The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-05-10
From the New York Dispstch.l
TIE BUTTON.AlKEI.
4 True Sketch.

4 True Sketch.
Our Button Maker Tor Button Coverer)
learned her trade when she vas mere
child. Her father vas tailor, very poor
man, whose family consisted Of q wife end
four daughters. The wife was plain, de.
voted, faithful body, and sat oil the day
long sewing by the side Of her husband.
The girls were taught to help their parents
% SOON % they were old enough, and the
one who 10 the subject Of this sketch, vas
shown how to cover tho bone Or metal
mould with cloth or silk, aud soon became
very expert 1t the business. Albeit, every
member Of the family vas industrious, the
tailor made but little money, and continued
poor.
One day fasbily dressed young man
presented himself in the little shop.
is Mr.. Carpenter inf' asked tho ssran-
ger.
That's my name,' said the tailor.
Very we'll, Mr.. Carpenter, my employer
Mr.. Jones, the troker, desired me to call
aud inquire the numbers Of tho ticket you
bought in the Maryland Monumental Lot
terry
did you buy . lottery ticket, husband!'
said the wife, 10 . tone of quiet rebuke.
Father, have you bought lottery tick
etg cried the children.
The tailor pulled out greasy old wallet,
from which he took little piece Of thin
red and white paper.
The numbers are 5, ., 81 said tho tai
lor, addressing the clerk.
That ticket 10 worth, the discount of,
eleven thousand, four hundred and fifteen
dollars, aud ninety-two cents, and Mr..
Jones will be happy to cash il for YOU the
clerk said, bowling politely and quitting
the shop.
There was no more work done BY the
tailor or his family that day. Carpenter
went out and obtained the money for the
ticket, and when he returned, tho wife aud
daughters gathered round him and looked
with amazement II the thick pile u one
hundred dollar city bank notes.
The tuilor's first impulse was 10 celebrate
his good fortune BY getting gloriously
drunk. But his wife quietly interposed %
objection.
Il am told she remarked, that money
drawn in . lottery seldom lasts long,
There is enough there, husband, to make
US happy for life.'
And there ehall be FIVE times that O.
mount, my wife. exclaimed the tailor.
A new passion was suddenly born with
in bis bosom. A tenth Of the sum he had
drawn wonld, tho day before, have made
him supremely happy; now tho wholo only
wbe,,ed bis appetite for more.
The tailor sold his little stock in trsde,
quilted the chop board for ever, and moved
with his family over TO Long Island. near
Jamaica, where, for six thousand dollars,
he bought twelve acres Of land, upon which
was . plain, comfortable house. lie was
shrewd, though ignorant man, and with
the remaining five thousand dollars he be-
gan to speculate.
Two years later began that reckless sys.
TEN Of ovcrsrading aud speculation which
terminated in almost general bankruptcy
10 1887. Our tailor suddenly found him.
self great man. The half Of township
in Maine, for which he paid four thousand
dollars, no sold for thirty five thousand and
pocketed the cash. Ills twelve acres near
Jamaica were found to be the centre Of q
space which mature evidently intended NJ
the site Of great city, lie sold out for
fifty thousand dollars. An India Rubber
company which he established, failed in
three years. an utter loss to the stockhold-
ers, but It was ascertained that our tailor
had not owned a share for more than
year. He sold out 10 time, with clear
profit ola little rising ninety thousand dol
lars. Every scheme which he originated,
or was concerned in fell through, but he
was the gamer by all. Finally, when the
bubble burst, in 1887, and two-thirds Of
the business community were ruined, while
the industry Of tho whole country was
struck with paralysis-our tailor was .
millionaire. When English soyercigns
were IA per cent premium. and bills Of sx-
change on London much or more, the pa
pers announced the departure for Europe,
in the packst-ship St. James. Of Samuel
Carpenter. Esq., lady, four Miss Csrpsn-
tiers, and three servants.
How long our tsilor-m illionsire and Ais
family remained abroad " cannot Say.
But 10 1914, they were The occupants Of .
magnificent house 10 University Place, and
moved 10 tho highest circles Of the toa.-
The eldest Miss Carpenter bad married .
French count With IN ugly name and IN
uglier mouseache. Tho second daughter
vas the wife II . young lawyer Of dissin.