Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-01-15

Samuel, by divine pefTnirnion
BiAhop Of this Island
Stop, reader.
behold. and smile AZ
TIE PALACE OF 4 BlSHOPf
rho died MAY ~
In tho year
lGJ3.
THO advocates OF temperance may nnd
announcement In the following "voico
from q tomb" in Thetford rhurohynrd. In
Norfolk.
Ny grandfather lies buried here,
My cnusn Jane and two unclea dear;
My father purlahed with an inflammation
In his eyes;
My sister dropt down dead
In the Minorloa
Rut tho reason why I'm hero inferred,
According to my thinking.
IA owing to my good living and hard
drinking.
Therefore, good people II you wish 20 live
long
Don't drink too much wine brandy. GIN
Or anything strong.
A follower OF Acsculapus los buried In
Handon ohurchynrd. MlddlcsoN. That he
sns familiar With oth'r lllulis than THOSE
which he crrried In his medicine Ghost
may be inferred from the iin0s carved on
his Tombstone. which run Tins
ON THOMAS cRossFIELp, NJ. y.
Beneath this stone Tom CrosSfeld Hos,
who cares not now who laughs or cries,
flu laughed when sober and whom mellow
was a hattifn- scnrum harmless fellows
ro gave TO none designed oncnAc,
SO "Honi Polt. aui NAL y sense"
In chswiok churchyarl is buried tho
great ra,ntcr. Wilton Hogurth, His cpl
taph wna written by David Gnrrlok:
Farewell rrent painter OF mankind,
Who reached the noblest point OF art,
Nhosc picturd morals charm the mind,
And through tho eye correct the hoarti
n gcuius fire thee, reader, stay;
III nn,ur, touch thee. drop a tear;
II neither move thee turn away,
For Ilogarth's honord dust lies here.
A rather choap attempt Mt puprins may
he road In solby churohyard. York. where
is the grave OF ono Miles,
This tombstone Ia mlleston'
TIab, how ao2
Because beneath lies Miles,
who's miles below.
Another IN the same vein liz In st. Bta-
netts. Paurs Wharf. Iondon'
| Hero iiea one Moore. and no more than
he;
! One Moore and no more; how can that be7
why one Moore and no more inny wen lie
hero clone.
But here lies ono Moore. and that's more
than one.
| In ST. Michaols churchyard. Aberyts-
with. ~ another, though OF somewhat
| higher order. II IL on the stone above tho
| grave OF David Davis who In llfo was a
blacksmith:
Ny Sledgo and Hammer lay rcclinod;
My Bellows. too, have lost their wind;
My Fires extinct my Forge docnyed,
| And In tho dust my vice Is laid.
| My coal In spent. my Iron gone,
/ rniia nrr DFONC-ulNt work Ia dam.
Ono or the local histories o: Cornwall l.
authority for the following:
Father md Mother md
Lies buraed hero as under;
Father and Mother lies buried herr.
And lies buried yonjei.
For brcvI,y the following. cor;ed from
| st. A!ichaei's church yard, Crooked Lane,
London. can scarcely DO cxeeliedi
Here 10th, wrapped in clay,
The body Of william Wray--
have no more TO say.
| Lord Byron's wit may be seen In the
| following epitRpn on the tombstone OF a
man who had Lotn a carrier at SOUTH
| well.
John Adams lies here. OF tho parish OF
| Southwell,
A carrier. who carried tho can TO HI,
| mouth well:
| He carried 10 much, and he carried sc
fast.
lie could carry no morS-so was carried
| at last.
| For the liquor he drank. being too much
4 for one,
He could not carry on. SO hos now cnrrI
on.
Attentive readers OF history are familiar
| with the fate OF Theodore King OF Cor
| slca. who was lmprisonei for debt at III,
rla 1aAll h.