The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-08-25
L.
A Touching Incident.

We are not prepared to say that our sanitary
authorities have not exerted themselves consider
ably during the late panic about the yellow fever
We shouldnot like to say however. that they
guarded the city efectually from the insroduction
of the pestilence, or that some of their measures
did not leave our neighbors along the Long Ihsnd
and Staten Island coasts in perilous predicatnent
We take no ground iu question but we nArrate
the following touching incident ~ one for thu
trath Of which we can personally vouch, without
dispute and without exagseration:
friend OF ours urgently solicited us week before
last to accompany him on . visit to q MrsSW.a
who had charming cottage in South Brooklyn,
below Greenwood, and who was anxious TO show :.
Us both how he had just completed the embellish-
mentef an admirable vault for himself and fami-
ly in the cemetery. zsi y -, ~ 1ssss sfss
"Such q love of . cottage I, exclaimed his wife
"whyit overlooks the whole OF New York bay,
that Fanny Kemble praised so much and pre-
SCENTS you the most delightful panorama Of the
hillccvered and viila-clustered grounds Of Staten
Staten leland r said We, with q shudder that
came from the very bottom of our heart for wa
thought Of the Quarantine, of the yellow fever OF
the vessels lying like 90 many grim ana bony
phantoms beckoning us to the grave. ss e8saS@ s.
Our friend laughed at our approximations. and
bis fair partner combatted fh6m wi1h q torrent of
playful ridiculs. We could only escape heweyer.r
BY promising to 60 on the following Monday,
when We agreed to do Mr.. w's cottage full Justice
In our critical admiration, and to expend : word
Of compliments on the tsstewe were told he had
displayed In adorning his burial ground. sst 81 a
Last Monday We kept our promise. We depar-l
ted in good spirits, gay, ighthearted, joyous and
full Of pleasant anticipations. In due time we
reached Mr. W's house, but found It closed up--
We Knocked at the door, It was opened, and
there in the front parlor lay the corpse Of our
friend
I'he next day we followed his body to the vanlt
at Greenwood he had taken 80 much pains TO fur
nish and had been so anxious that We should ad.
nirs for his qualification. Alas for all his inno-
cent vanity. .Airat gsaaasII II8aN
ThnrsuAy afterward we followed the remains Of
his elder daughter to the quiet resting place.
She waited on him (for he was I widower) In bis
last moments, and she had not long survived him.
On the subsequent day the next daughter died.
She had been the ministering angel at her sisters
bedside, and had gone quickly after. I4s AZ .s.s
The day following, Ws sister, who had heen
sent for from Pennsylvania, and who had left her
family to come on aud aid her relatives IN their
distress, took sick. Yesterday she was hurried.
leaving disconsolate husband and five mother
less children to mourn their ifreparable loss. a
7 What was the solution of the mysteryi Four Of
the crew Of . brig from Havana, quarAnttined
across the bay, had induced an unscrupulous
boatman for Ave dollars to put them ashore, at
night near the cemetery. w. and his family had
all departed with unmistakabls symptoms of the
yellow fever.
a512 - = TYeso York Suzdau Tinss