The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-10-29
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The death of Mr.. Crawford has been announced
The following Is some account of the man and his
success in hisar., from the New York Herald:
MIR. Crawford was born in this city in 1915 In
youth ke gave evidence ofa remarkable fondness
for art which hts father had the sagacity to com.
PrcheuI snd cultivate. He was the scheolfellow
81 fagc, the well known portrait painter and like
the latter. while at school, preferred TO draw ami
mails or trees a slate rather than be working
out the solution ofsome arithmetioal problem
At twenty years OF axe he was, sent tu Rome and
was fortunate ia making the acquaintance of the
celebrated Thorwalsdeu. lie executed bntts of the
late Commodore Hull, Mr.. Kenyon, Sir Charles
Vaughan, Josiah Quincy, &c. In 1889 he designed
"0Tphcus.' the finest production of hia chiseI~-
Next followed cupid and Psyche" "Sappho,"
'sNesta." s'ticnius of Mirth,n adam and kye y
David before Saul and a number of Scriptural
bas reIicfs. In 1855 his fame as a sculptor which
gradually developing, shone forth with re-
doubled ustre in the production of his noble statue
in bronze of Beethoven, which Is deposited in the
Music Hall Of Boston. But his greatest work was
designed TO be his last--the Washington Monu-
meat, ordered by the State of Virginia. with which
the public are long familiar.
MIR. Crawford WAS married some years ago to Miss
Ward. of this city. lie has left several children
who are now living with his Wits sister, Mrs
NaiIlard, Mt Bordenipwn, \. J. For the last year
or two hc has been the victim Of dreadful disease
which has deprived him almost entirely of sight,
and compelled him to renounce his art entirely. A
malignant tumOr made its appearance in his left
eye, aud in spite of every effort of his physicians
increased 10 such extent that the eye protruded
almost out of its socket, while the agony, which
was intense, seemed beyond the aid of art. Last
spring he WAS induced 10 leave Rome and place
himself under the care Of DR.. Fell, OF London,
young American ply scian. who had acquired some
reputation for his treatment Uf cancers. For
while the sufferer seemed to obtain some relief but
the efforts to the cancer at the sacrifice Of
the eye itself proved entirely unaNaiing; the dis
ease penetrated to the brain, and after months Of
III =. ha
Was relieved of his suf1rrings by death on the
morning of Oct. To- in the forty-torth year of his
age. The body will he sent home in the steamship
Arago, the one Immediately succeeding here. 1t
is Mrs. CTawfords wish that the funeral ryce
here should bc held in St Johns church, where he
stately worshipped before he left for Rome
A CSyTENisIsS DISCHARGED FROM PRIsoN-Two
years ago, joel SchuOn0Ven. of Summer Hill, in
this county. was convicted of the crime of arson,
and sentenced to the state prison for life. lie free
~ confessed the commission of the crime, and said
he was driven to II in consequence OF what he con-
saered 10 lee personal injuries, inflicted upon him
10y son-inlaw, and other members of his family
who We're anxious TO obtain possession of the yalu-
able property tina; he owned. Well, he was reeas-
ed today, by executive ciemeucy and we met him
at the corner Of State and GeHeseo street comfort
ably clad and carrying pair of heavy new boots
IN his hand He said he pretty glad TO get
out, though he preferred the State prison to the
county houses lie employed i'll the spin
sntIi IN the PRISON. lie Is u native OF traUgo
in this state, and served in the Of the TcyOlu
zion aud last war lie saw Washington at New
burg and he fought his battles over again" thi,
morning. When we asked him what his age Was
he replied - oung man, | one huIdred Years
old Fourth of July last md he tottered away,
"homewarG bound Think for u moment of a
man sre ching and passing his one hundreth year in
i state prison. The sentence of a man of his years
for life was not, in the ordinary course of things
4 long sentence: to release him act of elem
cmcy and of Justice. The old man is hale and
hearty. aud looks as though lac might live a score
OF years yet.--t"itTn tm'ricstH, Octoter II.
DEATH FROM THE BITE OF 1 SPIDER-Chafles IIol
man, youngest son of Grin Holman, Esq, Of Ian
caster, Mass. died few days ago under quite pain
full circumstances. Ills death was evidently ed
! 10y the bite of a spider. On Wednesday morning
he complained Of pain in his mouth. which made
it quite difficult for him to eat. Soon cousidcrl
lie swelling observed upon side Of his face
and this extending to the brain, ere long produced
| alteration. and at last modification set in, ana
! finally death followed. The physician attending
him seemed to have doubt TO the cause of his
| death, there being many conhrmatory evidences
that the cause above given was the true one. The
| bite evidently made while the victim wa.
asleep. and the first notice of il in the morn
! ing. Just nnder the lip the physician discovered
the original wound; and il was his opinion that the
! spider was caught between the two lips by u sud
| den contraction Of the muscles of the mouth
caused by the moving of the ms ct il whiit
/ the young man asleep. The L.nal remedies
/ were applied. hut it too late. lie died in abou
| a week after the accident.