Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1888 — Anecdotes of Greeley. [ARTICLE]

Anecdotes of Greeley.

T. C. Evans. Mr. Greeley was always sensitive to errors in his proofs, and sometimes broke loose in thunders of reprobation A serious blunder of this sort turned the milk of his kindness into koumiss, which exploded and deluged the office, making printers and proof readers .pale as the element which engulfed them. An inverted comma stung him like a mosquito. A mistake in a table of election returns set him into such fury as the red flag of the picador kindles in the Catalonian bull. “Henderson,” he said once to the compiler of these sterile statistics, who had made an error of two votes in the returns from the Molly-muck-a-chuck district in the Mooseiucmaguntic region of Northeastern Maine. “I discharge you; I don’t want to see your face around here any more.” But Henderson was at his post as usual the next morning. “How is this, Henderson?” said George Ripley, as he came into the office at his customary hour ‘‘l thought Mr. Greeley discharged you yesterday.” “Yes, he did,” said Henderson, “bat I didn’t put any confidence ya what he said.” One day Mr: Greeley wrote that if a man were to shoot haphazard out of a window, he would be morally responsible for any flarm he might do. In print the “haphazard” became “half a yard,” a rhetorical conversion which so depressed Mr. Greeley’s Bpirits that be had no strenghth left to discharge anybody, not even Henderson, which was his constant resource in great crises;; I '■ 1 '