The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-09-26
THE COUNTY CLERK GOT MAD.
rhe True story Of nm Unfortunate Nhsturr
Ia II Pike County Fire Department.

Ed. Mott tells this funny story in the
New York S,n:-The County Clerk has
resigned as q member OF the Milford
Fire Department, Of which he. together
with n flty-foot hook and ladder truck
and the cx-District Attorney, had long
been an important appurtcnance. He
was led to sever his connection with the
department by what he alleges was n
piece Of deception on the part oi the ex.
District Attorney, by which deception
his usefulness and two panels Of board
fence were simultaneously impaired,
and bis dignity as citizen, a man, and
n grandfather greatly injured.
According 20 the accepted account OF
the affair, it seems that at session OF
the boys at the Crissmal House the
athletic exercise came up for discil5oion,
and much difference of opinion was found
TO eSsist as 70 tho individual merits OF
certain pedestrians. This discussion
grew warm, and the cx-District Attorney
was finally prompted to remark that
when 1t came right down to powers of
endurance as pedestrian, he felt that
he himself would never Ire called upon
to take back seat for any one, where.
upon the County Clerk, who had failed
to agree with tho ex.District Attorney
on any point during The evening, ejacu.
lated rather contemptuously TINT some
pcOple could do more wonderful things
with their mouths in ten minutes than
they could perfottn with their hands and
feet in six months. This was taken by
the ex-District Attorney as direct per.
scnal allusion, and lie obtained the
floor TO remark that if some people
whom he might mention would mix
more water with what they drank they
would probably be better qualified fOr
steady pedestrian exercises themselves.
The County Clerk replied with some
heat tlat, water or no #ater, lie would
bet So with the ex-District Attorney, il
the latter thought he could borrow the
money to put up, that he (the County
Clerk would walk the shoes off of him
(the OK. District Attorney the best day
he ever saw, and do it easy. Tho ex.
District Attorney said that was all right,
and if the County Clerk wanted to get
mad he could get mad and be blamed to
inst os much as any one in the crowd
'rhc Comfy Clerk said if that was tbc
Gaze il might not be bad ilca for tbc
cx-District Attorney to show little, as
they had been sitting there all the even
ing, md he hadn't seemed to be very
anxious to sling much around. 1t n moi
known what the OK. Distric. Attorney IN.
tended TO reply. or what the result O,
This bandying Of pleasantries might hay,
been. for lust then Jake Schorr til,
stage driver who was returning from ,
late train nj Port Jcryis came dnshlnl
down tho rood with his team and erwin,
Fire +; "Firc I" at the top of his lungs
Then tbcrc was burrvipp 10 ond f.,
omong the boys The hook and lodjc
trucL woa bouscd in tbe Cr;ssm,n U,ms,
L,rn MI Corntv CIorly and 40 "x
. n;a..;,, A,tornon rsLo5 for ~ - o,aA
TLo former ,n;zed hold of n NJ tbo roor
hr G thn ,ott"r o bnnS,od m - ,%o ho 'to tono ar
Tha Th' ;I, o % ,"'s VOW dari, T Tna sos IT,, W. y,
,rns no nm;oIIv % toLon ont and ,ha Count,
CiorI % % snn,,oJ. ~ ' :
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NOW ICY her go, boys IN push pc
nShiha aua you %il"iu'e % 'mG G,, tongue.
lhen he ,'uueu 70 illiiiseli' a II see no" ,
mlch peuestrlahism lncre Is III 1hat DIS
trict Attorney now, you pet. nes go
Sorc this run il over"
, Away they went. The fire was IN
i town tbreo.onnrters of a mile away
! Be(ore they had gone half a block til
/ Comfy Clerk was clearing ten feet c
| ground Mt every step.
$ "Sweet Christmas v"thoughthe. "whi
nm Internal gait them bows have strucl
= II they keep that up the District Al
. toneyIi be dead before he gets there
2 and I'll bet on it"
| by this time the County, Clerks fec
barely mad time to touch the ground a
all. His hat was gone, and he swunI
along behind the truck like kite tail il
the wind.
"If he amt runner, I'm blowed T
he said. "If tLey don't get to that fir,
plame sooh' OF IL ho ooh i"ii ocau' Il
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