The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-31

cherished.
And there lie the hopes of a maidep's first years!
For Ingleside closes Its portals land persisted
Is all Joy IN that home but It's memory and tedrs
s'BlIl Arp
AFRAID 70 LAY UP MONEY" WANTS TO TAKE
I'm on THE WING "--PGRsoNAL GOSSIP, AMI
A TRIP TO CARLET0N'S.
Bill Arp has been TO New York, and writes
the Augusta Chronicle some interesting
letters on men and things. We publish ex'
tracts from his last.
MAN WORRIED WITH MONEY.
Greatly TO my delight met my old friend
George Williams away down Williams street.
lie was just from the city OF Charleston.
where he rains as q king, and was IN very
happy frame of mind-I mean financially. l
knowd George in Nacoochy sum thirty years
ago when he used to work like Niger ID
little corn patch on the side of the bill aud
carried water in Il big soap-gourd to keep his
truck from burning up with the drought. lie
was always hard workin, and mighty libe-
ral man according to lis means. He is liberal
yet. but in spite of ali he can do bis money
will akkumulate faster than he can give il
away. Pm aleerd this worries him, and ii
does look like q pity 10 sec man so discum-
siderin that be is q Georgia Methodist, I hay
thought he might build EN- college in Ma
coocby, just to spite old Vanderbilt in Ten
nessee. Eve no doubt he will do it il he ever
thinks of it. inotiSed that be was quite thin
in the flesh, and remarked thati was favor
able circumstance. for he could KUN higher
goiu through the needless eye the scriptures
tell about, when the time cometb. That
hou
teeu afeerd to lay up any money. The
truth is, however. | have never hada chance
as vet. and the prospect for the future is
mortal dim.
George says that money is all vanity and
yexation OF spirit, and the way he talked
about the trubbe and the care that it brings,
i know he would have cheerfully given me
few thousand dollars if he haden't had
such high regard for my family. He was
afeerd it would prove burden instead Of q
blessin. He sed that when he was up on a
visit 10 his Nacoochy farm last summer, he
put on some old clothes and an old hat, and
started on tramp around the plantation.
log by the side Of the road, and a man cum
"5iornn, sur" s"Good mornin," SEES
George. "Do you work for George w.
Williams?" Yes, sur" says George.
"How much does he give you a year 2"
my vittes and clothes and tobakker, and
pays my doktor's, bills" says George "How
long have you been workin that way ?"
"About thirty years, says George. "Well,
you're an old fool, and that's just the way
the stingy old cuss has made all his money.
Good mornin, sur" and he popped his bark
whip and drove on.
A NEW AND NICE INVENTION.
When rot down to Mr. DrexePs new
marble bank | saw few thousan peepul
standin still and lookin up at the top of
nine-story house. Purity soon chunk of
boy stood up in the highest winder. He
had some straps buckled under his arms and
!; big tape-line rolled up in spring in his
band. and the other end tied to sumthing
Inside of the room. Suddenly be stepped
OH into the atmosfere just like he was
ghost, and the tape-!ine come slowly out of
the spring and he i0aled down to the
ground like 4 feather. Then the crowd all
gave cheer and dispersed. They told me
it was q new iire-eskape, and was to be put
in al the hotels and high billings, so that
in case of fire anybody could fasten
one end to the bedsied and the other
Under his arms and leap forth with
perfekt impunity. think it good
tnyenshun, and would like to see it triad in a
shore enutt fire. Wouldent it look entirely
angellk OF Il moOnlite night to see some of the
sair sex takin sail from the uinth story iof
the Grand Hotel, with their natraI hair all
flown aud their white nte.gowns all fluttrin
i'll the breeze. w0udent it be human okku.
pashun for knd-hearted man like myselflto
ketch EN- as they cum--to take Gun on the
w,pg--to reseve EN- with open arms and Of
tektionatc embrace? think so--eXceptiD,
perhaps sum Dutch angel weighing about 200
pounds, more or less, and the bedstead
cunin along down with her. Under such
circumstances it would perhaps be prudent
to stand from under.
AT CARLETON s-TaE BIG PUBLISHERS TROUBLES.
Next morning went down TO the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. Mr. Carleton, the book.
man, was there and sed he thought he knowd
me. and when told him my name he sed he
remembered readin SUM of my letters which
] writ Mr.. Linkhorn along time ago; sed
Mr.. Liphhorn or sumbody else showed um
70 him. he wasent sertin which. He bad a
big bookstore under the hotel, aud there
was q powered nice people q peroosiu
around. He introduced me to Mr.. Ellie =.
Perkins, Esq, with the FIRST p. left out. He
SEQ that Ellie spelt bis name with small G
and d big lie, and was known in the city as
Big lie Perkins. They sed he was the suck
SCISSOR TO Auemus Wards wax-works. and
from the way he is pilin up money I sup
pose bis wax works well. like Ellie. /
always was partial to white men, and he's.
the whitest man saw in New York. The
next man | saw was Josh Billings.
He was sad looking man with
large open countenanee. and wore bis hair
all over his head aud neck like q Canadian,
pony. isuppose that me and him will AL
ways differ about wearing our hair. About
this time very large man, With q white
kraVat, cum in to see Mr. Carleton and axd
him how he liked his manuscripts and MI. y
Carleton sed il was too heavy, and ne aSdf
Carleton ie he ment ther was too much OF III.
He lated aud sed no but That tker was.
most TOO much led in it--that he would
advise him 10 so TO Scribnei or Lipnin-.
COLT that he only published such hooks as
Tie peepal would reed. The large man
looked thoughtful and disappointed, and fakin5
his nian,iskfirt, went clean away. The title
4 Of his book was 4. The 3ictafor1k AHa1asis OF
Kitnerean Abstroo itieS.n Next IA Iii efrisky.
man, With a lively, open cotintepaDee, cpIn3
along, and a4ed bir. Carlton vi hat he Thought
Of his book. q Don't SCOT me exactly, y sad
Pr. Sprislpn itsa most too light; TOO.