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Show WOUDN'T STAND TOR IT. To Representative ! Johnson of South Carolina, Is ascribed this story: "When the .boys In blue had gone through with their little torchlight procession pro-cession at Columbia, the capital of my State, a lot of lone chimneys stood as grim sentinels around the smoking ruins. A Union soldier was cracking Jokes at tbe expense of the stay-at-home Rebs and made the remark: " 'You are queer people down here. Tou build your houses mighty funny you put up your chimneys first.' "That was enough for the Reb and with the reply that it was bad enough to have the homes burned without being twitted sbout the ruins, he made a dive for the Yank, and there was about the liveliest scrap that city ever witnessed.". y ' - v , ' ' |