Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-03-29

red. have tins moment received the
intelligence. think it will be best
not to acquaint sir Joseph with it till
the day is over. You understand sir
Joseph, and will give me your opinion.
The most frightfal and deplorable
event!'
'Fishr returned the Alderman,sFish!
my good fellow what is the matter!
Nothing revolutionary, l hope! No
ATTEMPTED interference with the mag
is.rate!'
Decides. the BANKER gasped the
Secretary. Decides, Brothers-who
was to have been here to-day-high in
Office in the Goldsmiths' Company
Not stopped!' exclaimed the Alder
man. 'lt can't ben
Shot himself
Good God!'
'Put doubled-barrclled pistol to his
mouth, in his own counting-house,'
said Mr. Fish. 'and blew his brains
out. No motive. Princely circum.
stance.?'
circumstances exclaimed the A.
derman. "A man of noble fortune
Onc of the most respectable Of men.--
Suicide. Mr.. Fish! By his own hand!
This very morning, returned Mr..
Fish.
ooh the brain. the brain!' exclaimed
the pious Alderman, liftingup his hands,
oh the nerves. the nerves; the mystic
iries 9: this machine called Man! oh
the little that unhinges it poor crca-
lures that VIC are! Perhaps dinner,
Mr.. Fish. Perhaps the conduct of his
son. who, have heard, ran very wild,
and was in the habit Of drawing bills
upon him without the least authority !!
A most respe ctable man.-One of the
most respectable men l ever knew!
A lamcntable instance, Mr.. Fish. A
public calamity. shall make IA point
Of wearing the deepest mourning. A
most respectable man! But there is
One above. We must submit, MIR. Fish.
We ~ &c submit
. hat, Alderman! No word of
I utting Down! Remember, Justice,
your high moral boast and PRIDE
|Comc Alderman! Balance those scales.
Throw me into this, the empty one, No
Dinner, and Natures Founts in some
poor woman, dried by starving misery
and rendered obdurate the claims for
which her offspring has authority in
holy mother. Weigh me the two: you
Daniel going to judgment, when your
day shall come! Weigh them, in the
eyes of suffering thousands, audience
mot unmindfuD ofthc grim farce you
play! Or supposing that you straycd
from your Visits not so far to go
but that it might be--and laid hands
upon that throat Of yours, warning
your fellows Gf you have fellow how
they croak their comfortable wicked.
ness to raving heads and stricken
} hearts. What thcnl
The words rose up in Trotty's breast,
as if they bad been spoken by some
other voice within him. Alderman
, Cute pledged himself to Mr.. Fish that
he would assist him in breaking the
melancholy catastrophe to sir Joseph,
, when the day was over. Then. before
, they parted. wringing Mr.. Fish's hand
in bitterness, Of soul, he said, 'The
most respectable ofmen9' And added
that he hardly knew; not even he,
why such Affections were allowed on
, earth.
its almost enough to make one
, think, if one didn't know bett' r. said
Alderman Cate. 'that at timos some
/ motion OF capsizing nature WIS GO
ing OH in things, which affected the
, general economy Of the social fabric.
, Decides, broth r.!
, The skittlc-playing came off with
immense success. Sir Joseph knock
, cd the pin, about qnite sklIiully; Mas
: ter Bowlry took an innings at a short
or distace also: and every body said
that now. when b lronot and the son
J ola Ba,onct played at skittlcs, the
country was coming round again, as
, fast as it could come.
Att proper time, the Banquet was
; served up. Trotty Involuntary re-
paired to the hall with tie rest, for he
felt himself conducted thither by some
/ stronger impulse than his own free
, will. The sight was in the extreme;
the ladies were very handsome; the
. visitors were delighted, cheerful and
good tempered. When the lower