Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 September 1886 — Page 10

AX OLD VIRGINIA TOWN.

ALEXANDRIA, WHERE GEORGE WASH* INGTON WORSHIPED.,

The Tomb of the Female Stranger, Romance of Seventy Years Ago—The Alexandria Markets—Queer Characters ami Characteristic Southern Scenes.

LSpecUU Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 80.—'Thousands of "toumts who come to Washington never visit Alexandria. Still it is one of the most interesting sights along tho Potomac. Old and •dull it may indeed be, but every stone in its cobble pavements is full of history, and the •crumbling wharves and the great moss-grown mansions lead one back to the days of its prosperity, when it was one of the greatest towns iii 'lke south, and when Jefferson and Washinjrion^ddightod to do it honor.

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AN ALEXANDRIA WHARF.

Alexandria is only seven miles from Washington. Ferry boats and trains run eveiy half hour, and a pleasant way to go to it is to cross the Georgetown bridge in a carriage and drive past Arlington, where Gen. Lee u&?d to live, and on down the Potomac shore. The ferry takes you from the ragged edge of the capital city, and a half hour's ride down the Potomac lands you on the Alexandria shore, very near where Braddock jumped from his boat on his way to his disastrous d?feat. The city has 15,000 people now, but it revel's enough territory for twice the population. As you approach it from the river it is not hard to recognize its ancient grandeur. 'The buildings are old and many of them are breaking with age. Empty warehouses line .the wharves, and the god of decay points his palsied finger at you wherever you turn.

The place seems to have fallen into a Rip Van Winkle's slumber. Your feet echo along the closed houses as you pass through what were vonce busy thoroughfares, and the chief signs *of life are here and there sleepy looking negroes, in ragged clothes, leaning against the brick corners of buildings whose edges have been almost rounded by time. The main business street of the city is livelier, but ever the business men move as though they wen youthful Methuselahs, with centuries of lifi before them, and the very wagons go at th pace of hearses.

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The people, however, are well bred and kind. The raggedest boy will tip his hat to you if you speak to him, and if you ask a direction of a business man he will leave his store and go four blocks or more to show you what you want.

The citizens of Alexandria have a great reverence for Gen. Washington, and the town is full of unwritten tradition about him. Mount Vferuon is only nine miles away, and

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THE OLD CHURCH.

Alexandria was Washington's town. Old citizens tell me that he had a little office here and did a great part of his business in it. He used to ride up from Mount Vernon daily, and while he was a young man he was such a lover of horses that at ohe time it is said ho rode ten different horses during the same day through the Alexandria streets. He owned property in Alexandria, and one of his first investments was a couple of lots in the city. During the-greater part of his life he went tc church at Alexandria, and the old church he attended still stands and is used now as it was th-m by an Episcopal congregation. It has queer green window shutters which lift up ward from the bottom and tinder which show out small, square, old-fashioned panes of glass. A large lawn surrounds the church and this is filled with the tombstones of generations long passed away. Curious stones they are. Slabs of slate with death heads and cross bones. Slabs of broken marble with cherubs above the inscription, and a whole volume of obituary poetry below it. Most of them date back to 1700, and none are later than 1^20. The interior of the church is filled with high box pews, and a wide gallery upheld by yellow pillars runs around the walls lelow the ceiling. On either side of the pulpit is sunken into the wall a marble slab, one of which reads:

In memoir of

ROBERT KDWABD LEE.

and the other,

In memory of

GEORas WASHINGTON.

Washington's pew was in the center of the church, and it is still preserved as it was when he and Martha used to occupy it. Old Alexandrians tell me that Washington was not half so pious as he is painted that ha often got up and left before church was out, and that he did not stay for communion. There has always been a good deal of doubt as to the exact nature of Washington's religious belief. Ho had no preacher at his death bed, and though he undoubtedly believed in the Christian religion it was a ques-' tion whether he was not a little more liberal than the people of his day.

EMZZNS OF ALEXANDRIA.

