A SELL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5364, 25 January 1879, Page 7

A SELL.

* About two weeks ago, as the overland train was passing Cheyenne, the attention of the passengers was attracted by the lamentations of a poor Irish emigrant, whose berth had been robbed during the night, and every penny of his scanty savings stolen, and whose family would therefore arrive beggars in a straugo land. Tho charitable passengers at once' began a subscription, which finally amounted to over 251) dollars. When the roouey had been bunded to the auflVrer, a pious, plausible looking man, dressed in black, and ad'rned with a white cravat, drew him aside at one of the stopping places, and said, "My poor man, 1 atu truly sorry for you. \our sad case touches mo deeply. 1 am myself well provided with this world's goods, however, an I so will give you 250 dollars more. Here is a 500-dullar gold note. Give me the 250 dollars yon have and keep the rest. May Heaven bless you !" The poor Irishman did as requested,, with many blessings on the generous strauger, who insisted that his gift should not be made known. When the passengers reached this si ic of the bay the pious-looking philanthropist was nowhere to bo fouud, ho having accidentally gotten off at Oakland, for ♦ reasons of his own. The next day the emigrant repaired to a batik to get his note changed. Tho teller picked up the bill and began narrowly examining it. "There — there is nothing wrong with the bill, is there V 1 gasped tho poor follow. (Now the clever reader has seen all along what was going to happen. He has read lots of just such incidents as thia—it ia tho old, old story. Well, we'll Bee about that.) "Nothing in the world is the matter with it," said the teller quietly, and he handed the man fifty tens. That ended it,— San Francisco Paper,