for the true Wesleyan the Murder detected
Mr. James Graball kept a public house on one
of the main travelled roads leading to the
great Commerical city of the country . he was
supposed to be in mederate circumstances, as
to property but was considered honest and
attentive to his buisness in those early days
of which we write, it was supposed that in-
keepers, who sold intoxicating drinks could
be honest, -- but other sentiments prevail now
My. graball rented the stand he occupied,
and was supposed to bee doing a moderate
buisness sufficient merely to support his
family of about a medium size
One morning an alarm was sent out among
the neighbors that a poor beggar whom they had
charitably taken in the night before, was found
dead in his bed that morning a number of
persons soon assembled and found it according
to the reports and after due examination of
the body, according to the custom of those times
it was interred in one corner of the common
burying ground, and as he was unknown in
the place, and had nothing about him indicating
his home or friends, he was soon forgotten, no
stone pointed out his grave, and in a few years
its particular location was unknown,
In a few years after this event, Mr. graball
purchased a farm in the neighborhood, up on
which he retired from in-keeping and appeared
to live in the perfect enjoyment of not only
the comforts of life, but even the fullness of
welth and it was often remarked that he had
been the most successful tavern keeper ever
known in that vicinity as observation showed
that this class of persons had usually retired
from business poor it was however supposed
to bee the result of his strict temperance
and attention to his business in connection
with his general domestic economy
time rolled on untill about fifteen years
had pased the taven-house yet stood though
much improved and occupied by another
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