The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13

familiar with the story. Many want me
mCntO too, and the head of Washington
broken of and carried away by visitors
has been three times renewed. Boys o
the nation find il easier to get ahead u
Washington now than did the men o.
l776.
All my life long I've kccn looking lol
n perfect woman; now when ! find ont
she's dead Just my luck But the
brief and feeble tribute to the departed
worth which find on her tomb shall 20
impcri.hably ON record in these classic
columns.
"rO the Memory of Mrs. Katharine
ROvCy Whose Person and Understanding
would have become the highest Rlnkc
in Female Life, and whose vivacity
wOu'd have recommended Her in our
best conversation, But by Judgment as
well rs by inclination she chose such n
retirement as gave her great opportuntys
for Reading and Reflection which she
made use of to the Wiscst purposes OF
improvement in knowledge and Re
ligion, Upon other subjects she ycnturcd
far out of the common way Ot thinking,
but in Religious matters she made the
Holy Scriptures, in which she was well
Skilled, the Rule and Guide of her Faith
and Action, Estccming il more safe To
rely upon the plain word of God than to
run into any freedoms Of thought upon
rcycald Truths. Thcgrcat share Of Time
allowed to the Closet was not perceived
in her economy, for she had always u
well ordered and well instructed family
from the happy influence rs well Of her
temper and conduct as Of her uniform
and Exemplary Christian life. 1t pleased
God to bless her with Il considerable es-
tate, which with liberal hand, guided
by Wisdom and Picty, she impIoycd to
his glory and the good of her ncighbors.
Her domestic expenses were managed
with dcccncy and Dignity suitable To
her Fortune, but with a Frugality that
made her Income abound to all proper
objects of Charity, to the relief of the
necCSsitouS, the Encouragement Of the
Industrious, and instruction of the lgno-
rant She distributed not only with
chcarInlncSs but with joy, which upon
some occasions of raising and refreshing
the spirit of the Afflicted she could not |
refrain from breaking forth into tears
flowing from heart thoroughly effected
with compassion and BcnovoIcncc: Thus
lid many Of her good works while she
lived go up AS memorial before God,
md some she left 10 follow her. She
ly'd Ian p, J7267, in the 57th year OF
Age" This monument explains why
people ride 50 much in hansomS nova
lays instead Of driving about in their
carriages. In 1852 Thomas Thyme, Esq,
was shot in his own coach hy three hired
nssaSinS, while driving through Pail
Mall The story is told with every cir
cumstantiality in sculpture. The poor
gentleman sits in his coach, and you see
the assaSsins firing their blundcrbusScs
in at the window, while the coachman
whips up his horses. The murder waSl
trac Il homc--thc instigation Of ito
Count KonigSmarck (who could see no
way of marrying Thynnc's wife without
first making her a widow; but he was
never hanged for il, | believe. Indeed,
don't know but he is buried in the alb
'cy, too.
Another reminder of our rcbclliouS
ountry. william Wragg, ESqo" OF
'outh Carolina when the colonies re-
oIlcd, took part withg good King George,
nd sailed for England, but was wrecked ,
nd lost off the coast of Holland. 1t
ouldn't have gone much worse with him
ad he stayed in South Carolina till
ow-unlcss indeed, he had bought the
onds Of the state; Januarysand IuIys