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Show DECAMPED.<br><br> On Friday last departed from our midst, one whose absence is missed to the tune of from $80 to $100 or even more. He came to town about four weeks ago, and registered as Edwin L. Kittle? at the Cache Valley House. He said he was "establishing agent of the sewing machine union." He might as well have claimed to be plenipotentiary extraordinary from Nimcompoopana for all the ?? ?? given of his real business. The long and the short of it is, he appears to have been nothing more than a fixer up of rheumatic, dyspeptic or otherwise disordered sewing machines; a sort of an itinerant tinker with lofty ideas. Some days before he left he hired a fine horse and a new buggy at Reese's livery stables, and returned in half an hour, with the buggy badly broken, and the horse soiled and severely injured. He promised to make the damage good, and to pay for repairs on the buggy. The day before the buggy was finished, however, he vamoosed, leaving unpaid a board bill of a considerable amount, the damage done to the horse and buggy of Mr. Reese, and a previous bill for the use of a horse and buggy of some $7. We have not learned what others be left the poorer for his acquaintance.<br><br> And yet this fellow found no difficulty in obtaining introductions to many young ladies of Logan society, and at one or two dances he was classed as a gentleman of reputation and standing by them. Singular, eh? |