The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-16

motive, and next time he saw the donor he said,
Il have received ham from you; thank you
for IL, said he; but (raisng his hnger in sig
nifcant manuer) added, III tell you 1t won't do,
IL won't dor
Newland had no extravagant expectations
that the world would be drowned in sorrow
when It should be his turn to leave it; and he
wrote this ludicrous epitaph on himself shortly
before bls death:-
Beneath this stone old Abraham hes,
Nobody laughs, and nobody crles,
Where he's gone, and how he fares,
No one knows and no one cares"
His physician, in one of his latest visits,
doctor expressing his surprise, Newland replied,
smiing:-'I am only looking in the paper in
order TO see what am reading to the world
am going to-" He died November 81. 1907,
without any apparent pain of body or anxiety
of n ind, and his remains were deposited in the
Church OF st. Saviour, Southwark. .
Newland's property amounted to O,OOV
besides a. thousand year landed estates. 1t
must not be supposed that this was saved from
his salary. During the whole of his career the
loans for the war proved very prolific, GER
the cashiers office Zone Parliamentary Report
names G100, ,000), and as they generally come
out at premium, the profits were great. The
family of the Goldsmids, then the leaders of
the Stock Exchange, contracted for many OF
these loans, and to each of them he left $500 to
purchase mourning ring. Newland's large
funds, IT is said, were occasionally lent to the
Goldsmids to assist their varied speculations.
LISTON IN TRAGEDY.
Playgoers of the present century narrate the
early seriousness OF Llston the comedian, and
his subseq quent turn for tragedy; predictions
which the experience OF the next generation
may have thrown into the shade of doubt. The
facts are however, well authenticated Liston
was lineally descended from Johan de BEstonne,
who came over with the Norman William, and
had lands awarded him at Lupton Magma in
NJ l.oNa NC
Lston we're Puritans, and his father, Habakuk,
was an Anabaptist minister. At the age OF
nine young Liston was placed under the tut
tion of Rev Mr.. Goodenough, whose decease
was attended with these awful circum-
stances:-It seems that the old gentleman and
HE pupil had been walking out together, in
fine sunset, to the distance OF three quarters of
a mile west OF Lupton, when q sudden curiosity
took Mr.. Goodenough to lCok down upon a
chasm where a mining shaft had been lately
sunk, but soon afterwards abandoned. The old
clergyman, leaning over, either with incautiOn
or sudden giddlness (proOably a mixture OF
both), suddenly lost his footing, and, to use Mr..
| Llston's phrase, disappeared, and was doubtless
| broken INTO thousand pieces. The sound OF
| his head, ETC., dashing successively upon the
projecting masses OF the chasm, had such an
effect upon the youth Liston that a sickness
| ensued; and even tor many years after his re-
covery ne was not once seen so much as to smile.
| The JOINT death OF both his parents which
| happened not many months after this disastrous
| accident, and were probably Zone or both OF
| them) accelerated by II, threw our youth upon
| the protection OF his maternal great aunt, Mrs.
| Sittngbourn, whom he loved almost to reverence.
| To the influence OF her early counsels and
| manners he always attributed the trmness with
| which, in maturer years, thrown upon way of
| life commonly not the best adapted to gravity
| and sel1-retirement, lie was able to maintain
serious character, untInctured with the levities
| incident to his profession. Ann Slttingbourn
cher portrait was painted by Huuson) was stately,
| stlh and lall, with cast OF features strikingly
| resembling these OF LisIon. Her estate IN Kent
| was spacious and we'll wooded; and here, in the
venerable sohtudes of Charnwood, amid thick
shades OF the oak and beech the last his iavorite
| tree), Llston cultivated those contemplahve
after years. Here he was commonly in summer
! months to be met, book IN hand-not play
| book-medltating. Boyle's "Refectionsn was at
one time his darling In volume which which, in its turn,
which continued its hold upon him through
out HE. He carried it always about him;
and il was no uncommon thing for him to be
seen, in the refreshing intervals OF his occupa-
ton, leaning against a side-scene, in sort of
Lord Herbert OF Cherbury posture, turning over
| pocket edition OF MS iavorite author.
| The premature death of Mrs. Sittingbourn,
| occasioned by incautiousy burning u pot OF
| charcoal in her sleeping chamber, left Liston,
in his nineteenth year, nearly without resources.
That the stage at all should have presented
itself as an eligible scope for his talents, and
| in particular, that he should have chosen line
| so foreign to what appears to have been his turn
| of mind, admits Of explanation.
| AT Charnwood, then, we behold him thought
| full, grave, ascetc, from his cradle averse to
| flesh, meats, and strong drinks; abstemious
even hey yond the genius OF the place; and almost
in spite OF the remonstrances OF his great
aunt, who, though strict, was not rigid;
water was his habitual drink, and his food little
hey ond the mast and beech.nuts Of his faVorite
| grove. 1t is medical fact that this kind Of
| diet, however favorable to the contemplative
| powers OF the primitive hermits, etc., is but ill
| adapted to the less robust minds and bodies OF q
later generation. Hypochondria almost con.
stantly ensues and young Llston was subject to
| sights, and had visions. Those arid beech.nuts,
distilled by a complexion naturally adrot,
mounted into a brain already prepared to
| kiIdle by long secluslons, and the tervOr OF
| strict CalVinstic notions. In the gloom OF
| ChaTnwOod he was assailed by illusions similar
| in kind to those which are related of the famous
Anthony OF Padua. Wild antic faces would
ever and anon protrude upon his sense
rtUm. Whether he shut his eyes or kept
them open, the same illusions operated. The
darker and more profound were his cogitations
the dloller and more whimsical became the
apparitiOns. They buZzed about him, thick as
flies, tapping AZ him. flouting at him, hootine
in his ear, yet with such comic appendages thai
what at jrst was his bane became at length his
solace, and he desired no better society thar
that of his merry phantasmata Ne shall
presently find IN what way this remarkable
phenomenon influenced his future destiny.
On the death OF Mrs. Sttingsburn Liston was
received INTO the family or Mr. Wllloughby, al
| eminent Turkey merchant in BTchin lane. Hi
was more treated like son than CLERK, though
; | he was nommally but the latter. Different
avocations, change OF scene, with alienation o
business and recreation, appear 20 have weaneC
| him in q short time from the hypochondPGca