Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1878 — Poe’s Sweetheart’s Death. [ARTICLE]

Poe’s Sweetheart’s Death.

Announcement is made of the death of Sarah Helen Whitman, in Providence, R. 1., of heart disease. To her Poo was for some time engaged in marriage, but she wisely made the euyiagement conditional, and the weakened, dissolute poet was unable to obseirve the conditions, and they parted. A t was in September, 1848, that they became acquainted, and he thereafter often visited her in Providence. His published letters to his fiancee show mtioh delicacy and a refined moral sense, and are among the most creditable of all his writings. But some of them betray, in the language of Sarah agony of the conflict in which he was foredoomed to defeat, with a power which no added word could heighten.”

American Organs at the Paris Exhibition. —Every American visiting our Sectiojj will conceive a legitimate pride in the well-merited praise which he will hear from the great European musical critics who constantly swarm around Messrs. Mason & Hamlin’s Cabinet Organs, and openly acknowledge that nothing in Europe can be compared with the Exhaust Bellows and Separate Vibrators peculiar to American Organs, as especially perfected in the Mason <fc Hamlin instruments.— Paris {France) Register, June 1, 1878.