Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-03-28
Ghnifr Mlisrtllany.
How the Mortgage was Paid.

Councillor NJ, late Of the Massachusetts
bar, for long time enjoyed an envable rep,
utation and lucrative practice was honored
by his constituents with many important
trusts, and has often been cited as an exam
pie of rapid progress and quick success.
Nothing, however is really wider from the
truth than that Counsellor NJ. rose rapidly
in his profession; little do they suspect that
he was ii sound practical lawyer, and had
been ten years in the profession, before the
circumstances occurred that called him into
public notice, gave him an extensive reputa-
ton, and introduced him into higher and
more lucrative sphere of practice. His
office was at the time located in the great
manufacturing city of New England, some
twenty-five miles from Boston. He was
seated one day in his Office examining a re-
cent volume Of Reports, and comparing the
the principles it contained with the English
common law, when young man entered
whom he remembered to have seen in some
way connected with one of the manufactur-
ing corporations. He was an intelligent,
eood-looking man, apparently of about
twenty-five years, and dressed in the garb of
the better class of operatives in the mills.
He was possessed of that independent and
selfreliant air that distinguishes the Ameri-
can mechanic from the laboring classes of
| all the world, and indicates a degree OF in
tellectual cultivation which is at the same
time the pride OF our citizens and the safety
Of the republic. An expression OF deep
anxiety was upon his countenance, and nc
proceeded at once to say Hl 'ht tf
''I wish to consult with YOU upon mat
ter of deep Importance, involving the in
tegrity and happiness of a poor but virtuorus
and honorable family. Ayoung woman by
\ the name of Lucy Kendall, who is engaged
as a weaver in the mill, and indeed in the
very room in which am overseer is accused
of grand larceny under circumstances ofth1
most grave suspicion. Public opinion. /.
very much against her, but am satisfied
she is innocent Of the crime. The net ol
circumstances seem inextricable, but shs
must be saved in some way at any hazard.
The Counsellor suggested that perhaps
she is really guilty of the charge. ue
/ s'No, nc, he answered, s'it is impossible
i / have known her from child. We wer
schoollnates together in one Of the littl
villages among the granite hills Of New
Hampshire. Her father was man of con
siderable property then, and / was poo
mans son: but we were in the same classe
in the village school, She was two or thre
: vesrs Younger than |, but looked upon her
Il even then, as the personi6cation aot yirt9
and goodness; and the bright example Oh
: set us then, and the admiration | had for he
character In those school boy days, has neve
3 since been lost At the age Of eighteen
left my native village; and came here as
operative in d cotton mill, in which | hav
been ever since engaged. l lost sight
Miss Kendall till a year ago last summer,
which time she came here and entered %
0 mill as a weaver; and then 1 learned for th
( 4 first time that her fathers circumstance
4 had chahged sadly--that he had lost all b
I properly except small farm on the outskir
of the village, on which also there was
mortgage Of Eve hundred dollars pressir
to for payment. She had come from home
order TO assist In raising the necessary funt
to pay of the incumbrance by her labor
] themill; and she had continued to work mo
, industriously for that purpose up to the tin
the circumstances happened that hay
brought her under this unfortunate susT
y cion. lAll my former opinions OF her wort
al are stronger chan eyer, since the renewal (
nd our acdusintance and having been In Il
receipt Of three dollars a day for the pa