Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — A MISER’S HARD LUCK. [ARTICLE]

A MISER’S HARD LUCK.

He Is Robbed of Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollar#: [Pennsboro (W. Va.) special] For years past Frank Moore, who lives on Stewart’s Run, this county, has been known as a miser, keeping large sums of money secreted about the old log hfit in which he lived, and in nooks and crannies in the rocks outside. Fully $20,000 in cash, mostly specie, was popularly supposed to be thus concealed, by the neighbors. At irregular intervals Moore would examine and count his hoard, and at such times his . friends say gold and silver wonld lie in great piles about the table in Moore’s sleeping room. Two weeks ago he made an examination of three lots of specie, and last night he concluded to look at it again. Ah ovei hauling of the bags and stockings in which the cash Was kept showed that $5,500 in gold, anil $2,000 to bills had been stolen by some one who had watched a previous examination, and noted where the money was concealed. There is not the slightest clew to the thief. Tommy was a little rogue, whom his mother had hard work to manage. Their house in the country was raised a few 7 feet from the ground, and Tommy, to escape a well-deserved whipping, ran. from his mother and crept under thehouse. Presently the father came home, and hearing where the boy had taken refuge, crept under to bring him out. As he approached on his hands and knees, Tommy said, “’Sh! > Is she after you, /oo?” A LITTLE girl being asked on the first -flay of school how she liked her new teacher, replied: “I do not like her; she is just as saucy to me as my mother.”