Louisiana capitolian., 1880-09-09

He stood over her as pale as herselt-
dumbfoundod, horror-stricken and In
despair. His eyes were rivetted upon the
upturned face Of hor who was dearer TO
him than all the world beside. But in .
moment his aspect changed; his eyes had
the bright look Of great hopes. He was
now animation, and, dropping his Ak, he
no reached forward and gently, but won.
derfully quick, raised biS darling TO his
breast, and, stepping down, strobe rap
idly toward hiS home with bic precious
burden. Not . word had been spoken
by either party.
The amazed men could ssy nothing.
They respeeol'lsSs. They Thought that
Harry Kews was a maniac, and had taken
from them proper subject for burial.
But they appreciated their situation,
aud saw that 1t WAS impossible to have
u funeral properly without 4 corpse, and
that was tho thing they now lacked. 70
they turned about az sooon a. their
a,nazcment would permit and followed
tho course taken by KewS. Before they
could overtake him he had disappeared
through The doorway. They saw him
~ he entered, but concluded that it
would be a dangerous task to try and
secure him and got the corpse without
additional help, and so they drove on,
aud searched tho sadly -depopulated
place for assistance. After some tino
they had got together all the force that
conld spared, and then proceeded on
their way.
Upon throwing open the door their
an,azement knew no bounds when they
saw that their supposed corpse was sit
ting up and leaning hor head upon
the shoulder of her devoted husband.
while he was administering medicine to
her. And what was better, she was able
to talk to him. Tho unbidden guests
soon saw that terrible mistake had
barely beon prevented, and as quietly as
possible most of tbom withdrew, only
two remainin /, to help all in their power
to save tho noble woman who had near
Iy given her life for tho good of others.
There is but little more to tell. II il
necessary to say, before concluding, how
ever, that one Of the neighbors Of the
Kews family had come 10 after Horoy
had been gono trom home and hour OF
two, and had found Nellie lying upon
tho floor apparently dead, and rushing
from tho house told tho first person she
mot that there was corpse at tho Kews'
house and tho proper parties had gons,
as soon AZ they could attend to it, and
had her boxed, and were of for burial
when they met tho husband on the road,
az related ab"ve, and which prevented
u terrible catastrophe. am unable ia
explain why the parties did not let The
husband know of tho death of his wife
but they did not. (The writer Of This
story wishes to soy, right here, that the
last sentence, as we'll as the essential
part of this Article, in true, or was rela
ted TO him by parties in whom he had
implicit confidence, as facts.)
Tho only theory can give for not do
ng so is this; they supposed Nellie was
actually dead, and they knew Of tht
great love between them, and thought
that Harry might insist upon keeping
tho body with him for some time, there
by endangeripg tho lives Of himself and
Others Nellie soon was us we'll as usual
but kind husband prevented her from
over -exertion, aud 20 they both safely
passed through tho plague without fur
thor mishap, and, am pleaaod to add
lived many happy years in each other
society-long enough, in fact, to toll tn
story of their great experience during
tho cholera season Of 1888 to their grand
children, of how their kind old grand
mother was all but buried.
We suggest the formation Of . com
mittce of papers. two from New Orlean
and two from the country, they to selec
third. which committee will hav
authority to name tho time and selec
tle place for holding tho convention
Wo nominate the Times and Bee of New
Orleans, the CApIT0LfAN of Baton Roug
and the Chief of Donaldsonville aH tn
Observation-Disclosures Vindicator.
We thank our contemporary for tn
compliment " h;ch his selection Of til
Chief implies, but as majority Of th
papers iudorsing tho convention projec
Including both the CArIr0LlAN an
Chief--have expressed willingness t
, Baton Rouge on tho first Monday Of o.
tober, we feel conlindent the Vindicato