Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-25

Some Entertaining MOrsels by Way
Of New York.

OF New YORK.
The New York Herald publishes a COS
sipv letter from San Francisco, which,
among other things, contains the follow
ing: "Curious and deductive people are
beginning TO ask whether there is not
something sinister In the accidental shoot
ing of young wives by their husbands
pistols. The Herald readers will very well
remember that only a few weeks ago dis
patches from this city bore the sad intelli-
gence that Mrs. J. V. Coleman had acci-
dentally shot herself while unpacking her
husbands valise, and then the next day
that she had died. AT that time this story
was accepted unquestioningly, but when a
few DAYS ago Mrs. T. H. Williams acciden-
tally shot herself with a self-cocking pistol
people fell to head shaking over this coin
cidence. Assemblyman Coleman-for be-
sides being q nephew Of the late W. s..
O'Brien he is State ~Assemblyman from
San Mateo county-is now in New York,
and il may interest him to know and af-
ford him an opportunity for a needed
denial that since his departure 1t has be-
come current rumor that Mrs. Coleman1s
death was not exactly accidental. 1t is
talked of on the streets, at the clubs and
over the family dinner table. What ID
thus said is this: That Mrs. Coleman was
q corpulent woman, and by no means given
to such exercise as that of packing or un-
packing luggage; that she was warm-tem-
| pered and jealous and had been distracted
| by anonymous letters, and that she had re-
| ceived one Of these on the morning of the
accident. 1t Ia further freely said here
| that the published accounts OF Nine. Cole
mans injuries were confused and contra
| dictory; that one OF the attendant physi-
| clans taxed the lady with the self-infiction
| Of her wounds, and that she acknowledged
such to be the case; and finally, that after
| having lived q strict Catholic, she was
| buried in a Protestant cemetery. But all
this may be merely the idle gossip OF the
street.
Upon the suicidal aspects OF Mrs. Will
Jams adventure there is no disposition at
| all toward retioence. Mrs. Williams was
| Miss Susie McMullin, one Of the fashion
| able bellies Of San Francisco. Williams is
| the son Of General Thomas II. Williams.
| The McMullins and the Williamses were
both from Virginia and were at feud for
generations-vere, in fact. among the
Montagues and Capulets Of that State.
| Following the example of the old Veronese
| love story, Miss Susie fell In love with
Master Thomas. DETECTING from the story
she then quarrelled with him, engaged
| herself to a young lawyer named Hanlon,
| Tilted him, few to the telephone and en-
| gagged herself to her Thomas. They were
married, and since that event have lived
on Union Island. This Is nothing more
than a reclaimed piece Of tule, swamp land,
Of which there are 80 many in the delta
OF the Sacramento and San Joaquin
rivers. These islands are formed Of the
rich soil washed down from the two
great central valleys, and when they can
be kept free from water are wonderfully
productive. Gen. Williams has been q
large investor in the acclamation scheme,
and has spent ~unreturned millions In
drainage and levee building. Besides be-
ing wonderfully productive, the islands Of
The San Joaquin delta are wonderfully des-
olste. They .-e "a: as a billiard table, de-
void OF all timber except a few stray elders
and cottonwood, and abound in gophers
and the wickedest mosquitoes in the
countryside. Upon this bleak spot, as
apart from social intercourse as though the
island had been in midooean, Mr.. and
Mrs. Williams made themselves o home.
The young husband-he is not much more
than q boy-soon experienced ennui, and
the young wife was lost and dreary with
out her society, and so people said little
but smiled q great deal when they heard
that her husbands Q SHOCKING pistol had
accidentally gone of while in her hands.
"There is not exactly blood upon the
face OF the moon. but there is evidently a
shooting scrape impending, and when 1t
"a .N-nA M ~ thn AhnFnn
ousrrellers will surely 60 down. The
troubles Of Sarah Althea and her dear
Sem have been told ad nsusesm, and re-
Gently the San Francisco papers to the ex-
clusion Of good news, have been filled with
, the disgraceful rsnting and roaring and
threatening of the plaintiff and the attor-
neys on both sides. Loaded canes have
been fourished. Derringers reached for
/ and six-shooters exposed. The whole
a amount Of it Ia somebody will surely be
shot, and the sentiment OF the community
is that the more somebodies there are the
J better. Sarah Althes is either carrying
! out the settled scheme OF laying the
, groundwork for an insanity plea or her
: brain has become added by the most head
! breaking OF all worries-fghting q rich
' man in the law courts. When the light
! ming does strike. so everybody says, 10 will
strike high. Althea's friends have
nearly all deserted her, the last to cline
being Judge David Terry, and everybody
says, too. that the fatality Of the Brodericl
8 duel hangs over him and that he viii
A surely die with his boots on.
= "there Ia much amusement here in so
0 ciety circles over the ludicrous fact, which
y IL has been found impossible to suppress
that Just before Sir Thomas and Lsdl
9 Hesketh's last visit they sent over q bundle
. OF the Resketh ~liveries to Senator Sharon
q the landlord Of the Palace Hotel. Thes'
were forwarded TO Menlo Park, and. de
spite Q small riot, the Sharon servant
were invested In knee-breeches and be
d frogged coats. One of the 'pamperet
Il menisls' having ventured out in thi
. attire was bounced upon by the small boy
. of the village ss the avant courier OF
a circus"