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two dollars per annum. } GOD A.TSTD OTT Pi OQKJjSTXR,Y. VOLUME 8. always tn advance. SATURDAY MORNING, JfXY 25, 1874. NUMBER 25 Beautiful ftHands. ?Such beautiful, bcnuliful hands! They're neither white nor small, And you, I know, would scarcely think That they were fair at all. ?Tto looked on hands whose form and hue A sculptor's dream might he, Yet are theso nged, wrinkled hands Most beautiful to me. Such beautiful, beautiful hands! Though heart were wqjiry nud sa I, Theso patient hands kept toiling on, That children might be glad. I almost woop, as looking back To childhood's dvstunt day, I think how these hands rested not When mine were at their play. But Oh ! beyond this shadow land, W'hero all is bright and fair, I know full well thoso dear old hands Will palms of victory bear; Where crystals t reams, through cudless time Flow over golden snuds, And where the old grown young again I'll clasp my mothers hands; Dashed to Death. The Heart of Mario Duron. The Hard llatf le of Wcatr-Foof Common. "Death foh Love is a Charming Death." OUT OF THE WINDOW INTO ETERNITY. Ono ol the most frightful and deter mined suicides it has ever ucc-h the di* ?agreeable duty of the Republican to ?chronicle occurred on Monday morning, and it is one in which mystery and inter ?st go hand in hand. Our reporters wero so fortunate us to hit the tr*?L which, it will be found on perusal, gave the clue to the heart of tho mystery. arrival at the hotel guilloz. On the 11th of April last, therenr rived at the French h< t< 1 and rcstuur ant of J. B. Guilloz, 112 Walnut street , in this city, a pretty littlo Frcucjryvn man, who registered her name as Marie Damn. She was from New Orleans, and represented herself as a governess who had failed to find employment for her attainments in Louisiana, in ecu ?equenci of. the disturbed condition 6' society there, and hid conic to St. Louis iu the hope of finding oiicouingciuunt and a home, at least for a time. Milium Guilloz is not in the habit of cnt< rtain ing ladies travelling alone, hut Marie Daron was so ladylike iu her deport merit, so charming in her manner, and withal bore Buch evident marks of rc?nc mcnt and culture, that the warm-heart cd hostecs became so deeply interested in tho stranger from her own native land that she consented at once to receive her as n guost. marie darok's portrait. She spoke no English, but she was an expert linguist und con versed flue a thy in the French, Italian and Russian lauguages. She dressed with tho pro vcrbiul French neatness, if not elegance, was about thirty in years, shore and stout iu person, with brown hair cut remarkably short and worn frizzed or curled, dark blue eyes, an aquiline nose, dimpled chin, a bright, clear complex ion and prettily moulded hands tha* evidently had fever been accustomed to labor. Such was Marie Daron in the hut week of her life, a woman with the unmistakable bearing nud look* of a lady. fainting ijy the wayside. Madame Guilloz advised her guest to apply to. Mr. Euiil Karst, the French vice-consul, to advertise, and gave to her the names of souto ladies us likely to OEsist her iu her inquiries nftcr cm plojmcut as u family governess. "Whether or not t-he followed either sug gestion is not known. Ccrtaiu it is that the rcmoiocd without occupation, but the couductcd hcisclf at all times, go iur as the Guillozcs knew, in uu irrepio nthoblc manner. Shu came und went . quietly, took her meals nt tho table d'hote, paid her bills regularly, and was unexceptionable. Whilo she continued thus idle, her poor means were frittering ovray, nod employment, for her uc ci ruplit:hn.cnt6 tecxed to recede farther and farther, day !?_> day, fioui hrr eager a'niost fainting grasp. How many a one there is tit this moment, like poor Marie Darou, weurily walking the htrects of this mid every largo city, faltering in npirit ut every step, ns the hope deferred falls sharply like a liund red lining deaths qu tho sickened, withering heart. fate. About two weeks ago she made the acquaintance of n Frenchman doing business in the city, and for him sh ? appears to have formed a warm attach meat. Whether le returned it, or any part of it, is unknown; but the pro bability is that he regarded her as the mcic plaything of the hour, to be taken on and thrown off at will. Wo do not know that there was anything more than a mere French Phttonicisin existing be tween them; but wc are informed, through a source which wc deem r-jli able, that this person