The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-25
A DOLLAR ON THE TRAMP
A Gold Dollar That Was Pursued Across
the Con, tut MT and ina lily Captured.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
A young lady of this place has in her
possession a gold dollar with mono
gram. inscribed upon it which has been
the subject of great deal of attention.
It was attached to bracelet by chain.
One evening in the latter bart of Feb
rnary last, after q sleigh. ride. she
missed it. The broken chain showed
how it had disappeared. Search was
made, but 1t was of no avail. Finally
an advertisement caught the eye of q
habitual loafer about town. He went
to the house and informed the servant
at the door that he had found the dol.
lar below the steps of the sleigh the
morning after the ride, and had spent
1t for whisky at one of the saloons OF
the city. The friends of the young
lady determined to find the dollar, if
possible. The saloon keeper remembered
receiving the money, but he had paid
it to q butcher. The latter recollected
paying it over to a drover in Trenton.
The address of the drover was secured
and letter written to him, requesting
reply at once. 1t came, with the in.
formation that he had purchased q
ticket to Philadelphia with it the very
day the Lambertville butcher gave it to
him, and that the Trenton ticket agent
had remarked about the monogram.
The search was continued. The
agent remembered the dollar, and said
he laid it aside for few hours. but as
the drover who paid it to him evidently
knew nothing concerning it, it was for
warded to the general Office in Phila-
delphia with the daily account. The
receiver of the New Jersey receipts at
Philadelphia was next correspondent
with. The beautiful monogram had
been noted, but had been deposited in
the bank, along with other sums of
money. His opinion was that 1t could
be obtained from the cashier. So in
terested in the travels OF the little coin
were its friends in this city that it was
resolved to continue the investigation.
The cashier Was communicated with.
His attention had been called to the
initials on the back of the dollar by one
of the clerks, and he had Instructed
the clerk to place it aside for few
weeks. Unfortunately, in the absence
Of the clerk, q gentleman desiring sew
eral hundred dollars in gold, prepara-
tory to California trip, had been fur
nished with the amount, and the little
piece had in some way been mixed with
that sum and gone westward. The
gentleman's name was furnished. He
represented Philadelphia house, and
letter was sent him. The events so
far described took place in March, and
the remainder of the spring and all
summer passed with no tidlngs of the
lost bangle. A few days ago, however,
there came letter from Detroit, written
by the gentleman who had gone west,
which stated that his health had been
poor, so that instead of returning at
once from California, as he proposed
when he started, he had stopped at
Colorado Springs for the summer to re-
cuperate. The letter relating the &C
count of the dollar had been delayed
and not forwarded, so that he never
received it until he reached Chicago.
He said he had the dollar in his pos.
session, 4s the monogram attracted his
notice. the initials were the same as
those of a yourg friend of his, and he
kept the coin on that account. He
promised to send the dollar as should
be directed. He was as good as his
word, and the little gold piece is back
in Lambertville once more.