Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-07
Death Comes Most Tenderly,
Even Smoothing Out the
Wrinkles of Age.
THE END COMES AT 1:35.
Swinburne, the Foe Of Gladstone,
May Succeed Him as Laureate.
BABY BRIDES In INDIA MUST GO.
Pope Leo XIII. Is dissatisfied With the
Quirinals Promises
A RUM0R THAT DAH0MAY is WHIPPED

LONDON, Oct 6-England's Poet Lau.
reate is dead. The end which was dreaded
for several days came at 1:35 o'clock this
Morning.
Hon. Hallam Tennyson, the poets son,
says that his fathers death was eminently
peaceful He did not show a single trace
of suffering to distress his sorrowing rela-
tives and friends. Once or twice during the
night he lifted his eyes to the face of the
watchers by his bedside, and a smile played
over his features No doubt as to the
future was in his wan face, and as the end
came he appeared to fall asleep. So restful
was he and so calmly did he respond to the
reckoning hand of the angel of death that
those who stood beside him scarcely knew
that he passed away. Hallam further saws
that Lady Tennyson bears up with fortitude
under the sorrow that has come to her. She
was with Lord TenDyson throughout all his
sickness, and ministered to all his wants so
far as in her power.
Hallam Ternvson is now so i'll as to be
confined to his bed.
He Meets Death With Shakespeare.
A friend of the family states that yester-
day afternoon, during waketul moment,
Lord Tennyson asked for copy of Shakes
peare, and with his own hands turned the
leaves until he found the dirge in "Cym-
beline." Then he fixed his eyes on the
pages, but he did not speak, and whether
he read the lines or not is not known. Soon
he again passed into slumber, and his left
hand rested on the open book until he
passed away.
Lord Tennyson spoke to his wife about an
hour before he died, and mis- words to her
were the last he uttered. Lady Tennyson
bent over her dying husband, and he whls-
pered few words to her. His features in
death bear look Of absolute peace.
The body of Lord Tennyson lies on the
bed on which he died. He looks Is years
younger than before death, the lines and
wrinkles on the face being less apparent.
The beard, which was unkempt in life, has
been carefully trimmed, the hands are
folded over the chest; laurel wreath
crowns the head, and another lies at the
feet.
To Be Buried in Westminster Abbey.
The Canon of Westminster Abbey has
formally invited Hallam Tennyson to bury
his father in Westminster Abbey. The
funeral will be public The Bishop of Win
chester will preach the funeral sermon in
the Haslemere Church on Sunday
The Pal Nal Gazette SAYS Mr.. Gladstone
will appoint Algernon Swinburne to the
post of Poet Laureate made vacant by the
death of Lord Tennyson. 1t quotes from a
recent article in the Speaker written by Mr.
Gladstone entitled 'British Poetry in the
Nineteenth Century. - After awarding
Tennyson the palm Mr.. Gladstone wrote:
pressing upon him or walking in the same
path we have had many true poets, some
extraordinary and many of very consider
first of these descriptions We have men,
toned Browning and merest justice requires
that we add Swinburne." The Pail Hall
Gazette adds: SIN view OF the abuse Swim
burne has lavished upon Mr. Gladstone the
choice would be characteristic and an in
stance of a great mans magpanimity."