The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-05-14
unon beiny asked wbv he did so. being so !

Upon being asked why he did so, being so 7
helpless as he wasIhe could make no other re-
ply but to M anifest his representation. In
the course of three or four days he returned;
but was still indomitable in his resolution TO
return again to his friend Vance; and when
asked>by those who had doIfe the most tor
him, why he would act so inconsistently IN
his helpless state! his unfailing reply was
about this: "The ID has got in me, and i
can't get him outs We, therefore, at his
request, furnished him wagon and horses
and took him and his effects 10 miles TO |
Bowling Green, tree Of charge; neither was
any charge mssie tor any services rendered
him durihg his stay with us-neither any
reduction made in tizc amount OF money re
ceived in his namo-(a note Of some $500 or
more, but when shorn OF his dues amounted
! to s220, and also n small amount OF $40, tor
medicine sold on commission Amounting
| in all 10 $3.50; most of which he seemed TO
/ have at his decease. We feared some that
the result Of undertaking so great journey
| might be bad; and ir conversation with nm.
after he was seated in the wagon, he seemed
| almost TO predict his own end in saying
..Wen, expect VIII die in some hole, IL
| this way he left; and from all appearance,
/ iudring from the past, we thought he might
live wears and probably would, lad lie con-
tinucd in the careful and regular way he had
been while living with US. But 1t would
seem, that with all his medical knowledge,
tho remaining vigor OF naturally powerful
constitution, was not sufficient TO sustain
him in the Journey he had undertaken.
During our acquaintance with DIR. Holmes,
he gave but limited account of his origin
and ancestry. lie has spoken of his father
as an Episcopalian clergyman, and OF his
brother Charles, as occupying the same Po-
sition and calling. Other members OF the
family, he did not incline to say much about;
nor did he say much concerning his own,
though it would appear he had been twice
married. BY the first wife. he had two chill
dren, girl and a hoy; and during her life,
lived in affluence and splendor, after tho or
der of the aristocracy of London. The daugh-
ter died young. The son, when grown up
made choice of going to sea, and was never
heard of afterwards. By the second wife he
had no children; and for some cause, the
union between them was dissolved; and. il
this, Off he had explained it) we suppose, Ia,
the cause OF his separation finally, from tn,
higher class of society he once enjoyed. AZ
ter this, if we understand him, his time. wa
. spent in the various hospitals of London ana
| Paris AMI in tho service of the lludson's Ba.
= Company, procuring furs from the Indians
g and was, for 4 term of years, Governor II
\ that Territory. lie then came to the Unite
States, visited various points, located for
nessee at some point in Arkansas, and nea
fernando. Miss, from which place hc cam
= to South Union.
I This silence in regard 10 himself, sti
leaves his separation from the refined socict
y of London, a mystery, and which, We are in
a clined TO believe, was a fixed purpose in N
own mind; and will perhaps so remain, es
y cept revealed by some Of his own class. man
N of whom must still survive, as he could no
from anything we could learn OF him, cxcee
n seventy years of age at his deccase.
W With due regard to all, and
in behalf Of our communion,
L. JOHN K. Fades.
ri A Letter from a lady in Dwight coul
oil ty, Illinois, says, "while visiting Englar
III in 1851 or 1852, became intimate
- acquainted with the deserted wife
Z" Doct. John p. Holmes, q woman Of ia
70 ent and refinement, whom he separat,
~ from and deprived her of her proper
" about the time he left for America. 81
. was unable to get release, under Z
- English laws, from her legal obligatio
% 20 him so as to inherit or control certa
~ property that would have otherwise a
nd ~ ~ .s -.'. '..--- ----.--..
- oy the administrator subject to his CLAIM
:. Evidence Of his identity and death m
be important to her. --tE