Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-25
A Letter Containing $4,000 Lost for
Six EonthB

A Letter Containing slO, 900 Lost for
Six HOnths.
The Paterson Press says: "The First
National bank Of this city has mad q
curious and somewhat troublesome eX-
psTience with 8 'lOst letter. On Feb.
ruary 9th last, a letter containing
checks, etc, to the amount of ten thou
sand dollars, was mailed from the First
| National bank, at the Paterson pOstOf.
! flee, to the importers and Traders Ma.
| ton bank of New York, the New York
agent of the bank here. The New York
! bank failed to receive the letter, and, OF
course, there was much anxiety about it
on the pTrt Of the officers of the First
! National bank, which would have been
the loser, il the vouchers were not made
good. An exhaustive search was made
| in the Paterson and New York pOstOf-
fees, as well as in both the banks, the
search extending over days, but no trace
of the missing package could be found.
| Now strong apprehensiOas of 8 mail
robbery were entertained, and the gov
eminent officials were impressed with
this idea. The First National bank
meanwhile proceeded to make the best
arrangement ii could for avoiding loss.
An extensive correspondence - the
package containing thirty accounts of
sundry paTtit S-Was necessary, and in
demnity bonds had to he prepared and
given by the bank to all these parties.
Finally, all was provided for except
about two hundred dollars OF pension
checks Of the United States government,
it taking much longer to arrange that
matter, through the dilatOry process Of
the ciTcumiOcutiOD office, than it did
= l.,
Gus denOument: On July 6th-exactly
five months to day from the time the
letter was lOst-the clerks in the post
office in this city had to poke under
their stamping table for something that
had dropped on the hoOTr and there,
snugly lying in q small crack between
the bottom OF the table and the floor,
was the missing letter, with ito ten
thousand dollars intact. 1t was the
only letter ever lost at this office, and it
is a little remarkable that i: should
have been so valuable a one, az should
have caused such extraordinary trouble
and anxiety"
An laquest On Abel.
Yesterday afternoon an excited in
dividual, with his hat standing on two
hairs, and his eyes projecting from his
head like the horns Of q snail, rushed
into the office Of Coroner H. The
coroner is by profession a dentist, and
his first thought, as he glanced at the
man, was that he was well nigh dis
tracted with tOOthache. lie was soon
undeceived, however, as the frenzied in
dividusl cried out, as soon as he could
catch his breath after running up the
stairs: "Been a man murdered
"a man murderedm cried the cor
Oner; chow? where?"
ain garding, l believe; with club,
or a rock"
Chow long sgo?" cried the coroner,
selling his hat and cane.
"Been done a good while, and no pO-
lice nor cOnstsbles hasn't never done
nOthin' about it. Never been no coroner
set on the body nor nothin' of the kind;
no verdict"
whats the dead mans name? Who
was he?" cried the coroner.
'!His name was Abel.n
label? Abel WHOM
"Don't know; never heard nothin'
but his first name"
"WelI, what is the name of the man
who killed him? Did they know? Any
one suspected"
"Well, I've heard that fellow named
Cain, put out his light. Cain was the
brother Of Abel, and
The coroner smells mice, and -four
ishing his cane, cries: "YOu git down
them stairs, my fine fellow. Git, and
don't show yourself here again!'
With q loud outlaw, the fellow went
down the stairs, three steps st q time,
the doctor calling after him, "How dare
you trif1e with an officer in this way?
A Marietta mOcklDg-bird, the proper
ty Of the wife Of the editor of the
Journal, whistles Shoe En-, and per-
forms other fantastic tricks before high
heaven.