Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1869 — Til for Tat. [ARTICLE]

Til for Tat.

Mu. Shirley Brooks tellsthe lllustrated London. News a rather singular story of a bit of meanness and the appropriate revenge which followed it. When tbePrince of Wales lately visited Hull, there was a deslic to ornament, in his honor, the monument in that city erected to the memory of Wilberforce. But the column was lofty and not easily climbed, and it was hard to find any one to make the ascent and wreathe it' With flowers and foliage. The authorities offered a money reward to any man who wou’d accomplish the task. After some time, two sailors from one of Her Majesty’s ships undertook the job, and performed it well. They applied lor the reward, but the local officers refused to pay it, on the ground that, being servants of. the Queen, it was no more than the duty of the sailors to decorate the shaft of the Prince. Beer was offered in lieu of the expected guineas, and the sailors drank it and went their way. But during the night before the arrival of the royal guest, all the ornament was torn a way, by lhe same strong and skillful hands that had carried it aloft. Moreover, a .small ladder, decidedly not an ornament to the column, was left sticking there, where no ona could get at it. The loyal authorities of Hull could only hope that the Prince did not observe the barrenness and disfigurement of the Wilberfome column, as ho passed it. TULX»p has import«d’lW,flM).‘XK» Jw »f sns Ifirobv lhe part