Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-20

had his headquarters.
Washingtou's house still stands. and Is a
square brick place. built 30 true colonial
style, and was once the home of the learned
Chancellor Wythe. signer of the Declar-
alton of Independence The house adioins
Bruton churchy1rd where rcposc many Of
Vifginias illustious dead
A walk through This quaint old huryiug
ground, ON quiet spring morning wheuuot
"a sound disturbs the stiffness of the place,
causes curious lancies TO arise iu "a persons
mind, aud in glanciug about at the many
moss covered tombstoucs, reple,c with dis.
tiugui-hed names, one finds ones self uu.
consciously pic,uriug TO himself the prob.
able appearance 100 life of the forms that lic
under the silent and grim tombstones
pause before a stone that bears upon it's
face "a glowing cuiogy on the form which Ii
covers. The subject of this eulogy must
have been iu life quite popular idol judg
ing from the matter craven on the stone.
It sets forth chat the youth who lies beneath
was handsome courtly, and of "a lovable
disposition, but was killed on the 10Th of
October, 100 n the Assembly Rooms,
Williamsburg, Va, being then in his TWEEN
ucth year
few words opened mp TO me Standing over
the grave of this once fair aud gallant
youth, my fancy went back TO that memora-
bic evening in October, over one hundred
and forty years ago, and in my mind ! could
see again the stately cavaliers and hand
some ladies who were congregated at the
brilliant Raleigh assembly rooms when
this young boy was killed
When ! closed my eyes for a moment and
stood lost in thought. could almost imagine
that the rustic and swish of the costly
dresses worn by this distinguished ASSEM-
blage ON that fatal night OF long long ago
were distinctly perceptible 10 my ear, and
then mused as to the probable cause of the
lads cath. Was II the result of some high
strung boyish quarrel over 'ye fair lady2'
No sooner had my mind accepted this yer
sion of the affair, than my fancy quickly
spread before my eyes a picture of two
handsomely dressed youths, with flushed
couutenauces, not altogether caused by
eXuberaut health, standing In defiant atti
tudes facing one another, and surrounded
by a crowd of powdered and bewigged
gentleman
After a few heated words, perhaps the lie
is passed and each surrounded by his par.
ucular adherents, adjourn to some secluded
apartment in which to settle their quarrel,
either by pistols or swords. 'Tis all over in
a few seconds and one of the ''hot-headed"
lads is borne from the fatal room with his
young life's blood rapidly dyeing his plent-
fully ruifled and snowy white shirt bosom
a bright, bright red.
And for nearly one hundred aud fifty years
this lad who had so much to live for, so many
excellent prospects, has rested quietly and
undisturbed in old Bruton churchyard,
while, perhaps, clustered near about are
many of that gay crowd who were present
on that memorable night Of long, long ago
Nearby the tomb of this young cavalier is
the grave of Lady Christine Stewart, con-
spicuous by having an unlettered slab Of
marble over II. This lady was a descendant
of Mary Queen of Scots, and married a Viii
lamsburg gentleman, who was then a
student of Edinburgh University. She is
reported to have possessed the Stewart
beauty in a large degree. Let us hope that
it was more of blessing to her than it had
been to so many Of this ill-fated, but hand
some race.
A few yards distant from Lady Stewards
resting place stands the most remarkable
tombstone in old Bruton churchyard, If not
iu any other churchyard. IL is a stone
which has cut upon its hoary surface a
mournful lesson to all young men who are
addicted to riotous dissipations and evil
associates This stone guards the grave of
a young English actor, and the sermon on
the stone Is reported TO have been written
by the unfortunate Thespiau sometime be-
fore his death, lhc died of a lingering dis.
ease,) with the solemn injunction that it be
cut upon his tombstone after his demise
The epitaph reads that the person which
reposes beneath the stone was the son of
gentle parents well reared and educated,
fair of face and robust of figure, but who
through dissipation and bad associates fell
in of disease and died in a foreign land at
the earlyage of 27-a warning, the epitaph
reads, TO an other young men who are dis
sipated and who frequent wicked places.
This stone is quite large and broad but the
queer sermon from the dead covers its
entire surface and is terrifying enough to
make the most dissipated of mankind pause
and take heed of the possible goal in front
of them if hey do not Immediately aban-
don their wicked ways
Dear me! over a century has passed since
this obscureactor was first laid i'm old Bruton
wards adopted his noble profession have
risen to prominence but had this young
Eugishman lived, might not his name have
been as famous as any2 Perhaps the world
lost the most polished Hamlet, the fcrcest
Othello the gratcst Marc Antony, OF the
cruclost Shyloc,, when the early demise of
this eccentric oung Thespian occurred I'm
the quaint littl, town of Williamsburg, so
many, many yeas ago.
And as I stoodmusiug by this lone grave,
the first verse of "Grays Elegy, the
Epitaph,n occurrd to me and ] found my.
self uncousciousr repeating.
"Here rests his had upon the lap of earth,
youth TO fortune and TO fame unknown
Fair science lrowed not on his humble
birth,
And melanchol marked him for her
own"
Passing from De quaint old buryiug
ground, entered id Bruton parish church,
which was erectedn IT'S, and is still in an
excellent state of preservation. Il con.
tains many intereting curios connected
with the early hisory of Virginia, among
which Is the original font at which poca
hontas was baptizet
This rare vessel WIS one of the few articles
saved from the onnagration that was