The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15
the UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE.
A Chapter Of Curious Occur
Y0nC08.

The Journalistic Biographer quickly
learns to count no mans history 6nish
ed, nor his fame fully fixed, until tn.
clods cover him, and the memorla
| marble surmounts both. The whirligit
OF Time brings many changes round,
and il you expect anybody's thread Of
life to maintain an uniform strength Of
thickness throughout. as it reels from
the spinning wheel of the Fates, you
have had little experience in watching
human existence
Herein, by the by, is an advantage Of
entering the Editorial profession IL
boyhood. The young editor, growing
up with his generation, has Opportuul
ties to benefit his friends, and repay his
enemies, through a long course of pub
lie life; aud a an ancient adage adds,
-"Au things are possible to Patience,
and a Purpose
We illustrate the text by a few items
clipped from the exchanges By q single
mail one day last week.
When Sherman made his notorious
march through Georgia, and the Caro-
linas, burning Atlanta, Columbia. Fay
e~tteville, ETC., and winning the reputa-
ton Of q brutal hummer whose might
lest blows fell upon the aged, the crip>
pied, the women and children, his
Vandal Van guard, or BLACKBOARD,
was led by "Wright's corps" The
Phila. Record records the last days
march Of their leader, on March 4th,
as follows
IAN ARMY GENERALS SAD DEATH.
General William w. Wright died
yesterday afternoon in a cell at Moy-
amensing prison, where he had been
committed for drunkenness. He was
found early yesterday morning, in a
beastly state of intoxication, lying on
the pavement. His nose was bleeding
freely from the effects of falling against
the step near which he was lying. The
patrolman took him to the station
house, and on being a~rraigned before
Magistrate List the man was commit
ted to the county prison for t%wenty-four
hours. General Wright was the chief
surveyor Of the corps that preceded
General Sherman in his march to the
sea, and until the last few years always
bore a very good record. He at last be
came an habitual drunkard, and all eff.
forts to reform him were without avail.
He has frequently been locked up in
the station houses over night. He
slept IN a room on the fourth floor of
the house, where he lived all alone,
and subsisted by cleaning out offices.
When he had the money he dined at
the most fashionable hotels, but when
without the necessary funds he would
feed on a loaf in his ROOM"
FROM PALACE TO POOR HOUSE.
A telegram announces that j. G..
Merriam, formerly one of the leading
Bankers Of Boston, died of small pox in
the poor house at Dallas, Texas, aged
IS. Poor old man!
DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY AND LEFT HIS
WIFE TO sTARvE.
The New York San says, briefly,
Mrs. Sophia Bowen, who has Just
starved to death near Petersburg, New
York, was the widow Of a veteran of
the war of 1912, and had vainly applied
for a pension"
GRANTS Retirement" may keep
him out OF the poor-house, vet. He
week assigned" all his Long
Branch property to his wife; and the
New York papers say he has run
through with net only the $500. 900
saved while President, but also the
$3.50 600 given him by his old cronies
the Ring" A telegram sa,s:-
Nothing that Gen. Grant has gone into
lately has been very successful, and his
at last ceased to be of much i'm
%portance TO big enterprises. In othe r
words he is nc longer drawing card
On Wall s;r~ct. His son 'Duck,'
however, is said to have made a pref.
big pile.