Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1869 — Wrong Certificate at the Bank. [ARTICLE]

Wrong Certificate at the Bank.

In the midst of one of the wont of our business panics, and at the moment when everybody thought all the banks were going to the dogs together, Jones—the inevitable Jones—rushed into the*bank of which he was a stockholder, and thrusting the certificate Into the face of the transfer clerk, he raid, in great haste, “ Here, please transfer half or that to Jsmea P. Smith t” Tho clerk looked at It, and asked, “ Which halt Mr. Jones ?” “ I don’t care which half,” replied Jones, puzzled at the inquiry, “You had better go to the courts; 1 can’t make the transfer without a legal decision. If you really wish to transfer your other hair to Mr. Smitb, we can’t do It here.” Jones was confounded. He knew the banks were all in a muddle, but tbii was too deep for him. Be took his certificate from the hand of the smiling clerk, and, on looking at it, lo! Jt was his marriage certificate! Being a printed form, on fine paper, and put away among his private papers, it was the first thing that Mr. Jones laid hands on when he went to hia secretary for his bank stock scrip. He went home,, kissed his wifeglad to find she hadu’t been transferred to fir. Smith—and, taking the right papers this time, hastened down town, in season to get the matter ali straight.— Jtoehange. Th* lady Who knit her brows is now devoting her attention to a pair of. socks.