The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-29

MISTAKEN IDESTITY-THE ERROR 'ETO
WHICH A WOMAN TRAVELLER FELL on AN
Ono RAmRoAD.-The Columbus correspond.
cut oi the Cleveland Leader relieves the
mouotony of his accounts of the current
legislative news by such stories rs the fol-
lowing. which he relates under date OF the
pa instant:
"a committee of the Cnyahoga county
bar, consisting of Messrs. William Heisley,
John G. Grannis, Jason Garfield, and Henry
&. kanDsy, came down yesterday to look
after the interests of the bill abolishing
the Superior Court. While on the
train they became engaged in an ami.
mated conversation, in the course OF
WHICH Sis William was frequently and
familiNly addressed as BILL Opposite the
Cleveland party sat an Anticipated couple
who will bear little description. One was
an old man whose subdued expression of
countenance, bald head, and general air of
downheartedne<s spoke eloquently of years
Of martyrdom and long suffering under the
iron rule OF u shrewish wife. a suspicious
twinkle of q .secrely.roguish eye testified,
however, that be was generally ready to
improve any opportunity that might offer
Itself to escape from domestic tyranny and
indulge in amuSements which bis better half
would look upon with horror. The other
was great big MISUNDERSTANDING female,
with an awful eye, u hooked nose, and a blue
Siusham umbrella. Her general makeup
would have convinced the most careless stu
dent OF human nature that she was the law.
full ruler Of the unhappy being who sat be-
side her. This good lady had pricked up her
ears when the word 'Bill' first fell upon
them, and by the time she had heard it re-
IRA ftx,< ptn hn1 bad
herself up into q very excited state OF mind,
which speedily found vent in the following
TRADE: I say, Josiah, do you hear thaS
That chap over there with the ugly grin on
his face and the big chaw of tobacker in bis
Check is Cauady Bill. l heard them other
ielers cal! him Bill, and Ill bet my Sun
day hunntt his first names Canady. He's
the very same scoundril what goes through
the ears galtln' jist SIGH old fools as you to
play keerdS and cheatin' the last cent out OF
'e!n, and them other men is What they call
III cappers, jiSt as sure as you're born. Jo-
slah Jones, see it in your eye that he's the
very man what skinned you out O. that
twenty-scyia dollars and the silver watch
what ia give you when we was married, the
last time you went to Cleveland. But you
baiu't got the spunk of jickass rabbit, and
you'd let him go without ever doin' thing
TO stop bin. Nov you mind what say. YOU
run and boiler for the conductor, and Pll
jest set right down on that swindlin' sharper
ana hold him Till be comes. will as sure as
Lam liVin' woman"
The latter bali Of this rigamarelc had been
addressed as much to Sir William AS to the
husband oil the indignant female, and to say
that the wheelhorse Of the Cleveland Demo-
cracy was ostonished and alarmed ut her out
burst Is but to feebly express his feelings.
Seeing that she was about to carry her threat
into immediate execution, he arose quickly,
and, making profound bow, in trembling
tones thus explained matters:
"You are laborins under mistaken i'm.
preston, madam; indeed you are. by name
s. Heisicy, William. keisley, madam, aud