A SELL.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3116, 12 February 1879, Page 2

A SELL.

About two weeks ago, as the overland train was passing Cheyenne, the attention of the passengers was attracted by the lamentations of a poor Irish emigrant, whose berth had been robbed during the '• "■ night, and every penny of his scanty savings stolen, and whose family would therefore arrive beggars in a strange land. The charitable passengers at once began I *; i subscription, which finally amounted to over 250 dols. When the money had been, handed to the, sufferer, a pious, ! plausible-looking man, dretsed in bUoIr, and adorned, with a white cravat, dreir him aside at one of the stopping places, and said: "My poor man, I am truly sorry, for you. Tour sad case touches me deeply.! lam myself well provided with thjs world's goods, however, and so will give you 250 dols. more. Here is a 500 dol. gold note. Give me the 250 dols. you have, and keep the rest. May heaiW bless you." The poor Irishman did^as requested, with many blessings- on the generous stranger, who insisted that His gift should not be made knowo. iWhe'n the passengers reached the side of tie bay, the pious-looking philanthropist ws* id* where to be found, he having accidentally goj.ton off'at Oakland, for reasons of his own. Th* next day the emigrant repaired to a bank to get his note changed. The teller picked lip the bill and began narrowly examining it. " There—there is nothing wrong with the bill, is there?" gasped the poor fellow. (Not? the defer stn reader has seen all what was going to - happen. He has read lots of just such incidents as this-it is the old, old story.*;- 1? Well, we'll see about that,) "Nothing I <\ inithe world is the "matter with it," said . j the teller quietly, and he handed the man ■' fifty lens. That ended it.—San Francisco *'# Paper. ~