Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — Great Assumption. [ARTICLE]

Great Assumption.

“A few days ago I had a quarrel with a man, a stranger to me, which ended in a rough and tumble fight,” said a Stockton man to a companion, “and during the melee I struck my opponent on the head, with a rock. Gracious, I thought I’d killed him; his head swelled up terribly, he was confined to the house for a long time and I expected he would die, but he is still alive, although he never got over the effects of the blow.” “How’s that ?” said his friend. “ Well, sir, he still has the big head; he thinks he is a better man than I am.”— Stockton Maverick.