Shepherdstown Register

Mournful Incident.--Death in the Cars.--A passenger in the cars furnishes the Macon Telegraph with the following statement of a very mournful incident, coming under his own observation, and occurring, as it were, almost in our very midst. It is a story, and appeals to the sympathies of the reader:

In the multitude of ways in which the "arch enemy" attacks our moral race, it seldom happens under the following circumstances: A poor forsaken mother, with her sick babe, enters the cars at Columbus, for Macon, Ga. She has been at the former place in pursuit of an unfaithful husband and an unfeeling father. Failing in her object, she returns to her desolate home, about fifteen miles from Macon. The babe dies in her arms unattended by a single mourner, save the heart-stricken and heart-broken mother--no kind hand to wait upon her in this hour of her deep affliction. A passenger took a seat by her side, closed the eyes of the lifeless corpse, and tried to administer words of consolation to the bereaved mother. Mr. Lindsay, the kind-hearted and gentlemanly conductor, (would that all railroad conductors were like Mr. Lindsay,) made her situation known to some of the passengers and took up a subscription for this poor and helpless woman, constituting himself agent, for her relief. When we arrived at the Macon Depot, the mother, with the dead babe in her arms, set out for her home her eyes streaming with tears at each mournful step.