RUNNING FOR OFFICE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 156, 21 April 1877, Page 2

RUNNING FOR OFFICE.

JOiinson was looking for a wife, and having met Miss Davis, of Wberewelive, last summer at Saratoga, and being rather pleased with her, came out from Boston, Saturday night on the 7.30 train, with the iiir tention ot remaining over the Sabbath,

' Can you tell me where Mr Davis lives ?l asked Johnson of a boy who

was walking about the platform with his hands in his pockets smokW a chero <&«§jLhe alighted '^liioh^p^sV enquired the |6y|gEph, r There's Ipftfpf 'em hter<jfes: .. Vt; *R . d &&'-, Christian numSj repl|diJc|fhson| ' but he's fc#V al *} fnd \ ' And got la hair lip r added the .boy. ~,'™ ink not >' said Johnson, he has a fall, round, wear3 side whiskers and a moustache.' he was out in the army, wasn't he ? Got to be captafti • snowed the white /eather once ; came home on a fur- ' tough.; brought so;me.;pf the soldiers' money .home for their wives and mothers, but never paicl over a' cent, of itj'pbisoned his father with rat exterminator to get' his property ; kicked hisj mother down stairs,*when she was 'eighty years old, and broke her. baqk; ; stole any quantity of hens when he was a boy, and broke into a bank when he was only eighteen, didn't he?'.. / . l I couldn't say about" that,' responded Johnson ;in-amazement. ;. He's about forty years old, I should judge, and good looking.' 'Same, feller. %>k. old Briggs' horse'"one night arid drove him more'n fifty miles, and then cut his .throat because he couldn't go no farther; got "drunk One May" and threw a bob-tailed monkey through the church window when the minister was baptizing a woman, and tore the mmister'siape- awfully ; set a load of hay on fire that a man was driving to Lynn, and threw his little boy out of the window on. toa pile of bean poles when it was thundering:, didn't he?' .. ; , 'T 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 put West somewhere. -He ran away and left her, and then married this woman'; its the'same man who strangled,his.first mother-in-law with a string of sausages wound round her neck, and then cut'her up with a hoe-.and packed her into a tripe barrel and buried it under the floor in the barn j used to preach once; stole the hymn-books *>and lamps and pawned them for rum ; throws his" shoulders back when he , walks, don't,he ?' " ? '. Yes.' responded Johnson, biting his" finger nails and wondering what \ time the next; train went back to Boston.

'Then the man you're after thinks he knows more'n the dictionary calls everybody whb don't < agree with him a fool; oats raw eggs; owes:his grocer. mere'n ninety dollars; shot old Mrs,Bugby's rooster last summer and wouldn't pay her f° r . tyj, swears every second word ; beats his adopted daughter, with a rake; won't let her have anything to eat and makes her sleep in the wood-shed.'

'lt' seams .to/ me,':said Johnson, ' that you must. be mistaken. Is this Mr Davis iui- the lumber business ?' .• -' -. ■ ■'■ ; "

j 'Ye 3, he. wag in that business but he'had failed for more'n 150,060d01. and only paid eight cents on a dollar, made more'n lOO.OODdol.out of the scrape, and wouldn't'even pay off his,,,help; used to be a butcher and now he won't speak to his relation's when he meets them in the street, because they are poor ; puts on more airs than a fighting-cock,— that's where he lives—that house, there, with the big window, see?' ' Johnson said that lie did- and was just on the point, of- asking the bqy if he thought it would be safe fqp him. to remain 'under > hfe : roof over a train came rushing into the depot, and hearing the qon» dnctor shout oat, 'All aboard fop Boston,' he'jumped into, the smoking* car and was soon being' rapidly borne back to.the great -metropolis, Johnson could never imagine how such a man as Mr Ihiyis: had been represented to hfra to ijej could have so handsome, refined and accomplished a daughter, till" a few days later he took up a paper and savr under the column headed-'.oufc of town,' that he was running for office, when it suddenly all became plain to him, Johnson will be down again to see the fair Susau,— ' J)<\v\y bury News/.