Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1869 — Stopped His Paper. [ARTICLE]

Stopped His Paper.

The following anecdote of the lata Mr. Swain, from the Philadelphia Press, is not without its moral in other latitudes than Pennsylvania: Many years ago, Mr. Swain, then editor of the PuUie Ledger , was hailed at the corner of Eighteenth and Chestnut streets by a very excited individual, who informed him in the most emphatic terms, ‘ I have stopped vour paper, sir,” and proceeded to explain the why and wherefore, all the time gesticulating wildly. “My gracious, sir, you don’t say so. Come with me to the office, and let us see if we cannot remedy the matter. It grieves me that any one should stop my paper.” Down Chestnut street to Third the two Sroceeded. Arriving at the office, Mr. wain said, “ Why, my dear sir, everything seems to be going on here as usual; I thought you had stopped my paper." Then and there the existed gentleman, whom the long walk, by the way, had partly cooled, said that he had stopped taking his one copy of the Ledger. Mr. Swain was profuse in his apologies for having misunderstood the nfeasing of his late subscriber’s words, and regretted that he had given him the tramp from Eghteenth street to Third, down Chestnut. The gentlemen went on his way home, n wiser if not n better man, marvelling at the stupidity of editors in general, and of Mr. Swain in particular. Be fore he left, however, he ordered that the Ledger he still spat to his address. Brevet Lieut. CoL Follett, of the Fourth United States Artillery, commited suicide at Fort Me Henry, recently, by •hooting himself through the heed.