The Alexandria market is a quaint sight. It is kept inside of a great court on the spot where Payne hod his fuss with Washington. Lieut. Payne was a candidate for the legislature against a man named Fairfax who lived at Alexandria. Washington supported Fairfax, and during the campaign ho and Payne meeting one day on the side of this market began to talk politics. Payne thought Washington insulted him in a remark that he made and he resented the insult by promptly knocking Washington down. Washington was a colonel at this time, antl the report went like wildfire through the town that Lieut. Payne had killed Col. Washington. Washington's troops wanted to take charge of Payne, but Washington, as he pointed to his black eye, said that the assault was his affair and he guessed that he could manage it. Every one thought that this meant a duel, and when Payne got a note from Washington the next morning asking him to come to the hotel he expected nothing else than a challenge. He found Washington with his head tied up, and with some wine and glasses on the table before him. As Payne entered Washington apologized for his words of the day before, and the two drank to new friendship over the wine. The Alexandria market 'is filled with hundreds of little booths where the farmers bring their produce and display it for sale.

In the Alexandria cemetery, surrounded by pines through which the winds moan a continuous requienj, lies the grave of the female stranger. A great slab of marble, big enough to cover the coffin of a giant, rests over it, and the six queerly cut marble pillars which uphold this look as fresh as though they had been cut yesterday instead of in the days of seventy years ago. Around the grave runs a I little wall of granite, but the great tree, which during this

TOMB OK THE FEMALE STRANGER. day sun beats upon it now as it did when it was erected. Around the outer edges of the granite wall the grass is now green, and a spray or two of ivy is growing here and there, but under the slab the black earth has sunken, and the coffin and its contents have long since crumbled into dust.

long period grew up and over- and the closed coffin was earned directly to shadowed it, has been cut away, and the mid-

In this grave is buried one of the most mysterious storkv. of American romance. It is a story which the old people of Alexandria have discussed for years, but which they are no nearer solving now than they were when Washington was a village and Madison was president. Before I tell you the story let us. read the epitaph cut upon that big marble dab. The type is well engraved, and the letters are sunken deep into the stone. They read as follows:

To the Memory of of A FEMALE STRANGER,

.Whose Mortal Sufferings Terminated t)n the Fourteenth Day of October, 1816. Age, 28 Years and 8 Months.

This stone is placed here by her disconsolate husband. In whose arms she sighed out her latest breath, And who under God did his utmost even to soothe the cold dead ear of death.

How loved, how valued once avails thee not, To whom related or by whom begot, A heap of dust alone remains of thee, Tis all thou art and all the proud shall be. "To whom gave all the prophet's witness thrl through his name whosoever believeth on him shall receive remission of sins."

Acts, 10th 43rd verse.

In 1816 Alexandria was greater than Washington. It surpassed Baltimore in size, and it was one of the leading shipping ports of the interior. Many of the old houses which were the mansions of those days still stand, and

CITY HOTEL.

THE TERRE HAUTE WUEKLY GAZETTE.

they are as large as the homes of the millionaires of the present. Ships from all parts of the world then came to the Alexandria wharfs, and there was a great deal of trade with the West Indies. One of the big West India ships brought among its passengers in the October of this year a well dressed Englishman and his beautiful wife. Two French servants accompanied them, and the party took up their quarters at the City hotel, at Alexandria, where Washington used to sleepr and which was then one of the fashionable taverns of the south. It stil, stands on the corner of I Cameron and Royal streets, and is now used as an auction house. Here the young wife became sick and within a few weeks she died.

man calls himself in the epitaph on the tombstone, watched tenderly over her. But ha would have nothing to do with the citizens of Alexandria, and would give no account wbatever of himself. The mysterious couple of the City hotel were the talk of the town, and the gossips of tho city were trying to learn something about them. They were baffled at every point. The French maid servants could not speak a word of English, and the physicioi} who attended the beautiful lady's last hours would say nothing in regard to her. When death came the female servants and the husband alone beheld the face of the dead wife, and they alone were present when the funeral services were celebrated. The citizens were

A STREET IN ALEXANDRIA.

not admitted to the upper rooms of the hotel,

the hearse, and from the, hearse to the cemetery. By his orders this tomb was erected, and he disappeared after the death as mysteriously as he came. This in reality is all that is known in regard to this mysterious lady. Conjecture has run riot in explaining the story, and the romance of a haunted cemetery and a hermit stranger who hangs' me corroborated the story.

FRANK GEORGE CARPENTER.

A QUEER STORY.

The Psychic Experience of a London Author. {Spcclal Correspondence.