informed her that he couhl n.?t marry her nor receive her under his protection. Poor Mario Durotl 1 es a mangled corpse in thu stable of the coroner, let us judge her tenderly; She was alone in tho Und of stranger.", not even speaking our lungu age, with her poor menus exhausted. .She bad met with one of her own people, the asked Irs confidence nud gave her own iti return. Nothing is known bo j us of wrung 'on her part, but if there was, let us think of Him who stayed the hands of those who would have thrown the stone at that ether Mary, uud let us over- the memory of (his poor won an throw nothing Lut the sympathy of Christian thoughts. II EH LAST LOOK at LIKE. Last Monday she paid her bill to the (lUillozos and informed ihetn that she would leave for. New York, but she changed her mind. Perhaps there was a reason for it. It was her impression thai the friend that she had met was going to Europe, and she had iutcudtid to follow him. How and with what pecuniary resources is not known. When she discovered that he w is not going she changed her iniiid an 1 re ma in cd. tV coolness sprung up on her part, but it did not prevent her making sin appointment to meet him at his room oil Thursday. Slid did not keep her word, however, nor on Frid iy nor on Saturday, ail hough the man was wait ing there. On Sunday there was a French picnic, and the friend of M trio Dnron v.\?s ?nie ol this party. She called ut his rouin on Sunday afternoon and re urn: it cd there two hours, but ho w.is enjoying himself at the picnic, .? it J the fund woman left without feeing htm, with madness in her brain and the lire of consuming jealousy nthoruoart. She returned to her lodging, suppod as usual, and retired to her little room at night, mid that was the hi>t seen of Marie Daren alive by the family of tho lj uillozcs. On yesterday morning at a quarter past six ?Jules Leppoll, foreman for Stemme & Saundcrs, dealers in tar paulins on the south corner of tho levee and Elm, unlocked the door from Coin mcrcial alley and went up stairs to com mence the labors of the day. On enter ing the room on tho third floor from the levee front and opening the windows h ? heard the light ascending sounds of footsteps, lie went to the door and looked up the steep stairway leading to the fourth and fifth floors; but se :ing uobody returned to his owu room in time to hear the noise of A HEAVY Till'!) ON THE SIDEWALK ! He look out of the window anl saw to his horror and astonishment the form of a woman lying close to the wall and immediately in front of tho door on tho sidewalk below. Jules Eeppoll ran down, lifted the poor bleeding, mangled, misshapen mass of fast, fading life into a sitting posture, but mercy came to her in the quick death of a few mo incuts, for while the policcin in kept back the small crowd of early levee workers, tho woman gasped a few cou vul.-ive gasps and her spii it fled to plead before her Maker. Tho remains of our sister were taken to the Cbcsuut street station ary^ from thence to the coroner's stable, on Sovonth near Park avenue, whore the inquest will bo held to day. THIS WAS MAUIE DARON. ' Slio must have risen early?her bed hud been slept iu?and tho dctcrmioa tion had takeu possession of her poor distempered fancy to dio. And to die by jumpiug from a height as wo shall show presently. She could have no clear idea of committing suicide from that particular house, but chanoing to sec Julius Lappcll opcu tho street door, the easy access to the upper floor must have flashed across her, nud she stcalthi ly f'ollowod him. Sho was! horribly prompt in her action. PlauUig her neat little parasol in llio corner of the bare, rude room, opening the middle window ?it was low nud near the ground, she stepped over tho sill, extending her hands as it were, supplicating toward heaven, and then fell crashing d)Wu ward?' through tho morning air to the inercilors stones beneath. So much was pcen of the black horror by men working on the levee by the boats. A PREVIOUS ATTEMPT. On the morning before, Sunday, her desperate condition had well nigh tempted her destruction. She rose at about 3 o'clock nnd passed onto the car roof of Vir. Guilloz's premises aud in doing so uwakouod the cook, who watched her. She passed up an inclined j roof, looked into an alley, then crossed to an adjoining roof and peered into tho streut from u dir./.y height of 00 or GO feet. Sho might have ended her weary wandering then, but she detected the cook in very scanty night clothes watching her?su intimately does the ludicrous