The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-06-04

1rlenO Oh PRESIDENT Lincoln anu MS
family, also shranE from the delicate
task. Finally the Hon. Leonard SWEET,
who had known tho unfortunate lady
we'll in brighter days, resolved to un-
dertake 1t. When he called upon Mrs.
Lincoln he plainly told her she was in
sane, thinking it the better course to
tell the truth, treat her like n lady,
gently yet firmly, and rely upon her
better instincts prompting her to ac-
qutesce in the arrangements of her
friends. After the trial, Mrs. Lincoln
was deeply offended with Robert as
we'll as Mr.. SWEET. She said there was
a breach between herself and son which
would never be closed.
In conversation with Mr.. SWEET on
Thursday however, she appeared to be
more reconciled to her fate. Her man.
ner betokened that she freely forsave
both Robert and Mr.. SWEET, and she
chung to the latter as a protector. But
when speaking of her insanity to Mr..
SWEET, she said: cit may be so and
what if it is so, what wonder is it
Have MT had enough cause to de-
range any woman's brain? Did not
see my husband assassinated before my
eyes ? Have I not been homeless for
years, and have 1 not buried all my
children, with the exception of Robert?
Do you wonder that 1 am deranged ?''
Mr.. SWEET replied: "It IS only a won.
der, my dear madam, that your brain
has stood it so long. I sympathize
with you deeply, but we all believe it
to be best that you should be placed in
some safe position, where you will re-
ceive proper care and treatment. l
want you to see it in that light your
self,an become reconcilcd to the wish
es of your friends, who wish you no.
we are your friends-that I am your
friend" She said: ssYou are no friend
to me it you want to put me in an in
sane asylum"
MRS. LINCOLN's ATTEMPT UPON HER
LIFE.
The way in which Mrs. Lincoln elud-
ed her guards and underworld to take
her own life on the day of her removal
is thus told by the Chicago Times:
So near us can be learned She found
it an easy matter to convince the girl
who had been stationed in her room to
prevent any effort on her part to jump
out of the window that it was necessary
for her to step out into tho hall for Il
moment. The gOod-naturel servant
consented, probably after some reinon
STRANGE, and once outside she seems to
have found it quite as easy to pass the
stalwart darby and Pinkcrton's man,
both of whom had been instructed not
to allow her to pass them on any pre-
tense, though in no case to lay hands
on her or offer her any violence.
She hurried by them and down the
staircase toward tho east front OF the
hotel to the drug store Of Squair a. Co.,
S1,
mum and a like quantity of camphor.
The clerk looked at her doubtingly
when she made this demand, but she
assured him that she was troubled
with neuralgia in her shoulder, land the
pain was often 50 severe that she was
impelled to seek relief by bathing it in
the compound she had ordered. Still
the clerk hesitated, and finally consul
! ted the proprietor, who suspected the
real object for which the mixture was
desired, and concluding wisely that /.
little strategy was better than an absO-
lutte refusal, he told her that it should
be prepared for her, but that it would
take about ten minutes to put it up,
| hoping in this brief space of time to
find means of again placing her in the
control of her friends.
Without saying another word to
luuNcdtc NcE IItcIltAOH, Sic StepIcu cuI
to the sidewalk, called Il carriage from
the number always waiting there, and,
stepping quickly inside, drove to the
store of Rogers & Smith, scarcely Il
block away. The druggist to whom
she had first applied suspected her OBJ
Ject and hurried after her, as did Pink
erton's man. They arrived in time
to prevent her receiving it, even
though the compounder of drugs had
been disposed to give it to her. She
again turned to her carriage and drove
to William Dale's, two blocks further
away down Clark-st. The druggist
and policeman followed, and again she
failed to procure the deadly fluid. BY
this time it seemed to occur to her that
her prescription must have been COM
pounded at the first place TO which she
applied, so she again entered her car
rage and drove back to Squair's store
at the Pacific Hotel. A four-ounce
| vial was filled with a colorcd but harm
| less fluid and given her.
She grasped it eagerly and started
for her room, but had scarcely passed
beyond the door when she placed the
| vial to her lips and drained it of its