Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — A Cash Transaction. [ARTICLE]

A Cash Transaction.

A gentleman living on Duffiela street yesterday hired a boy to walx home beside him and carry a bundle, have first agreed to pay the lad fifteen cents. Reaching the house, the man found he had no smaller change than a quarter, and he said: “Ifyou will call at my office at two o’clock I’ll have the change.” “ But it was to be cash down,” protested the boy. “So it was; but I haven’t the change, you see. You’ll have to call at my office.” “I’ll call,” growled the boy, as he turned away, “ but I know just bow it will work. When I knock on the door a cross-eyed clerk will yank it open, ask me what I want, and when I tell him he will yell out: * That man went into bankruptcy last September, and now you git!’ That’s the way they alius play it on me, sir, and 1 druther lose the fifteen cents than to call the clerk a dodo and have to dodge coal-scuttles all the way down stgirs.” The gentleman walked with him to the nearest grocery and made change.—Detroit Free Prett.

-~Mr. Francis W. Bird, of Massachusetts, who received from Charles Sumner’s executors a lock of the Senator’s hair’ as a memento of a life-long friend•hip, has had it set in a gold locket, upon the reverse Bide of which is a miniature likeness of Mr. Sumner as he appeared just before bis death. ■ 1~7 ; | —America is a country that likes almost anything better than outside interference and suggestions.