Weekly courier-journal

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The Courier-Journal Corrt

pondent's Narrow Escape

From Death

He Becomes Private Secretary

To ths New President At

1 Port Au Prince"

AsA Otoui Valuable Information

As To tht Homo Life of

That Bnler

Growta Weary of

Ho Escapes On

ofrWar

His Duties

a Man-

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special Correspondence of ths Oourlsr

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Fort au Prince Dee 85— When Mr It

tune wbo was to a certain extent President

I Heytl asked me to accept the poalilun

of private secretary to bli auguat person X

t once referred the matter to ueneral Har

rison This was while the President-elect

was atlU engaged In choosing hi own secro

Uir so I wrote to ask wheiher X should

wait any longer for him or go to HajU I

understood him to reply that I oould go to

Uayti at least tlie place he mentioned aa

spelled wtfh a big IL

I tfaeh wrote to Mr Legitime for terms

and the amount of my fare -by ateamer to

tuo Hay Mati palace lie replied that he

waa iust ttaning In and couldn't give mo

much at first but If I would begin for my

board and washing and grow up with the

business ho thought we might bo happy yet

As to the fare he bad been unable u find

the change anywbeie about hla ofllolal

hppsrel but he suggested that I fcould brace

bis representative In this city for It and use

the national credit If I thought It would do

any good I succeeded in making the

necessary raise and a few daya later i

pulled the door-bell of the national palace

at Port au Prnre

The palace Is a handsome square-rigged

building of two stories and an attic A

couple ofeoats of paint would put it In

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Weekly courier-journal. (1889). Louisville [Ky.], 1889-01-07. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84038560/1889-01-07/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Weekly courier-journal, 1889-01-07.