The Lincoln County herald., 1871-05-25
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Early 10 the administration Of Presi.
deat Buchanan, tho Governor Of Missis-
sippi and q representive 10 Congress from
that State united their political influence
to procure the appointment as Consul to
Genoa Of . young Mississippian, lately
graduated from Oakland College, whose
cultivated intellectual gifts we're supple.
mcntcd by natural genius for art, which
il was believed, could to most efectually
developed BY . sojouru in Italy. The
gentleman, whose diplomatic mission was
chiefly intended to facilitate his artistic
pursuits by the help of superior social
opportunities, had married, immedistly
after leaving college, and possessed .
partimony sufficient for oil domestic in.
dulgences but the dream Of his life was
to become great painter, and he hurried
across the ocean with his wife and babe
toward the imagined ftuition Of wishes
in which Tercenary speculation had no
place.
The little family arrived safely IN
Genoa, where consul's Office and anna.
teur's studio we're at once opened, and
then the young Southerner deemed his
happiness complete. In . sense 80 it
was, alas completed and ended. Scarcely
had he begun enjoying his opportunities
Of familiarity with the art treasures of the
City of Palaces and those, who like him.
self, sought to emulate them, when bis
devoted wife was stricken with malarial
fever, and despite the best available med
ical skill aud her husbands frantic
prayers, died in the land of strangers.
For such loss there can be no eSrthly
ompensation. Bearing his motherless
child in bis arms, he followed the body
to the grave 10 grief too deep for tears,
and returning, was like a maniac for
days and days. Friends gathered around
him all that friendship could yield Of
care and consolation was lavishly be.
slowed, and, after . time, the stricken
artist was sufficiently calmed to revert to
his beloved art for distraction from his
misery. '
Once recalled to art, however, he fol.
lowid it with an intensity altogether dis
proportiouatc to his shattered physical
strength, and, while painting on picture
very late one evening, after day Of for
getful fasting, was stricken totally and
hopelessly blind. This fearful second
disaster had scarcely overtaken the i'll.
fated man, cutting him of forever from
art aud business, aud leaving him and
his little daughter wholly dependent for
q livelihood upon the estate at homo in
Mississippi, when the war iu the South
broke out, the consulship was lost, the
estate imperiled. and the blind man com
PEELED to subsist for a time upon the
bounty of the friends of his better days
While he and the child lived abroad ia
obscure poverty, the war utterly ruined
his estate, as we'll as that of widowed
sister who had once been one of the
wcal:hiest heiresses Of her State. Said
sister, after having in the first year of the
rebellion done all that she could for the
relief of her absent brother, went heroic.
ally to work, when all her own property
as we'll as his was gone, to earn sufficient
for the bringing home Of that brother
and bis child. With tireless affection
and fortltude, the late mistress of splen
did fortune taught school by day and
wrought with her needle by night fol
two years, and sent the money thu.
hardly gained to the blind man and hi.
daughter 10 Genoa, that they might re-
turn to their native land. They came
and ever since then have been supported
by her,
But now. says the Matches Chronicler
the daughter, still youthful as she is, ha.
determined to assume her full share ia
tho labor of love. Though quite unfa-
miliar with the theatrical represen tations
and, of course, wholly without training
this young heroine inherits her father
artistic temperament 10 dramatic phase
and proposes to adopt the profession o.
the stage tor the support Of her blind
father, her noble aunt, and herself. He,
career as an actress will begin presently
iu Southern city, and, says the Natche,
paper, If its success be only half equal
to her merits and the good wishes, afse.
ton, and respect Of all who know her, il
will be great Indeed. So art, the unful
filled dream Of her father, becomes, 10
another phase, the reality Of The daugh-
ter's life but between. the dream and
the realization lies the all Of death, disas
ter, poverty, and long suffering tha
could make the sublime impulse for th'
art Of Titan bread seeking actually
in the art Of . Rachel. -.y. ~
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When Exekial Webster Daniel
brothsr) was 10 full practice At the ba
he was employed to defend the will o
Roger Perkins of Hopkinston. Tho ply
sicisn made affidavit that the testator va
struck with death when he signed hi