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ooD** *M lie kfeiwd tb* clammy tip* cf the drac.wet »m clicks with a rain of nnuvadmg sorrow; cmyed to staunch the Woody wound with hi* ] handkerdslef; ud tb n, u»f.ar*utly satisfied thatall ww over, sprang ujx-u his feet w.th a shout,or more properly » «wam—“FareweU, Mary,your father i* gone, mul I am geiurae«l turning the poiut of tin? gory knife towards*hia own breast, would have plunged it into in'*heart, had he cot beve pr»*v* nt* ■; by the by-stccd-er», who had now crowd«-4 into lb* room.Th« name .vetting Moee IIoward disappeared, mod was heard of do more for nearly t aro years,when a horse-trader breugitl bark word thathe huil been ««c in San Antonin, TVxn*.Wheitiheshockingnews- rv.uh.oi Ilbl'a fiunilf, the beautiful Mary bam into a wild laugh. Sheto now iu the Asylum for the Insane, at New Orleans*Had we been inditing ft tale of romance, we Would have paused With u prect ding p *g»; butliteral tftftb Compete us to reord aiutb-r fi'-t.equally characteristic, both ou t.» the chief actorsmid the back-wood* theatre of the mam tragedy-It will b*1 remembered, that the fallen desperado had enjoined it on his son to slay lb- slayer of his father on the day he shoutil arrive at tin* agei*t*n. Without sny such charge, vengeance-wmtlifihave le-en rnnsm'.ered by that boy «sa sacred dq tyj lor oo the frontier, ill? wi##« of Utoftlttn fauch vcogemwo lo their children, nod occa-tionaily «Ai’cute it th^rtw-lvaup!Atxottiiiiglr, BUI HUI practiced with bis h-tkftr's gun rvrry day for two sunciwLve yenre, itti4 Ibw ***** before he had any rumor list to the place of Howard's refuge^ 1le then learned that hm foe was in T* uti iwo months before he w n» sijcie^ii net out to hunt him up*At the end of four mouth* Bill came back,and bringing up the douUe-harreb iu their old buck*hern ni^k, hi* V i*miring lout—^Motlwr, Mofi^ - dead; I let Imn Imvo holb loada Thftogh 1 cried before I dun* U, and uf*Urwnrdri, too; he looked «o miserable, pale, and1,1 |J•‘Poor Mdfcet RillI the mother, weeping; #,hutft ronUi not bu h*dj»t*,L 'I s«*i! of micIi u bruvoniao i\ *n Lurry inn-i n-.:V er he eiillocl ao^-ird, uiMi Ii-mu- f I \s,^ »uiir fah-rV ur-der*M - i Tl-L 1
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Madison Daily Courier
Madison, Indiana, US
Sat, Aug 25, 1849
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