Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1883 — Persistent Attempts at Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Persistent Attempts at Suicide.

Down in North Carolina, Miss Marthat Campbell, climbed a tree to the height of forty feet, and proceeded to hang herself with her apron. The knot was bungled, but she fell into the water beneath and was successfully drowned. Out West, a few years ago, a man ' was so resolutely bent on suicide that he made provision to insure death in four different ways. He attached a noose to the arm of a lamp-post over the dock. Standing on a chair, he fixed the knot properly under his left ear and swallowed a dose of poison. Then he discharged a horse-pistol at his forehead as he jumped off the chair. But accidents will* happen. Missing his aim, Eistol bullet cut the rope and doused im into the salt water, of which he swallowed enough to eject the poison. He was fished out and fined S4O under the Anti-Suicide act. American children are conspicuous in London, the Rev/'Robert Laird Collier says, for their pronounced manners and adult dress. English boys of 16 usually wear Eton jackets and broad collars, in juvenile contrast to the man’s clothes of a Yankee youth. Collier finds that nearly all of the English women “of the upper classes” have clear, beautiful complexions, and the girls are always simply without jewelry.