The Monticellonian., 1898-10-07
AWFUL AEFLICTION


 There is gloom impenetrable over the cottage at eooo Arch street, which was until yesterday the happy home of MT. Edward Cornish and his little family, Iov- ing and beloved. Yesterday morn ing all were alive, and this morn ing gloomy piers bear the. silent forms of three members of that once happy Htsle hoasehold-the mother and two children. Death has stricken aeep his fangs in the hear. of q noble young man, now almost erazed with grief oyer tais awful visitation of providence. IEs friends and acqaaiaanees afc aboast overcome bv the burden of bereavement waich has come upon tae loving husband and devoted father aks | bolt from elear s.,y.
 Ba=she eaade.eace oi 2 world can
 do fitts to assuage d grief as peig-
 uant. qr lift from his soui sense of pa.aa lifetime cannot heal. The sYmpathIes Qf alt @ cut to him in
 tn this hour oi h55 bittersst agony. 
 and thefr tendesezt eondofeHse NilD
 help sustain nm in bearing with ferata'e this sad passage through
 tse |aI.eg of tHe Shadow.
 At4s o'clock noon yesterday,
 Ruth, the 6-year-oid daughter of
 Mir and Mrs. Cornieh, sueeumbed
 to typhoid fever. after al illness of only few days. She was the pet
 of the household, the light of her
 parents lives, anda favorite in the neighborhood. Her untimeiy
 death was a severe blow to the fond mother, who was overcome
 with grief Al 1 o'clock in the evening the infant d.ed after hay ing lived only two hours. Before t died, the poor stricken mother inquired tendefly if t still lived. and her face lit up with joy when told that t was living, and death closed her eyes before she learned that it, too, had gone to the bourne from which no soul returns. From about } p. n. the poor woman gradually grew worse. All night long physicians and k.nd neigh bors waited upon and mini>tered to her, but she nevermote became fully conscious, and at 4 o'clock this morning Death laid his icy hand upon the wounded heart, and her spirit took its flight to join in the future ineifable the spirits of her sweet babes, thus Tn sixteen hours robbing a broken-hearted man of noble wife and two lov- ing children The stricken fami- ly has been the recipients of every attention from the neighbors.
 
 The funeral of Mrs. Cornish and children will take place tomorrow morning at 9 30 o'clock from the Central Presbyterian Church rwenty-frst and Arch streets, and friends of the family are in- vited The services will be con ducted by Rev. Mir Green, pastor of the church. lie three will be buried in one casket. under the sheiterlng evergreens of Mt. Holly l winch contains upon It's cold slabs no sadder story than this of d day in one man $ life
 Mrs. Cornish was Miss Nora Lamb ert, daughter of Mr. Ebert Lambert. a prominent hardware merchant. formerly of Monticello, now of Defmott. Her mother will arrive this evening to attend the obsequies. Mir. Ed. Cornish, 1 one of the eity's best-known real estate and rental agents, married | Miss Lambert n the early 'oos. A year ago their frstborn, son, died and brought the first grief tothe household. One child, little girl ? years of age, alone survives to console the father in his awful sor- TOW.
 Mrs Cornish was devoted