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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 157, 5 July 1877, Page 4

The Boston Herald thus relates! how a Boston dry gtibds&estaWshaient | was victimised:—" Oaa of the sharpest! cases of swindling which baa' recently! occurred in this vicinity took place yes-j .teiday at one ol our prominent -deyj goods stores, not far irom the corner ofi Winter and Washington streets. r AI finely -dressed lady appeared in tiie sh:twl-departmen& of the store in ques- > tion, and, after careful examination,! selected a camel's hair shawl costing; about 100 dojs, for which she .tendered in -payment a 1000 dols. bill, -which was carefully scrutinised by^he cashier-rwho, doubting his ow^-poweVdt' diacriaiiaatioo, dispatched a messenger to the ba^&rt&ajseijr-tain-.ifee the genuinenes of j tha bill. Meanwfcii& the lady customer had -become anxious io procure the change, and had approached the locality j occu'ptad by. thS man of scripwi&a 'the j messenger returned and in j an audible, tone, thaFthe cashier, of^the j biiok said that the bill waS v gdbd. 1 Tha \ layy«^(9fif'6his washed escealJ.ipg wifoib ■ ah'cl; ! ! demaud'd*i 7 i;to .'; ihpw (^hbtS^t 1 '-he) ! thought that ah'e : wou)dy(i\ii_eDj|)^( to pass ! a counterfeit hill.' Of cpufaa a^pplqg^tes i and '^kplanatioas we^e ol hoavaUj and I assuming to I)o^ highly: <F iijdigna.nt ? jshe refused to pefciwse the shawl,' damandad ' i her mb'ney, aod departed from the store I I the. jjer'y • .rOa^bodimduli ; of •, rigbteous \ \ indignation; ; A coupbiOf hours after- | wards aha turned considerably mollified, and confessed that Bhe-waa pleased witb the shawl » aod. that her. inability tp find I OQQ, which she |i_e.| as. .weliCiwas the ' ouly reason she returned, and she eon*: [ eluded lo.take) it. whioh the obliging | Salesman preeeeded prepared, | wh.ije' the courteoue cashier, dia^daiuing to entertain a suspicion against "such a I lady, proceeded"to couuToufc the" 900 | dols ouange, with which ahdiher shawl j the lady departed. The feelings of j tliat storekeeper can be-better imagined } than 1 cleßcribed/ when he awojke ,t"Q ~ & j fealisiug sensa of-the factythat U^dy" customer had after ail bis precaution, suJceSded J in ■ - passidg -iip_'ti A: him a counterfeit, 1,000 dollar bill. It appears that anticipating | what occurred, she had prpvided | herself with a good bill, which played jits part in the .early .stages of ihe j game, after which it retired in favor 1 oi the counterfeit. < A fight with a kangaroo is thus : described by , a correspondent Gonl- ! burn Valley Advocate. Whilst our | kangaroo h untiug last week! a looal i hunting celebrity mafi an adventure i which, though it had Its ludicrous side, | might have been [by very j serious results. _^fter. having had a jfew good runs the dog* . took after an ; " old man " kangaroo,' about: seven feet high. On the hounds' catching him a 'severe hand tb tooth -struggle ensued i which left its traces on all. At last j marsupial took to an adjacent, stream, | where' he was in : a fairw ay of-idesiroy-,ing the dogs when an excited Hibernian isplitter— a hew chum— pleaded hWii ifor'a 'ehtrbke at hini with a eljtick,*; jand wading io, tried it,, but losing is j balance, .fell within reach of the kang^ jaroo, which closed on him at once. jCries, prayers, and,., imprecations testified i bat Fat was getting tha worst iof.it. . At- last he escaped, hearing jirdces in a ( £orn vest, shirt and trousers,(and a Severe gash in the thigh, which jcooladhia ardour. It was not uotil- : e|y, jnoose had been thrown over his head. Ithttt the ' old man ' was destroyed."