Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-10
WARDS LIFE IN LUDLOW
STRONG WALLS HIS ONLY PRO-
TECTION FROM LYNCHING.


Hundreds Of Admirers of the Dead Gen.
eral Ready to String up the Prisoner
Causes Which Put Gray Hairs on
Young Heads - Cases of Hereditary
Badness.
New YORK, Aug. T.-If Ferdinand
Ward, in the luxurious seolusion which
Ludlow street jail grants, knew what had
been said about him the past fortnight, be
would not feel comfortable. The death Of
Gen. Grant has aroused public indigna-
tion against him afresh. When people
think Of the unscrupulous swiudIer living
in luxury and only deprived OF his lIber-
ty, while the man whom he made his
greatest victim lies cold in death, they
feel that the worst punishment this court
could intlict would fall short OF Wards
deserts. / say greatest victim" because
Ward robbed others only OF their money;
he only stole from them trash, while be,
in the opinion Of some, took away Gen.
Grants good name. Had not, In
deed, Gen. Grants illness fol-
lowed so soon upon the heels OF his
financial misfortune, the Generals credu-
lily might have caused him TO be con-
victim of one of the worst scoundrels that
ever lived. AS 1t Is, Ward is considered
the great soldiers worst enemy, and Gen.
Grants death Is apparently believed by
many to have been hastened by the humi-
liations to which the nefarious operations
OF this worthy product Of Wall street
subjected him.
IN CITY LESS STRONGLY GUARDED
BY POLICE
and militia, this belief. and the feeling OF
Indignation which accompanies it, might
work bodily harm, II not mortal injury.
to the inmate of Ludlow street Jail. Oa
the night Of the day Gen. Grant died u
well-knOwn journalist, whose name you
would recognize were | TO write II, said
that nothing but the thick doors OF tue
Jail, and the fact that the Eleventh rogi-
ment had its armOry in the adjoining
building, protected Ward from the
vengeance OF those who considered him
the author of Gen. Grants financial miss
fortunes, and consequently responsible
for the death which they had hasteneds
He said that be himself would take a
hand in the lynching of Ward were it
feasible, and that hundreds would JON
him. Nothing but the fact that the at
tempt to mete justice out to Ward would,
even II successful, result in the death Of
men better than he, restrained, in the
speakers opinion, popular Indignation
against the swindler taking this aggTes-
siVe form.
TURNING GRAY AT ELEVEN.
The Dawson journal tells story Of a.
girl OF IL whose hair is turning gray.
Or. Francis, of Ridgewood, N. j., owed
| his practice, when young man, 10 a sim
liar freak OF nature. At least, no cause
but a natural one is known. He had
never had those experiences on account
of which, according to melOdramatic
novels, ''his hair, which was black az the
ravens wing, turned white In a single
night" Whatever was the cause he was
gray-haired at 25, and looked
proporti0nately old The result was
that people who would have scorned 10
trust 10 a young physician employed him
under the suppositiOn that be was as old
as he looked, and he consequently in no
long time had more extensive practice
than probably physician OF his age had
ever enjoyed before. He is now about 40.
but looks scarcely older than he did 10
years ago, as his hair then made him look
twice his age, and he will have to grow 10
years older to catch up with It.
II is premature badness and not early
graying of hair which causes New York
ers 10 look old. know Of a true Knick-
erbocker who inherited badness from his
grandfather Xii, Of the family Of which
Kips bay Is named. When he was %,
he was at some social gathering, and only
the back of his head being visible. "Who
is that old man ?" somebody asked, point
ing at him. His sons inherit the peculiar-
ity. although not in so marked a degree,
but at the rate they are going on they
will be as bald as be by the time they are
30. He, however, still has a fringe Of
hair around the sides Of his head. There
is a man here who is a conspicuous fg-
ure at the theatre, who actually has no
hair on his head at all. He is eonse-
quently the oynosure OF all eyes where
ever he goes. There is a fascination
about his lack OF hair. One cannot keep
from looking at his bald poll, although it
is not pleasant thing TO look at.
Work and worry, combined with the
perpetual wearing Of hats indoors as well
as out, are assumed 10 be the causes OF
the badness which affects the average
New Yorker. The keeping the head Gov
cred must certainly have bad effect on
the members OF the different exchanges,
who wear their hats In rooms so hot and
crowded as 20 be unbearable TO the ordi-
nary rnorfaI ID