Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-05-02

A CHAPTER OF SUICIDES. Some two weeks
ago, near the village of Trappe, in Talbot co.
Maryland, youth named Tarbutton in a state
of mental depression, coolly and deliberately
hanged himself TO the limb Of a small tree in
the orchard, the effort even requiring him to
bend his knees that he might bangle at the end
Of the rope. The affair was the subject of the
village gossip for y few days, aud was then
dismissed as an occurrence which had grown
old in frequent repeitons.
There grew out of it, however, another case
of suicide which no one would have suspect
ed, and which we all would have believed
could hardly have an existence in the nina OF
the most visionary. There CHANGED to be Wis
iting in the neighborhood at the time an intel
ligent business man of Batimore-Mr Richard
Sherwood-with whom the affair fingered and
upon whose mind all the incidents in connec-
lion with the sad event, possessed peculiar
interest. lie was visiting for his health, and
seemed depressed when the painful news was
broken 20 him. He insisted upon return to
the city ms soon as the funeral of the boy was
over, Int before the day came for his departure
he was found dead in his room, hanging to the
hedpost under circumstances as nearly alike to
those which Young Tarhutton met his death as
it was possible TO make them.
Here, indeed is a remarkable chapter on SUI
icides, all relating the one TO the other, and
each growing out of the other. First came
the Somerset tragedy, in which a schoolboy
shot his sweetheart and then threw himself
under flying train of cars because of unre-
Quilted love. Then the young man Tarbution,
who delighted to dwell upon the affair in
thought, although separated from the scene of
the tragedy by many miles of territory next
hangs himself in fit Of melancholy while
third overcome with the emotions which grew
out OF the circumstances connected with the
death of the second, put an end 10 his life,
and thus completed a tragedy which is unpar-
alleled and narrowing in the extreme. The
moralist may pause and consider for there is
/ food for reflection here.
THE Wild GEEsR do not regard Dr.. Ayers
wisdom in migrating north-such immense
numbers of them as are flying over us now,
while his almanac says BLEAK and Buster
| ing aho2t this time with heavy snow - Ce-
dgr Rapids Times, March B.
We were too fast last week in our item on
! the conflict between Dr.. Aver and the wild
geese. The Doctor science beat their instinct
/ this time. Not for years have we had such a
suow-storm as that flast Sunday. The snow
! lies three feet deep on level in Minnesota
and two feet in Wisconsin, while the storm
/ has swept from the Atlantic TO the Rocky
/ Mountains. Snow fell to various depths ms
/ far south as Denver, Fort Union and Santa
/ Fee Learned as we believed DR.. Aver in the
areana Of nature, and wonderful rs we knew
/ his medicines TO be. we were not prepared for
/ so signal an instance of his superiority, not
only OYER the wise men, but the wiSeSt of an
+ inals whose instinct is considered unfailing.
/ We drive up the peg more firmly than ever,
over our hearth for Ayers American Alma
nae Times, March TO-