Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1866-05-16
all Sorts of 6Ou6 8ra0ing,
ON THE FORGIVEN LIST,

ONE of the old school Merchants Of
Boston, very extensively engaged in
commerce, and located on Long Wharf
in that city, died in February, 1906, in
testate, at the age of seventy live. His
eldest son administered upon the estate.
This old gentleman used pleasantly to
say, that for many years lie had fed q
large number Of Catholics on the shores
Of the Mediterranean during Lent-re-
ferring to his very extensive connection
with the fishing business. In his days
he was certainly well known and to the
present time is well remembered By some
of the old ones down along shore, from
the Garnett's Nose to Race Point.
Among his papers, a considerable
package was found after his death, care
fully tied up, and labelled as follows 4:
Notes, due bills, and accounts against
sundry persons down along shore
Some of them may be got by suit of
severe dunning. But the people are
poor; most of them have had fsherman's
luck. My children will do as they think
best. Perhaps they will think with me,
that it is best to burn this package entire
Abouta month (said the narrator of
this) after our father died, the sons met
together, and after some general remarks,
the eldest brother, the administrator,
produced this package, read the super
scription, and asked what course should
be taken in regard to it. Another
brother, few years younger than the
eldest, man of strong, impulsive tenn
permanent, unable at the moment to ex-
Dress his feelings by words, while he
brushed the tears from his eyes with one
hand by a spasmodic jerk of the other
toward the fire. place, indicated his desire
to have the paper put into the flames. 1t
was suggested by another Of our number,
that it might be well to make list of
debtors names, and of the dates and ac-
counts, that we might be enabled, as the
intended discharge was for all, to inform
such as might offer payment, that their
debts were forgiven. On the following
day we again assembled, the list had
been prepared, and all the notes, due
bills, aad accounts, whose amount, in
Guiding interest, exceeded thirty-two
thousand dollars, were committed to the
flames. -
It was about four months after our
fathers death, in the month of June,
that I was sitting in my brothers count
ing for an opportunity to speak to him,
there came in hard favored, little old
man, who looked as if time and rough
weather had been to the windward Of
him for seventy years. He asked if my
brother was not the executor. He re-
piled that he was administrator as our
father died intestate. Well, said the
stranger, 1 have come up from the Cape
to pay a debt I owed the old gentleman
Ny brother requested him to be seated,
being at the moment engaged.
The old mau sat down, and putting on
his glasses, drew out a very ancient
wallet. When he had thus done-and
there was quite a parcel of notes--as he
sat waiting his turn, slowly twisting his
thumbs, and his old greymeditatlve eyes
fixed upon the foos he sighed, and l
well supposed the money, at the phrase
runs, came hard, and secretly wished the
old mans name might be found on the
forgiven list. My brother was soon at
leisure, and asked him the common ques-
tion-his name, etc. The original debt
was four hundred and forty dollars it
had stood long time, and, with the in