The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1888-03-03

weeks under the impression that wa.
to be forwarded elsewhere where coult
obtain employment, then and there turned
right around and refused to help me after
Thursday Ito day., claiming that my father
was a rich man east and was fully able to
help me. showed them to the contrary
but they refused to believe, and de-
manded the address of you and Walter,
4 which I gave. This morning I have just
had breakfast and shall proceed over the
bridge to East st. Louis. l do not know
where I shall go. Have no money. left
the Soldiers Home on January IL literally
starved and frozen out-22 below zero ]
stayed with James Faley of frankfort,
Kan, until the 9th of February, and
then came here. 1t anything happens to
me by death, ETC., you can apply to the
Soldiers Home for my naval discharge.
enlisted at Brooklyn Feb. IS, 1865, and
was discharged Feb. IS, 1868. at Phllidel-
phia, Pa. left the home on my own
account without any furlough. This last
two days have been to answer several
more there looking for the place. No
money and fully able and willing am to
| work even for my board, but cannot get
| it. Well goodby and God bless you all,
Your affec. son.
FRANCIS SIMMONS.
Evidently there are Soldiers Homes
which seem to have more of the attribute
of Soldiers grave. And these institu-
tions are not now under the supervision
of the much illuminated Gen. Butler,
but under one who is a fellow townsman
with none of the lamp black of the
journalistic hireling besmearing his politi-
cal apparel or military uniform-Gen.
Franklin. This case should be brought to
his notice.
Another point in this letter should also
help to damn the grandiloquent demagog
cry of the well-paid or well-papped official
or politician who proclaims the greatness
and glory of this land of ours, where there
is opportunity for all too find employment,
peace and prosperity.
In regard to the refusal of the Masonic
committee to render further aid, they must
have been imposed on by some unprincipled
creature here, or some one influenced by
the rascally work of recent date where
journalistic prostitutes coupled the veneer
able old mans name with matters and
characters to which he was an entire
stranger.
All the consolation that remains to the
bereaved parents is to learn that their un-
fortunate son had received an honorable
burial, the Masonic fraternity of Leaven-
worth, the Grand Army end members of
emit and worthy citizens of the place in at
tendance.
1t should be added that on receipt of this
letter the doctor Immediately sent on re-
mittance to his son, but he must have left
the Home, as it is called, before it arrived
there, for among other effects found on the
person of the unfortunate man, and return
ed to the doctor, was little purse without
a penny in it.
The following from the St. Louis Globe
Democrat explains the death:
stAbout o'clock Thursday evening the
body of an unknown man, dressed in new
regular army uniform, was found lying be-
side the Ohio and Mississippi railroad track
near the Lebanon distillery, by the Conk-
ling boys, who were walking along the
track to their home, about one and a half
miles from Lebanon. One leg was crushed
and his skull was crushed in. The boys
notified the railroad company, who In turn
yesterday morning notified Coroner Woods
of East ST. Louis, and by his order the
body was removed to the City Hall at Le-
banon The dead man is thought to be of
German descent, about 55 years of age (he
was only 49, He had light hair, gray
beard and gaiter shoes. No clue to his
identity was. discovered yesterday. He is
supposed to have been run over by the
Ohio and Mississippi accommodation
train, which passes through Lebanon go
ing west at 7:30 p. m, or by light en-
CINE which follows close behind. Coroner
Woods on his arrival made search for
papers that might serve to identify the
body aud was rewarded in finding the I'M
late private in the United States navy,
having seen service on the Florida and
Junta, and had just left the Soldiers home
at Leavenworth, Kan, for Washington,
D. c., to search the records for evidence
that in 1857 he had been treated for epil-
epsy, being an applicant for a pension.
The papers found show him to have been a
member of Lebanon Lodge, No. z, A. F.
and A NJ, Washington, D. c., and to have
a brother, w. Simmons, residing at Har-
ward, Ill. A jury was impannelled, who
after hearing two witnesses and examining
the papers, returned as their verdict that
Francis Simmons came to his death from
having fallen from train on the Ohio and
Mississippi railway, death being accidental.
Coroner Woods telegraphed his brother at
Harvard. Meantime, the Masonic lodge
here will look after the remains.
It is singular that the deceased belonged
to Lebanon Lodge of Masons of Washing
ton and met his death near lebanon, Ill. y
The doctor deeply approaching the kind
ness of strangers to his sons remains, hav
ing dSSLSL0u uiduy pour uOLuC1SSS "dHueF-
er himself during his long life of kindnes
and benevoIence to the afflicted within his
reach, sent the following token of this ap-
probation to the mayor of Lebanon:
Honored Sir:-Accept my heartfelt
thanks for yourself and for the members of
the City Council, State Senator, Masonic
Order, Grand Army, and all the good
citizens of your city, for the attentions be-
slowed and the honors conferred on the re-
mains of my unfortunate son. shall ever
hold the same in grateful remembrance.
Gratefully Yours, Thomas SIMMONS.
The many persons in this city to whom
DIR. Simmons has endeared himself by his
genuine kindness of heart, and uprightness
of character, are sincerely panied by this
affection of the venerable doctor and his
excellent wife.
BRIDGEPORT.
Mr.. John D. Candee, senior editor of the
Bridgeport Standard, died last Monday
night.
Rev. Sam Small, the noted Georgia evan
gelist and CO. worker with Rev Sam Jones,
IS ill give his popular lecture from Bar
room to Pulpit" in Halves Opera House
Monday evening.