Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — A Recommend. [ARTICLE]

A Recommend.

When Justice Potter reached his office yesterday morning a man about forty years old and decidedly old-fashioned in look was there waiting for him. He talked about the weather for a while, and then remarked: “ A man down here on Larned street sent me to you, saying that you could recommend me to some nice-looking widow.” The court has become used to such applications, and without betraying any surprise he gave the stranger written directions to find a widow who lives in the northern part of the city. The man went away, but returned in the course of two hours, one of his eyes growing black and blue, a scratch on his nose, a torn coatcollar, and a generally unsettled look. He sat down, pulled up his pant leg to exhibit the marks of a dog-bite, pointed to his eye and grimly observed: “I believe you recommended me to a widow.” “Yes." . “ But she didn’t want to marry—didn’t seem to care anything about the holy bonds of wedlock!” “I didn’t think she would!” sighed his Honor, as he turned to his law books again. The stranger looked at him for five or six minutes, and then .yent out without another word.— Detroit Free Press.