The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

Everyday Incident. ~ thc kaltetisI
Life.
WILL BIZ HKRE.--We rcceived word the
other day from Colonel John Fairbanks,
who Il running cactus farm about TWEEN
~ miles west OF town, that be would try
and come In some time within a fortnight
and shoot rs full Of lead. The colonel
seems to have got riled because we blasted
his political ambition by proving that he
sold himself 70 both parties last year and
ought to be rode out OF Arizona on q three
cornered rail-
We shall be home every day IN the week
for the next month. and the colonel needn't
mind knocking on the door when he calls
He may just walk right in and begin pop
ping away, and II he downs Ms no one
about the Office win doanything 70 prevent
his getting away. We can feel our private
graveyard just aching for another victim.
TOLD HIM S0.-On several different oc
casions we have said to Ben Williams
through these columns that this town
couldn't appreciate man Of his eccentric
conduct. Ben didn't believe us. He con-
tinued to drink, quarrel and shoot at
everybody who differed with him on Bib
lical questions, and last night the boys
took him ont and gave him four dozen
lashes on the bare back and asked him II
he wanted change Of climate. He did
He wanted II bad. He was hunting for it
when last seen. and II he Is wise he won't
return here for some time to come.
In this connection Il may be well to say
. few words TO Hank White. He has
tried to kill three Or four men Ia the last
four weeks, and we believe him 70 be the
party who fired dead jackass rabbit
through our bedroom window one night
Last week. Unless he makes = great change
In his conduct the boys will get up sur.
prise party on him soon, and their little
affairs are never pulled on without some
one getting hurt.
CURIOUS COINCIDENCE MOST Of our cifi.
zens will readily recall to mind Major
Blackshaw, who spent some two weeks
here last summer trying to break the faro
banks. II IL perhaps needless TO say that
be did not succeed. The major visited ua
almost daily, and on one occasion showed
ms q human ear which had once belonged
20 q man in Prescott who called him q liar.
We believe he claimed to have carried the
ear for sixteen years.
It seems that when the major left here
be went north, and one day he fell in with
. man and exhibited the relic. The stran-
ger turned out to be q brother Of the man
who lost the ear. and he not only took pos
session OF it, but Of both Of the majors to
boot. The latter will now know how II
seems to have somebody using his ears to
put an edge on jackknife, and we can't
say We feel q bit sorry for him.
L0cATED.-As there was some little mis-
understanding as to what had become Of
the man who stole General Hennessy's
white mule from In front OF the postofiice
the other night, we rode out into the coun.
try about three miles yesterday and oh.
tanned all possible particulars. The stran:
ger Is at present located about four rods to
the west Of the Raisin valley trail after 1t
crosses Buffalo creek, and some one has
put up q headboard with an inscription on
IL to the effect that be died OF heart failure
We think he did. We think that several
other organs also failed him at about the
same time. Any one who thinks he got
away is laboring under a mistake, and
such an idea also does the boys Injustice
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