Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-03-11

forget. A gentleman boarding IN the
/ same house with me, and engaged IN )
/ large mercantile house, cut ms throat
I from ear b ear from the effects OF drink
1 ing rum. He had been hard drinking
! man elsevhare He seemed % drink
very little. and would lecture my com-
panions and mvselffOr coming in Jolly y
/ some nights. He got to drinking very
| hard at last. Many q toby OF ale T" I've
had with him, and many merry eve
spent at the House OF Lords. He
commenced 10 neglect his business, spent
some SI00 in a few days, he told me- for
rum, etc. He sent 20 his employers Tor
more money; they thinking he was
sick. sent him all he wished for. We all
refused TO drink with him when we saw
him bent on keeping up his spree.
was regularly at my business, and
saw him only once or twice a week. He
really was hard up, pawnedall his val
uables, spent all he could borrow, and
then went to business again. He raised
more money and started over the same
old ground. One Sunday morning fol-
lowing he came 90 my room Jo borrow
an undershirt. [ shall never forget II.
He had " "spouted his, and told me his
uncle would not give him enough on his
vest 10 buy a drink. ] commenced 70
reason with him on the folly Ofhiscourse.
He wanted me to take him to aminister
| did not know where 10 lind a religious
mar in New York. Had / known our
esteemed friend Mr. McB., another soul
might have been saved.
As did not know any minister I took
Door Mack 10 the nearest physician. He
imagined the ladies were throwing stones
at him as we walked the streets, or some-
body was 90 shoot him. He said he felt
be had done some one q great wrong.
The doctor gave him strong doses Of
morphine-he went 10 bed and next day
was better. prayed him not % drink
any more, and I thought he was all right
again.
A few evenings after, coming home
from the opera rather late, I saw light
in Mack's room, and thought I would
cali on him. As soon as l opened Che
door, 1 saw the carpet rolled up, and
blood all over the floor. His two COM
paniOns were there, and they told me
Mack bad eat his throat Rum had
done It's worst.
Poor fellow, lie had placed himself de-
iiherately before the mirror, and cut his /
throat from ear TO ear lUs- after tea, when I
no one was in the room. For fear Of soil I
ing the carpet he placed his neck on the /
spittoon, which was filed with blood |
The iandlady did not wish him JO die in 1
her house, and the physicians took him .
ID Bellevue Hospital, where l saw him
next morning laid on q stretcher firmly
fastened down, The awful CASH sewed up
with silver thread. / she'd tears over
lim. He could not articulaCe but was
.uI alive, and the surgeon said he
thought he would live a week and per-
laps recover. The next day I intended
% take a minister TO his bedside
When I called at the hospital with
ome Of his old frieEdS, his place was
.mpty and his body lay in the dead house
Waiting for a claimant As l lifted the
covering there poor Mack lay dead on
.omm0u stretcner in the dead house Of "a
hospital, waiting for some relative To
lain this sogi had flown. -Four Of
his companions buried him in Green
wood. No minister, no mother, no sis
er, TO follow him 10 the last resting
iace! How sad his mother, and broken
earted must she have been when she
eard his sad end.
Intemperauce iu the same ward had
ther victims An old man Of eighty
lmmers, and a young man-uhrOats cut.
Q was an awful, gbastly sight l do not
.isb to see again. I feel thankful have
alien into good hands.