The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-07-21
:[New York Sun, 10th. !

New York Sun, l0th.l
A man and his wife, who had been
separated for more than two years
met on the steamboat ArrOwemith,
yesterday morning. Both were going
to Coney Island. Mr.. George Angus
tus Gum, the husband, boarded the
Arrowsmith for days excursion.
In his rambles through the boat he
met his wife-his first and only love-
and prostrated himself at her feet.
She was accompanied by a sister and
two other ladies. A feeling akin to
love at first sight sprang up and the
young man and woman confounded
those around them by their loving
demonstrations. Mutual explanations
were INDUCED in and mutual misun-
derstandings seemed to have been
buried.
When the boat was fastened to the
wharf in front of ex-senator Norton's
hotel, husband, wife, and friends
walked up the sandy passage together.
After taking some refreshments at
the hotel the party went to the beach
with the intention of bathing. Gum
was very anxious that his wife should
go in bathing with him. Indeed, he
was 80 anxious as to excite the sus-
picion of Mrs. Gums sister, who
urged her strongly not to go into the
water. Acting upon her sisters ad-
vice she declined to bathe. Notwith-
standing the seeming rebuff. Gum
hired bathing box and bathing suit.
On his way to the surf equipped for
q swim, Gum encountered his wife
and her friends. He said to his wife :
so you'll not go in, won't you? L
knew you dare not"
Then LAUGHING in his wife's face
he said, What kind of mourning
would you like to wear ?"
RED, white and blue" replied the
wife coquettishly.
II knew you were Irish when I
married you, and l think your best
mourning will be the green above the
red. Good bye; you'll be widow in
twenty minutes. So saying the hus-
band darted headlong into the surf.
He spoke truly, for Gum disappeared,
| and before help could reach him he
was drowned.
The suicide was dentist about %
years old, and lived at South Fifth
avenue and Houston street. Sena, or
Norton knew him we'll, for he had been
a constituent of his He was dem
tist of large and lucrative practice,
but of late, owing to family matters,
neglected it and himself. As soon as
Mr. Norton and his partner, Mr..
Murray, realized the intention of the
man in the water they exercised ev-
cry effort to rescue him, but in vain.
Buchanan Reads Premsnttiom.
The case of the late T. B. Read,
| equally we'll known as poet and as
artist, furnishes an instance of premo-
milton worth a memorandum. Mr..
Reed-one of the most delicate phys
! ical organizations nave ever met
! had a presentiment that he should
| not live to finish his fftieth year, if
even to complete his forty-ninth; and
this presentiment was very constant
with him during the last three or four
years of life. He was not gloomy in
view Of it; temperament so sunny and
spiritual as his could not give way to
the sullen and purple gleoms that are
SO frequent with men who have tasted
life and fame and proved them to be
dreams-one dream within another.
But the conviction grew and rooted
in his inner life. unit: it assumed the
force of revelation. lie died before
his fiftieth birthday came. Is it pos
sible that, by some subtitle intelli-
gence. the process of which are hid
den from the everyday consciousness
OF men, the physical organization may
calculate its own endurance with
mathematical exactness and foretell
the day of it's dissolution 2"
| People who are troubled by taran-
tulas will be pleased to learn from a
Texas paper that wolves are the nat
ural enemies and destroyers of this
venomous insect" The simple plan
of keeping few wolves in the house,
therefore, will afford full security to
the inmates, especially young chill.