Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-01-25
THE GAZETTE.
EVENING, JANUARY Is.

THE RESULT OF A TRIFLE. "A year or moro
ago a young man Of this city visited New York
and in the course of his sight seeing Twin "a
friend) called at one of the theatres. tIaUn
left an overcoat In the cloak-rooln, AN AN .s
checks therefor The Auburnlan lnteatiu ~
leave for home that night, and coule NJ. 'neIe'
tormances and so left the theatre IN consldera-
ble haste: but on putting his hand IN his
noctet for the check for mis- coat, could not tlod
r He reouested the man III charge OF the
cloat room to give him his coat, which he
ro;nted ont. to him, without the check. This
the an refused to do. Time was precious;
the time for the departure of the train had
nearly arrived; so stepping into the room, he
took hold of his coat, and, partly by force and
partly BY persuasion, prevailed upon the man
to release the coat. Throwing the garment
over his arm he fastened to the depot, and
succeeded in Jumping on the train as IL was
moving out of the station. de was q good
deal surprised to see, however, upon placing
his overeoat on the back OF q seat, that 1t was
not his own, but much better and more ex-
pensive one, although similar In color. There
was now no way By which the mistake could be
rectified until he arrived home, and so dismiss
ing the subject from his mind as trlfe OF no
went to sleep, and dreamed of the expected rise
10 Merchants Union Express stock, and a
golden future of ease and enjoyment as the re-
suit OF his visit to the metropolis. Arrived
home, his first duty was to telegraph to the
manager Of the theatre, and to enclose IN
letter the missing check which he had subse-
quently found. 1EL4 10
But neither telegraph nor letter was answer
ed, and so the matter was again dismissed from
his mind as OF no consequence, and only alluQ-
cd 10 occasionally when comphmented upon his
good taste and judgment In the selection OF an
overcoat. But now we come to the result OF
his trife, which can be stated 10 the following
words = The owner of this overeoat refused to
be conforted by the cloak-room attendant, and
appealed to the manager of the theatre, who
could do no less, he thought, than discharge
his unfortunate employee Thus discharged IN
the winter, he sought long and faithfully for en-
ployment, but could not find It. Ills money
gone, turned from his boarding house, starva-
tion fairly staring him In the face, dlssolute
companions at last prevailed upon him to be-
come member OF their gang. and he was
soon arrested and sentenced to Sing Sing prls-
on for term of years to be afterwards, with
q party of fellow congicts transferred to the
prison at this place. And all this mans dis
grace, suffering, and moral death, was the re-
suit of trife that has not caused Its author
the loss of a moment S sleep or the variation OF
single beat Of his calm and healthy pulse
lad he known what was to have been the re-
suit of that nights haste and carelessnass, he
would have willingly made pilgrimage from
here to New York to have saved that poor tel
low from the trouble his earelessness produced.
Now he can only regret his hasty act, when he
shall learn, Tor the first time that his trltle was
another's ruin. Auburn Morning Ne'cS.