Our
fellow townsmen may have [encountered] in our streets of late, an
infirm blind old man, led about by a boy soliciting charity from the
inhabitants.
We regret to stat, that he
died on the morning of Tuesday last in the Goal of this district, to
which place he had been removed by the Magistrates &
Town-wardens, who had found him in a state of great exhaustion,
lying in the streets.
Medical aid was promptly
afforded, but without success; it appears that the name of the
deceased was John L. Smith, and that he has a son in good
circumstances residing on Talbot Street.
The body was was interred on
the evening of Tuesday last, in the burying ground attached to the
Church of England.
We believe that sufficient
money was found on the person of the deceased to pay the expense of
his funeral.
