Daily American telegraph., 1851-12-30
THOMAS G. CONNOLLY,
Publisher, Washington City.

An ACT OF CHARITY is NEVER THROWN
AwAY.-A young man, by name Eugene A
clerk with rich merchant, at salary of
1900 francs year, recently came into an in
heritance in q very unexpected way, and under
some curious circumstances. Eugene, in GO
ing to his counting house each morning at
nine o'clock, generally followed the same route
and thus was in the habit of meeting, daily
at the same spot, an old beggar, whose yenera-
BILE aspect had made strong impression on
him, and to whom he every week gave his
modest aims The beggar and the young man,
without ever having spoken together, had
formed an acquaintance with each other. One
day last winter, towards the end of the month,
which means, being interpreted, that the gol-
den tide in Eugene's purse was running very
low, our young friend, after having givep to
the old beggar his last sous, saw poor woman
coming towards him, carrying her child press
ed in her arms which stretched its little
hands towards him His first movement was
to thrust his hand in his pocket, but he found
nothing to refuse relief was distressing, more
especially after the expectation of aid excited
by his motions. Eugene instantly took from
his pocket the small loaf of bread which con-
stituted his usual morning repast, and thrust
ing it into the hands of the poor woman, has
tened away, never dreaming that he had gain
ed an income of 800 francs In effect, the old
beggar has just died, leaving sum of $4,000
francs, and a will, by which he appoints
Eugene A. his sole legatee, stating that on
the day on which he had seen the young man
give his small loaf to the poor woman, he had
determined to leave all he was worth to him
who knew so well how to practice charity
The name of the old man was Jerome s..
He died in the hospital, leaving no relatives.
THE PRIZE REAPrNG MAcHINE-This ma
chine was patented in 1S45, by c. H. McCor-
mick, of Virginia, and has been found one of
the best labor-savng machines ever introduced
to the farmer; but particularly to the wheat
growers in the South and West 1t requires
but two hands to work it--one man to rake off
the grain and boy to drive the horses When
the machine is in good order and on fair fields,
it will average cutting about two acres an hour.
The grain is cut cleaner and more even than it
can be cut with the cradle or sickle The ra-
ker rides on q seat attached to the machine, as
will be seen by the cut, and takes the wheat off
at the side m gavels, ready for binding The
knife has sickle edge, and plays horizontally;
and is represented to cut one hundred acres
without being sharpened The reel gathers the
wheat for cutting and lops it over on the table
for the reaper. Mr., Riyes, of Virginia states
that his harvest hire had cost him 5000 per
year with the sickle and cradle, and $50 per
year with the machine This is certainly an
important saving in single item of the planta-
ton There is also a considerable saving in
feeding less number of hands and he thinks
that half bushel to the acre is moderate es-
innate in the saving of the wheat itself The
machine is simple in its construction, and there
fore not liable to get out of order. We have
seen field of twenty-five acres cut in one day
with this machine, and on passing over it found
less scatterings than are usual when the straw
is cut with the cradle or sickle
Nelo England Farmer.