The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1870-05-19

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--be was not there himself There
were sixtecn beautiful young lalies il
the roo n, writing in books, aud there
were seven vol favored young olerk.
showing them how The young won.
en- smiled up over their shoulders. and
the clerks smiled back to them, snd
all went merry as q marriage bell
Two or three clerks that were reading
the Newspapers looked at mo rather
bard, hut went on reading, aud nobody
sail anything However | had been
used to this kind of alacrity from
| Fourth Assistant Clerks all through
my eventual career. from the very day
| entered the office of the Corn- Beet
Bureau clear till | passed out Of the
last one in the Dead Reckoning Divi
sion. ! had got 40 accomplished hy
this time that | could stand on one
foot from the moment | entered IN
Office TILL a clerk spoke to me, without
changing more than two, or maybe
three times
SO stood there till | had changed
four different times. Then said tc
one OF the clerks who was reading--
"lllustrous Vagrant, where is thy
Grand Turk?'
What do you mean. sir ? whom Dc
you mean : II you mean the Chic
Of the Burcau. he is out
Will he visit the hircm to-day p
The young man glared upon IN,
awhile, and then won't Oh reading HE
paper. But | knew the ways Of thos,
clerks. | knew | was safe. II he go'
through before another New York mai
arrived. lie only had tive more pa
pers left Afe awhile he finished
them, and thon yawncd, aud asked me
what | wanted
q" Renowned and bouorcd lmbccic
On or about
You are the beef contract mao
Give me your papers,
lie took them. and for long time
lac ransaclied his Odds and cnis. Fin.
ally he found the North West Passage
AS | regarded it-hc found the long
lost record Of that beet coutract-h,
found the rock upon which so many o'
my ancestors had split before the,
ever got 10 it. was deeply moved
And ye, .rejniced-ior ! have SIR
vlvcd. said. with emotion, Civ,
it me. The Government will srttI.
now lie waved me back, and Gai,
there was something yet to be don,
first.
WLcrc is John Wilson Macken-
gle ?" said he.
" Dead
" When did he die 2
lie diin', die at al.-hc was kill
cd.'
How?'
Tomahasked."
Who tomahawked him ~
Why, an Indian OF course. lo,
didn't suppose it wasa superin'cn
dent of Sunday school, did you !?
NO. An Indian, YVES itW
The same y
"Nime OF the Indian 2
His name don't know hi
name
Must hlvc his nann. Who saw
the tomahiwk,ng done p
81 don't know"
" You were not present yourself
then ?"
Which you can see by my hair
..'vas absent
"Thcn how do you know that Mac
cnzie is dead !"
" l,ccu,c he certainly died at tha
ime, and have every reason To be-
eve that hc has been dead ever sluce
kaow he has. in fact
We NUT have PROOFS. Have yo'
s,t the lndlany'
Ofcourse not
"Wcll, you must get him Hav,
you got the tomahawk =
r never thought of such thing.
You must ct the tomahawk. IoI
, must produce the ludian aud the tom
ahawk. If Mackenzle's death eau b
: proven by these, you can then 90 be
fore the commission appointed to au
= dit claims. with s,me show of gettin,
/ you bill under such n"sdway that you
= children may possibly 1--we To receiv
. the money and enjoy il, But tia
mans death must be proven. How
ever, | may as we'll tell you tha. III
. Government will never pay that tran,
I poria,iou and those travelling expense
}, Of the latnen,ei Mackenzie 1t ma
r possibly pay for the barrel OF be-
that Sherman's soldiers captured.
l YOU can get relief bill through Con
4. gress making an appropriation IL
!. that purpose but it will not pay fl
: the twenty niue barrels the lndia'
e ate"
= "Then there is only hundred d"
| lars due me. and that isn't certain
c After all Mackenzie's travels in TT
rope, Asia America with that beet
d after all bis trials and tribulatilns au
It transportation f; after the Slaughter I
! all those innocents that tried to collie
that bill! Young man, why d'du
e be First Comptroller of the Coru BE
: Division tell ne this ~
lie didn't know anything abo'
d the genuinenes OF your clam"
II "Why didn't the Second tell me
II Why didn't the Thirdy Why didp
e all those divisions aud departures
o tell me p
Is - Mama of them knew. We