Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1855-05-02
"A TOUCHING INcIDENr.-A lady relates to us

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As she was passing along Eighth ST., on Sat
urday, she saw a delicate looking young woman
coming out from basement, with basket in
her hand, containing few articles of needle
work, which it seems she was trying to sell
from door to door. She was in tears, and was
heard to exclaim in low voice. Must starvew
The lady accosted her kindly, and perceived she
was the very picture Of distress. Though tidy
and rather genteel in appearance, yet wearing a
countenance that told but too well she was FAM
shing for food. She said. in substance, that
she was married, had one child was English,
and heretofore had lived comfortably her hus-
band having had good employment; but now he
had none starvation was staring them in the
face. She had resorted to the needle to keep
them alive, and had made those little articles
and was trying to sell them; but with poor
success. None could tell the distress she felt
in being repulsed, or in being cheapened down
in her prices. One lady, in carriage, had Of
fered her ten cents for piece of work, the ma
terials of which were worth eighteen pence
She looked the lady in the face, she said, while
her heart sunk within her. She entered one
house, where a table was set with food. She
longed for some of it, and hoped it would be
offered her, but it was not she ventured to ask
for some, but was refused (by the domestcs,
no doubt). She had read and heard of suffer-
ings, but never dreamed they were such real-
ties as she found them. The lady narrating this,
gave the poor woman some change, but took
nothing from her basket to diminish her little
stock of goods. There is reward to such as
give to the needy. Let not those then, who oc-
cupy inviting mansions give too much authority
to their servants to repel the applicant from the
door. They may thereby thrust away Angels
unawares" IN. Y. Tribune.
BEAUTIFUL ExTRAcT.-The following beauti-
full paragraph we extract from the address de-
livered before the graduating class of Rutgers
College, by the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen,
and commend it to the perusal Of the young:
7 "Resolve to do something useful, honorable,
dutifu, and do it heartily. Repel the thought
that you can, and therefore you may, live above
work and without it. Among the most piia-
BILE objects in society, is the man whose mind
has not been trained BY the discipline of educa-
ton; who has learned how to think, and the
value of his immortal powers, and with all these
noble faculties cultivated and prepared for an
J honorable activity, ignobly sits down to do
nothing; with no influence over the public
mind with no interest in the concerns of his
country, or even his neghborhood; to be regard
) ed as drone, without object or character, with
r no hand to lift, and no effort to put forth to
: help the right or defeat the wrong. Who can
, think with any calmness of such career! And,
however it may be with you in active enterprise,
never permit your influence to go into hostility
to the cause Of truth and virtue. So live that,
with the Christian poet, you may truthfully say
: that ,
; "If your country stand not by your skill,
AT least your foleS have not wrought her fall
A Total WRECK.-On the first of January,
1854, gentleman doing business in this city
was worth, with what he had invested in busi-
ness, $4,000. AT the same time he was bless
ed with lovely and intelligent wife, beautiful
and promising children. He was surrounded by
friends who esteemed and respected him. His
business was lucrative and promised to continue
so. Indeed, his position as we'll as his prospects
were, seemingly, all that he could desire to rem
der his happiness perfect How complete the
wreck which the year closed upon The first
. misfortune was the transfer Of merchandise to
> the amount Of $1S, 900 to California dealer, for
> which not one cent was ever received. The
next was two successive robberies, by means of
which $4,000 were lost. Soon after this the
unfortunate man made an investment in real es-
: tate to large amount. The next and crown
ing misfortune was trip with his family to Eu-
rope. They embarked, on their return, with
$35,00O in goods on board the steamship Arc
: tic, and all shared her luckless fate In settling
up his affairs, his real estate was sold under the
hammer at sacrifice of $4,000 making the
, aggregate loss to his property during the year,
u 8,O0O-$8,OoO more than his assets His
? friends were obliged to make good the defcien-
: cy Was ever destruction more complete p
Father, mother, children, and fortune, all gone
u = swept from the face Of the earth-nothing left
y to show that they ever existed We doubt
whether among the many wrecks which the past
year has witnessed, there has been among them
:, one more melancholy than this.
: IN. Y. Cour. & Eng.