Show three a m at the rather unreasonable lour of three last tuesday morning the members of our household acio awakened by the sudden report of a gun in front of our residence by strains of instrumental masic and loud huz zas of courso wo rushed and opened the door when lo 10 there appeared to our somewhat astonished gazo nl most a score of our fellow citizens who seem to have chosen that rather curious timo for to congratulate us upon the successful issue of the election on the day previous after numerous handshakes repeated hurrahs and booming salutes of musketry our noisy nocturnal albeit well meaning visitors departed to congratulate some other unfortunate recipient of elective honors leaving our neighbors laboring under the delusion that that noisy family next door acro fraternizing with aonie of alo high privates from fort camaron Cam cron the demonstration however was evidently well meant and believing it to bo such wo bog leave to tender our thanks to the and factors thereof for the marked yet peculiar evidence of their esteem in making us the ais it respectfully apologizing apologising to conr neighbors of course for tho interrupted thereby |