Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1879 — Got Into the Wrong Buggy. [ARTICLE]

Got Into the Wrong Buggy.

Gen. Daniel Macauley drove up in front of the postoffice the other day, and, hurriedly jumping to the pavement, ran up the steps and disappeared in the building. Mrs. Macauley, who had been left in charge of the carriage, drove the horse around to the drinking fountain on Market street, and another lady piloted her equipage to the spot just vacated. A moment later the General emerged from one of the doors facing Pennsylvania street, with a frown on his face and his mail in both hands. Without stopping to look, he sprung into what he supposed to be his carriage, and, throwing a letter down into the lap of the lady at his side, exclaimed, as he fumbled about for the- lines: “ Here, wife, is another of those blanketyblanked lottery circulars.” A faint scream in his ear and a cry from the fountain of “ Oh, Dan !” aroused him to an understanding of the case, and as our informant moved on the General was extricating himself from the embarrassing situation with extraordinary grace and not a little precipitation.— Indianapolis Journal