Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-04-23


was somewhat cooled when it was known
that he had eloped from France with an
other mans wife and three children, and
that they were all with him at the public
hotel at the charge of his friends.
A gentleman who called on him soon
after his arrival, thus describes the inter
view; We raped, small figure came
TO the door, meanly dressed, with an old
outside coat on and no other-a dirty silk
handkerchief loosely hung around the
neck, long beard of a weeks growth-a
red face, and he more than half drunk.
In the room was a small round table; on
it stale beef, beer and brandy, aud at the
table Paine sat down mumbling, shaking
his head and slipping his beer and bran
dy, and railing against the Bishop of Lam
daft"
In 1885 the State of New York gave
aim an estate eonf>cated from Frederick
Davoc. Itwas near New Rochelle, and
comprised three hundred acres. The
holse was built Of stone. To this place
he removed, taking with him Madame
Bonneville and her three children.
Here he ran down to the lowest depth
Of moral degradation. lie associated
with the lowest of human beings. lie
herded with The vile and abandoned he
was found almost continually in the tap
room, drinking as long as he could stand,
: and selling the :" Age OF Reason"
He became poor as well as immoral.
, As he could not afford brandy he took to
New England rum. The part of New
= Rochelle called Bonneville, from his mis-
= tress, became the e" Sodom" of the re-
gion. The youth had no intellectual or
moral training but grew up ignorant, lax
and immoral
He was a sight to behold-a confirmed
, drunkard-a notorious liar-a profane
: wretch-so drunk, SO profane, so filthy,
! that no decent person could remain with
. him; and as he had abandoned Madame
- Bonneville with kicks and curses he had
"a no companion but an old black woman,
Il who was as drunk aud as filthy as him
. self, and the casual visitor would often
n find Paine aud the negress dead drunk
on the floor.
In 1904 he removed to the city of n
~ York. But he was so filthy that no one
. would keep him and with tears to al
old Welchman, Paine cried out, No one
will take me in." This Welchman ha,
i compassion on the miserable old man
q. dragged him out Of low tavern-pu
i him in a tub of hot water and scrapet
this prophet Of infdrlity till the dirt peel
- ed of him. But Paine was too mucl
H. for the Welchman; he had to turn hin
OF out, and he approached the close of lif,
ed one Of the dirtiest, most drunken, profant
,st NOR ais that any age endured---houseless
inn penniless, friendless.
tL Religion at last came TO his aid. III
nd was filthy beyond description; his liner
became the color Of tanned leather; hi
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,a it. Yet a poor, but pious woman, by tn
h. name Of Hidden, came to his relief am
10. felt that he was still human, and neede,
cb care.
nd Bat even she could barely live. 1t wa
for awful 10 hear his blasphemies--lo hea
ed his shrieks when left alone-to see hir
,er start up and cry out, who's there who
nd there = to hear his cry-' Lord help me
yI mingled with curses on the Son of Got
Ia And once he exclaimed, " Ny God N
God, why hast thou foIsaken me-"
90 He knew he must die. lie was
,ad great despair about his burial. He kne
no that he would be refused sepulchre
i've the burial grounds of the Episcopal an
no Presbyterian churches, and to them |
, a did not apply. But he did apply TO IL
L., Friends for a lot in which his bones eou
,a, be laid at last, but he was refused /
10 them bitter portion this was in h
e., cup
On the eighth day Of June he died
the city Of New York, aud the next da
he was hurried off to New Rochelle al
was entombed in lonely grave on b
farm.
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