Connecticut western news., 1876-11-24

| walk, though such had never been. his habit. An hour. passed, and she yreW seriously alarmed Finally, when g business acquaintance of Mir. Young
 called to inquire why his store remained
 closed, Mrs. Comft procured assistance,
 and her masters door, was broken open. A careful search of the apartment only resulted in showing that 1t had appa-
 rently not been occupied during the pre- ceding night. 4 Lth97. I .sai .tF7 -t! V
 Days and weeks rolled on, and noth-
 ing was Eeen or heard of the missing
 merchant. Advertisements appeared in
 the leading journals,) cffering liberal re-
 wards for information concerning him
 but none was forthcoming. The case created considerable excitement as well in the community at large, as among
 MT. Young's immediate connections,
 but all attempts to sunravel the mys-
 tery proved unavailing j. and when, one
 morning, his office safe was found open, and robbed of all it's valuable contents,
 the conclusion was generally arrived at
 that he had been foully dealt with, and that his reappearance was not to be looked for. A distant relative of the lost man came forward, instituted the necessary proceedings, and took quiet possession of the property which MT.
 Young had toiled through so many years to amass. g.. e2s .Et-.
 k To return, now, to our ill-fated hero himself. es..s .1....s d.. ....s l,,.,q : .
 2, After drifting in his boat for two days. the weather being fortunately calm and moderate, he was picked up by Q homeward bound Italian brig. As MT. Young spoke only his native lan- guage, of which none of his rescuers un- derstood single word,, he could com municate very little respecting himself, and was barely able to make out the name of the port to which they were sailing. Just before entering the Mediterranean, they were chased and captured by 8 pirate to whom they could offer no resistance. Their vessel was scuttled, and themselves were car ried as slaves to the coast of Morocco. By the Italians Young had been treated kindly at the hands of the half savage captors, he met with nothing but hard, ship, being forced to toll almost inces- sanity beneath burning sun. c..
 After three years of this suffering, he effected his escape by the aid fellow slave, an Englishman, with whom he was sometimes allowed to go fishing, and with whom, under cover of night, he flung himself overheard and swan to the opposite coast of Spain, where they found themselves with no possessions but the clothes on their backs. They man. aged to make their way to the nearest seaport town, whence they intended, if possible, to procure passage to the United States. All went we'll ship was soon found, which in g few days was to weigh anchor for New York, and on which their services were at once en- gagged for the voyage. s. .. -... .-..'. Almost on the eve of their embarka- tion, fearful murder was committed in the house where the fugitives werelodg- ing. Circumstances pointed strongly toward them as the perpetrators, and they were arrested on suspicion. Poor, friendless, and ignorant of the language of their prosecutors, they were unable to make an adequate defense, and were summarily found guilty. MT. Young's unfortunate companion was executed, and he himself sentenced to the galleys for life. get~ .rs.t.1 ..-.
 After he had undergone the lingering horrors of this worst of punishment for five years, the real murderer was made known by deathbed confession, and MT. Young was set at liberty. His story had excited the active sympathy of sev- eral humane individuals, and he found no difficulty in procuring means of transportation to his own country. In a few weeks he once more trod the streets of New York, nearly eight years from the time of his enforced departure; but he returned to find himself a beg gar. His relative had thrown away his property in wild speculations, and died, the year before, hopelessly insolvent.
 Broken in health and spirits, and pre- maturely old, the once prosperous mer- chant, after his protracted misfortune, incurred solely by yielding to sudden impulse of humanity, was driven to the occupation of selling small wares at stall outside Washington market, and might have been regularly seen thus en- gagged for several years, until prostrated by lingering sickness which brought him to his end, under circumstances of lamentable privation.
 Who shall say that the ways of Provi- dence in this world are not inscrutable Weekly. .s....I