Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-01-08

We'll, one Sunday-it was in November
for the first time heard Mr.. Charles and the
Squire at something like high words ANYHOW,
MIR Charles voice was raised. So stood in
the shade of the long gallery door and heard
the Squire say, Give my hardearncd noe,
to pack of scoandrelS, thieves No, Charles,
TO not penny. 1t will be better Tor you
to- could not catch the last Sord but
Mr.. Charles screamed Never ! III such voice
as did not forget and heard in my dreams
often after They ceased then, but bega"
again after suppor, with the doors closed.
"The next morning | went TO call Mr.
Charles, as usual, to 30 with me i'll the mar
ket-cart to town. His door was fast. knock
ed. No answer Something lniagave me, 50
/ got one of the boys to climb up TO the win
dow with ladder and get in hy breaking a
pane. AS soon as the boy got in he began to
hooa aud shrek, SO put my shoulder to the
door and burst it in. Sure enough poor Mr..
Charles had hung himself, and was dead a Id
cold He'd never been a-bed, but sat up writ
ing and tearing up papers. could just read
a half dozen times written over bankrupt
---beggar-my poor wife never knew he
was married before.
1t seemed that the poor lad had been nm
Fortunate in business had lost more than he
could paw, and driven to desperation by the
Squire refusing to let him have the money he
wanted to go on with out of the million he
said he was worth | went straight to the
old man and said that could not stay in such
a house any longer He never said word
good or bad, but just stiffeucd himself up, and
waved me out of the room.
w hat he felt no one knows but after
this last sons suicide, he seemed to grow harder
and harder. The very next day he ordered
distress to be put in on two poor tenants that
had lost all their stacks by fire, and turned
them out into the snow.
"Of course there was an inquest and a
great noise about the Squire killing his son for
want of thousand pounds or 50, and he Eoll-
ing in riches But before much could be said
or done, having taken a cold at the funeral he
died without saying word, and before par
son or lawyer or q doctor could be brought
to him. He left four wills, but none of them
signed.
"They put me in charge Of the property,
and had it for years, until they took the rail
road through the hail. As soon as his death
was known there were claimants in all direc-
tions. 1t seems that Mr. Charles was private
ly married, aud had a family by one of the
dairy-maids She married Jesuit Johns, the
lawyers son, for her second husband, and Mr..
Norman had wife but there was some
doubts whether she had not another husband
living when she married Mr. Norman. And
the two SONS in-law, Langston and Woods,
made their claims and Mr.. BLANC, a won
derful Indian lawyer, set up for some yellow
children of Mr. Rupert's, and showed a camp
nro77r.2"e so there was plelfy of lawwork.
At it they all went, i,-mmer and tongs, before
all the courts and were at me every week to
swear one paper or another.
How they settled it don't know, but the
place all tumbled down except the walls, before
the railway came through it, and now see by
this bill, that it is to be sold in lots by order
of the Court of Chancery.
Il gave up the charge two years ago, to go
and live with my married daughter, down
South, and as I'm travelling back to spend
Christmas with my son, the first thing see
here is this last memorial of the old place,
where learned that it is content and not
riches that makes folks hanny -"