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™, The editor of the Memphis Avalanche swoops 

 thus mildly down upon a correspondent who posted 

 him as a Radical : — "While he was writing the first 

 word, the middle, dotting his i's, crossing his t's, 

 and punching his period, he knew he was concoct- 

 ing a sentence that was saturated with infamy and 

 reeking with falsehood." — Exchange. 



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WAS told by the physician that a 

 Southern climate would improve my 

 health, and so I went down to Tennes- 

 see, and got a berth on the Morning Glory 

 and Johnson County War- Whoop as asso- 

 ciate editor. When I went on duty I 

 found the chief editor sitting tilted back 

 in a three-legged chair with his feet on a pine table. There was another pine 

 table in the room and another afflicted chair, and both were half buried under 



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