The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-07-19

bins Recalls TO Mind.
Wilbur M. Dobbins, journalist, who died
at the home of his father in Philadelphia
on Friday was well known six or seven or
ten years ago to the many res dents Of this
city. He was the son of minister, and
had just come from Princeton College,
where he graduated with honor. In the
college he wrote occasionally for the
papers, and his racy and interesting style
of telling story on paper brought offers
of work to him from several newspapers.
Finally he accepted billet on one of the
newspapers in this city as local, and
made mighty good one too. He formed
| connections at the same time with the
New York papers, and the prospect ahead
was bright enough to induce him to think
of marrying. He courted brilliant young
woman named Silvers living in Railway.
She was well connected, but preferring to
be independent. was then teaching a
school in that city. The wedding was q
brilliant affair, and after the knot had
been tied, the happy couple went to Ger
many. There they entered the University
of Heidelberg, and applied themselves to
their books, with all the assiduity and
more than the ardor of school children
After a two years absence they returned to
this State, and settled down in Railway.
Things were as merry as the wedding bells
till Dobbins yielded to the seduction that
| few newspaper men, tempted every hour
of the day, have the grit to resist. His
| style of writing lostdts attractiveness. His
ambition fickered and then went out. He
did not forget his home or his family,
but business wents from him, and he got
along only indifferently till finally he was
stricken with consumption. Then unable
to provide for his, family, he sought his
| fathers home in Philadelphia, and Mrs.
Dobbins, with heBkehildren, went to live
with relatives. The separation was hard
for her to bear especially at time when
her husbands declining health needed her
tender attention. ana she sought en-
| ployment in the schools again. She was
| given class in the school at Linden. The
income was moderate, and her husband
concluded not to burden her with his care.
She would not be satisfied till she was in a
| position to take care of him, and the Prin-
cipalship of the school becoming vacant
two or three months ago, she made appiica-
ton forit. She was known to be teacher
of excellent Judgment and ripe experience,
and her application was received with
favor. The prospective promotion would
place at her command enough to enable
her husband to rejoin her in modest quar-
tiers, and she hired little house and found
delight in preparing it for his coming. He
was meantime getting weaker and weaker,
and the separation from his family was
perceptibly affecting his spirits. He
looked forward with no less JOY than his
wife to the anticipated reunion. His wife
overtaxed her strength in the Jealous pur-
suit of her object. A slight cold attacked
her. She gave it no attention at ike start
but went bravely forward with her prepar-
ations till she was forced to take to her
bed. symptoms of the dreaded diptheria
developed themselves. She became
rapidly worse, and on the very day on
which she was to have become Principal
of the school she died. The shock of hel
death unnerved her husband, and doubt.
less fastened his end. The unfortunate
couple leave family of bright children tc
mourn their loss.