RUNNING FOR OFFICE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 788, 25 May 1877, Page 4

RUNNING FOR OFFICE.

Johnson was looking for a wife, and having met Miss Davis, of Wherewelive, last summer at Saratoga, and being rather pleased with her, came out from Boston, Saturday night, on the 7-30 train, with the intention of remaining over the Sabbath. “ Can yon tell me where Mr Davis lives Tasked Johnson of a boy who was walking about the platform with Ids hands in his pockets smoking a cheroot, as he alighted from the cars. “Which Davis ?” enquired the boy, “ Wph, Jim, or Hen ? There’s lots of ’em here.” “ I don’t know his Christian name,” replied Johnson, “ but he’s quite tall, and will weigh 175 or 200 pounds, I should say.” “And got a hair lip?” added the hoy “ I think not,” said Johnson, “although I never saw him near to.; he has a full, round f ice, and wears side whiskers aad a moustache ” “ Oh, I know now,” it’s Jim ; lie was out in the army, wasn’t he? Got to be capt-dn ; showed the white feather once; came home on a furlough; brought some of the soldiers’ money home for tie ir wives and mothers, but never paid over a cent of it; poisoned his father with rat exterminator to get his property; kicked his mother down stairs, when she was eighty years old, and broke her back ; stole any quantity of hens when he was a boy, and broke into a bank when he was only eighteen, didn’t he ?” “ 1 couldn’t say about that,” responded Johnson, in amazement. “ He’s about forty years old, I should judge, and good looking.” “ Same feller. Took old Briggs’ horse one night and drove him more’n fifty miles, and then cut his throat because he couldn’t go no farther; got drunk one day and threw a bob-tailed monkey through the church-window when the minister was baptising a woman, and tore the minister’s face awfully; set a load of hay on lire that a man was driving to Lynn, and threw Ids little boy out of die window on to a pile of beau poles when it was thundering, didn’t lie ?” “ I never heard that he did,” said the astonished Johnson “ Has he a daughter about eighteen ?” “Yes, Susan, and two wives, but only one of them is here though ; the other is out West somewhere. Ho ran away and left her, and then married this woman ; it’s the same man who strangled his first mother in-law with a string of sausages wound round her nock, and then cut her up with a hoc and packed her into a tripe barrel and buried it under the floor in oho barn ; used to preach once ; stole the hymnbooks and lamps and pawned them for nun ; throws his shoulders back when ho walks, don’t he?” “ Yes,” said Johnson, biting his finger nulls, and wondering what time the next train wont back to Boston. “ Then the man you’re after thinks he knows more’n the dictionary; calls everybody who don’t agree with him a fool; cats raw eggs ; owes his grocer more’u ninety dollars; shot old Mrs Bug! jy’s rooster last summer, and wouldn’t p>y her for it; swears cvciy second word ; heats his adopted daughter with a rake ; won’t let her have anything to oat, and makes her d ep in the wood shed.” “It scorns to mo,” said Johnson, “ that vou must be mistaken. Is this Mr Davis in the lumber business?” “Yes, he was in that business, hnf had failed for more’n 150,000 dollars, and only paid eight cents on a dollar, made more’n 100 000 dollars out of the scrape, and would’nt ev-ai pay . ff his help; used to be a butcher, and now he won’t spe; k to his relations when ho meets them in the street, because they are poor ; puts on more aiis 'liana lighting-cock—that’s where he lives- that house there, with the big window, sec ?” Johns >n said that he did, an 1 was just on lie point of asking the boy if he thought it would bo safe for him to remain under his roof over night, when a train came rushing into the depot, and, hearing the conductor shout out, “ All aboard for Boston,” he jumped into (he smoking car, and was soon being rapidly borne back to the great metropolis Johnson could never imagine how such a man as Mr Davis had been represented to him to be, could have so handsome, refined, and accomplished a daughter, till a few days later he took up a paper and saw under die column headed “ Out of Town,” that ho was running for office, when it suddenly all became plain to him. Johnson will he down .again to see the fair Susan.—Danbury News.