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Show Sad News. The Freeport, Illinois, Journal of last Wednesday, contains the following follow-ing paragraph, which tells its own sad story : Dmi. In this city, September 1st, 1S74, lifs-k', dmijjhter of Hon. Geo. A. and Annubi'l black, gcd 1 year and '2 days. A lovely iiitle floweret, whose petals have scarce been kissed by the sunshine sun-shine and dews of a single summer, has been transplanted from this earthly earth-ly garden of sorrow, to one of eternal joy, where, under the loving, fostering foster-ing care ot Him whoso tenderly carries car-ries the lambs in His boom, she will expand into the full beauty i nd glory of immortality. The homo is left desolate, but heaven has gained ft jewel. We deeply sympathize with the soriowing parents m being thus bereaved be-reaved ot their only treasure. The chastening hand has, indeed, pn-sid heavily upon them; but ' Earth has no sorrows that heaven cannot heal." Funeral at the residence of Mrs. Thorp, at I o'clock this (Wednesday) 1 afternoon. 1 Only a few days ago Secretary Black left this city for Freeport, full of doting affection, which almost amounted to worehip, for his only child; and fond-. fond-. ly expecting to soon return to thia city accompanied by his dearest , treasures his wife and loved daughter. daugh-ter. But. alas! the hand of Provi-( Provi-( dence is not stayed by earthly affection affec-tion the power of death not con-, con-, trolled by mortal Jlovc. He arrived just in time to see his fair flower plucked. In this their saddest of . griefs the bereaved parents have our - heartfelt, sympathy; and a communi-' communi-' ly will mourn with them. An 's. in tho book of lift; Wrviu down an infant's birth; Hut midi-d, en hecliwt'i the page, I ' Too ti'&utiful for earth ' I |