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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 79, 21 July 1877, Page 3

>-} i - 1 . About 18, months ago .the "house of a notorious gambler m New York, 1 named Matthias Dancer, was .broken into and ' fc robbed of 40,000 dollars m bond ; and the inventory- which -the 'police then took 1 of the. remaining'iproperty first, called public attention to Dancer's great wealth. Soon after- - wards he died, and his .widow survived him only six months, an, ,only daughter inheri- 1 ting the whole of herfath'er's 'fortune. She is just dead also; and after disposing of 185,000 dollars to;, relatives 1 and friends; has bequeathed! 350,000 dollars to thirty-one religious and. Benevolent associations. The Hew York .Bible' Society receives 10,000; the Foreign Missions of the Reformed ChtoqhYfflOjOOQ; the New York Tract Society -20;000; Sunday School' tJnion, Philadelphia, 10,000; the American Bible Society, 2Q,000; the Seventh-street Methodist Episcopal Church, 5000; and the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School TJnion, 20,0p0dolft Up to the present time none - of the legatees have declined to 'accept the money_ which was made m a gambling hell ; but it is rather 'a nice case of conscience^ •