Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — Jimmy’s Biggest Fare. [ARTICLE]

Jimmy’s Biggest Fare.

“ I made a nice little pot o’ money that way once, the biggest fare for one job I ever got in my life—sß,soo. I’ll tell ye how it came. I was a-standin’ by my horses one day, an’ a young feller came up to me—a line-lookin’, purty feller he was, too—and commenced talkin’ like he had some’at on his mind. He said he thought he could depend on me, though he had a ticklish sort o’ job, and I told him the bit o’ lead wasn’t dug that was to stop mv wind, and that he’d better try me. The upshot of it was that there was a girl coming down on the Sacramento boat that he was dead in love with. She was to come With her father, mother, brother and a negress. Kentuckians they was and didn’t Tike him, ‘ An’ they were a fighting crowd,’ he said. So he give me a letter which I was to get to her somehow. So I drives down there and finds the whole party in the cabin, the girl settin’ on a sofa betune her mother mi’ the servent. S# I goes along’to ’em, asks if they’d like a carriage, shoves my cards in their faces, and when I come to the gal reached down and dropped the letter in her lap, which I had it handy in my coat sleeve, and gew her a pinch at the same time. She dropped on it at once and goes into her cabin and reads it, and when she comes out 'whispers to me, ‘l’ll be ready at three o’clock in the morn in’.’ Well, at three o’clock him and I went down. I knowed the policemen well, and told ’em that, whatever they might hear, it was all right; no murder, no nothin’ Mke that,* and to keep shady. Soshe Hast In rowed her clothes out the window and then Jumped out herself on to the dock. He catched her in his arms and kissed; her like mpd. Then they jumped in an’ I drew top speed out to the Mission, but before we got away they found out she, was gone and yelled wateli and blue mur- ; der, but they couldn’t catch us, and so we druvout to the old church and Father Scannel married them. After gettin’ spliced they went to file Red House, and when they got there I says to him, ‘ Now, sir, my fare.’ ‘ Well,’ says he, ‘ what is it V 1 Anythin* ye plaze, sir,’ says I; and he counted me out $8,500 in gold slngst—fifty -dollar pieces. Well, that was the biggest fare I evep got; but -them days is all gone and the business is spoiled. There’s iio money in hackin’ nowadays.” —San Francisco Evening Post.