The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-12-16
The Tragedy Niagara P.rticsl.rs q
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.,Ss The Detroit e o Advertiser .ss has :; long article pen
suicide al Niagara falls announced, and afterwards
conradic.ed few days since We call tragedy for
woman Mrs Miller was the daughter of Hon. j Norvell.
Of Derot and upon the table in her the hotel At
Niagara was the following letter to him:
04L faa :t.as NIAGARA FALLS. Nov. 20, lsss
Well my dear ia,er and mother his perhaps y the
got here don't know how for never travelled il alone
S,s Ts, good care & ny TWO So dear e. s oy n
is heaven sl b. s
10 Distraction now Goodbye, dear parents brothers and
s S s''' 4na husband 4 ss' fis Re-
U. s, District Attorney Detroit, Michigan. asi
In letter addressed g her husband she assures him
that i he should never hear hsr sssins ~ IA the
him to make them remember mother who had always
been so devoledly attached to them, , as MN n,
Before she started from Winchester. Virginia, whence
says she packed fa 81 cissss and spos
tied It at store in that town He further states that
number Of ladies and gentlemen, some Of whose names
chester and there took leave Of her. lie further states
that the first place they came TO in the Harpers
yk ns B snd ss p h
prominent places on the route and very accurately
membered BY the child He says that gentleman came
with them from M che one Joined them On her
depot at Buffalo, hand his mother letter, and mmed
ately leave the depot. .JiIf
known here on the subject is proper TO- add that at
Winchester the infant daughter Of Mrs Miller was dis
tressingy i'll for several months OF course, she felt
called to devote her days and nights to the sick bed Of
the child young mother, with an ardent attachment
(sedom equaed to her children, her unremted atten
tons, her seePless vgls her loss OF rest made heavy
,t,.tsp karl
her mother she evnced admirable spirit OF fortude
but occasionally nmated that the absence Of all rest
and her distress q heart had affected her health u yar
letter of coincidence she addressed to her father the fol-
lowing answer, which dated the 10th Of November
but postmarked November l3ih and received BY him on
the night of the 10th of that month: MI. Ts5aF
@ WINCHESTER, Nov. 10, 1870.
tonate letter, expressing sympathy for my late los. It
oa one whom could believe and ss s % Ss :nss
b @ yse as Is
and waiting to hear his final wishes the subject be-
1 Ny health ha Dy, m being and
never sick should be gratfed 70 hear from you
me the time Best love to mother and ali he children
Your afectionate daughter, !. g. MILLER.
Hon. J. NoRvELL. 4sl ~ WI VA 3ssi
Mrs. Miller is iwenty-six years OF age. She was the
mother OF four children, the Oldest and youngest of
whom died in early infancy To her father. mother.
brothers and sister she was exceedingly attached To
her first and third child she affixed the of her father.
and TO the youngest the OF her mother. She was
married when she was seventeen and half years old.
From infancy she possessed, when rered and in the
domestic eiFoleoi the family toachng and meenchoy
expression of countenance Part of her youthful educa
ton received at the nunnery this city. She was
short time at the academic institution of Madame Greland.
in Philadelphia for months at that OF Mas Eng
lish, at Georgetown in the District of Columbia. sai
Well educated, intelligent accomplished, she wss
universal fayore among all her acquantances Of whom
she had an unusual number Retiring in disposition,
domestic in her habits, generally pefering secuson to
society," she nevertheless always made herself agreeable
by the yivacy Of her spirits, her lady like manners, and
her good the social circles which she entsred
OF senstiyely delicate disposition, refined taste,
romantic turn OF mind she invariably. but upaHectedly,
recoed with ntuitive loaihing from ell freedom and
coarseness of manners and conversation $500