Litchfield enquirer., 1865-07-13
xRTHMUs WARDS BROTHER.

%-t F 1 The following quaint letter from gentle man who professes to be the brother of the celebrated Artemus Ward, says an Eastern ex- change, reached us the other day by regular mail, and we give it because it embraces so much of the special kind of humor for which Artenias is so renowned. The whole family seem to be laboring under very bad spell : which is disorder that, in their case, how ever, seems to operate as disease upon certain oysters, in producing apearl where we might only expect putrid ty:, .e' D 1adf p't s1a27 SHERcARGo, March II, l865 r To the Edytur of the Sunday Times ~. F.: as
 4 years ago, while in Indianopeles, injyania' I wrote to MT. Prentiss, off the Louseville Jur- snip regarding the whereabouts of my brother ! Artymus Ward, off hoom I have not heard sinst he was boi, @ ". 51 tql sAnd we roamed the fields together
 happe as Mackeral in Kashmeer Sox. There was four of us brothers, all bois. Thee foller- ing is a pedagog off our family. Our parents, off which there was twu, consisted of cur la ther and mother, namely: zs7.
 Hammer and Erysipelas Ward. The latter (my father1 was given heavily to Plugg to- packer, of which he chewed necessarily though 7 Billed Bacon done rair was his best hold. He was man that could not go long between drinks. The kamil did not perdominate in him, and G. Hover took him at the age oi sicksty, and after 2 dais sikness. The follow ing is applicable to his case:
 .5a'" Q, kun, o kun with me.-S. Spere.
 After the old mans deth, our mother wal left with the four bois aforesaid, to achizs namely, i.e. a .t .f,- fs ratt
 Erysipelas (named after father) "
 Artymis the Long Lost.) .. ,a
 Rodney and myself. .-s-'t' - Olonzo (named after elonzo of pizzaronear celebrity) -..r.,.s a.,...... ... ,... -a My eldest brother Fry went into the woo bizziness,iwhile Rodney went out to Orriggenf territory and mbarked in the Fur trade. Fry did poorly at the wool, and busted, but Rodney is still in the Fur Coming money. .
 Artymis, at the tender age of eleven, was suddenly mist from hoam. In this konnex s shin would remark an old stockin belongin to mother, containin fore dollers in Oliver and , fifty-too cents in Hopper, disappeared about the same time. There was party of awk rabats, of double summerset proclivitys, in our naburhood a few days previs, and by meny it was serposed Arty had been inviggled .l
 To leve his ga and happy home, # ;. Sands eyes, sands teeth brushes,
 Sands pale ale. .l-,. -. ...-.. The worrild is all stage, sa
 The rest is lemon and vanilla.-Jack spear. u At all evinks have never heern of him but once, i. e., when wrote to MT. Frentiss, whc didn't anser ny lett CT, he bein engaged ir translatin Fren ch letter sent to him by Soo san Monday, noted gorriller of the femai gander. Of her more hereafter but Raoe maus on our Mutton, as the French have it. heerd that my brother, A. Ward, had bacun ritcb, he having been to Salt Lake City among the Mormen wimen,a (he was lusty luver o the latter, even from child,) and that more over the above, he had got @ sho of wax fggers and nevertheless was perfectly decayed witt money in which event would remind hin that @"s.' e'' t- ''