Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-06-21

FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS STRANGELY
LOST AND FOUND RemuaeratiOe Mysterv =
Some weeks since,a fast and wealthy man of
business left Cincinnati, Ohio, on an eastern
tour, and, while visiting the cities in that
quarter, INDUCED largely in various devotions,
not among the least of which was the worship
of the vinous god. While in New York. he
made a financial settlement with several
houses there, and received his balance in gold
amounting to some $4,000, all of which he
very imdrudently placed in his travelling
trunk. He then visited Washington, where
having encountered a number of political and
personal friends, he increased his daily and
nightly rotations to such an unusual degree
that he was not sober Tor fortnight. At the
and of that period, he began to reflect upon
his folly and the propriety of going home, and
settling down to the routine of business once
more. In collecting his baggage together.
the merchant was much surprised and alarm.
ed to find that his trunk with the $l5, 900 had
disappeared from the hotel. He inquired for
it of the proprietor, clerks, and porters, who
all told him he had it taken to his room, and
they had not seen it afterward. Under the
circumstances, he knew that the house would
not be and could not be made responsible for
the money and he came at last to the mel
aneholy reflection that his last spree had. in
addition to sundry unmentionable expenses,
cost him the round sum Of $4,000. He
tried to Fbe philosophical, but was more dis
posed to give way to his feelings and mount
again upon the fiery and demon steed that al
ways throws its rider in the dust, and after
bears them to the marsh of despair. But rea-
son prevailed over inclination, and with face
sober IN double sense, he stole away very
quietly one mornings and, long before his
usual breakfast hour. was rushing toward the
West on the lightning train, very serious and
very self-denuncatory.
In due time, he arrived at the Spencer
House, his usual stopping place, and, having
registered his name, taken tea. and asked
what was the news, he was told that a bill for
express charges against him, for $IS had been
lett there, and afterward, when be learned the
bill was for q trunk, made him indignant at
so outrageous tariff. To have lost S15. O0O
aud then to be swindled, he declared was
more than he would submit to, and was talk
ing about suit, when he was advised To link
at the trunk in the baggage room, He did 80
but declared it was not his, having no initials
or familiar marks. Those stunid exnress
fellows, he said, had sent an old trunk to him.
belonging to somebody else, and wished him
so pay for their stupidity.
To the express Office he went, and told
them the trunk was not his, and that he
wonld not pay for it, whereupon they said il
had been forwarded from Washington to his
address at the Spencer House, and there was
considerable money in it. Again he returned
to the hotel, obtained key, opened it and
found among his clothes and many very fam
liar articles the bag with $50, 600 in coin.
apparently untouched. His joy may be
imagined, but the mystery not explained.
The contents, not the trunk, were his; but
how these mad been inexplicably found, he did
not undertake to divine.
The merchant Immediately returned to the
express office, told them it was 'all right and
paid the charge upon the trunk, with more
Willingness than anything he ever did in ali
his life. How the thing happened, he fire..
quently asks himself, without the least prob.
ability of arriving at a satisfactory solution.
and then adds by way of consolation, that he
don't care cent, since he made $l5, 600 by
the incomprshensible operation. = Cincinnat,
Enquirer.