The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-10-28

ran away. not ono Of them would have /
escaped Death
Erasuus Hemmingwny and the other .
murdered and dying victims of The con- /
spiracy we're tenderly lit d from the F.
ground and carried to their homes
Lucv, with her mother and two chill |
dren "a second child, q girl. having
been born TO them reached home In
advance of those who bro ght her
wounded husband. They had heard
the most terrible umors, and were tor
tured by the most horrible fears, but
were in Ignorance of what lad actually
occurred until men came bearing the
bleeding body with its unconscious face
and laid It at their leet To those who
can not image the agony of these low
ing hearts no description which the
writer could give would convey any
meaning whatever Erastus lived until
morning He was unconscious during
the whole time, and died without q
word or look of recognition of those
about him. while wife and mother and
children poured forth their anguish i'm
tears and sobs as they watched the
pulsng OF the heart grow fainter and
fainter and felt the hands which they
clasped become colder and colder, as the
death-damp gathered upon the brow Of
him they loved.
When he was buried these two lone
and widowed women, the one i'm the
prime of life, the other bowed and
broken and gray with years and sorrow,
but more with sorrow than with years,
returned to their dcsolate home TO clasp
two fatherless children to their breasts,
and weep and moan, living in daily
fear of other attempts at eviction and
other tragedies until such time rs death
shall come to them, or until the whole
people shall waken from their slumbers,
throw Off the fatal spell which binds
them, and demand that justice be done,
and reparatiOn made so far as may be.
Walking down one of the principal
streets of Chicago one day recently l
met Ensign, the husband OF Jennie Par
sons. He was not as well dressed as
when last saw him, and his greeting
had less of self conf leuCe and manly
| Independence than formerly. In truth,
| l think he intended to pass without
| speaking, but ! stopped HIM and held
| out my hand.
How do you do, l said; land how
| is Jennie aud the babies?'
"Thev are well, or as well as could
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He besftotod q little and thon said.
lob at one of the mills, but was sfcL
, with the fever for time, and when
, rot up again could Get no steady EN-
plovmen., and we were forced to rem
[ some rather poor rooms on -- street
fronting on the railroad track. Well
the railroad company claimed tn,
2 ground that this building and other
2 stood on and wanted possession, so tne,
ordered us put out without ceremony
2 came home from a long tramp afte
q worI, one day and found Jennie and thu
3 children on t sidewalk with W hat few
household goods we had lett, cryu,
their eyes out with fear and anxiety.
"And then what?'' l asked, sccing
{ that he hesitated again.
e "Well, was out Of money, and rem
S had TO be paid in advance, and as w
/ had nothing to pay with, and could no
] borrow, we moved into an Old buIldln!
| with another family down by the N Ter
@ until l can find work and rent a bette
place. We don't call it living; it ism
g liyingi its only iusta camping; but wha
10 can fellow doP assure yQu there ar
t hundreds OF other families in the cit
. who are equally bad off, "
C
l The story Driven from Sea TO Sea-
t is tinished-nO, not finished. JON
+ Parsons and Erastus Hemmingwav ar
s dead. One sleeps with his cripple
o child upon the mountain side; one lie
buried i'm the valley, side by side wit