Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1864-03-02
WHOLE NUMBER 1Ol.
The Story which Bangs Tried to Tel.
10 JONES. SMITH AND BRowN.

Mr.. EDIToR:-You have been partieu.
larly fortunate, il, intbe course of your
pilgrimage, you have never been prevent-
ed from hearing an interesting story very
much as We were. prevented from hearing
the story, which Bangs tried to tell to
Jones, Smith and Brown.
! Baugs.-As yOuars s0anxiOus to hear
about Nr. Titcomb's misfortune, will
tell you the story. It was on the third
( day of July, 1928, when
Snith.-Wllat coincidence thevsry
day and year when grandmother died.
She was SO hale, we never thought. sbs.
would drop of SO suddenly, but.
Jones.-Was not your grandmother .
Tibbcts before she was married2
Smith.-Tes, she was, and we used to
say that
Brown.-That's odd enough, my uncle
EIiakim married Tibbs,s. They lived
in
Jones-I know all about that; they
lived in Wings lane. Do YOU know
where Peter Lurink Iived2 WAom did
Lurink marry? I'll tell you a story
about Luriuk When he
Brown.-Nr. Bangs is going to tell "a
i story about Mr.. Tibbets.
Banss.-No, sir. its about Mr Tit.
comb. It was July 81, 1884. lie vas
Jones.-What family of TiteOmbs vas
he? didn't his grandmother Eeep a shop ,
at the North end, near the qld iSaIuiation .
aIiey2 l guess he liI. I dare say he
was relative to Colonel Thcomb, who
was killed in the cid Freaeh war, 1855,
I know all about that, I can show you p,
a.
Smith, had an aunt, whose third
cousin, on the mothers side, Was related 5
to John Smith, whose great-grandfather
had seen drummer who was in the old
FRENCH war. lie used to say, that be
never
Jones--f know all about that. You
cannot End the nsme Of Titcombin the
Boston Directory Of 1879. The reason
IS plain enough-there was 40 TitUOmb
in town. You see how
Bangs.-The story l am to relate is
not of Mr. Titeomb, who was living in
1879. l was about to say, that OF the s
third day Of July, 1881. 4r. TibsOub
was in the ~
BrOwn.-Permit me, before you pro.
ceed, to inquirehow he. was related to tie. ,
Tibbetses, and also--
Bangs never said he was related
to the Tibbetses.
Brown.-I thought you did, and Twas
thinking I could explain how it was.
There was a Tibbets that vas a Tarbox
before she was married, and who knoWs
but what she married . Titeouh2s -
JQnes.-Ibat's it; know all about
that. Ifyou will lock into the Farmers
Register, you will find, that, as early as
1850, there was Tarbox, IN Lynn, who
had eighteen children. There's nothing
more. likely to have hapI saed, than that
one of them SHOULD marry a Tibbets.
Besides, L
Bangs.-T never said anything of such
relations. Well, gentlemen, on the third
Of July, 1884. Mr.. Titeonb vas -
Smith.-Was it iu the forenoon ?,
Bangs-It was, and about ten Q clock.
Nr. Titcomb vas
Smifh.-Nercy upon US! How these
things do happen That was the very
hour my grandmother died. As my
Aunt judy says, the spirits are at work,
all round Us; she takes her meals III her
lap, for fear the spirits should tip the
table After you have finished your in
tercsiing story 1 will tell you what lap
pened at our house last Friday
In the meanwhile, finding it was i'm
possible to finish his story, Bangs had
quietly escaped from the apartments.-
B0t1a TfytascrjDt.