Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — Swapped Harness. [ARTICLE]

Swapped Harness.

A Commercial correspondent visiting Mentor on the 15th tells how Gen. Garfield swapped harness, as follows i* * Gen. Garfield had no other caUem today, but yesterday Prof. 0. D. Wilber, of Illinois, called, and made the General a long call. They were class-mates at Williams. Prof. Wilbur remained tPI late at Dig at, indeed so late that the General had not the heart in him to keep his hired man up to hitch up the Professor’s horse. Accordingly the hired man retired, and when Prof. Wilbur was ready to leave Lavrnflerd Gen. Garfield went to the barn and hitched up hia horse. The next morning the hired man die ' covered that one of the General’s best harnesses was gone, and a rather poor one left in its stead, A little inquiry showed that the President-elect had j>ut on the livery ; horse - ' which his friend had driven over from Painesville, his own harnesses.