ALMOST A MURDER.
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'For murder, though it have no tongue, VIII


speak


With most miraculous organ"


A man NAV outrage society by the crime
of suicide, and, perhaps, have some claim
upon our pety for a man must be misera-
Die before he can voluntarily retire from his
place among the breathing. and misery Is a
thing that should awaken some part OF our
setter nature In It's behalf Bu. man VINO
will commit seif-murder and leave his friend
20 BE- hung COR it, perpctrates at once both
suicide and murder, and his memory must
b. execrated Instances are common e.
Rough Of these two frightfui crimes, ln all
their shades and varieties, having arisen
from the tiendish influence OF alcohol, End
the present anecdote will be found TO have
taken origin in the same cause. 1t Is
circumstance partaking. IN singular man
ner. ofthe ludicrous and the horrld; but.
however strange the story may seem, 1t Is
nothing more than simple relation of re
al occurrence. In proof ofthis we shall use
the names of the parties. as no harm can be
done in mentioning then at this date.


In the liltle town OF Dover, which IS sit
uated on the Cumberland river, IN Middle
Tennessee, there lived some years ago an
eCCeHtilt anu iHteiu ooehNio's -
the name of Kingston. On one occasion.
when prostrated OF his bed BY excess. and
suffering acutelv from those stings and hor-
rors peculiar TO his situation. be sent for one
of his old boon companions to come and Wis
it him. Shryack, for that was the others
name. came duly to Kngston's room


What's the mater. kingstonF


'Shrvack. shut the door,





Yes. my dear fellow.


Lock it,


sEhP


Lock the door,,


Certainly. my dear boy.


'Shryack. I'm going to kill myself


My dear fellow. let me enireal you not to
do it,


Il will


No. no. oblige me. and dontt'


Must do it,


Don't; it'll be the death of your


Shryaek was quite cool and jocose. little
dreaming that so terrible an event was actu-
ally going to lake place,
Kingston had, as the last eccentric act cf