The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-28
vERmONT,s GRANDSON.

Like the progeny innumerable OF Brig
ham, John is grandson of Vermont. Yer
monters are proud of their grandchildren.
In fact, they like them-a good ways of,
for 'distance lends enchantment to the
view John is never desperately short"
it is only the native born that reach that
deplorable condition, and John is only of
the second degree of consequently or af-
fini,y." No, John is never 'short," he
knows too we'll, and has traveledtoo often,
the broad and pleasant, but devious, paths
leading to wealth In word, he is, as he
has been not inaptly If little inelegantly
described, "a money making cuss." Those
'to the manor born" may get desperately
short, but John only gets desperately"
mad when the dollars don't roll in fast
enough And this is said to be the way he
raised the wind"-it is given, however,
only as specimen brick" and docs not,
by any means, exhaust the subject. A
Californian became the owner of Spanish
grant covering some eleven leagues of land.
The boundaries were in dispute, the owner
claiming that it embraced "a rich tract of
valley land,' while the squatters made the
counter claim that it only covered "bar-
rem mountain side." Before the contest
was decided by the interior department,
the owner discovered rich quicksilver
mine on the mountain, and to save time,
trouble and expense, abandoned his claim
to the valley land, and applied for patent
| for the mountain side.
He was met, however, by new complica-
tons. Countless claimants, heretofore un-
known, sprung up and united their forces
under the command of one Harry Brown,
who, at once, telegraphed Secretary De-
lano to withhold the patent until he and
his associates could be heard. Son John
was en- route for California, and, it is al
legged, that the secretary telegraphed Brown
''to see his son John on his arrival" Will
Rev. James Harlan, seeing that he has his
hand in, rise to explain, confess, avoid,
traverse or deny Whether the father 80
telegraphed or not, it is positively asserted
that John was "seen" to the tune of q
promise of five thousand dollars in cash
and half of the stock of the mining COM
pany to be formed. The real owner was
alarmed, and of the alternative Of buying
up John at higher figure or buying of
the adverse claimants, he chose the latter
and John was apparently left out In the
cold. But John was desperately" mad
and "the man who was most intimate with
John during his stay IN San Francisco" in
formed the owner "that he better secure
the friendship" of John "if he desired tC
get his patent without trouble" But the
owner didn't see it, and didn't "see" John
neither did he see the patent. The adverse
claimants, however, were not disposed tC
find themselves ''out," so it is alleged, they
proposed to divide their expected plumber
with son John, and promised him the fiv'
Thousand dollars and quantity OF stock
John was aprelsed and this is how the pa
tent was secured. Will the ex-reverend
and ex-secretary, and ex-senator conde
scend further to explain Perhaps this i
what makes the father 90 ''eminently sat
isfactory" all around. John is gram
son of whom Vermont may well be proud