Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1879 — A Strange Story. [ARTICLE]

A Strange Story.

‘ Not long ago,” says the London Daily Telegraph,“a'well known collector of cariosities in Paris who had devoted considerable sums of money to gathering together of bank notes of all countries aud all values, became the possessor of a Bank of England five pound note to which an unusually strange story was attached. The note

was paid into a Liverpool merchant’s office in the ordinary way of business sixty-one years ago, and its recipient, the cashier of the firm, while holding it up to the light to test its genuineness noticed some faint red marks upon it, which, on closer exam illation, proved to be semi-effaced words scrawled in blood between the printed lines and upon the blank margin of the note Extraordinary pains were taken to decipher these partly obliterated characters, and eventually the following sentence was raade out: “If this note should fall in the hands of John Dean, of Long Hill near Carlisle, he will learn hereby that his brother is languishing a prisoner in Algiers.” Mr. Dean was promply communicated with by the holder of the note, and he appealed to toe government of the day for assistance In his endeavor to obtain his brotbei s release from captivity* The prisoner, who, as it appeared, bad traced the above sentence upon the note with a splinter of wood dipped in his own blood, had been a slave to the Dey of Algiers for eleven years, when his strange missive first attracted attention in a Liverpool counting bouse. His family and friends had long believed him dead. Eventually his brother, with the aid of the British authorties In the Mediterranean succeeded in ransoming him from the Dey and brought him home to England, where, however, he did not long survive his release, his constitution having been irreparably injured by exposure, privations and forced labor in the Bey's galleys.” -

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with (ruth. No opinions so farely miidead us as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearef as those that are sometimes right, ' ■ i