The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-21
mrs. MOML's wAsHINGTON LETTER
washington wcatber-A Mysterious
suicide-LOckwood HiiI Imbrogiio
--riIdeu Can Heat the Democrat
cy-Lectures, Etc, Etc.
Correspondence of The Herald,

WArlIlNGToN, MArun ~, lSSV'
We are having spell of weather" Tues
day OF last week dawned on a severe storm
Tuesday of This week rises clad in grey, weep
ing son. misty tears over the soaked earth
Twice during the interval between tho tw'
Tuesdays has the sun essayed 10 shine. Oh
Sunday, as was meet, he goneda brilliant vic
tory over the clouds hut alas II was shor
as II was GLORIOUS Yesterday dim, colder
hueilumined the leaden sky for few heotinl
moments, then faded into tho thick, uncom
promising grey that now spans tho Garth
If l write q dull, monotonous, gloomy,
sombre letter, attribute il to the weather.
We are having one dismal sensation aher
another. The weather seems settling into
peoples souls and giving them gloomy
views of the future, resulting in despair or
obscuring the light of conscience and leaving
them to their own devices.
Yesterdays evening papors had an account
Of most mysterious suicide, the cause of
which no clue has appeared, amid the tumult
ofwild conjecture and excitement which it
has occasioned. Mr.. and Mrs. Riley, two
steady, industrious, middle-aged working poo-
pie, one carriage driver to a Mr. Holiday,
the other cook in Mr.. Bakers family
we're found dead in Mr.. Riley's room over
the stable yesterday morning. Mrs. Riley
usually slept at the house when she worked,
while he had his own room, MS / have stated.
over the stable at Mr. Holi-
days. They were childless, comfortably
well off, very fond of each other, and when
last seen alive were going out together from
Mr.. Bakers house for Sunday evening
walk, he having called for her for that pur,
pose. 1t was Riley's business to open the
gate TO let the stable man in early in the
morning, and the man was surprised not only
to find the gate locked, but to be unable to
rouse Riley. He finally went
to the front door and awakened
Mr.. Holiday, who went with him to Ridley's
room, and receiving no answer either to
knock or call, opened the door to see Riley
undresscd and lying dead on the bed, while
his wife knelt with her head and arms on the
bed, having evidently fallen forward out OF
the chair, which wa, tilted over, resting on
her back. She was also dead, though not
cold as her husband was. The entire alb
sence Of any proof Of violence
the fact that all the avenues of entrance from
without we're locked on the inside, go &c
show that either intentionally or by accident
they had killed themselves. She had appar.
emily begun to undress, but was seized with
the death struggle before she could do so
Her bonnet lay on the floor by her eide and
her shoes in front Of her.
The absence of any known cause fol
suicide, utterly confuses any attempt &c
solve what will probably always remain .
mystery. No trace Of poison was found il
the room, nor did the post,mortem examina
ton reveal more than very slight traces of {
possibility of poison. There is no impecu
nious heir to be benefited by tho untimely
taking off, as they have no relatives here a
all, So YOU see the papers may rejoice in 0
genuine mystery of the first magnitude.
/ have found solution of Mrs. Lock
woods bitter denunciation Of Senator Hill
and the avidity with which she seized upor
pretext to annoy him. He opposed what i
known as the "Belva Lockwood bill" in tn,
Senate. This is the bill allowing women t,
practice in the United States Supreme court
and Mrs. Lockwood is said to have vowet
ssto be even" with every Senator who opposed
her understand Senator Morgan also op
<posed this bill, which may account for Mrs
tockwood's enthusiastic advocacy Of Ms
Norton's cause. Now, understand me, l d.
not think Mrs. Lockwood would engage II
any Matchmaking attempt, knowing it to b
UGH, for any consideration whatever. Bu
Revenge Is sweet especially to women,
saws Byron, and this swe trevenge has powe
70 change falsehood into truth to serve Il
own ends; so that think Mrs. Lockwood,
has unconsciously persuaded herself tina
what she wanted to be true was true. Sh
has AN illustrious example of the power {
such argument always before her eyes, an
we can't blame her for following i
IIMr. Houses speech was grand in It's plair
,,nyarnished statement of the truth. Th
answers 10 Il were like answering Krupp
yuns with pea shooters. Mr.. Butterwort
displayed considerable ingenuity in "wres
ing the truth to his own destruction" ar
gets scored mercilessly by Buell. in the SUI
day "Capitop for mis9uoting hir
/ am glad to find that Buell. agrees wi
me in thinking that Samuel Iilden
the only man who can beat the Dem
cratic party in November IL doesr
matter who Is the Republican nominee; 81
body can beat Tilden, and nobody can be
Bayard, Seymour, Hancock, or any 9th
good man. II the Republicans succeed
their efforts to get Tilden nominated thu
are safe TO win. The excitement IL grown
more intensc every day.
The Blaine club has It's rooms on + stre'