chime in wi h dusky death ? and she wont back to her room. i.'amour. A Republican reporter visited the room which Marie D iroi) occupied by tho courtesy of Mme. Guilloz. There was a small common trunk, scantily half filled with superior under clothing, every thing bei;ig embroidered, not marked, witli M. P. in red; there was a heavy black silk skirt and a blue redingote hungiug on tho wall and a small variety of fine underclothing on tho be I, and on the table thero were odds of woman's sowing puiapherhalia aud writing urn cm als. There were two bonks. A small French lexicon and "I/Amour" by Mich. let. In this last there were significant marginal notes which served to show how fascinated she was with the thoughts of death. At the chapter headed llJ}c Vamour par dvla la Mori" she ha 1 written " Charmant chaptre" and ?t another bearing the caption ,: La Mori i f /'? Drrif," she had written in pencil tl Admirable" On the fly leaf of ilic work was written theso words, winch !.crvo to identify her; 'duly, 1371'. Head coming from Paris on board the .steamer Washington.' The word'July' is in the French ehiographio form, but other words seem t > be written by an American or an Englishman They were probably not written by her, but may have been somebody accompanying her A lev words dropped as to her watch induced our reporter to vtsit a wate!) j maker on Third street It serve 1 as the key t;> the mystero of Marie Duron She had her watch repaired there in May or April, and on Saturday last she went there again aud asked the 'proprio tor to buy it It hud been stamped up on, ho thinks, and ho declined to pur chase She persisted, and at last ho of fcrvd her 812 It was :i small gold double eased (Joiieva, No 332, and .she declined to receive it She went away aud thou returned, still wanting him to take the watch nnd sell it, which he re fused to do She seemed to be excited and left wildly, and that is the last he saw of* her The watchmaker describes her as n woman of superior ability?a lady of distinguished manners; and with , the accomplishments for which ehe could find no market on earth, Mario Daron has gone where there is but one language heard; but one accomplishment needed but one great Mastur. Tho force of habit is fully illustra ted in the case of a retired milkman, who says he never sees a can of water without having an irresistible desire to put some milk into it. 'Patrick,' said the priest, 'how much hay did you steal V Well, I may as well confess to your rivcreuco for tho whole stuck, for I'm going aftor the rist to uight.' Life is as tedious as a twice told talc, voxing tho dull oar of a drowsy man,? ahakepearc. A Uemai^jfifol?*Brenni, -.-, ?>?'??-. Some of the residents in tho city of New Nork may yet romombcr those day s of privato and pu$ic agouy, in October 1851, when tho Collius steamship Artie was overdue and, supposed to be lost at sea. The Collins ,v$ascls were so regular that merchants time the delivery of the mails almost to an'hour; nod when day after day sped by and neitlur tho ve*sol nor any tidings Jw her came to hand, tho gloom becnu^jf deeper and deeper. Strange to rola to'ouc of tho most dcspo-i ding was Mr K fi: Collins, the manager of the line, and {& person after whom it was named. The crowds who Mocked to tho office to question him, and who naturally expected to see him, full of hope, found him palo, dispirited, and often in tears. JTis wife and two chtl dren were on board; but it was thought that his confidence in the staunchness of bis vessels, and the scaniensbip of those iu charge-of thorn, would make him treat tho m itter in a totally differ ent spirit ^frotn what ho did. Much surprise was ex pressed; but the actual reason f'jr his reat depression was at that time known only to a few of h's relatives and most intimate friends. It arose, in truth, from a dreitn which left an impression bcy.md his pr.vjr to overcome, and which in the cod was veri fied in every particular A number of the directors and vari ous merchants were assembled in the private office of the coinpmy ou Mbri day afternoon. ' The vessel was thou some two days overdue, having been ex pectod on tli3 previous S.iturJiy even I ing. At the time Collins lived at a [ mngniGccut residence in West ehester county, and had remained in town over Sundiy, to rce.'