A SAD HISTORY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1086, 4 August 1871, Page 2

A SAD HISTORY.

The New York Tribune says :—The announcement of the death of Mrs Cauda, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, will recall to many the sad circumstances of her family afflictions. Twenty years ago, or more, Mr and Mrs Cauda kept a fashionable boarding-school in Lafayette Place, their family consisting of one daughter, Charlotte, to whom they were devotedly attached. On Charlotte's 18th birthday, a lady friend in the city gave her an elegant party. The night was intensely cold, and as her father was returning with her to her home they stopped at the New ;York Hotel, to leave a lady who shared their carriage. The coachman became numb with cold while Mr Canda was escorting the lady to her room, and when he returned to the street the carriage was gone. In a short time Charlotte was found lying dead in the street, having been thrown from the carriage while the horses were running away. Only a day or two before she had sketched a beautiful monument, and remarked to her father that she should like such a one when she died. Her parents determined to gratify her request. The beautiful monument, in Greenwood Cemetery well known as ** The Canda Monument," is the result; $17,000, a private legacy of Charlotte's, was expended on her tomb. The monument was made in Europe of the finest marble, and within a niche cut in the stone stands a life-size figure of Miss Cauda. The misfortune preyed on Mr Canda's mind till he was obliged to give up his school, and, after living many years in seclusion, he died in this city. Mrs Cauda went to Europe in 1867 for her health. Her death occurred a few days ago.