Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1875 — An Empty Honor. [ARTICLE]

An Empty Honor.

The bankruptcy of a Baronet and exLord Mayor is not a usual occurrence, though it would be of little account if it did not point a moral. Mr. Sills John Gibbons, a respectable London tradesman, who had been for many years an Aiderman, became in due course, two or three years ago, Lord Mayor of London, and strutted his brief year on the stage, being made a Baronet during his term. That over, he sank back into his position as an Aiderman. A few weeks ago it was announced that, owing to ill-health, he had resigned his aldermanic gown, and we were all sympathizing with him. A little later his name appeared in the fatal Gazette among the names of bankrupts, and he is now undergoing the process of whitewashing. The moral I alluded to is this: He was doing a comfortable business, and if he had been contented with that might have retired in a few years and lived confortably the rest of his days. But no—the height of a London tradesman’s ambition is to be Lord Mayor for one brief year, and poor Gibbons could not resist his destiny. The result was that the £IO,OOO or £15,000 it cost him (besides the salary) during those short twelve months was more than his business would justify or his capital could stand, and the result is his downfall and the prospect of spending the rest of his days in poverty. It is the old story of the silly moth.— London Cor. Chicago Journal.

A servant-girl of Franklin, Mass., has been gathering manna. It came down through the air, a few days ago, in the shape of a shower of twenty-flve-cent scrip. The wind was blowing furiously, but by hard work she gathered up, here and there, $23 worth, while others got S2O more. The money was fresh from the treasury and, as there was a pile of boards near, it is supposed that it was stolen ana laid-there, and that the high wind had forced a circulation. In addition to the large buildings designed for specially-classified articles at the Centennial Exhibition, numerous other buildings have been, and will be, erected for many classes of objects not provided for in the main buildings. According to present indications, there will be not far from 250 of these outside buildings. Boston is now shipping onions to the West Indies and the British provinces, in place of those imported, a few weeks since from Bermuda aqd Virginia,