The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-21
Love-Disa ppointment-Deatb.

ST. LOUIS, MAY 16.-B. L. Seago one of the
business managers OF the Atlanta Ne5 Era, young
man OF great promise and brilliant intellect COM
mitted suicide Saturday last, IN this CITY The Demo
Graz OF this morning gives the following ACCOUNT
OF the Atlanta Era, arrived tins city, and took
room IN the ff story OF the Southern Hotel. He
appeared quite melancholy, and had but little TO say
TO any one about the hotel. On Thursday blIis
were sent TO the office from apothecarV for one
ounce OF morphine and three prescriptions composed
OF morphine and chloroiorm. The las: seen or him
was on Friday night. At two O'Clock Sunday his
room was entered through the transom and his dead
body found lying on the bed. Coroner O'ReIl ey
was summoned, and an inquest was held.
=, several letters written by the deceased short
time before his death found on the table, show
ing that he had taken his own le. No money was
iound among his effects, nor had he depo ilea any
Oh age. The following are copies of the letters
written in pencil the last being almost illegible:-
TO A. X. sEAGo, OF ATLANTA.
SOUTHERN HOTEL ST. LOUIS, May 10, 1866 -
Dear UIc'e:-Sorrow too deep for utterance has
overwhelmed my soul. God bless you, dear Aunt
henssa and the children Poverty has been my lot
but have endeavored to alleviate its distresses as
mnch as possible. May God in His mercy bless and
protect you ever. am not afraid TO die. Hoping
God will bless you, goodbye b. l.. SEAGo.
To A. Il Seago, Atlanta, Ga.
10 the Proprietors OF the southern Hotel The
proprietors OF the Southern Hotel will please send
Let the Masons bury me.
God bless all my brethren,
nave tried TO iUtfl my mission in life, and now
that my mind Is exhausted and my heart sick OF life
beleVe 1t will be well Tor me 10 90 home. am
hOt "iIaIu u cie 6Ou nave mercy on my ul!
LOUIS.
SOUTHERN HOTEL ST. LOUIS, MAY 10 1866
misfortune mas Oeen my lot III life, and the cumna-
ton III the loss of that winch was not my own rs un.
enduraDle love my friends still, and pray that
God wlll bless them. have lived to see the uncer.
talnty and deceit of all earthly things No faithful
friend is with me now, and go to the Great GIyer
OF all good My soul, o God, receive unto ThvseIf
Goodbye to ALI LoGfs
THE SUICIDES LAST MOMENTS
This is my fourth and last dose 1 am getting
quite sleepy ano soon wlll be gone. Welcome q
Death! To 1--we is to suffer uIuttera Jy; to die to
be at rest
Much could write, but brevity must be the stvle
now. l only desire TO be remembered kindly Let
lose who love me love my memory. If / have
wronRed any man, let hlm forgive as he would wish
TO be forgiven. But one word for her who alone has
won my love-. She who bad evidence OF my owe five
years ago still relgps alone in my heart Day before
yesterday sent her a few lines, which, when she
receives, she Will recognize though there is no sig-
nature to Them. May God bless her and dea with
breast-nO mis- fortune ever cast its bghtlng shadow
upon her soull ! am too sleepy TO write well and
can OuY say, Goou.bVe. Oh shall we never meet
WINE our hope and llss are young?
NBut no more. Alas! alas shall meet her no
moreY God bless her tier name is Della and dc.
sire that this may be sent TO her through my uncle
A. Seapo '
RGOoG-bye to all Nav God in His mercy bl IS All
sleepy, oh sweet is the death tina, relieves the
soul trom the anguish the grefs OF this life which
Is but lew days aud full on trouble
The proprietor OF the hotel will be kind epOu On 20
telegraph to my unc Q, Mr.. A X. SeagO Allan ta
a., Immediately on the discoV,ry OF my suicide TO-
morrow morning.
Accent my thanks for your kindness while al your
hotl. desire 10 be buried by the Masons an1 i'm
the meterY at Atlanta, Georgia. / nave tired 10
live noDly and to die noby. TO correct anYlm