Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-11-03

aEyil', for n small TOWN.
noonlsjla From the Boston Post. Oct. AL I{
Yesterday gentleman from Vermont,
.swofth" from $25, 900 to $4,000, came,
TO Boston with three New Hampshire
bonds, Skies of 81 900 each, which were
due and payable at leading bank on
= State street, where they were promptly
4 presented, and the money as quickly
s received in exchange therefor, viz three
1900 bills for the principal, and 800
2 for the last six months interest. The
gentleman having finished his business,
took the cars, homeward bound. Stop
-stping at Worcester, he saw some goods
: which pleased him, but informed the
- .storekeeper that he was "unable to take
/, them unless be could break a $1,000
II BILL "That needn't be any objection
was the answer in substance. "I think
- we can find way to change It'll The
S gentleman selected what articles he
wished, had them laid aside, and prom
ised to return in few minutes. As
- he was about to leave, an officer step s
ped up, arrested him, and he very soon
found himself locked up. As near as
a. we can learn, the numbers of one or two
a of the bills were either known or sup
posed by the storekeeper or the officer to
= correspond with some advertised num-
bers Of money said to have been stolen n
!. somewhere some three or four years ago.
When arrested several attempts were
Do made to pursade him to give up the two
bills in question, but he remained de-
cidedly firm. "No," said he, .'take the
whole or none." After passing very
tedious night under the same roof with
company he would not choose, he was
: unlocked this morning and brought
:, back to Boston. No time was lost, of
course, in finding the bank. 1t was
important to him particularly.
-a7Y Yesterday they gave him his money; to-
l day they must restore to him his liberty.
s. The circumstances are briefly stated.
9aThe man was all right. The money
was all good. The bank, however, re-
I. fused to take it back; they knew moth
ing about any stolen money; it is not
.sitheir business; such things cannot often
be traced. They advised him to hold
on to his bills, and his friends think he
should bring an action Immediately
against certain parties for false impris-
nj onment. 1t would, be rather hard for
1emany individuals to take joke under
x such circumstances Somebody is said
9 to have inquired very unfeelingly
hendidn't feel confident and
happy, like Paul. when in Jail in Mace
30 donia r, evidently overlooking the point
z that there is much difference between
= being freed from one s stocks and prison
u simultaneously by an earthquake, and
afterwards taking tea with the jailer's
family, and making journey for the
purpose Of getting rid Of ones stocks
, in Boston, only to be shut up a few
hours afterward by Worcester jailer
: for trying to spend the money. Moral
80 Strangers should not attempt to pass
u large bills in small towns. 1gJ
sd The Sierra Nevada and Rocky Noun
tain ranges have been crossed by the
locomotive this summer. Five years of
patient drilling and blasting and thirty
odd millions of money have been re-
quired to cross the Sierra Nevadas; but
on the goth of June last the miners of
the far famed Washoe Region were for
the first time placed within twenty-four
hours ride of San Francisco. Once
emerged from the granite mountain ex-
cavations, the Central Pacific Company,
] who have in charge that end of the rail-
road line, have made remarkable head
way along the Truckee and Humboldt
Valleys, the two streams traversing the
Salt Lake Basin in a general east and
west direction. The track is already
laid two hundred miles east of the noun
tains, and it is still extending al the rate
of sixty to seventy-fve miles month.
!, Twelve thousand men are employed at
the work, getting out the needful cross
ties and bridge timbers, grading, track
laying and hauling the substance for
ward. The prospect seems fair that we
shall have the continuous rail laid be-
tween the two oceans before the close of
next year, and possibly within twelve
e C. H. LEONARD, the largest sperm and
whale oil manufacturer in the country,
died near New Bedford, Mass, last
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