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W. G. BALDWIN was acquitted of
the charge of maliciously shooting Col. MAY.
Col. A. J. MAY, accompanied by his daughter, Miss BYRD,
left for Richmond the first of the week.
The Jeffersonville social circle is again broken. Miss Rose WITTEN
is on a protracted visit to friends and relatives in Richmond.
We miss our friend Will YOUNG from town - he being confined at
home with a severe gastric trouble. He is some better, at this writing.
Our old school mate Harman NEWBERRY, Esq., of Bland county, has
been in the county several days this week, completing the sale of the
Round Mountain. We congratulate him on his success.
Our sympathies are fully aroused by the extreme illness of Robbie
HENRY, little son of Maj. R. R. HENRY, the illness resulting
from Hemorrhage of the nose. May God spare the bright little fellow.
Mrs. Mary A. HOWRY, wife of Dennis HOWRY
of Thompson Valley, committed suicide last Sabbath, by hanging herself in an
upper room in her house. Mrs. HOWRY was the
daughter of William SIX, Esq., the mother of a large family of children, and
50 years of age. No reason has been assigned for her taking her own life other than a deep concern for the
spiritual welfare of her children. The act was proceeded by no apparent
aberration of mind. A sudden dash of mortification nerved her heart, and impelled her quickly into the
perpetration of an act of which no one had any premonition. Many mothers
throughout this broad land, pass under the same sorrows which fell to the lot of Mrs.
HOWRY, and escape the result reached by her - in the manner chosen by her. Yet they find a grave prematurely and unwelcome.
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