The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-07

| This day brings to remembrance hfIy years
/ ago. II was the day OF the senersI election.
| Father. brother anu my sell went To- the polls
| Brother ana l went 10 the window 10 vote.
Ny tickets We're taken without hesitation Il
had voted the ear beioT,l When my BROTH
said:
as tsy father heree'
said Yes
..Tell him To come here ~
QuestIon-.Jonn, is thy sou Amos 2Is'
Auswer-''l es.
Q.-Huw long since?"
A.-.As near a. can recollect, about three
years.
Iuat settled it. At that time the old Key
stone state voted under the constitution of
IssI having two. Judges and sn Inspector. The
constitution oi ass gave one jucse aud Two
inspectors, each Inspector having the right Ia
choose a c.erk.
In voting for inspectors ouIy one could be-
voted Ior, neuce there Was Que oi each psiIty.
mad the honor Ia be Judge when LIueoIu
WAS elecIed President, IN the good oId bor-
ougn vi Washington, Pa My met eleven
years voting WAS ~iIn L. l.. B.aine, Esq, the
iither OF senator Blaine, of Maine he ws.s
always one oi the board. our township Was
stIobgly Quaker, hence there Always
one vi nloTe al the board.
wAKARUss, October IA, Is.s.
An Eiopemens - hh Fun In ~.
lBeloit Record, Oct. 81
our peopls will rec IIect Ed. r. Sheldon
VINO iOr "A TIME "A drug cierk IN this ,i,y
but who has not been seelI on our streets .ur
a few days fiOm tile tlct that liz. got uadIy
scared On SunUay morning last and ''lit-ouI'
for CoAeoruia, tnihhihg thai lie was about To
De used up.
TINS sudden desire on the part of sheldon
to reach IoncoTdla WAS caused by "A oman.
The iacts CONCERNING hIs scare are follows:
some OF the boys about town knew that he
was expecting 10 leave ON Monday morning
with "a certain young womau-Iiiat IN they
had all arrangements made 10 run away and
sheldon had procured tickets over the Z. Il.
to AIchIeon. sunday morning Sheldon was
told by "A hall dozen different PARTIES v ho
were posted, that the girls father and brotn-
er were on the lookout Ior him and one gen
tieni,n told him that they were .'Holy Ter
rors" and advised him To get out OF the way.
Inc result That E,d Was badly scared
that he sent one Oh the parties who was sell
ing" hin, to Tucker : ct able alter team post
haste 10 carry him To toncoriia in the quick
est possible time, no difference about the
cost. While the being got reauy,
with all the delay possible, Sheldon hopp.d
about like IA rooster ON II hot stove. Finally
the team was ready, and "A Mr.. Wilson, wno
was Que of the prIneipa In the sell. took
the lines and sent the team through the city
ON IA dead run SneIdon urging him To drive
taste and expecting To be shot To pieces
every moment The country was reached
and the team permitted to come
down TO trot, when Sheldon
ing that the team WAS the poorest he ever at
tempted To ride alter. lie said to Wilson:
tell you they Holy Terrors, and will
cut or shoot mc 10 pie well, says Wilson,
II there Is any yJhiAg of the kind 10 be done I
shall jump cut and throw up ley hands, as
have no desire 10 be shot and cut up. Shell
aOu got down on his knees ana ut sged MIN
not To desert him, and prayed for faster driv
ing. He then got Jp aud cursed the team,
and saw revOINCfs, bowie KNIVES, raw hlu,S,
and All other kind, oi instt uIS', utS Uf death
and future. Ia tI4U hanIs OI every body and
everywhere.
luFing all of this time the relatives of the
girl ndd Nc more licst of what was COntein-
plated by tine y1GHg people than you kind
Trstirr have tntJ Tie moon i made ul green
cheese. The EitI pulled OUT on the Monday
morning train To meet her brave "IOvey en-
az CoucOrdi.t, hc having no idea of how he
had been sod GuJi she reached him. The
OhC was rich one for ali hands, but the
deIui.d thing-~hould have been
restrained from joining him She Will rue
her runaway ~ long q, SHE lives cut OF re
spect for her parents, who live IN ia" cDun-
ny, and asc highly respected, We refrain
nom .ILInE hrI n.,me