Lightning Work

By our own Col. Frank Wolford, member of Congress from this (the 11th) district, the following was related one day last week:"When I was first married, I asked my wife to be my mate early in the morning, got married before breakfast, after breakfast bought me a farm and started to pick out a location for a house.

"I met the overseer of the county road, who was that day going to work the road and had almost two hundred hands. I told him I had bought the farm and was on my way to select a spot for my house. He remarked to me if I would furnish him three gallons of whisky he would take his hands and build my house that day.

"I told him I would see him in his grave before I would give him or his hands one drop of whisky. Then he asked me for $5. I gave this to him, and he called up his force and built the house that day, and it was the best house I ever saw--12 feet square. I moved into the house before sundown."