Obituary.
The Angel of Death has again flapped his broad wing over our household.
Ann Jones, aged four years, daughter of the Editor of this paper, staying at the residence of John Jackson, Esq., near town, playing with fire, on the evening of the 18th inst., about dark, got her clothes in a blaze, and was burned so as to produce death about nine o'clock on the following morning. The external appearance of burning was not deep, although it extended over a considerable surface, and the child, without much suffering, dropped out of existence.
The instant she cried out, Mrs. Jackson and a lady visitor ran to her assistance and extinguished the fire, which probably was not blazing over half a minute; but the first flare of the blaze had done the work.
In the morning, when the medical gentleman in attendance was preparing to dress the burn for the second time, the child suddenly turned on her side, and the lamp of life went out.
The child was especially endeared to his sole surviving parent, and to every member of the kind family under whose care she was, by her intelligence, beauty, and gentleness of department, and her death was peculiarly startling to her father and the friends of the family; but we feel that it is only a selfish grief, which laments the death of such as this one, who have never known sin, and has escaped, by the will of their Maker, the ills of life.
