Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-06-17

knife in the Arst ones neck. This Led
70 quite family rov, and the citizens
OF the place, male and female, took
charge of both the lady and gentleman
In the case and ran them oot of town
with bells on. Consequently, society
vas all torn mp. ard the stores hadn't
taken their skaters down yet, aud /
moved on.
"As Franklin things were compare
lively quiet A young lady had eloped
with a man her father had a erudge
against, and the old man had damned
the life nearly out of the young fellow
and taken the girl away from him.
There was a constable looking for tie
old san when got there. but there was
no stir.
AT Oil City met a man who was
looking for team and wagon. his wife,
three children, and a man that used to
clerk for him up in York State some
where. He had tracked them as far ss
Iltusville, bat there they gave him the
slip. He seemed TO take things pretty
cool. unless there was something hot
In what he took at the bar every ten
minutes.
AT Butler man 81 years old, with
Observation-Disclosures old enough to be
married, had come in from the back
country and was looking for some one
to marry him to girl not yet Is. He
was leading her around by the hand.
This didn't stop business in the place.
but II made talk. He vasp't married vet
when | left. The girl was nice looking.
neat and smart, and / wondered what
she could be thinking of. / found cut
later that the old man had tip top farm
and $500 in cash.
AT Petrolia the people were out look
ing for wild man. They hadn't lost
one. but they seemed anxious to find
TINS one, because he was chiefly engaged
In butchering sheep and things that are
usually left around loose in the fields
out there. Before the wild man came TO
disturb them long headed old citizen
had been robbed for the third time by
masked burglars. He had the habit of
keeping a hundred thousand dollars or
50 stuck away in coffee-pots, stockings,
old boots and sach, because he didn't
believe In banks. The folks were so broke
up over the wild man that thought it
would be too bad to mention business to
them. 80 l grabbed nay gripsack and
shook the place.
got to Port Allegheny Just in time
TO hear of the suicide of an old gentle |
man who had four living wives, and who |
had tired of life, after Burning down |
the barns of the fourth. Things were |
quiet, though. and the funeral was small. |
1 got on to the Erie road at Clean, and |
turned up at HornellsvilIe in time to see
a horse running away at the rate of |
twenty miles an hour with a corpulent |
gentleman of Teutonio cast of features.
The gentleman attempted to Jump out,
and did. But he fell in front of the
wagon, and both wheels went over him
right at the belt. Thst upset the wagon.
The gentleman got up aud walked to a
board fence and laid down. Some men
carried him into hotel. The horse and
wagon went on. In a few minutes they
came back. The horse was trottinp
gently A stout lady sat in the wagon
driving. 1t turned out to be the gentle
mans wife. She had stopped the horse
and righted things, and came back to
see what was the matter. Her husband
oreathed hard for while, then took
glass Of beer, got in toe wagon and the
two drove away As cheerful as if nothing
had happened.
don't know what else would have
happened on my trip if / hadn't Ia
ken a sleeping car at Hornellsville and
come right straight through to New
York"