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best in the country.The Pitholians, an exchange says, have rode one man on a rail for taking up a col* lection for a poor family aid putting the proceeds into his own pocket, and bare arrested and Imprisoned another chap for making a mistake as to what woman was his wife — What a delightful locality Pithole mnst be for local editors. Items plenty as gresse.At a late Fenian meeting In Buffalo, the Presideat of the evening was A. M. Clapp, editor of the Express. It seems to ns the people who got up the meeting must have been hard up for a presiding officer, to take such a man as Clapp, who has abused the Irish more than any half dozen persons alongthe Lake Shore.The Pithole Record says : “ On Saturdayofficers Guffejr and Freer, of Pithole, tracked a notorious counterfeit sbovsr, and a hard case generally, known as *• Bobby *#io his den, !n|a concert saloon building, and while endeavoring to arrest him he fired on them, two bullets pasting through Guffey's so at-G iffey ; returned the fire, and supposes the scoundrel was badlyirounded, but la the son* fusion succeeded in escaping* In the melee the other officer fired on Hod Higby, proprietor of the saloon, under the impression that he was an accomplice of u Bobby,H inflicting a bad wound In the shoulder. The officers captured a carpet bag containing $900 in countetfeit fractional currency. Officer Freer is tinder arrest for shooting Hlgby.
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Erie Observer
Erie, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Feb 01, 1866
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