The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-24
A New York domestic Tragedy.


One of those frequent city paragraphs,
relating an inquest upon the body of a
woman who had died suddenly while
visiting friends up town, was followed
up the other day by a reporter whose
time hung on his hands. He evoked a
tragedy, whose final details he gives at
length in the New York World, while
its secret is left to be conjectured. The
mother of six children, just turning
forty, goes out one afternoon and does
not return. After in the morning she
is brought in, feet foremost, dead,
accompanied by q doctor and Dy ga
friend of the family" The friend tells
his story. He met her on Broadway at
6; she said she was exhausted; she ate a
chop and an ice with him +; they started
to such a park she was taken i'll he
took her into a house-the nearest /;
when the doctor came she was dead !;
that was $50. The women, her neigh
bors in the house, want to know if she
died at $50, why it is 1:30 before she
is brought home, and why her limbs are
nervous patience but says nothing. The
next day the bustling corener, an au-
topsy and a verdict-congestion. But
what, says the neighbor who lays the
body out, do these marks on her neck
mean, and that purple spot on her
shoulder? Four on one side, one on
the other. The husband would not
hear of investigation. He would rather
not know how that afternoon passed.
The friend was not his friend he wis.,
tied his wife, the dead woman; they
had been seen in each others company.
The house she was taken into had on
the door-plate a mana banded. loseIy
Jy loose men, the reporter finds, and
gets no news there. The doctor has
been handsomely paid by the friend of
the family that individual does not
deny intrigue, but scouts the idea of
violence. ALI parties think the matter
had better drop. And it does drop.
The World says that these events have
within ten days, and that this
is common story.
The Way the Ruin is Wrought. .
When one has arrived over night, has
drunk the waters, breakfasted, glanced
over the arrivals in the books of the
hotel in which one lodges, the next
thing is to hear the band play at one of
the great hotels, and nine times out of
ten one goes to the Grand Union.
Sometimes the band stations itself in
the parlor, but oftentr on the inner
piazza, overlooking the beautiful
grounds. If the former, the audience
is composed, for the most part, of ladies,
and of ladies' men, that is of males
who are SO far subjugated and overcome
by female charms as to be willing to
give up their own ideas and habits.
The men love to listen to the music
when the musicians are on the piaZz',
which enables them to indulge in that
never ending companion of male lips,
the cigar. And those who are still de-
voices to the practice abominated by
Mrs. Trollope are enabled to enjoy the
waltzes of Strauss without rising every
two minutes and making for the door
the outlines of a huge chew struggle
for the mastery. While the band plays
the ladies make their innings and en-
deavor to complete the impression which
they may nave made yesternight on the
other piazza or in the dance-room. The
presence of Charles Augustus or of
Henri or Rodolf having been acknowl-
edged by a sweet smile, friendly move
ment OF hand indicates the fact that
there is, by the merest chance, an I'M
occupied chair in the immediate neigh
borhood of the young lady. The gen
tleman, who, being by himself, feels
little out of countenance, and grateful
therefore for the encouragement, is,
however, little dubious on account of
his cigar, which he holds hesitatingly
in his hands as he advances. He makes
q little motion as if to throw it away.
"Oh, pray don't think of it, )" the young
lady shrieks instanter 81 adore the
smell of them in the open air, when
they are good and you, 1 am sure,
have too good taste to smoke any but
the best" The young man takes his
seat beside that female spider, SO tickled
and fattered that the AR seems full of
happiness. Letter.
MARs.-The star now so conspicuous
in the south for it's red light, is the
planet Mars, now in opposition to the
sun, and which, on the 2Sth ult,
when nearest he Garth, was hardly forty
million of miles from us, or nearer than
at any time within the last fifteen years:
but as the planet is at the great south
of about twenty eight de-
grees, it will be low there even When
highest, while in the southern hemis-
phere it will be We high, and thus
afford the astronomers at the observa-
tories in Australia, Africa and South
America excellent opportunities during
several weeks for measuring twice daily,
or when east and west, the distance be-
tween the planet and some star near it;
and thus, for determining the suns
paralax, pehaps quite SO accurately as
was determined by the recent transit of
Venus.
"THERE! exclaimed the indignant
Boston wife, as she fetches her husband