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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