The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-12-05
The Grea: Western Farm-Euyer-E1ss
ReIsGrcus Wife and Blooming Chi!.

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Religious Wife and Blooming Chill.
dron.
The Chicago Tribune relates the follow
ing:
Farmers having 4 farm to sell will be glad
to hear that there is q man going around the
country at the present time badly in need
of one. This man is very anxious to buy q
farm, and there is no difficulty in selling to
him. He is full Of money, and cares not
what the price may be so long as there is a
farm for sale. He wants one badly. although
he has purchased about fifty within the last
three months. He is in the wholesale real
estate business. and operates on i large and
magnificent scale. If a stop is not put to
his operations he will buy up the whole
western country, and have a monopoly Of
all the land.
He tried to buy up Kane county, in
Guiding the Fox river Il few weeks ago, and
partially succeeded. he arriyedin the town
OF Aurora, and gave out that he wanted a
good farm, no matter what the cost, as he
did not care for a few thousands. He wan
dercd up and down the country, staying at
farmers houses at night. free of cost, on the.
strength of his intention to purchase a
farm. Everywhere he went he talked of
farms, of cows, sheep. ducks, threshing
machines, and everything that is found
upon a farm, always winding up by dwell
Ing upon how badly he wanted u farm.
The result was that he had several farms
in view, ard was on the point OF buying
half a dozen at the same time. Then he
became somewhat difficult to please. His
wife was a church member, and she always
wanted to be within convenient distance Of
the prayer meetings. Although his mind
was very much preOccupled with q desire
to oct a farm, he was more or less deyoutly
disposed himself, and was particularly
anxious that his children-he had two, one
a blooming boy, rising nine, and the other
q lovely girl, budding into womanhood-
should be able to attend Sunday school with
unvarying regularity and promptltude. Lie
said that if anything annoyed him, it would
be to have his little ones late at Sunday
school. He could not bear the thought of
that, although he wanted a farm so badly.
He got the refusal Of several square miles
Of territory, and continued to board round
on his future property.
lie was . laxative individual, full OF an
ecdote, having a good appetite and one
yicc-he smoked. He could smoke all the
time, but for q constant smoker 1t was
strange that he was never the proprietor of
any tobacco. He hated chewing. lie
thought it was abominable, and, as for
drinking, nothing but the purest well
water was allowed to cross. the threshold OF
his mouth.
Since he left it has been discovered that
he could play many parts. When he went
to an Episcopal farmhouse he was an
Episcopalian when he stayed, with o
Presbyterian he called Calvin the thirteenth
Apostle {; when he talked to O Methodist he
injured when the next prayer meeting
would come of, so that he might be
present !; and when he %sojourned with a
Baptist family he was the hardest OF hard
shells. ;,
In this way he kept on agreeing with
everybody o rfully two weeks. At the end
Of that period he was comfortably enjoying
life in the society of a farmers family, hay
ing made an arrangement to buy the farm
for some nineteen thousand dollars, eXclu-
sive of the stock and machinery. He had
the refusal Of the place for ten days, und
was going home the next day, and was iuil
ofjoy at the prospect Of seeing his wife, and
the blooming boy, and the girl budding
into ~womanhood, all Of whom he was going
to transport by rail from Lancaster. New
York, to their new home, on the prairies.
One day he had an epileptic tit, out in the
fields, all alone, and in coming out Of 1t,
lost 5000. He could not find the money,
and had not a cent left. But for ten days
be was virtually the owner Of the farm, as
he insisted upon having papers drawn up
in legal form, and could he not mortgage
his property for enough to take him home !?
The idea was brilliant. He executed it,
| and under the pressure of tears and pro-
testations, the honest owner of the pro-
| perty gave him enough to go home. He
| started, and was so glad to see his wife and
BARNS that he forgot all about how badly
| he wanted a farm, and has not come baek.
Time went by, and he did not come. His
| title to the farm elapsed with the ten days,
| and the proprietor wrote to the postmaster
| at Lawrence to know If he knew. Samuel
| Barnard nhat was the name he gaye1 who
lived at or near that place. The postmaster
| replied as follows:
| Ssir,-Iknow Of no such person as Sam