DEATH FROM EXCESSIVE JOY.
The Leada Mercury says :— " On Sunday evening June 2, Mrs Judith Dixod, of Silsrten, dropped down dead, it is generally thought from excessive joy at the return of her aon Thomas Dixon, who had been nearly vine yenrs in America. On hearing of ihe death of his father, Mr Abraham Dixoo, on August 1, 1877, the son had informed hia mother thnt when he had settled hie affairs he should return home. The mother had for several yenrs suffered palpitation of the heart. Mr Dixon arrived at Steeton by the evening mail mail train, and was driven in an omnibus to the foot of the hill where his mother resided. On finding hia parent out, and telling who he was, a neighbour, Mrs Steel, went nt ouce to the Bethesda Chnpel, where a prayer meeting was being held, and where Mrs Dixon was. She informed her that Thomas had returned, whereupon the mother immediately left the chapel and came home. She appeared agitated, sat down in a cheir, and was seized with illnes. A short conversation ensued between mother and son, in which she Baked if it was •' really her eon Tbomaß," and was told in reply that it was her aon. Almost immediately afterwards she expired."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 196, 17 September 1878, Page 4
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211DEATH FROM EXCESSIVE JOY. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 196, 17 September 1878, Page 4
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