New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-13
RETIRING FROM BUSINESS,

What the ColcAsl's business was nobod,
knew, nor did any Gaze particularly. HI
purchased for each only, and ne never
grumbled ar.the price OF any thing :ha: hi
wanted; who could ask fer more than that
Curious people often wondered how
when it had been fully two years since ths
Colonel. with every one else, abandoned
Duck Creek to the Chinese. he managed tG
spend money freely ana to lose consider.
abe at cards and horse races. In fact the
keeper of that one of the two Challen &c
Hill saloons which the Colonel did no. pat
ronizs was once heard to absent-mindedly
wonder whether the Colone. hadn't a
out double eagles and ''slugs' che coas;
name for fifty dollar gold pieces
When 80 important parsonage as bag
keeper INDUCED publicity in an idea. the
Inhabitants Of Challenge Hill. like good
Cal:foraiaue everywhere. considered them
solves in duty bound 20 give it grave con
sheraton, SO Tor few days certain indus.
money OF the Colonel. carefully weighed
some Of the brightest pieces and tested them
with acids and tasted them AID sawed them
in two, and retired them and melted them
up and had the Jumps assayed.
The result Was complete vindicatio1 OF
the Colonel, and q loss Of considerable Gus.
tom 70 the lnd.screec oa1.keeper.
/ No CClouol Was IS yOUU UatUr6u Mdu
as had ever been known q. Challenge Hill,
bat, boiog morta., the Colonel had his occa-
sionai times o. dependency, and one OF
them occurred after a series of races in
which ne had staked his all on his own bay
Mare, Tipsie, and had lost.
Looking rep-oachfully at his beloved ami.
ma failed 70 neal the aching void OF his
pockets, and drinking deeply, swearing elo-
quen-ly and giaring deiAut.y at all man
a.IY1o w. ms, nl
Inc boys az me saloon sr.npSrh.Zed most
teelinE.y With the Colonel; they were IN.
caasing II the.r invitations to drink. and
they even exhibited considerable Christian
fOrbea-ance when the Colonel sayacelv c.s-
sented with every one who advanced any
p-opos ION, no matter how incon.royerts.
DE.
Ba. unappreciated sympathy grows de-
c.ded.v tlresome TO the g1vec, and it was
with feeling Of relief that tho boys cav
rne colonel strike out Of the saloon, mount
Tipsle and ga..op fuciously away.
RIDING on horseback has always been con-
sidered an excellent sort OF exercise, and
fast riding is universally admitted to be one
of the most healthtul and delightful means
Of exhi.aration N the world.
But when naa is so absorbed in his ex
ercise that he will not stop to speak to q
friend, and when his exhilara:;on is 30 com.
ploL9 luht no lU-As las cScS AIOu1 VOL LUeoN-
ing thumbs pointing significantly into door
WAYS through which a man has often passed
while seeking brac:ng influences it is but
natural thai people should express some
wonder.
The Coone! was well known at To-day
Fiat, Cone Hand. Blazers, Murderer'e Bar
and several other vil ages through which
he passed, and as no one had been seen ia
precede him, betting men were seen Offering
ODDS tina. the colonel was running away
from somebody.
Strictly speaking. they were wrong. bu.
eney won a.! the money that had been
stakeo against them, for within half an
hour TINE there passed over the same road
al anxious looking individual, who re;ned
up IN front OF the principal saloon Of each
place. ana asked II the colonel had passed.
Had the gallant Colonel known that he
was followed and Oy whom, there would
nave bsen An extra election held at the lat
ter place very shortly after flor the uur.
suer was the constable Of Challenge Hill.
and tor constab.es and all officers of the
law the Colonel possessed hatred of un.
speakable intensity.
On gslloped the Colonel, following the
stage road which threaded the old min; q
camps on DUCK Greek; but suddenly he
turned abruptly out of the road, and
urged his horse through the young pines
anu bushes which grew thickiy by the
road, while the constable gslloped rapidly
on to the next camp.
There seemed to be no path through the
thicket into which the colonel had turned,
but Tipsis walked between the trees and