Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-04
Charlie Ross.
REVIVAL or THE SENSATION .por-T rus
DEMFRARA BOY

REVIVAL or THE SENSATION ARoTT TUE
DEMFRARA BOY
A few weeks ago Baltimore was ..xcite,l In \
con>luelahlc extent over the arrival ON the
brlS fotomac, oi boy from Demcrara. sup
posed TO I've the missing Charlie Ross He WIS
bright little fellow of about seven wears ola
very dark. but IL was finally concluded il waS
not Charlie Ross and he was put in the Home
FOR the FIiendleSS. He is described as HAVING
dark brown eyes, brown hair and small feat,
ureS. The hair of Charlie Ross was described
as haNen, though darker At the roots which
hair might be brown. The Baltimore Amefi-
con oil this morning says: He Joined the chill
dren singing hymns at the piano yesterday
ana his voice could be heard ringing above an
the others. Charlie Ross, il living, will I've
eight years old in May next. This boy does
not look so Old. being about The size of a six
year old child but still he is strong, stout.
well built and his mind seems to be more ful-
~ developed than is usual AT that age He is
unusually bright and intelligent and his dis
position lSNery similar, in every respect, TO the
Some physicians who have examined him saw
that his teeth indicate that he must he the re-
gulred age He has also large vaccination
mark on his right arm, which corresponds
with Charles description, the left being uSu-
ually Naccinated. Although his hair has been
cut rather short, disposition TO curl is very
he lived ION the hi'' and the PRAYERS and
hymns that he remembers were taught him
10y his white mother in the white house on
the hill
THE MOTHERS PRAYER
The simple chid'S prayer which is common
in every household:
Now lay me down to sleep.
pay the Lord my soul to keep:
II should die before wake,
pray the Lord my soul TO take
the child renders differently, and he saws his
White mother taught him thus:
- lay my booy down 10 sleep.
give my soul 10 Christ TO keep:
II ! should die before wake.
pray the Lord my soul TO take
30 also, the portions OF hymns which he rc-
peatS he says were learnt 10 him by his white
mother "On the hill which is the common
term for that portion of Germantown in which
very beautifully.
HIS LIFE AT DEMRRARA
he child was brought TO Demerara from
either Philadelphia or BOStOn 10y a colored
woman named Crawford. She was a native
OF DemeTara, but was i'm the United States
some three years. and when she returned
about three years since brought this child with
her. She said that She had been married 10 A
white man in Philadelphia, named Crawford,
painter. and that he had been sent TO the
peDlteEtiary when she returned. and said this
boy was her own child. She was nOtoriOuSly
bad and wicked woman, and about Is months
ago was arrested on the charge of cruelty NAL
treating this boy. she claiming Ia be his
mother. Certain IL is that the prayers and
hymns he knows were never taught by her.
She hnaly, during the past summer. aban-
doned him and left the island, after which he
was quite yagralf, and as he says, slept Oh
The door steps, and every body fed him All
Ike knows about her desertion of him is. as he
says. " He just got down To the water when she
pushed of i'm a batteauN." and that was ~
last he saw of her. The brother of Mr.. PeTn
who resides at Dcmerara, sent him here with
directions TO put him in an orphan asylum,
ana pay his expenses for year. lie was sal
lSfled that lie was a stolen child, but did not
suppose him TO be Charlie Ross. OF course at
Demeral a he was taught by association 10 use
the lingo of the negroes of the island, and now
talks species of broken English. He is said
10 be lighter in complexion than he was when
he arrived, three weeks ago. He says that the
woman at DemeraTa made him wash in black
water. which was probably To hide his white
blood. and is supposed 10 have been Ia pre-
vent any one SuSpiciOning that he was not her
child.