Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-16

improved the opportunity to withdr n.
md we got the gas-iamp without Lambs
signature. The case of Magruder's
Maria against Mr.. and Mrs. achilles
Lamb comes up in September, and Maria
announces her intention to carry it to
The Supreme Court if she can't get justice
any other way.-Afar Adeler.
ANN LOAHMAN's GRAVE.
30 Many vi it"rs tlsnt The Grass Is Worn
Away about the Mound.
In a neglected lot on the north side of
the Second avenue of Sleepy Hollow =.
Cemetery at Talrytown, about hundred
yards east of the main entrance, on the
road leading to Sing Sing, is the grave Of
the notorious Ann Lehman, better known
as Madam Restell Tho lot, which does
not contain tree or shrub of anv sort,
is irregular in shape, its twenty feet of
depth at Its western boundary diminish
ing to twelve or fourteen ct its easterly
end. 1t las a forntage of perhaps the lar
ger figure on the avenue. Square posts
of rough hewn stone, connected by rusty
iron chains, serve as fence for the lot.
The chains between the middle posts in .
front are broken down, and lie trodden
into the ground. They were so broken to
allow the entrance Of Madam Restell's
coffin, and have not been restored. In .
the centre Of the lot is an eblong pedestal
of white marble. surmounted by glass
case, enclosed with marble top and cor-,-
ners. In the case is the undraped figure
of a sleeping infant cut in marble. The
right hand and arm arb used for pillow,
on which the head reposcs, with the face
turned toward the avenue. The left arm
is thrown across the breast. One leg care
iessly crosses the other. The figure is
about two feet long, and the receptacle is
large enough ard wide enough to hold it :
conveniently. The case is about four fee:
from the ground, and you can inspect the
| figure without much STOPPING, but the
| glass is SO dimmed with dust and dew
that only at the ends can satisfactory
view be obtained.
| Immediately under the figure on the
| side facing the avenue are the lines:
Hush! tread light our child is sleeping;
! Her life on earth is DER;
/ Vacant hearts at home are weeping,
!, She sleeps to weep no. more.
/ On the reverse side is the inscriptions:
daughter of Isaac L. and Caroline 8. Purdy.
Born Jan. Z, 1855. Died Feb. l, 1859.
} At the end toward the west is the ad-
ditional inscription:
Also. Florence Annie. Born Dec. 1, 1860.
Died March %, 1858.
Except that the glass portion is 80
clouded as not to be transpart ut, the
monument has the appearance of being
constantly cared for, the marble being
remarkably white and we'll preserved,
notwithstanding its exposuse to the
weather for more than twenty years.
,, In striking contrast TO the condition of
the monument is the appe. rance of the
!, lot itself. The grass grows wild, where
it does grow, and has evidently never
known the scythe. Only in patches does
it attain to any length for in all direc-
;, tons it is trampled down and worn away
; ~ the tread of many feet. Unlike the
bright green turf of the surrounding en-
closures, it is dingy in color, and every
! where the yellow sand shines through. its
scattered roots. To complete the look
:. of nj glect, the leaves of dogwood tree
= = on a lot near by written the ground.
:, The grass is the most worn away be-
j tween two graves VI ich lie lengthw:se
with the heads toward the Avenue i'm.
Immediately in froEt of the monument oil
;: the Purdy children. There, only the
! bare earth appears. The easterly grave
:. Is that Of Ann L0hmsn. The other is hel
:. husbands. No stone or Inscription
!. serves to distinguish the husbands grave
3 from the wife's, or to tell which il
. the head or foot of either. Although
- raised the later, the mound over Mrs
Lohman's grave is more sunken than ii
: companion, and the turf has an oldel
- look.
y, The neglected lot with two stoneles
er graves and single monument is mon
70 visited than any other enclosure il
hf Sleepy Hollow cemetery The fist in
he quiry that visitors make is, ''Where i
Madam Restell's grave?" and more per
. y SONS come to see it than visit the forme
r. place of pilgrimage where Washington
70 Irving is buried. It is estimated tina
- nearly hundred persons week hav
80 80 visited the Lehman lot since MADAM
- Reslell's burial there the first week Il
of April. The visitors, small majority Q
women, are we'll dressed. They are mainl
70 from the surrounding towns of New
nd burgh. Sing Sing, and other Hudso
river hamlets.
re- Before Mrs. Lcbman's grave was CO,
nj ereu with turf, some Of the visitors too
to away handful or more efthe sandy go
ed of which the mound ls made. This ws
no done to sufficient extent to account a
he most tor its diminished size as compare
: wi,hits companion. It was also the a.
ras OF relic hunters, dressed richly. and pr
a ), Tossing to be persons OF social cons
" quence. Few of the visitors go awe
d, without calling attention to the misa
* propriateness Of the figure of an infa
M forming the only monument in the bu
!, ial yard of Madam Restell, which Il
NV graved1gger explains is that of her gran
,ts children.
There is no time. perhaps, during t
Sne entire service, when man is so forcis
struck with the beauty of the elegant q
'no signs on the opposite walls of a chur
lrs. edifiice. as when the contribution box