The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-15
How He Operated.

AS Bates-street saloon-keeper was yes
terday morning wishing that some one
would come in and offer to bet him one to
five that the temperance ticket would be
elected well-dressed stranger walked in,
lit his old cigar-stub at the gas-iet, and then
said:
"My name is Deerteld. have just pur-
chased residence here, and am about to
establish wagon-shop, employing 5000
men,"
"Well, that's good" replied the man be-
hind the bar.
81 always patronize some ones saloon,"
continued Mr.. Deerfeld. ~ suppose my
patronage amounts to about $4,000 per
year, and it is cash on the nail"
"Glad to see you-yely glad replied
the saloonist, trying to look very pleasant.
Cooperate in this way" said the stranger,
sinking his voice little: "I enter saloon,
as have yours, ask for a bottle OF wine and
a box Of cigars, and then walk out without
paying. II called back, say that am abb
sent-minded. II allowed to go / send the
man check for five hundred dollars, give
him diamond pin on Christmas, and allow
him to make thirty per cent. profit on all bills.
I'll go out, wait till see three OF four fell
lows in there, and then I'll come in after
my usual style. You must pretend aston
ishment, and it will be rs good as side
show for the crowd"
The bar-tender's lower jaw had been
steadily falling all the while, and when the
stranger ceased speaking :: dark shadow
stc!a along the counter and made rush for
Mr.. Deertield, and reached the outside door
only foot behind him. Mr.. Deeriield
didn't return to carry out his programme.
SINGULAR CnANCE.-A Pennsylvania paper
relates the following: Ga week OF two
since a gentleman who resides in this
vicinity went to Philadelphia and put up at
a hotel, and while resting after tea in the re-
ception-room overheard two gentlemen con-
versing in regard to q trial then in progress
before one of the courts Of that city. Our
neishbor learned from this conversation
that man had obtained money upon his
wiie's property, the wife giving mortgage.
The money was spent in dissipation. The
wife became raving maniac, and was con-
fined in the asylum, where she now is. The
husband died, and the children of this unfor-
tunate couple were furnished with guardian
by the court, who was maintaining the suit,
then being tried, against the holder OF the
mortgage, on the ground that the wife was
not OF legal age when the instrument was
executed. The gentleman knew that a
niece Of his, who left this vicinity when
child, had married a man Of the same name
as the one mentioned as shaving squandered
his wife's patrimony, and concluded to in
vestigate. He made his way to the court
house the following morning, and to his in
tense surprise and qualification was the very
person needed to establish to certainty the
age OF the unfortunate woman, and to save
op Sl,or1 rnh
perry valued ut $780,"
4 Detroit boy, after finishing the last
chapter OF book called "The Pleasures Of
the Deep" pleaded with his father to let him
ship aboard lake schooner. The old man
smiled grim smile, took the case under
and in few days the boy
was on the rolling deep, having shipped as
a greenhorn on q vessel in the lumber trade.
He sailed to Saginaw, came down and
crossed to Toledo, and next day he APP
peared in Detroit, lame and stiff, his throat
sore, one eye nearly shut, and feeling OF
drunkenness running all through him.
!" What back again ?" cried the old man,
as the boy entered the house. q Yes, father,
] wantto saw allthe wood for winter, bring
in all the coal, clean out the cellar, and paint
the barn, and you needn't give me but two
alsttiS = LAY - 1ou v SOus1thc 5ttHtuS =
!" Father, you don't begin to realize anything
about it. The captain sailed right along on
Sunday, the same as any other day, and u
believe swore even harder. He wouldn't
give me an umbrella when it rained, he
made me sit up most all night, and two or
three times he called me up at midnight and
made me.haul fon ropes aud drag old sails
around. There wasn't single night when
all OF us got off to bed at O'Clock, and
there wasn't q day that he didn't boss us
around, break In on us every time we got to
I reading anything good like land, father,
and wished you owned a farm!''
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3 In the course Of . few days he was mt 81,
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