Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1878 — A Moving Event. [ARTICLE]

A Moving Event.

A letter from Chicago says: Speaking of queer things in the history of house-renting, certainly the queerest which has ever came to my notice occurred to a friend of mine, the merit of its strangeness being its literal truth. A little more than a year ago he rented a house to a party who was a stranger, but who, paying his first month’s rentin advance, and having every appearance of being a respectable man, was counted by the agent as a good tenant. The first of the second month, when my friend went to collect his rent, imagine his surprise at not finding any house upon the lot. Some time during the month the house had been moved away, and to this day he has been unable to find a sign or trace of it. I have often heard of tenants leaving a house without paying their rent, but this is the first case I ever knew or heard of where the tenant not only got away with his rent, but with the house also. They do these things differently iD Chicago, you know. . - *