"—— | Mrs Gardner, wife of a farmer living near ! j Eastmanville, Ottawa County, 111 now, died | [recently under circumstances• the most o:-> i i vr»ordiniUy. Two of her sister?, were dead, i ione but recently—only a few wools ago. | The cause of Mrs Gardner's death was a conjgestive chill, and a f ter she had been consiUlerod dead for six hours, and was being pre- ! pared for the grave, she returned to consciousness and talked freely with her a'tcnj dants. She stated to those around her that she had been to the better land, and had seen bath of her departed sisters, with other friends ; that it was a most beautiful land beyond all descrinfon. She a rid she had permission to return to tell,living friends of! what she had seen, but that she was anxious to again return. She passed away soon a; ter i : making her statement, and seemingly over- ; flowing with joy and happiness. There can l bo no question a« to the cUTninsttnces above i related. At, the Sandhurst Police Court Mr Bober j Moffat, the wealthy squatter of Ilavenswood. | was charged under the railway bve-laws with having used abusive language to Edwin Henry England, a servant of the railway department, while in the execution of his duty. The pvoa.>cut : on was instituted by the Vic-; tonan Board of Lauds and Works, and Eng- j gland's evidence having been corroborated bv ! witnesses, the Bench inflicted a fine of £1(1, 1 with £3 os. Costa, to he pud forthwith, in ! default of payment to be recovered bv dis- ; tvesa, in default of distress, one month’b im-1 prison racni, j
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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 177, 1 April 1873, Page 7
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