CITY AFFAIRS.

Let us not be absorbed in the doings OF others,
TO forget what is going on at home.

Reported expressly for the Columbian Fountain.
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Reported expressly for the Columbian Fountain.


In facetious paragraph last week, we al
luded to a rumor that it was for the interest Of
the doctors that our paper and its editors should
be removed to parts unknown, because, "when
the practice Of drinking liquors should cease,
there would be no practice for the DOCTORS"
Now, although this was random shot, aim
ed Mt nobody in particular, it is evident that it
hit somebody, and wounded him severely, SO
severely as to affect his reasoning powers for
in our box this morning we found billet
nicely folded, purporting to have come from
doctor. AS there is no address, we think 1t
must have come from some inmate OF the Lu-
natic Asylum. He makes the astounding dis
closure that " it is well known that more fe-
males and children need the services OF the
physician than men," and then asks, " Can
you suppose that they are the victims ofintem-
pcrance 2" Why, if your inAamma,ory symr-
toms have abated so that you oan listen to rea-