TRAGIC FATE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 151, 19 January 1872, Page 3

TRAGIC FATE.

On the southern outskirts of Gross Faliey, California, is a well worked and prosperous quartz/mine, which has a story of its own too touching and characteristic to be dropped" out of thin narrative. The mine first owned by a company that employed as an a,gent. for its development one of its principal stockholders—an Irishman of rare intelligence and integrity. He spent tedious and anxious months in prospecting for the lead, sometimes elated with the unmiitakeable indication, and again, depressed arid discouraged at the lack of success, j Thus »e labored until he had fexhausted the funds of the company and his own private means, and it beckiue nect-ssiry to make a new assessment upon the stockholders, or abandon the enterprise. Morbidly sensitive to the natural sus picions which either step might awaken as to his judgment or honesty, he resolved to work oh a few days longer, when, if no better indications appeared, he would make for himself a quick exit out of the w >rl I. Heilaitl the resolu tion before his wife, who fully approved of it, and agreed to share his destiny. The time elapsed without satisfactory results, ani the man and wife accepted the alternative without a question. Poison was obtained and. administered to the three children and wite. The husband and father calmly watched them through their death struggles and affectionately cl.-sed their eyes ; then deliberately sat down and wrote out fpr business assDciates a clear and full statement of his operations and final ra.so'ution. He ed unftinrhin r faith in the ultimate - success of the venture, sufficient means and energy were wel, but acknowledged that he had uot the courage to call for further contributions. After finishing his .statement, he adjusted his papers and books, took his quieting draught, and folio -ed his family to that -ouT.try where it is presumed there are no quartz mines, and no joint-stock companies to work them. Of course the story has a sequel, and this is it: After decently burying the bodies, the company went to work at the mine, following the hints of the deceased airent, and within a week the lead Was struck, and the mine proved to be and is now one of the richest in the State. The best part of the story is that it is literally true.