In the midst of life; tales of soldiers and civilians . it was burnt to man who did this, and who afterwardplacidly endured a severe reprimand fromthe coroner, was a son-in-law of the lateCharles Breede. At the inquest nothingcould elicit an intelligible account of whatthe paper had contained. FROM THE TIMES Yesterday the Commissioners of L,unacycommitted to the asylum Mr. James R. Col-ston, a writer of some local reputation,connected with the Messenger. It will beremembered that on the evening of the 15thinst. Mr. Colston was given into custody byone of his fellow-lodgers in the Bai


In the midst of life; tales of soldiers and civilians . it was burnt to man who did this, and who afterwardplacidly endured a severe reprimand fromthe coroner, was a son-in-law of the lateCharles Breede. At the inquest nothingcould elicit an intelligible account of whatthe paper had contained. FROM THE TIMES Yesterday the Commissioners of L,unacycommitted to the asylum Mr. James R. Col-ston, a writer of some local reputation,connected with the Messenger. It will beremembered that on the evening of the 15thinst. Mr. Colston was given into custody byone of his fellow-lodgers in the Baine House, 264 1Tn the /lIMost of Xife who had observed him acting very suspi-ciously, baring his throat and whetting a ra-zor—occasionally trying its edge by actuallycutting through the skin of his arm, being handed over to the police, the un-fortunate man made a desperate resistanceand has ever since been so violent that ithas been necessary to keep him in a strait-jacket. Most of our esteemed contempo-rarys other writers are still at Hn flnbabitant of Carcosa For there be divers sorts of death—some whereinthe body remaineth ; and in some it vanishethquite away with the spirit. This commonly occur-eth only in solitude (such is Gods will) and, noneseeing the end, we say the man is lost, or gone ona long journey—which indeed he hath ; but some-times it hath happened in sight of many, as abun-dant testimony showeth. In one kind of death thespirit also dieth, and this it hath been known to dowhile yet the body was in vigor for many , as is veritably attested, it dieth withthe body but after a season it is raised up again inthat place that the body did decay. PONDERING these words of Hali (whomGod rest) and questioning their fullmeaning, as one who, having an intimationyet doubts if there be not something behindother than that which he has discerned, Inoted not whither I had strayed until a sud-265 266 irn tbe dftl&st of %ite den chill wind strik


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