The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-04-28
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The Cincinnati papers contain the
PARTICULARS Of very pihtul tragedy at
The Farmers Hotel 10 that city, mother
and daughter being the victims, reference
10 which vas made in our dispatches OF
Thursday. The mother, herself only
thtrty.si1 years old, and very hand.
some woman, followed her daughter OF
sixteen ont into the world from the
shsker settlement II Whitewater The
grl VA. iond OF society, had grown tired
pt the Shakers, and wanted 10 see life in
.ueat city. She told her mother that
,sp would 90 alone II ahe did not accom-.
play her. The mother, 20 save her
daughter, knowing what would be
her fate, left the Shakers and
accompanied her, and both came
to Cincinnati with slender purse
to eek a livelihood as domestics. The
daughter was Wayward, not fond Of work
b1t fond Of dress and sight seeing. and it
Was hard to get or retain situation to-
gsther. The mother saw how things
we're going, became very desppndent and
tried by every means in her power to in
duo. her to return to the Settlement"
Olce she had her persuaded to do SO, and
the cloud lifted for a moment, but the
sirps caprice soon changed She had
read cheap novels and Dash plpsr' aud
wanted to zee the city oi her perverted
Imagination.
This mother cluug 10 her lNush.er, iol.
loving her from place to place, and both
become at last thoroughly weary and
broken in spirit. In this frame OF mind
they went to the Farmers Hotel and took
aroom, and the mother. eiihat known or
unknown TO the girl, mixed two deadly
potions OF morphia, one oi which the
daughter frat took and the other the
mother, after she had made sure that her
daughter waa safely on the way to death
The details OF the case alter the twain
we're found in tue room, the ore dead
4nd the other past all consciousness, and
4, they came out after their bodies had
bseu taken to the morgue, make up a
moving chapter OF misfortune" The
poor mother had been victimilsd in her
early life and had made her way with this
child, then year old, into the Shaker So.
ciely, and in that Society had found refuge
from the world and become hsppy sud
contented. It was to guard her daughter
from her own fate that she followed her
olt OF the Society to Cincinnati, and went
Tith her from place to place, hoping day
by day 10 induce her to return. One OF
the papers say that The Shakers would
not permit the girl to return, but
we're anxious to have the mother back.
Fhe mother, however, would not abandon
her daughter, and when at last ali hope
Vi providing for her in the city had lied,
she made and executed the desrer-
4:e resolve OF seeking ! home in
that undiscovered country where the
wicked cease from troubling and the
weary are at rest.' How this poor wo.
mans resolves were carried ont with
desperate tortitpde IS shown by !al:
letter to one who had beiriendad her, in
~bich she thus relera to her misiortunea
"Had it been in ny power to do any
!ting for you on this earth, how willing
" would | have done il. But l have
teen placed in situation where could
uot act my own will. Let bygones be
o7gones, and take the will tor the deed.
Yen remember that YOU were sor-
~ to see me so reckless, but
il /. not recklesness that causes me
TO DO this. The song says "all dark
clouds have silver lining" Mine
l.. so closely enveloped that ii can not be
penetrated. The refusal Of one thing and
The failure Of many things have brought
all this on. Persons whom relied upon
would not extend the hand Of authority
AZ they promised they would. There Is
not any one who is really Trustworthy,
Mortals, oh, mortals, how weak they are,
making such loud professions and fulfill.
ing none II YOU only knew one.hali !
have gone through you would shed tears
of sympathy. But do not expect any
one TO enter into my troubles and feel the
weight OF them. suppose it will sur
prise the folks when they hear it. have
nothing to censurs you ior on this earth
only hope YOU will take care OF your.
,eli aud meet me in heaven. My last
thought will be OF you, for Ida ia going
With me. Don't think me rash, for how
could see her go to ruin, as abe certainly
would ii she s!aid here"
We refer to this tragic occurrence 4, a
itting supplement to what We said the
other day about the dash literature that
is everywhere, even in Shakers Society
thrust into the hands OF the young. The
peruioious and poisoning influence oI
this literature made itself strikingiy
manifest 10 this Young girls case. Her
Imagination had been completely car.
RED captive. She WAS induced to put
herself outside Of the psle oil good
and wholesome influences, and dragged
With her one who could not live apart
from her under such perilous circum.
stances. and who at last preferred death
tor both rather than surrender mothers
guardianship over the precious destinies
ot her child, Truly there was a moral
hsrotsm in this womsn's dread sacrifice
that relieves it OF all the darkness OF
crime.
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