Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — A Sign-Carrier’s Luck. [ARTICLE]

A Sign-Carrier’s Luck.

John Weeks, fdr sometime a laborer in Greenwood Cemetery, and latterly a sign, carrier for a hatter’s flrm on Park Row, has been blessed with an extraordinary streak of good fortune. He first suffered by breaking his leg in the cemetery, and was conveyed to the King’s County Hospital, where he remained four months. After coming out he procured employment as a sign-carrier or advertisement toter; earning the sum of seven dollars per week. He continued in this occupation more than two years. Every one whose business has led him through Park Row must have seen him. He was a man of medium height, with gray mustache and a stolid, resolute face. A few monthsago he received a letter from Mississippi informing him of the decease of a wealthy bachelor uncle, who bequeathed to him property consisting of real estate and bonds and stocks to the value of$X),000. He immediately returned to his former home, secured possession of the property, and yesterday he was on a business visit to New York, and he thought he would drop in ana see his bld employer. Mr. Day congratulated him on his good fortune, ana told him he felt almost as proud as he would if the money had been left to him. He bought a new hat and departed.— Jf. Y. Xipreu. —The trousseau of Miss May, who is to marry James Gordon Bennett, has arrived from Europei, where it w collected at an expense of 120,000, according to the gossips. It is said to be the most elaborate and beautiful ever prepared for an American lady.