Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-10-06
EVENING STAR.
SINGULAR INCIDENT CONNECTED wTrH RrsHoP


SINGULAR INCIDENT CONNECTED WITH prsHoF
Lks'e DRATH.
private letter from Davenport, Iowa, re-
ce1ved in Boston, contains the following
We have been very anxious the last two
Terminated in his death on Saturday morning
Ihe whole community are ssdiensd by the
event Some two months ago he got ND In the
night and took q bath, and on returning 10 his
room be made . mistake aud stepped OF a Ions
hight Of stairs, and landed at the foot with =
tremendous era h, as be vas very heavy, weigh
whole family, and Mrs. Lee and Carrie sprang
nom their beds, and lighting each a candle
went to see what bad happened, and found the
Bishop lying on the door Of the entry. He got
up, however, without aid, and seemed 60 have
received no injury except few slight bruises,
though his right hand was q little ismed.
hr. h. and myself called on him two DAYS
alter, and while telling us the circumstances
OF the fall he mentioned this coincidence:
lie had q letter in his hand which be had Just
received from his son Henry, living st Kansas
City. His son wrote, Are you well; Tor last
night bad a dream that troubles me. heard
q crash, and standing up said TO nv wife, "Did
had q fal and was dead. got mp and looked
Al my watch, and II was O'Clock. / could not
SIZE again, 10 vivid was the dream And &c
maze him anxious 70 hear from home. Tue
bishop sRld he was not supersttiOus, hut he
Thought 81 remarkable that Henry sh5HId have
had the dream at the very hour of the SAM
night that the accident occurred. The dtrier
ence in the time there and here is iGsi Is min
utes, and IL was 2:15 by his watch, making il at
the same moment. &c was AZ II be hsd &C fuAIIy
heard the fsll. And the fall finally caused the
bishops death. HIS hand became intensely
pain tul, and gangrcne set in, which. after two
weeks OF suffering, terminated HIS life
TER GIRLS OF TRK PRRIoD.-we boast Of oar
systtm of education; we have female nigh
schools. female colleges, femsl- medical school
and female heavens. Our girls are refined.
learned sDd wise; they can ting, dance, PLAY
Iianos, paint, talk French aud Italian, ana al
the soft languages, write poetry, and love like
Nenuses. They are ready 90 be coarted at ten
Years. and can he taken from school and mar
ried At f'teen and divorced 81 twenty. They
make splendid shows on bridal tours, can co.
qUette and f1iTt 81 the watering places and
shine like angels sc winter parties. Bat heaven
fashionable circles. What are they at washing
floors? Oh! We forgot-BobOdy has bare doors
now; how vulgar it would be! What are they
at making bread and boiling beef? WHY, how
thoughtess we are, 70 be sure-they will board
or have servants. What are they az msnding
old clothes? But there we are agaln-the FASH
ions change so often that nobody has old clothes
but the rag men and paper makers now. What
are they at washing babies faces and pinning
up their trousers? We repeat, we have come
to point where young men hesitate aud grow
old before they can decide whether they can
marry and afterwards keep clear of bankruptcy
are more persons living a single life. Are there
more leading virtuOus life? IL is time for
mothers to know that the extravagauce they
encourage Is destructive OF the virtue of their
children; that all the foolish expenditures are,
instead of answering that end, tending TO de-
stroy the institution OF marriage altogether
Boston IRreSfigGtOr.