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Show AN OLD ACTOR'S LAST DAYS, John G. Carllitch, the veteran actor, manager and theatrical tutor, was interred in Greenwood cemetery yesterday. He was born in 1703, in England. He was the original Mazeppa, and when first bound to the Bleed, in Astley's Amphitheatre, Liverpool, was only 19 years of age. He rode passively in the wild race between be-tween his fleet horse nnd the sham wolves nightly for nearly four years. Ho then came to America, lauding ii Boston. In time he became tiag-manager tiag-manager of the old National theatre. In 1S55 he was manager of the Troy museum. From Troy he took a company to Cleveland, and there, Maggie Mitchell, under his tutelage, ! made several strong hits. "About eight months ago," said Mr. Vining Bowers yesterday, "a brcther actor and I found Mr. Cart-litch Cart-litch in a queer old place just such a place as you would expect to find Fagin in. Clo'hes lines crossed the dingy room, and all sorts of rubbish littered the floor aud the corners. 1 knew that lie had plenty of money saved hidden among the trash that tilled hia room; hut I set about gelling him into the Old Mini's Home in Philadelphia. I reported hia condition condi-tion to the Order of Friendship, thf actors' mutual aid organization, embracing em-bracing nearly the entire profession, and Mr, Cartlitch was put into the Home. Maggie Mitchell deserves whatever credit is due to those who gave the old man a peaceful home in his latter days. He bought a lot neat that of the Order of Friendship, in Greenwood cemetery, and a tombstone, tomb-stone, which ho had properly iu-bcribed, iu-bcribed, excepting the date of hie death. In these several outlays, 1 believe, he was aided by Maggie Mitchell." It is said that Mr. Cartlitch'a last request waa that Maguie Mitchell's letters to him should be buried with him, and that his last utterance wan a prayer for her weltnre. X. Y. bun. |