On Monday last, while Mr. Joseph J. Andreu, the worthy light-keeper at this port was engaged in white washing the tower of the Light House, the lashing of the scaffold suddenly gave way and he was precipated to the ground, killing him almost instantaneously. He first struck the roof of the oil room about thirty feet below, whence he glanced off the structured stone wall which encloses the Light House and thence to the ground--a stone pavement. The perpendicular height from whence he fell, is about 60 feet.
Mr. Andreu was a native of this City and was highly esteemed for many hospitable and social virtues. He was in the 60th year of his age.
He was followed to the grave by a semerous concourse, and buried in the Holy and solemn form of the Catholic Church.
We are sure that this appointment will commend itself to all us
a just and kind recognition of the services of her much respected
deceased husband and as a provision for the support of a poor and
deserving widow who has been deprived of her stay and support in her
declining years by an accident resulting from his discharge of a
dangereus duty. It is pleasant in these days when political reasons
mainly influeuce such appointments to observe the kindly sympathy shown
in the appointment of the poor widow.
Contributed by Ernest Jones