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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 987, 24 August 1877, Page 3

No Mork from Yon its Tut nv. — There has been 301110 “scandal” in the <*ity of Virginia, in Nevada, owing to the conduct ot a- young gentleman who lately left his lather’s house, having exhausted Ins credit in the place, and who telegraphed the other day to his parent, “ Your son Walter was killed in the Consolidated, Virginia, by a lidline: cage. What shall we do wit lithe remains-'” In replv a telegraphic order was sent lor 1.00c1015., with the request “ Bury them.” The young gentleman pocketed (he money andliad“an elaborate spree.” When in a condit ion for writing he sent his tat her I lie following note ; -“1 lane Jud learned that an infamous scoundrel named Barker .ml vjU -i liditiou: account of 'ey death and :windlod von out "1 l -'.'duL, H* aha herrowed fio'dols. from me and left the country. I write to inform you that I am yet alive, and long to see the old parental roof again. 1 am in somewhat reduced circumstance?, the accumulation of the last live years having been lost—a disastrous stock operation—and if you would spare me 200 dels, i will be ever thankful for your favour. (live my love to all.” A few clays later the erring youth received the following dignified reply from Ids outraged parent: —“My dear son,--I have buried you once, and that’s an end of it. 1 decline" having any more transactions with a. corpse.—r Yours in the flesh, lather.”