The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-19

moment were numerous and elegant I
picked up and retained in my hand this
modest little boquet.
"He was the first TO congratulate me
when entered the green room, and we
met with the cordiality of old friends.
He called on me the next day and I
was surprised to note the change that the
few years had brought in the2lineaments
of his face and in general bearing. His
preoccupied air was very noticeable,
while the haggard look of his face was
painful to behold. He told me that the
card had given him when we last part.
ed was blank one. He was burdened
he said, with such an anxiety concerning
my health. the state would find myself
in the next day, that he had written to
the proprietor of the hotel inquiring af-
ter me, and asking for my address. The
landlord wrote in reply that he guessed
she was we'll enough, for she had gone,
after first walking up to the hotel regis
ter and scratched out her name and that
af the lady With her which was IN truth
my last spiteful act before leaving.
"He said he had remembered me, his
face now lightning up for the frt and
only time during the interview, as 'un-
ique specimen OF wide-awske American
girl Of course it came out who Mr..
Wilkes, of South Carolina was. He had
taken run of two weeks out of Boston
to get breath of country air, and the
caprice had seized HIM to visit Hoosac,
tunnel He stopped over at Fitchburg
10 see Baltimore friend who was max
ing brief visit there, and by him was
induced to give up the tunnel trip and re-
main in that town few days. 'Monad
noe although he never heard of the
mountain before, seemed to be considered
a great institution by the people there,
and he was induced to visit 1t in the way
and bv the means l have told you. His
Baltimore friend having new acquaint-
ance, Horton, he would not return to f.,
but proceeded Immediately to Boston by
another route He had known nothing
more of this Horton save that at some
subsequent time, in Boston, he had caught
4 glance of him as he was being hustled
out of a hotel by policeman whom the
proprietor had called upon to eject him
a. nuisance Dirty, ragged and bloated
a. he was, Mr.. Booth recognized the TEL
low, and had the curiosity to look over
the police arrests in the next mornings
paper. He found that AID. Horton had
been sent to Deer Island six months as
common drunkard.
"Any one who knew John Wilkes
Booth will remember seal finger ring
with singular gray stone steakerer with
white in the form Of servant for set
ting, that he used to wear sometimes on
his hand and sometimes as charm on
his watch-guard. He was went to speak
mysteriously of this stone and say that 1t
possessed an almost magic power over
him, and would quote familiar line OF
Shakespeare at our serpents, etc. But ne
mover told any one save myself, he SAID,
that il was picked up on 'Rsttlesnakc
Peak on M0nadnoc Mountain, and CIV
en- him by his thoughtlcss companion.
"Sylvia De Warnings husband, half
musician, half lawyer, settled in New
York for short time, then under an as
sumed name went to Kansas. Obliged
to leave that locality, he came to another
point East, where not long ago he aston
ished the community on which he had
engratiated himself rs a stranger by n
series of defalcations and rascalities, and
to day my poor cousin is disgraced, de-
serted wife"