Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-20
A DETERMINED SUICIDE.-A correspondent
writing from Rome saws:

which has caused much sadness and horror
among the artistic and professional Romans.
The distinguished Juvara the Director of the
kegla Caicograhs, or royal engraving establish
ment, committed suicide on Sunday mort ing in
the strangest and most painful manner Juvara
was an engrsver of the highest reputation. q
pupil OF the celebrated Parma engraver. Tos hi.
his Madonna della Regia" (of Naples) by Ra-
phael, is regarded as one of the finest drawings
OF the day 1t took . grand prize at Berlin and
ing the Pest at Milan" from Mancineli's pic
ture, is also remarkable work. Juvara enjoy
ed 4 line reputation, and was no longer at the
sentimental w erther age when one plays lightly
with this precious gift life. He was sixty seven
years old, easy in means, married to good,
kind wife, had no children, lived in quiet, or.
derby, old fashioned way he was born at Mes
slna, and had not visited his native city for
tWenty-seven years.
This very week he was expected at Messina,
where his town people intended giving him q
public reception and presenting him with fine
medal which they have had coined in his honor.
On Saturday night he played st tsrocchoi "a
game OF chance with sort of checkered cards)
up to eleven o'clock. II is now remem bered
that ne complained of nervousness and of suffer
ing from the electricity in the air. It is also
known, SO heard from some OF his friends who
were at my Mondays reception, that he had
been ve1ed and annoyed for some time past by
anony nous letters, coming from persons who
were Jealous OF his success and reputation. It
appears, So that disposition to suicide has
been shown by other members Of his family
when they were suffering trouble His brother,
priest in Sicily, has tried three times to put an
end to his life Still no one dreamed that Juva-
III was so keenly tormented by these wicked,
base letters as to think of disturbing his pleas
| ant, respectable old existence
DE lived comfortably in An apartment that is
in the Stamperia Palace, which place you will
remember If you have ever gone TO the Roman
Stamperia to buy their wonderfully cheap as
well as beautiful engrsvings 1t is in the Via
della Stampera, near the Fountain of Trevi and
.Ssla Dante; His family consisted OF himself,
his wife and a faithful old maid servant.
At eight o'clock Sunday morning his wife
wentto church. Juvara told the maid, old Ma
rianna, that he was going out on business, to
| see the finance officer OF the Stamperia, to ar
range affairs previous to his departure for Mes
sna.
On the contrary, he shut himself up under
lock and key in his private studio and proceeded
IN lelsurely and systematic manner to kill
himself. He was over six hours performing the
horrib e act and mas left written record Of his
sensations curing that time.
A eight o clock he cut i vein iii his foot and
collected t e blood in dish then with brush
painted with 1t on the wall IN great cartoon
v.rlois sentences at different hours for instance
one OF these sentences said: "Half-p,s. eight
| o'clcck-Wlt 18th a serene and cheerful conscience
an awaiting NY DEATH Another is: lien
o'cIocE-Desth has not yet arrived. | now cut
the vein in my arm" At half-past ten he wrote:
| How strange! The blood mount: to my head.
| God pardon ne, tor pardon my enemies " A
curious sentence is this: "Mid1ight-My dear,
dear wife has returned home hear Marianne
ma bestlng her boots God, honest girl" At
o. o'cioc he wrote: Some one knocks at my
door" The saddsst sentence is this Two
! o'clock-l have recovered my Reason Ny God
what have dorel What rash actl 1t is too
| late, however, to repair the evil. | will now
put an end to myself at once" Whereupon it
seems th-t he took revolver and shot himself
in his mouth, which killed him Instantly, but he
was net found until four o'clock when he had
| been dead some hours.
| He had N appointment at three o'clock with
the financial Off .er OF the Stsmperis This per-
son waited for Juvsrs some time; then, know
| ing that the director was exact tu1e itself, he
sent to the Stsmpera to see Whist caused his alb
| senee. HIS family grew anxious and several
| friends were applied to. Search WAS made for
him, and, after some delay. they concluded to
break open the private studio door, where they
found the poer old man dead, sitting in an arm
chair holding the revolver in one hand The
bloody writing on the wall, and also letter w.
| ing on the table, which he had written during
his long death agony Of six hours told the sad
story. In tn" letter he gave the sad account of
| the misery the anonymous letters had caused
him. he likewise mentioned the names of his
| base, enVlous tormentors, and expressed en-
| tire forgiveness toward them as he hoped God
| might forgive him. Poor old mani On Tues
| day he was buried with much b Jnor.
daughter of Mr. Henry Norton, who resides in
East BerIiu, Conn, went into the cellar Of their
| house on Friday last, aud while there heard
peculiar noise Searching for the cause they
found an immense rattlesDake cuicd up 10 the
Ua n BIZ
was dartlug out turiously. The ladies went out
Ut the cellar 10 hurry and called The men folk,
who, armed and equipped, weut in to kill his
snakcshlp. The Old fellow wasn't 10 any hurry
about dying, however, aud therefore gIided
Into his hole 10 the cellar wall The men
watched Tor him from 10 4. Id. uDt D. H.,
Wheo they shot bin as be put his head out of
the wall. He proved to be an old settler, hav-
ing eleven rattles, ADD was fourteen ycals old.
The body was skinoed aud stuffed; the head
was too badly damaged to be made available.
A MAMMOTH SHARK. = Yesterday uorning
Captain Messick, of the sloop Antagonist, ~.
ing at Campbel!s wharf, with cargo of fresh
hsh, while engaged 10 picking out some spoil
ed ones and throwing them overheard, noticed
shark playing 10 the water pear by He 5000
procured sheepshead with which he baited
large hook and In few minutes had the mon
ster in his tolls. 1t proved to be white shark,
measuring over eight feet in length, and the
mouth was armed with two rows of dangerous
looking teeth. Norfolk Landmark
If mosquetoes infest our sleeping rooms at
night, uucork bottle OF the oil of penuyroyaI,
and these insects leave in great haste nor will
they return while the air 10 the room is loaded
with the fumes of that aromatic herb. II rats
enter the cellar, little powdered potash thrown
into their holes or mixed with meal and scat
tered 10 their runways, never fails to drive
them away. Cayenne pepper will keep the but
terry and storeroom free from anus and cock
reaches"
John Wallace was shot and killed 10 Ale.
gany county, Nd, Sunday, by John Stewart,
youth OF nineteen years, to whom be had re.
fused liquor and elected from his house.
OP4RTyrERSHIPS.