The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-06-07
POSTAL R0MACE.
A Mail Carrier Who Was Net a Maie
Carrier.

I About four months since q trim
rosy looking boy applied to Col. Pen
degrass of the Globe hotel, mail con
tractor between this place and Per-
ryville, for the situation of mail car
rier on the route. The colonel, pleased
with the 1.-the and supple figure OF
the applicant, whose ayoridupois
seemed commensurate with the pow
ers of the ordinary postal horse or
mule, struck the bargain; and Billy
Reed the name given by the YOUTH
held up his hand and swore to do ell
kinds Ofpossible and impossible things
with the love letters, garden seeds,
P.D's. &c, that might be entrusted
to his care as a u. S. oficial--not
liable to be drafted into the army.
Billie made his first trip in excel
lent time. Herr Friedrichs smiled
sweetly as the mail bag came flying
into his window an hour earlier than
usual; and the Colonel, after looking
at his mules back to see that it was
not rubbed, patted Billie on the head,
and as a reward for his industry
promised to let him sleep with the
Globes genial boarder, Capt. Dick
Ivers, of the court house. But this
part didn't work well for in the
morning Capt. Dick informed the
landlord that he wanted him to take
that boy out OF his bed, inasmuch as
said boy slept with his clothes on snd |
rolled himself up into knot. Billie
also complained OF Capt. Dicks snor-
ing. In consequence, they thereafter
wOoed tired natures sweet restorer
in their own separate cots.
Billie continued his avocation for
about two weeks, when he suddenly
disappeared; but after a short ab-
sence returned to the mail sacks and
continued on the route until last
Thursday, when he again turned up
missing. But the mail must go. Col.
p. started his SON Johnny, who, when
near Patton, discovered the abscond-
ing Billie leisurely walking down the
road in company with q young man.
Johnny rubbed his eyes to make
sure that.it was Billie he saw; for
since he had played marbles with
Billie, the latter's personal appear
ance had undergone a wonderful !.
change. Instead of the black slouch /,
nat was gay Dolly Warden; the coat
lad merged into loose sack and the =
oreeches had magically disappeared :
q the bright folds of a gingham dress,
rom the collar of which flashed a
breastpin. In Q word, !,
Billy was herself again, a charming =
title maid. The story is soon told :
While out riding near Perryville, a :
ew days previous, she had been dis :
covered Sy her brother. He pre- :,
-ailed on her to stop the "male" =
business, and come down to Jackson .
With her. Wednesday night she quiet
y folded up her boyhood'5 clothes, >,
ssumed more graceful attire, and, :
With her brother, silently stole away. !;
She was born in Bollinger county, = =
md was early left an orphan. Her =
Iame is Mary j. Sherwood, aged
bout 16 years, and is quite comely
ass. Mr.. Farmer, near Millersville, L
ook her to raise; but after remain
hg short time, she went to live at >
he widow Valentine Knott's, whence
he so mysteriously disappeared as
o arouse suspicious of foul play, now g
apply allayed. Business matters n
he conducted with scrupulous hon IL
sty, and her name is unattended n
nth the shadow OF reproach, So well a
id she manage her disguise, that I
OF the slightest suspicion was enter L
lined by any of her real sex. e,