The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-10-06

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RRnnLE TRAGEDY IN GRANT
a COUNTY. NJ.
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IL hss been our misfortune too often to
.hrou;cle terrible @eeds vf violence in this
S,,te. but no occurrence han taken place Of
- - - - shocked u = the unfortu-
nate tragedy, the details Of which We give
"a ; Z: "a e,s.e. ,,..1a tan.h.n, living
near Williams1Own, n Grsna County, had
On attractive daughter, whom he regarded
With ucs,sssal affection. The son Of . neigh
boz nsmsA Lawrence. young man Of good
became the accepted sutton of Miss
Callahen. Some time ago Mr.. Callahan,
III hin md sEps.e lsamea that his child
had been seduced by Lawrence, under PROM
ice Of marriage, and that she was eneients.
I svYeuce Nd from. the neighborhood to
avoid f,l6lling his promise. and to save him
self from the just vengeance Of an injured
parent -, =,
On Thurstiay he returned, and, while rid.
ing along the road, was suddenly confronted
by CALLAHAN and his son, who firmly de-
manded that hoshould return with them To
Williamstown, procure license, and marry
the girl he had 80 foully wronged, or be shot
on the POl. Lawrence, knowing that the
dread alternative Of death vas sure and Ger
tain, consented to the demand. The party
then went to WilliamstOwn, procured II
csnse, and were returning to Callahan's
house to carry out their intention, when
they were met b. brother of Lawrence,
Who was in company with several friends.
They all halted, one Of the opposite par
" called to young Lawrence, who started to
ieave the escest u Mr.. Callahan and his son,
vhea the latter fired u him. He broke into
q run and and an indicriminate firing took
place, hall from one Of the opposing party
striking the elder Callahan, infliting NOR
al wound Of which he in a short time died.
b The u.happy daughter, IN Whose defence
q father lost his life, gave birth To child
few hours subsequent to his death, and now
lies in critical condition.
Lawrence, the setiucer, the cause Of this
double calamity, was arrested, together with
another Of the party, and placed in safe
keeping. 1t il stated that all the parties tn
the tragedy have horne good regulations,
and are in good standing in the community.
The occurrence very justly and naturally
has caused deep excitement in Grant County,
and all good citizens are Mortified. II Ii
difficult to conceive Of two more terrible ca
iamities, following cloae upon each other,
than that Of the seduction oi 4 daughter and
the violent death Of father while endcavor-
ing to right her wrongs.
EngDssh Waseriax Places -EaElS.h ssea-
ssae Life Better than OHr~.
Newport Correspondence Chicago Tribune.
When read in the Newport Mercury that
Mrs Samuel Colt has just paid sixty-two
thousand dollars for seven naked acres over
looking the ocean, and that ex-senator Nor
ton has Just purchased Newport villa lot
for sixty thoutanti dollars, am wondering
n the original way in which people propose
u crate society and model their own ''sea-
son."
In the more expensive country Of England
where dense populations adpin the sea
coasts, the fishing and sailors villages in
sensibly grow to be the watering places, and
this is accomplished without any violent
Transformation Of the town; half dozen
good inns spring up; the cottages of the
resident traacsmen and shippers resolve to
lodgings in the season; the cook shops
serve breakfast in ones apartments, and he
goes to chop house for dinner.
None, or few, 60 to the sea with 4
score Of Saratoga trunks, indispensable
to an American family. The women wear
thick shoe., serge, or alpaca cloths, black
stockinss aud straw hats; the men dress
commonly, for they all know that nothing
DESTROYS fine cloths like the salt air. Thus
there il nothing unnecessary ON anyl,ody' =
mind or hands, little baggage, moderate
lex,enser, M excessive and selfimposed du-
ties, As dressing for meals, working hard all
day to he pre-entible at the nights hop, sail
ing all round the ccliptic Of watering places.
with all the trunks carried ON every trip, and
thus substituting worry, anxiety, debt and
discomfort, for health, enjoyment, rest.
Neither do the English put up palaces I'M
der the fake name Of cottages, paying sixty
thousand dollars for lot. seizing the sweet
est hooks by the sca, wrestling them from the
poor, and planting the penions of fashion and
vanity on the brink Of natures sublimest man.
Hesitation. Brighton, although great city, II
more democratic than Newp'rt. English Pc"-
pie own their summer habitations, but hire
them or part Of them, from the widows, an
cient maids and tradcs-peoPlc, who inhabit
then, the rrst IL the year. The expenses at
sesside living in summer, in America, Is pc
i,ivcly uncomfortable. One hundred and fifty
dollars week for man and wife IL a. lit,l.
n il can be dome for, with anything like gen
erm,s living. Five dollars each day, tw"
dollars battle for table claret, cigars TWEEN
iy-ivc cents; two dollars and fifty cents per
hour for carriage hire, every hauling Of yo"r
trunk one dollar, every change Of watering
place twenty-five dollars-Perpetual Pnr-
cbases under fear Of Mrs. Grundy. One re-
coils in the midst Of his delights, anil iecL
the ache If forebo.ling in his breeches P,~k-
cts Yet We submit Ia this every year, u" II
again, fonslle the landlords and the varlet'
who fleece US, and reply to ourselves that a
reform Of living is without our reach a. much
M reform Of politics.
Horrible SoaFAeP.