It appeared, according to Mr. Dean’s story, as learned from Messrs. Symonds & Symonds, that Daniel Barrows had cared for his brother’s child to the extent of paying Richard Genet of Jersey City a certain sum of money each year to provide for and clothe the lad. Mr. Genet having died suddenly, and without leaving anything to show whom Seth had claims upon, the boy was left to his own devices, while his uncle, because of carelessness or indifference, made no effort to learn what might have become of the child.