The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-12-26
AN ECCENTRIC GENIUS.
Strange Fancies Of Recently Deceased
New York Literary Man.

Strange Fancies Of Recently Deceased
New York Literary Man
From the New York Telegraph.
Laughton Osborne died yesterday at the
house of his sister in West fifteenth
street, New York, in the SEVENTEEN year
of his age His death is said to be sud-
den, but his relatives are reticent as to
the cause. He was little known to this
generation; but had he died about the
time Edgar Allan Poe was one of his GRO
MES the New Workers of that day would
have known all about him. Laughton
Osborne was as eccentric child of genius
as Poe, although not so great. Until late
ly he resided with brother in Nineteenth
street, near Eighth avenue, where the
former lived the life Of recluse. The
brother was medical gentleman, and of
course went out to visit patients, but
Laughton lived amid his books and birds
somewhat the life of Mrs. Havisham. In
Great Expectations. Within the past FIVE
years he has probably only been visited by
half dozen old friends. He was the son
of an old physiciau. and was graduated at
Columbia College in 1897. Almost imme-
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