-tvo his faintly ou tho ar rival of the siJjimcr, lie spent Satur day night at the house of his brother, and on Sunday miming Cime down to j the breakfast table looking si baggird that it attruotol attention. Wlien sp ok en to about it, he franklin stated that he had passed a restless uight, brokeu by a dream that the Arctic was lo>t The matter was laughed at by the brother; but when Moadiy morning I came without t'.io vessel hi1 si^ been I jeportcd, Mr Collins again spo'ce of his j dream. During .Monday he rel ited it J to several others, and at tho hour of tho assemblage in tho private offioo it was told over again?with an injunction of sccrcsy, ^however, which prevented it I from reaching the public. As one j after another came into the offi.e, tiny were painfully impressed with the glo nil j which was pictured in tho face of Mr. Collins. A lino man, of cieot stature, and marked dignity of uiaDuei'S, bo did not look like a porsou wh ? wo ild givi way to any usoless fears ou any ooo uion Hut be was far more quiet than usual' i he seemed to shrink away from lliiso ia conversation, aud his fuuowis of a death like paleness. 'What's the matter, with Collins? 'Remember his wile and children are on board the Artie,' observe! so.ne one in reply. j 'Yes,' responded another, 'but there is no occasion for alarm. The ship is a .staunch one, and within a few hours ut most will, I think, c mio gill.ur.ly to her wharf.' 'Never!' said a deep solemn voice. All gave a slight statt at the tone and words, and turned in the direction whence they proceeded. The speaker was Mr Collins himself. 'I am satisfied, gentleman,' he remark e l in the some solemn inanmr,'th it tho Artie has gone to tho bottom.' 'Impossible?' cried all. 'I am quite astonished at that opinion said Mr James Brown, a leading diree tor. 'No one knows better than you do Mr Collins, tho superior construction of the ships of our line, und the qualifier tious?f thu chief ollicor ami crew in charge of tho Artie' 'Any vessel may be lost,' said Mr Collinsi 'and while I am Sfttislod that as d'roetors and public Burvaats w s have done .ill that human beings co tld do in such n matter and still believe tho Arc tic to bo lost. May hoavcu have pro tcctcd those on boar.' - Horo his voico failo.1 hlra, and his eyes wcro suffused with toars. With his thoughts far out on the deep, d.m gerous occau, he seeu the faces of his wile and children among those helpless ones aud for the moment he could say no more. The sceuc was affecting in the ex treme, aud perhaps never had its equal iu any couuting room in the world. For some time there was an entire silence, and then Mr. Brown remarked, 'Mr Collins, 3'ou must have some reason for your opinion.' '.Nouo in tbo world,' returned Mr Col IlDS, 'except a dream.' 'A dream !' repeated one and another iu astonishment. All sneered, nud some almost laughed aloud. 'Gentlemen,' said Mr. Collius with a dignity which was peculiarly iiuprcs sive in him?'gentlemen, you no doubt regard this as a great weakness. Per haps it is. Droanis are generally looked upon as foolish things; but I have had one under such circumstances that it has become to me a presentiment of evil to this ship, which no power on earth can remove.' Every person there listened with his cars wide open, and looked full in tho face of the usually strong minded man who spoke these words so severely "aud impressively. 'Last Saturday night,' continued Mr. Collins, '1 dreamed of the Artie. I saw her as perfectly before mo as ever I saw her. It was her graceful model, her spacious deck, and her noble officers and crew ? I saw all of this, and more. I saw a hole in her side; there was a pan ic on her decks, people were running hither and thither, and crying to bo saved; and, gentlemen. I saw that noble .ship go down !' J'ut all this was a dream,' said Mr Brown, after a moment. ? 'I believe 'Jt a reality,, replied Mr Collius; and again I say may Iloavcu have protected th.no poor souls on board. However I beg that neither my dream nor t convictions may reach the public' Soon after, the merchants wont their w several,ways. Not one of them could shako off the impression made by what had occurred. Meanwhile,the uowspa pcrs endeavored to sustain public con fidence by all kinds ofplausible stories Three days later, the first of the survi vors reached American shores with the harrowing tale of disaster by collision to the Arctic and of the loss of most ef those on board. When all the facts be came known, they were exact in every particular with Mr Collins dream, and it may be. properly regrrdod as one of the most striking and remarkable that ever occurred * -o- . ?? A Successful Conundrum. 'John has never gtvon you a ring?' said Katie's sister to her one day. .Joan was Katie's lover. 