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Col^ J, E. Kirbj* KilledBetween nine and ton o'clock yesterday forenoon, the city was agitated by a report that Col. J. E. Kirby, of Austin county, near Hampstead, had be n killed in our Provost Marshal’s office, by a pistol fired by Mr. John Steele The report was only too true. C d. .Kirby was in the Marshal’s office trausactiug some business, when Mr. Steele entered. Some woru* passed, when Mr. Steele drew feis pistoland fired, the shot entering Col. Kirby’* left bre and passing through or near his heart. The Colonel’s band was in his p eke ton a pistol, which went oft' as he fell. He died in a few minutes. These are the immediate circuin-*tauc«.$ us narrated to us; but we cannot vouch for their correctness.As Mr. Steele is in custody, and as the affair bas its complications, we purposely abstain from further detail. We cannot, however, forbear an expression of the deepest sympathy with Col. KirbyV family, ilia wife, a lady of rare intelligence and culture, remarkably devoted t * her husband, will, ne fear, be driven a’most to distraction by this intelligence. We most s merely sympathize with her, as will a great 11.any others who have enjoyed the profuse and refined hospitality of her elegant liotue. A family of children are left orphans by this sad affair ,* but will certainly not want friends while the hundreds who knew and en-doyed the benefits of the generous impulses oftheir father remain true to the promptings ofBn honorable reciprocity.Col Kirby was in the priuv- of lire; a gentleman of fine pr sence and manners, and, though somewhat impulsive, eminently large jieaucd and human**. That he was so unfortunate as to have enemies, oni shows how easily mistakes may arise in this imperfect world ; and the final result of one such misunderstand mg te another warning that men should gen-lt;erou»!y trample down ra their inception thoserepu Irion* which exaggerate themselves bytime and drcunistaccri until they end in the permanent and vengeful division of hatred. Coleridge ti mountain rent asunder by an earth* *qu h0, esdi side bearing marks that it beiong-*?u to the other, yet unable to re-unite, is a striking tig lire of tin* result of troubles small in thm beginnings, awful m their finality.The strong, intelligent, active man cannot be jeeoueu; an impression never to be effaced has been. made on the memory ofthe other, whatever uny have been the cause of his action ; friends on both sides will find their lives embit ter ed and darkened ; and the community istroubled by the eve d. as by every one ofkind, because it unsettles the securityof liff. All we cam do is to refer to thesethings, in the hop ' of mduc-ng enemies to ex-•amine the cause* of thrir enmity and see%\ LcfI if, 0«.*U2ilt;»t be OH? led bfiOTf it pfoGUo'Sm snjulai effect ; hu-J w?tii the desire of making *UCO C:tUtilt;ais how they r.akr *he step upon the dtdusive and dangerous path of enmity. 3Few and evil are our days here, at best; let tis inake them fetter by ay rn p a’ hy whh the bereaved, by proper kin da ess to the erring, and by a wise reception of lt;he lessons—not of -expei fenee only, since tho**-- often come too law—-but of observation.Let all deteimine that th $ sad occurrenceabaii, instead of being, a* been often remarked, the precursor of o?hers, be the last oi its kind.
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Galveston News Tri Weekly
Galveston, Texas, US
Mon, Oct 16, 1865
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