Daily Republican., 1885-07-10
TH|R D EDITION,
RI liladeiphia IteIns.
A ri OVER GIRLS DEATH.

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The green scum on the stagnant water
Ia the zigksg gutter that meanders
through Laithgow street, above Oxford
was unruffl ID by the slightest breath Of
air at O'Clock Cd Thursday evening
when wan faced, tired. little eight
year old girl, Maggie O'Herra, turned
the corner and trudged wearily up the
narrow pavement A woman in .
calico dress stood at the door of a small
brown frame house, wiping the marks
of toll from her forehead with her apron
and pushing back the thin locks OF hel
gray hair.
"Did yez sell all yer flowers, Mag
gie?" she asked.
"No," ~ piled the girl, "only quar-.
tsr's worth. Nobody would buy. II
was 30 warm"
"Oi thou ght the child looked sick, 81
Mrs. O'Hefra said afterwards. "She'd
been sellin flowers all day, but me
wasbiR' was to be finished. so oi went
back to me work while she went up
stairs"
When Mrs. O'Herra went up stairs
after awhile the street lamp on the cor,
ner had been lighted and the reflection
partly relieved the hot gloom of the
room. The puny child on the bed WAS
lying gasping, with pallid face, The
white features shone clearly in the
semi darkness.
Why, child, what's ailin' yez.'
asked the harp voiced mother in alarm
She tut tned her big eyes on me.
related Mrs. O'Herra bet weep her sobs,
"eyes like the pretty blue flowers "
say CROWN in the corners OF the yellow
whate fields, an she SEE, seZ she, an
sweriu' me, 'nothin, mither only I'm
tired"
A little puff of breeze blew the blood
red petals from geranium in POI
on the window sill, but it entered too
late. Ma answering breath came from
the child Oh the bed. The blue eyel
halt closed and the tender red lip,
dropped sadly.
"Oi only knowsd that she was dead
when the hand oi was holdin' growec
cold" mo oaned Mrs. O'Herra, twisting
her bony fingers. Her screams of agony
brought the policeman from the corne
and through him the Coroner was Motif
ed that c hild Syears cid had died sud
denly at 9 o'clock on Leitbgow street
above Oxford.
AN INSANE MANS STRANGE CONDUCT
W. p. Fenimore, former pupil o
the Pennsylvania Institution for tn,
instruction of the Blind. was arrested
in Louisville on Thursday for strang,
actions at the Short Line Railroa,
station. He had driven passengers ou
of the room, and, after throwing ava,
his clothes, was standing thcuShtfull,
before mirror was found to be vic
leatly insane, and was taken TO tn
station house, where he recovered sutli
ciently to say that he was from Phila
deiphia. He left this city about a yea
ago, after teaching music for severa
years in private families, and went 3
Baton Rong for the purpose of becom
ing professor of music in the Stat
Institution there. Before leaving h
married Miss Clara Simpson, of thi
city, who remained behind when h
made his last trip South. She ha
not heard from him for several weel
until the news of his insanity suddenl
arrived last evening.
PEACE FOR THE SOUTHWARK MILLS
Tho diff culties in the Southwal
weaving Mills of Furbush * Co. ha'
been settled to the advantage OF Il
employees, who were turned out ov
W6th ago UbCdusS tbt tbplOy6
feared a strike. The mills resum,
work to-day. The arbitration over Il
bill of grievances presented by Il
hands has resulted in the followil
concessions in the scale OF wage
weavers are hereafter to receive
cents and mills, an advance of ce
on double beaver woolens; cents al
8mills, ! cent advance, and an ext
a cent GU all work employing ov
three shuttlts. Loom -ixers are to l
ceive SIG week, an advance OF
cents; drsssers, sl5 week, An advau
of ST. dyehouse hands, 50, an advau
of 81 80, and an advance of ce
on dress goods and l cen. on corkscr,
cloth.