. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. relude of eternity. So strong his faith (I think his prayer for yearsHad been for its increase) that day by dayHe saw his substance wasted, yet no fearsDisturbed his peace. God was a God alway ;And those who called him Father strong should standSure of the help of His almighty hand. We saw him last when fourscore years and moreHad passed beside him with their noiseless tread ; And some of them had scattered oer and oerTheir shining silver on his unbowed head. His smile still lingered, fainter than of yore,But full of
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. relude of eternity. So strong his faith (I think his prayer for yearsHad been for its increase) that day by dayHe saw his substance wasted, yet no fearsDisturbed his peace. God was a God alway ;And those who called him Father strong should standSure of the help of His almighty hand. We saw him last when fourscore years and moreHad passed beside him with their noiseless tread ; And some of them had scattered oer and oerTheir shining silver on his unbowed head. His smile still lingered, fainter than of yore,But full of peace, as if on sunshine fed ;— Nor did the color of his cheek quite fail, There still were roses though they had grown pale. No marble marks his resting-place, I ween,I wonder if the briers and weeds grow tall, Or, if the mound is fair with waving green,When summer dews at early twilight fall ? Perhaps the sparrow twitters there unseen,And robin to his mate will softly call. I would a rose might blossom at Ids head,— One of the olden type—so sweet and red. (spsl! s. 3 [ *>^i&\ ft V r?7 & ^9?) GEN. CHARLES WILLIAMS, Gen. Charles Williams, long prominent in Manchesters social, political, andbusiness circles, died at his home in that city, on Monday morning, November 6. General Williams was born near Oxford, Eng., but came to this country withfits father when a bov of ten. settling: at Blackstone, R. 1., where he learned the M NEW HAMPSHIRE NECROLOGY. trade of a weaver. When sixteen years old he went to Manchester, where he re-mained two years apprenticed at the trade of a tinsmith, when he went to Peace-dale. R. I., and finished learning his trade, his father living and dying there. Hereturned 10 Manchester in 1850. where he married Ann Augusta Jackson, daugh-ter of Artemas and Sally (Young) Jackson, who survives him, with three children,Arthur II., and Charles A. Williams, and Mrs. Mabel Pickering, wife of HerbertD. Pickering of Lowell. He opened a stove store in S
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