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Since the fatal fiat went fnrth--ssdust tbou art and unto dust" which awful enuncation cast deep gloom and a melancholy shade over smiling Eden, the relentless executioner of the sentence, has in all time and in every place. been marrng the joys of earth, by the indiscrminate execution of his work of devastation

 A more melancholy instance of Deaths dsposi- ton to prey upon the brighter beings of earth has moi fallen under our observation than that of the fate of MARIA PAULrNA THORNTON daughter o Col. Abner E. Thornton, of this city; who was stricken down in the bloom and beauty of life

 This interesting young Lady, whose sad death we are called upon to announce, to her friends in distant places, was born in Clark County, Arkan- sas, June l7th, 1880; where her parents lived un- til they recently moved to Little Rock. She pfo- fcssed religion, and attached herself to the M F. Church, in Septempcr lSi3, and derarted this life, in this place. on the goth May. inst after very few days illness, in the I4th year of her age

 The writer had the pleasure of short aequain- tance with her and he has rarely met with more interesting young Lady.

 She was just entering upon that most interesting period of female existence, the threshold of young womanhood. and exhibited sweetness of disposi. tion and sprghtliness of intellect, which indica- ted a moral, social, and mental organization of a very superior cast, and cultivation in advance of her age. She was exceedingly dutful aiectionate, deeply pious, and manifested all those amable and exalted traits of character which are the sure and known results of early teaching in the great prine- pies of that sublime religion which she pro.essed

 She came smiling among us like bright, inno- cent being from purer world, but was suddenly called away, to home more congenial 1.ith her spiiit She came, and briefly passed away, like some tender, beautiful flower, that blooms in the beams of early Spring, but is nipped by frosty breeze, yet lingering in the tfaces of departing win ter! She came and passed away, like the miid bright vision of dream from the fancy of a star tied sleeper, which leaves sweet rememberance of it's appearnee, and sigh for its sudden departuel

 But she left her friends not without eonsolationl And while from the clouds of sorrow, the storms of grief pour downu uponfe's stream, and almost over whelm them nis distressing agitation the star ofim- mortality from beyond the far oil coast oftime, throws back it's gliding beams in transcendant radiance up- on the troubled waters and bids them hope and re- joce in the assurance which it affords of final, bssful and perpetual reunion with the much loved and departed one, In. ED.