thoughts! At about half pas! two o'clock in the afternoon, he was sitting in a -Jbair near the stove, in tbe office, while his son, Jo'ceph. *:tt at a desk, busily eugaged in writlug. denlv the latter was sturlled.by the report.of » pistol, aud looking up. observed his father fall from the chair on which he had been sit ting. He ran to him, and found that he was dead, and the blood and brains were oozing