Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1883 — In Memoriam. [ARTICLE]

In Memoriam.

Died:—On Sunday, June 17th, 1883, at Pleasant Grove, Indiana, Mrs. Ida P. Moody, wife of Charles P. Moody, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Parkison, aged twentyfour years and six months. She was posessed of a peculiarly sweet and gentle disposition, and was endeared to all who knew her. “Grasping the roses an<l lilies white, Culling them gladly, one by one. Treading with footsteps tree and light The path from womanhood, leading on. Thou wastnot weary with toil or care; Why to<hee came tuat slumber blest? Thv.pufe brow, ’neath the sunny hair, No cruel thorn-wreath rudely pressed. Gladness, not patience, wreathed thy smile, Dimpling thy features with winning grace ; Sadly we’H miss it, thinking the while We’ll see thee no more tn thy wonted place. Pleasant the grass and the daisies white , Ever will spring o’er thv grave so low, While purple mom and dewy night Shall watch thee, while ages come and go.”

Orth H. Stein, city editor of the Kansas City Evening Star, and a son of the Hon. John A. Stein of Lafayette, quarreled with George Frederick, a theater proprietor, about an abandoned woman and shot him through the brain. Stein’s father, Col. R. P. De Hart, Judge John R. Coffroth and the Hon. Thomas B. Ward have all gone from Lafayette to Kansas City to look after his defense at his trial. Young Stein is only twenty-two years old but a very “hard” boy by all accounts. So hard indeed that the opinion is held quite widely that the excesses of his past life have unhinged his mind and made him irresponsible.

The Special Session.— The county Commissioners met in special session last Wednesday and continued in session until the end of the week. General routine business, important but without special interest occupied tneir time. The county auditor’s financial exhibit for the year ending May 31st was received and examined and placed upon recond. Considerable road and bridge work was attended to, and a large of claims against the county were disposed of. The list of the allowances made at this, and the regular session of the week before, will be found in this issue of The Republican.