Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1880-06-01
A New York 0rfun" out West
NE DECLINES TO GROW UP WITH DE-
TRoIT AND PRRFERs TO "FITE
INJUNs.n

NE DECLINES TO GROW UP WITH DE-
TRoIT AND PRRFERs TO "FITE
INJUNs."
One Of the little lamls picked up In
the streets of New York by White
law Reid and sent Wet to find
home was adopted by a Detroit family
about two months ago, and ere this Is
published Mr., Reid has received Zig
postal card announcing that his dear
lamb has gone West to fight Indians,
aad he needn't mind about sending
an another to take his place. This
New York lamb was thirteen years
old. He said so at the depot on his
arrival, and half an hour later he reit-
Grated the statement at the house. and
added "And IL you don't believe it,
then cal mo a liar That's the sort
Of spring-gun. I am, and don't you for.
get II !" They didn't forget 1t. He
gave them no chance to. He ate with
his fingers, wiped his mouth on his
sleeves, and gave the family to under
stand before supper was over that he
didn't come West TO have his hair
combed or hiB face washed ns a regu.
lar business. On his first evening no
slipped out, bad three fights aud q
htole dog, and when hunted up he was
about to take his beer in n saloon. -
The family expected to wrestls with
the boy for while, and they didn't
sit down on him until 1t became a
painful necessity. During his fret
week he sto Q S. In money, gold
chain, a revolver and pair of ear
rings, and he got drunk twice. When
reasoned with and asked TO do better
he took IA fresh chew Of tobacco and
replied, "0h, you Michigan folks are
too soft II feller can't have d good
lime what's use OF being All orfun?"
On Monday OF the second week he
sold the family dog to q stranger for a
quarter, threw the saw and axe into
the alley, and when locked up in q
closet he tore Sunday coat to pieces.
II was thought best 10 have n police
man talk 10 him. and one WAS called
in. lie put on hls fiercest look and
lectured the lamb for fifteen minutes,
, hut as soon IA he stopped for breath
tho young sinner replied: NOW Reo
here, old button, you are wasting
time ! know my little gait, do,
aud II you think I've come TO n village
like this to he blufled by anybody,
you've missed your train !" lie was
taken 10 Sunday School by the hadd.
lilo hadn't been there half an hour
when he was taken ont by the collar,
lie seemed anxious 10 punch the head
al every good little boy within halt q
nllls OF him, and he told the teach or
81 his class that when she could stuff
Moses In the bulrushes down him. II
would he after she had bleached out
fUr freckles, They gave him Sun
day School book TO 1T his case but lie
fitted 10 n crnck In the sidewalk on his
way home. When moral suasion had
no effect on tho wicked youth his
guardian tried n rod. He was bigger
than the boy and he walloped him,
hut within three hours two of the nuts
were taken OIL his buggy and thrown
away. There was n second aeance In
The woodshed, aud before dark u win
dow glass worth So was broken. That
orphan was faithfully aud duly per-
slstcntly wrestlcd with. He was coax
I'd and flatlered. flo was licked and
reasoned with. Ambition, gratitude,
fear and avarlce were alike appealed to
IN turn, but % he was tho first day. W
hs WINS the last. 4 few days ago hs
was told that he would be sent to the
Reform School ut Lansing. II there
was any further trouble with him. -
That night he atols 81 OF the cook, q
butcher knife from the pantry. a pie
from the aideboard and departed the
house, leaving on hla he'd note read
ing aH follow. "rhla town ar nc
place fur n New York offun. I'm 40
In out on the planes 10 ilte Injuna
II Will DO yuseless to foler me, fur |
can't he took alive ~