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Show Switched Otf for Heaven. An affecting scene waa witnessed at the depot yesterday. The train comprised com-prised about filteen cara of foreign emigrants. One of them, a woman named Hannah Petersen, ef Sweden, had with htr the corpse of her infant, aged 7 months, which had died on the train. The little thing lay upon a seat in the car, surrounded by the weeping mother and a group of sympathizing sym-pathizing young emigrants, male and female. Its p!e countenance bore evidence of suffering, and tbe agonized 'aid sobbing parent was loth to part with it when in became known to her that she could col lake it with her tr-the tr-the end of her long jurrjy. She was lMind for' Utah. Tbe father had (bepn hft home iu Sweden. Undertaker Under-taker Tipton took charge of tbe dead baby urd interred it in Fairview cemetery, marking aod numbering the grave. The mother was informed that Bhe could send for the remains at any time, and the train bore her onward toward the selling eun, weep ing bitterly for her precious darling. Altoosa (Pa.) Tribune. |