Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-28
Her BODY Unrecovered from
iis Suicidal Graye-The
search Abandoned. i'-
An Additional Incidenf-How
the News Of her Death
Was Received by
her Lover.
Very Nearly a Double Sui
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herself from the bluff, opposite Fort
Pickering, into the river below, has been
abandoned, after having been diligently
and perseveringly kept up ever since the
FIRST knowledge OF the melancholy event,
early Tuesday night. Her remains, SO
recklessly given in all the beauty and
grace Of early womanhood, on offering
to the destroying spirit that lurked be-
meath the waves, have, probably, ere
this, been borne away by the current, and
IL they are ever beheld again it will be
by those who knew her not, and are
strangers to her unhappy fate. Fair
bride as she was to have been, her bride
groom now is death, and by the rushing
tide, down under the turgid waves, were
their nuptials celebrated. Into bis cold
embrace she threw herself, beautiful and
young and innocent, as she was, and he
claimed her as his, and pillowed on his
pulseless bosom, she now sleeps the
sleep that knows no waking. Youth and
Death how sad pair to picture.
Truly, oh, Death there must be those
Who deem thee not an enemy.
Or their worst fate who see upon thy face
A smile where all beside have frowned; and
fee
From fell remOrse and hopes they have sur
Inebriate with grief. to thy cold arms"
The deep seated cause, if any such there
we're, which wrought upon the mind of
Kate Gruper, until frenzied at the thought
of longer living, she courted the forget
fitness and oblivion of death, must prob.
ably ever remain mystery. Down into
her watery grave she took it with her,
and with her life which it had so haunted
it went out forever If there is any
other to whom that awful secret is known
we envy him not, when his overweight
fancy shall picture in the waning light of
setting sun the phantom form of a
woman upon the utmost verge of an
abyss, under which sullenly and cease
lessly roll the murmuring waters of q
river with her thin robes huttering in
the wind, and her CHASTITY face turned to
the sky, as if to trace the invisible path
of the spirit there. When the sudden
splash down in the stream, and the
gurgle aud shrek that shall come
up out of it, sound in his ear, we shall
envy him not. We know not the secret
God pity him that does, if any such there
be. We would not, if we could, punish
him beyond the reproach and misery that
shall poison the bitter moments of his
life when all others shall have forgotten
the fate of X ate Gruper, whom he can
never-though vainly he may struggle to
forget. If into the grave, down under
the water she plunged, there to bury and
wash out shame less tolerable than
death, and he still lives who so poisoned
her girlish life, not all the floods of rivers
and oceans can cleanse his hands or
wash out the foul thing he has done. We
would make no deep scrutiny into her
conduct who is gone-she
Is past oil dishonor;
Death has left on her
Only the beautiful
if, indeed, we have the right even
to so much as question the rec
titude of her ways. We would be far
from doing it. From all we know we
think her pure as an angel. So unusual
suicide in the heyday Of youth, that it
is natural to''seek some unhappy cause
But all the Prescriptions Of rectitude are
so strong, that it is most reasonable to
conclude that her rash act was the result
of natural melancholy and refined sen
sitiveness of character, which, through
some unhappy imaginings or concep-
tons, stimulated by some hidden disease,
became an uncomfortable delirium and
madness.
We have thus referred a second time
to the distressing affair solely with
view to mentioning one modest
omitted in our detailed account of it,
as it appeared in the LEDGER last
evening. 1t would seem that Mr.. g.
A. Eckerly, to whom the deceased was
betrothed, and was 10 have been married
during the coming week, on receiving an
intimation of the fate of his intended,
sprang into buggy and dashed out to
the bluff with all speed, where, upon his
arrival, be seemed to loose all control OF
himself, and would have plunged head
long over the bank down into the river
below had he not been prevented by main
force by those around him, who we're for
tunately on the spot, making arrange
ments to search for the body Of the young
woman. Thus the sad affair was barely
prevented from being double suicides
for, in an instant more, if unrestrained,
the body of bride and bridegroom would
have been in the one watery grave, and
their sundered spirits reunited in death.
lust received, new supply of
aprons. new article, at l.. kremer's-
straw Hats-the largest assortment
I'm the cfty-at Leidy's, opposite the
square. |"
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