The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-01-02

gers-best English make, and gold
mounted. There aren't finer pail
in America"
"Oh, We'n find 'em. Well go or
a pilgrimage from house to house
asking if any lady there had left s
night-cap and found pair of dueling
! pistols"
In very good spirits the party
crossed the river, and enquired at
the baggage room in reference to
each and all black leather travelling
bags arrived that day, took notes
OF where they were sent, and set out
to follow them up. In due time
they reached the Continental, and as
luck would have it, met the unhappy
bridal pair just coming down stairs
IN charge of the policemen.
whats all thisP' enquired the
Captain.
"Oh, a couple Of burglars, caught
with valise full of stolen proDerty y
"a yalise. What kind of yalise po
A black leather valise. That's it
there"
"Here Stop !-Hallo Police
man Landlord ! It's all right.
You're all wrong. That's nv valise
It's all mistake. They got changed
at the depot. This lady and gentle
man are innocent. Here's their va
lise with night cap in it."
Great was the the laughter, multi
farious the comments, and deep the
interest of the crowd in all this dia-
logue, which they appeared to re-
gard as a delightful entertainment,
got up expressly for their amuse-
ment.
"Then you say this ere is yourn?'
said the policeman, relaxing his hold
on the bridegroom and confronting
the Captain.
"Yes, it's mine"
"And how did you come by the
spoonsP'
Spoons, you jackanapesP' said
the Captain. 'Pistols!-dueIing pis-
''Do you call these pistoIs?" said
the policeman, helding up one of the
silver spoons markod ''T. B."
The Captain astounded, gasped,
"ls's the wrong valise again, after
alp
"Stop! Not so FAST" said the po-
lice functionsry, now invested with
great dignity by the importance of
the affair he foudd himself engaged
in. "If so be as how you've got this
ere lady's valise, she's all right and
can go. But in that case this is
yourn.and it comes to you to account
for them are stolen spoons. Have
to take ye in charge, all four Of ye."
"Why, you impudent scoundrel r'
IrOared the Captain, 'I'll see you in
II wish I had my pistols here, I'd
teach you how to insult gentlemen p
shaking his fist.
The dispute waxed fast and fu-
rious. The outsiders began to take
part in it, and there is no telling how
it would have ended, had not an ex-
Iplosion followed by a heavy fall and
a scream of pain, been heard in an
adjoining room.
The crowd rushed to the scene of
the new attraction.
The door was fast. It was soon
burst open and the mystery ex-
lplained. The thief who had carried
off the Captains Yalise by mistake
for his own, had taken it up to his
room and opened it to gloat over the
booty he supposed it to contain,
thrusting his hand in after the spoons
In so doing he touched of one of
the hair triggers and the pistol had
gone of, the bullet making q round
hole through the side of the valise
and corresponding hole in the calf
Of his leg.
The wounded rascal was taken in
charge first by the policeman, and
then by the doctor; and the duelists
and the weddod pair struck up a
friendship on the score of their mu-
tual mishaps which eliminated in q
supper, where the fun was abundant
and where it would be hard to say
which was in the best spirit-the
captain for recovering his pistols, the
bride for getting her nightcap, the
bridegroom for escaping the station
house, or the duelists for escaping
each other. ALI resolved to "mark
that day with white a stone"