Litchfield enquirer., 1878-07-25
From the Norristown Herald. Profits of Paragraphers.

| A newspaper item, headed, Profits of Au- thors," says the majority of book-makers are notOiOusly poor. This may be the case, but it is entirely different with newspaper paragraph | iSts. They are independently rich and give | large sums to charity. Mr. Bailey of the Dan bury News is worth $400, 995 and owns two dogs. He would now be worth the round sum of $500, 900 if he had not taken the advice of | enemies and published a book, Mir. F. |. of l the New York Herald, whose name was Gold smith before he welded newspaper profession, has laid up $500, 900 for a rainy day, and owns a meerschaum pipe formerly the property of the Duke of Norfolk, Va, He never published book and his other habits are good. Lewis of the Detroit Free Press, has acquired $400,- 075 and double-barreled gun. He has eXperi- enced pair of explosions, but he is not proud. Mir. Crofut of the N. Y. Graphic, has no faith in money or banks. He has $500, O1O out of bank. The $50O, ,000 was made by paragraph ing, and the $10 writing poetry. No hook Mir. Burdette of the Burlington Hawkeye, has saved up the snug little sum of S400, ,975 and bulPs-eye watch. He has published book, and caused his family pain by mounting the lecture platform. Mir. Catlin, late of the New York Commercial Advertiser, and now Consul ate des Etats Unis d'Amerique, a La Rochelle, France, also President de la Presse Association de New Jersey. etc., has bank account of
 
 Paris Exposition he may be worth only S4O0,- 900 month or two hence. Rewey of the New Haven Register, has paragraphed $500, 900 and fame out of journalism. The report that he sunk $1, 200, 900 on the Worcester Press is a base fabrication campaign lie-a gross clip erkinism. He only lost $900, 900 in the ven ture. Eugene Field, of the St. Louis Journal has acquired $500, 900 and lovely moustache in the paragraphing business. No book. fW rif hl1th haor oil all xysro The paragrapher of the Philadelphia Bulletin, has $500, 900 hid away in an old stocking, and can recognize strawberry short-cake by the strawberry mark on his left arm. He says so. No book. No lecture. Puck has gleaned shekels to the extent of $500,025 The fact that he wears nothing save hat and an ulster winter and summer will explain those odd dol lars. Mir. Holden of the Yonkers Gazette, en- joys handsome fortune of $500 900 and one of the handsomest papers in New York State. No book. He possesses many good traits. Wilkins of the Whitehall Times, by liberal economy and doing credit" business, has pocketed 800, 600 of the dollars of our dad dies. The salary he receives for collector of canals he gives to the poor. Fact We might go on and name dozen more paragraphers who are worth $500, 900 apiece but we think that-that we have lied enough for one week
 
 The lightning acted strangely in Harttorf house during q recent thunder storm. It struck the house and pine tree close by, at the same instant, httle more cracking the body of the tree, but shattering or splitting several of the posts and studs of the house, tearing off clapboards and breaking the win dows melting the door. knob, wire, and bell; displacing OF shattering doors castings thrcsll- hold timbers baseboards, cornices, and mould ings tearing up the back stairs, and throwing off more or less of the plastering from nearly every room in the house, excepting two, where the inmates of the house happened to be at the moment The brecch of a double barrel and loaded gun, standing in a cOrnerof one of the lower rooms, was split; no other trace of lightning could be found on the weap- on. One end of bureau, standing in the parlor chamber, was shivered to atoms; the ''electric fire'' filled the lower parlor, leaving it's marks upon the windows curtains, base boards and walls. All the gilt frame pictures upon the walls were either injured or destroy ed the gliding of large picture frame was completely burnt off and the picture detaced. The window, crockery, and plastering in the pantry were mostly thrown down, broken and scattered two bags of corn meal were, by the lightning. so scattered and mixed with fine broken glass; crockery and plastering as to be worthless X strong smell of sulphur filled the house, which was set oa fire in sev- eral places in the attic though it was soon discovered and extinguished. a