Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1875 — How Jones Killed Himself. [ARTICLE]

How Jones Killed Himself.

' ' • * AuE*s*JoiMß,a young feller » our place, proposed a, abort timggm Ao a certain Julia Bangs, over at Wilmington, and Julia refused him. He was perfectly desperate his defeat andsfeis friends feared Hfaat totoe evil consequences vrould ensue. *s|eiris&pprei»n--sions were realized. Jones called upon Peter Lamb, and isteed him if he had a revolver, and Peter said he had. Jones did so.- Then Jones iiifSrated he had made op Ida mind to commit suited. |Te aaid since Miss Bangs had-deaft s<? mridhffiy With him lie test that life wftft. an .jpsupjijyctnble burden, and he could find reliefonlyin uie tomb. He intended to go down by the riveT shore'and there blow out his brains, and so en(f all this suffering and grief, and bid farewell to a world that had grown dark to him. He said'that he mentioned the faet to Lamb in confidence because he wanted him to perform some little offices for him when he was gone. He intrusted to Lamb a sonnet entitled “ A Last Farewell,” and addressed to Julia Bangs. This he asked should be delivered to Miss Bangs aa soon as his corpse was diaoovered. He said it might excite a pang in her bosom and induce her to cherish his memory. Then he gave Pet<Br hie watch as a keepapie, and handed him forty dollars with which he desired Mr. Lamb to purchase a tombstone. He paid he would prefer a plain one with lus simple name -cut upon it, and he wanted the funeral to be as unostentatious as possible. Peter promised to fulfil these commission!, and he suggested that he Would lend Mr. Jones a bqwie-knife with which he could slash h|tosdf up if the pistol failed. But the suicide Said that he would make Bure work with the rCvolvCr, although hie was much obliged for the offer all the same. He said he would like Lamb to go around in the morning and break the news us- gently as possible to his Afihappy toother, and to tell her that his last, thought was of her. But he particularly requested that she would not put on mourning for her erring son. Then he said that the toffpV act .would be performed on the beaqh, just below the gas-works, and he wished Peter to come but With some kind of a vehicle to bring the remains home. If Julia came to the funeral she was to have a seat in .the carriage next to the hearse, and if she wanted his heart it was to be given to her in alcohol. It beat only for her. Peter was to tell bis employers at the store that he parted with them with jpgret, but doubtless they would find some other person more worthy of their confidence and esteem. .He said he didn’t care where he was buried, Sut let it be in some lonely place fgr from the turmoil and trouble of 'the world, some place where sljje Jgrass gafew where the birds came to carol In the early spring-time., . Mr. Lamb asked him if" he preferred a deep or a’shadow gr|M* bdt iMr. Jones said it made verylittja^ffeiendce—when the spirit Was gbfie theftidle &rrshly-e!ay was of little aceount. He cents for Jtawn at j&dmtYji Ratoon and Lamb' was-to pay tjajM put of the money in nil hmufs ana lb, Request the clergyman not to pa-each a sermon the cemetery. Thfn he .ahook hands with Peter and went away to his awful doom. . /’ The next morning Mr. Lamb Wrotd ’to Julia, stopped in to fell them at the store, and nearly ! killed Mrs. Jones with the intelligence. Then he’-bdf'Mwed Cbofef s wagon, and taking with him the Cidroner he drove out to the beach just below the gas-works to fetch home the mutilated corpse. When they reached the Spot the body was-hot therb, a»ch Fdtet vsaid he waswepy much afraid ith&d De’en washed away by the flood-tide. So they, drove up to Keyser’s house, about half a mile from the shore, to ask if any of the folks there had heard the fatal pistolshot or seen the body. On going around to the wood-pile they saw Keyssrdwlding a terrier dog backed close up against a log. The dog’s tail was lying across the log and another man had the ax uplifted. A second later the ax descended and cut the tail off close to the dog, and, while Keyser restrained the fraiitidAnimal, the othertaan touched the bleeding stump with caustic. As they let the dog go Lamb was amazed to see that the chopper was the wretched suicide. He was amazed, but before 1 he could ask any questions Aleck stepped up to, him and said: *' “Hush-sh-sh! Don’t say anything about that matter. I thought better of it. The pistol looked so*blamed dangerous when I. cocked It that I'changed my mind and cams down here to Keyser’s to stay all night. Itn going to live just tb spite that Bangs girl,” Then consider fie had beeif treatljS’like a gem tleman, and h« had half *ao*on to give Mr. Jones a pounding. But they alldrove home in the wagon, and, just as. Mrs- Jones,got done hugging Aleck, a. letter was handed him containing the that he had sent Julia. She returned it with the remark that it was the awfullest slush she ever read, and that she knew he • hadn’t courage enough to kill himself. Then Aleck went back to the store, and was surprised to find that his employers had so little emotion as to dock him for half a day’s absence. What he wants now is to ascertain If he eannot compel Peter Lamb to give up that watch. Lamb says he has too much respect for the memory of his unfortunate friend to part with it, but he is reaUy sorry now that he ordered that tombstone. O* birthday Jones’ bleeding" heart had Seen so'far stanched as to enable hitn to begin skirmishing around, the affections of a named Matilda M«f]ef£hmd , if sWritfdses him he thinks that tombstone may yet come into play. But we all have our doubts about it— Max Adder, in New York Weekly.