The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-09

funds paid TO him late in the afternoon.
The bank being closed he did not know
what TO do with the money, so he de-
cided at length to hide it under the barn
The next morning he went to get the
money, but discovered that the familI
goat was ahead OF him. 1t was busiIy
engaged in chewing on some bills of large
denominations, which it seemed to have
chosen by preference while some of che
smaller ones were scattered about. The
man shooed away the goat and managed
TO pick up $50 in notes which the ami
nal had not had time to consume.
sometimes babies eat money, and then
IL is very awkward, because it is not prac>
ucable to cut the infant open and mild
emetic is not always efficient But in the
case of a goat there never is any question
as TO the proper course to pursue. IN
TINS case, accordingly, the owner slew the
animal, and recovered the missing cash
from his stomach. He sent it on to WASH
lngton in the shape of an unpleasant wad,
and the treasury experts managed to iden-
tify Sl37 of it. Considering the difficulty in
Volved, they thought that the town treas
ure would be delighted, and awaited for
thanks to arrive from him. Instead, they
got letter asking where in hi the ball
ance OF his money was, and explaining
that he could not afford to lose it.
Another very recent case was that of
AAAfAAA III ACActS WIN 10 d uGdleT III C3llle.
He drew $500 from his bank, and went to
buy some steers. Entering the Enclosure
IN which the animals We're confined, he in
spected them with a view to deciding
which ones he would purchase Mean
While an enterprising young heifer saw his
large wallet protruding from his pocket
with the ends of az bunch of greenbacks
sticking out. and decided to annex the
same. When the cattleman discovered
his loss, the heifer had pretty nearly fin
ished chewing up the missing property
1t rejected some fragments of the pocket
book, but had already swallowed the prec-
ious contents. The man lost no time kill
ing the animal. and the contents of it's
stomach was forwarded to the treasury
department. Luckily all of the bills were
satisfactory identified, not having under
gone much digestion, and the dealer will
get his $500 back
A good deal of money is destroyed every
year in drunken quarrels, and intoxicated
men often set fire to grenebacks for the
purpose of exhibiting their Indifference to
wealth. When they get sober they are
sorry and send in the charred remains, if
there are any, for redemption, with some
made-up story to account for the accident
One of the most hopeless cases considered
by the redemption division lately was that
of a wallet filed with money which was
dropped into a well near Taos, Va. The
pOChClOOOh Is HOW III lIl6 HdAuS Oh the 6A-
perts of the treasury, with its contents
but the latter are reduced to the condition
of unrecognizable pulp. No ordinary per-
son would imagine that the pulp had once
been cash. 1t seems that the wallet lay
for a numb Der of days at the bottom of
the well, and was only recovered on draw
ing off the water. The owner will not get
back one cent.
There are plenty of people whose con-
sciences do not restrain them from trying
to cheat Uncle Sam, and the redemption
division is a favored mark. Undoubtedly
they sometimes succeed, but they must be
pretty clever to do it. Only a few days
ago letetr arrived from a young woman
in Ohio who was visiting friends at a dis
lance from her home. According to her
account she received a communication
from home inclosing a twenty-dollar bill.
After reading the letter, she absent-mind-
edly threw both it and the money into the
CRATE, where they were nearly consumed.
She forwarded the ashes of the letter and
bill to Washington, where the money was
found only to be 81 and the letter nothing
but newspaper scraps. She viii be lucky