Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1878 — Travels of a Letter. [ARTICLE]

Travels of a Letter.

From the New York Tribune we cut the following account, ol a letter’s re markable journeyings : * “ A letter was mailed in the New York Postoffice on February 6, 1876, containing ten gold sovereigns, and directed to Mary Botten, Aschueha, Australia. The letter was sent to San Francisco, and was returned to New York. Thence it was sent to London, to Australia, to the dead-letter office at Sydney, and thence, at the request of the sender, it was forwarded to JDemmuquillen, New South Woles. Not delivered there, it weut next to the dead-letter office at Melbourne, thence to the dead-letter office at Washington, and finally it came back to New York, almost two years after it started. But the sovereigns were missing. Inquiry at the Foreign Office elicited the response that the case was closed. It was afterward found from marks on the envelope that the loss must have occurred between Sydney and Melbourne. Renewed investigation was made, and the sovereigns weie found in the Melbourne office, in their buckskin covering. George Wilson, the sender, recently received the money from Postmaster James. More than forty letters were sent from New York office regarding the matter.”