The Daily Herald

Distressing Suicide.—A young lady, the daughter of a rich proprietor at St. Morenvilliers, near Montdidier, in France, being crossed in love, and pressed to give her consent to a marriage repugnant to her inclinations, endeavored to drown herself some time since in a deep marsh on her father's property. From this she was extricated by some of the servants of the family, and became apparently reconciled to life. A few days after, however, she leaped into a well, and fell so perpendicularly that she did not sustain the slightest injury, her petticoats serving as a sort of parachute.—Shortly afterwards she was heard to utter plaintive cries, and the domestics ran to save her a second time. It was a draw-well, and the rope was unfortunately so bad that no one liked to trust to it. While they went to procure another and sounder rope, the unfortunate young lady's under-garments became saturated with the water, and ceased to present any further obstacle to her submersion. But the irresistible instinctive tenacity of life had by this time succeeded to the suicidal resolution, and the poor girl cried out in her despair, "Save me!" It was unhappily too late.—When the fresh rope was obtained, and the descent effected, she was a corpse.