Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1890-01-03
MISTAKES WILL HAPPEN.


" NJ, QlAp.
The longer ono lives the lose enthu-
aiasm he has to rush man out under q
tree and swing him up to a limb because
be happens to be riding horse stolen the
week before. It's the easiest thing ia the
TO be mistaken aud It's pretty good idea
10 20 slow until you know you are dead
right.
One night last spIing I was At the
bsmarck House In Decatur, ,tAla. The
MOTEL was oveIlull. and not only had to
slsep In room with four beds In It but
there wofetwo meu to . bed, 1t was
either that or walk tho verauds, and SO
We turned In together aud went TO sleep.
rart OF tho crowd was TO get up At 3
O'Clock In the morning, and was sound
ast ep when my partner crcpt cut of bed
to take the train. In fact ali were out OF
the room when | Awoke, and breakfa fact
was on downstairs. l dressed aud went
down without finding anything out OF the
way, and was smoking an After-break fast
| cigar when . man approached aud OBJ
served
.'sirl You arc my prisonerl'
Charged with murder, l supposep
lanehingly querled.
Almost As bad, cir. It's grand lar
ooil But you don't mean ttF'
"ReAd this, SIR
And he handed me . telegram from a
station twenty miles north Of Decatur,
which read:
ARREST and hold the man who shared
the bed with me In room AZ. lie stole
all my money. Hunt"
1 tried to explain. but the con stable
had duty 10 perform, and he performed
II. He was 10 hold me until Hunt could
get bsck. and we sat together on tho
vcrands for the next Two hours. Then
man dropped OF tho south-bound passen-
ger train and rushed up to US with the
explanation:
"Aal you scoundrel. but I was too
sharp for your
"ls your name HuntF
"Yes. SIR"
well. want An explanation of this
matter. was the last ono up, and Z
you were robbed don't Zee how-,...
lies got my coat on his b. -i'S"'
herrp shouted Hunt. .r
30 had. but 1t fitted ,,.n%
OF the same cloth and nocks, u u" In , n"
occasion to inspecs. wallet with 5000 in
IL AMI ~ Hn.c's back was my oyerco.t.
liz vas Ia namc for the change, having
got M, n st aud taken my coat. He did
1ot ,lscover the mistake until he went
= pay his fare on the tram.
One day In Kentucky town went to
livery stable to get "a horse Tor . ride
Into the country. After the rig was
ready it looked 50 much like n thunder
shower that decided not to take 1t out,
A stranger came in Just as | was going
out, and later on saw him drive By the
hotel with the horse. Three days later
and lH0 miles away sheriff came up to
my room at the hotel and said:
swell, you'll have to 10 with me-"
(which way?"
81 he Jail wgy."
"For WHAT
"steaiipg horse and buggy a, Blank
town"
"But never did"
"Oh, come Low, be reasonable. It's %
dead sure thing on You, and Ii you'll tell
mo where the rig IL IN remember the
favor"
my friend, did you over hear of Davy
CrockuttY' asked.
"Heaps OF times"
'He had motto, you know"
"Yes, and I've followed 1t. Here's
your description 10 Z dot, and I'm going
right Ahead. Where did you leave tue
rig?"
l warned him that he was making A
mistake, but he rolled his tongue In Ills
cheek aud said no would take the
chances.
therefore accompanied the Sheriff to
the county Jail. where found two white
men and four negroes locked up for va
ri0us ofitnses Their greeting was rs
hearty aud cordial Ms could desire, and
the Sheriff had no sooner departed than l
was patted on the back and invited to
tell my story. told 1t, aud was laughed
at Tor trying to stuff old veterans with
Gny sucn chat. slept On = pine bench
In one OF tho cells, aud was rather glad
when morning came. knew the Sheriff
had telegraphed for the livery man 10
come OIL and Identity mo, and put in
about TOUR hours pisctieiug on the way
meant to crush him when he appeared.
At 10 O'clock when he appeared, / was
trying to understand . game OF cards
called euchre, or echo, or somethiI z like
that My partner wAs negro, In Tor
cutting somebody with . r. zor, And !
remember be was saying that he had .
louo hand and had mOpped the noor with
the vicious opposition. 1t might have
been lone hand, or . solitary hand, OF
. full hand-l can't say. rememb 7,
however, that some OF the cArds had
chfoinos OIL them, while others were COW
cred with spCta The iIveryman came In
with look OF fond expectancy In each
eye, but the moment he saw INC his law
tell and he gasped:
"Why, you haven't got him here for
stealing my rig?"
"Why, OF course. Isn't he the chapa'
"Wcll, you are an idiot and no mis-
takel You eau get ready to sweat for
thisl"
But 1t turned out that the liysryman
had given my description In place OF the
other mans, having mixed the two OF
US up. The Sheriff offered me $500 at the
very first pop to give him a receipt for
damages, and guess he would have
come up to $4,000 II had hung out.
think the wine and cigars cost him about
SIS, and don't believe his hair has
got back to its old position yet.
And IT also happened that once went
into = jewelers., In Nashville TO get a
Kernel OF corn. peanut khuck. or sptue