Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-19

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her, rather than put her arms around him
There was long pause, when he re-
pea,ed: --.------,------.
at is true The doctor says ] may
possibly live until the leaves begin e
fall
She bowed her head, and he went or
talking in a sad voice, broken by an oc-
casional hacking cough:
"This is the end of all our working
and suffering, and grief"
At the last word she wept silently
which seemed to give him courage to &C
on.
I'VE might as we'll look the truth IL
the face. d Don't you see / am failingT
holding his thin hand up to the light
Lets not talk of it," said the wife
81 have been too sudden" he said il
selfreproach. niiA 't'-l
The conversation was changed, and
somehow it run upon their youth-hov
be had met and loved her, their -quiet
wedding, the children of their marriage
"six children in the ehurcbyard lying
and one with what thrill of anguish
they spoke it) in an idiot asylum-worse
than death, but they had long ago met
the calamity with resignation. Some
how it unnerved them to- night, and be
exclaimed: p e .t
What will become Of him 2 II he,
too. were only dead /" 'i2
Then be returned to the subject of bis
condition, dwelling upon how hard they
had both worked aud without saying
- L.. a. .x.r.o &c 1aath ,,rnnooad that N
future they would take life easier They
had money (itwill be observed that be
always said we in his .plans), and the
first means of comfort be would procure
would be horse and buggy. e
These he purchased the very next day,
and it was their habit thenceforward to
ride out. every afternoon. One can
imagine what solemn interest was at
taohed to these efforts to make much OF
life while it lasted, and of each other, the
shadow of death hanging over them I
a have said she was quiet woman.
She was also busy woman, with q natu-
raj taste for the beautiful, that in her life
of sorrow and pains taking had never
been gratifed. Reared in the country,
in childhood she had played most of all
near and in the brook which ran through
their farm, and now, with the eagerness
Of q child, she delighted in haunting the
river side and gathering shells, which
she took pleasure in fashiouing into
forms of beauty. She was engaged in
this identical passtime when the shot Of
the assassin penetrated her skull.
She must have been the first killed, for
q shell was yet clasped in her hand, but
what struggle of life was there that she
should be beaten aad bruised and buried.
1t is sickening-horrible ~ 4
What strange providence it was that,
with his preparation 10 leave her, she
should have shared his fate ! Death did
not wait for the falling of the leaves, nor
for seemly place; but in the country-in
the blessed sunshine-in view almost of
happy children, aimed bis blow. q } 1
\ What gives startling significance to
the scene of murder is that it has been a
favorite pleasure resort. Cold Spring,
since the settlement of the country, has
been the place for picnics and the turn
ing point of pleasant drives. Here the
young and the old have congregated, and
it is hallowed by many promise Of hap
piness which has been fulfilled; sothat
the commission of a murder on the spot
is almost as startling and terrible as if it
had been done in our several homes 4
Z Now is every cool, shady retreat
changed to lurking place for assassius,
and gloom as Of ghostly murder thrown
over the whole scene.
Ithas transpired that insanity was in
Mr.. Young's family, which will account
for the irregular fancy he INDUCED in
carrying with him large sums of money.
The money was undoubtedly the motive
Of the murder, as he was seen to have
several thousand dollars on his person
The day be was killed. . ~ |,
Asyet suspicion has not fastened upon
any one A negro found lurking in the
was arrested, but the time /.
lss passed for a man, because he is
black, to be sent to the gallows on sus- \
picion, and he was released J,
Some years. ago l remember family [
vas poisoned and a negro accused of the I
srime An Irishman was a witness and
vas recalled. Upon re-examinution, he
estifed that he saw the negro cook
shaking a white powder out of paper
nto the c0fee-pot. Ali"
"Why," asked the counsel for the de-
ense, "did you not testify to this fact
shen upon oath 10 tell the truth, all the
ruth. aud nothing but the truth, beforeY'
"a {" Because / wanted to shade the nager,
Ter homer latta
The accused was shielded for sn in
lefnite period in the walls Of the peni-
entiary.
To return, the police and private en-
erprise are yigilsntly at work to discover
be perpetrator Of The Young murder,
md there is no. doubt that some trace
viii soon be found.
From later evidence. the tracks ola
nan and woman we're followed to corn
ield, which is almost as difficult ground
o read as the bed of q stream, but the
rimiuals cannot long escape discovery
nd capture. IL nothing else, their own