The Independent Saturday May 5, 1894 How Sudden. Mrs. Agnes TOWNSEND, to all appearances, was perfectly well and healthy up to six o'clock last Monday evening, but at seven she was a corpse. Her husband coming home, found her stretched upon the floor in the throes of death. Dr. THOMAS says it was fatty degeneration of the heart. Death to the old is natural and to be expected, but one so young, with such happy surroundings, a young mother, on whom a little sick baby was dependent, a daughter on whom an old father and mother doted, a young wife in whose existence a young husband was wrapped, ' tis almost strange she should be taken when she was so loved and so needed. Life is an unsolved mystery. That young boy, if he lives, in his waking and sleeping dreams will shout Momma a thousand times and will listen breathlessly for the reply that he will never hear. The husband will think and dream of his young wife and be with her in joy, only to awaken to realize the dread reality--she has gone. The strong, iron willed father is frenzied with grief for his child. ' Tis no wonder for it is one of the mysteries of life. She sleeps her last sleep, embalmed in flowers and in the hearts of those who love her as but few are loved.