Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — An Effort to Cull Horace Greeley. [ARTICLE]

An Effort to Cull Horace Greeley.

New Yorkers are occasionally duped. Horace Greyly, although he “took the papers,” was once sought to be victimized at “the 7 well-known “dropped pocket-book” game. The man \frlio picked up tfie book, plethoric with bogus monej, tat Mr. Greeley’s feet, was compelled to go out of town immediately to his sick wife, and begged the loan of £SO in advance of the ayard wpuld' bC offertnl if Mr. Greeley "book. - Mi-. -Greeley consented, and only saved himself by taking the SSO from the book. The man remonstrated. “It will not do to touch .W&f/money,” he said; "you give me SSO out of your own pocket.” “BlesS mv- soul, nty friend,” exclaimed the innocekt Horscf, “I, never carried as much- money us that with me in my life!” The man impatiently snatched the book out of Horace Greeley’s hands and hurriedly left to visit liis sick wife. —-New York' World.