Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-31

81 LAY IdIlt dill dCU tllSto LILO s udl OittIl It,
signed all further efforts for his i'm
provement. A 1nidshipman's COM
mission was procured, and the ungov-
ernable lad packed off to sea in the
Dreadnaught" man-ofwar.
A remarkable trait in the boys char
acter was his uncomfortable aversion
of the element of which his famous
progenitor had been so Unfortunately
fond-the sea. 1trequired absolute Vi
olence to embark him on the vessel and
he took the first opportunity of desert
ing that presented itself. It was not
until three weeks after his escape that
search instituted for him resulted in
his capture. He was scarcely on board
once more than he effected an arrange
ment with some Of the sailors by which
he was slowed away snugly, so that
search for him proved entirely vain,
and he was set down as having been
either voluntarily or accidently drown
ed. The Dreadnaught was on it's way
from Portsmouth to Gibraltar at the
time, and upon arriving at the latter
place Ockham made his way ashore
and disappeared. Three years later
Lord Lovelace learned that youth,
calling himself Ockham, and answer
ing the description of his intractable
son, was working as a common labor
er in the employ Of bricklayer
of Limehouse, named Hopkins. In
quiry established the identity of the
party, but as he refused either to return
home or accept pecuniary assistance
from his family, he was allowed to do
as he chose. He soon after married
the daughter of his employer, by whom
he had one child, a boy. His marriage,
however, made but little alteration in
his working life, which he proclaimed
his intention of continuing until the
death of his father should entitle him
to his estates. Before the termination
of this period of waiting, on September
l, 1862, he died. His father-in-law had
| failed in business a short time before,
and after Ockham's death the widow,
reduced by her parents misfortune to
the act, applied to her husbands fam
lily for relief. The Earl of Lovelace,
making the mother a paltry allowance,
placed the son, his grandson, George
Ockham, as he was called, at a York
shire school. In 1872 tie boy, then
twelve years of age, maddened by the
harsh treatment of his preceptor, fled
the place, made his way to Leeds, and
there embarked upon collier to work
his passage to London. The child,
alone, friendless s.nd penniless, wander
ed, starving, though the streets which,
two generations before, had witnessed
the extravagant madness of his famous
ancestor.
Several months of this life wore the
child to mere shadow of his former
self. During this time he subsisted by
begging, slept everywhere, oftener in the
street than indoors-and ate whatever
| came into his hand. Such bed as he
found, at best, was at some water-side
hotel, where for three-pence he slept
in common with miscellaneous herd
of tramps, drunken sailors, beggars and
rif-raf generally, in a noisome room,
whose very echoes bear the faint Of
wickedness and crime. Before he had
been six menths in London he was de-
tected, as alleged, by the Captain of
an East Indian trading-bark, in an at
tempt to pick his pockets. The good
hearted sailor, affected, by his story,
refrained from giving him into Gus
tody, however, and, after some con-
sideration, determined to assume
charge of him. So George Ockham
came to sail on the bark Cyane for the
Bermudas Of four letters addressed
to his grandfather, both by himself and
by Captain Beauvais, none were an
swered. The first the boy had written
to his mother, telling her he was in
London, out concealing the fact that
he was starving of the touch of the de-
termination he had inherited from his
father, had been replied to by the poor
woman. Two others remained unan-
swered. 1t was not until 1874 that the
lad learned the reason. In the
interval between the receipt
of his first and his second letters
his mother, by marriage-he daughter
Of one Of the proudest and wealthiest
mobiles in Great Britain had died of
want
The West Indian voyage of the
Cyane was disastrous one, and caught
in hurricane in the Caribbean, she
was so badly injured that the Captain
determined to run for the Bermudas to
reft. Off the Bahamas the unfortu-
nate vessel caught one of those wintry
gales that swept the Atlantic with such
deadly force, and went down with all
on board but the second mate, two
sailors, and George Ockham, the cabin
boy, who had managed to free the long
boat from its lashings and float off in
it when the vessel foundered. Without
oars or sail these miserables were tossed
about, the playthings of the elements,
for three days when they We're picked
up by the schooner Ocean Pearl, of
New York, and carried into Bermuda,
were the Pearl was going to repair
damages received off Martinique in
the same hurricane which had her
aided the Cyane's doom. The schooner
was the property of a gentleman of
this city, and was sailed in miscella-
neous West Indian trade. After refit-
ting, and receiving fresh cargo, she
was dispatched to Jamaia, and thence
to Port Limon, Costa Rico, the eastern
terminus of the Costa Rico railroad,
then in course Of construction. There
Captain Blanchard proposed erecting
ctoro for tho colo of ooporo1 ctoro- RI