Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-12-30
DEATH MOVING DOWN THE MIsERs.
Another "Poor' Man Dies wealthy
Edward ". Tardy, the Fated Fool of
FOrtune-The Nor raj Of n mi -r's End.
From the New York Herald. i2u

ForIune-The Moral Of q mis-r's End.
From the New York Herald. 18th.
The King of Terrors is after the misers
with a vengeance, and is reaPing the rich
est harvest of self-persuaded poverty he has
had for many long day. Three weeks
ago Lyman Allyn left his treasure of three
quarters of million behind him in garret
of Taylor.s Hotel, Jersey City, and closed
his syes in death without q soul to see on
mourn his departure. Locky Ostrom, after
grubbing pennies together for half GEN.
tury, accumulated a fortune and died the
other day without spending any of it. The
last case is that CT Edward v. Tardy, who
gave up the ghost Friday night, at
264 Sixth avenue, after spending seventy
two years on this miserable earth making
money and uslng none of it. Tardy had the
true instinct of the miser. He not only
went grubbing for money, but grubbed in
the street garbage for bread crusts and
wasted vegetables. He had keen eye for
potatoes and turnips, and left few of these
healthy esculsnts in the path of the rag
picker. Pieces of meat he picked up and
carried home with him to his wretched
place of abode in a cellar on Greenwich
avenue and turned them into soup. Ed
wardV Tardy was born in this city in the
year 1877. of French and English parents
His uncle, Alexis Dechauyiere, was at one
time the accredited Minister of France TO
this country. Tardy's father was well-to-
do and along with his son took a con spicu-
Gus part in seeking the settlement Of
the French spoliation claims. Tardy,
Jr., when twenty-s sven years old
had ship of his own, in which
he sailed to almost every port
in the world, to the West and East Indies
various parts of Africa, Asia, and South
America. He traded extensively with the
savages of the Society. Sandwich and Phil
ippine Islands, and was on his way back to
New York with cargo of immense value,
when he suffered complete shipwreck, and
lost everything blt his life. Twenty years
more of his lie Vas devoted to the making
of money, and in that time his luck was no
better. for he lost two fortunes IN daring
speculation. Tired and disguised with the
tickle jade that dispepses the favors of
wealth and prosperity, he decided never
again to run counter to what appeared his
inevitable destiny that of failing in every
speculati n-and SO it happened he settled
slowly down to the slow, cautious, and sus-
picious habits OF veritable miser.
He became wholly altered iu mind and
manner, talked no more of grand enter
prises in CO 'merce and turned taciturn
and misanthropical. He descended from
his high position rs speculator, bold and
brave, and groyeled in the cutters for
paltry pile of pennies. He never MARI ed,
but lived with a sister, whose eccentricity
of habitw was about equal to his own. Both
lived in the basement of house in Green
wich avenue, where they had three rooms
and where they passed a life of unparalel-
ed penury. They were worth at this time
perhaps $50. 600. but they never bought
meal II they could contrive to clean from
the garbage of the market places enough
to sustain life. Finally the sister grew
sick, and the brother, deemiDg the ex-
pense OF doctors attendance
entirely too great, had her removed TO
Bellevue Hospital. where she died. She |
left him $4,000, out of which he was re |
luctantly compelled to pay $50 for burial
expenses After this event he was left all |
alone In the world; passing amid crawling |
vermin and heaps of filth life of SEMI |
starvation. His stovepipe hat was built !
and bought twenty-five years ago, and his |
shoes came into existence at the time of the |
Mexican war. He followed no particular
business and never wholly surrendered his
passion for speculation. He confined il, !
however, to limited investments in railway
stocks and national securities, of which |
he left the full of two old trunks. Among
his papers were discovered a number |
of shares in the scheme to recover the |
Captain Kidd treasure. The old man ulti- !
mately fell sick and was in al almost dying |
condition in his miserable hovel on Green. |
wich avenue when kind-hearted, half |
crazy old fellow named DIR. William Scott |
Downey, a character much like DR.. Ricca- |
bocco in Bulwer's MY Novel," founi him |
out and carried him TO his place at 274 Sixth |
avenue, laid him in bed and attended faith |
fully to him night and day for two weeks, |
but in vain. Edward V. Tardy gave up the |
ghost Friday evening. leaving bonds, se-
curities, cash. &c. worth, at q hurried cal |
culation, $50, 600, and beqaeathing, in
will Of about ten lines, the whole to the |
children Of nephew who died some time
ago, and whose widow is now married TO
Mr.. Houghton, OF this city. He had o
n;ece married to Col. Stewart, Of Phila-
delphis, but he left her nothing.