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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 16, 1867.
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’ . ' such; after his death it was considered nothing city and had bought a farm on the outskirts of that it was A rapid dove:-nt lrom 0.1 e hulilar of
T393503 111 the H0"-59h01IL lgut s privstleli lipbitalioill. An evil re-piutntliou the plnl-othnt hadbeeu the mine olhis mel'L‘IlI- fortune.
A ROMANCE OF AMERICAN LIFE‘ ung aboutt e ouse. twas not consi era to n o tnumph. His wife sickened ma dies; hi, dmrlren M.
Ptwwaun-TEE DEA“ m Tm’ "MUCH now“. be haunted, but unlucky. Tlus reputation was, It was the must unlucky ‘step he could have lowed one after the o(.her,nntilhe found himself,
L h h ‘ h f unL1oubtedlly,he‘s1rnendbyLtltilel iutiof the didorent $:,li0!],fkl)l' (gum that (1E‘itEmllld ruin commenced. almost before his hair was gray, alone in the
V t e year 1820 t ere stood in t at part 0 persons w 0 ms e l oir oinc. mu lie uuse was ‘ lied he removed his world. He wsawifeleau and childless ; hut hehnd
Manhattan Island which is now ocrnpied by The original proprietor was an emigrant [min (aniilyinto it; but the day that he entered was his Isrmlcft. He determimsdthst he wnuld devola
Twenty-eighth street and Third Avenue an old England, who lmd made moneyin business inthe the last of earthly peace that he enjoyed. After all his energies to the cultivstian of the soil, and
f the
period to which we re-
for this house was the
centre of A hamlet
which was then consid-
ered quite a considera-
ble distance troin the
City of New York.
his edixlce wAs huilt
on an Artificial hill,
which only extended a
few yards round it, and
r endeavor by hard work-
in; w lurget his do-
mestic troubles.
But I fatality Ip-
pcamd to pursue him ;
his crops Ilnbd ; his
mun died 0! murnin; V
his hard earnings melt-
ed quii-,l.ly away, And on
the thrcsliold of old age
he found liimsel! 3
ruined mun.
Ho was now tired of '
the world; he and
nothing further to live
!or. Ono bright spring ‘
he I'll iound
hanging dead in his
barn.
which was securely
fenced in to prevent ao-
cidents. There was 5
night or steps both in
front and rear of the
mound, the former
!eAding to the pretty
dower-beds facing ‘the
house, the latter lead-
ing to the vegetable
garden which laybelow
His creditor: sold the
house and about three
acres of ground around
it to . brewer, Also In Q -
emigrant from Eng-
land. He thought that
as ale was such a popn.
lsrborornge in the old
country, it would be
equally ippmmed in
Iho now. He started I
hrr-wery, ms construct-
ed a number of large
ocllnrl in the Very
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the hillock.
,What the motive of
the original proprietor
could have been in
building his dwelling in
this peculiar corner no
one knew. In all prob-
ability in his time-for
the domicile was more
than a hundred years
old-the ground wAs
low and ‘mushy, and
perhaps the enterpris-
ing owner oi’ the farm
had built his residence
on an artidcial mound
td keep it dry.
Be the cause what it
might. it gave the
house a very pecu-
liar, and not by any
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7", "W
tulle ”
“,-will l l‘
I L.
He sunk lnrgn sums of
money, and never saw '
n twentieth pm of It I
returned to him. llost
01' his us turned sour, V
besides which the 001- ’; '
oriists were not an ale-
drinling people.
Ho was mined in A
year; his beautifully.
'me.n. dmngreeqble A3. oonstrntlnd ct-llarswere
cg, I. shut up, and he died of
The mound Wu very ‘llyrulmn hurt. at aeo-
green m gp;-jug ma ' ing All his brilliant sn-
ticipatimuo turn to dust
Ind aalmn.
A dairy-mnu follow-
ed, but the Issue eril
fortune attended him,
too. His cows were ell
scizod with the same
dlsttltie that had killed
on‘ tho-farmer‘: stock, -
V and six months saw
him reduced to beg-
glry. He joined the
volunteers in the urn at
1812, and I1: Lilled It .
Blulenshnrg. - 1
, After him I nriety
of persons occupied the
house, bht all without
exceptionnietwilhniis-
summer. Ind it very
much resembled one of
those raised terraces’
common to English
country-houses.
At the time the house
was built some trees
were planted on the
top of the mound,which
in 1820 had grown so
large In to entirely can-
ceal the residence in A
mass of loliage during
the snnuner months.
The house itsell was
nlsrgs, rambling, two-
story structure, can-
- taining I number of
small rooms, with low
ceilings. The only
apartments of any size
or pretensions were
those situated on each
side of the entrance-
lull-one used for
every-day-living, called
the ',"kcepintz-room,"
the other A parlor, only
used on state occu-
sions;
This dwelling hid-
long anterior to the
dsto of our prologue,
ceased to be used is I
Iarlu-house. In fact,
the original proprietor
A
ridely diilusad that no
tenant could be ob-
tained Ior it.
The houso became
won (all into I dilapi-
dated condition. The
files b(‘Cllm0 hxuoned
from the roof, the shut-
ten fell oil’ the hinges,
the windows were sll
brolmn, the niound bo-
nnie nvcr;:mvru with
I [REASON [N was nousznoxin.-“ooum 1'0 rs: son, in: h.uhtnD run if ions nor is in: Anus Asn csasian Iran on‘ or run noon." ‘ thick, rlnli grass, and
had only employed its-s
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