Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — A STRAY FORTUNE. [ARTICLE]

A STRAY FORTUNE.

————— -** - £/•, ’ A Young Man Surprised by an In-I herkance. H Oik- morning, while the air was raw! and gusty and the dust of Johannes-1 burr, after being purged of its gold J oil those that ventured out of floors, say® I a Kimberley (South Africa) letter to! the New York Sun, a young man wa*l a of tha Standard I bank with the welcome tidings foul I £T >.OOI had boon wired to his credit! from London. The youth, unable tel a:iy aged rel-uivo who was icl pus-oedou <>f such a sum. and know- 1 io, w -.1 tear his large.-.'- a; .hags were I usually in the old jewelry or watch! line and that lie’'could not possibly! have had a transaction implying the! t rnnsference of so much coin, modestly! repudiated the idea that the sura wat|l for him. This happened April 10,1 The authorities of the bank, whose! repot;:lion for liberality is not great, I pressed tho sum on him, saying that! it was his and no other’s. What could! the young* fellow, whose name was! Galiewski, do but accept the windfall?! In due time it was transferred to his! account at the Johannesburg branch I of the b oik. and from then-e to the! pockets of those who helped to minis-! ter to flip indulgence of youth. M But a day of reckoning came. The! bank discovered that it h d made a I mistake; tint the telegraphic message, | in-le d of being for “Gnutcli.” which I was meant for Ben Galiewski, should! have read “Gaud,” a different person! altogether--a mistake only discovered! when the cable was followed up by the I letter of advice,. They then called on! Ben to disgorge. By this time the I bulk of the money was spent, conse-1 quently there was no chance of recov-■ ery. So the case has been taken te l court and heard before the judges ol I the Transvaal. What may be the is- I su.o of it one can not tell, but, it is car- I tain that the bank will not be able tc I recover from him who has not, and I that such a romance has rarely occur- I red in the real life of our old-world I community. si ■---aZ•• . "~ ==J! '. •-: “7.77-*™