The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-11-09
IFrom the St Louis Republican .
REWARD OF BONESIY-A BEAUTIFUL
AND T0UlHING INCIDENT.

Johnny Moore is the name of bright-eyed,
Jolly faced lad, twelve or fourteen years ofage,
whose invalid and widowed mother, living on
Morgan street, le helps to support by the sale
of newspapers. and by such errands and small
jobs as he may chance to fall in with. Johnny,
who is the hero of the pleasant and truthful
dent we are about to record, is extremely neat
in his4attire. though his clothes have not always
been of the best, and may have shown, in sun
dry patches and mended rents, the results of
both poverty and frugal care. In short, John
ny is just such boy we used to 'read about
in sunday school books" Yesterday morning,
bright and ea1ly, he was trudging Broadway,
between Franklin avenue and Washington
street, when he CHANGED to stumble against a
large pocket book, which he picked up and
found to contain Large number of bank notes
and papers. While he was meditating on the
sudden riches he lad amassed, and which he
had slid into eapae:ous pocket, or perhaps
racking his youthful mind whether to seek for
the owner or conceal his good fortune, a gen.
tleman rushed by him in an anxious, hurried,
nervous manner, which convinced the boy that
he was looking for something, and he thought
he knew what. stsH ntzz..l 81 gar ~
"Have you lost anythingY asked johnny.
"Yes; my pocket book" was the gentleman s
answer; shave you seen it? y asml H. 5- 3sa
The little fellow ''expected" he had !; he
didn' know, though. What kind of pocket
book was it?
This led to an adjournment to a neighboring
store, when the flushed and almost breathless
individual 'softhe first part" proceeded to- say
that the pocket-beok was a large black one, con
tanning 81 200 in bank bills and some accounts,
strip of red morocco binding underneath
the fap, being inscribed "Robert Thomas, Cow
ington, KY" The description tailed, and
Johnnys eyes snapped cheerfully as he placed
the treasure as he found it, into the strangers
hand; and we opine there was greater joy in
that one ctthan $4,000 could have purchased
at the expense of guilty conscience.
Mr.. Thomas hardly seemed to know which
to fell most-relief on the recov cry of his mon
ey and papers, or gratitude to the lad and admi-
ration for his honesty. Taking johnny by
the hand, whose bounding heart Che knew not
nhy) had by this time "splashed tears into his
eyes," the gentleman led him to clothing store
and dressed him out from top to toe, in Iran
new suit. Then proceeding to good jewelry
rstore, he purchased good silver watch, upon
which he directed to be engraved these words :
H"Robert Thomas to little johnny Moore St.
Louis, September Sd, 1853 Honesty is the
best policy" Not even content with this, the
generous stranger placed in purse five twenty
dollar gold pieces, which he objected the lad to
give to his mother,
We shall not attempt to portray the emot ons
of the boy IF his quivering lids and choked
,utterance, and the smiles that strove so hald to
get through the watry globes that trembled in
his eyes failed to tell what was going on in the
heart, how shall we tell it?