New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-08
Tine Marble Fam.

| "She is supposed to have Jumped over
board near Point Judith from the steamer
running between Fall River and New York.
durlng tit OF insanity, or during a period
az mental depression caused by fear of
! approaching !unacy" Such is tho brief
;elegraph'c announcement of the supposed
late 81 Mrs. Ann Adeline Badger, wife of
! Henry Clay Badger. and one of the recently
| elected school trustees of the city of Bos-
| Ton. Mrs. Badger was aged about forty
years. a graduate of Antioch College, Ohio
and enc OF family of sisters noted for
| their intellectual requirements; one of
| whom married Thomas Hill. at one time
president Of Harvard College; another is
the wife OF Professor Pumtelly, the we'll
known geolOgist and author: and a
third Is married to- Mr.. Putnam. of the pub
fishing house OF George Putnam's Sons.
New York. Mrs. Badger was at one tins.
about 1861. tutor in the Antioch College.
and at the, time of her recent disappearance
was the principal of private school in Ros
ton, established by her some wears ago
That she was highly esteemed is evidenced
by the fact of her election by large major
lty as member of the Boston school com
mittee. Her family relations are pleasant
as Is shown by references to her husband
IN several letters written just before she
ltit, IN which he is spoken of in the most
affectlonate terms. He was called to fill
the pulpit left vacant by the death of the
he'. Thomas Starr King, in California but
impaired health compelled him to reIin
4uish il.
The above facts appear in the notices of
the loss Of Mrs. Badger, but in addition are
certain incidents known to but few. the
writer among the number. which invest her
lie and her death with far more than ordi
nary interest. Few of our readers HAYS
not read the ''Marble Faun," that weird
"tsprsng or Hawthorne's mournfuI ipapina
hon. All ha We there admired the vxuuis
!t+ly exalted character of Hilda, the tvnica,
Ne" England girl. who seerned the shrine
u :" spirit pure and true wherein the
auIhof portrayed the fair ideal only known
20 hlS serencst hours. The original of the |
character was Mrs. Badger, then Shepherd. |
VINO went abroad as a tutor il, Mr. Haw
thorne's family. She it was who trimmed
the vtsfal lamp in the town, which finally |
went out alter 400 years of constant burn |
ing, just as her life has now ended. She it |
was VINO contrasted with the dark er, more !
passionate Miriam, and whose subdued |
ways charmed as they were sketched |
Hilda, physically and mentally, was the |
counterpart of Miss Shepherd, and those
VINO perused the pages of the book could |
not raj! to acknowledge the faithful Dor
Iralture OF the original. The Marble
raun" ended with Hiida WIFE, Miss Shep-
herd, during her tour abroad, was betrothed
TO Mr. Badger, the TWO having been class
mates at Antioch, and graduates while thar
institution was under the control of Horace
Mann. Her marriage to Mr. Badger oc.
cured upon her return about 1860 Closing
the pages Of the MARBLE Faun," we tain
wonder whether the dreamy existence of
allda Will continue, just as We always won
der what will be the final fate of all Haw-
.hornes characters. But now comes the
'ragic sequel, and we find that the sensi,ive
of which he made a heroine
u last, desperate from mental i'll. finds the
'oisce OF . suicide.-Chicago Inter Ocean.