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Coupled with these favorable amendments were two provisions that eventually militated against the Company. One of them permitting the Kansas Pacific Railway to connect with the Union Pacific Railroad at any point its projectors saw fit at or east of a point fifty miles west of Denver, Colo., instead of at the hundredth Meridian. This created a competitor instead of a feeder.
A type entry in Washington's diary is, "Went to the play in the evening sent tickets to the following ladies and gentlemen and invited them to seats in my box, viz: Mrs. King and lady, Majr. Butler and lady, Colo Hamilton and lady, Mrs. Green all of whom accepted and came except Mrs. Butler, who was indisposed."
They gathered their greenery from the grove down beyond the old bridge and ravine, where the ground was an unbroken web of honeysuckle vines. On this old bridge, at the late night hour fixed in the letter, Cornelius met a counterfeit, thickly-veiled Johanna, and swore to marry her. "Black as you is? Yass! The blackeh the betteh! An' yit I'd marry you ef you wuz pyo white! Colo' line!
Oh, now, do tell me yo' favo'ite colo', Mr. Beaton." "My favorite color? Bless my soul, why should I prefer any? Is blue good, or red wicked? Do people have favorite colors?" Beaton found himself suddenly interested. "Of co'se they do," answered the girl. "Don't awtusts?" "I never heard of one that had consciously." "Is it possible? I supposed they all had. Now mah favo'ite colo' is gawnet.
"It is also reported that there is a band of sheep in Grand River Canyon, just above Glenwood Springs, Colo., and sheep are reported to be on the increase in the Gunnison country, and other parts of southwestern Colorado, as that State protects sheep." Mr.
When he took command of the Continental army he "made a pretty good slam among such kind of officers as the Massachusetts Government abound in since I came to this Camp, having broke one Colo, and two Captains for cowardly behavior in the action on Bunker's Hill, two Captains for drawing more provisions and pay than they had men in their Company and one for being absent from his Post when the Enemy appeared there and burnt a House just by it Besides these, I have at this time one Colo., one Major, one Captn., & two subalterns under arrest for tryal In short I spare none yet fear it will not at all do as these People seem to be too inattentive to every thing but their Interest" "I am sorry," he wrote, "to be under a Necessity of making frequent Examples among the Officers," but "as nothing can be more fatal to an Army, than Crimes of this kind, I am determined by every Motive of Reward and Punishment to prevent them in future."
"It means, in its original, to speak to or accost any one," said the priest; "but being now taken into the holy service of religion, it signifies to pray, to supplicate; and, thence derived to worship, to bow one's self down." "And, if I do not trouble you too much, Father, would you please to tell me the difference between adoro and colo?"
"The General was wounded in the shoulder and breast, of which he died three days after; his two aids-de-camp were both wounded, but are in a fair way of recovery; Colo. Burton and Sr. John St. Clair are also wounded and I hope will get over it; Sir Peter Halket, with many other brave officers, were killed in the field.
She had not even known that a living wife was being displaced till her arrival at Knapwater put retreat out of the question, and had looked upon personation simply as a mode of subsistence a degree better than toiling in poverty and alone, after a bustling and somewhat pampered life as housekeeper in a gay mansion. 'Non illa colo calathisve Minervae Foemineas assueta manus. Mr.
Lewis' party and march together against the enemy. They were about building a breastwork at the Forks, & after leaving a proper party to take care of the wounded & the provisions there, that Colo. Lewis could march upwards of a thousand men to join his Lordship, so that the whole when they meet will be about 2200 choice men.
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