Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-03-07
CarIyIe'S Poverty,

| HJlry.
CarlyIe's Poverty.
SiGeo Car!yie's 6ealh all sor,s oi rcpipis.
cHo.s aud ANGEL Totes ct bin have teen coming
ouF. Bat there hiss been slnos. nothing in re-
gard to his earnings which cugh. to 30 of iotel.
est. lnsSuu:h as Tie pccuniary rewards Ct au
thOrship is sutiecs that has been much dis.
cu:s!d lately both 10 this county ard abroad,
Carlyle has tor halfa century bcen conceded TO bs
one OF tho most gifted, as 10 has c,rtai0ly been
| one OF The most celebrated. of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
writer's. 1t might naturally bo supposed, there
| lore, that his pen must havs securad him 8
modest fortune 10 all tho years of bis &C i've en-
| pigment.
Those 10 position to know say that hi5 eatiro
property will not exceed SOS, 900, and that il BIO
had not had the sim plest tastes, with habits Of
Spartan simplicity. ho would often have been
crampsd for means. At 90 inc was bis in.
come from his labor. including oop5rishs. moro
than $4,000 per annum, AID much of the time
it was not half # this.
| When he married Jonry Welch no was 81,
ard bad already translated "Wilhelm Msister,"
and published the Life of Schiller" But lie
vas then S, poor that he went TO reside at
Crage0puttcch, the small property owned by
his wife. aDd was enabled, only through her
pittauce, 10 prepare the superb biographical
and critical q says which introduced lin to the
mass of Eogish- speaking readers.
! Everybody knows Of bis struggles with SAT
tor Resartus," and even "Ths Fnnch R:volu-
lion, before ho could fed a tu5Iish,r, npd
that 10 ccrtti, Way. bis whole life vas e s:rus.
ple for monetary Independents. He was tho
soul of prudence aud thrift; no had few wants
beyond the mere necessities of 6ature BIO was
without children, and widower years before
bis death.
tie was accustomed to say that hu had more
money than he could spent; but this Wss one
OF his grim satlres 90 his continuous poverty.
Hardly aoy man but himself HCuld have kept
cut OF debt; but as deb. to him wss o5o of his
many forms of dabclisn, 10 would have avoid
cd it had he been compelled literally to sub:ist
90 crust. His published volumes plumber not
far from fifty, 30 that his es:ate, to namo it
such, represents about $500 volume.
1t is striking commentary 90 tho literary
profession that mau Of tho highest genius
and broadcast culture could toll at manuscripts,
almos! uninterfupedl2. for sixty years, and
leave at his DEATH alter aiEays uracscing tho
Elgdest economy, en- smount CT money thst
would not meet the expenses OF many a mode s..
| III ANeH L CEk u tWclpGWOUtn.
Carlyle had enough, Tor bis desires we're in
t0ltlslmsl. and be was an exception TO lis TEL.
lows; but bis example is not encouraging surely
to men who aspire to tersturo end have p!o
iudioo in behalf of living, Had Carlisle been
destitute of genius ard scholarship, had ho
been c)mnoo mortal, and tuvrcd his mind 10
shoemaklog or tia management Of Tho humhlest
green grocery, ho would have died With lass
fame, to bo sure. but with 81 nmpl.r income.
| Writing is even DOW. end it has grestIy iEs
proved 10 twenty i've or thirty sears, orc Of the
poorest OF poor trades.
A TRAGEDY WITH ROMANCE 1t will be
remembered that Thcmas D. Jerac!tc, Of Mil
ton, N. g.. fatally shot his sister Mo!Iio 10 L
house Of ill fame in Dau1iiIo. Va. list summer
A special to tho New York Sun from Danvilio.
dated tho 9Th instant. says that o day or twa
sftcr the murder Mary Allen Murry, De Jar
nett's seianced, came 10 DsnSiiio ifor Milor,
and showed much devotion 20 tho prisoner,
visiting him daily 10 his cell. De Jaroelta waa
sentenced to BIO hanged tu; the Supreme Court
granted him new trial, which will be begun ia
O shors time ROceD!ly Miss Murry hes net
been so constant 10 her vieiis to the prisoner
1t seems that at the tiuo Of Der engagement 70
De Jsrnettee, MIR. Charles Gotdoa aod Mr.
Alexander BonhuD, two young zen Of Milton,
were also rival suiors for her hsud. About q
Reek ago the ANNOUNCEMENT vas made by thu
young LADY and her friends that she was to be
married to Mr.. Bonhuu, ard tia. tho marriage
was fixed for next Thursday night. List Friday
evening MIR. Gordon went 10 see the young
lady, and she tod him that she lad come to
the conclusion tina. lie vas the only one she had
ever loved, and sho was W!IIing to marry him.
Gordon, although DO know that her marriage
with Bonhum was fixed for Thursdsy night,
proposed 90 Immediate coemo:z ,tion Of the
nuptiss. "a Sstu!d,y noiDiog he obtained
| the marriage iicausa, and 10 the evening q
| magistrate, with witnesses met the couplo by
appointment On bridge which crosses the
stream pear the suburbs Of Miltou, and there
Miss Murray and Gordon we're quietly married.
De Jarnette is quite i'll in bis cell. whether be-
cause of this marriage or lorg Golf 1emeut is
not know.
| A LAUGH AT BEACoNErBLD's RxrENsE.-
The debate in the British House of Lords on the
| question of the retention or abandonment OF
Csndshsr has excited an unusual amount CT in
terest. At its close curious incident occurred.
After the division, in which the government was
beaten by 60 votes-an unexpectedly large ma
jority, SO the Conservative msjorty in the Peers
is only G3-Lord Beaconsfeld, apparently in
| dreamy ft of abstraction, walked slowly up to
| the Treasury bench, as ii he were about to re.
| sumo the front seat he occupied when Prime
Minister. On reaching it, and finding Earl
| Granville IN occupation, he smiled to himself
quickly turned round and crossed the House to
the opposition bsnchee. At this there was a
genera! laugh. Lord Bescongfeld himself joining
in the hlarity-a thing never seen before by
mortal man. Had the adverse msjority been in
the other chamber, this might have been thought
to foreshadow the return of "Endymion" to his
old place; but as things are at present, the move
towards the Treasury benches" appears TO have
been made little too soon. But who knows.
LAST Tuesday the remains of q young man
named Danl. Mix, employed SIS laborer on the
Richmond and Allegheny railroad, we're found
in the canal,lcck at Balcony Falls Mix
lived near franklin Court House, and it is be-