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Show . " 'FEARFUL SHOOTING AFFRAY ! , j Qcmrred in thi$ City, !j ;, Jan. 22 J882. i mo uv Lmr 8UT SEVERAL PEOPLE FEARFULLY SCARED. , . .. In this great land of ours, things do not always run any-loo smooth for maukind. We all have our littlt IJtrpubUs, even in managing a Btove. Stoves are obstinate pieces of furnU ; ture, eometimes. They will sraohe, h occasionally, following ex-Hinples set , them Smoking fills up the aveuues and clogs the passages. So it was with a stove in one of the stores of this u city, on the 23rd inet. The stove-pi )e was clOged by ha ing tod much flmoke I' , , ' i ')mb ihrough its avenues, and it and - : 1 . " tho stove became obstiuate; thty .' ." wouldn't draw, but was filling the , store with smoke. 86 T .toldE to load hie shot gun with pow$tr and ad, -and shoot the sootJ(out of the 1 1 ; pipe, so to speak, und clean the avenues aven-ues thejeof. You know, Gboetincr the soot out savea paying the tinner 50 cente to clean the pipe. Accordingly, Accord-ingly, E got the gun, and loaded it (the bhoys say he, put in ,a double handful of powder . and rammed in, two gunny acks,) and all things "were made ready for the charge. The gun loaded, the end pf the pipe was removed re-moved from the. stove andlhe muzzle of the gun was pWed inside and was dischurged. , Wl.o'tl of thought it! St acted like a charm! Two leuutlis of stove pipe were laid oui flat, ready for the tinner to re-model into something else; as they were no more suitable for stove-pipe, nnd the runuindtr came down lo"the floor with the verrific report., re-port., Two chandeliers and several lamps demolished, The news spread like wild-fire that ihey had had a shoo'ing scrape at the to see if Bob was hurt. ' ! , Fortunuteiy no one "bodily' injured, in-jured, but all were terriblv scared". Tun'sel - |