The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-31

to write it. deposited Il silver halI-dol-
lar for the same.
CHATS a counterfeit, " said our gen
ial ticket agent, Mr.. Barber, which ech
oed and re-echoed through every hole
and crevice of the room, as well as up
on the ears of those who were present.
CHATS funny, too" said the seedy
looking Individual with a s|iX-cornered
smile, GLOW do you make that OUT"
"Well, it's a counterfeit repeated
Mr.. b.
'I'n bet you five dollars it isn't"
said the seedy looking fellow, with a
Vanderbilt smile under his chin, and
at the same time making 4 dive into
his pocket after the ''where-with;" but
when his offer was accepted he hesitat-
ed, and during a colored smile back
of the a he drew his hand from his
pocket and asked:
GLOW are you going to prove it to De
a counterfeit? Have you any acids?"
81 will prove it right here, said Mr.
B., whereupon he held the coin in his
hand and showed the would-be sur
prised individual where it had been
plugged"
The stranger argued that it was not
a counterfeit until he became quite
s'wrathy," and went so far as to call
Mr.. Il. a thief and a scoundrel, and said
all railroads and their employees were
thieves and scoundrels, which did not
digest very favorable with Conductor
Simpkins' opinion.
The question arises with us, did he
know the coin was plugged" He
most assuredly did, for we saw him
take it from his pocket, wrapped in a
piece of old writing paper. We also
saw him wrap 1t in the same piece of
papar and put it in his pocket after the
discussion.
The Conductor shouted "all aboard
and away we dashed towards Wood
bury with the new engine No. ! puff
ing and snorting, it being her first
trip.
Nothing of interest was noticed eX-
cept a few dogs along the line which
would come out and undertake to run
q short distance with the train, as they
have been doing in the past 50 we are
informed, but in this they were sadly
mistaken and hung then heads as they
plodded their way homeward, wonder
ing what vas the matter with the Old
rickety-bang engine that they have 50
often outrun, not nice thinking that Il
new engine had been procured.
On our return trip we witnessed the
effect of ''Pennsylvania thunder" upon
one who is more accustomed to Jersey
lightning" Some might say he was
inclined to be lively, but he found a fel
low who stood no foolling and don't
you forget it, in the parsonage of a me-
dunn green dutchman. The fellow
who occasionally bent i'll the shape of
rum bows was constantly cursing the
dutchey, and finally uttered the genu-
inc fighting word, w%hereupon dutchey
in tile twinkling Of All eye, had caused
a wrinkling in the othe fellows nose.
Dutchey claimed the first blood, but
the friends of the ''thunder struck
man came to the rescue. This did not
ever scare dutchey, for he was II OF
the blood thirsty kind and had not
some uninterested parties inte.fered he
would doubtlessly have Cleaned the
whole party before he got through, as
a large knife and q small cannon was
discovered by some one in his pocket,
ready for use.
AS peace and quietness reigned once
more we looked out tile window, just
in time to see a lot of dogs out i'll a
field running, and we imagine they
have gone INTO training, preparatory to
racing the new engine No. 1, which
Jerry says, "Horks like a charm"