The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-08-27
Fruitful Vino.

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Fruitful Vine.
About IS years ago the wife of Mr..
David Jordan, now residing in Freeport,
Maine, presented her liege lord with three
daughters at a thrill! These have all
lived and grown up to be fine buxom las
SEES. Meonwlile Mrs. Jordon has NOT
been lido. but added seven to the family
stock. The poor man seemed over.
whelmed with the rush Of these eyiden.
ces of affection, but when some 3 months
since his lady for the second time i%ucreas.
ed his store Of living blessings by a gift
Of three mare daaghtersi at a single do
nation, Mr.. Jordan began to look around
for some extraordinary means to support
this extraordinary call upon his basket.
Mr.. Jordan is accordingly now all APP
plicant for a tract Of land amid-tbe will.
derness of Maine, wherein to rear lis
sons and daughters. The petition viii
be found below.-LetaRd CITY.
The editors of the Augusta Age has
been favored with a look at six of these
scions of fruitful vine, and says:
The youngest are about three months
old-the three elder about Is years, and
each of the latter had in charge one of
the little sisters, while the father and
mother were in attendance to. supervise
the young group.
To The H0aorabie Senate and Honsc of
Representatives 9f tie State IF Maine.
The Undersigned. a citizen of Free
port, in the county of Cumberland and
State Of Maine, respectfully represents
that in the providence of God he has be-
come reduced in his circumstances to a
state of poverty, by an accumulation of
continued m~isfortunes, which urge him
to present himself to your houors for Pc
cuniary aid. He has ever striyen TO sup
port his family respectfully by bis labor,
but "the fates" seem 10 be against him..
He has been Frustrated by sickness, has
broken one of his legs. and when he re-
covered from these disasters and was
enabled to labor, recently he struck a
bloal-aXe into one of his knees, and was
again crippled and thrown out of work,
His wife was, a few years since, attacked
withinsanity, and forsomot time an inmate
ofthe Insane Hospital. Though now re-
lieved from that shocking Bereavement,
the loss Of her mind, she is yet in afeeble
state of health.
The undersigned further represents,
that up to three months ago, he had be-
come the father of miRTEE children
ten of which were living, and mainly de
pended on his care.
That at that period of three months
since, he suddenly found himself the ia.
Their of three more children! in a few hour,
his flock had increased from TEN to THIR
TEEN! Three pet lambs-three helpless:
daughters were cast into the lap of pow.
erty, all of which are now alive and w.
cal. As his stock of children thus in.
creased, so did his heart yearn toward
them that they might be reared and nour,
ished in good principles, and made wor-
thv sons and daughters of the State.
With such an increase of Irresponsible
%ities," his ability to be Irresponsible" fol
their support vastly decreased. Hi'
strength "waxed faint" ty night by thei
helplesseess and wailing, and by day will
anxiety for their support.
He therefore presents himself 10 the
fathers of the State-and as in former
times he was considered the most valua.
bic citizen who presented the most son:
and daughters to the State--so now, he
: prays that this honorable body may looE
upon this laudable undertaking Of poop.
| ling our widely spread commonwealth
z; with a sturdy population, with an eye 0
t favor. The forests and wilds ofthe Stat,
> of Maine, and now inhabited only by III,
{ wild beasts and birds of prey. How nue.
: better to people them with intelligent be
~ings--those who shall in aftertimes clea
: up those lands and in their turn ODE
| the scripture Injunction ITO increase an,
multiply" Foreign emigration is pouriuI
1 in upon us fearfully, shall we not encouu
I age home productionsl However you
, honors may differ On political ecouom
: generally, he doubts not that in that res
. pect all are in favor of the american
:. system -"home" manufactures sgains
/, the world.
With these facts and views, the un
dersigned humbly prays your honor;
t that of the numerous dominions of tn
5 State he may receive the donation of on
b. hundred or more acres of land-so tina
@ he may be enabl.4 to rear his numerou
pledges of love" with advantage to tn
: State and honor to themselves $50 thO
as in olden time, the soldiers who fougl
at Bunker Hill and Concord and SaratC
h ga, were pointed out by the lovers of pa
riotism and bravery, so hereafter it ma
be said with honor to the State and plea
ure to your petitioner, there goes ii
# man who gave THIRTEEN children to ii
J. State, aud to whom the State in retul
n for such services, gave a comfortabI
y home in the forest, and which he has mad
h to blossom as the rose"
The undersign would only add, thi
1T while the State hesitates not to CIV
bounties for the determination of the RAJ
enous wolf and the carbon crow it wi
10 not leave the work incomplete by refu
% ing to encourage the increase of INTEL
gent beings to take the place of tho:
pests to s~ociety-snd thus enable Il
State to advance with rapid strides in
;" its borders, from being retreats for Il
s. bear ank wolf, to be the ramparts of int
-liranca and strannth md natriotic haar