The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-02-12
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Tlss zrour.less 81 5. csusrsss-nas. Family
i What zaek Chandler found In q hack
Narrow Escape OF = Precious Bal0y.
From fhe Washington Chronicle.
b. and by. speaking Of returning
| Congressman, rather good story has
been tefeoraphed OF a new member
who arrived with his family, consist
ing of wife, five children andanllrse-s
/ The economical member packed his
family in one hack at 8 .p M, and
drove TO Willard's. They had been
car riding for many days and nights,
aud were in consequence exceedingly
( f.tigned. ~
Arriving at WiIiardrs they paid the
haekman, ordered their trunks Of, and
trudged wearily. half asleep into that
famous caravansary. The husband,
| wife and four children were escorted
! into the supper room, after which,
elevated by the coffee and the elevator,
they were carried. beyond the 1urise
diction of the Board Of Public Works
! to rooms under the roof. When the
good lady entered her bee room she
encountered the nurse, and both ex-
claimed:
Where's Bobby 2"
Why, miss" said the nurse, ~
thought you had him."
sNancy,1 screamed the Mrs. M. "
didn't you fetch him in Z"
tNo, mum; had the thres carpet
sacks, the cloaks and baby's clothes,
and [ thought you had him.
Now Bobby was the baby, and the
| frightful discovery was made that the
/ baby had been left in the hack. There
was a frantic rush for the elevator and
the stairs. The insane M. G. tried to
| burst open the door so as to precipl-
tate himself down the we'll. He then
pulled away at the bell until he broke
| it then shouting Tire 7 rushed dowm
after his wife and four children, who
by this time were in the clerks Office,
trying ITO make the corpulent and
amiable Mr.. Bakley understand tho
horrible situation.
Someone suggested the telegraph,
aud all the police stations were ad-
vised of this loss of Congressional
infancy. But the worst part oft was
that the crazy representative could
not remember the number of the hack
and the hacks are not remarkable for
the ready return of lost parcels.
In the meantime the unhappy hus-
band made a short excursion7into the
neighberhood. He hurried through
the hacks on the hack stand, and had
all the retired convicts tho drive
those vehicles volunteer to go and
search for the lost child for two and
a-Ialf hours. Each one was ready to
make af1idavit that he knew the hack,
and one driver, who ought, to have
been hung long ago, swore that he
heard the child cry as the hack drove
past. From the hack stand the h1s7
band hurried to Newspaper Row and
stirred up the Bohemians to the high
est pitch of excitement by his tale of
woe. The corpulent Ramsell sat
down and Wept; Adams blew his nose,
WhIle Boynton pIilOsophically re-
marked that the loss of baby was
somebody's gain, and Preston added
that it was q loss easily repaired; and
so the night wore on. doe
What became of the hack, with the
precious little burden, is the most in
tereaung part of the narrative. 1t
seems that oursold friend, Zack Chan
dlef, the Miehigander, who goes
incoming about at all sorts of late
hours, found himself on Four-and-a-
half street in such state of absent
nlindedness that he couldn't tell where
he was or where be ought to be. In
these emergencies he instinctiYely
calls a hack. All the hackmen in town
know the great Michigandels and en-
tirely regardless of what he orders or
says, they invariably drive him home,
stepping at all the sample rooms and
bars on the way. On this occasion
he halted hack. and getting in, said
as he did so: 4 Ss
'sTakeme' 'omedamnyou 1f
Sitting down upon the back seat, he
was startled by 8 wild cry that almost
sobered him. This will sound like
exageration, but it's a fact. IT came
very near being q case of spoiled
child, for old Z4ck had hinged two
hundred pounds of Senatorial beef
and whiskey on the lost child of the
such violence that his head struck the
top of the hack, nearly bouncing the
driver off his seat, more. however,
with astoDishment than jolt.
Old Zacx, resolved himself into an
investigating committee. ands sitting
down on the front seat, felt around
LIZ tA4C NAAAAO9 1A0 ava -
minute sat turning the subject over
in his gigantic mind, then, sticking his
head out of the window, shouted with
that voice which has made the British
lion tremble:
"Driver. go'omequick-I've got a
baby"
AS the infant continued its scream
ing the driver had no doubt as 10 the
truth of this startling revelation, and
so tore along the street at fearful
rate, considering that his team con-
sisted of one vicious kicker and one
runaway. Pulling up at palatial
mansion, the great Michigander tnm-
bled out and rushed in with the child
in his arms. Presenting it to the as
tonished Mrs. Chandler. he said
"Most stornary air-sat-down--
baby-on-hack. Going to--'dopt it."
The good old lady did not receive
the now conner with the same enthu-
siasm, but sent for policeman, not
to arrest the Senator. but to remove
the encumbrance. BY this means the
poor little waif was returned to it's
frantic parents.
We are happy to say that both
Chandler and the baby as wellas
could be expected. s..f-e
THE OLDEST TlaEBER IN TtsE WORLD.
Probably the oldest timber in the
world " hich has been subjected to the
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