Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1885 — Pilfering the President’s Message. [ARTICLE]

Pilfering the President’s Message.

Among other adventurers who figured at Washington early in 1862 was the Chevalier Wykoff, who was really collecting news for the New York Herald, but who professed to be the first gentleman on the land, and issued his edicts on all matters concerning society. At last he was summoned before a committee of the House of 1^ mm and asked from had obtained in advance a pojdrcm oj the Prudent’s message, wdicWjie tiauM telegraphed to his employ Notofl rietv with him was fame, andfhe mystesß riously refused to state frocJ whom hfl had received the document, /Laying thafl it came to him under an obligation ofl strict secrecy which he *elt himselfl bound to respect. It was rumored generally believt d that Wykoff obtained a sight at the message from Mrs. Linfl| coin, who used to take him to her carriage and listen attentively his accounts of European courts. President was much annoyed by Ihfl scandal and visited the committee coiHI fideutally, while General Sickles val active in arranging the afiair. WykoHg finally told the committee that the ffl formation wan furnished to him bifl| man named Watt, a gardner at White Honse, whose wife was JfoHg Lincoln’s waiting-maid, and his exnfHl nation was accepted. Congress t£jH| nothing with Watt, w!,o waa as a seeond lieutenant in - 1 tJ> u I'erk’f Poore, >n Boston HudijMm What 's in a Name. - “Matilda, what man was that yifl| were talking to ont at the gate iaHH night," said Mrs. Yerger to her colorfll help. 9H “He was my brudder. He ha? J(Hff| come to Austin from Injun Creek.” WBm. “ What's his name ?” ... “Peter Jones.” MSB “Hut your name is Snowball. * “Ves, you see Pete’s dene been tomM ried. Dut's de reason we hasn’t g.v HH same name no moah. Es bfl|§ married. I would hah some aWWtMHH too.”-r Texas Sifting r. , Mm