The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1860., [Electronic resource]

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An Amiable partnership, and equally Amiable dissolution.

‘--A singular fact is related of two citizens of Southbridge, Mass. by the Webster Times, who have jointly owned and occupied a farm in that town for sixteen years, but have lately dissolved partnership. During the whole of this period no accounts of any kind have been kept by either of the parties. Both individuals were men of family, occupying different portions of the same house, and when either wished to use cash he went to the drawer in which it was kept and took it, An account being kept in a single instance. Yet in all these sixteen years not a word of fault was spoken, no ill-feeling, jealousy or suspicion was shown, and perfect harmony subsisted between the parties to the day of their separation. The final dissolution in business was occasioned by the marriage of a member of one of the families, when it was thought the house might not be able to contain "the consequences;" so one party raised the value of one-half the promises in cash paid it over to the retiring partner, who quietly left. We believe this to be an unparalleled case of honesty and confidence.’