NEW Y03K, Aug. 80.—At the house of a literary friend of Brooklyn a few weeks ago I met Mi and Mrs. Gustafson, of London. Mr. Gustafson won fame in England and also in this country by his book on the drink question entitled "The Foundation of Death.'' His wife, Zadel Barnes Gustafson. American born and brought up, is a poet and magazinist of distinction, and while in this cpuntry is the special representative of The Pall Mall Gazette. Mr. Gustafson is a tall, dark-haired Swede, who retains enough accent of bis native tongue to mark his nationality distinctly. He talks as well as he writes, though not so well as his handsome wife, a young-faced beauty with gray hair.

After the larger part of tho company left, the remaining few of us, feeling relieved from the constraint which is the unavoidable flavoring of the atmosphere of a large company, found ourselves chatting without reserve in the happiest manner imaginable. At such times conversation is really spontaneous. Bright thoughts, interesting experiences, humorous adventures come forth in attractive form and with spirited step move about for the entertainment of those who called them forth.

Somebody said something about the superstition of the Norwegians regarding sleep. "Is it true, Mr. Gustafson," asked another, "that they never wake anybody from sleep, for fear of hurting the soul, which they believe to be away from the body when one sleeps "Yes when the spirit travels they think it should be permitted to finish its journey. A sudden awakening is a shock." "How I wish I lived in Norway," said a tired woman, who looked as though she could take a six months' uninterrupted nap if the cares of life would but permit her.

Then the talk drifted toward the psychic and mysterious, and Mr. Gustafson told this story:

Some years ago I was visiting my home in Sweden. My sister was to be married in a few weeks and was anxious to have me remain for the weddine. Though I wanted to

do so, 1 could not. Business attain* culled me bac&to London a month before the wedding occurred, and I did not see my sister again for five years. Then, when I went to visit her and her husband, after greeting me, she •aid: "Oh, brother, I have always been so grateful to you for coming to my wedding, although you stayed such a very, very short time." "'i

I, knowing that I bad not been there, and believing she was teasing me, said, "Come to your wedding, iadeed you know very well I wanted to come, if I did not" "Ob, to be sura you were not here, for the ceremony, but you were here a little while in the afternoon, and I have always felt so

you ever so much trouble. Seeing that she was quite serious, and not wishing to startle her by a denial of the pleasant charge of being where I had not, but should like to have been, and where I ou^ht, if possible, to have been. I begged that she would tell me all about it. as five years had somewhat |nipaired my mem *ry of the in$j

"Why, you know, brother, wlen you were entering the gate Axel (her hu«band) aud I saw you and hurried to meet you, I kissed you and so did AxeL We walked, holding your arms, to a summer house and sat down. But you surely remember?" "No, not clearly. Go on and tell me all about it" "Well, Christina, (the old housekeeper, who had known me since I was an infant) came down, and was delighted to seo you." "What! did Christina seo me and talk to

"Yes, surely. Don't you remember?"' "No, not exactly. Tell me, did I eat or drink* while here?" "You drank some syrup, but you did not stay to eat. Yes, and you made a speech." "I made a speech! Why, what did I sayF "Oh, we have it written down. Axel wrote it down, and we have it yet." "Did I see many of the guests?" "Only those who were in the garden with Axel and me at the time. You would not go up stairs, although we urged you." "How did I leave? I cannot remember/' "Suddenly and rather mysteriously. You and my husband and I started to walk. Wo reached a corner and you suddenly left us. We did not see you go, but when we turned around you were no longer with us and not in sight. We supposed you had gone to the houso. But you had not, and we saw you no more." "Did the people we met look at us much when we were walking together?"

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"Yes but I never thought of it until litiw. Everybody stared at you with the greatest interest I am sure I don't know why. You Were looking exceedingly well, and were well dressed, as a matter of course."

Then I told her that I had not been there at all that I was not even out of London at the lime. She could not believe it. At last she said: "Why, brother, if you were not i-eally here then, perhaps you are not now. You are not in tho least different from what you seemed to bo then."

