Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1877 — A Very Sad Story. [ARTICLE]

A Very Sad Story.

On Beacon avenue, Jersey City, resides a family named Morrison. The father had been out of employment for nine months and the family was in a state of utter destitution. On Friday Morrison gladdened the hearts of his wife and two ■children -with the announcement that he was to obtain employment on the Jersey City & Bergen horse-cars on the following Monday. Later in the day he received one dollar for removing a piano, and the sight of that dollar threw the starving creatures into ecstasies. The wife suggested that the first purchase should be a bucket of coal, but Morrison replied that

he would go. out with a b*g and gather coal on the railroad tracks west of the tunnel. While thus engaged, h« was ran over by , a Mal-train on th| DtlawMto, Lackawanna A Western Ifeiltoad at W End, sad bothhis leg* anltafltata tetae cut off. He waa taken to hl* home, where he died in the evening. Officer Short, who had Morrison conveyed home, state* that he never saw such an abode of misery. Night came, and there was no fuel nor light of any kind except the ray* of the moon as th! mangled remains lay stretched On ffWWt. The Wife And her two children, who had not eaten a morsel during thd day, left the house and wandered from one undertaker’* establishment to another, begging some of them to bury her husband. Morrison was a quiet man, of temperate habits, and had been for three yean in the employ of the People’* Gaslight Company, from which he was discharged on account of the depressed state of the times. He was thirty-two years of age. The distracted woman said of him that a more devoted husband never lived.—A - . Y. Herald.