The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-12-19
My DEAR FATHER:


My DEAR FATHER:
Your letter of Friday, re assuring us of
your good health, came very safely; and not
little to my surprise and greatly to the en-
joyment of my children, did we read of your
enlist ment as a soldier! That the affairs of
our beloved country are in most unsettled
AID deplorable condition, no one seems to
doubt but do earnestly hope we may not
have to resort to arms to settle the impend-
ing difficulties or your life be exposed to the
brutality of Northern fanaticism.
Amidst all the "rumors of war;" to every
true Christian there need be no feeling Of
insecurity. May you ever be kept in perfect
peace, dear father, with full reliance upon
the promises of our covenant God.
You ought to witness the patriotism of
my boys. Willy and Jamie talk as if they
held the nation in their hands, and often
boast of the independence of Virginia.
In letter to her brother, the same lady
say Wv ns.ro f,om NOM. ,,. o.,o, 4 ,u ~,
glad am ! that so much of his youthful ar
dor and hereism remains as to induce him
thus late in life to shoulder his musket The
children are heartily pleased at it,and jamie
often wonders to himself how Grandpapa
looks in regimentals. Every old red carpet
rag that l have been carefully putting
away from time to time, is beng pulled
belts and sashas for my boys, who imagine
themselves all ready for the field of strife
Dear little follows may they never know
the horrors Of sure enough war. Pleas
ant and exciting as the topic is to them now
they know not what its reality is.
My husbands achievements, 80 far, have
carried him out on patrol one night. That
was sleepless one to me-so fearful had /
become. Now John Brown is no more, and
alsunion somewhat in the distance, II not al.
together visionary, am quiet again-ho-
ing for the best"
Poverty and Suicide-A consumptive man
named John Inner blew out his brains in
the presence of his wife and children, in Gin
cinnati, last Monday. They were residing
in house with dozen others almost as
wretched, pecuniarily, as themselves, and
subsisted upon the scanty earnings of the
eldest child, who was but thirteen years of
age. On Monday, while his wife had gone
at to get some bread baked in a neighbours
oven, Inner loaded pistol, and when she
returned he was standing with the muzzle
pressed against his temple. The wife Shrek
ed and sprang forward, but 1t was too late.
She heard report, and her husband fell
dead at her feet, while his brains, scattered
in every direction, covered her face and shut
out from her gaze, for moment, the horrid
sight.
Singular Death.-The following incident
is communicated the Schenectady Star. 1t
occurred in Upper G]enville, Schenectady
county
A very strange death occurred night be.
fore last, just after dark, about half mile
from my house. A man about IS years of
age, In full health, and very stout man too,
left the Corners Just at dark on horseback.
He had with him little jug of whiskey
1.-TWO quarts) and, it would seem, tied the
END of the halter into the handle of the Jug,
and then hung the Jug over his neck, so that
it must have swung before him. About an
hour after he left, when 1t was quite dark,
he was found by the side of the road dead.
His horse, from appearance, had fallen,
and in the fall the jug had made moose
around his neck and choked him to death.
In the struggle the horse too had been so In
volyed in the halt er that it had fallen the
second time, and wound the halter around
his own neck, that it was upon its back near
ly dead. The horse and man were bound
together like Mazepa, of Byronnic fame
1t is said that the man was not a drinking
man. He was man of family leaving q
conJectured that the whiskey had anything
to do with the death, except that it was in
the jug. The jug, man and horse were
all bound together by the one alter. There
had been, from the appearance, territ lie
struggle, and some three rods of the road
We're trampled upon and made bloody before
death gained his victim.
> The attorney general of .Rhode island,
Hon. Jerome B. Kimball, died in Provi-
denee on Saturday morning before last, of
typhoid fever.
1t is the son of the Hon. Thomas Ewing, of
Ohio, not the Hon. Thomas Corwin, who has
been elected chiefof Mansas.
An Episcopal church is to be erected at
the White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier co.,