I assured her that I was there in the flesh, and not likely to vanish suddenly. We talked over the mysterious visit. Hor husband, the housekeeper, and such of the guests as saw

around it are whispered over Alexandria tea siiid to have made was read to me. It was' tables. By some it is thought that the femalo quite new to me. I had no recollection of stranger was an American, and by some she ovor thinking of any part of it. is supposed to be the daughter of Aaron "How do you explain it?" some ono asked. Burr, Theodosia Burr, and the ship on which "I don't explain it. It is perfectly incomshe had embarked from Charleston disap- prehensible to me." pea red two years before the female stranger "Perhaps it was one of those strange appeardied at Alexandria, and she was, I think, ances of the spirit while the body sleeps, older than 23 years. Why the stranger's hus- which the Norwegians believe in," another band would permit 110 one to seo her face suggested. after she was dead gives rise to the supposi- •, "But I wasn't asleep. My wife and I distion that he may have feared its recognition finctly remembered that on my sister's wedby those who looked upon it Another story is that the female stranger had two rival lovers and that the successful one brought her to this country to avoid the vengeance of the other. Those who tell the latter story believe that the unsuccessful rival followed the couple to this country, and murdered the widower near Alexandria, and that this mur-1 der was the mysterious one for which Monroe offered a reward during his presidency. The circumstances are such, however, that conjectures of all kinds can bo made in regard to it. Remembering the wealth of Alexandria at this time and the fact that it was often visited by the diplomats and great men of the Washington court across the river, it may be that the lady was a member of one of the noble English families, and that her husband or lover, whoever he may have been, feared that there might be a sightseer who would recognize her. Who she was will never be told. The actors connected with her burial are long since dead, and this tomb alone remains as a monument of this mysterious love of seventy years ago.

The speech I was

ding ahy wo worked very hard all day." "Was anything of the kind ever told of you bofore or since?" I asked. "Yes," answered Mr. Gustafson, "a lady in London asserts that I once spent an hour in her parlor, in company with other guosts, when I v.Tsn't there at all."

Who can explain it? Surely there ore more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in any one's philosophy.

EBBON OLIVER.

FROM BOSTON.

A Scrap from Prentice Malford Aboat Writers. [Special Correspondence.] •BOSTON, Aug. 80.—Able and interesting writers are increasing at a rate alarming to those long in the profession. "Everybody" now writes and almost everybody .writes well. New literary stars of second and third class magnitudes are constancy appearing in the horizon. A new constellation rises sets and starves about once in seven years. The average pay on newspapers may be $12 a week. When the literary horse is worked out, he or she goes off in a corner and dies quietly and miserably. Of late people's writings are mo6t" valued who have done something worthy of note and can tell of it. An ex-Confederate or Union general who tells his story in a magazine probably gets as mueh for it as the mere Bohemian receives for half a year's work in telling other people's stories. An arjfciole from Jay Gould or John L. Sullivan would bring the average Bohemian's yearly salary. This is as it should be. People want that tli03? who have done something should toll themselves how they did it. Tho mere writer who can do nothing but write is really now a mediaeval institution. Besides, the profession, as connected with newspapers, is not respectable. To be known as a "newspaper man" or "correspondent" is to be practically tabooed in fashionable and business circles. A "newspaper feller," male or female, is regarded as a sort of spy or eavesdropper, ready to pounce on any bit of gossip, real, manufactured or inferred, and sell it for a price. Of course, the public wants the gossip, still they are disposed to regard its collectors as safe only when they are poaching on other people's preserves. These observations are intended only for tho latitude of Boston.

PRENTICK MULFORD.

A Dakota Contemporary,

"By oH unfortunate typographical errdr," says a Dakota newspaper, "we were made to say last week that our distinguished townsman, Prof. Kennedy, was about to rig up a. nobby baboon for the comfort and enjoyment of his daughter on her wedding trip over the prairias. What we meant to say was a nobby balloon. We write this with our left hand while lying on our spare bed, with one eye entirely closed and the other hand painted, and an inverted chair across our stomach for a writing table. The extent of our regret for the blunder may be measured by the difficulties we have surmounted in penning this explanation."—Hudson Register. .-

Solid conversation is exceptional in society. Thought is fatiguing, and wealthy peopla want their lives to flow on without effort, Balzac.

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State Convention Held at Indianapolis Today.

iThe Platform Pronounces for Local Option on the Liquor Question.

