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A Sad Story Of A Wretched Life

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Day
4
Month
February
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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1 he most tlinllin? and aadly suggestive tomperamv leotwa U tin' i; ti t of a oncv noble, talented man, loft in mina by intoxicating driuk. A Washington paper tells ragged bear, well known in the streets of tliut city, wlm once lu-ld an important oom mand in the noy, baTiocbeen promoted, tor personal bravery, from i a calvary lieutanant to nearly tlio highesl rank in the njilitary service. Ona ni-'lil recently, when lie had lieen too lOi in bcgfring liqnorto astiate biscrarion, and while 'ying helpleaely drunk in the reai part of a Third stroef siloon, aomt men thought to play a joke on liim by itealing shirt, and proeeaéed to tri p liiui. Hnderneath his shirt, and suspended by a strinf? from hi oeck, a f-tnall canvas bag, whioh the men "pciied and fcund it ooatatned h is commimon a brevet majorgeneral, two conxratulatory letter - one trom Grenen) (rant and one from Preoi dent Lincoln - a pliuínKraph of little giri. and a ouil of haii' - a " aheatDUt xhad"W that doabtleaa on day crept oTer thu brow ime lovcd one. When these tliinijs wcre dfaoDTered, oven the balfdruakea men who found tbem feit a respect lor tbc mans lormer greatness, and pity fbr bis lallen cooditioD, and ¦juietly leturned the bag and t ooflteati where tliey found thetn, and replaoed the sleeper's olothea npoa biin. Wben a reporter tried t ioterview iba man, and enaeafored to leara sometbtag of his lif'c in the ;ast Irw yeafs, be declined to cotumuniuatu anytliinKHe cried like a cbild wbon told bon bis right name and former positioo irerenoertaintd, and with tWta trickling down bis cheekü, aid ; " For God'a -akc. sir, 'Inrit publidh my degradation, or my name, at least il yoo are determioed to y someihing about it. it is aDoagfa that I know luy.-elf how luw I have become. ill you prottÍM that mueh '.' It will do DO good, bnt will do my friends a great deal il harm, as, fortUnately, they tbink I dicd in South America, where I went at the close of the war." Intemperance andthegamblingtable, he said, had wrought his ruin.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News