'Never,' said Katie, with a regretful shake of her head. 'And he never will, until you ask him for it, ' returned the sister. 'Thon I fear I shall never get one,' was tho^rcply. 'Of course you never will. John is too stupid to think of such things; and as you can never pluck up courage to a>k lor one, it follows that you will never get one.' This set Katie to thinking, and to what purpose we shall sec. That evening her lover oalle 1 to seo her. llae ws very proud and very hap py, for the beautiful girl by his side had been for several weeks pledged to marry him as soon as tho business could be properly doue, and John was a grand good lellow, too, notwithstanding his obliviousucss to certain polite mat tors. ?John,' said Katie, at^length looking up with an in locent smile, 'do you know what a conundrum is?' 'Why it's a puzzle?a riddle,' answer cd .lohn, 'Do you think you could ask me one I could not'gucss V '1 don't know. I never thought of such things. Could you ask mo one?' ' 1 could try.' 'Well, try, Katie' 'Then answer this; Why is the let ter D like a ring ?' John puzzled his brain over the pro blctu lor a long time, but was finally fore ed to givo it up. 'I don't know, Kutio. Why is it?' ' ' ? ??? '.Because,' replied the maiden, with a very soft blush creeping up tocher tem ples, 'we can not be wed without,it.' ~j ] n less than a week from that dato Katie had her engagement ring. Items. 'Mamma !' cried a little girl, ^rushing into the room, 'why am I like a tree?* Mamma could not auesd, when the little one exclaimed, 'Because I have got limbs.' An Irishman engaged in lighting a duel insisted, as ho was nearsighted that he should stand six feet nearer to his antagnui.st than his antagonist did to?him. Tennyson is writing another 'Idyl of the King-' Writing idyls should never be encouraged during tho com hoeing season. Tastes differ wish localities. In Fort Wayne a man with a red nose is looked up to as a profound thinker aud a deep philosopher. The Leghorn hat of the season has a wide brim without any wire, so thac it may bo shaped at will. After tho wear cr has been Jout in a showor the hat shapes itself. Augustus Leonard dressed up like an Indian' and descended ou the cabia of a Missouri family fur Bfun. They kept the body on ice three days for his fath cr to arrive. j A Brooklyn husband comforts his j wife lor the loss of their .dear little eight months old by reminding her thai there will bo more room on tho clothes line now. Au Evansville damsel witnessing a foot race between a number of young men a few days ago, became disgusted with tho performance pulled off her shoes challonjrel and boat the wholo crowd 'Punch's' receipt for the preservation of furs is excellent, 'Pull *out all the hairs with tweezers, aud varnish the skin. In the fall remove the varnish and carefully stick till the hairs iu their old placos. The Brooklyn Argus stales that tho' latest telegram from the spirit worlJ is signed ' David << 'Farragut.' aud con tains the pathetic injunction, 'B ju't let Yiunio fleam 'bust me.' A giMttletr.au friend has two canaries and has named them 'Wheeler' and 'Wilson.' His reason Tor the anpella tiens is that neither' of thorn are 'Sin gers.' i It is averred that the reason Auiori can girl refuse to enter domestic service is that they object to anything ap proaching low menial cinplopment? whrt they seek is by tUCQOal. A I'ennsy.viania minister, complun ing of the scarcity of wedJings, says, that in this rospsct at least, his parish is like heaven, 'They neither tntrry nor ate given in marriage' Sail a censcientious auctioneer; 'Ladies and gentlemen, there is no sham about the carpets; they are genuina tapestry carpets. 1 bought thorn of old Tapestry himself.' 'How many deaths last night?' iu quired a hospital physician of a nurse. .Nine.' was tho aU3WOr. 'Why, I or dere.l medicine for ten.' 'Yes, but, ono wouldn't take it.' Man is the merriest spccic3 of crca lion ; all above and below him arc so rious.?Addison. Tho worm of coneience is the com panion of the owl; the light is shunnod by evil spirits only.?Schiller. Tho anti-ice reform is not making much head way. 'Tlo, waiter ! a glass of ice-water, with a dash of aniinil culm." *a r.ni?ii i?m? DENTISTRY. II. V. JUlCItKVFlT.S.S, Dentist; Of CHARLESTON, can be found al hjs OFFICE above Captain RUIGG-*? MANN'S STORE, on Rus sell Street. References?Pus. .7. P. Pathtck, B. A. SlyoKKXFUsa, A. 1'. Pkt.zkr, M. 1)., and Messrs. I'klzeh, Ronotins & Co. june 0 1874 tf