Fremont Journal

Youthful Philanthropy and its Reward. About four weeks ago an elderly and respectably dressed gentleman was observed lying on the sidewalk on Fourth street nearly opposite the office of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. A crowd gathered around, some whom pronounced him in a fit, while others attributed his malady to another cause. Among them was a little girl about twelve years of age, and who, kneeling down, gently lifted his head upon her lap, while she wiped away the clammy perspiration from his forehead with her shawl. In a short time the object of her solicitude revived sufficiently to ask for water and, it being administered, he asked for a coach, which, being brought up, he was lifted into when he motioned for the little girl to accompany him. It was a case of paralysis; the gentleman's name was Brethers: he is a retired merchant from New Orleans but lately arrived in this city. His place of residence is on Fourth, near Park-street. The little girl, who acted the part of the good Samaritan in her sympathy with, and administering to the afflicted, is the daughter of a poor widow woman named Perkins who resides near the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Depot, and every morning during his sickness she might have been seen at the residence of the afflicted gentleman timidly inquiring after his health.

The most grateful phase of the incident is that the invalid, who is so far recovered that he can ride out, drove on Monday to the residence of the mother of the child, and, presenting her with a check for $200, hung a handsome gold chain around the neck of his little ministering angel, to which was suspended a plain but costly gold watch, upon the case of which was the following inscription: "Presented to Mary Cordelia Perkins by her friend, William Brethers."—Cincin. Enq.