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Senator Harrison Makes a Speech—The Ticket N in at $

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INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2.—The Republican, state convention met at 11 o'olock today. Senator Harrison was chosen chairman and John L. Kupe, of Richmond, secretary. The oommittee on resolutions reported. The report was unanimously adopted.

When Senator Harrison, on taking the chair, rose to address the great audience of nearly five thousand persons thronging the Gity Hall he was greeted with round after round of applause. Ladies and gentlemen in the galleries waved their handkerchiefs and there Iwere ringing cheers long continned. His speech was an arraignment of the Democratic administrations, both national and state He dwelt with bitter emphasis on the gerrymander by the last Democratic Legislature. He said the first thought that suggested itself to him was that those who are assembled today politically disfranchised.

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The platform is a lengthy document and in substance is as follows: Firsts-It proclaims for an honest' ballot, condemns frauds and violence and protests against the Democratic gerrraander of the state.

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tract and convict labor is denounced, favors justice being done the workingmen, favors the reduction of the legal number of working hours wherever practicable, favors the settlement of differences between employer and employee by arbitration and upholds the right of all men to associate for the promotion of mutual good and protection, without interfering with the rights of Others.

Third—Declares in favor of the pribciple Of protection, favors the readjustment of the tariff from time to time as circumstances may require and condemns the Democratic party of Indiana for its practically free trade theories.

Fourth—Gold and paper alike should be maintained in the coin circulation of the country and of equal and perm anent value.

Fifth—Favors a thorough and honest enforcement of the civil service law. Sixth—Favors the reservation of public lands for small holdings by actual seders and that American lands should be preserved for American settlers.

Seventh—The watering of corporate stock should be prevented by law. Eighth—Proclaims in favor of doing justice to the soldiers and sailors of the Union and favors an appropriation for the erection of a soldiers monument at Indianapolis. (It does not say anything about Congressman Johnston's grent scbt me of pensioning every soldi.- who went in the war.)

Ninth—Favors the restoration of the OrpbanB' Soldiers Home from the Home for the Feeble Minded Children

Tenth—Renews former pledges of devotion to the free unsectarian school system.

Eleventh—Favors the equalization of fees and salaries and the pending constitutional amendments making the terms of

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officers four years.

Twelfth—All taxation should be equal and uniform and favors revision of taxation and assessment laws demands the vigorous execution of legal penalties against criminals denounces anarchism as the foe of honest labor.

Thirteenth—Denounces the attempted domination of the Liquor League of political parties and legislation favors "such laws as will permit the people in their several localties to invoke such measures of restriction as they may deem wise."

Fourteenth—Sympathizes with the Irish people in their effort to secure constitutional freedom.

Fifteenth—Commends Senator Harrison and the Republican congressmen to the people.

Sixteenth—Deplores the death of ,TJ. S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax. A resolution, offered by R. W. Thompson, extending sympathy to the Charleston sufferers and pledging the convention to a material contribution in that behalf, was approved with great enthusiasm.

THE TICKET.

R. S. Robertson, of Allen county, was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor.

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Chas. L. Griffen, of Lake, was nominated for Secretary of State. J. A. Lempke, of YanderbUrg, was nominated for Treasurer of State.

Bruce Carr, of Orange county, was nominated for .Auditor of state. FRANK FABLOW brought to the GAZETTE office this morning a large sun flower raised on his farm soutlieast of the city, It is 84 inches in circumference and 12% inches in diameterr

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A Lunatic Kills His Father. -h MILWAUKEE* Sept. 3.—Robert A. Todd, aged 72, a prominent builder of this city, was viciously assaulted this morning by an insane son named Robert, aged 38, and so badly injured internally that his recovery is doubtful The unfortunate young man was formerly a railroad engineer and was incarcerated in an asylum in an interior Illinois town, from whioh he escaped several days ago.

STRICKEN CHARLESTON.

