Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-01-19
Of F0ftesne--An Earl
GsIins in Misery.

The heir to lhe Irish carldom Of Wicklow
died lately in nutlin, III state Of miserable
de:ti,ution. The London Review gives the
following acccun; ci his prospectus and clos
ing hours;
II. in his last moments, the unfortunate man
who died last week in i, brotl.el in one CT The
lowest s,ums in the neishborhood OF Dublin,
could have contrastcd his dcathbed and his
surrounding with his sociel atatc, his oppor;u-
mites and expectations, he might have cursed
the hour Which brought him Into the world
with the certainty of most of these advan:as-
es, and with the strong possibility of enjoying
all of thcm If one coutd designate before
ones birth in what position in life he should
be born, it would not show a efficiency OF
| judgement to resolve on coming into the
word as did the late William George Howard.
Many years before his death he WAS presumr
tive heir to the cardom ot Wicklow; and
though, if man had the right to select to
which out of Il dozen earldoms he would like
to succeed it would not be difficult to choose
more attractive one than that of Wicklow
it must be admitted that Captain Howard's
prospect of succession, was not to be looked
down upon. He was. to say the least, nob!y
born ..
If the revenues which lie had the strong
probability of inheritng were rot immense
they were sufficient to enable him to raist
very large sums of money from the Jews
When, some years ago be came before tht
,nsolyent court, his debts were stated at lit
tie, if anything less than one hundred thops
and pounds. And this enormous sum hat
been raised upon post obit bonds. Yet in th'
history of this man VIC find not single trace
of any feeling that helowed himself Or to an.
others the duty Of living decently for a single
day, HIS associates was the lowest of tn,
low the vilest Of the vile In the peerage b,
ranked as the heir to an earldom. In societ,
the most abandoned and dospicablc knew hin
and saluted as "BilIy" And when last weel
he bade adeu to the world he had scandaliz
ed, the historian of his last hours was al
unfortunate" in whose arms he expired.
In such, miserable companionship did tht
heir to the earldom of Wicklow breathe hi;
last in the prime Of manhood, with hostages
givenito fortune, in a wife who hadborne hin
one child and was abont to bear him anothc
lit would appear that, as if led by the instinct
which had debased him from his early youth
he had left the roof which sheltered wife ant
child, to close his days in manner more be
fitting his antecendents than their society,"
4 He had known the woman in whose house h,
ldied, for eleven months, and on the Tuesda,
I, week before his death, he took UP his quarters
lwith her. II is a drcary narrative that W.
learn from her lips. He told her he had beer
ILL He complained of cramps and diarrhe;
bnt wonld neither see medical man, no
] take medicine. He would take whiskey; ant
day after day he lay in bed drinking whsk,
sometimes quart day and when h,
found that whisky did him no good, drinking
brandy. During the ten days preceding hi
death he appears only to have eaten one eg,
aud one chop. butuot to have retained eithe
7 on his. stomach ,5s r. Z.