Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-07

STARTLING IscLosUREs-MYsTERIoU Dis
APPEARANCE OF A WELL-KNowN CITIzEN.-
About three years ago man named Charles
Hohenberger, who at that time had been for
nearly fifteen years a resident of this city.
after closing up his business, told his friends
he intended to return to Europe, and ostensi-
bly, left Cincinnati for that purpose. Por a
long period of years he had kept liquor
store on Eighth-street, between Main and
Sycamore, and in all his business transactions
had been governed by such spirit of gem
erosity and uprightness that his departure
was generally regretted by all who knew
him.
After the lapse of two years his friends
here became aware of the fact that he was
living in Peoria, Illinois, to which place he
had gone Immediately after leaving this city
and entered the tobacco business. There also
he had many warm friends, but even to them
he did not mention his previous business re-
lations in this city. He never accounted, in
any way, for his abrupt departure under pre-
tense of going to Europe, and those who
knew him here did not question him in regard
TO the matter, thinking probably that when
he desired to have his purpose known he
would publish it himself
About this time, however, which, by the
way, was just one year ago, he left Peoria on
hunting excursion, one morning, expecting
to return in the evening of the same day
The day passed, and grew into week; the
week into month; the month into year.
and still he was absent. Some of his ac-
quaintances had seen him, with his gun, pass
from the town into the country, hut never
was he heard of afterward until about week
ago. ... ..-....-.. .-. .-. ......
Last Monday some of the citizens of Peoria,
while on hunting excursion few miles
from the town, discovered a skeleton lying
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fragments of clothing, pair of spectacles,
quantity of money, and some other articles,
which offered sufficient evidence that they
had found all that remained of their former
friend.
During his absence they had searched, as
they thought, the entire country; secured the
neighbOrhood for miles around; apprised the
world of his mysterious disappearance by
means Of advertisements and endeavored in
every manner that their imaginations sug-
gested to learn the whereabouts of their miss
ing associate, but without avail. Now the
riddle with which they had so long been per-
picked was solved, and Time, true TO himself,
bringing pain with each new development,
revealed the secret for which they had so
earnestly sought.
The deceased was forty-eight years of age,
and unmarried. He had evidently discharged
the contents of the gun into his body, for
Jne presence OF tne money Is SumclenJ evil
dence. that he had not been murdered and
robbed; but what the causes ere which led
to this singular and unthreatened self
destruction, no one can imagine. All who
knew him, both here and there, admired his
liberality, and esteemed him for his noble
mindedness, and will regret his untimely and
melancholy fate. ... .....
There is little in life to make it lovely;
nothing in death to render it hateful. Ali
that the Shpynx of Time does not know the
Gdipus Of Eternity will solve; and we
therefore could almost wish he had patiently
our present existence is only the bud. He
chose, so far as was in his power, his own
path in life, and his own method of entering
the Land of the Hereafter; let us hope that
happier there than here he has no cause to
regret either. $50. 20 asSi