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190 eight or nine miles, returning in very good spirits. At 3, on the following day, he awoke "as well as ever he was," but on sitting up, a dreadful pain seized his chest. He dressed himself, however, and went down-stairs, moving with accustomed ease. At nine o'clock, sitting alone "in his arm-chair, wrapped in his gown," he died silently.

 

 From The Philadelphia Press.