The Colonel extricated himself from his perilous plight, by dint of herculean strength, and started to pursue them, but they had disappeared from sight in the vicinity of Crowder & Fancett's lumber yard.

Things have come to a pretty pass, we must say, if such a dastardly outrage as this should be allowed to go unpunished.

Now that Colonel Potts has brought suit against the city we suppose the council will have that mill-race covered.

We have repeatedly warned them about this.

We wonder if they ever heard a well-known saying about "locking the stable door after horse is stolen," etc.= =The card of Colonel Potts, printed elsewhere in this issue, is a sufficient refutation of the malicious gossip that has been handed back and forth lately that he had planned to leave Little Arcady.