The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-12-09

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vile % Sunday evening 70 attend .,
some legal ard phsals busipe.. q
'Lsi Flses, snd upon reaching ihi
place be sent iuio the hotel andtooI
bfsskIasi and met HE law partner
Capt. PeLK sbd gave him some %
pefs and exhibited the result Of lb,
business be lad gone 10 BaiesviIl,
10 attend 10, aud told Capt. polk
that he would 20 over 10 his room
Ai Nr Jsckson's for q short tim,
aud sOald then ~ 10 the Office
Capt. Polk telling bin that ho wish
cd him TO remain IN the Office that
day NJ he POlk) could no, be 10 town
that morning. Col. Ashmoro went
over to bis boarding. house, bis fam,
ily being out upon his plantation near
springport. and went into his room,
closing the door after him, and about
half after ton o'clock the lady of the
house aud a young man boarding
with Dir. Jackson, who were in au
adjoining room to that occupied by
Col. Ashmore, were startled by the
report Of a pistol in Col. Ashmore's
room, and the young man rushing In
the room found Col. Ashmore lying
.undressed, In his bed, with a pistol
grssped in bis right hand, smoking
from the explosion, in the last strug.
giles Of death, the contents of the
pistol having passed in at his right
temple, aud tearing out nearly hall
Of the brain in Its passage through
the bead, ranging upwards. Tn.
alarm was given and quite q mum.
Der Of persons were on the spot 10 a
few minutes, but the aid of human
'kill, in the presence Of three surge.
ons, could not arrest the faint spirit
That fingered for four or Eve min.
IN the mangled body from pas.
sing out to ascend to the high trlbu.
nal 81 the Omnipotent Being, there
10 meet Its judgment.
a jury was empannelcd and an
inquest held over the remains, the
verdict being "death, produced by
lhe wounds from the contents Of a
fired by his own handa."
Col. Ashmore's wife and family
Fere Immediately sent for aud ey.
Wy mark of respect paid the mem.
Try OF the unfortunate man. His
e'naiiis we're carried to Oxford and
here Inferred. lie leaves a wife
md several children.
Col. Ashmore had been suffering
'idsr a marked mental depression {
" some months which was the sub.
oct 81 serious comment ofhis friends. {
esulting from various causes. Hal
I'D been a distinguished Rcprescn> .
awe IN the State Senate. aud the Z
representative, afterwards, from the
Ipartanburg District in Congress. in |
nd from the State of South Caro-. '
Ina, before tho war, and commanded b
= g. regiment during the wur. 0
. one or two years and afterwards. t
Pm mandcd of one Of the ~conscript a
epartmcnts Of the State, having to d
nom active service on account g
! pad health, and at the close of the u
ar he lost all of his large estate e
'nieh he had lived upon and inner, I
60 rom an honorable ancestry, 70. I
ueing him to almost penury, and Z
nth this, the complete assumption ?
Radical, negro rule over his native t
tate. Under this great mental a
rsssure, no gathered his few re, i
ialn'ng effects together in 1867 and u
loved from South Carolina to this a
purchasing a small tract of Il
md near Springport, where he re. o
ded until February last, whom he Fl
pp''ed for and received license to h
'nc''ce law, producing his license a
aii attorney in South Carylina,-t Il
y experiments rs . planter hayeG
zen failures, aud for the last six s.
b had suffered with an acute I
suralgiA, which rendered him. nj
times, perfectly wild with pain.
much sickness in his family aud
inherent success in farming, all
0molned 2 influence him to occa. J
drink Intoxicating liquors d
* deeply. lie had been drinking n
= some days previous 10 the day of !
\ death; o vas, however, thought !,
. iree from ITS influence, BY III. :
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