The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-30
Novel Suit in Chicago Cour


Mr. Pellce Ii. Webster is Il Democratic
politician OF Chicago. He Joined il com
pany OF rangers and went around with 4
big drum and Il torch during the time of
the election, and halloocd himself hoarse
shouting ior 'rildcn. Presently he came
across q man named John II. Burton,
who was Il bad Republican, John was
shouting as loud for Hayes and Wheeler
Us " Webster was for 1ilden and Hendricks.
At length these two ardent politicians
came together. They argued with one
another, and finally offered to back up
their respective opinions by betting. Mr..
Webster said he had parcel of land in
Humphrey Co., Tennessee, worth $4,000
which he would put up against any sim-
lar amount of property. Burton also had Il
tract of Illinois land which he valued at
SlO,OOU. 1t was agreed that deeds should
be made out to each other, which docn-
ments We're to be placed in the hands of
Henry Whippe, mutual acquaintance.
If Tilden was elected Whipple was TO
hand over the deed OF Burton's land to
Webster. If Hayes was elected, Whipple
was to hand over the deed OF WebSter's
land to Burton. The deeds We're eNecut-
ed and placed in Whippe's hands. When
election returns began to get rather
mixed, and when after while the Louis
lana Returning Board got the matter of
election in their own hands, Webster
walked around to Mr.. Whipp'e and in
formed him that his opinion was that
Tildcn was fairly elected, and that he
should not, on amy account, turn over the
deed to Burton. Whipple disregarded
the wishes of Webster, and soon after
HayeSs inauguration he handed Burton
the deed for Nebster's land. Webster
grieved over this treatment good deal,
and ON yesterday filed a voluminous bill
in chancery against Burton and Whipple,
ing upon the Court to set the transfer
aside and also asking for an injunction
restraining Burton from selling or en-
cumbering the property. The suit is Il
novel one, and one the like of which has
never been seen in Chicago courts before.
That was a touching incident, last week
at the death bed OF Mrs. Gaylord. Her
husband is an engineer on the Cincinnati
ii road, and upon reaching Richmond
found a dispatch announcing the failing
strength of his Wife The difficulty
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for him to get OIL. A second dispatch
arrived saying that she was sinking fast.
1t was then that he decided to run a loco
motive to Dayton. The dying wife
whose ears We're fast closing to all earth
ly sounds, listened for the familiar whistle
which she knew he always gave us the
signal OF approach. The hours flew fast,
and the sands Of life We're running very
swiftly; still she could not 90 without
saying farewell to him. At nightfall,
when the sun had set over her last day on
earth, when the chill of death was creep
ing over her and the pulse were falling,
her ear caught the sound of his coming
She alone heard it, and she said : "Will
is coming; that is his whistle" And he
reached the bedside in time to receive
her dying message of farewell.
The peculiarity of the fly is that he
always returns to the same spot but
it is the characteristic of the mosquito
that he always returns to another spot
Thus he differs from the leopard, which
does not change his spots. This is an
| important fact in natural history.