Wide Spread De*olation&

NBW YORK, Aug. 2.—The Western Union officials state that no messages sent to Charleston last night could be delivered on account of the general confusion. The Hotels are empty and people have deserted their dwellings and. are encamped in open lots and so can not be found. The Western Union telegraph company in Charleston was bad' lyinjured. The batteries were destroyad and all the instruments ruined by '-, falling bricks and plaster. An office* has been opened about a mile and a half' from the old one and two wires have been placed in working order. None of their employes were seriously injured,' At 5 o'clock this morning all their operators were compelled to quit their posts and seek some rest. The excitement bad been so great that for 48 hours they had obtained no sleep. The Western Union company desire to announce through the Associated Frees that they will gladly forward to Charleston any contributions of money for the sufferers and any messages pertaining thereto free of oharge. At 1 a. m. this morning theie was another slight shook of earthquake felt, but it did no damage. The company hope to get all their wires in working order today. "e

A DISTRESSING OUTLOOK.

The Whole Populace Ou^Tof Doors. CHARLESTON, Sept. 2—At a quarter: past 5 o'clock last evening, when tbonsands of the people of Charleston were out in the open squares and vacant places of the cityjingering and resigned to another night of anxiety, fear and terror, the premonitory sjmptoms of an earthquake were heard aud felt in a slight vibratory wave and shock that' passed along under the city. No additional damage or wreckage on buildings followed, but men, women and children out in the open places were for awhile greatly alarmed. Fortunately the weather has been pleasant, and the privations and hardships attending out-door exposures not severe. However, the situation is becoming desperate, with a whole city oampea out in a terrible state of fear. It is now twenty-four hours since the first earthquake shock visited this unfortunate city. The negroes have taken possession of all the parks and vacant places, and are holding excited prayer meetings.

It may be stated riot? that all the damage to property and all Joss ot life was cauped by the first shock, at 9:55 o'clock Tuesday night, but, owing to the repeated shocks and lack of systematic effort to unearth casualties, it is impossible to give details. Many of the dead, it is believed, are yet buried in the debris, and no regular relief parties have been organized to recover their bodies. Unfortunately, the Mayor of the city is now in Europe, and bis place is indifferently filled. The chief of police, too, it seems, is unable to meet the emergencies.

The situation showed no improvement up to 9 p.

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a serious one for the sick and wounded people, and the women and children, out as the weather is fine there is not much actual suffering among the people on this score. The principal danger just at present seems to be that the food supply may give out. Already there is grea scarcity of food, and none can be obtained from outside the city, as all railroad communication is shut off. it is stated by the railroad managers that there is not a single road out of here in runoiog condition. The convulsions of the earth are said to have wrecked the tracks 60 completely that there is not a stretch of rails forty rods long in any locution for miles around that is not twist.xl out of shape, so as to make it impossible to run an engine over it. Many people will sleep tonight on board the steamers and sailing vessels in the harbor, but only a small proportion of the homeless can be thiis accommodated. The rest will have to spend another night under the stars, dreading another earthquake. Complaints of hunger anil the dread of starvation are beard on aU sides, as an addition to the horrors of the situation.

At 11:45, p. M. repeated shocks of earthquake of a mild character were passing to the west of the city. A rumbling noise could be heard distinctly. The whites were awake the colored folks engaged in religious exercises.

Several fires in various parts of the city added to the confusion and distress.

IN MEM0KIAM. THEODORE FRANK.

Tbd death of Theodore Frank has' stricken his doting mother,his affectionate brothers and his loving relatives and friends with grief unspeakable. They have lost a dear companion, the community mourns the taking-off of a good and respected citizen. But a short month ago, Theodore Frank was apparently in no danger from Death's cruel shaft, yet, when least expecting it, he was prostrated by disease, and after a lingering illness of about three weeks duration, the Angel of Death laid his icy finger upon him, and the patient sufferer has joined the silent caravan.

Theodore Frank was a young man of exceptional character. Among those who knew him in the various relations of life, no one stood higher than he. As a young merchant he had by his industry and hbneftty rapidly acquired an enviable reputation in the commercial world his ''word was considered as good as a bond among friendB and in the social circle, he was looked upon as the best among the best," ever ready to aid an£ promote any object calculated to cheer or alleviate the sufferings of his neighbor. But his crowning glory (and that which stamped him as a "man among men") was his great love for his •widowed mother! Like an ever-fading, brilliant star, it Will shine and scintillate from beyond his grave, illumining and cheering her pathway through life.

May her grief and the sorrow of those near and dear to him find consolation in the gratifying truth, that Theodore's life

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ing brother, a kind friend, an honorable citizen! May bis soul rest in peace!

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