Show He Skipped For Camp Last Saturday night about 1 oclock a gentleman of this city living on Wes Third South street left his uptown place of business and started for his home When between First and Second East a soldier dressed in citizen clothes jumped up from a bunch of weeds beside the walk and called out Who comes there The astonished gentleman stopped to take in the situation and started to pass when he was challenged three times to halt on threats of shooting Naturally enough this caused a query in his mind and he asked the strangelyacting person what he meant by such dangerous practice prac-tice of midnight tactics The fellow informed in-formed him that he belonged to Genera McCooks skirmishers and had a squad of men along the road to shoot if orders were not obeyed The gentleman perceived per-ceived that the soldier was out of his head and approaching him he played the officer racket telling him if he did not skip for camp he would be run in The fellow showed his willingness to goby go-by starting up the road for the Post at a race horse speed |