Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — Losing a Postoffice. [ARTICLE]

Losing a Postoffice.

In the early days of Michigan, when many of the postoffices were carried in the hats of the postmasters, a postmaster in Livingston County was out in the woods one day, and lost several letters from the hat. A day or two after that a pioneer named Bailey came to his house and inquired if there wm any mail for him.” “There was a letter for you, Bill, but I’ve lost it, ” was the reply. “When?” “ T’other day in the woods;” “Well, I want that letter. ” “But ye can’t get it. I’m sorry I lost it, but that’s all I can do.” “Then I’ll have you removed from office.” “Look-a-here, Bill Bailey,” said the official, as he began to skin off his coat, “I was appointed to hold this postofiioe, and I’m bound to do it. As a private citizen I have no hard feelin’s agin you; as postmaster I lost a letter writ to you by your sister in York State; as a representative of this great and awful Government I want to say to you that if I hear two more words of sass from your throat, I ? ll suppress the insurrection by hanging you to the nearest tree, so help me God, sir!” Mr. Bailey’was.'FbwevefT’pefmitteff to make a hunt in the woods for his letter, and he found it, and the insurrection was suppressed.— Detroit Free Press.

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