The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-02-20

LOTTERY MANIA. Inc mama tOr lOJtery
a1venturing was never, perhaps, more
strongly manifested than in the case of Mr..
Christopher Bartholomew, who was once
the proprietor of White Conduit House, at
Petonville. Independent of his possessing
the freehold of that house, and of the Angel
: Inn, at Islington, he rented land to the a
mount of $4,000 year in the neighborhood
of Islington and Holloway and was re-
markabe for having the largest quantity of
haystacks of any grower In the neighbor-
hood of London. At that time, he is believed
to have been worth 100000, kept his carIi-
age, and servants in livery, and upon one
occasion, having been unusually successful
at insuring in the lottery, gave a public
breakfast at his tea garden, :" to commemo-
rate the smiles of fortune" as it was ex
pressed upon the tickets of admission to this
fete champetre. He at times had some
very fortunate hits in the lottery, which,
perhaps, tended to increase the mania which
hurried him to his ruin. He has been
known to spend upwards of 1000 guineas
in day for insurance. to raise which, stack
after stack of his immense crops Of hay
have been cut down and hurried to market,
as the readiest way to obtain the supplies
necessary for these extraordinary outgoings.
Having at last been obliged to part with
his house from accumulated difficulties. and
embarrassments, he passed the last thirteen
years of his life in great poverty, subsisting
by1the charity of those who knew him in
his better DAYS, and the emolument he re-
ceived as juryman of the sheriff,s court.
Still his propensity to be engaged in this
ruinous pursuit never forsook him; and
meeting one day N the year 1907 with. an
old acquaintance, he related to him a strong
presentiment which he entertained, that if
he could purchase particular number in
the ensuing lottery (which he was not then
in a situation to accomplish it would prove
successful. His friend after demonstrating
with him on the improperly Of persevering
in practice that had already been attend
ed with such evil consequences, was at last
persuaded to 90 halves with him in a six
1eenth part of the favorlte number, which
being procured was most fortunately drawn
q prize of 100000. With the money aris-
ing from this extraordinary turn of fortune,
he was prevailed upon by his friends to
purchase an annuity of ESQ per annum; yet
fatally addicted to the pernicious habits of
insurance, he disposed of it, and lost it all.
He had been known frequently to apply to
those persons who had served him in his
prosperity, for an old coat, or some other ar
ticle of cast off apparel, and not many days
before his death, he solicited a few shillings
to buy him necessaries. He died aged IS,
in March, 1909, in a room up two pair of
stairs, in Angel Court, Windmill-street,
aymarket.-London paper.
DEAR AND DUmB. To enter the world
without a welcome-to leave it without an
adieu-to suffer, and to be unable to COM
municate your suffering Ito stand a sad and
silent monument amid the Joys of others,
which you cannot understand nor conceive
OTTO be shut out of life-to carry within.
your bosom the buried seeds of happiness
which is never to grow, of intellect which
IS never to germinate-to find even your
presence affective, and not to know wheth-
eryou excite compassion or horTor-a whole
existence without one cheering sound
without one welcome accent-without one
eXhilarating thought-without one idea of
the present without one recollection Of
the past7~without one hope of the future
Oh what a cloud oi Indebtedness rovers
surrounds, and overwhelms such deplora-
BILE victim of sorrow!
DEFrSITIoN or MAN Philosophers have puz.
zled themselves how TO define man 50 as to dis
tinguish him from other animals Burke saws
Man is an animal that cooks its victnas.'-
/" Then (says Johnson) the proverb is Just
there Is reason in roasting eggs. DIR Adam
Smith has hh the case "Man (savs he) is an an.
imal that makes bargains no other animal does
thlF-pno dog does rot change bone with an
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