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Show A Row. Our reporter felt that he was swindled out of a first-class item this morning. At midniirM the Found of a pistol shot startled him as he was placidly reclining on the magnificent couch which graces his reportorial apartment, when hurriedly seizing hU massive pencil and a bunch of paper he rushed for the Ecene of action. A crowd had assembled in front of the beer saloon under tho National hotel. Tho doors of tha saloon were closed and admittance refused to all, while a communioative bouI confidentially revealed re-vealed the information that a man waE "stretched out for dead" inside the place. Determined to know all the factB a visit was paid to the city hall, and a number ot the police force were hurriedly hur-riedly called for, the night guard having hav-ing been in other parts of the town. Returning, the door of the saloon was found open and four stalwart police officers, the night guard, wero seen emerging. Then it was discovered that thcro had been a 6mall-sizcd row inside, in which an old man had got knocked over a chair and was hurt ; while somebody, unknown, had fired a pistol from the ouLiidc down the stops to the saloon. But the gory corpse for breakfast was wanting. The assembled assem-bled reporters departed thoroughly disgusted, and denouncing the whole affair as little short of a " sell." |