The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1872-02-14
The Fate of a Printer.
Died yesterday, Feb. 3 il Belecre Hos
pikd. 7zos. G. WooIrarl
Rsom 0,e Nc,p YORK Stan.

From the Ncp York SIN.
Last Christmas night Sun reporter was
elutchcd by the arm in Chsthan street.
Tie night was rainy, and there was
heavy fig. ''You are just the ono want
to see. !" said white faced man in hollow
voice. Ills checks we're sunken. lis hands
the fever of cOnsu'option.
II am dyipc with consumption be
said. ..and want sou to get me into a
hostilal | can't eat anything. Nothing
will stay on my stomach. And | am cold
aIl the time. II seems as though never
could gct warm. The doctors say its Of
no use-I never can get we'll Pmgone,
and he added. with feeble attempt 1t a
smile. ..all want is TO lay down IN some
hospital where can get warm. keep warm,
pass in my checks. aud die. Il won't be
long"
THE MORNING oF LIFE.
The sick man was Thomas 9. Who'd.
ward. familiarly known among the printers
If New York as Tom Woodward. lie was
horn in SufFork. Va. and learned The prin-
ting business in Nansemond county. lie
began life as . ioumeyman printer in tic
Office of the Clristifn Sun. weekly news
rap4r published ID Suffolk bv the Rev. w.
| b wellons. lie had good school ednca.
tion. and improved il wonderfully while IN
this country printing Office With genera
literary matters he became thoroughly con.
yersant Tho news Of the day was alway,
ii his iiugers' ends. lie was brillian
cnnyersatioulist handsome ~ face and lig
ure. and dressed in exquisite taste. A
his intellect gradually developed be wishci
10 SOC moro Of the world. lie came {,
New York in 1857. aud soon secured
situation IN the Trilnne office. lie cam
here an honest, Woodworking. good-naturel
country boy. a splendid type-sctter, b
made plenty of money. Everything wa
new 10 him. lie visited the theatcrs an'
: operas. and within year convcrseJ o
!. theatrical and musical matters like a yetcI
an New Yorker. Clearing from twenty
: Eve 10 thirty dollars in four or five days Q
the Tr,Iane. the remainder Of the wee
IL spcnt IN making himself q man abou
! town. Having acquired competence b
left the printing business. TO which be d
! not return until bis means we're entirel
! exhausted. Two years afterwards he w
again ..subbng" on the Thbnne. I'll
i days az type-setiing had returned, On
with them days of gloom. The gay 81
necktie. tho glossy beaver. the frilled shiI
|. bosom, the velyct.collared broadcloth coal
tho patcnt leather boots gradually fade
away: the gay. fascinating conversation
ali.t became a moody wreck, death VI
fast trcading on bis heels.
"well. I'll SEQ II can't get you in'
Bellevue Hospital" /" said the Sun report'
on that foggy Christmas night.
PRINTERS HORROR or BELLEVUE.
/ mo. no." Tom answered, clutching b
thin coat collar about the neck. "Don
send mo TO Bellevue. Ny God. alwa.
: had horror Of Bellevue. You know wht
i ben CiIasby went there what he said abol
!. the way they treated men there. !. But
u thought you might get ine into 81. Luke,
> or some one Of those religious hospital
where the Episcopais or Presbyterians ~
the hospital, and would take good care
fcIIow-keep bin warm until no die
u Somebody was telling me Of printer th'
. died up in 81. Iuke's Hospital and !