The Daily Advertiser

PITTSFIELD, Nov. 27.

Last week the following humorous circumstance happened here : A transient jockey came to the house of Mr. Jonathan Hubbard, and agreed to purchase a horse of him, for which he was to pay him 14l. in cash ; but as he said he had been at the Pownal races, and had lost both, he could not pay him, unless Mr. Hubbard would accompany him to Lebanon, in Connecticut, which he said was his native place, where he would pay him 45s. for his trouble. They accordingly set out, and on the road Mr. Hubbard began to suspect the honesty of his chapman, which the other perceived; however, they put up at a tavern in the evening, when the jockey told the landlord, privately, he did not like the company of his companion, and desired his horse might be put by himself, which was accordingly done. Some time in the evening he desired the boy, privately, to saddle his horse, and bring him to the door, which he did ; and on the boy's entering the room, the jockey quitted it, mounted his horse, rode off, and has not since been heard of.