Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1884 — He Hissed the Governor’s Wife. [ARTICLE]

He Hissed the Governor’s Wife.

Senator Vance is a tall, broad-shoul-dered, handsome man of fifty-four years. He has a large, pleasant, open face, a bright, fun-loving eye, and luxuriant hair, and mustache of iron gray. He is a very popular man among his fellow Senators, and can tell more good stories than any of them. He likes a joke, and North Carolina is full of the evidences of his propensities in this direction. One day, when he was Governor of the State, it is said that he was riding on horseback along a road about ten miles from the capital when a -stranger overtook liim. The two men fell into conversation, and the stranger told Vance he had been to Baleigh to see the Governor, and that he had called at his house, but that he was not at home. “Did you see the Governor’s wife ?” said Vance. “Yes,” was the reply. “And did you not kiss her ?” * .The man, very much astonished, replied : “No, but she was very pretty, and I should have liked nothing better.” “Well, I’ve kissed her,” continued Vance, “and I never meet her but that Ido so.” And thereupon, after enjoying the man’s astonishment for a moment, he told him that he was the Governor.—Washington letter.