Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-05

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than is really necessary or profitable? That he
has brains and tact as journalist, and is
shrewd politician, may be conceded and he prob
ably has other valuable qualities which endear
him 10 his large circle of friends, but we fear
that some people, not in that favored circle, are
getting little tired of him. Hardly a day
passes in which the telegraph does not bring us
its quota Of Forney in the shape of some such
momentous intelligence as this: "Col. Forney
has had quarrel with the PRESIDENT" or, "a
reconciliation has been effected, and Col. Fomey
dned with the president to-day" or, "The pres
ident made a visit to Col. Forney at Phila-
delphia, aud the reconciliation is COM
plete;" or, can article in the Washing
ton Chronicle, attributed to Col Forney,
advises that some concessions should be
made to the liberal republicans" or, ''Colouel
Forney demands that the vice presidency shall
be given 10 Pennsylvania" or, Colonel Forncy
is in treaty with Senator Cameron with regard
to the selection OF a candidate for vice president
from Pennsylvania or, 'Forney's Press. this
morning, says that Pennsylvania can be carried
for Grant" We are willing TO believe, if we
must, that there are some people scattered here
and there about the country, who cannot eat
their breakfast with a tolerable appetite with
out first learning what Foney has said and
done on the day before; but we are con-
WINGED that those persons are 4 small
though doubtless an eminently respectable mi
nority, and that on the whole, TO paraphIase
Senator Wilson's suggestion to his fellows, the
people think somewhat less of Colonel Forncy
than Colonel Forney thinks of himself, and
would willingly dismiss him from their thoughts
altogether. Even as political weathercock we
suspect the colonel is overrated. The Athenians
| baniShed Arstides because he was too much
talked about. We can't Danish Foney, mores
the pity, but we can aid little TO prevent his
| accumulating such cause for Punishment.
|
The city of Syracuse, New fork, has lately
been the scene of a painful series of events end
ing in the disgrace and suicide of person who
not long ago was an active and valued citizen
About two and half years ago the stores OF
Bennett Brothers and A. Fralick & Co. vert
burned. Both the firms were doing a brsl
business, had apparently large stocks of good,
aud were heavily insured. Circumstances gave
rise to suspicion that all was not right, and the
insurance companies refused TO pay. A long
and ably contested suit was decided in their
favor, and Immediately after its conclusion
Adam Fralick, one of the burned out mer-
chants, was indicted for burning his own store.
Frack was about forty-fve years old,
had little education but much energy and
business talent; he had then been engaged in
trade in Syracuse for about two years and a
half, and had established a reputation as an ac
tive and successful, but not over scrupulous
merchant He remained year in Jail awaiting
his trial, which was ended last Thursday by con-
viction and a sentence of imprisonment for fif-
teen years in the pententiarY at Auburn. His
wife, to whom he had been married for twenty
three years, who is described as a very lady like
and pleasing woman, attended him constantly
| during his confinement and at his trial. Fra
lick had always asserted his innocence, and
/ up 10 the last seemed confident of acquittal
| On Friday, as he was about TO be removed to
| the pententiary he was found TO be lying on his
bed nsensble, and, in spite of all efforts to save
him, he died in a few hours. He had taken NOR
phine procured for him by his wife, as she says,
to be taken as medicine, without a suspicion
that he intended suicide. He left a pathetic let
ter to his wife, in which he solemnly protested
his Innocence Of the crime for which he was
sentenced, declared himself unable to bear his
| disgrace, and implored her forgiveness for TAX
Ing his own life. The news Of his death caused
great excitement in Syracuse, and we find in
the papers of that city full narratives Of his life
| and death, but we observe no expressions Ct
doubt in regard TO the justice of his conviction,
or of personal regret for his fate.