Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-12-12
STORY OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE.


STORY OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE.
Larkyns was man of Infinite adventure
He was one of Charles Levers heroes in real
ife AS the youngest son of rich Scotchman
he got deal of Learning and little iucre, A
few years of life on the Continent added to
the former and swept away the latter. While
he was living royalty on his principal, be
seems to have amused himself with plotting
dire destruction for the crowned heads of Eu-
rope He carried a musket under Garlbaldl,
and is said to have belonged to Mazzni's Sc
crat league. The spies Of Europe knew him.
He grew accustomed to being escorted across
frontiers by two policemen. He was withal
only an amateur coaspirator. Plots fascinated
him. He declared that he never meant to do
any king harm, and indeed his schemes always
failed Perhaps he felt that he was to reign
himself Blu; We anticipate. When Larkyns
came home, accomplished and penniless, from
his wadcrings, his relatives bought him an
army c, muission. He sailed for India to jcin
his regiment. Arrived there he soon wearled
of the routine, sold out of the service and start
ed for Central Asia. There bis fortune cul mi
mated He fell into the good graces of a
heather poteutate, administered his govern
ment for him, aud fuay freed him from all
further care 10 the matter by making himself
Rajah He succeeded to the palace, the harem
and the treasury of the man he had e1celled,
and led life Of barbaric magnhce nee:
After six years of solitary splendor he wear
led of the cares Of State. He decamped at
night, and betook himself and trunkfui OF
diamonds to Loudon. His family naturally
killed the iatted calf 10 his honor, but he quar-
relied with them soon and bade them good by
forever. This made dependence 90 them lnl-
possible whep, soon after, an unluck7 specula-
tion robbed him of the spoils of his rajahshlp.
His beggary and the outbreak of the Franco.
German war were coincdent He was soon
fighting as Major Larkyns on General Bour.
baks staff. Bravery gave him the cross OF
the legioo of honor, and then, at Metz, a
wound. He limped through the campaign,
which ended at Sedan and was captured with
his pro tenn, monarch. He fades out of view
as prisoner Of war at Sedan and reappears as
soldier of fortune at Salt Lake City in the
winter Of 1872 Thence he wandered to Hon
ouu, back to San Francisco, and into Frisco
jai. The failure of the man who had cashed
his fictitious drafts to prosecute him set him
free.
The ex.king became coal heayer. AS
day laborer, as stevedore, as a clerk, as a
translator, as correspondent, he worked to
gain money and regain reputation. He was
we'll employed at Calistoga when the end
came. A Jealous Sau Francisco husband hur-
ried thther with Larkyns letters to his wife
in his pocket and bis pistol in his hand. He
called Larkyns to the door and the doomed
man came. There was cry, OF Throw up
your hands!' an oath, fash and the dull
thud of bullet, and the man of the world
went out of the world. The wages Of his sin
were death. He might have done much, but
he preferred to enjoy much; and this was the
ghastly end of an odd life. Among the queer
est of the queer crowd that will rise from Cali
to,na soil when the last trump sounds will be
the late Larkyus. California paper.
''riGER DAN Heroes are not scarce in
these modern days. says the Houston, Texas,
Telegraph, that is, men who were heroes but
few Years back; but for all that hero whose
deeds are recent is still an tject OF attention
and respect. We have one iu our city who
will 90 to Galveston to-day, en- route to his
friends Tiger Dan is her. d. you know
who ''Tiger Dan is? Wen tell you. He is
a Young man twenty nne years of age; was
soldier 10 the Confederate army serving 10
Virginia. Was for two years Government
scout and Indian guide and being captured oy
the Cheyennc Indians, was kept prisoner TWO
years, before he escaped from them. Some
seven months or more ago, he started across
the plains as guide for small emlgrant train
going to the Pacific coast, or thereaways, and
was captured in fight with the Apache ln-
diaus up iu Ariz ,na. The emigrants were
killed and he received four wounds, from which
he has not yet recovered, being IN almost
helpless condition Wounded and PROSTATE
as he was, he escaped from his Indian captors
aud made his way through the wilderness OF
prarie on our frontier, able only to drag him
self along alone, without the means OF protec-
ton or sustenance, starving and suffering with
his wounds until he reached the settle ments,
and fouod friends who believed him dead and
mourued his loss. He is au Irishman by birth
aud his name is Daniel Lyman. There IS no
discount on his pluck, and the soul within him
is as big as continent. His parents i've 10
Liverpool, but he has relatives IN Ne" jersey
to whom be is going.
An extraordinary story is told by Braz'lharl
letter writer iu New York newspaper,
latng to fortunate young Keutuckiao To,
married an only daughter, whose fathHEiee Cooh
incidentally to his estate of fifty biucats hns Gene
De Souza Cabral is what this at the puS ssI ,
is called in the Brazilian 'diamthusiasu, ~ ~
made trifing present of teIsuch mau b
to one of the backmen iCabral." And
wedding, who, in q taever was. DEF
exclaimed that "tker1
In the world as Dor