Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-11
INCIDENTS.


patiently. Speaking to DR.. Fisher, who
was bending over his bedside about Top.
M, he asked him. doctor, is there an
even chance of my getting well again ?"
| The doctor responded with kindly as
surances. The business-like phraseolOgy
of the query would indicate that he was
enthusiastically regarding his living or
| dying from a speculative point OF view.
| He could calmly estimate the chances,
! and thus added another example to the
many illustrations of the ruling passion
strong in death. Fisk spoke but little
after this, the attending physician en-
| joining silence.
THE DEATH SCENE.
The truth was clearly seen in the
hushed chamber overhead. Face to face
with death that seemed strangely in
keeping with his career, James Fisk, Jr.
appeared in a new character. During
this whole hour there was about him
scarcely a reminder Of his life. The as
sOciatcS who with him achieved uncnvi-
able notoriety had kept aloof, and this
last of earth was not stained with the
presence of VIM. NJ Tweed, Jay Gould,
or of any other member of the Tam
many or Erie Rings In their stead was
the stricken wife of the sufferer and her
friend Miss Harrot, the two brothers-in-
law of the dying man, Mr.. Moore and
Aspern, and Mr. Pollard These, with
Dr8 Fuller and Tripler, the physicians
Of the hotel, made up the group around
the bed of the dying man: they had
been summoned by DR.. Fisher when he
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ing dissolution, and there was no person
near the bed who was unmOyed Mrs.
Fisk was especially uncomfortable in
her grief, and her anguish was the great
er from the fact that she had reached
her husband only after he had fallen in
to the COmatOse condition, and had not
been able to recognize her.
The silence being broken only by the
sobs Of the sOrrOWing group, and the
labOred breathing of the dying man,
which every instant became fainter and
more tittul, the moments slipped away.
until the watch of DR.. Fisher, who sat
with his hand on the pulse of the dying
man. pOi4tL1 to 1910 o'clock then all
could see that the end was at land.
Then the mysterious change came. and
the breathing became only short, con-
yulsiyc gasps. But there was no sign of |
agony in the unconscious man There |
was no COntOrtiOn Of the face, no tWitch- |
ing Of the muscles, no movement of the |
limbs, Calmly and peacefully this life. |
which had been 50 turbulent, chhed (.
away, and at 10:4j o'clock James Fisk. /
Jr, was dead Unconscious to the last. /
he was SPACED the pain Of looking back .
upon his past, or Of contemplating his /
TUE L>-r WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JAS. /
rI~K. JR.
/. James Fisk, DR., Of the City of New /
York. being of sound mind and memory, |
DO make, publish and declare this my /
last will and testament, hereby revokiDg .
all former wills by me made.
I. ! give, devise and bcqUeath all my |
estate and property, real and personal,
except the special legacy hereinafter /
to my beloved wife, Lucy d. /
Fisk, subject, however, to trust TO pay |
to my dear father and mother Jointly, or |
to the survivor of them, $4,000 year for /
their support during the life Of them or !
either Of them; and further. to pay to .
Minnie F. Morse and Rosie T. Morse, |
each $4,000 year during their lives, re- /
spcCtively until marriage, when the an .
nuity Of the one marrying shall cease |
the property and estate aforesaid to rest /
absolutely in the said Lucy and her heirs /
forever, subject only As aforesaid and .
the said trust shall not effect her right .
freely to dispose of and transfer any
such property.
.. l give and brqucath to my sister, /
Mrs. Mary O. Hooker. stock in the Mar
Steamship Company of til, /
Dor y3lur Of 800 000 for her sole and /