The morning news., 1888-06-20
SHE COULD FIND NO WORK
A Young Georgia Girl Driven to A-el-
ancholy and Suicide.
From The Neio York Sun.

People VINO i've near w dSnlngtOn square
have noticed young and unusually pretty
girl who almost every day in the last four
months walked past the gray university
building around into Washington place.
She was rather slight in stature, and modest
in dress and demeanor. She was of the
southern type of beauty dark haired, dark
eyed. and rich in complexion, but her face
wore almost constantly look of worry and
sorrow. The girl used to hurry along with
ont turning her eyes to right or left Her
iournevings began and ended each day at
% East Washington place, big boarding
house. No one of the dodgers in the house
ever got to know the girl we'll. All they
knew was that she was poor and lived with
her mother in an attic room.
Yesterday morning, little after o'clock
the mother raped at the door of Mrs.
Catherine o. Jordan, who keeps the lodging
house. and excitedly asked her to open the
street door, so that she might find her
Daughter Mrs. Jordan got up, had the
door unlocked, and called physician, who
lives in the house. They went out, and on
the fagstone in front of the stoop, they
found the girl dead, in her night dress. Her
skull and law were broken, and her face
was bruised and bleeding.
The body was carried into the house, and
then the story of the girls life began to
come out, little by little. She was Julia
Cargile, 19 years old. Her mother is Mrs.
Agnes L. Rhodes, whose grandfather was
the Baptist divine after whom Furman uni
versity, in Georgia, was named. She has
been twice widowed.
When Mrs. Rhodes found that her girl
was dead she became almost crazy. Rev.
John J. Brouner of the North Baptist
church, on Eleventh street, near Waverley
Mace was sent for. The mother and daugh-
Ter had joined his congregation two weeks
ago. He arrived at the house about O'Clock
a m. So great was Mrs. Rhodes grief that
some one had to be put in her room to watch
her. After she had Quieted a little she said
that she had been awakened about O'Clock
by her daughter moving about the room.
She saw her take pitcher and so out as if
for water Presently she heard footsteps
on the stairway to the roof, then she heard
little noise on the roof, and then at once,
before she could do anything, she saw a
white object fall in front of her window
She looked out, and on the pavement four
stories below was her daughter lying in
heap, motionless.
Mrs. Rhodes said that her daughter had
not been ill, but was occasionally melan-
choly. She was earnest and studious, and
when she was l6 years old had been gradu-
at Macon, Ga. Then Tor two years she at
tended an art school in Nashville. After
that they went to Texas, and some time
early this year they came to New York
Julia expected to study at Cooper Institute
''She was naturally pious and conscien-
tious," said Mrs Rhodes. land had been
member of the church since she was II
years old. Lately she had been devotiug
her mind good deal to the alleged discov-
cries of the Metaphysical University in
Bond street, which had, believe, a power
full effect upon her"
The Rev. Mr.. Brouner announced from
the pulpit at the morning service the death
of the GIRL and some of the ladies of the
church went to Mrs. Rhodes to care for her.
She will need attention." said Mr.. Brou-
ner, 'for she seems not to have friend in
the city. She is woman of culture and of
pride, and l imagine has met with re-
verses"
Coroner's physician. Dr. O'Meagher,
thinks that Miss Cargile committed suicide
while suffering from acute melancholia.
The cause seems to have been altogether
the lack of money. So far as can be learned
both the mother and daughter were largely
dependent upon themselves. They went to
Texas, after leaving Nashville, some time
in the last year, and there the mother ex-
pected to give lessons in music, and the
daughter in art. An acquaintance tells
this, and says that Texas proved an unfruit-
full field, and they decided to try New York
Julia was particularly sensitive about their
poverty. Casting about for something to
do she heard in some way of the Meta
physical University" at 81 Bond street,
and being led to believe she could get EN-
ployment there she wrote even while she
was in the south about the matter. The
Metaphysical University" is a queer shop
that has been on Bond street. near Third
avenue, for twenty years. 1t occupies an
old-fashioned dwelling on the southside of
the street, broad brick building of three
stories and an attic, with big marble
stoop and fiuted marble pillars at the en-
trance There are big wooden signs on the
house which read
Metaphysical University
Mrs NJ. @. Browns Metaphysical Discovery.
Kills the Root of All Disease.
Scalp Renovator-Ear Preparation.
The Celebrated Poor Richards Eye Water.
The president of the university Is a
weak, voluable little woman Of 45 years,
more or less, with not an extra ounce of
flesh, a big nose, and very black hair, parted
scrupulously in the middle, plastered down
on each side over her ears, and done up in a
severely plain knot behind. She talks at
the rate of 100 words a minute in sub
dued voice, and almost every third sentence
IS quotation from Holy Writ. She is
Miss Elizabeth Billsland, but for business
purposes she styles herself Mrs. M. q.
Brown. Her mother, shs says, was an
English woman, to whom great spiritual
revelations were made. These revelations
Miss Billsland relates were impaired to her.
One OF tho revelations Is to be accomplished
not by putting medicines into the mouth,
Dut by applying them to the scalp, the ears
and the eyes. This is the way she puts it in
q pamphlet she calls 1.-The Metaphysician"
The hair is a field of grass; the eyes are
pants; the sight of the eye is a metaphysical
pant messengerto the mind. The tonguei is O
plant of no ordinary character. The teeth are
SHRUBS with roots far down in the earth, which
uenand moisture-as q necessity passed into
tne system through the eyes, ears and scalp
watering pots devised by God for the use OF the
people IN watering the plants of their bodies.
The eye water she makes by the barrel or
the premises, and sells for 81 bottle, the
ear medicine costs SO, and the scalp medi
cine 81. Miss Billsland has just the
motherly, sympathetic manner which might
attract an untutored young girl in trouble
and 1t does not appear strange to those who
Knew Miss Carglle slightly that she should
nave imagined, in her supposed financial
distress, that she could do some work in the
Metaphysical University" and make some
money to meet her needs She wrote to
bliss Billsland in March that she was poor
and would be glad to give her services IL
return for room in the Bond street house
LOT her mother and herself. Her mother
old not know of this offer Miss Billslanc
could not accommodate them. Then Mis-