Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-10-13
WOODSTOCK, W., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER l3, 1875.


see my property and to dispose Of it
! possible, so rs to take home its equiya
lent in cash or notes and securities
20 aid me in this project, | secure
the services OF, and took with me a
legal counsel, Charles Gaylord, then
. young lawyer of l.. Arrivin!
in England | Immediately sought m.
wind fall and found it to be NOR,
valuable even than | had anticipated
Having secured the title, we readily
disposed Of portion of it for a half
million dollars. The remaining por
ton ofthe property, however, | was
adysed-by parties whose shrew(
judgement | had learned to respect
to retain for few years, rs the pros
poets were said to be favorable for it.
doubling, OF perhaps triplipg its
thcn-present value. | acted on the
advice. Well, taking my notes and
other securities, etc, to the amount O
Sj00,O0O, which I slowed away il
my valise, Mr.. Gaylord and myself
at length bade adieu to the British
coast and set sail for America When
out at mid-ocean my legal friend sum
monad me to the deck one morning
80 take a look at some object in the
distance. As | stood, with glass IN
hand, eagerly looking in the direction
he had indicated, he gave me asudden
and violent push, and fell overheard.
The sea was rough, and no one ap-
peared to notice my absence from the
vessel until it had left me far behind
They then returned to find me, but
tho they came almost within speaking
distance | expended my best efforts to
make them see me, in vain. After a
little while they went their way again,
and gave myself up as lost. l will
not here pause to detail the experien-
ces Of that sad hour. | had left Il
happy home and devoted family to 90
and possess myself Of vast fortune,
that might return and surprise them
with my newly acquired treasures.
But alas ! where now were those
treasures ? How different was to be
the nature of their surprise, when the
intelligence Of my fate should reach
them That Charles Gaylord had
sought my destruction, that he might
possess himself Of my wealth, | had
no doubt. Oh ! why should | have
been so short sighted as to have
placed confidence in him Such
were few Of the unconnected
thoughts that flashed through my
mind as was tossed about at the
mercy Of the angry pillows But the
fates had decreed, it seems, that
should survive for after suffering un-
told agonies for few hours I-more
dead than aliye-was picked up by a
ship bound for the West Indies. But
my trials on the sea were not over
with. In few days this vessel was
wrecked ; aud taking refuge in por-
ton OF the wrecked vessel | was
again tossed about, until one morning
| awokc to find myself on lone is
land. Here | managed to subsist for
some twenty months, when ship .
came III sight. / signaled it, and a
boat was dispatched for me. This
vessel was bound for Liverpool.
While on the voyage l was prostrated
with the brain fever, which left me
utterly insane, and from which condi-
ion | fully recovered some three
'ears subsequently. Then, very nat
'raly, my thoughts reverted to my
Instant home--to my wife and son.
But alas how great were my mis-
,ivlngs of again seeing them! |
would seek them, notwithstanding.
determined to obtain aid to 60 and I
dispose of the balance of my property, i
ituated in London, and then to re-
urn home, ifsuch a place could be (
ound. The papers by which l held |
he property had fortunately been plac- ]
d in my pocket book, which was still r
nth me and although they necessa-
NY had been badly drenched the wri- ,
ng was still legible. ,
Well, TO be brief, l disposed of the a
state, receiving 100000, from the e
'ansaction returned to this cont. "
ent and sought my family at L., II
ut not to find them. The street W
here | had lived with them and the Il
ouse in which | had left them-years h
etore, were now occupied by stran- S,
ers, so that | searched long and per- It
silently, but learned of no one bear v
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