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Show j er inroriiiiiliou , ! Who. The Halt Lake 1 Ikhald talks ' abivit one l'hineas Sawyer, a memliej of Congress from Wisconsin, havftig j cut his throat, or done something ! desperate. As tlicre is not and has I not been any such person as Phineas I Sawver in either branch of the United j States National Legislature, whai Congress is referred ;o ? just for in- formaiioii, 110 further harm. Provo ; Tnucs. Of course! His mnielen name is, Piiiletus instead of l'hineas. lie ' hails from Os'.ikosb; has long run one of the shingle mills of that burgh; 1 was born in Vermont; has been a member of the Wisconsin legislature and ilayor of Oshkosh; was a delegate dele-gate to tlie Philadelphia convention of ltoG; was a member of the o'Jth, the 10th, and the 42nd Congress; ,1ms been elected lo the Llvd Congress : and, finally, did not cut his throat. If there is any further thirst for in formation, let the call. II tue writer of the item quoted above y, as quibbling on the use of l'hineas iur stead of Philelus, let him coiv-oIl himself with (lie knowledge that that was only a bull of one of those plug telegraphers in regard to whh'h he ''knows how it is hims.e'r' ba'.ing been there a long lime, |