Year: 1859

IfONC hHdAT=-h anu


Beautiful Girl Destroys Herself by


Poison.


The duties of journalist are often sad,
and the ono we have now to fulfill is not one of
those the least sombcr. Self destruction is al
ways melancholy, for the amount of suffering
which is necessary to induce any individual to
tear aside, with violent hand, the vail which
hangs between the mortal and immortal must
be great indeed but when tho victim is
young and lovely girl, who has all tho fresh
ness of youth and all the glow of wonanhood
it is then painful in tho extreme.


Yesterday, Miss America Rice left her resi-
dence, No. 81 Mound street, to go to the Post
Office with a letter addressed to a cousin in
Nashville, and during her absence, note from
young man, an dttache Of morning cotem-
porary-whose name we, from motives of deli
cacy, supprcss-was left at the house for her.
When she returned, she read it, and Immediately
determined to visit friend, saying to her mo-
ther, T believe will go to see j cnnie, for if do
not, 1 shall cry, and 1 don't want to do that"
She then started for the house of her friend,
but upon the way aypurchased largo quantity of
strychnine, which she took as soon as she left tho
store.


When she entered the room Of Miss Hynsen,
the lady she had intended TO visit, sho threw
tho empty paper into her lap, said she had
taken poison, throw herself upon the bed, and
told them to send for her mother. This they
did, and at the same time for doctor. The
| nathan arrival IN fiua IN har ahild aY
pire; but the doctor came too late-she had
| gone to physician who never loses patient.


The cause of this unfortunate and most mel
ancholy act, our readers will at once perceive
was the note she had received from her beloved
1t referred to their youth and their friendship
then, to her womanhood, and the time when
their mutual regard had changed to undying
love, and closed with sad, and alas! an eter.
nal farewell; for it appears that while the SOU
which was the seat Of her love remained in the
body, through which only she could express it.
it was impossible to live without at least the
sight of the person upon whom its wealth had
been lavished. " .......


These facts, as we have related them, wert
elected before the Coroner's jury, which rem
dered verdict of self-destruction. DR.. Care,
used all the means within his power to lear


where the poison had been purchased, bu


without effect; for although the girl said it ha


been bought at the corner of Sixth and Noun
streets, the proprietor swore such was not tn


case ,and that they never sold acrid poisons ex
cept where they were. prescribed by ply ysician
There is, therefore, now no means of deter


mining which of the stories is the true on


although we confess we incline to that of Il


girl, told but few minutes before her dealt
The mother of the girl is widow, and


almost distracted at the loss of her daughte


and the young man whose intimacy with IL


girl has brought upon her so sad fate, al
8 upon himself so great woe, is, We have bee
informed, nearly crazed at the result of his a
! tempt to put an end to an affection SO deep ar
g so strong.


9 Sometimes the slightest vapor shuts out fro


the sight the brightest sunshine, and so D
spair's dark cloud will overcast the cIoarest 81


of Hope, but yet beyond them all exit


another and a fairer day. This lovely G
i. sleeps sweetly, while we write, upon the brea
of Death-the living suffer on. She loved Al
. died" the rest is silence"