st three. Reverend William D.
Rawlins will give the funeral address.

The city of Spring Valley is all excitement at this writing. No
trace of the cowardly assassin has yet been found, and the
entire affair remains shrouded in the deepest mystery, which
not even the keenest intellects have been able to penetrate.
There is no one who can ascribe a motive sufficient to inspire
the murder of so respected and harmless a citizen.

Some have ascribed the fiendish act to some hobo or tramp who
may have taken revenge on the marshal for some real or fancied
injury in the past. But no one can recall any instance in which
the deceased has ever incurred the enmity of any such
characters, so that all remain at a loss how to account for
this act. There seems to have been no eyewitness, and therefore
all is but mere conjecture.

Your reporter was among the first at the premises early this
morning, and thus gained all the information that can be
secured at this writing. He has interviewed Miss Audrey
Tarbush, daughter of the deceased, who had for many years kept
house for him in their residence on Mulberry Street, about five
blocks from the courthouse, where the deceased had a small
garden and raised vegetables and flowers which he sold in the
best families of our flourishing city.

Miss Audrey Tarbush, when interviewed by our reporter, said
that she had last night, according to her usual custom, retired
at the hour of half-past nine. She did not attend the exercises
at the city library, where most of the elite of the town were
present last night, because of a headache from which she
suffered. She left the front door unlocked, as was her custom,
for the entry of her father when he had finished the duties of
his day's work. Usually, Marshal Tarbush came home at about ten
o'clock, and himself then retired. On this night, by reason of
certain extraordinary occurrences during the preceding day, he
thought it wise to remain out later than usual. This was in
accordance with his well-known courage and his conscientious
endeavor to protect the residents of the city against any
possible danger.

It was about a quarter after one o'clock, as near as Miss
Audrey Tarbush can recall, that she was awakened by the sound
of footfalls on the front porch.