Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1843-01-04
From the Cincinnati Daily Times.
A Tale of HOrr0r--Life in Cin-
cinnaIi.

"The love of money is the root OF all evil"
SOLOMON.
GoLD.--This yellow slave |
Will knit and break religions; bless the accursd
Make the hoar leprosy adored; place thieves
And give them title, knee and appreciation,
With ministers in the pulpit "-SHAKsPEARE'
One of the most revolving cases OF hu- |
man depravity, degradation, and black.
hearted seI6shness which we ever heard
of, came under our notice recently from an
authentic source. The place, Cincinnati
the time, a few weeks since-the VIC
tim, an old lady, about ninety FIVE years
of age, and the principal actors her chill
dren. The love of gold and the reluc-
tance to part with it, was the prime cause
of an aged lady being incarcerated III
small room, almost in state OF nudity,
nearly starved to death, with nothing but
a miserable, filthy straw bed 10 rest her
aged limbs upon, with but scanty cover
ing, and so neglected that her body swar'
med with vermin. Horrible thought !
Well and truly has the poet said, Selfish
ness, that subtle fiend,
sCan and does dissever all the ties of blood,
OF faith, of friendship, of devoted love;
Arm brother against brother, and unite
The flial band in one unbroken league
Against the breast that bore s. nurtured them
The circumstances as detailed to US are
as follows-they are substantially correct.
The old lady referred to, lived in the city
of New York, possessed Of sufficient pro.
perry to smooth the down-hlll of life, and
make her comfortable in her declining
years.
A son, now living in this city, in good
circumstances, it is stated, squandered a
mart of this sacred fund, and came to this
CITY with the balance, leaving his parent
to The cold charities Of strangers. After
some time a daughter Of the old lady bro't
her out to the West, with whom she lived
near the Little Miami river for while !;
but at last getting tired Of her, she brought
her to this city, and quartered her on an
other sister, who in short time, reflect
ing no doubt, that as her brother had pos
sessed himself of all the old lady's prop
erty, he ought TO take care Of her, and
therefore applied to him to receive her
under his roof. This he refused to do.
Determined not to be at the expense and
trouble of shielding that venerable gray
head and those feeble limbs, and OF com.
forting that heart broken mother who had
nourished her from her own bosom, fon
died her in her arms and watched her
slumbers in infancy and childhood, she
placed her totterng frame in a carriage,
and proceeded to her brothers house
when, not finding the family at home, she
seated her mother on the door steps, and
left her in the rain, where she remained
for an hour or two. On the return OF her
son she was placed in small back room
in his house-a miserable straw bed and
covering were given to her, and then she
was locked up. The condition in which
she was found is sufficient proof OF the
treatment she was subjected to. Human,
ity sbudders at the picture-the mind Is
unable to conceive and the pen inadequate
to describe the scene IN all its loathsome
particulars and heart rending imaginings.
Suffice it to say, that the lady who first
accidentally heard of the Circumstance
told her husband, who Immediately called
on one of the sons-in-law OF the sufferer
local preacher or exhorter in one OF the
Methodist churches of this city, who is ir
the receipt of several thousand dollars o
rent from his real estate, and stated the
information he had received in relation tc
his wife's mother, and his Apprehension
that unless something was done 'mmed'
ateIy she could not survive such crue
treatment. Alas he conjectured truly
the old lady died soon after.
"Life's ftful fever over,
She sleeps weli.'
Peace TO her spirit She has felt
"How worse than serpents tongue 1t IS
To have a thankless child.
The Christian (D minister answered
81 know it all the old woman was yer.
old, and ought to have died years ago
and that it was nobody's business"
But our friend was not TO be so easIl..
banked; the holy precepts which he ha'
imbibed, taught him TO persevere. III
accordingly called on the township trus
tees. and insisted on their going to see heI
which at first they refused TO do; and
was only after he had threatened to put
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