We had no school report next morning; but the Union had.
Six months after my entry into journalism the grand "flush times" of Silverland began, and they continued with unabated splendor for three years.

All difficulty about filling up the "local department" ceased, and the only trouble now was how to make the lengthened columns hold the world of incidents and happenings that came to our literary net every day.

Virginia had grown to be the "livest" town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced.

The sidewalks swarmed with people--to such an extent, indeed, that it was generally no easy matter to stem the human tide.

The streets themselves were just as crowded with quartz wagons, freight teams and other vehicles.