Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — Sad Condition of Miss Nellie Cummins. [ARTICLE]

Sad Condition of Miss Nellie Cummins.

Ever since the shooting of Porter and Barrymore in Texas, Miss Ellen Cummins, the actress, in defense of whose good name these gentlemen suffered, has been in a bad way from nervous prostration, and her condition two weeks ago was such that even her physicians had little hope of her recovery. It was published in the Dramatic News last week that she was Senniless, and by this means John IcCullough and John T. Raymond learned that she needed assistance. Although her financial affairs were not at such a terribly low ebb as-represent-ed by the publication in the News, Mr. Raymond telegraphed at once that he was willing and ready to assist her. To-day Mr. McCullough stepped into the Continental Hotel, where she has been stopping for nearly a month, and left word that she should not be called upon to settle any bills, but should have every attention. He also shouldered her doctor bill, which had assumed big proportions. Miss Cummins will not go to Texas to testify at the trial of Curry, which begins next week. Her physicians advise her that to do so would be at the cost of her own life. Although nearly six months have elapsed since the affray of which she was the unwilling witness, and Porter the victim, she has not since that time had one night of uninterrupted sleep. No sooner does she close her eyes then the- most terrible dreams assail her. In these nightmares despair at being unable to escape from some threatening pistol or the bodies of half dozen people bathed in blood fare the prominent and horrible features. Frequently at night she springs, screaming, from her bed, and still sleeping from very exhaustion, rushes through her room until ft wakened by her attendant. Unless she is much better her physicians will strictly prohibit her going to Marshall at all.—[Cincinnati Enquirer.