The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-07-14
How Poor Boys Roach the Top Round,

an income tax in this city. Sixty-scy-
en- persons who pay tax on income of
100000 or over. Most of these SOL
id gentlemen are sclf-mado men, who
have come up from the lowest round
of the ladder. Tho man who leads
the list, a. ~. Stewart. everybody y
knows is an irish emigrant, who com
menccd life With capital Of less than
twenty-five cents: indeed, with fow
exceptions, most Of tho parties in tho
list were scarce rs we'll of as Mr..
Stewart. Take Henry Keep he
boasts hat he graduated from the Poor
House of Jefferson county. Jay
Gould drove herd of cattle from
Delhi, Delaware county, when lad,
for fifty cents q head, in order to get
money enough to reach the Hudson
river. David Groosback, over thirty
years ago, used to mend old shoes for
his brother, who was respectable
shoemaker in Albany We all know
the history Of James Gordon Bennett
aud Robert Bonner, poor boys full of
talent and industry. Rufus Hatch, when
.ayoungster, had an ambition to Hhold
the roiusof q pcdler's. wagon. N. d..
Morgan commenced life with quart
measure Of molasscs. II is. scarce n
a dozen years since Henry Clcws was
an errand boy in one Of the banking
houses down town. The brothers
Seligman started out in life with u
peddler's pack. David Dows, in his
younger days, retailed, pork by the
half pound and molasses by the gill.
H. ~. Helmboldt was first cabin boy
on the sloop Mary Jane, that navigat-
ed the Delaware river. We might 20
on through the list, and show that
nearly every ono of these solid men
were the architects Of their own for
tunes. Young mon, who are strug-
Cling for place and position, should
remember that the individuals in tho
list below had to battle for life just as
hard az they are, doing. Let them
take heart and never die. g. 'N' y" w.
Honor and shame from no condition rise
Act well your phrt-thcrc all tile honor les.
M Y" Commercial %hdoerliser,lig II
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DEATH OF A MIsER.--Ther died in
Baxter-street yesterday morning, says
the, New York Sun of the 24th ult.,
AN old man,&79 years Of ago, who, all,
though he breathed his last breath on
heap of dirty rags and surrounded
by misery and squalor, such as one
c"annctt iiad outside Of tho above dirty
thoroughfarc, was worth a handsome
fortune. Persons who have been &C.
oustomed to perambulate the streets
On the East side of the city during tho
past few years, are, no doubt, familiar
with tho sight Of this old man; and
have, no doubt, often stopped and
watched his movements with plying
interest. 1lst '|1o
This old character was a ragpicker,
and almost any morning during tho
past ten years, could be seen busily
engaged in overhauling the garbage
boxes and cutters along tho Bowcry
and adjacent streets. Dirty and d.
lapidated, his clothes patched and
pieccd in most grotcsquc style, one
would suppose, upon meeting him,
that he was man against whom Dame
Fortune had eternal spite, and who
was persecuticg him unrelcntingly.-
Yet this old mau was worth fortune.
Twas curious how ho laid tho founda-
tion of his wealth. Whilo raking
among the filth Of a gutter in Prince
street one morning, about ton years
ago, he found in the mud valuable
diamond, which he sold to a pawn.
broker for several hundred dollars,
This brilliant solitaire was the nucleus
around which many subsequently clus-
tered. Rumor had it that tho old
man was not honest, that much Of the
wealth which he had secured had been
obtained by pilfering. But this was
only q rumor, aud although it was
known that he possessed valuable
collection of miscellaneous jawelry
and other vaiuables5 still no theft was
ever traced to him, and he was allow.
cd to retain undisputcd possession of
his wealth. Oncc the police searched
his old hovel for stolen ring,, and
during tho tithcy found under tho
floor, buried in the ground, an old
ooffecpots containing jowolry aud gold
of great value, but tho missing ring
was not in tho collection. The old
man howled like amaniac when his
itroasurosf were unearthed, and the
story is that upon the departure of
the officers he disposed Of his jewels
to a ChatEam-street pawbrolicr, sccur-
ing for them handsome sum which
heipycsted In real 'ostategay S6ds m
The. onlyirelatiyei eof tho old man
neyliying is Q little girly-his grand
daughtor-~-an inmate Of an, orphan
asylum, who viii inherit the entire
fortune lcft'by Che old miser.. 'Rn'S'''
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cial from Vashingtoh ,tolItho, Nov
York HoraM states that; pr, sA,lG.
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