The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-04-21
h, o.oIfas Cbronitle.
E.TuRDAY, APRIL 81, 1877.
Or New York Letter.

MN %O-f
|itor CHRONICLE
|Our latest wonder is the sudden
temperance and mysterious alb
|,cn Of A. Oakley Hall, whom
Il. of YOUR readers know by
|me if nothing more. He was
|sror Of the city during the days
the Ring, and was the only
imminent member OF the city
b,ernment of that time who was
he TO indicate himself from the
|,rqes Of fraud and theft under
elch all his associates went down.
|Ooe the close os his official term
|, Hall has been one OF the most
tccessiul lawyers in New York.
|vays devoted to the dramatic
\ and profession, he one year
10 ioined the ranks as dramatist
"a actor, appearing at the Park
|htatre as The principal character
bis own play OF The Crueible.'
bis step Of the ex-Mayor created
vide sensation, and his debut
Is Witnessed by the most BRILLIANT
slisncs tie building had ever
hi. Two weeks of acting con-
heed hiia that lie WAS neither a
|oolh, Forrest, or q Jefferson,
b renouucing the stage as suG-
enly as he had adopted it, he re-
|,lnnd to his Inv practice which
/ seems now SO strangely TO have
serted.
For a week no tidings OF the
.lssing man have been received
ID the discussion of various
leories OF his disappearance has
eecne part Of New York daily
lslness. 1t is thought by II few
bat Mr. Halls vanishing may be
} some way connected with the
Fcent arrival Of Sweeney from
.urope; the theory being that ne
oes not wish getting mixed mp III
be scandals which the latter's trial
sure to revive. This, however,
improbable as be himself had
cen acquitted Of completely long
90. Hints Of murder or suicide
70 also freely exchanged, but
nere is Is yet nothing better than
no, , rumor offered in explanation
. The mystery.
ana this naturally suggests u
,lsrenee TO the growing frequency
sucl Gisappearances il New
OrE, the number of'which grows
ON year 70 year. 4 laaiorily of
sfsons going in this way are sub
'qaenily recovered alive OF dead,
u 'aere are still a surprising num-
II Oh cases in which some man.
y oman or child drops suddenly
y o. his or her place and is never
'ard OF more. Most of snch cases
'car among the lower classes,
~ u is only occasionally, when
J io'' one has name and fame to
-'s vacancy IN society, as in the
s'anee now before us, that the
l y attention is drawn to the
'ec~ 1t may give some idea of
appearance % this sad feature
le IN a great crowded city
,sfe, hardly anybody knows or
a.s Tor his neighbor, to say that
-ASS 1916 there we've between
zee and four hundred cases of
,ouhd Drowned alone in the
''s,s which wash this island. l
4ug think it would be IN exao-
. !. 10 assert that in New York
=, ,aO y persons annually pass
r. 'iew' either into mysterious
0h' or else to find some un-
w vsn path to an understandable
!, anu subsequent discovery.
- seems !: a little rough in these
= s.,, yimes when money is such a
4.ais thing to get hold of that
~. Iaouid have 20 take a consi-
. !. proportion that is bogus.
'solt is. lido not re,nambartbo
y when there was so much
nv sellelt U. 5. currency afoat
80 s smaller denominations as at
VEL And not only the bad
Az quarters and dimes are
bur rhat hothers us