The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-07-29

respecting the Funeral. NeiEhbors came to
ofe, sympathy, and aid. il heed should he -
Then the house was put in ORDER and Grape
hung on the door. handle. The family were
alenes with that's sdsad. .nasa sssssauNgasessaxs
On the Village green the boys were playing
? grand game Of "round ball." Tor it was a
half-holiday. The clear silvery tones Of. the
bell were heard, and we stopped to listen
Was it 6re9 No, the ringing was not We
hement enough. A meeting of the church ?
In moment we should know. As the bell
ceased, we looked up to the white taper spire
TO catch the next sound One stroke. twas
death, then,-and of man. We listened for
the age tolled from the belfry. Fifty-fve.-
Who had departed? The sexton crossed the
green on his way to the shop. to make the cof-
fin, and informed us. Our bats and balls had
lost their interest. for US, we did not even ask
our tallyman, who cut notches for us on a
stick, how the game stood. For Squire Wal
ter Kinloch was the most considerable man in
the village Of Innisfeld. Without being
highly educated, be was mansof reading and
Intelligence. In early life he had amassed a
fortune in the China trade; and with il he had
brought back a deeply 'brSnzsd complexion. "a
scar from the creese soffa Malay pirate, and
the easy manners which travel always gives to
observant and sensible. men. But his rather
stately carriage produced no envy Or iIl-w
among his hunbler neighbors, for his superb
ority was never questioned. Men bowed to
him with. honest good will, and boys, who had
been fogged at school forconfouniing Congo
and Coromandel. ana pdtting Borneo in the
Blight with Benin, made awkward obeisance
and stared wonderingly, as they met the man
who had actually sailed round the world
and had, in his own person, illustrated
the experisnenti Of waking with hiss head
downwards. smoag shessntpodes. u His house
had no rival ia the country round, and his gar.
den was consistereda miracle Of art, having.
n popular belief, all the fruits, aewers, and
shr .bs that had been known from III. days II
Solomon to- those of Linnens. Pro,iigious
stories were told Of his boards Of gold, and
some Of the less enlightened thought that even
the outlandsh ornaments Of the balustraie ov-
er The portico were caryen silver. Curious
vases adorned tie hall and side-bo4rd; and
humberiess quaint tripkets, whose use the VII
lagers could not evenimagine, gave to the rich
ly-furnished rooms an air OF Oriental magni-
fcence., Tropical birds sang or chsttered III
cages, and a learned but lawless parrot talked.
swoFe, Or made michief, as he, choose. The
tawrey servant George, brought BY Mr. Kin
loch from one Of the. islands Of the Pacific.
completed bis claims upon the alnIation Of
the uotravelled. ! = { 80 Z
! SHe pas jpst ready tc enjoy the evening" cf
lih' when NE aght Of death closed upon him
with tropic suddennea,. He left one child on
y, his daughter Mildred, then inst turned Of
eighteen and q Mrs. Kinloch had only one
son to clAtAs hdf sESctsonss tAs dothsflsss girl
would seem to be welfpfovided for. Mildred
was swsst-tempered, ,snA her stsP-mothss had
hitherto been discreet and kind.
The hesfl ~ Sssb And the Sowx pSople
recovered from the shock which his sudden
death had caused. Administration was gran
ted e The willow co11jointly with Squire Clamp
the lsw5et and he latter was appointed gssts
dian for Mildrs4 during hsrthirority. iass,s
Squire Clamp was an ill-favoted man, heavy
browed and bald. and with 4 look which, Ia
q nsrssm Of less conseQasues. would have been
called "hang dcgy partly, no doubt,
TO the tribdlationsa Ne had suffered from bis
vixen spouse whose teague vas now happily
silenced. He was the towns only lawyer, "a
fortunate circumstance,) 50 that he could fre-
lquently manage.to receive fees for advice from
both partissh Z controversy. He made all
the wills, deeds, and contracts, and settled all
the estates be could got bold Of. But no such
prize as the Kinloch property had ever before
come into his hands. W. p3
,If Squire Clamps reputation for shrewdness
had belonged to an irrelisious man, it would
have been Of questionable character but as he
wss jealous member of the church, he was
protected from assaults upon his integrity
Il there were suspicions, they were ksp. close
not bruited abroad. ,ss
He was now An almost daily visitor At the
widow Kinloch's. Whit was the intricate
business that reqeired the constant attention
Of. legal sdyissr The settlement OF the es-
tate. 20 far = the world knew, was an easy mat
tor. 1hs property coasistea oe the dwelling
house, small tract Of land near the village, q
minulactory It the dam, by the side Of Ralph
HaFdwiek's blacksmith shop, and monsy,
plate. furniture, and stocks. There we're no
debts. There was but one child, and, after ths
sssiennsnt q the Widows dover, the estate
was Mildrsd's. Noahins, therefore, could bs
simpler for ,hs administrstOss. TIE girl trus-
ted TO the good faith a hss stop-mothsr end
thsjussiss of the lsYyer. who nov stood t.
hss IN the plass oe fathAs. She -was an or
pAas, 'xnF - ingYe snd eAneKks ,dSn4
dsnes wssAA Ann6elsss Be . sHiIcisat spaf to
the conscience sf her prutsctcrs. g the girl