About a week ago it was reported here that Ezra Boyce, formerly of this city, had been killed, at Chugwater, Alabama, though the cause of death was variously reported in different papers. This morning Thomas Fabrizio received a letter from Mr. Boyce in which there was no mention of his being dead, or of having been shot (as one report had it), or stabbed (as it went in another report), or strangled, or bludgeoned, or poisoned, or hit by a falling tree, or pushed off a waterfall, or mauled by a bear, or drowned in a tub, or seized by a faulty heart, or electrocuted by a torn wire flapping wildly in a sudden wind. It is not known how the story of his death originated. He says that he is in his usual good health.
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