The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-08
The Pioneer Correspondence.
Matters and Things I'm New York.
From our Regular New York Correspondent.

Island tragedy, Rev. j. H. Eliot and his daugh-
ter, were celebrated on Sunday last A very
wide and deep sympathy exists from the pc,
culiar circumstances attending their DEATH
Your readers will remember that as the young
lady was about sinking, her betrothed, to whom
she would have been united in few day s,
swan to her assistance, and when after repeat
ed and vain efforts it was apparent that both
would perish the heroic girl ;bade her lover
save himself, and dispite his earnest prayers
released her hold upon him and sank to wa
terry death, while he was thrown upon the sand
more dead than alive. These circumstances
of romantic interest together with the aimable
qualities of both the deceased, attracted ar
immense congregation to the funeral. Some
four thousand ladies were present, most of
whom manifested their sympathy by dressing
in mourning. The collins were strewn with
flowers and laid to rest in the cemetery of the
Evergreens.
One of the notables of our city known to
New Workers for the last twenty years as the
Lime Kiln man, died at Belleview hospital on
Sunday morning. His name was William
Mcfarland, and his history, severe common
tary on woman's cruelty and 6ckleness, and a
beautiful illustration of mans abiding constan-
cy is briefly this, as 1 have it from the only
one to whom he communicated the facts of his
life. He was born in Scotland His father
was respectable farmer and his mother wo-
man of high mental organization endowed with
delicate sensibilities. At the age of twenty,
at which he was remarkable for his acquire
ments, especially in mathematics, he took
charge of a large school in his native town.
Now see the power of woman since she could
degrade lofty soul, strong with rich enGow.
ments and glowing with ambitious aims, to a
nameless outcast and wanderer He became
enamored of blue-eyed lassie who returned
his passion, and they were betrothed. Many
were their sweet interchanges of mutual love
under the fragrant hawthorn and by the ingle
side. At length an older brother visiting him
was introduced to his afianced, won away her
tickle heart and persuaded her to elope with
him. 1t fell upon his sensitive nature with
crushing weight. He threw up his employ
ment and wandered no one knew whittier. In
1880 he made his appearance in this city and
attracted immediate attention by his command
ing appearance and the uniqueness of his at.
tire. Ever since he has been the wandering
Jew of our streets, sleeping regularly, summer
and winter, in lime kiln up town, and passing
his days in wandering abstraclcdly around the
city, accepting but never soliciting charity
His garments were patchwork of motley
rags, very innocent of soap and water, and al
ways plastered with lime. A well worn Bible
was his constant companion and he read indis
criminately every thing that came in his way.
He was quite unobtrusive, never engaging in
conversation except when some man of unusual
ability would engage him in argument, when
he would rouse himself and very few antago.
nsts could stand before his clear logic, his vast
array of facts and whitening sarcasm. His
head was one of the finest have ever seen, in
and a dark flowing beard, such as the ancients
loved to attribute to Jove. He sleeps
in Potters Field, with his mysterious destiny
fulfilled. Requiescat in pace.
If our city ladies could learn that snow
white -four would not spoil the daintiness OF
lily fingers, and that poking dough in the kitch-
en- is as laudabe as poking dough heads in the
parlor, we might declare our independence Of
cut throat bakers and their unclean bread, which
lest they should poison us before they make for
tunes isdealt out in homeopathic loaves "If
your son ask for bread will you give him a
stone?' Welyou will give him a small one if
you purchase for him New York bakers
loaf
l must add to my batch Of romantic marvels
a case of .'eourtship under difficulties which
has just transpired in the police department.
A very nice young man above Bluhers' by force
ola neck tie of unexampled captivatingness and
pair of stunning" whiskers won the tender
heart of damsel blessed in all respects save
the possession of cruel father, who insensible
to the beauty of the aforesaid fair closed the
door upon Romeo. But the loving Juliet in
dulged him in those proverbially sweet waters,
stolen interviews. For several evenings they
enjoyed the cool evening air with signs in what
Boggs calls the back "garding," until one soft
evening two little terriers came bounding down
the walk instigated by the cruel parent. The
unfortunate lover had just time to disentangle
himself from the wreathing arms ofhis mistress
and leap upon the ledge Of an open church
window hard by when the interesting pets
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