Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-10-02
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10. H. JOHNSON. in the article in
onr paper yesterday headed Summary
JUSTICE we gave the particulars, as far
they were then known, Of IA man who had
been found dead in the cellar of a ware
house in this city. After our paper was
at press and nearly worked off we learnt
that he had been identified, and that his
name was that which heads this article
This man was an old resident Of this city
and had considerable property; how that
property has been obtained is but too
plain. His house was taken possession of
by the police on Sunday evening, imme-
diately after his being identified, and on
yesterday underwent an examination,
when quantities of dry goods, groceries,
&c. for there was little Of almost every
thing found. Many of the goods were
Immediately claimed by our merchants
who had been robbed of them. a large
quantity unclaimed, we're sent to the
Mayors Office, where they can be seen.
Many hundreds Of persons in the course
of the day yesterday, went to see the
dwelling Of johnson, and in the afternoon
we went for the same purpose.-The
house is four story in front, upon Water
street, and how many subterranean sto-
ries upon the river bank, we cannot say
we only went down three, the last by a
ladder; but never did the ingenuity OF
man contrive building better calculated
for the business which was carried on in it.
There are numerous apartments dark as
dungeons, comparatively, all the light
they received being from narrow pas
sage of stone 60 feet in length.
We understand from the police, Tint
two apartments were discovered one Of
which was without door or window, I'M
der the roof, and entered by trap open
ing from the roof; another had a door SO
ingeniously contrived as not to appear to
be an enhance, the key-hole, which is
small, being situated in what would be
taken for the middle of the door, altho'
it is in fact the edge. The house has
been some fifteen years building, and not
yet finished.
johnson was man Of liberal educa-
ton and general Information; has bro't
up family of six or eight children, three
or four Of whom were daughters, to whom
he gave the best Of education, and they
became connected, by marriage, with
some of the most respectable families Of
the West. For them, (such as are liv-
| ing) and their connexions, there is one
generalburs of feeling; it could not be
otherwise. Who does not feel for the
innocent on these occasions Gin. Com.
.4d0erti,er.
Takers. The seventh, and most in
snfferable class, are the exclusive takers.
One of these will undertake to talk for all
the company present. If you inpatient
ly throw in but one little word, it is like
finging large stone into quick cur
remit disturbs, but cannot impede it,
and rather impels it still faster onward /,
or like striking spark into barrel of
gunpow1er-a fresh explosion of words
spreads hubbub and confusion all a
round it. Though he tells you every
thing you already know, you cannot tell
him any thing that he does not know
He can tell you what new book con-
tains that is to come out next Tuesday,
as well as if he was himself Wednesday !;
or anticipate the merits of a great pic
ture on the easel. If you mean to see
the new tragedy, he has seen it, and he
destroys all the delight you would have
in its newness, by repeating the best
points Of it, and by unravelling its plot.
lf you set out with an anecdote, he
snatches it out Of your mouth, as GOV.
etous dog would desired bone from his
best boon companion and dearest puppy
friend, and tells it for you. You object
that yours was different version of the
same story, and gently persist in telling it
your own wayne knows the other ver-
sion as well as you do, and relates it for
you. but thinks his own the best. If you
persist, after all, in telling it for yourself
he will insinuate tomorrow that you are
in your anecdotoge, and declares that'you
are the worst teller of good thing since
Goldsmith. You could not have done ii
worst thing than start an anecdote in his
hearing, for that one is too sure of re-
minding him Of an hundred others; and
the last one Of that first century Of good
things is SO nearly related to the FIRST OF
the second century that he cannot choose
but relate it, and you dare not choose but
hear it. If you commence q favorite
quotation, be takes up the second line.