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Show COSSIP OF THE TOWN. "There goes Halloway,'' said a night-owl last evening to The Gossiper, as a slim, trimly built man quietly glided around the Godbe-Pitts corner, "and he is the slickest sure-thing man that ever made Zion a stamping stamp-ing ground. He not only bunkoed the ver-danls ver-danls here last year right and left but he also pulled the wool over the eyes of Justice Solemon Laney when he held down the seat now filled by Kesler. H&Moway was arrested for vagrancy and an obliging friend deposited depos-ited $$3 for his appearance at 10 o'clock the next morning for trial. He appeared promptly on time but asked and secured a continuance until 8 o'clock. At that hour he was not on the mourner's bench, but shortly after hie obliging friend appeared and demanded his money, setting up the claim that he had only gone Halloway'a security se-curity until 10 o'clock. The court saw the point, declared judicially that It was well taken and anteed the boodle.. Halloway was no longer seen on the rialto and this is the first time his familiar phiz bee passed before my ken for nearly a yeor. ' A younff disciple of Blackatone whose oratorical abilities are conceded to be of the A 1 brand and hia particular friend, a young man whose dexterity with the pen ia ptoauetive of shekels galore, recently paid a party visit to a young lady in this city whose particular fad is the collection of wild grasses and ferns. It is also her pleasure to at times profusely decorate her reception room with the choicest specimens of Flora's Kingdom, and their beauty did ot escape the humorlstic eye of the pen-wielder. After the weather had been disoussed he said, in hi most winning man- mer, "Miss , what quantities of dried grasses you have. Nice room, I should say, for a donkey to get into!" Then he glanced maliciously at hie friend, the orator, but tbe Mephistophclian smile vanished when the ydung lady sweetly replied, "yes, I am fond of them. Make yourself at home." Then the young orator' with the hyperion bang laughed aloud. The Gosmper. |