dirk stained | with blood was found. This was evidently j the instrument used and it may be the means of fastening the guilt upon the mur-derer.-'-.V. K Tribune. Desperate Condition of Walker. The news from Nicaragua by the Illinois, is less favorable to Walker than any ■ yet received; although it is proper to state I that it comes principally from scources unfavorable to him. The British mail I steamer Thames, arrived at Aspinwall on i the 19 th instant with dates from Grey ton to the 1 Sth inst. According to the captain of the Thames Walker had evacuated or been driven out of Kivas, and was at Bt. George's surrounded by the allies, who had offered him terms of surrender; and, as he had no means of receiving supplies of provision, &c. It was hourly expected that his followers would ground their arms. The I remnant of the 7000 men sent at various times from the Stales to Walker is reduced to 500. Other accounts represent that he has 1,300 men along with him. The intelligence from Guatemala and San Salvador states that no more troops were being raised in those States’ and that the war was becoming very unpopular. General Paradez and General Solari prominent officers in the Guatemalan army, died of cholera during the seige of ■ Granada, and it is reported that the allied troops, at the close of that seige numbered about 400 Guatemaleans, 800 Salvadorans, 600 Nicaraguans, and 200 Tonpuraus. It is also stated that the al- , lies lost, by disease and killed, during I the siege, from 1,600 to 1,800. The War in China The New York Herald states that our governmental Washington condemns the conduct of our naval officers in joining the the English to punish the Chinese official* at Canton and other ports. They have certainly got up a pretty serious . war there upon their own responsibility; I and have made the Chinese smell powI der pretty roundly. It may bo all right. But it will require very strong proof of ’ , wrongs that would not wait the ordinary ; mode of redress that will justify the commanders of the two or three government ' ships in proceeding to an open war with a foreign nation without any special authority from the government. The fact is, j some of our naval officers are tired of ini action, and would be very glad to find an j opportunity to ‘winglory at the cannon’s ■ mouth.’ The Chinese matter may be all right’ and may not involve the country in any serious difficulty. But the weakness of the Chinese is no justification; and even the exclusiveness is not thecause of war. . Nothing but the necessity for immediate protection to our citizens there could fully t ; justify a bombardment of their cities and tiie dislruction of their forts.—But we must wait for the facts. Few men have run a more diversified career than Mr. Banks, Speaker of the House of Representatives. He is now little over forty years old—has been a machinist, a dancing master, a factory ' boy, a carperter, an actor, a lawyer, a national democrat, a coalitionist, an ardent 1 lover of the Irish, a champion of religious liberty, a Know Nothing; and is now a Free Soiler. 1 The Louisville Times says that most of the young ladys of that city are under promise of marriage. They, have been going off at the rate of half a dozen a day , fur the last two or three months.

Early Marriages. Mr. Milburn, the blind preachy has, in alate work of his, ventured to Co . denin some of the prevalent custom/ society —one of them being the fashion, living in boarding-houses. He sho, bow the idleness, gossiping, and rival/ belonging to such away of life, have the worst and most demoralize/feet upon the minds of the women V adopt it. Having nothing to do, i’/ come together and talk of all the wo r '• and his wife, and then seperate to dr l elegantly for the streets: then for dinneu and the gentlemen. This the revere gentleman considers, and, indeed, p ro „ j to be, one of ‘he most terrible dangers the society in which we live. JR al t puts forward some other appallin'' sac!f ac! the tendency of young men to shun njal riage (on account of the fashion of extra, agance and high living which it i m * now-a-days), snd the degrading habi resulting from such a state of things-- ’ Devines and moralists may (veil denoun: 1 the heartless and restless modes of « ‘ civilization, so barren in everythin" tfe , f makes life worth living for. But pilosi phy looks coldly to th# root of thesi ’ things, and shows that they can hard: • be otherwise. The influences of the a , -i everywhere, tend to an uniform,q- a s n equality as conditions in society, pi ’ so, even in monarchies; muchmoreso 1 ’this great republic of ours. Industry a; 1 economy, both these principles, work: with democracy, give that result w fully. The sentiment of equality is fa; to our republican simplicity—a note , fact. Not one of us really admits any: t cial superiority in others. Being all s t bitions, and desirious of going ahead, . press into the society of those more w, thy than ourselves. Trade and sciei j help us—give us the best clothing a, wondeful cheap rate, and furnish us, t I the same terms with board in the fiat looking hotels. There is scarcely ac r in the city who may not have some v the best fare and best society in it. t why should he not? .We are all ‘bo: t to go ahead, —to mix with people, e the knowledge of men and things, ; 5 j seize advantages. The man who will do so, falls behind and is disparage: A young couple find it a more dign 1 thing to board where they sit at t c with Wallstreet brokers financiers, I so fourth, than go to a small house 1 cheap row, with a black steward’s fc at one side, and, on the other, an 1 1 drayman, whose wife takes in was!; They are almost out of the world is c ; latter case, and their respectability sv of course. If they wear a plain sty.. € dress, they sink still, and may as t with a good grace, admit the advsi i of the honest washer-women. Such 1 ing the liw of things in this energetic - t i apid -oomuiunitj , whoro all tbt? 31*06?progress are strained to their tigt: p tension, it is hard to see bow pe s could live otherwise than they do. ( are educated to all these habits andfi = ions. Inorder to reform them, we» educate the children differently. Let ' moralist establish the proper kin: I teaching, in the school—some teac! t that will make us truly republican,; r save us from going the way of al! other empires, debilitated and ruitiei u their inborn vice and rottenness.

Jilting a Young Lads'—Paying i- 1 3 At the winter Assizes Toronto, last' c Miss Mathews, of Hamilton obtain - verdict of £2OO damages against a ower named Pyper, a merchant 013 J ilton, sot a breach of promise of man The plaintiff is a governess, eighteen] W of age, and her family poor but resp F. ble; the defentant was consierabk senior, and well to do in the word 3 proposal was made and accepted, #» O father, after staying a short time ons it at the defendant’s, removed to To: and the gay Lothario having becomt p, quainted with a Miss Morgan, m# O her suddenly the first intimation < change of mind being the announce: of his .marriage, by cards sent lu R s-. ted lady. ' ?! — - —<♦* Ohi —— ~ Native Wine in California California exchange says: e< The culture of the grape bas; ei] been carried on so extensively v s previous year as during the pre ?fri> co Los Angelos city and its imniedia '- 1 ity, it is estimated that at least one dred and fifty thousand gallons ol Hr have been manufactured, and ono * it, or therebout, is the product of <y yards of Don Sansevene. 00 , h brandy, of very fair quality, Jo been made this season, in consul 5 Ik quantities. j ai " tu A Horrible state of things ri? K Springfield, 111. The inhabitants de that the town will be depopulate. tw is reported that there is but twelve riageable women in the city. tlh whom are already engaged 1 I be' field papers are calling for reinforces no w at Death of an aged Clergyman tb Rev. A. Langford died in Phil»* R< on Sunday last, aged ninety-ni® tv He was for more than seventy • minister of the Gospel, attached Methodist Episcopal Church. th, - Ml Suicide.—The Connersville T‘ IL that on Monday morning ol j 4s ' th Jas. Kellum, who resided near th- 1 on committed subside by taking s!l s Mr. K. had been married but >• time, and had recently united h'® 3 the Presbyterian church. I*®--'elf-murder is unknown.