Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-05

| the third year tiau before. his expenses hdu
| increased by hundred dollars, though he would
have found it difficult to tell in what way his
| comfort or happiness had been increased there
| by.
In spite of his carelessness in regard to his
| own affairs, Mr.. Newton was an excellent man
| in regard TO his business, and his services were
| valuable to his employer. They accordingly in
creased his salary, from time to time, till it
reached $1,000. He had steadily preserved the
| custom of assigning onehalf to his wife for
| the same purpose as heretofore, and this had
become such habit that he never thought to
| inquire whether she found it necessary to en-
| ploy the whole or not.
| Thus ten years rolled away. During all this
| time Mr.. Newton lived in the same hired house
for which he had paid an annual rent of one
| hundred and fifty dollars. Latterly, however,
| he had become dissatisfied with it. 1t had
passed into the hands of a new landlord, who
| was not disposed to keep it in the repair which
| he considered desirable.
| About this time a block of excellent houses
was erected by a capitalist, who designed to sell
them or let them as he might have an opportu-
nifty They were more modern and much better
arranged than the one in which Mr.. Newton
now lived, and he felt strong desire to move
into one of them. He mentioned it to his wife
one morning.
"What is the rent, Ezra2" inquired she.
1.-TWO hundred and twenty-five dollars for the
corner house; two hundred for either of the
| Others"
"The corner one would bee, preferable, on ac-
| count of the side windows"
eyes, and they have large yard besides.
| think we must hire one of them. | guess I'll
engage one, to-day; you know our year is out
next week."
"Pease wait, Ezra, till tomorrow before en-
gaging one"
"For what reason2"
81 should like to examine the house."
every well, | suppose tomorrow will be suffi-
| GENTLY early"
Soon after breakfast Mrs. Newton called on
| Squire Bent, the owner of the new block, and
| intimated her desire to be shown the corner
house. The request he readily complied with;
Mrs. Newton was quite delighted with all the
arrangements, and expressed her satisfaction.
care these houses fer sale or to rentW she in-
CURED.
EITHER" said the owner.
"The rent is, understand, two hundred and
twenty-five dollars.
eyes, consider the corner house worth at
| least twenty-five dollars more than the rest"
"And what do you charge for the house to a
cash purchaserW asked Mrs. Nelson, with sub
dued eagerness.
"Four thousand dollars cash." was the reply,
"and that is but a small advance on the cost"
Every well, will buy it of you" added Mrs.
Newton quietly.
"What did understand you to sayp asked
the Squire, scarcely believing his ears.
81 repeat that will buy this house at your
| price, and pay the money within week"
"Then the house is yours. But your husband
said nothing of his intention, and in fact l did
| not know"
"That he had the money to invest, / suppose
4 you would say. Neither does he know it, and
must ask you not to tell him for the present"
The next morning Mrs. Newton invited her
husband to take walk, but without specifying
| the direction.
They soon stood in front of the house in
which he desired to live.
"Wouldn't you like to go in 2" she asked.
Eyes. It's pity we haven't got the key"
81 have the key" said his wife, and forthwith
| walked up the steps and proceeded to open the
door.
when did you get the key of Squire Bent?"
| asked the husband.
Yesterday, when bought the house." said
his wife quietly.
Mr.. Newton gazed at his wife in profound as
| constituent.
| "What on earth do you mean, Elizabeth" he
| inquired.
Gust what say. The house is mine, and
what is mine is thine. So the house is yours,
Ezra"
"Where in the name of goodness did you
raise the money" asked her husband, his
amazement still as great as ever.
| 81 haven't been managing wife for ten years
| for nothing" said Mrs. Newton, smiling.
With some difficulty Mrs. Newton persuaded
her husband that the price of the house was
really the result of her savings. He felt when
| he surveyed the cOmmodious arrangements of
| the new house that he had reasons to be CRATE
| full for the prudence of his managing wife.
|
A GREAF CALIFORNIA ORCHARD.-A few
days ago it was our pleasure to visit the orchard
OF John Briggs, located about two miles south
| of Yuba City, in Suffer county, The proprie-
tor is the owner of 426 acres, mostly bottom
land, lying along the west bank of the Feather
| river. The soil is a rich, sandy loan, and COM
| posed of the yearly deposits of the river many
| years ago. No better or richer land is to be
found in the state, and the orchard we shall
| briefly n0ticeEpromises to be the pride of the
Briggs Brothers, who have state reputation as
| Orchardists and fruit growers. Before reaching
| the orchard proper we rode through field
| of 100 acres Of castor beans, growing in
| the most luxurious manner-whch field,
| bY-the-by, is TO give place to new
orchard next year, the fruit trees for the same
| at present growing in the nursery by the side of
| the field of castor beans, and containing %, 900
| one-year-old budded peach trees, 10000 plum
| trees, 5000 eastern walnuts, $4,000 California
| walnuts, 2O00 apple trees, 500 Italian chestnut
trees, etc. Passing along through this forest of
| young trees, we arrived at the present peach
orchard, consisting of 600 trees, two years old,
| and some of them bearing this year $50 pounds
| of peaches. These trees have made remarka-
| BILE growth owing to the rich ground upon which
| they are planted, and in another year will make
L
orchard we reached the aprcots, 220O in number,
which are also two years old, and have borne
| fair crop the present season. This orchard pre-
scented a sad sightin one respect. The late heavy
storm had Frustrated many of the trees entire,
while in others the limbs had been torn off as if a
tremendous tornado had swept over the place.
However, the trees were healthy and stout, not
withstanding the mutilations here and there.
We next rode into the cherry orchard, contain
ing three thousand of the most thrifty young
trees ever seen on any ground. The different
varieties, fifteen in number, gave this orchard
variety of aspect, and broke up the usual mo-
notony of the steeple-like formed cherry
orchard These cherry trees were all imported
from Rochester, N. Y. about three years ago.
Off to the south of this wonderful wilderness
are two thousand five hundred plum trees, of
twelve varieties, and five hundred apple trees,
mostly of winter varieties. On returning from
the orchard by the wagon road we had entered,
we visited Briggs Brothers steam power castor
oil mill Here we found magnificent hydraulic
press, with eighty pounds pressure, and possess
ing capacity of COMPRISING three hundred
gallons of oil per day. The mill also contained
twenty tons of castor beans and two thousand
five hundred gallons of oil, nicely bottled and
cased and ready for market.-MdrySUille Stand
ard